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Meghan McCarron

@meghanmccarron.bsky.social

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Freelance journalist covering food & culture. Work in NYT, Atlantic, Bon Appetit. Eater alum. Also a science fiction writer. I live in Los Angeles.

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Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · Sep 4

I write a monthly newsletter about cooking and eating basically for the fun of it. I'm going to send out another one tomorrow, if you'd like to sign up! buttondown.com/meghanmccarron

Second Breakfast

Hi! My name is Meghan McCarron. I'm a freelance journalist covering food and culture, and I also write weird, queer fiction. I live in Los Angeles. This newsletter is largely about cooking and eating...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 8h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 12h

Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Compact Object, 1962
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136682

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Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · 8h

Gotta be careful with your pillcutter too!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · 12h

Soundgarden announces its new "Black Hole Sunbutter" sandwich crackers. Alanis Morissette crafts "Jagged Little Pills" anti-angst supplements. After years of research and development, Stone Temple Pilots announce a petroleum-free "Vasoline" lubricant — with purple sea moss!

Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · 12h

The Smashing Pumpkins launch their "OG Goth" Erewhon smoothie is a real press release I just received, and unfortunately I'm definitely going to try it

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 14h

Post Office
Oreana, IL

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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 1d

ENO UNIVERSE playlist! A retrospective of Brian Eno’s body of work from 1972-1995 including his solo rock and ambient records and his collaborations with Bowie,Talking Heads, U2, Devo, Fripp, etc! All links and annotated tracklisting in the newsletter issue fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

Fluxblog 566: ENO UNIVERSE

A retrospective of Brian Eno's music 1972-1995

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

I am happy to report that my favorite veteran and defense contractor has once again come through

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 1d

my takeaway from being a judge for the national book awards is that it would be SUPER FUN to be rich enough to endow a prize. imagine you just read a bunch of books for kicks and then were like, yeah this is the best one, and sent the writer ten thousand dollars? i think rich people should do this

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Jawn Wudders @fansince09.bsky.social · 2d

If Philadelphia did an Omelas situation for sports success there’d be people calling WIP like “Yo we’re going too easy on that kid. Gotta torture that kid more” whenever there’s a loss

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

she did it. @kateconger.com got waifus into the gray lady.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/t...

How Elon Musk Is Bringing Sexy A.I. Chatbots to the Mainstream

www.nytimes.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

!!!!!!!!!

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · 4d

Living in LA is not always like this but an $85/hr skate coach pitched me on lessons for my 2 year old today

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 4d

'Buckwheat Harvest.' (1899) Like almost every modernising artist Paul Serusier was influenced by Japanese prints in the late 19thC, not so much the characterisation of things, but the creation of atmosphere; the landscape and colour call to mind Gauguin's work of this period.

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Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · 5d

Is that good

Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · 5d

Kid woke up this morning chanting “doom doom doom” and when I asked why he said “I met a man named doom”

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Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · 5d

a gender you can watch so many YouTube tutorials about!

Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · 6d

My only two hobbies currently are powerlifting and crochet. This might also be my gender?

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🫘 👻 Spooky BEAN YEAR soup 🥣 season🎃 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 6d

Pro-tip

None of what is called “huckleberry” in widely available commercial products is wild harvested from western mountains

It all comes from low bush and high bush blueberries in eastern Canada

For example from the attached company is the the primary supplier of anything called “huckleberry”

Quebec Wild Blueberries | Home

Quebec Wild Blueberries is the world’s largest producer and processor of 100% natural (boreal) and organic wild blueberries.

www.wild-blueberries.com

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jezza @extremelywet.bsky.social · 7d

if adults aren't supposed to drink milk then explain this. children don't impulse buy weird dairy just cause it's on sale, do they? no, they don't, so checkmate to the haters

half gallon of orange cream milk with a glass full next to it on my stenstorp

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 7d

BOOOOOOoooooooooo

www.404media.co/ai-generated...

AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton

‘I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of AI dog shit in the first place, never mind under these circumstances.’

www.404media.co

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