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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧

@mollyrobison.bsky.social

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The most worried person you've ever met. Harmony Witch, but ultimately a failed musician. Orphan. Cook. Baker. She/Her. I prefer dogs to people. Body in small town Wisconsin, spirit in a cabin in a very remote forest.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes, very occasionally, Wisconsin is magic.

The moon hidden behind a cloud in a dark blue night sky. The cloud has a pinkish hue from being illuminated by the moon. The lower part of the frame has some condo buildings and green trees, as well as a stop sign and a few street lights.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 22h

I do love my job but can someone please explain to me why I’m getting ready to go to my little job and do my little cooking when it feels like the country is literally and figuratively collapsing, like why am I doing this

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 1d

True story - I DO know that horses can’t throw up because I used to work at a vet, and when I informed them one day that I can’t burp their immediate reaction was “OMG can you not throw up either?? Are you like a horse??” 😂

Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 1d

Hot damn I do be lovin’ pumpkin stuff. Can’t help it. I’m a white Midwesterner. It’s in our blood.

For the coworkers this week, King Arthur Baking Company’s Chocolate-Pumpkin Crumb Cake. I feel like you should share this with your grandpa over a cup of strong coffee after raking or something. 🎃🍰🍽️

Three rectangular slices of pumpkin cake sit in a triangle on a plate. They have chocolate crumbs on top, and a white icing on top of the crumbs.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to take part in the time honored Midwestern tradition of loudly shaming people who are rude to cashiers for no reason. 🫡

Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 2d

Churu was The Secret to getting cats to be distracted enough for vaccines when I worked at the vet clinic.
The stuff is beautiful kitty magic.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 2d

I am scared.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 3d

Visiting the MIL and brangin’ treats.

King Arthur Baking Company’s Fudgy-Chewy Pumpkin Cookies. I am obsessed with these and I don’t know what else to say about them. Other than that they’re full of brown butter.🎃 🍪 🍽️

Eight orange/brown pumpkin cookies covered in rainbow sugar sit in a circle, overlapping one another, on a white plate.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 3d

Got to drive past a bunch of this en route to work just now, which was nice.

www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Hands Along Lake Michigan · Indivisible

✊ Hands Along Lake Michigan: United For Democracy 🗓 Sunday, October 5th, 2025 🕛 12:00–3:00 PM 📍 Sidewalks along Sheridan Rd — From Evanston, IL to Wind Point, WI (67 miles along Lake Michigan in unity...

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 4d

I didn’t know an administration was capable of changing me fundamentally as a person, but it has and while it’s freeing it’s also very uncomfortable and I feel like I’m kind of mourning the nice person I used to be.

Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not a nice person anymore and it makes me incredibly sad.
I’ve always placed a high premium on politeness/kindness, perhaps to a fault. It’s how I was raised.
I truly don’t care anymore. I’m rude and dismissive, I’ll tell you you’re being a dumbass to your face, and I hate it.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 4d

And on this day, we 86d beef teriyaki.

Because we sold out of it. We sold out of beef at a sushi restaurant. At a certain point I was just trimming steaks and throwing them into pans for my life. It was ridiculous.

I IMPLORE YOU, PLZ ORDER THE FISH IT IS VERY TASTY THANK YOU

Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 6d

@rickgeerling.bsky.social watching a funny video, cry-laughing: “I was grumpy before this!”

“Why were you grumpy?”

“I had to wake up.”

Fair.

Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 7d

Made The Sauce for the Secret Cheesecake Project at work. This is *my* creation. (Can’t wait to tell you what it actually is.)

Chef’s obsessed. I (humbly) think it’s quite tasty. The working title is Goth Sauce. I was gonna write spooky but ran out of room and it doesn’t matter. 👻 🍽️ 🍰

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 7d

🤗 thank you!!!

Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 8d

Pies intimidate the hell out of me. I love making them, but sometimes I want pie energy with less stress.

Voila - King Arthur Baking Company’s Apple Pie Bars. I believe serving these without either ice cream or whipped cream is illegal, so do bear that in mind if you make them. 🍎 🥧 🍂 🍽️

A red and yellow gala apple sits next to an apple pie bar (basically a whole apple pie in a brownie format) on a small white pedestal. Both are sitting on a worn wooden table.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 8d

I hate it here though seriously this is unreal.

Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine your sense of perspective being so warped that you call people from their actual real jobs across the country to an emergency gathering to tell them that you’re scared of fat people.
As I always say, no one is going to do anything and nothing will change, but super wild and funny anyway!

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t want this to be as good as it was. It doesn’t LOOK good.

But I saw king trumpet mushrooms in the store & I’ve always wanted to try vegetarian scallops.

Fully scrumptious!! Butter & Tony c’s, seared in a pan (which I’ll do harder next time. I was just scared because they’re lil ‘shrooms.) 🍽️

King trumpet mushrooms have been cut to resemble scallops, scored, and seared. They are laid out on a bed of wilted spinach on a white plate.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 9d

Challah turned out lovely 🥹 Mostly sliced it up and gave it to the neighbors, but reserved 1/4 loaf as tax. 🍽️

Three slices of chocolate chip challah sit on a white paper plate with a blue and green design around the edge.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 9d

Just spending the afternoon with my best girl.

A still of Jodie Foster playing Agent Clarice Starling in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 10d

😍😍😍😍

Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 10d

Shroud of Turin but make it challah.

A piece of parchment baking paper which previously held a braided loaf of challah, the outline of which can still be seen.

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Moldy Rottenson 🎃 🌙 🔮 🥧 @mollyrobison.bsky.social · 10d

And Tito cracks me the hell up, too. I can get behind the Reds right now.

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