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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵

@undercoveremi.bsky.social

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Freelance writer, Full-time fan trash, good cook. Temporarily posting a lot about cancer treatment and recovery, but only temporarily. She/her

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · Oct 18

I’m picking up some new friends from the latest Twitter exodus, so I should reintroduce myself.

I’m Emi! I live in Houston, TX. I write sometimes but mostly I cook, swear, and hang out with my awesome husband and my two ridiculous cats. I also talk about movies and tv a lot. Y’all means all.

This is Asha. The cutest tiny calico cat laying on a dusty (sorry!) wood floor staring at the camera with big wide amber eyes. She is a princess and the ruler of the household. Her hobbies including bullying her brother, taking baths, drowning toy mice in her water bowl, and napping atop her 6 ft cat tower

A bowl of Texas chili with no beans topped with shredded cheese and a corner slice of cornbread

A bowl of minestrone soup topped with grated Parmesan cheese and two slices of French bread

Sterling Mallory Archer the enormous tuxedo goof. He is stretched out on a kitchen counter with a goofy face because he has one brain cell. He’s the sweetest guy and he loves big hugs. He requires at least 30 minutes of dedicated attention in two sessions every single day

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 1d

Oh and one more fun note! BMI isn’t a great tool, as we all know, but in studies, the patients with the best health outcomes were just past the line into overweight, not the skinny patients or the “normal weight.” Maybe that’s connected to set points, but we don’t know yet. More work to be done!

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be whiny, but I would really like for something good to happen. On a personal level. On a national level. On a global level. One of all three.

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, another good example of how doing the work can help us discover that “burning more calories than you consume” might sound like good sense, it actually isn’t true in practice. Leave people the fuck alone and let them be the size their body wants them to be.

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 1d

Not as valuable as research, but I was talking to the dietician at the chemo center and she said not everyone loses weight on chemo. Some people gain. She said it depends on if you’re naturally thin or not. Thin people lose and fat people tend to gain. I am jealous! I want to gain!

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 1d

Interview is in the most recent Gastropod episode and it’s very good. He studied Biggest Loser contestants and found that metabolism wasn’t a determinate of weight loss or keeping the weight off. We all have an equilibrium our body wants to stay at. It’s different for different people.

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Staggeringly medically incorrect. I just listened to a great interview with a former NIH researcher on weight set points and how metabolism is not the factor we thought it was. He had to quit because the administration thought actual proper studies were “woke.” And now we get this shit instead

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me? www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

MEDPAGETODAY®
Public Health & Policy > Health Policy
Many With Obesity 'Don't Respect the Temple of Their
Soul,' Dr. Oz Says
— "The only thing they think they control in their life is the fork at the end of their arm"
by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today
October 7, 2025 • 5 min read

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 1d

Fitting

Chron.com @chron.com · 1d

The founder's shadowy reputation follows him even after his death.

Texas Ren Fest honored the late King George. Almost no one showed.

The founder's shadowy reputation follows him even after his death.

bit.ly

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

additional weird overlap: benjamin "bugsy" siegel, kingpin of Murder Inc and effective founder of modern vegas, had to be talked out of killing Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering at a party in Italy in 1939

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 2d

*rely. It’s early, lol

Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 2d

So this light timing thing is really fucking with workers who relay on the rail because they can’t afford to park anywhere close to their job

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 2d

For those who don’t live here, Houston only really has an undependable bus system and the rail, which only operates in a small area downtown. It’s hell to park in the Med Center, so a lot of people find a cheaper lot near the rail and park and ride from there. Loop residents take the rail direct.

Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 2d

I heard from critics who saw it at the festivals that it’s a decent film despite some script issues, and that he’s fine in his first serious role. But it’s a mid budget movie for grownups and people just don’t show up in droves to those anymore. I probably won’t since the reviews are very meh

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 2d

Complained about this last week, but I’m doing it again. My nurse last chemo said it’s making everyone in the Med Center late to work and it’s been a disaster for the hospital systems.

Evan @evan7257.bsky.social · 2d

Why is Mayor Whitmire breaking the one part of Metro that didn’t need fixing? | Editorial

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

Why is Mayor Whitmire breaking the one part of Metro that didn’t need fixing?

Without explanation or warning, Houston changed downtown and midtown traffic signals so that the Red Line light rail is often stuck at red lights.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

okay so we've been given a chronic medical condition by corporate polluters, and now it's incumbent on us to stop breathing. you love to see it.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 2d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 2d

The replies are incredible. I cannot compete. I dip toast in over medium egg yolks, and broccoli in A1. I love pickled beets, boxed scalloped potatoes, olive loaf and Lebanon bologna. Otherwise pretty normal.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 2d

If it’s a long pasta, a tequila slammer, loosely filled, is 2 servings.

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Andrew Grizzle @drewgriz.bsky.social · 2d

Makes me feel a little less insane to see exactly my first thought when I heard TX was sending its guard to invade other states in print.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 2d

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 2d

That does make a difference! Lol I was pretty early in erabus the first time, and then a bit more loaded up in Oceanus. Do you get anything other than the keepsake and the random rewards later on for fighting him?

Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 3d

Twice. Both times I barely made it out alive, but I definitely did better the second time. He hits hard!

Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 3d

It’s so fun! The last rivals were insane, though I think surface was harder than underworld. Now I’m leveling all the weapons. Somehow there are 4 aspects I haven’t unlocked!

Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 3d

I’m very picky about nachos. This place knocks it out of the park

Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 3d

That actress is something else. She was married to Jude Law for like 5 minutes and tbh he fumbled the fucking bag. The stuff with her in the garden is ::chefs kiss::

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 3d

It’s gorgeous. Even the Lucy stuff is fucking hot. Problematic, of course, but the fun stuff frequently is

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