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Sure wish I didn’t wake up at 4:16 am on a Sunday. 😐

Today’s #sourdough: a) 50% whole wheat (yay!); b) boiled cider rye, a 100% rye recipe (eh). It didn’t rise much so if I make it again I will need some adjustments. Also maybe I need to not open bake it. #breadsky

Top of Virginia locals: an event that looks really interesting! Guest speaker Cheyney McKnight from Not Your Momma’s History will explore what enslaved women were wearing and how their culture, circumstances and creativity impacted their clothing. 2/23 at 2pm: app.donorview.com/Event/EventI...

Today’s #sourdough: ~40% emmer and ~60% bread flour sandwich loaf with buttermilk and King Arthur Artisan Bread topping. Baked in a pullman loaf pan. #breadsky

50% whole wheat #sourdough. That makes it vaguely healthy, right? Right? #stressbaking 😩

Latest #sourdough I made for my Galentines weekend trip with hiking friends. It took forever to ferment in my cold house so I had to cut it a bit short and it’s not perfect but it was yummy. KA bread flour + einkorn.

Immigrants. DEI. The transgender community. It’s all about making you hate your neighbors instead of the billionaires getting rich off our backs.

Today’s #sourdough: King Arthur bread flour & einkorn (I really like this combo!) Yes, I cut it while it was still a little warm and I don’t care!

Spend your money with companies who deserve it. #spices #penzeys #resist

Did not have agreeing with Bigfoot porn dude on my 2025 Bingo Card.

It's Time to Stop Saying 'Drink the Kool-Aid': Interview with Jonestown Author Julia Scheeres longreads.com/2014/11/18/i...

Although I didn’t read Tolkien until I was in my 50s, these were really influential to me too. ❤️

If I submitted “Why were you a racist asshole who thought it was ok to own other human beings?” do you think that they would pick my question? 🤔

Love Sandra Kitt’s books.

I cancelled my Target card today. I won’t be shopping there. It is absolutely their choice to abandon their DEI initiatives and it’s my choice to spend my money elsewhere. 🤷‍♀️

This weekend’s #sourdough - Ben Starr sandwich loaf (yum, didn’t rise a lot tho) with KA bread flour and oval artisan loaf (10/10!) w/ KA bread flour & locally milled einkorn from Locke’s Mill, Berryville VA (recipe from Elaine Boddy’s Sourdough Bible). I may have a bread problem.

First ever black devil fish recorded swimming to the water surface. Apparently she’s female. Perhaps summoned by the orcas? Personally grateful she’s on her way. We need all the help we can get. Please bring your friends.

I will be speaking at a rally today (in the snow 🥶) to talk about this pledge, and the story of why I and others in my community have signed it. Please consider signing it to stand up for justice. www.mobilize.us/surj/event/7... #surj #equity #protecttransrights

WOMEN👏DON'T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE'S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏ELEVENTH 👏EDITION 👏

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Today’s sourdough - overproofed since I did an overnight ferment that went too long but it still tastes pretty good. 100% @kingarthurbaking.bsky.social bread flour this time. #sourdough #breadsky

Support Black farmers. (Not just for Virginia - all the states are on the main list) blackfarmersindex.com/reg-3-virgin...?

3:30 am wakeup club member, reporting for duty. 🫡🙄

Local Winchester VA friends, if you are available next Saturday and would like to protest the actions taken by this administration against the vulnerable in our community and our country, please consider joining us. (If you aren’t local, you can sign the pledge online.) www.protectandresist.com

I accidentally baked my levain today but I did make some yummy sourdough discard blueberry muffins. Also, everything is still terrible. Except the muffins. And my sister-in-law, who took my daughter dress and shoe shopping for 4 hours (!) and is a most excellent aunt. ❤️

Anyways... Did you know about Frederick Douglass Day? February 14th! You can help transcribe hundreds of "rare books, pamphlets, and manuscripts related to African American history" at the Library of Congress. Protect Black History #tlsky #skybrarian #edusky blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/...

Hard no, unless as others have said, we are at the Renaissance Festival.

You have to watch Seven Cemeteries. It's like the Magnificent 7 meets Evil Dead in the best possible way. There's an undead luchador unliving a Roneo and Juliet story, a necromantic enchantress, a revenant philosopher who gives big Godot energy plus Danny Trejo!!! Just .. go watch it. 😍😍😍

Somehow everything is better, at least for a minute, when I’m drinking coffee from my “❤️ John Nettles” mug. 😂 @themarini.bsky.social #midsomermurders

I hope you can join me & Eric K. Washington on 2/11 at 7 pm when we talk about iconic Harlem Renaissance figures who are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery including A’Lelia Walker, Red Cap Chief James H. Williams, Florence Mills, Duke Ellington & W. C. Handy. Register at bit.ly/3CvpJN4

Goals. 😍