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she/her. The horrors persist, but so do I.
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Today’s project: tiny chocolate pecan pies. Confession: I used store-bought mini pie shells. Still delicious.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for fun, funny, sexy escapism in These Trying Times? Kimberly Lemming’s Mead Mishaps series is full of fated mates, sexy demons, and Black female leads who are equal parts smart, hilarious, hot, and charming. I tore through all three pretty fast because I was having such a good time.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

We’re on round five of focaccia now, and I think I’m getting the hang of making sure the dough is properly hydrated. Used AP flour instead of bread flour based on my internet research, and that seems to have been a good move.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished with The Mimicking of Known Successes, which is both sci-fi and classic gas lamp mystery all at once. The world-building is fascinating (if hard to visualize), and I loved the characters. Also, space lesbians.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Oh, you voted Republican because you wanted to save babies? USAID saves babies, you absolute fuckwit. Our health care agencies save babies. Birth control and comprehensive sex ed and social programs that serve mothers and children save babies. You made the baby-killingest vote you possibly could.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 20 days ago • 151 comments

Making chocolate peanut butter chip cookies for the potluck at the local Unitarian church. I haven’t voluntarily set foot in a church in years, but their service today is centered on social justice action, so here we go.

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submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

The new regime's racism just helped inspire what I predict will be the Blackity Blackest Black History Month in a while. Reposting this photo to commemorate the festivities. Also, a whole mood. #LiftEveryChairandSwing

submitted 21 days ago • 44 comments

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

submitted 22 days ago • 94 comments

Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)

submitted 24 days ago • 48 comments

Are these homemade croutons ever going to see a salad? I mean, maybe, but we’re going to eat more than half of them as snacks.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The yield of a day of project cooking: fettuccine with marinara, grilled chicken, and focaccia — everything from scratch!

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I like Wallace Stevens' writing better, but honestly, that time he came for Ernest Hemingway and got his lights punched out? Dude kinda had it coming. He was good on the Supreme Fiction, but apparently missed out on the Supreme Non-Fiction of "talk shit, get hit." #poetry

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

a few people asked for videos of the girls eating

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

This really highlights the foundational importance of The Bluesky Way (“immediately block anybody who says anything even remotely unchill to you or to anybody you like”)

submitted 32 days ago • 37 comments

My mom got me a present! I’m about to have a wild fresh pasta weekend!

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Just finished with the last of Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series, and I wish it weren’t over. These books are cozy sci-fi at its best, with charming characters and thorough, interesting world-building. Highly recommend for anyone seeking a bit of escape.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

I don’t ever want to watch a video please don’t make me watch a video

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

Previously, my position had been “I won’t consume anything new Gaiman makes, but I’m keeping my old stuff.” Based on the latest article, I have moved to “all the Gaiman is coming off my shelves because I don’t think I could ever enjoy it again.”

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Just finished /This Is How You Lose the Time War/, and I loved it. A beautiful story, beautifully told.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Lessons from Chinese literature: If some mega-hottie shows up in your bed like “oh hi stranger, I want you soooooo bad” that’s not your woman/man, that’s a fox spirit, and they are gonna fuck you to death.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments