Brian Kane
@briank3387.bsky.social
Middle-aged, middle-class cishet white dude. Sorry.
OG MeFite, recovering blogger, lifelong Trekkie, lover and occasional maker of good food.
See also
@briank@mefi.social on Mastodon
BMK on MLTSHP
https://metafilter.com/user/1951
OG MeFite, recovering blogger, lifelong Trekkie, lover and occasional maker of good food.
See also
@briank@mefi.social on Mastodon
BMK on MLTSHP
https://metafilter.com/user/1951
Couple of days ago, the local news reported that a guy saw an alligator in the Charles River. The alligator has been found, but he's A LOT smaller than the original story suggested.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Couple of days ago, the local news reported that a guy saw an alligator in the Charles River. The alligator has been found, but he's A LOT smaller than the original story suggested.
This gift exchange website we're using for Christmas thinks the only things a 55+ man would be interested in are power tools and golf balls. Two things I have absolutely zero interest in. At least they didn't suggest a necktie.
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This gift exchange website we're using for Christmas thinks the only things a 55+ man would be interested in are power tools and golf balls. Two things I have absolutely zero interest in. At least they didn't suggest a necktie.
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Just a visual reminder.
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Just a visual reminder.
If you see this, post Star Trek
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If you see this, post Star Trek
Aurora visible here in Salem MA tonight
(photo via Reddit)
(photo via Reddit)
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Aurora visible here in Salem MA tonight
(photo via Reddit)
(photo via Reddit)
Cheese night! Treble-cream Robiola, a super soft Gorgonzola Dolce, and a Gouda called Ruby Rouge. Glass of tawny port, plus olives, cornichons, ham, etc.
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Cheese night! Treble-cream Robiola, a super soft Gorgonzola Dolce, and a Gouda called Ruby Rouge. Glass of tawny port, plus olives, cornichons, ham, etc.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Determined to get as many vaccinations as possible before RFK Jr. kills us all. Yesterday it was my TDAP booster. Still have RSV and pneumonia vax to go!
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Determined to get as many vaccinations as possible before RFK Jr. kills us all. Yesterday it was my TDAP booster. Still have RSV and pneumonia vax to go!
Just municipal stuff today, but it still matters.
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Just municipal stuff today, but it still matters.
My wife's baking binge continues apace as she has moved on to making mincemeat from scratch for a mincemeat pie. She's got a big bowl of dried fruit soaking in booze and spent a good part of yesterday making candied citrus peel.
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
My wife's baking binge continues apace as she has moved on to making mincemeat from scratch for a mincemeat pie. She's got a big bowl of dried fruit soaking in booze and spent a good part of yesterday making candied citrus peel.
November 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
All the hub-bub outside has had the cats agitated all evening. It has quieted down in the last 15 minutes or so, so I'm hoping they'll calm down now.
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
All the hub-bub outside has had the cats agitated all evening. It has quieted down in the last 15 minutes or so, so I'm hoping they'll calm down now.
It's THAT DAY here in Salem. Wife went to the grocery store early before the cops shut down all the streets. They send the kids home from school at noon to get them home before the madness begins. Anybody with any sense stays away. It's like The Purge, but for real.
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It's THAT DAY here in Salem. Wife went to the grocery store early before the cops shut down all the streets. They send the kids home from school at noon to get them home before the madness begins. Anybody with any sense stays away. It's like The Purge, but for real.
Quintessential New England fall day, gray and drizzly and chilly. Pot roast in the oven. Cat on my lap. Perfect.
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Quintessential New England fall day, gray and drizzly and chilly. Pot roast in the oven. Cat on my lap. Perfect.
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
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Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president
TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
My wife has been on a baking binge for the last couple of weeks. So far she's made croissants, raspberry-filled and nutella-filled bread, cranberry-chocolate chip cream scones, a berry pie, a tomato and ricotta galette, banana bread, and a chocolate babka.
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
My wife has been on a baking binge for the last couple of weeks. So far she's made croissants, raspberry-filled and nutella-filled bread, cranberry-chocolate chip cream scones, a berry pie, a tomato and ricotta galette, banana bread, and a chocolate babka.
Remember this - TRY!
It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.
October 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Remember this - TRY!
October 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
What's it like inside your head?
October 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
What's it like inside your head?
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Please read. Important.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Please read. Important.
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Effective immediately, by order of His Highness, the Executive Mansion will be known as:
October 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Effective immediately, by order of His Highness, the Executive Mansion will be known as:
TL;DR - Millions of Americans will not receive SNAP benefits in November due to the govt shutdown. Give money to orgs that work to reduce food insecurity because they can put cash to use better than food donations.
Latest on the blog where I talk about the impending loss of SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans and what we can do.
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Time to step up: No hungry people on our watch | Shay Stewart-Bouley
Most people who have read my writing in the last decade primarily know me for my political, cultural, and social justice writing and work. However, before I became the executive director of a grassroo...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
TL;DR - Millions of Americans will not receive SNAP benefits in November due to the govt shutdown. Give money to orgs that work to reduce food insecurity because they can put cash to use better than food donations.