Ol' Chef Dan
@olchefdan.bsky.social
Work-from-home situationist. Agnetha Fältskog photo is unrelated. Return guy for Pyrrhonism.
Lyon, France
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Ol' Chef Dan
@olchefdan.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I was radicalized by the classic Subhuman's EP "Time Flies But Aeroplanes Crash".
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Have you ever seen a cooler book?
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Have you ever seen a cooler book?
I don't think the "performative reading" is coming from the guys with Infinite Jest on the subway.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I don't think the "performative reading" is coming from the guys with Infinite Jest on the subway.
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*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
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This is the most common response when I urge people to get involved and while it’s entirely true it won’t immediately change things in federal seats, change trickles up and if we don’t start NOW we can only blame ourselves when this shit continues in perpetuity
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is the most common response when I urge people to get involved and while it’s entirely true it won’t immediately change things in federal seats, change trickles up and if we don’t start NOW we can only blame ourselves when this shit continues in perpetuity
Has anyone won the Nobel Prize for literature and for peace in the same year? Asking for @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Has anyone won the Nobel Prize for literature and for peace in the same year? Asking for @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
Every one of these craven idiots looks like they just got hit in the back of the head with a shovel.
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Every one of these craven idiots looks like they just got hit in the back of the head with a shovel.
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now comes that delightful phase where liberals briefly adopt the left position while maintaining they've been correct not to
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
now comes that delightful phase where liberals briefly adopt the left position while maintaining they've been correct not to
Spoiler alert:
The book that dares to ask - what if the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Cthulhu were the good guys all along? Highly recommend!
share.libbyapp.com/title/10216670
The book that dares to ask - what if the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Cthulhu were the good guys all along? Highly recommend!
share.libbyapp.com/title/10216670
Alien Clay
A staggering, alien vision of deepest solidarity. - Esquire, Best of the Year. From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that confirms his place as a modern...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Spoiler alert:
The book that dares to ask - what if the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Cthulhu were the good guys all along? Highly recommend!
share.libbyapp.com/title/10216670
The book that dares to ask - what if the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Cthulhu were the good guys all along? Highly recommend!
share.libbyapp.com/title/10216670
The American Experience - peanut butter, marshmallows, microwave popcorn, and freedom™
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The American Experience - peanut butter, marshmallows, microwave popcorn, and freedom™
Maga guy, hour ten at the airport with his screaming kids and unhappy wife, another flight just cancelled, sees this; a single tear comes to his eye, "It's worth it, man. It's worth it."
Zeldin: "Conservatives say there are two genders. Democrats are saying there are a hundred genders and counting and growing."
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Maga guy, hour ten at the airport with his screaming kids and unhappy wife, another flight just cancelled, sees this; a single tear comes to his eye, "It's worth it, man. It's worth it."
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“The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.”
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.”
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Barry Lyndon - huge screen in a full house as part of the Festival Lumière. What else is there?
La Cienega - Martel, I was not familiar with your game. The sound is audacious.
Castaways of Turtle Island - a funny, late Nouvelle Vague?
Throw Down - I didn't know movies could be like this!
La Cienega - Martel, I was not familiar with your game. The sound is audacious.
Castaways of Turtle Island - a funny, late Nouvelle Vague?
Throw Down - I didn't know movies could be like this!
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Barry Lyndon - huge screen in a full house as part of the Festival Lumière. What else is there?
La Cienega - Martel, I was not familiar with your game. The sound is audacious.
Castaways of Turtle Island - a funny, late Nouvelle Vague?
Throw Down - I didn't know movies could be like this!
La Cienega - Martel, I was not familiar with your game. The sound is audacious.
Castaways of Turtle Island - a funny, late Nouvelle Vague?
Throw Down - I didn't know movies could be like this!
K-Pop Demon Hunters is the simulacrum of a Hero's Journey, in this essay...
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
K-Pop Demon Hunters is the simulacrum of a Hero's Journey, in this essay...
The unified assault on Obama's "you didn't build this" speech was a triumph of American/libertarian propaganda.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The unified assault on Obama's "you didn't build this" speech was a triumph of American/libertarian propaganda.
So I go into Kafe Stockholm and it's pretty busy. I order these items in French and as soon as I do they laugh and start speaking Swedish to me. Dead giveaway!
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So I go into Kafe Stockholm and it's pretty busy. I order these items in French and as soon as I do they laugh and start speaking Swedish to me. Dead giveaway!
If you ever want to hear a couple of my friends say nice, funny things about me, (and other fun kitchen stories) give this a listen.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=HYZl...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=HYZl...
From Le Bernardin to Top Chef: Chef Adrienne Cheatham’s Culinary Journey | Chef’s PSA
YouTube video by Chef’s PSA
music.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If you ever want to hear a couple of my friends say nice, funny things about me, (and other fun kitchen stories) give this a listen.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=HYZl...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=HYZl...
Remember the discourse about Swedes being weirdly cheap with dinner guests?
Column: With Thanksgiving coming up, you may have noticed online posts about whether it's okay to charge guests for dinner.
It's part of a larger trend that, depending on your point of view, is either a major breach of etiquette or simply pragmatic.
It's part of a larger trend that, depending on your point of view, is either a major breach of etiquette or simply pragmatic.
Column | I’m on a budget but I want to host Thanksgiving dinner. Can I charge guests?
The trend of transferring financial responsibility from the host to the guest is turning fellowship into a monetary affair.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Remember the discourse about Swedes being weirdly cheap with dinner guests?
I know nothing is new, but bands dressing as VU for a Halloween show is going to work for me.
Since 2022, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko have gone global—but what happened with the teen scene they grew out of? I talked to 18 different people about the Hallogallo scene now
chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
What happens when a teen rock scene grows up? - Chicago Reader
The Hallogallo scene has produced international successes—Horsegirl, Friko, Lifeguard—as its grassroots DIY spirit spreads beyond Chicago.
chicagoreader.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I know nothing is new, but bands dressing as VU for a Halloween show is going to work for me.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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“Win fush,
Two fush,
Rid fush,
Blue fush.”
- New Zealand Dr. Seuss
Two fush,
Rid fush,
Blue fush.”
- New Zealand Dr. Seuss
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“Win fush,
Two fush,
Rid fush,
Blue fush.”
- New Zealand Dr. Seuss
Two fush,
Rid fush,
Blue fush.”
- New Zealand Dr. Seuss
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Whore you, the apostrophe police?
November 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Whore you, the apostrophe police?
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Is Chuck Schumer An Insane Optimist Or A Calculating Political Operator Giving Republicans Enough Rope To Hang Themselves, the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
REPUBLICANS REJECT DEMOCRATS' OFFER TO END SHUTDOWN: GOP AIDE
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Is Chuck Schumer An Insane Optimist Or A Calculating Political Operator Giving Republicans Enough Rope To Hang Themselves, the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
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I want to make this real
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I want to make this real