Roger
@rogger.bsky.social
Product manager. Food blogger. Dreadful champagne socialist woofter.
Food blog: https://www.louchegastronomique.com
Food blog: https://www.louchegastronomique.com
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Surely that’s just low-polyamory
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Surely that’s just low-polyamory
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It's like if Anne Frank's parents went out to raise awareness of the dangers of letting your child write too much in their diary.
This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
It's like if Anne Frank's parents went out to raise awareness of the dangers of letting your child write too much in their diary.
Earlier I saw someone someone whose Grindr bio said “into finance”, which I think might be “my job is beach” for rich kids.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Earlier I saw someone someone whose Grindr bio said “into finance”, which I think might be “my job is beach” for rich kids.
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I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
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As an adult not much is stopping you from eating a cartoonishly large wheel of cheese in the manner of a candy bar. You could be carrying around a 50lb wheel of cheese to nibble on all day long, but you have made the choice not to.
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
As an adult not much is stopping you from eating a cartoonishly large wheel of cheese in the manner of a candy bar. You could be carrying around a 50lb wheel of cheese to nibble on all day long, but you have made the choice not to.
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If Alan Moore hijacked the worlds nuclear missile supply and ended all life on earth it would be justified
'V for Vendetta' TV series is in the works at HBO and DC
James Gunn will exec produce
(via Variety)
James Gunn will exec produce
(via Variety)
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If Alan Moore hijacked the worlds nuclear missile supply and ended all life on earth it would be justified
Oh shit.
The true metric by which you can judge English social class is "some of that nice ham".
If you go to make lunch and someone says, "ooh, there's some of that nice ham in the fridge", you're middle-class.
If you go to make lunch and someone says, "ooh, there's some of that nice ham in the fridge", you're middle-class.
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Oh shit.
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Midnight on the Firing Line...
Digging into an old Win 3.1 Babylon 5 Entertainment Pack of sounds, wallpapers, and video clips.
It's an immensely special show to me, the first sci-fi series I followed religiously. Even more so now since mine and Kit's first walkthrough together years ago.
Digging into an old Win 3.1 Babylon 5 Entertainment Pack of sounds, wallpapers, and video clips.
It's an immensely special show to me, the first sci-fi series I followed religiously. Even more so now since mine and Kit's first walkthrough together years ago.
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Midnight on the Firing Line...
Digging into an old Win 3.1 Babylon 5 Entertainment Pack of sounds, wallpapers, and video clips.
It's an immensely special show to me, the first sci-fi series I followed religiously. Even more so now since mine and Kit's first walkthrough together years ago.
Digging into an old Win 3.1 Babylon 5 Entertainment Pack of sounds, wallpapers, and video clips.
It's an immensely special show to me, the first sci-fi series I followed religiously. Even more so now since mine and Kit's first walkthrough together years ago.
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Well, I hit "publish" instead of "save", so here you go, a few days early:
www.louchegastronomique.com/blog/2025/pi...
www.louchegastronomique.com/blog/2025/pi...
Pissaladière — Louche Gastronomique
I’m reading Joanne Harris' Vianne at the moment. On p20 or so, a young Vianne Rocher savours a slice of pissaladière in nineties Marseilles, reminding me that it exists and is delicious. Specifical...
www.louchegastronomique.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Well, I hit "publish" instead of "save", so here you go, a few days early:
www.louchegastronomique.com/blog/2025/pi...
www.louchegastronomique.com/blog/2025/pi...
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A bit long term, but my favourite version of "how poor the past was" is in this chart.
Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.
Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A bit long term, but my favourite version of "how poor the past was" is in this chart.
Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.
Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.
LinkedIn is grimly fascinating. We’re hiring so I’m spending some time there, and it’s just a ceaseless wall of things nobody in their right mind would want to read, written by people an algorithm is suggesting based on me “following” people I have no memory of meeting.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
LinkedIn is grimly fascinating. We’re hiring so I’m spending some time there, and it’s just a ceaseless wall of things nobody in their right mind would want to read, written by people an algorithm is suggesting based on me “following” people I have no memory of meeting.
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What idiot called it "being an economist" and not "getting an invisible hand job"?
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What idiot called it "being an economist" and not "getting an invisible hand job"?
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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"Doing something outside" does not make it "performative" and I will die on this hill if enough people are there to watch me dying.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"Doing something outside" does not make it "performative" and I will die on this hill if enough people are there to watch me dying.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Has the (pandemic era?) Teams/Slack/Zoom hop-on-a-call industrial complex killed detail in meeting invites across the wider workforce or am I just dealing with some very forgetful people?
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Has the (pandemic era?) Teams/Slack/Zoom hop-on-a-call industrial complex killed detail in meeting invites across the wider workforce or am I just dealing with some very forgetful people?
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Imagine thinking you’re a real country but also your civil aviation infrastructure collapses the moment you can’t pass legislation.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Imagine thinking you’re a real country but also your civil aviation infrastructure collapses the moment you can’t pass legislation.
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This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
Reading food history is amazing for this. Everything before about 1970 has these little footnotes about how unless you were a literal fucking monarch, your diet was anything from 30-90% shit fished out of a hedgerow and boiled in a boot.
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reading food history is amazing for this. Everything before about 1970 has these little footnotes about how unless you were a literal fucking monarch, your diet was anything from 30-90% shit fished out of a hedgerow and boiled in a boot.
Out and about in town, and seeing some acute cases of Premature Decoration.
We need a festival between Halloween and Christmas so stores have something else to merchandise around. I'd suggest they just knock it the fuck off, but: a) capitalism, and b) it would be nice to have an autumn bank holiday
We need a festival between Halloween and Christmas so stores have something else to merchandise around. I'd suggest they just knock it the fuck off, but: a) capitalism, and b) it would be nice to have an autumn bank holiday
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Out and about in town, and seeing some acute cases of Premature Decoration.
We need a festival between Halloween and Christmas so stores have something else to merchandise around. I'd suggest they just knock it the fuck off, but: a) capitalism, and b) it would be nice to have an autumn bank holiday
We need a festival between Halloween and Christmas so stores have something else to merchandise around. I'd suggest they just knock it the fuck off, but: a) capitalism, and b) it would be nice to have an autumn bank holiday
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Disturbing to hear the scientist has rejected all criticism of genetically engineering ducks to have twice as thick layers of under-feathers. They doubled down.
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Disturbing to hear the scientist has rejected all criticism of genetically engineering ducks to have twice as thick layers of under-feathers. They doubled down.
Ok, someone own up - I already used my monkey’s paw.
If Funko goes down, Forbidden Planet goes down btw
Funko admits “substantial doubt” it can continue as a going concern amid crashing sales and mounting debt.
The Pop! maker warns of potential loan defaults without fresh funding or a buyout, after a 14% sales drop and $250M in obligations.
#Funko #PopVinyl #GoingConcern
The Pop! maker warns of potential loan defaults without fresh funding or a buyout, after a 14% sales drop and $250M in obligations.
#Funko #PopVinyl #GoingConcern
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Ok, someone own up - I already used my monkey’s paw.
The paywall is a glorious excuse for not having read the article, but I find the headline quiet hopeful - I would have thought way more than 7% of people would be brutally unwilling to work on themselves.
It is possible that the relationship recession will not correct itself. A striking 7% of singletons say they would consider a robo-romance with an AI companion.
AI is patient, AI is kind and it won’t ask you to clean the bathroom or get a better job
AI is patient, AI is kind and it won’t ask you to clean the bathroom or get a better job
The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world
In good ways and bad
econ.st
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The paywall is a glorious excuse for not having read the article, but I find the headline quiet hopeful - I would have thought way more than 7% of people would be brutally unwilling to work on themselves.
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“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:
November 18, 2024 at 8:35 PM
“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.