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chnimchi.bsky.social
Christina 🇺🇸➡️🇨🇦
@chnimchi.bsky.social
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"There appears to have been a struggle."
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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I'm not ashamed to admit that I cried the first time I saw the ocean in almost five years. Two more weeks of Indian coast. My heart is so full. ♥️
Mangalore shoreline with the sun low in the sky, fishing boats just visible.
January 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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This year's cookie selection: lemon, chocolate chip and walnut, and Claire Saffitz's pistachio pinwheel cookies. Baby's first pinwheels turned out alright, I think!
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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I've now achieved muumuu-wearing status. I can feel my "no fucks given" levels rising precipitously.
Me wearing a purple and green floral muumuu over my usual winter loungewear of T-shirt, hoodie, and fleece pajama bottoms.
December 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I did it! It's definitely not butter cookies or sewing supplies. 😜

Now we eagerly wait for solstice. 👀
Black cake peeking out from under a partially-removed lid of a Danish butter cookie tin.
December 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Tuesday's elections results seem to show that people are starting to understand that Trump and his administration aren't on their side. Trump asking the Supreme Court for permission to withhold food from poor Americans will probably not improve that impression. 🤷🏾

apnews.com/article/snap...
[screenshot of AP News headline] Trump administration asks Supreme Court to half order providing full SNAP payments for November.
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
chnimchi.bsky.social
Oh! And I LOVED seeing my birthplace light up the way it did on Tuesday. Good job, NYC. Make it happen. 😍
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Trump's ego will damage the US in ways that'll take generations to repair. The priority of the rest of the world will be to not go down with the US. SMH.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
October 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
chnimchi.bsky.social
So Vance didn't win the stupidest prize, despite his best efforts.
[Screenshot of headline] INDEPENDENT Vance's motorcade hit by shrapnel during military exercise despite Newsom warning against 'reckless' stunt California Governor has demanded that the Trump administration apologize for allowing live ordinance to be detonated over an interstate highway Owen Scott Monday 20 October 2025 14:02 BST
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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With love,

an American in Canada

#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Look at that ridiculousness. @aureanator.bsky.social agrees that it tastes like a fluffy cloud of love and joy. I made two loaves, so one will become chocolate raspberry petit fours and the other will get whipped cream and pineapples because what are we even doing here if we can't have both?
Close up of a cross section of an angel food cake that I made today.
October 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Mission accomplished. 🫡
October 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Willow
2011? - 29 Sept 2025

She was @aureanator.bsky.social 's first dog. She was my very sweet step-dog. She was loved. She was spoiled. She will be missed. ❤️
September 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The Toddler turns three today! Today we're going to the African Lion Safari in Cambridge, then coming home and ordering in dinner and cutting the cake. This is my third chocolate strawberry cake and I think I've finally nailed it-- cake, frosting, everything.
A somewhat messy homemade chocolate strawberry cake frosted with whipped white chocolate ganache and decorated with slices of fresh strawberries.
September 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Achievement unlocked. Next stop, citizenship. 🇨🇦
The insert included with my brand new Canadian permanent resident card. It says, "Enclosed is your permanent resident (PR) card. Ensure you carry it when you travel abroad since you will be asked to show this card when entering Canada using any commercial carrier (plane, train, bus, and boat. Please destroy your old PR card, even if its expiry has not passed."
August 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
chnimchi.bsky.social
I resisted all season, but these guys looked so happy at the store yesterday that I couldn't say no. We'll see how long they survive our resident flower-chewer.
A glass vase with five happy-looking sunflowers on my dining table.
August 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Hats off to Serious Eats. This is the only southern fried chicken recipe that I can get consistently great results with.
A white dinner plate with two pieces of fried chicken, a thigh and a drumstick, and a serving of veggie pasta salad.
August 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Growing radishes is about as close to instant gratification as you can get when gardening for food.
Me, looking inordinately pleased, holding up my very first radish, freshly pulled out of the dirt.
July 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A sweet 14 year old Grand Dame who just took her first pill to treat her hyperthyroidism.
My cat Zoey, a black and orange Tortie with white feet and bib, lying on the couch and wishing I'd leave her to pout in peace.
April 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Hat tip to Jay Kuo at The Status Kuo.

xcancel.com/victorshi202...
April 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Get ready to perform your own colonoscopies, pap smears, and mammograms, y'all. It's your patriotic duty, after all.
Screenshot of a tweet from @RpsAgainstTrump: Dr. Oz: It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources. The best way to reduce drug spending is to use less drugs.
April 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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An image I pulled today from my Facebook memories from seven years ago, presented without comment.
A screenshot of dictionary.com's Word Of The Day from April 18, 2018: omnishambles: noun [OM-nuh-sham-buh•lz] A situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgement results in disorder or chair with potentially disastrous consequences.
April 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Forever expecting everyone but themselves to do the hard things. The minute they're inconvenienced, they'll squawk.
A single-panel cartoon. The setting is a bar. A man wearing a red baseball cap and a woman are sitting, eating, and drinking at the bar while the bartender cleans a glass behind the bar. A TV screen has an image of Donald Trump holding a sheet with the word, "Tariffs", and the TV image is captioned, "TRADE WAR. Pain and uncertainty ahead." The man with the cap says, "Sure, it's going to be inconvenient and hard... but, in the long run, this sacrifice will benefit everyone!" The woman responds, "Oh, please! That argument couldn't even get you to wear a mask five years ago!"
April 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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🤦🤦🤦
Michael Shermer @mich.... 21h "One of the highest tariff rates, 50 percent, was imposed on the African nation of Lesotho, whose average citizen earns less than $5 a day. Because Lesotho's citizens are too poor to afford most U.S. exports, while the U.S. imports $237 million in diamonds and other goods from the small landlocked nation, we have reserved close to our highest-possible tariff rate for one of the world's poorest countries. The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence."
April 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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"I have been with NIOSH since 2021... studying how exposure to particles and microbes interacts with immune systems. The type of research that we were doing is not being done anywhere else in the world. And now it’s not being done at all." Read the rest of her post:

www.facebook.com/catherine.bl...
On Tuesday, April 1st, several hundred people woke up to an email letting us know we’d lost our jobs working for the federal government... [A]fter the promises that scientists would be safe I didn’t expect to immediately lose my job on a random Tuesday at 5:10 AM. Since that moment, I have cycled through anger and sadness and grief, knowing that what we worked so hard to achieve is gone forever. I am a West Virginia girl, through and through. I grew up here. I attended West Virginia University for undergrad and my PhD. When I finished my PhD in Immunology and Microbiology in 2021, I immediately started working at CDC NIOSH in Morgantown, as an Associate Service Fellow. NIOSH was founded to understand diseases that were being seen in coal miners, and as a West Virginian the importance of protecting worker safety is something that you understand really young and really personally. I was beyond thrilled to find an opportunity to use my doctoral education in my home state, conducting research that directly benefits American workers and helps our people live safer, healthier lives. [...] We were permitted to come in and gather our belongings, but our building is left vacant, and for what? We have backlogs of samples we were unable to process because of purchasing freezes since January. My data, which is really data that belongs to the American people, is sitting in files that I can only assume will be deleted at the earliest convenience of the administration. [...] What scares me now is... the ripple that will impact every single American and American worker. Without NIOSH to study the effects of occupational safety and health risks or to study the health hazards that appear and grow and evolve every day, who is going to do that? Who is going to care about the American worker in a way that’s not biased by a company’s bottom line? Who is going to certify respirators and masks? We don’t know. And maybe the answer is no one.
April 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A tart from The Joy Of Cooking. Shortbread crust, mixed berry filling, hazelnut streusel topping. A winner. #StressBaking
A mixed-berry hazelnut-streusel tart cooling on a rack.
March 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM