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freezing ice creams for the feast—Orange-Szechuan Peppercorn and Goat Cheese. To balance my karma i’m also bringing broccolini with garlic and olive oil
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
hurpy thinksgurving
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
my left pinkie toe has been aching for hours
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I love this translation from Dante by Leonard Cottrell
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
bring back little orange cars
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
when i was a teenager i loved how catch-22, in which events are all out of order, oriented you with 4 thanksgivings in which each seemed worse than the last
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
i’m all blah blah this morning. time to work in the yard and then do some cooking and then go to the anti colonial feast
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
i was asking myself how his approval rating could be higher in florida than in mississippi and then i realized it must be about (a) zionism and (b) latin-american immigrant anticommunism (including bourgeois “refugees” from venezuela)
Trump’s approval collapses nationwide, turning several deep-red states negative — Economist tracker
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
my friend @colin.mahns.net texted me this image this morning so i put on the album, and i’d forgotten how lugubrious it is. it’s the New Wave equivalent of Blind Guardian’s _Nightfall in Middle-earth_ only not fun (for me)
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
the hour for finding small sticks in your clothing has arrived
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
today we celebrate pigs (these are from my friend michael’s farm near here)
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
cold poached chicken with a spicy sichuanese sauce 😋🤤
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
love a good owl
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Not the main point, but throughout this article the authors disclose the conviction history of almost every CO abuse victim they interviewed, a practice that is editorially superfluous and ethically obscene—a violation of, yes, privacy that papers routinely subject incarcerated people to. 1/
““The abuse has been worse since the strike,” said Duane Brown, 44, who is serving 30 years to life for murder and said guards at Green Haven Correctional Facility had beaten him to unconsciousness in September.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
what strikes me odd about the chomsky-epstein stuff is just that chomsky was so unbelievably boring. i once walked out of his talk, w/friend, because we were both bored to tears. the famous debate w foucault, foucault absolutely wipes the floor with him, and is way more entertaining
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
been watching tv on netflix and i don’t mind the commercials so much because i grew up with commercial tv. But one thing that strikes me as odd is how hard it can be to understand what is being advertised, which mostly seems to be websites.
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
did it
i definitely need to get up
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
i definitely need to get up
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
cauliflower soup report: on one hand, transportingly delicious. on the other, putting it in the blender as instructed caused ~7% of it to explode all over the kitchen and me, scalding. also i dropped a whole nutmeg in the pot cuz the microplane was dirty, using a box grater, it’s still in there
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
my kitchen is making a noise and i don’t like it
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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brown creeper #birds
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
good day to be absolutely certain about something and argue about it and actually be wrong (this is what smartphones took from us)
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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This is the only thing doorbell cameras are supposed to be used for, btw. And if it happens to you you're required to share the pics
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
the up side to the farm share being done for the winter is that i can make chinese food again, but it always takes longer than i think. ma po tofu w chinese leeks; water spinach with red fermented tofu and ginger (eastern style, vs cantonese white fermented & garlic)
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
i better go outside it’ll be dark in 15 minutes
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM