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"Be excellent to each other." She/her/hers. #AnimalCaucus
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I'm a boring follow. I skeet about food, video games, and other random stuff.

I'm playing:
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 🥖
BG3 (haven't ever finished) 🐉
DATV 🐉
Coral Island 🌴
Stardew Valley 🐔

Please use alt text.
Please be nice to people!

That is all. Have a great day!
Now enters Violet the Purple, a female human monk Durge.
Giving zero Fs.

SPLIT-SPATTER nat 20 baby.
I fired up my Act 3 BG3 save from months ago and the gamenesia is real.
Karlach is a paladin? Wyll has a fleshmelter cloak? My monk/rogue is wearing yellow and white?
The journal sparks zero recollection of any of these quests.
Fake it til I make it?
😰
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I fired up my Act 3 BG3 save from months ago and the gamenesia is real.
Karlach is a paladin? Wyll has a fleshmelter cloak? My monk/rogue is wearing yellow and white?
The journal sparks zero recollection of any of these quests.
Fake it til I make it?
😰
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I have 2 extra days off work. I was going to BG3, but here I am, doomscrolling and playing Stardew Valley to alleviate the doom.
My other goal is to put a few Stephen King in storage so Lucy Score has more space. Love me some King but gotdamn there are a lot and I just need my favorites nearby. 🤓
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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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
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March 10 is the release date of the book that took me 16 years to research and write. Here's the PRE-ORDER page: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Home cooks, if you find a recipe from this website, know all the recipes have been tested b/c nothing is worse than a recipe that doesn't work. My cousin-in-law who has culinary and journalism degrees is one of their testers. She used to work for America's Test Kitchen. www.thekitchn.com
The Kitchn
Inspiring cooks and nourishing homes through daily recipes, tips, kitchen design, and shopping guides.
www.thekitchn.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Delivery job: Linus paid me 2250g for a diamond.

Hidden depths has my dude.

#StardewValley
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It's still chili if your main spices are chili powder and cumin, right?

Ground turkey (beef was $10, f that), onion, crushed tomato, green beans, broccoli, kale, garlic, S&P, and a touch of oregano.

No beans, there's enough roughage. No pasta, I'm not from Cincy. No actual peppers. Works for me! 😁
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
9-1-1 had a 3-episode season premiere arc.
Then a Halloween episode (on Nov 6).
Now advertising the fall finale next week.

I don't think I missed any episodes.

I miss proper TV seasons. I expect it's my own fault since I don't have any of them thar newfangled "streaming services". 😁
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Last year I made a 15# turkey with all the trimmings and ate it all by myself over the course of 5 days. This year, I'm donating my Thanksgiving fund to a food bank. Please find it in your heart to feed a family or two...

#food 🍜🍽️

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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WOW. Thanks to new US tariffs, Americans are mailing our bestselling “Honorary Canadian” shirts to friends and family in Canada—then coming here to pick up some maple-flavoured freedom (and their hoodie) #DeMinimisThis
https://PeaceLoveCanada.ca
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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With the release today of THE NAMELESS LAND, my grimsweet fantasy road trip w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials + bonus ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt is a complete duology (The Witch Roads).

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Thank you to whoever mentioned Sally's Baking Addiction apple cider recipe.
I've made stovetop apple cider to my own specifications, which today was 6 honeycrisps, 1 granny smith, a navel orange, a cup of candied ginger slices (for sugar and spice), cloves, nutmeg, and NO CINNAMON.
😋
Good stuff.
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Did I just see Dubya during the anthem on MNF?
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I'm here for the Swifties, the gamers, the Alf hog, the cooks, the bread bakers, the healthcare workers, and the lawyers. Authors and sports fans and interesting people.
If that means I'm doing Bluesky wrong, oh well, just ignore me, I'll be over here having the social media I want. 😁 ☮️
Like, there are some journalists on Bluesky I don't block almost immediately when I encounter them! I voted for @joshuajfriedman.com for mayor! But it basically comes down to "who's here solely to further their career" v "who's here to shitpost about Alf's dick down here with the rest of us"
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A year on, I forgot how DATV annoyed me with:
Clunky dialog ("It's quiet." "Too quiet.")
Harding
Neve
Jumping to initiate interactions because I don't wait to be in range of the object
Dr Pimple Popper blight
The economy
🐉
But...
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.
Remember that while food banks welcome donations of food, they prefer $$$$$$$. They have deals with grocery stores and suppliers. You can only buy one dollar's worth of food for one dollar, but they can buy several dollars' worth. So don't, like, buy food to donate it, just give 'em the dough.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I have a book dropping from @torbooks.bsky.social on Tuesday (The Nameless Land, the 2nd book of The Witch Roads duology, so if you're waiting for the entire story, it is here)

THEN a near future sf novelette ("Barnacle") dropping on Wednesday at @reactorsff.bsky.social

so brace yourselves, peeps.
November 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
TFW you thought the cran-walnut bread from the store didn't have cinnamon..
a cartoon of winnie the pooh with the words tummy hurts
Alt: Winnie the Pooh stands outside his door rubbing his stomach. "Tummy hurts" is the text.
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The last World Series I paid attention to was Atlanta in 1991. The crowd chants are much better now.

(Enough game-related skeets crossed my skyline that I'm watching the game now for context.) ⚾
November 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Make it through the DATV prologue without redesigning the character 6 times challenge: Impossible.

Yes, I've restarted again-again. 😁 Anastasia is a human Grey Warden warrior and will probably smooch Lucanis, because Lucanis is still the smoochiest. 🐉

Thank goodness for tutorials.
I played at launch, finished several PTs and romanced everybody once. (Emmrich 2x, tho I did a branching save with him. IYKYK.)
The characters started to wear on me, so I shelved Veilguard and ran COE33 and I'm back on cozy farming sims. For now.

Another 3-4 months, DATV will be fresh again. 🐉 😁
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I donated to my local.
I was sure the government would examine their hearts and pay out but here we are.
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I continue to struggle with My Time at Portia.
"Are you sure you want to [progress this quest]? It could be dangerous!" Piffle, of course, you gave me a ruins-buddy.
Buddy disappears at the start of the boss fight which is im-effin-possible.
This leads to ragequit #6.
😡
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
TIL I do not like everything bagels.

I adore onion bagels and also garlic bagels. The everything smelled good in the store. Apparently I just don't love the seediness when it comes to the actual eating.
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Seen at the doctor’s office 👻 #getvaccinated #wearamask #washyourhands
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM