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Kerry C
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Tech writer, GenXer, history geek, slow hiker, fair-weather kayaker, romance reader, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ mom & ally. The U.S. is terrible right now, so let’s make a lot of bread.
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I love independent bookstores but it’s also nice to go in a mall and have a store full of things that I love (and a display of an author I love!). @oliviawrites.bsky.social
Book display titled “Boos and Beaus” with spooky themed romance novels, including ZomRomCom by Olivia Dade
September 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Olivia is as lovely in person as she is online and as you can tell she is from reading her books! So nice to meet you @oliviawrites.bsky.social and getting to tell you how much joy your books bring me! ❤️
Author Olivia Dade chats with a woman getting her Zom RomCon book signed Author Olivia Dade, a white wan with with pretty brown hair and a blue and white dress, wearing a mask, sits in a chair with pink hearts after signing a book for the white woman on the left, who has brown/gray short hair and is wearing a black t-shirt that says “Ban Bigots Not Books” and is absolutely beaming with a big smile because she met one of her favorite authors.
August 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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It took 3 hours to get here because of traffic 😩 but I am finally in the mass chaos that is bookstore/line to get my book signed by @oliviawrites.bsky.social ! 😁❤️
A life size cutout figure of Fabio in a crowded bookstore with a line of people waiting to get their book signed by the author Olivia Dade!
August 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This cute little killdeer just plopped her nest down right next to the sidewalk. The awesome park rangers at #machocomico built some protection for her and the babies!
A sidewalk runs to the left of the picture. To the right of the sidewalk, there’s a bed of crushed oyster shells. In the middle of the pic, directly to the right of the sidewalk, there is a square wooden fence about 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide. There are orange cones on the sidewalk and one on the gravel. There is a sign that asks people not to disturb the nest. It’s hard to see, but a killdeer is sitting on the nest inside of the framed fence.
May 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Cinnamon raisin #sourdough made with apple juice instead of water. Elaine Boddy Sourdough Bible recipe. Really good! Kind of similar to a cinnamon raisin bagel texture, so I will experiment next time with adding more water to make it a bit fluffier. #breadsky #bakingfuriouslywhilemycountryfallsapart
Baked sourdough batard with raisins resting on a black wire cooling rack. The outside is a bit pale but where it was scored is golden brown. Sliced section of a cinnamon raisin sourdough batard. The crumb is fairly dense and studded with raisins. You can see a tiny line of cinnamon in the middle.
April 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Recent #sourdough: pumpkin semolina + white spelt/whole wheat. I finally finished the 5 lb bag of Giant (store brand) whole wheat flour and it actually wasn’t bad - and really affordable. The taste of the pumpkin semolina was great but I didn’t love the texture - dense and sort of floppy.
Golden rectangular loaf of bread resting on a wooden cutting board. The end is sliced. Two slices of square homemade bread resting on top of a wooden cutting board. The crumb has small irregular holes in it. Golden brown rusty batard shaped bread loaf resting on a black wire cooling rack. The design from the banneton can be seen on the sides. The bread has a large split where it was scored. Three slices of sourdough bread resting on top of a wooden cutting board. The color is mottled brown and lighter brown from the flouts. The holes in the bread are small to medium and irregular.
April 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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This was last Friday’s #sourdough that I took on another girls’ trip. My friends said it was good! Bread flour/whole wheat mix (~80/20) and proofed in my new $40 Breadtopia proofer which I like so far. #breadsky
A sourdough batard that is cut open resting on top of a white dish towel with black chickens on it. The crumb is moderately open and not super dense. A slice of whole wheat bread flour sourdough from a batard resting on a wooden cutting board in front of the rest of the loaf. The scoring and “ear” gives it the classic “bunny rabbit” shape.
March 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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In case there was any doubt that it was a Nazi salute, here’s her post about it.
Text she wrote that was overlaid over pics of the school board meeting that she posted: TyrantHunter 3,414 posts Did you see that hateful bigot that did a Nazi salute?! Can you believe she said fuck the Frederick County Sheriffs Office?! I gave a lil sieg heil at the end of my speech and the left wasn't happy. Notably, the school board chair wanted me to take pictures of his vehicle. So I did.
March 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Just a local parent, throwing a Nazi salute at the School Board meeting. Later in the meeting, our January 6th-er school board member called those of us speaking out against banning books “a bunch of perverts.” Just another day in Frederick County, Virginia.
A screen cap from a video shows a woman wearing black with a black hat and long hair with her arm raised straight and slightly up in a Nazi salute. She is leaving a packed school board meeting. The screen at the back of the room displays the FCPS logo.
March 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Today’s #sourdough is chocolate orange loaf from Elaine Boddy’s new book The Sourdough Bible (similar recipe: foodbodsourdough.com/my-chocolate... )! This was SO GOOD!!! Contains 80% bread flour & 20% white spelt flour and an entire Terry’s chocolate orange. 😂 #breadsky
A whole Bundt shaped loaf of bread rests atop a piece of parchment on a cooling rack. It is golden brown with melted chunks of chocolate. A slice of bread is removed from the Bundt loaf and is resting atop a paper towel. It has a nice even crumb and you can see chunks of melted chocolate inside. The rest of the loaf is shown in the background.
March 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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My classy School Board President, representing the Board tonight at a meeting held by our School Superintendent to talk about keeping kids safe. The shirt says “The Good (pic of Trump), The Bad (pic of Kamala), The Ugly (not positive but I think a pic of Pelosi) and the Idiot (pic of of Biden).”😐
An old guy with gray hair, big glasses, and a tragic mustache that would have been stylish in 1975 stands in a room looking at the speaker. He is dressed in dirty gray sweatpants and a ratty gray sweatshirt that reads “The Good (shows a pic of Trump), The Bad (shows a pic of Kamala), The Ugly (not positive but I think shows a pic of Pelosi) and the Idiot (shows a pic of of Biden).”
March 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Why do fingertips bleed more than any other body part when you cut them when trying to slice #sourdough? One of my favorites, 20% whole wheat, 80% bread flour.
Baked brown sourdough boule on a wire cooling rack with concentric circles from the banneton that it was proofed in. It is split in a cross pattern. Half a baked sourdough boule and a slice out of it resting on a wooden cutting board.
March 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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My overly-proofed bread flour/einkorn mix #sourdough baked in the loaf tin turned out awesome! “Bake it anyway” is gonna be my new self pep talk.
A golden loaf of sourdough bread on a wire cooling rack. Because it’s been baked in a pan with a top, it has a nice square shape. Loaf of sourdough sliced open with 2 pieces resting on a cutting board next to a wooden bow knife. The crumb is nice amen open with no huge holes. There’s a ceramic bowl of salt in the background with a little wooden spoon.
March 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Today’s #sourdough - oops! 6:30 am surprise 💀Forgot to adjust the amount of starter for an overnight proof. Loaf pan it is, then!

90/10 bread flour/einkorn mix. This is absolutely my favorite mix - the dough is so beautiful and easy to work with. #breadsky
Plastic clear see-through dough rising bucket filled with dough sitting on the counter. There are red marks indicating volume on the sides. The level of the dough is at a baseline of half a quart although the dome rises above that level a bit. Same dough and bucket as described in the first pic but the dough completely fills the bucket and is pushing against the top, showing over proofing. The bucket holds 2.5 quarts of dough, so it’s definitely more than doubled.
March 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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When your bunny has a fresh haircut and is so cold that he is sitting both in the sun AND on top of the heating register. Poor Mr. Peeps. (He is a fuzzy lop and has to get shaved by a special rabbit groomer every 7 weeks. He’s very high maintenance!)
A tiny white bunny with gray long ears is sitting in a patch of sun on top of the heating register next to a window. There is some stray hay and a few bunny poops scattered around. (He’s kind of a slob.)
March 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Me? Stress baking? Why do you ask?
Black wire baking rack on a countertop with a golden brown sourdough boule on the bottom right and pumpkin scones on the rest of the rack. The scones are orangey/brown with a scattering of sugar crystals on top.
March 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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It’s the little things that bring me tiny amounts of joy. @markwarner.bsky.social You really should be ashamed of your supportive comments about the POS who is actually DISGRACING the office of the president. What is WRONG with you???
Screen shot of a “recent calls” list from a cellphone. The last 2 calls are to “Ben Fuckface Cline” and “Mark Jerkface Warner.”
March 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Yesterday’s #sourdough. 100% bread flour this time, with a long (17 hr!) overnight ferment in my cold kitchen. Might be overproofed but it tastes good. I think I prefer using the unheated oven with the light on for a faster proof. I wish I could justify spending money on a proofing box! #breadsky
Baked sourdough boule on a black wire cooking rack. It’s a little flat and a light golden brown color with slightly burned “ears.” Side view of a sliced sourdough boule on a wire cooling rack. There are a few large holes mixed in with the normal sized holes. The edge of the other half of the loaf is in the right of the picture and you can see the rings left on the crust by the banneton basket.
March 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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When it’s in the 30s but you have to drive with the windows down for the dog.
A brown lab mix dog sticks his nose out the rear passenger window of a truck. The window is half rolled down. The sun is shining and you can see trees, grass, and blue sky. He is sniffing the air and probably plotting how to escape to go chase something furry and four-legged.
March 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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More proof that Facebook is clueless and AI is useless. No, there is no situation where I would ever want to “imagine a clown in Paris.”
Screenshot of a Meta (Facebook) prompt that says “ask Meta AI to imagine anything” above a (presumably AI-generated) picture of a rainbow-dressed CLOWN in the middle of a city street (supposed to be in Paris?) with the caption “Imagine a clown in Paris.”
March 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Yesterday’s #sourdough - some mix of bread flour & whole wheat. Pretty good! Didn’t work at relieving my stress, though. #breadsky
A baked boule of bread on a wire cooling rack. The crust has split along lines that create a diamond pattern in the center. Half section of the baked boule. The crumb isn’t very “open.”
March 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Lecture yesterday by Cheyney McKnight was awesome. I love watching her stuff online, and she is even more engaging and fun in person! 😍 #notyourmommashistory #blackhistorymonth www.notyourmommashistory.com
Lecture being given at an old restored barn. A Black woman stands at a podium in the right of the picture, wearing a reproduction of a 19th century dress and shift underneath. The dress is brightly colored with a modern chartreuse, black, and red design. She is wearing a dark green headwrap tied with some height. She is holding notes in her left hand and there is a laptop in front of her. She is gesturing with her right hand at the screen that is displayed to the audience. There is a picture on the screen of a small silver coin with a small hole at the top that is labeled “pierced coins.” The audience is mostly full with very few open seats.
February 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Today’s #sourdough: a) 50% whole wheat (yay!); b) boiled cider rye, a 100% rye recipe (eh). It didn’t rise much so if I make it again I will need some adjustments. Also maybe I need to not open bake it. #breadsky
A round boule of baked sourdough with a golden crust resting on a black wire cooling rack. It has a bit of an “ear.” In the background, a mostly flat round boule of dark brown rye bread with a cracked exterior can be seen. It looks kind of like a huge molasses cookie with the contrast of the brown bread visible in the cracks and white flour that was used for dusting on the exterior.
February 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Today’s #sourdough: ~40% emmer and ~60% bread flour sandwich loaf with buttermilk and King Arthur Artisan Bread topping. Baked in a pullman loaf pan. #breadsky
Loaf of golden baked sourdough bread. It is resting on a black wire cooling rack. It has a topping of poppy seeds, sesame seeds,and sunflower seeds, and the topping is black, cream colored, and brown. You can see ridges on the side from the pan it was baked in. Sliced side view of the sourdough loaf with seed topping. The crumb is fairly closed except for a large hole near the top.
February 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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50% whole wheat #sourdough. That makes it vaguely healthy, right? Right? #stressbaking 😩
Baked sourdough loaf on a black wire cooling rack. It has an “ear” from the scoring. Half of a baked sourdough resting on a kitchen towel with the design on the towel of two hands (one Black, one white) making a heart shape.
February 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM