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Jay.
@meangrape.com
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I stopped studying the cello. I started studying Arabic. I grew up on the other side of the middle of nowhere and am an inveterate urban dweller now. I like mathematics, fountain pens, and TTRPGs. https://sidewalks.meangrape.com
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11 year old Izzie whipping egg whites for a chocolate soufflé with green chartreuse
A copper bowl full of stiffly whipped egg whites with a whisk resting in it. A thin young girl wearing leggings and a long white tshirt. She’s turned away from the camera and one hand is cradling a copper bowl full of egg whites. All you can see of her other arm—the whipping arm—is her elbow. She is intently focused. She has brown hair in a pony tail and glasses.
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Basque
A small wedge of cheesecake with a dark brown top and no crust sitting on a black ceramic plate.
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Miss Gen Z knows her technology
A meme of a coiled VGA cable with blue ends. The text reads: “HERE, TAKE THIS VGA CABLE SINCE YOU WANNA PROJECT SO FUCKING HARD”.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Inside an elevator seems an odd place for this sign. Wouldn’t you want to know before you got in? And from when is it locked?
NOTICE This elevator is locked until 5:45 am Press <> to exit the elevator
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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congee and broccoli
On the left a red bowl full of rice porridge with a circle of dark soy sauce in the middle. On the right a pile of broccoli in a white ceramic dish.
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Korean pomelo
A very large teardrop shaped pomelo held against a light gray wall. The pomelo is cut in half. It has a large white pith.
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Here’s as much as I can get without taking my shirt off
Picture of me from mid-torso down. I’m wearing a vertically striped button down with thick dark blue stripes and borrow white ones, jeans, and blue wool slippers. My shirt sleeve is rolled up to my elbow, and you can see my forearm. There’s a red and blue heron standing in a pool of water with reeds and water lilies around its feet.
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Someone is playing a different 5e than the one I’ve played #ttrpg
First two of three skeets; user info blacked out. Text follows. Because while [thing] is great, I don't want it exclusively. I want to run a jewel heist this week, a jungle hexcrawl next week, a tense political banquet the week after. And then maybe go after a dragon in a gods-honest dungeon. I want a system that can go into any tone, any setting, any situation. I don't just want combat/exploration/roleplay. I want to be able to blend these things seamlessly. And I want it all to work with a single group of characters in an unbroken narrative that potentially spans years.
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The @cityofsomerville.bsky.social has sad voting stickers
A small boring “I voted” sticker in the palm of my hand.
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Good night!
Top down view of an empty coffee cup. Brown ceramic with a blue rim.
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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A cup of coffee and then bedtime
A two-tone ceramic coffee mug. A medium khaki with a blue rim. You can see the neck of head of a brontosaurus on the side. It’s full of black coffee.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Egg, cheese, and boquerone sandwich
Black ceramic plate. Two opened toasted english muffins with the tops to the rear. Each has a round fried egg topped with four small light colored fish butterflies open.
November 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Hard kitty cat licorice
Four small pieces of black licorice. Roughly sculpted cats sitting erect with their tails curled around their feet.
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Everything bagel with avocado, olive oil, salt, black pepper, and Aleppo pepper
White ceramic plate. Everything bagel cut in half. The bottom is covered with mashed avocado and red pepper flakes. The top half is just everything seasoning.
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Eggs!
Two eggs over easy on a black ceramic plate.
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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I mean, obviously, it’s on my top 10 list, but I bring stitching skills into a relationship, too. (No photos of my saddle-stitching available)
A partially assembled cowboy boot is placed upside down on a stand. I am stitching a thin strip of leather into the bottom of the hopper through the inner sole. My right forearm is visible; I’m gripping an awl point down and pulling a brown thread to the right. My left hand is in a fingerless light brown glove, and I’m pulling the other side of the thread left and back.
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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One of my cute coffee cups
Heavy ceramic. The bottom 85% is the brown color of milky coffee with a rim of light indigo. There’s a lighter tan raised square with a wireframe brontosaurus in front of a palm tree.
October 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Grippy socks from the MRI!
Picture looking down on the top of my feet; gray socks with white rubberized gash marks slightly covered by dark blue jeans. The top half of the picture is a mirrored wall with a light around the mirror frame. You can see my socks and my jeans up to my knee.
October 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Of course, I could have included a picture.
A fountain pen ink swatch. A small wireframe ink bottle’s body is filled with a light-medium rich orange. Underneath is written pelikan apricot a hat. Around it are glimpses of other color ink swatches.
October 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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proof
photo of me from the waist down. Black tshirt, black gym shorts, white legs, black ankle socks, black leather loafers with a gunmetal buckle. I’m standing on interlocking black rubber mats.
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Lunch!
Rice topped with black beans. Two thick corn tortillas cut in half topped with two eggs fried hard topped with smooth red salsa.
October 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Amusingly, that’s a broken link.
Screencap from an iphone. A 404 error page from the Quartz website.
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Spinach and feta boureka with egg. Add some skyr for breakfast.
Closeup. Black ceramic plate. A square boureka covered with a perfectly round (I cooked it in a biscuit cutter) perfectly white egg sunny side up. Spinach and cheese peek out of the edge of the boureka facing you. Sesame seeds are scattered on the top of the puff pastry that you can see.
October 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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In honor of @melliedm.bsky.social here is my TTRPG library
October 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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After Sukkot I save my lulav, aravot, and haddasim to use to burn my leftover chametz before Pesach. Due to a move, I didn’t have a container large enough to burn my lulav last year so now I have two sets. I’m going to have a bonfire in 5786.
Two long dried palm fronds from a Deri palm. There’s a long spine and pointed triangular ‘leaves’ lie flush against it oriented up and down along the spine. Toward the bottom we have two pairs woven reed cylinders; each pair is joined at the bottom. One one side of each are two one-foot long thin branches with light colored round yet pointed dried leaves. The other sides have three longer thing branches with longer thing darker dried leaves.
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM