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William Bielski
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Art, literature, and biking enthusiast (among other interests). Surly Leftist Hardware Store Guy
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Got his ass!
Photo of my ballot screen where I wrote in ‘Dick Cheney Ghost’ for my county controller. This was an uncontested Republican seat anyway. Hopefully this might bind his spirit to crappy Central Pennsylvania.
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Honestly, I don’t get to use it as often as I thought/wished.
A white guy holding a 36” pipe wrench painted blue in his left hand in the back storage room of a hardware store. In the background is a smaller pipe wrench, extension cords, and boxes of glass.
July 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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That sounds a lot like Cracklin’ Oat Bran which in my opinion is the most slept-on cereal out there. It is The Crunchiest cereal, tastes pretty good, and the fiber is honestly pretty great. Aficionados refer to eating a bowl of it as ‘smoking a bowl of Crack’.
A 16.5oz box of of Kellog’s Cracklin’ Oat Bran. The box itself is blue and on the cover depicts a bowl of the cereal with milk and some fresh raspberries. The cereal itself is sort of a squared-off ‘O’, medium brown in color and of a rough texture.
May 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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If your man is beautiful, maladjusted, and responds best to operant conditioning best suited to be used on shelter dogs; that’s not your man, that’s Inuyasha.
Pictured: Inuyasha from the anime Inuyasha. He is a half dog demon with long silver hair and dog ears. He has brown eyes, pale skin, wearing a red tunic and a necklace made of purple beads and teeth/claws known as the Necklace of Subjugation. If the person who holds power over the necklace tells him to ‘sit’ he will be forced to the ground (to be used when he’s behaving badly).
April 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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It’s a whole-new level of ass kissing to copy your boss’s hairstyle.
Pic of Dr. Mehmet Oz at a Senate confirmation hearing. His hair looks strikingly similar to Donald Trump’s.
March 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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I’m curious to think of what they’d think of Moxie. Never had malort but I imagine it as just a liquor version of Moxie.
A 12 fluid ounce glass bottle of Moxie brand soda. The soda itself is dark brown with the background of the label being orange. Printed on it is the stylized word ‘Moxie’ with a gentleman in an orange suit depicted from the torso up pointing at the reader.
February 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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First attempt at a King Cake for the Super Bowl tomorrow. First time I had one on New Orleans years back I was hooked. Hope it gets close to my expectations
An unfrosted, freshly baked king cake. It is a type of sweetbread made with cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon. Parts of the egg washed crust are a glossy medium brown and other areas of the crust are lighter in shade. A frosted king cake. The frosting is made of sweetened condensed milk, powdered sugar, lemon, cinnamon, and vanilla. The cake is also decorated with the traditional purple, green, and gold sanded sugar.
February 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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My enjoyment in f NYE WENT FROM 3/10 to 7.5/10 after a big train went by downtown Sunbury PA.
Selfie with me in my leather fringed jacket and teal sweater. A train is moving in the background.
January 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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#addmepleasechef

Went crazy on cookies this year
A display of cookies cooling or in process. On the trays on the back of the counter unbaked sesame-matcha shortbread (with some cooling on a wire rack in the foreground. In the plastic container adjacent to kitchen scale: snickerdoodles. On front cooling trays left and center browned-butter oatmeal cranberry with white chocolate chips.
December 21, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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Got my gingerbreads nice and decorated. Some of them were even made with a certain ‘Christmas Magic’ 😉. Tried to get a bit more experimental with the tree designs this year. A little sloppy but they turned out nice. 🍽️
Gingerbread snowflake with a ‘cool S’ icing design motif. A selection of gingerbread cookies decorated with royal icing. A few of these cookies that are fully frosted on top are also decorated with fine-chopped pieces of candied ginger. They’re on a sheet of parchment paper, sitting on a table. Behind these cookies is a Christmas flower display with a skating pond figure in the arrangement. Gingerbread men and trees. The trees are done in a variety of styles; some swirled with different greens, others have white icing striped in to produce a snow-like effect. Theses particular cookies were made with ‘Christmas Magic’ 😉 More ‘Christmas Magic’ gingerbread men, a Star of David and a yellow 5-point star. Among the gingerbread: naked man with erection, naked woman with feathered frosting pubes, a half skeleton, a business man, and a bearded sailor. Behind these cookies is a variety of baking supplies.
December 20, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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An extra-big eye girl cyclops is so fun.
A still from the music video for Magdalena Bay’s song Image. Pictured is vocalist Mica Tenenbaum with the image manipulated in such a way where her left eye is taking up the majority of her face, like a mouthless cyclops. Her skin is coated with lite blue makeup. Hair is long, dark, and wavy. She’s wearing a dark blue blouse. The background is an abstract swirl of violet and black.
December 12, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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Entirely too much frozen was made for Thanksgiving so I decided to make a big batch of corn fritters. The pepper jelly and sour cream really make it hit 🍽️
A lipped pan with a wire rack contains a pile of fried corn fritters. In front of it a plate with 5 of these fritters is topped with diced tops of green onion and has hot pepper jelly and sour cream for toppings.
November 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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Made another Cheeto Apple Pie (via. The Mythical Kitchen Cookbook) and a Honey Caramel Pumpkin Pie (via. Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz) for tomorrow. Did more prep work before than I ever had this year but it’ll pay off 🍽️
Left: Cheeto Apple Pie, an apple pie with crust and streusel made mostly out of crunchy Cheetos. Right: Honey Caramel Pumpkin Pie. Both pies are freshly out of the oven and on cooling racks
November 28, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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Did a test run of the Cheeto apple pie from the Mythical Kitchen Cookbook for Friendsgiving. Astonishingly good!
An apple pie with crust, streusel, and garnish made with crunchy Cheetos. Also topped with whipped cream.
November 25, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Consulting the tomes for Thanksgiving (and some other reading)
A stack of mostly cookbooks to be consulted for Thanksgiving, as well as two other books that happened to be nearby. From top to bottom: Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon, Aberration in the Heartland of the Real; The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh - Wendy Painting, The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001-2017, What’s For Dessert & Dessert Person - Claire Saffitz, The Mythical Cookbook - Josh Sheree, Homestyle Cookery - Matty Matheson, Start Here - Sohla El-Waylly, The Food Lab - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. Books placed on wood & tile table and lit by a stained glass lamp.
November 20, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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Slightly stale content but I think folks would appreciate my store’s PVC guy done up as Sabrina (the teenage Witch) Carpenter. Equally proud of my cardboard box coal stove.
Figure made of PVC pipe fittings dressed for Halloween as Sabrina the teenage witch but also a carpenter (Sabrina Carpenter). Placed next to it is a fake decorative coal stove made of cardboard, aluminum ducting, and an orange lightbulb.
November 17, 2024 at 11:55 PM