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Alewyfe | 🎃 Kitchen👻Wytchin' 🍂 @alewyfe.bsky.social · May 15

Noticing another uptick in fake AI slop food accounts on here... Some link to fake "blogs" with untested recipes and AI photos, others just follow-farm or spam food feeds. I drop all of these into a mod list if you want a one-stop block list that I update whenever I find new ones.

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Alewyfe | 🎃 Kitchen👻Wytchin' 🍂 @alewyfe.bsky.social · 1h

That's also starting from a bulk pantry I built up when I was not just self-employed, with a fully outfitted kitchen, storage space & a chest freezer, & investments in expensive things like canning jars & equipment that get reused every year that I've made over decades of thrifting & sale shopping.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2h

This is going to get incredible use as a meme

Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 2h

The Pope has a baseball bat and he knows how to use it - be warned JD

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Alewyfe | 🎃 Kitchen👻Wytchin' 🍂 @alewyfe.bsky.social · 2h

Trick or tr... uh... nope, also a trick. ☠️

Jonathan Surratt @beerinator.com · 5h

You might not be aware, but back in 2021, I turned candy corn into a hot dog and then ate it. The "recipe" is here if you need it. boundedbybuns.com/the-scariest...

The scariest sandwich

AKA: the Spooky Candy Corn Dog sandwich.

boundedbybuns.com

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Rep. Chuy García @chuygarcia.house.gov · 3h

Incredible news — Ruben Torres Maldonado is coming home!

The community came together and worked tirelessly to bring this father back to his family so he can be where he belongs and support his daughter in her fight against cancer.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 6h

Ruben Torres Maldonado is coming home to his wife, sick daughter and four-year-old son.

Immigration judge releases Chicago dad whose 16-year-old daughter is fighting cancer

An immigration judge granted Ruben Torres Maldonado bond on Thursday, releasing him from ICE detention. His 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment.

trib.al

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Alewyfe | 🎃 Kitchen👻Wytchin' 🍂 @alewyfe.bsky.social · 2h

And that # doesn't count all the meat & fish we got for free from my partner's parents (venison & fish from his retired dad, & stuff they bought on sale in their cheaper COL area & saved in their chest freezer for us to take home when we visit)... or we'd be eating a lot more beans & almost no meat!

Alewyfe | 🎃 Kitchen👻Wytchin' 🍂 @alewyfe.bsky.social · 2h

yeah this is almost to the dollar what we spent in the past 12 months but there are 2 of us, no kids, I work from home (as a food blogger), have a culinary degree, a garden, chickens, make almost everything from scratch, bulk buy & don't go to restaurants. No way can you work or feed kids for that.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

children no longer being safe trick-or-treating on american streets because of the president is where we're at

How Chicagoans Are Helping Kids Have A Safe — And ICE-Free — Halloween This Year

Neighbors are organizing indoor trick-or-treat events, candy drives and candy dropoffs to protect vulnerable families. Two Logan Square blocks that attract thousands of trick-or-treaters may shut down...

blockclubchicago.org

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 20h

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9h

YES THIS. If you are one of the "all is lost" people please feel free not to say so in the comments of my posts, it'll save me the two seconds it takes to "hide for everyone" your comments. All is not lost. All is never lost. I prefer not to have you infecting others with your doomerism in my space.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 3d

"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.

Don't say the second when you mean the first.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19h

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19h

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

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Alewyfe | 🎃 Kitchen👻Wytchin' 🍂 @alewyfe.bsky.social · 18h

a man is holding a guitar in front of a sign that says broodys

Alt: a man wearing star-shaped glasses is holding a guitar lyrics: i'm at the pizza hut I'm at the taco bell I'm at the combination pizza hut and taco bell

media.tenor.com

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21h

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

www.foxla.com

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Alewyfe | 🎃 Kitchen👻Wytchin' 🍂 @alewyfe.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. I still prefer biking to either, bc it's very difficult to make a mistake & kill anyone *else* (also more time-predictable & good endorphin-producing) but I still love public transit! Having it makes biking more feasible (if something goes wrong on long commute, take bike on train/bus).

beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 1d

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 1d

From the Transportation Library's Instagram - the C&O's Chessie and her family Peake, Nip, and Tuck for #NationalCatDay. www.instagram.com/p/DQaAaRzEiXO/

Cover of Chesapeake & Ohio Lines 1/21/1940 timetable with an illustration of cats surrounded by a heart and the tagline "Sleep like a kitten."

Text with the header "Chessie's secret ... of how to sleep like a kitten" with an illustration of a cat looking over another cat and two sleeping kittens.

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Rosemary's Babka @wordloaf.org · 1d

And I've noticed that other high-subscriber food writers that didn't seem bothered by all that Substack had become are starting to plan a retreat now too. Several have reached out to me for advice lately. There's another wave coming.

Rosemary's Babka @wordloaf.org · 1d

all of this. Since moving to Ghost, a site with nearly zero "network effects," my subscriber numbers have grown (albeit slowly), open rates are higher, and my income has grown, even after subtracting the 10% I'm no longer giving to Substack.

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 1d

Getting off Substack is the right move. I would compare it to moving from an app like Garageband to Ableton or Logic. Or switching from clip art to creative stock images. My business has grown. My readership has grown. Substack fills your list with junk signups, takes your money, and holds you back.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

Here is a comprehensive list of why people on SNAP, are on SNAP:
1. They need food assistance.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3d

I am haunted by a post someone in Chicago recently made in a professional networking group I’m a member of, describing the situation in her neighbourhood.

It concluded with the sentence “There’s a whiff of tear gas in the air as we head to Trunk and Treat.”

Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 3d

In my Chicago neighborhood this weekend: candy drive for kids who can't safely go out to trick or treat because of ICE; big visible letter-writing campaign at an outdoor block party; low-flying Blackhawk helicopter over a children's baseball game; whistle brigades everywhere. #chicagostrong

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2d

You know what I don't want? My content appearing next to Nazi shit. I don't care if Nazis buy Substack subscriptions too and might be a good revenue stream; I don't want their money, because I don't want them in any community or project I'm trying to build.

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Lady Samhain (she/her) @maggiesox.bsky.social · 1d

A DUMPLING MAP. TATTOO THIS ON MY SOUL.

CC: @wing2j.bsky.social

Snowden St. @snowden.st · Apr 11

Maybe my favorite Food Map, ever.

A map from the Economist, of how dumplings spread from Italy to Japan by way of the Mongolian Empire

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of Americans would love to talk about kitchen table issues, unfortunately the kitchen table is being used to barricade the front door because ICE is trying to illegally enter private property to arrest and detain them.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 2d

America... boy, I dunno.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 2d

If I had a shitload of money and wished to hasten the arrival of the Kingdom of God I would simply follow the clearly labeled instructions by housing immigrants, freeing prisoners, and so forth

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 2d

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

www.theguardian.com

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 3d

For me argentina is the easiest one because there's 40 million people on SNAP and we're giving milei 40 billion. "The president could give every hungry family a thousand dollars right now but he's giving it to argentina instead for no reason at all. He hates america"

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3d

“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Johnson: Snap benefits is a unique situation. I got a summary of the legal analysis…the contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

Trolling each other since 1054

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 2d

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

Mar Awa III, in red cassock, smiles as he gives the jersey to Leo, who looks as though he's been given a bomb to hold

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