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Rebecca / The Practical Kitchen

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Mostly here for the food. Food blogger + recipe developer. ADHD. No diet talk! Find me at ThePracticalKitchen.com 🥯 Small Batch Breads cookbook coming fall 2026 with Ten Speed Press! 📍Boston, MA

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Rebecca / The Practical Kitchen @ryeisenberg.bsky.social · Nov 11

I started The Practical Kitchen back in 2019 after burning out hard in media and tech jobs. I was freelancing and decided to see if I enjoyed writing about food and developing recipes as much as I liked cooking and baking. Turns out I did! And now it’s my full time job. 💻: thepracticalkitchen.com

The Practical Kitchen | Creative Recipes & Baking Blog

Discover creative yet practical recipes on The Practical Kitchen food blog, including plenty of delicious homemade baking, pastry, and desserts, and kitchen gear guides.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 2d

You've seen pictures of the East Wing of the White House being demolished. The Silver Spring company doing the work, ACECO, has been hit with online scorn and bad reviews. They took down their website and aren't answering the phone, Jack Hogan reports:

www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...

Silver Spring company demolishing White House wing faces online firestorm

ACECO, a Silver Spring construction company, is taking flak for its role in the demolition of the East Wing of the White House for President Donald Trump’s ballroom project.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d

It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.

There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.

There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.

There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

*screams*

Several of the women I interviewed belong to religious communities that strongly oppose gender-affirming care, and yet were taking testosterone in amounts comparable to those taken by some trans men.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 4d

"Research has shown that, inside some companies, workers begin to see their colleagues who use generative AI as less creative, even less trustworthy."

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

www.theatlantic.com

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Pumpkin Spice SwampLizard 🎃 @swamplizard.bsky.social · 4d

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 5d

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 5d

The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5d

Yup. In the audiobook version of Redshirts you REALLY notice the dialogue tags, and by that time audiobooks had become enough of my readership and revenue stream that I changed how I managed dialogue in my writing so that the dialogue tags weren't so repetitive and, frankly, distracting.

NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social · 5d

@scalzi.com I remember you saying that listening to one of your books on audio had driven you to change your dialog style, since there was just too much he said, he said, he said...

Was that Redshirts? I'm listening now and can't help noticing what I'd missed entirely when I read it.

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V @porvioletta.bsky.social · 4d

wow, someone didn't see "Superman"

screencap from Superman (2025) with caption; Lois Lane saying "You have to say OFF THE RECORD beforehand, not after."

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 4d

This is so rad! I’m a proud subscriber to our fellow worker-owned pub @theflytrapmedia.com and you can be too:

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 5d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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City of Cambridge @cambridgemass.bsky.social · 5d

Ever wondered what your Cambridge home or favorite building used to look like? 🏠👀

Now you can access over a century of local history, thanks to the Cambridge Digital Architectural Survey & History project!

Discover stories, photos, & records of nearly 15,000 places 👉 cdash.cambridgema.gov

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 4d

Christ almighty they are really quadrupling down on making life worse and worse for everyone

Any kind of AI should be about fixing things that need fixing, diseases and recycling and should not be readily available to the absolute stupidest people (me included) [derogatory]

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

How to Join ICE

theonion.com/how-to-join-...

STEP 1
Be born with something just…missing

STEP 2
Try deporting a few neighbors without the constitutional authority to do so, to see if it’s for you

STEP 3
Unlearn any secondary languages you may know

STEP 4
If filling out the application form presents a challenge, candidates may instead demonstrate how hard they can punch a dog

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 4d

Can attest, the rallies on Saturday were overwhelmingly joyful.

We know we are on the side of decency and frankly most Trumpists know they’re on the side of ugliness.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

Around the country, we’re seeing a parallel evolution: whimsy as the logical response to MAGA’s nonsense.

For many, the cleanest response to violence isn’t a manifesto—it’s a snort-laugh and a unicorn horn. It’s “I don’t know what that means, but I do know you’re full of shit.” trib.al/ZFhlDdR

How No Kings Embraced the Good Kind of Weird—and Won the Normies

In New Braunfels, Texas, a red county turned out against Trump, and made a joyous noise that was as American as apple pie ... or a fighting unicorn.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · Nov 4

“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“

Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 7d

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 6d

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 7d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6d

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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Rebecca / The Practical Kitchen @ryeisenberg.bsky.social · Jun 19

A great simple recipe that will give you a break from doomscrolling today is my easy soft sandwich bread: thepracticalkitchen.com/soft-sandwic...

Easy Soft Sandwich Bread in a Loaf Pan (For Beginners)

A beginner-friendly soft sandwich bread recipe that makes just one loaf of classic white bread that bakes in a loaf pan with step-by-step instructions!

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 9d

"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism. We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who only understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project."

www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

All the Pretty Little Nazis

The shape of things to come.

www.thebulwark.com

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