Alison Cook
@alisoncook.bsky.social
Omnivore, part-time misanthrope, rabid Houstonian. Lapsed restaurant critic, newsletter writer at https://alison-cooks-htown.ghost.io
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Eating my weight in laminated pastries here in Copenhagen. You are looking at the innards of Hart Bageri’s cardamom croissant.
This is choice: 👹
I'm finally starting season 2 of "Finding Mr. Christmas," the Hallmark reality show where the most wholesome, non-toxic men in America compete for the chance to be a Christmas movie star (somehow a real job), judged by a gay man and Barbra Jean from "Reba"
it's the greatest show you're not watching
it's the greatest show you're not watching
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This is choice: 👹
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Should we pay people to club police and poop on the floor while they’re trying to overthrow the government? You decide
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government.
Trump Pardoned Them for Jan. 6. Now They Want Millions of Dollars
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government, according to their lawyer.
bloom.bg
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Should we pay people to club police and poop on the floor while they’re trying to overthrow the government? You decide
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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I just finished reading this one (available in Australia! Yay!) and it's a perfect little gem: sharp and sweet, tired and tenacious, brutal and delicate. A very canny faery tale.
INCIDENTALLY you should know THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is currently ranked #700 for 'Mystery and Thriller' at Libro and I *know* we can get that up to 666
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I just finished reading this one (available in Australia! Yay!) and it's a perfect little gem: sharp and sweet, tired and tenacious, brutal and delicate. A very canny faery tale.
This is such a great book. It pains me Yasmin Khan had to go through this.
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is such a great book. It pains me Yasmin Khan had to go through this.
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Do you remember when a woman started a racist rant at John McCain? He stopped her and admonished her.
NOT ONE of these people, members of Congress and the government, has the decency to do that.
NOT ONE.
NOT ONE of these people, members of Congress and the government, has the decency to do that.
NOT ONE.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Do you remember when a woman started a racist rant at John McCain? He stopped her and admonished her.
NOT ONE of these people, members of Congress and the government, has the decency to do that.
NOT ONE.
NOT ONE of these people, members of Congress and the government, has the decency to do that.
NOT ONE.
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Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Eating my weight in laminated pastries here in Copenhagen. You are looking at the innards of Hart Bageri’s cardamom croissant.
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Eating my weight in laminated pastries here in Copenhagen. You are looking at the innards of Hart Bageri’s cardamom croissant.
Stopped dead in my tracks when I saw a man sitting in a Delft teacup at Schiphol.
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Stopped dead in my tracks when I saw a man sitting in a Delft teacup at Schiphol.
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Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
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Finally got a pic of Mama Roo's #joey out of the pouch this morning. 🦘
Have a lovely Sunday, everyone. 😊
#WildOz #Marsupials #EasternGreyKangaroo
Have a lovely Sunday, everyone. 😊
#WildOz #Marsupials #EasternGreyKangaroo
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Finally got a pic of Mama Roo's #joey out of the pouch this morning. 🦘
Have a lovely Sunday, everyone. 😊
#WildOz #Marsupials #EasternGreyKangaroo
Have a lovely Sunday, everyone. 😊
#WildOz #Marsupials #EasternGreyKangaroo
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
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now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
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Love that this sentence works with every stressor
*I* wouldn’t sell him a pierogi
I *wouldn’t* sell him a pierogi
I wouldn’t *sell* him a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell *him* a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him *a* pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him a *pierogi*
So many usage cases!
*I* wouldn’t sell him a pierogi
I *wouldn’t* sell him a pierogi
I wouldn’t *sell* him a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell *him* a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him *a* pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him a *pierogi*
So many usage cases!
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Love that this sentence works with every stressor
*I* wouldn’t sell him a pierogi
I *wouldn’t* sell him a pierogi
I wouldn’t *sell* him a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell *him* a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him *a* pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him a *pierogi*
So many usage cases!
*I* wouldn’t sell him a pierogi
I *wouldn’t* sell him a pierogi
I wouldn’t *sell* him a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell *him* a pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him *a* pierogi
I wouldn’t sell him a *pierogi*
So many usage cases!
I saw this little dude in my grocery store parking lot. It seemed like a visitation.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I saw this little dude in my grocery store parking lot. It seemed like a visitation.
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Year three. Make nachos a Thanksgiving tradition.
for the second year in a row, we've added nachos to the thanksgiving menu, as a thing for everyone to eat while the turkey cooks
highly recommended.
everyone loves nachos.
highly recommended.
everyone loves nachos.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Year three. Make nachos a Thanksgiving tradition.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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That friend? Shawn McCreesh, the twerp who wrote the NYT piece about Jeffrey Epstein’s emails as a reminder of the glorious bygone days of journalism.
How many times can satire die in one week, truly
How many times can satire die in one week, truly
Since this hasn’t been discussed: Olivia Nuzzi got the job at Vanity Fair because she is best friends with Mark Guiducci’s partner. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
Vanity Fair Is Reviewing Its Ties to Olivia Nuzzi
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
That friend? Shawn McCreesh, the twerp who wrote the NYT piece about Jeffrey Epstein’s emails as a reminder of the glorious bygone days of journalism.
How many times can satire die in one week, truly
How many times can satire die in one week, truly
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Imagine dealing with fucking Stephen miller and JD Vance all day every day meeting mamdani must have been like drinking a tall glass of Diet Coke with the good ice after crawling through a burning desert for a week lol
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Imagine dealing with fucking Stephen miller and JD Vance all day every day meeting mamdani must have been like drinking a tall glass of Diet Coke with the good ice after crawling through a burning desert for a week lol
This is good:
This is how purity culture and rape culture intersect to make girls the authors of their own objectification and abuse.
If men are presumed to be weak of flesh, what can we expect when young women and girls look, dress, and act a certain way?
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
If men are presumed to be weak of flesh, what can we expect when young women and girls look, dress, and act a certain way?
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is good:
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Much, much more background here on the ongoing — and increasingly open — GOP movement to Christianize Texas public schools.
🧵🧵 Texas Republicans have been increasingly open and aggressive about Christianizing America via schools - to, in the words of the state education board chair, center classrooms around "GOD, GOP & USA."
That fight just escalated, and you should pay attention - because your state could be next.
That fight just escalated, and you should pay attention - because your state could be next.
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Much, much more background here on the ongoing — and increasingly open — GOP movement to Christianize Texas public schools.