The Gurgling Cod (he/him)
@thegurglingcod.bsky.social
JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
Pinned
I find myself in a deep and abject state of despair about the world, and especially my little corner of it. That said, I will try to keep showing up for people IRL and telling the stupidest puns/jokes that I can think of on here.
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Inspired by the Louvre heist, French authorities believe that a ladder propped up against a snail could hold the key to unlocking the mystery
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
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November 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Inspired by the Louvre heist, French authorities believe that a ladder propped up against a snail could hold the key to unlocking the mystery
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i accuse this dip of being a looker. i squint my eyes and see rolling hills of van gogh wheat stalks
Nobody could accuse #RecipeOfTheDay of being a looker but who cares when this Burnt Onion and Aubergine/ Eggplant Dip tastes so good? (Please note: it’s a rhetorical question!) There’s a reason my last book has a chapter in it called ‘A Loving Defence of Brown Food’. www.nigella.com/recipes/burn...
Burnt Onion and Aubergine Dip
I get many requests for this decidedly brown dip of silky savouriness, the first recipe in my chapter A Loving Defence of Brown Food in Cook, Eat, Repeat, so creamy that you would never guess it’s act...
www.nigella.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
i accuse this dip of being a looker. i squint my eyes and see rolling hills of van gogh wheat stalks
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🎵🎵I was a little too skinny
Coach said gain a few pounds
Tight pants,my 3 point stance hardly renown
It was a honey baked beauty with big shiny glaze
Cooked to perfection 4 hours behind time
Way late and behind 🎵🎵 1/
Coach said gain a few pounds
Tight pants,my 3 point stance hardly renown
It was a honey baked beauty with big shiny glaze
Cooked to perfection 4 hours behind time
Way late and behind 🎵🎵 1/
closing in on 9PM ET which is about the right time to post this gem
It marks six years ago now when the joy of Night Ham entered our lives and created a Thanksgiving staple via @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and listeners @davidycook1.bsky.social and @angry-stephen.bsky.social
It marks six years ago now when the joy of Night Ham entered our lives and created a Thanksgiving staple via @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and listeners @davidycook1.bsky.social and @angry-stephen.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
🎵🎵I was a little too skinny
Coach said gain a few pounds
Tight pants,my 3 point stance hardly renown
It was a honey baked beauty with big shiny glaze
Cooked to perfection 4 hours behind time
Way late and behind 🎵🎵 1/
Coach said gain a few pounds
Tight pants,my 3 point stance hardly renown
It was a honey baked beauty with big shiny glaze
Cooked to perfection 4 hours behind time
Way late and behind 🎵🎵 1/
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6/ Incredibly, over the last few years around £200,000 has been raised for homeless charities as a result of this thing. So, this year, if you're enjoying the pix, you could fling a few quid to Centrepoint via this link: gofund.me/637d21d0
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024
gofund.me
December 24, 2024 at 7:32 PM
6/ Incredibly, over the last few years around £200,000 has been raised for homeless charities as a result of this thing. So, this year, if you're enjoying the pix, you could fling a few quid to Centrepoint via this link: gofund.me/637d21d0
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Uncle Muggsy gave me a hug and told me how proud he was for helping out at home and getting honor roll and the good driver discount. Told me he couldn’t wait to see me at Christmas.
Mom, my own dad hasn’t ever said that to me.”
I’m crushed.
*Never* miss a chance to tell a kid that you are proud.
Mom, my own dad hasn’t ever said that to me.”
I’m crushed.
*Never* miss a chance to tell a kid that you are proud.
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Uncle Muggsy gave me a hug and told me how proud he was for helping out at home and getting honor roll and the good driver discount. Told me he couldn’t wait to see me at Christmas.
Mom, my own dad hasn’t ever said that to me.”
I’m crushed.
*Never* miss a chance to tell a kid that you are proud.
Mom, my own dad hasn’t ever said that to me.”
I’m crushed.
*Never* miss a chance to tell a kid that you are proud.
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Hiroshima today has better infrastructure than every American city that survived WW2 untouched by bombs. Our post-war planning: somehow worse than nuclear weapons. youtu.be/J9yQiXPT1xs
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November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hiroshima today has better infrastructure than every American city that survived WW2 untouched by bombs. Our post-war planning: somehow worse than nuclear weapons. youtu.be/J9yQiXPT1xs
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It’s cool that you don’t like that thing everyone likes but have you considered shutting the fuck up
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It’s cool that you don’t like that thing everyone likes but have you considered shutting the fuck up
If you are a family that does rolls at Thanksgiving and you need a conversational icebreaker, you could mention that Parker house, the Boston Hotel that gives the rolls their name, employed both Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X.
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you are a family that does rolls at Thanksgiving and you need a conversational icebreaker, you could mention that Parker house, the Boston Hotel that gives the rolls their name, employed both Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X.
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Thanks @salonnewsroom.bsky.social for your interest. www.salon.com/2025/05/26/h...
How America got so weird: The Pilgrims made us do it
Those guys who landed at Plymouth Rock were a doomsday cult, says Jane Borden — and we've emulated them ever since
www.salon.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Thanks @salonnewsroom.bsky.social for your interest. www.salon.com/2025/05/26/h...
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OK so I hope this doesn't get me banned, but my most controversial Thanksgiving opinion is that those pilgrims & puritans shoulda been merked as soon as they got off their ships.
Doomsday cults are bad 💅.
Doomsday cults are bad 💅.
Thank you @janeborden.bsky.social for this clear and excellent article about the 1620 Pilgrims and later New England Puritans.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists
The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
www.thenation.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
OK so I hope this doesn't get me banned, but my most controversial Thanksgiving opinion is that those pilgrims & puritans shoulda been merked as soon as they got off their ships.
Doomsday cults are bad 💅.
Doomsday cults are bad 💅.
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Longest process in the world
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Longest process in the world
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it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society
I might dress informally for the holiday, but there’s nothing casual about my dressing
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I might dress informally for the holiday, but there’s nothing casual about my dressing
I might dress informally for the holiday, but there’s nothing casual about my dressing
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I might dress informally for the holiday, but there’s nothing casual about my dressing
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
Growing up, a Looking Anxiously at the Clock, as the Hour Approaches 8:30 pm and the Turkey is Nowhere Done and Everyone has been Into The Wine Since 3 Family.
Are y'all a Eat At Specific Time Family or a Eat When The Food is Read and Everyone Showed Up Family or a Eat Whenever, Even If Not all the Food or People are Read Family?
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Growing up, a Looking Anxiously at the Clock, as the Hour Approaches 8:30 pm and the Turkey is Nowhere Done and Everyone has been Into The Wine Since 3 Family.
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BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.
Rutger Bregman accused the BBC of cowardice after the decision to remove the line from the first of his Reith Lectures, which he was invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Feeling thankful that I was able to find real Cape Cod cranberries, and did not have to roll the dice with Wisconsin "cranberries," and the toxins they so often contain.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Feeling thankful that I was able to find real Cape Cod cranberries, and did not have to roll the dice with Wisconsin "cranberries," and the toxins they so often contain.
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No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
I did Jason a little bit dirty trying to give him his flowers, I think. Hell is a World Without You is not a story of being victimized (nothing wrong with that), but a story of a young person trying to figure stuff out in the context of various pressures.
And, a final bit of Thanksgiving week engagement farming. WHO are you thankful for?
#1 the creatures in my house who put up with me.
#2 @jasonkirk.fyi & his book, Hell is a World Without You. My work is a bet on the idea that books matter. I can't think of a book that has mattered harder 🧵
#1 the creatures in my house who put up with me.
#2 @jasonkirk.fyi & his book, Hell is a World Without You. My work is a bet on the idea that books matter. I can't think of a book that has mattered harder 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I did Jason a little bit dirty trying to give him his flowers, I think. Hell is a World Without You is not a story of being victimized (nothing wrong with that), but a story of a young person trying to figure stuff out in the context of various pressures.