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Bex
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Food, Wine, and Spirits educator; former chef | I have a bunny named Tabasco | pfp selfie by @sksktktk.bsky.social, header by @tarokunnnn.bsky.social
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madycast.com
Newsom vetoed a bill that would've prevented insurance discrimination against trans people and allowed people to stockpile 6 months of HRT.

So yes, not only would he do this, he is actively doing it right now by endangering our access to healthcare in order to protect insurance companies.
lakecounty1975.bsky.social install.exe @lakecounty1975.bsky.social · 2d
I've literally had people on here tell me in replies that a President Newsom would murder trans people.
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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analiliafornj.bsky.social
I’m Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.
February 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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catsuka.bsky.social
Take 2 minutes of your time and watch "The Hyrule Fantasy", a lovely Zelda fan film by french animator Ousmane Cissé.
www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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fantasyanime.bsky.social
Hirō Isono’s famous Mana Tree artwork for Secret of Mana (SNES) ❤️
February 2, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
Bennie & Clovis Martin, inventors of the po' boy sandwich, to striking workers:
"We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm."

Let's bring this energy to 2026:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #137: Po' Boy
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
buttondown.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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ayshaufarah.bsky.social
If there’s anything these last few months should drive home it’s that country means nothing, but community means everything
February 1, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.
January 31, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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senabryer.com
Too often we're both the first ones to die and the first ones to do something about this shit
badambulist.bsky.social alyson “end the BBC” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 14d
Don’t ever let people forget this.
danifroom.bsky.social Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · Nov 13
And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.
January 31, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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goblinmode.com
i won't say much here but... what other game writes into legend that you officiated a lesbian deer wedding? none i know. and they're all worse for not having it.
January 30, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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bugsmaytrix.bsky.social
a group of trans women is called a blessing
January 26, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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ela-bambust.bsky.social
Capitalism will eat all you love and make you beg for scraps
January 28, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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ziibiing.com
i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand.

just a steady beat.
Love Notes
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January 25, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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rennerei.bsky.social
It’s 1993 and the fastest street racers of Usui Pass are a pair of lesbians 🌄
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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bbolander.bsky.social
i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal
January 22, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
amreports.bsky.social Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 24d
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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hels.bsky.social
Sometimes someone writes to my intermittent @newyorker.com advice column and sets me up in a manner resembling Payton alley-ooping Kent www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
THE FOOD SCENE HELEN, HELP ME: ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CHEESEBURGERS A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. By Helen Rosner January 18, 2026 How do you approach the sweetness of pickle relish on a cheeseburger? Does it complement or compete with ketchup? There was a legendary place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that used to do mustard, relish, and ketchup, and I can't for the life of me decide if I loved it, or if I just loved being there in the middle of the night eating it. — Brian K., N.Y. C. Honestly, I've never really considered pickle relish to be one of the hamburger's totemic toppings. Sliced pickle rounds, certainly; spears on the side, without a doubt. But relish, that finely chopped, neon-hued, marmalade-textured stuff? To me, that's a hot-dog thing-which I mention here not to issue judgment but rather to illustrate how distinct my own personal associations are from your own. Herein, I think, lies the answer to your real question, which is not actually about the sweetness of the relish. The question of what toppings make a burger great, while we're eating it, is both technical and trivial, having to do with the nature of the patty and the bun, the mood of the establishment serving it, the sensibilities of the person eating it, even the time of day or night or life. Regarding the substance of the burger itself, the same accoutrements that might show a slim, lacey-edged smash patty in its best light—a little slick of mustard, a few circles of raw onion, and a melty cap of American cheese, say-might be too flimsy against the brawny heft of a half-pound bar burger that can sustain degrees of sweetness, richness, and piquancy (your barbecue sauces, your secondary meats, your nontraditional cheeses) that would suffocate a smaller patty. But what you're really asking, I think, is what makes a burger great not as it's being eaten but as it lives on in memory. Or, more to the point, how can we know that our memories of happiness are true? I spend an inordinate portion of my professional life creeping around in my own psyche, untangling knots of nostalgia and pleasure and, god, so many emotions, not least self-love and self-loathing, all of them unavoidable colorants of any bite I take. I give myself the task of locating some sort of unassailable, uncontaminated truth: that this dish of dumplings, or that cocktail, or such-and-such restaurant is actually, inarguably, wonderful. It's impossible, of course, and more than a little absurd, but it's so irresistible, isn't it, to attempt to discharge the burden of our own experience? Was that burger you ate from the Tasty, in Harvard Square? I think it must have been, and it's been nearly thirty years since that perfect little sandwich shop closed forever. I imagine it was a simple construction: a bun, a patty, a slice of cheese, ketchup, mustard, relish. But you created it, just as much as the white-capped guy standing at the grill did. The mouth and brain and cascade of sensations were yours. There is no true burger per se, lurking behind your experience of it; it didn't become the burger you ate until you ate it. It's a ludicrous idea, this notion of an objective culinary truth, but it's even more ludicrous that we're so quick to doubt our own taste in pursuit of it. Just as I go looking for proof that my rapture— or, at times, misery—at a given meal has nothing at all to do with me, here you are wondering whether you should append an asterisk to your reminiscence of a long-ago cheeseburger, one that you could never eat again, even if the Tasty were still up and running. Why question a recollection of sweetness, even of the pickle variety? You did love the relish. And you love the person you see in your memory: a young man, awake in the middle of the night, a burger topped with relish in his hands.
January 19, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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8rano.bsky.social
こいしちゃん。 #古明地こいし #komeiji_koishi
January 18, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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yllande.bsky.social
Frieren ❄️ #葬送のフリーレン
January 17, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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demomolos.bsky.social
dudes rock
January 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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toadally.bsky.social
We experienced a truly incredible moment at the aquarium when this octopus decided to be a total jerk to its tankmate.
January 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it
January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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philabcoulter.bsky.social
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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vogelbomb.bsky.social
gentle reminder on this horrifying day that you can turn off video autoplay on bluesky

settings > content and media > toggle autoplay to off
January 7, 2026 at 6:33 PM