Larissa
@purlgurly.bsky.social
She/her/elle. Alto, ADHDer. Interested in politics (esp.TOpoli), stories, disability, food, knitting, geekery, cats. Unrepentant leftie in 🇨🇦
So I have fallen in love with rosemary as a cake flavour after making that bundt, and am trying an experiment this evening - a chocolate rosemary bundt. I'm using below recipe as a base, but replacing the hot water in the batter with rosemary-infused milk. 🧑🏻🔬
www.cookingclassy.com/wprm_print/c...
www.cookingclassy.com/wprm_print/c...
I can report back that the cake is delicious! The rosemary flavour from the infused milk isn't like anything I've ever had in a dessert before, and I love it. Definitely recommend for holiday baking.
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
So I have fallen in love with rosemary as a cake flavour after making that bundt, and am trying an experiment this evening - a chocolate rosemary bundt. I'm using below recipe as a base, but replacing the hot water in the batter with rosemary-infused milk. 🧑🏻🔬
www.cookingclassy.com/wprm_print/c...
www.cookingclassy.com/wprm_print/c...
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He slaps the side of his truck and says “I’d like to go to Washington and bloody my knuckles on some of THEM Nazis!”
“Hell yeah!” I reply, and we part in good company.
GODDAMN I love New Mexico.
“Hell yeah!” I reply, and we part in good company.
GODDAMN I love New Mexico.
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
He slaps the side of his truck and says “I’d like to go to Washington and bloody my knuckles on some of THEM Nazis!”
“Hell yeah!” I reply, and we part in good company.
GODDAMN I love New Mexico.
“Hell yeah!” I reply, and we part in good company.
GODDAMN I love New Mexico.
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“Yep!” I call back.
The old man raises both fists and for a moment, your narrator thinks she is about to get into a fistfight with a geriatric racist. The thought passes across my brain “Welp. Time to make Shep proud.”
Then he says “Hell yeah!”
The old man raises both fists and for a moment, your narrator thinks she is about to get into a fistfight with a geriatric racist. The thought passes across my brain “Welp. Time to make Shep proud.”
Then he says “Hell yeah!”
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Yep!” I call back.
The old man raises both fists and for a moment, your narrator thinks she is about to get into a fistfight with a geriatric racist. The thought passes across my brain “Welp. Time to make Shep proud.”
Then he says “Hell yeah!”
The old man raises both fists and for a moment, your narrator thinks she is about to get into a fistfight with a geriatric racist. The thought passes across my brain “Welp. Time to make Shep proud.”
Then he says “Hell yeah!”
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So I’m getting into my truck at the grocery store and a voice yells “Hey! Young lady!”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So I’m getting into my truck at the grocery store and a voice yells “Hey! Young lady!”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
We found a very cute ornament when we went out to Canadian Tire this afternoon🎄
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We found a very cute ornament when we went out to Canadian Tire this afternoon🎄
How. Dare. You.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
How. Dare. You.
Or did DOGE "accomplish" exactly what was intended: fortune.com/2025/11/22/t...
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Or did DOGE "accomplish" exactly what was intended: fortune.com/2025/11/22/t...
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And it’s a terrible, and terribly racist, idea to write off Africa as irrelevant to Cdn economic strength. Diversifying away from the US (if that’s the goal) means taking every opportunity. If the gov’t lacks capacity to do so, maybe Carney should’ve thought of that before his austerity budget.
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
And it’s a terrible, and terribly racist, idea to write off Africa as irrelevant to Cdn economic strength. Diversifying away from the US (if that’s the goal) means taking every opportunity. If the gov’t lacks capacity to do so, maybe Carney should’ve thought of that before his austerity budget.
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Mark Carney has defined Canada’s overall problem in a very narrow, very particular way. It excludes politics, social policy, education policy. It excludes gender and human rights, and the environment. These variables aren’t in his econometric model of the economy. They should be.
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Mark Carney has defined Canada’s overall problem in a very narrow, very particular way. It excludes politics, social policy, education policy. It excludes gender and human rights, and the environment. These variables aren’t in his econometric model of the economy. They should be.
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No PM, who swept to power as women abandoned his main opponent, should want this headline.
PM Goldman Sachs has very bad political instincts.
"Mark Carney, backing away from a key international priority of his Liberal predecessors, says his government does not have a feminist foreign policy."
PM Goldman Sachs has very bad political instincts.
"Mark Carney, backing away from a key international priority of his Liberal predecessors, says his government does not have a feminist foreign policy."
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
No PM, who swept to power as women abandoned his main opponent, should want this headline.
PM Goldman Sachs has very bad political instincts.
"Mark Carney, backing away from a key international priority of his Liberal predecessors, says his government does not have a feminist foreign policy."
PM Goldman Sachs has very bad political instincts.
"Mark Carney, backing away from a key international priority of his Liberal predecessors, says his government does not have a feminist foreign policy."
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The women that brought him to power might be raising their collective eyebrows.
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The women that brought him to power might be raising their collective eyebrows.
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
I wonder which saint that lives inside a bead
Will grant her consolation when she counts upon her need?
It makes us all angry though we feign to care
But who will be the scale to weigh the cross she has to bear?
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands
Will grant her consolation when she counts upon her need?
It makes us all angry though we feign to care
But who will be the scale to weigh the cross she has to bear?
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I wonder which saint that lives inside a bead
Will grant her consolation when she counts upon her need?
It makes us all angry though we feign to care
But who will be the scale to weigh the cross she has to bear?
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands
Will grant her consolation when she counts upon her need?
It makes us all angry though we feign to care
But who will be the scale to weigh the cross she has to bear?
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands
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But I was assured that rejecting AI in the newsroom was EXACTLY LIKE rejecting the Sony Walkman.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
But I was assured that rejecting AI in the newsroom was EXACTLY LIKE rejecting the Sony Walkman.
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Imagine the Vulcans land in 2063 and we don't have high speed rail from Toronto to Montreal yet?
Star Trek: First Contact was released 29 years ago today.
We'll be soon halfway between the film's release and First Contact Day (2063). 😄
We'll be soon halfway between the film's release and First Contact Day (2063). 😄
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Imagine the Vulcans land in 2063 and we don't have high speed rail from Toronto to Montreal yet?
This is what I've been doing since the change - actually unsubscribing. It was easier to ignore when everything was siloed in "promotions". I bet there are a bunch of companies not so happy with Google at the moment because of this change.
I turned off the smart features in Gmail and now they're like "can't tell what is promotions or social anymore unless you turn it back on!" so now it's unusable OR I have to actually unsubscribe to all the junk I'm subscribed to 🤣.
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is what I've been doing since the change - actually unsubscribing. It was easier to ignore when everything was siloed in "promotions". I bet there are a bunch of companies not so happy with Google at the moment because of this change.
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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This is what is happening.
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This is what is happening.
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After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
This absolutely would have been a Mythbusters experiment back in the day.
What are the pros/cons to an Olympic swimmer of holding in their farts?
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This absolutely would have been a Mythbusters experiment back in the day.
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
And also the physical working conditions of those professions have often changed radically. Open-plan or shared offices vs. private offices make a HUGE difference in the functioning of neurodivergent employees (ask me how I know...). And how many folks have fully private offices anymore?
Also certain classes of people could self-select into professions that were compatible with florid unmanaged ADHD, in jobs that essentially don't exist anymore.
I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
And also the physical working conditions of those professions have often changed radically. Open-plan or shared offices vs. private offices make a HUGE difference in the functioning of neurodivergent employees (ask me how I know...). And how many folks have fully private offices anymore?
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I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
yeah tbh I’d really rather be on ADHD meds and NOT have to develop a two pack a day cigarette habit as someone who’s never smoked before just to function
I guess I can drink twelve coffees a day while chain smoking if you want me to do this in a socially acceptable manner, I just don't see how that's better for my physical or mental health than Vyvanse, y'know?
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
I was shown this video by @electricland.bsky.social earlier this week. It's amazing.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I was shown this video by @electricland.bsky.social earlier this week. It's amazing.
I bought Cabin Head and Tree Head for one of my niblings this fall and he *loved it* - definitely one I would recommend for the kindergarten/primary grade crew for Christmas 📚🎄
Incredibly honored to have Cabin Head and Tree Head included in the SLJ Best Graphic Novels of 2025!!! Thank you thank you @slj.com !!
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November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I bought Cabin Head and Tree Head for one of my niblings this fall and he *loved it* - definitely one I would recommend for the kindergarten/primary grade crew for Christmas 📚🎄