Drew Starr
@thedrewstarr.bsky.social
he/him
I'd rather be posting bagel and beer opinions.
Siebel/Doemens World Brewing Academy Master Brewer. Occasional food writer (Eater, Boston Globe, The Nosher). Past CPO Mei Mei Restaurant.
I block follow farmers.
Boston MA USA
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I'd rather be posting bagel and beer opinions.
Siebel/Doemens World Brewing Academy Master Brewer. Occasional food writer (Eater, Boston Globe, The Nosher). Past CPO Mei Mei Restaurant.
I block follow farmers.
Boston MA USA
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Drew Starr
@thedrewstarr.bsky.social
· Nov 8
Oh, cool, looks like I've been starter packed by a few folks. New followers: I'm based in Boston, MA, USA. When the world isn't actively collapsing (or, rather, when I take time off from paying attention to the collapse), I'm a Master Brewer and a cooking/restaurant nerd.
You people let Bill Kristol bait you into pie discourse? Weak.
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
You people let Bill Kristol bait you into pie discourse? Weak.
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Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
Y'all are coming up with far too obvious headlines.
Who will have the guts to run with "Gone-y Kash?"
Who will have the guts to run with "Gone-y Kash?"
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Y'all are coming up with far too obvious headlines.
Who will have the guts to run with "Gone-y Kash?"
Who will have the guts to run with "Gone-y Kash?"
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Things Jews should worry about:
1) where can I get whitefish salad?
2) nazis in the government
3) will we permanently alienate young Jews by being patronizing turds and dismissing their concerns?
4) they have the chutzpah to call this a bagel?
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726) some rabbis are queer
727) Zohran Mandani
1) where can I get whitefish salad?
2) nazis in the government
3) will we permanently alienate young Jews by being patronizing turds and dismissing their concerns?
4) they have the chutzpah to call this a bagel?
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726) some rabbis are queer
727) Zohran Mandani
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Things Jews should worry about:
1) where can I get whitefish salad?
2) nazis in the government
3) will we permanently alienate young Jews by being patronizing turds and dismissing their concerns?
4) they have the chutzpah to call this a bagel?
.
.
.
.
726) some rabbis are queer
727) Zohran Mandani
1) where can I get whitefish salad?
2) nazis in the government
3) will we permanently alienate young Jews by being patronizing turds and dismissing their concerns?
4) they have the chutzpah to call this a bagel?
.
.
.
.
726) some rabbis are queer
727) Zohran Mandani
My mom used to make a broccoli "souffle" that had no leavening of any kind, just frozen broccoli boiled and blended with half and half and margarine and baked.
Soo…
What Thanksgiving dish or side dish did* your parents make that you have since cancelled or do not make now that it’s your turn?
*Assumption is some grandparents/parents have since passed away so no one is asking for it or objecting to its absence
What Thanksgiving dish or side dish did* your parents make that you have since cancelled or do not make now that it’s your turn?
*Assumption is some grandparents/parents have since passed away so no one is asking for it or objecting to its absence
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My mom used to make a broccoli "souffle" that had no leavening of any kind, just frozen broccoli boiled and blended with half and half and margarine and baked.
Again trying tp make myself share things I find interesting and/or enjoy that don't infuriate me.
At least once a day, Doug posts something I want to watch a miniseries about. (@ernie.tedium.co is another).
At least once a day, Doug posts something I want to watch a miniseries about. (@ernie.tedium.co is another).
* Two brothers in NYC both claimed to have invented the six-foot-long party sub. Their shops were in adjacent storefronts and they tried to sabotage each other in various ways for decades. They didn't speak to each other directly for many years, but they did take their feud to court.
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Again trying tp make myself share things I find interesting and/or enjoy that don't infuriate me.
At least once a day, Doug posts something I want to watch a miniseries about. (@ernie.tedium.co is another).
At least once a day, Doug posts something I want to watch a miniseries about. (@ernie.tedium.co is another).
Brassicas
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Brassicas
Please let It happen soon
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Please let It happen soon
I loved this.
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I loved this.
Has anyone seen where this comes from? I'm curious if it was over email or live. Google doesn't work anymore. Can we all please attach sources to our screenshots? I know this particular thing doesn't matter, but we need to collectively get better about sharing verifiable shit
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Has anyone seen where this comes from? I'm curious if it was over email or live. Google doesn't work anymore. Can we all please attach sources to our screenshots? I know this particular thing doesn't matter, but we need to collectively get better about sharing verifiable shit
I've never had rolls at Thanksgiving (I have made stuffing flavored garlic knots, though), but I'm still kicking out the green bean casserole.
with charity and goodwill, i must here part ways with rolls.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I've never had rolls at Thanksgiving (I have made stuffing flavored garlic knots, though), but I'm still kicking out the green bean casserole.
Some posts of mine hold up pretty well
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some posts of mine hold up pretty well
The original NYT post is bait, but what funny bait to pick. I was on a field trip to see the shuttle lift off when Kurt died so the entire moment is burned into my memory. I remember my classmate Liz was wearing a Beatles t-shirt while bawling over the news
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The original NYT post is bait, but what funny bait to pick. I was on a field trip to see the shuttle lift off when Kurt died so the entire moment is burned into my memory. I remember my classmate Liz was wearing a Beatles t-shirt while bawling over the news
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If you need a whistle in Somerville, stop by Gracie’s. If you need A LOT of whistles that’s probably ok too.
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If you need a whistle in Somerville, stop by Gracie’s. If you need A LOT of whistles that’s probably ok too.
When I was a little kid, I thought the "wicked witch of the west" just lived in the really far west.
The first known use of 'wicked' was in the 13th century.
We hope everyone flies free this weekend.
BTW, the name Elphaba is a reference to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum.
BTW, the name Elphaba is a reference to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
When I was a little kid, I thought the "wicked witch of the west" just lived in the really far west.
Half my Massachusetts friends who regularly post about Trump's corruption and failure to follow laws don't seem to offer a fraction of the concern for our own state, and that's how the state government gets away with all of its nonsense.
3. Massachusetts agencies never followed a 2017 rule to cut emissions from state vehicles, court documents show
Massachusetts agencies never followed a 2017 rule to cut emissions from state vehicles, court documents show
CommonWealth Beacon
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Half my Massachusetts friends who regularly post about Trump's corruption and failure to follow laws don't seem to offer a fraction of the concern for our own state, and that's how the state government gets away with all of its nonsense.
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Your periodic reminder that I maintain a list of people around the world willing to share their sourdough starters with others:
Sourdough Culture Club
docs.google.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Your periodic reminder that I maintain a list of people around the world willing to share their sourdough starters with others:
Faith, you're driving me away
You do it everyday
You don't mean it
But it hurts like hell
My brain says I'm receiving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support
My iron lung
You do it everyday
You don't mean it
But it hurts like hell
My brain says I'm receiving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support
My iron lung
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Faith, you're driving me away
You do it everyday
You don't mean it
But it hurts like hell
My brain says I'm receiving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support
My iron lung
You do it everyday
You don't mean it
But it hurts like hell
My brain says I'm receiving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support
My iron lung
Boy
Man
God
Shit
Boy man
Boy man
Wash uffitze drive me to firenze
Man
God
Shit
Boy man
Boy man
Wash uffitze drive me to firenze
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Boy
Man
God
Shit
Boy man
Boy man
Wash uffitze drive me to firenze
Man
God
Shit
Boy man
Boy man
Wash uffitze drive me to firenze
Apparently I have lived my life so that people at a Middle East show think I work here, and I'm okay with that.
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Apparently I have lived my life so that people at a Middle East show think I work here, and I'm okay with that.
A lot of people who should know better are posting variations of this. It's entirely wrong.
None of this trains LLMs. It does shit like sort your email into tabs and puts events on your Google Calendar.
None of this trains LLMs. It does shit like sort your email into tabs and puts events on your Google Calendar.
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A lot of people who should know better are posting variations of this. It's entirely wrong.
None of this trains LLMs. It does shit like sort your email into tabs and puts events on your Google Calendar.
None of this trains LLMs. It does shit like sort your email into tabs and puts events on your Google Calendar.
I stopped reading the Nuzzis and Taibbis of the world before most and never read the mattys or Douthats, but I am not immune to bait; I have read and will continue to read (but not pay for) the Lizza* slop.
*I once thought he and Cillizza were one and the same, which would be super funny rIght now.
*I once thought he and Cillizza were one and the same, which would be super funny rIght now.
I have no one but myself to blame. I saw these posts from @joshuaeaton.bsky.social and @marisakabas.bsky.social and instead of going back to sleep, I decided to figure out what they were talking about.
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I stopped reading the Nuzzis and Taibbis of the world before most and never read the mattys or Douthats, but I am not immune to bait; I have read and will continue to read (but not pay for) the Lizza* slop.
*I once thought he and Cillizza were one and the same, which would be super funny rIght now.
*I once thought he and Cillizza were one and the same, which would be super funny rIght now.
What most people don't know anymore is this was actually there for decades as a holy space when the Pru was built and giving them this space was a condition of development.
No idea how the church got there, though.
No idea how the church got there, though.
I’m at the prayer chapel. I’m at the Dunkin Donuts. I’m at the combination prayer chapel and Dunkin Donuts. #aarsbl25
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
What most people don't know anymore is this was actually there for decades as a holy space when the Pru was built and giving them this space was a condition of development.
No idea how the church got there, though.
No idea how the church got there, though.
Well, shit. Did I just convert?
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Well, shit. Did I just convert?
I can't tell you how much it pains me as a Masshole to see both Auchincloss and Moulton saying correct things well.
CNN: In the last couple of weeks or so, she's become kind of an ally on some issues. What do you make of this?
Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.
Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I can't tell you how much it pains me as a Masshole to see both Auchincloss and Moulton saying correct things well.