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Ben
@theotherbfg.bsky.social
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plant dad • former chef/somm • Peloton geek • friend of Garak • Cincinnatian
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blossoms about to open on my yuzu
💛💚💛💚
A spray of yuzu leaves in deep green, featuring smaller, thinner new growth in a lighter shade with three flower buds preparing to open. A vertical branch of yuzu leaves with one flower bud about to open.
December 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Feeling very cozy. Heating pad, heated mattress pad, muscle relaxers, massage scheduled, and reading a good book. I will defeat this back spasm.
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Thanksgiving essentials ✅
An oven featuring a heritage turkey stuffed with oranges, red onions, and bay leaves atop a bed of red onions that will cook down to oniony perfection by the time the bird is done. Three wines from favorite producers for today’s meal sit on a countertop: a Domaine Huet Vouvray, a Domaine Tempier Bandol rosé, and a magnum of Sea Smoke ‘Southing’ Pinot Noir.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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This is the fourth or fifth time in the last week…
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Working out for the first time since injuring my back
Picture of the ‘Girl who is “going to be okay”’ meme featuring a seated young woman holding a green (matcha? smoothie? Ecto Cooler?) drink and looking relieved/resolved/renewed/restored
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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another monday morning
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Channeling @bostongayboy.bsky.social today
A cardboard box holds a recent shipment of heirloom beans from Rancho Gordo.
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Today’s mood—sleepy
Two dogs, a black and white Springer spaniel and a camel-colored poodle, lay down next to each other on a blue couch. They look very relaxed and sleepy and comfortable and I envy them as I leave the house to go to work.
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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It’s *that* weekend across the Midwest when all the plants come inside.
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Spending the afternoon with this lil’ nugget of cuteness
A parti-colored brown and cream toy poodle stands on my lap and looks into the camera. She is adorable.
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Preparing emotionally for when a student asks who this legend is.
A middle-aged gay man wears a t-shirt featuring the iconic Grace Jones with cigarette hanging from her mouth from the cover of her 1981 album Nightclubbing.
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Quote with a 10/10 album
The cover of the 1988 Lauryn Hill album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, featuring her face burnt into the surface of a wooden school desk.
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Am I about to make this Rosalía album my personality for the coming days?
The hand-slamming-down-on-a-button-that-says-yes meme.
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Today’s throwback vibe
The cover to Depech Mode’s 1990 album Violator, featuring one long-stem red rose with leaves on a jet black background.
October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Within my family, I tower over my pygmy kin
A graph of the height distribution of men in America. It shows I am in the dead center, taller than 49.77% and shorter than 50.23%.
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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My boys
October 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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All the green tomatoes got harvested this morning for soup!
October 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Fall chill be damned, my citrus trees have lots of new growth 🥰💚
A spray of citrus branches featuring lime-green petite new leaves at the tips and darker green larger leaves further down.
October 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The world is fucking terrible right now, so cling to whatever brings you joy unapologetically and unreservedly.

For me, it’s fresh flowers. Hope y’all find *your* fresh flowers.
A grouping of seven white porcelain and blue glass cylindrical vases on a wood buffet holds three groups of white flowers: roses, lilies, and tulips.
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Or a hot dog, for that matter
A blond boy, probably two, sits in a high chair. He is holding a hot dog in his mouth like it’s a stogie and he’s about to take the next puff. Every visual detail of this photo signals that it was taken in the mid-1980s.
October 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Not every day you get to watch someone you love get their well-earned recognition in front of thousands of their peers.

Could not be prouder. 🥲🥰
#IDWeek #IDSA
A picture of the IDSA stage featuring Judith Feinberg at the lectern and on the big screen with her lecture titles, ‘Lessons from a (Serendipitous) Life in Epidemics’, a talk about her career treating HIV, HCV, and substance use disorder; preventing the transmission of infectious diseases; and fighting stigma.
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM