I got a "book nook" for Christmas - kind of like a book end, but more elaborate. Super fun, I want them all.








I got a "book nook" for Christmas - kind of like a book end, but more elaborate. Super fun, I want them all.
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I'm a big fan of Cincinnati chili, so cinnamon in meat dishes isn't so strange to me. Cinnamon and nutmeg are also essential components of French Canadian tourtiere.
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Amanda Marcotte on Twitter
“Why not? The notion that cinnamon is a dessert spice is a weird white American hang-up anyway. But it goes in lots of savory dishes around the world, and isn't reserved for sweets like it is in much of the U.S. https://t.co/7rQ3QUzRbs”
Bookmark of https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/
Raquel S. BenedictEveryone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
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I got a book nook!
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Goblin on Twitter
“SHOW ME THE COOL STUFF YOU GOT FOR CHRISTMAS🎄 I WANNA SEE!!!”
Annual Christmas tree snap
Like of https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1600606364459536387?t=AQRQP-93fd6Ac7HtiFp5Dw&s=19
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Jill Filipovic on Twitter
“Two things are true: Republicans are absolutely massive hypocrites on the "leave kids of politicians alone" thing, and also, we should leave the kids of politicians alone. (Assuming, of course, that those kids aren't also adults working in politics).”
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I initially read this as "librarians love me for some reason". It was funny at the time.
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Lux “Ask Me About Self-Managed Abortion” Alptraum on Twitter
“Libertarians love me for some reason, why have none of them offered me $80k to be a bitch for a weekend”
Bookmark of https://gamerant.com/best-lesser-known-sci-fi-books-read-holidays/
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I remember reading somewhere that kosher/halal laws are much less about the laws themselves and much more about the group identity they foster. I imagine the obscurity of Catholic mass fulfills roughly the same function.
What you're saying makes a lot of sense to me.
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Lux “Ask Me About Self-Managed Abortion” Alptraum on Twitter
“I think fundamentally there is an us v them mentality built into Judaism that exists independently of antisemitism. A lot of traditional Jewish practice — especially keeping kosher — is about a forced insularity that separates Jews from non-Jews.”
I just read a quote that said that the brain is "a machine for jumping to conclusions" and I don't know why but this feels so true.
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I know, right? I wouldn't have thought that a show about the "bureaucracy of evil" could be so compelling and yet here we are.
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Lux “Ask Me About Self-Managed Abortion” Alptraum on Twitter
“I’m finally watching Andor again after a three week break (my viewing companions had COVID) and my god it’s so good, it’s seriously way too good to be a Star Wars (sorry but it’s true)”
It's egg nog season, motherfuckers!
I did a zoom presentation today and one of the audience took a screenshot of me talking. I looked pretty crazed. I'd be fucking terrified of me.
Sunset over Point Sainte Charles and Saint-Henri
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I'm not sure what it is about this that rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's the condescension or the "learning is beneath me" vibe I get.
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Bess Kalb on Twitter
“Absolutely no billionaire can do anything to get me to download “Mastodon” and join a “server” whatever in God’s fuck that is.”
Like of https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1589679857818300416?t=jZ7EFBJJ61kbzt-0Fnc-Pw&s=19
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Jill Filipovic on Twitter
“Not sure the Mastodon move is gonna be permanent and I am still On Here, but I'm also over there at jill@journa.host”
Like of https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1588889018892455936?t=iCIdnVi57CKuJwbR3SkaBQ&s=19
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Lux “Ask Me About Self-Managed Abortion” Alptraum on Twitter
“One of the funny things about Mastodon being “too hard” is that it reminds me that all of the internet used to be hard”
Does anyone else imagine that the earworm currently ringing in their head as they walk on the sidewalk is actually part of the soundtrack in the movie of their life?
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It's probably a reaction to Elon Musk taking over
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Athene Trek A.K.A. Janette Bach on Twitter
“Why are people talking about quitting Twitter? I have seen a few posts on it.”
My cat is very photogenic
Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec
I was under the impression that a subpoena meant you... had to do something? Or be arrested? Trump is, apparently proving me wrong here.
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Ah, fair enough. It's definitely harder to construct a coherent thread of conversation with webmentions
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Sara Soueidan on Twitter
“@desmondrivet @azzamsyawqi @eleven_ty It's just not the same as conversations happening in comments under the post. And I don't want the conversation to happen via Twitter.”
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I'm confused by the webmention part of this statement. Do you not have control over how webmentions are displayed under your blog posts?
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Sara Soueidan on Twitter
“@azzamsyawqi @eleven_ty But I don't want to use Twitter for the interactions. The point of adding comments is to move the conversation from Twitter to the site. And tbh I'm not a fan of how webmentions are listed under blog posts.”
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I think the phrase is referring to the desire to have something both ways, to have something without paying for it
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Athene Trek A.K.A. Janette Bach on Twitter
“@desmondrivet So what your saying is ..🤔 People are referring to after someone has had their cake but being sad afterwards that it is gone?”