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Uncommonly spirited (two decades of bourbon opinions), amateur raconteur (sparsely edited), a thousand picnics or none. He/Him. Louisville, KY

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 27/07/2026
everything in consumer package goods is either downstream of the military, a solution in search of a problem, or will shortly be found to cause unexpected long term consequences.
technical sargent chowdown, RIP
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 22/07/2026
A screenshot from the Disco Elysium video game in which it describes the philosophy of moralism (a stand in for “centrists”) as being devoid of belief, but rather a system of control that opposes every incremental attempt at change.
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 19/07/2026
Ms paint of uh I guess a romantic painting I should know the one anyway it says “do not kill the part of you that is cringe/kill the part that cringes” and maybe it’s a South Park? IDK it’s not yet five am and the dog is pissing on a lily plant
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 22/06/2026
I have an embarrassment of Mirablis.
A dozen or so Mirablis in bloom encroaching on the gravel patio but they’re pretty so whatever we will pull them later
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 15/05/2026
(Listen to @bloodwork.show)
It’s the guy from every Guy Ritchie wet dream and he’s got guns
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 18/01/2026
Ours leave Xmas cards, we left them cookies.
A holiday greeting card which is a giant orange garbage truck in a santa hat
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 18/12/2025
Now now now let’s not leave the dog out of this entirely, this is the internet after all
A dog on the floor, peaceful.
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 18/12/2025
Huh, I guess they did it.
A grade inflation chart for maple syrup, courtesy NPR
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 18/12/2025
The thing about book people is, they usually get the last word.
a copy of "the triumph of nancy reagan" displayed next to a biography of colette titled "secrets of the flesh" in a bookstore in semi-rural NC
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 26/11/2025
Today’s onion. Goddamn.
An onion article headlined “ice agent scores easy win by deporting own family”
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 24/10/2025
Please, my father was Mister Mustard. Call me
This is a stupid visual joke that is not enhanced by alt text, apologies.
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 17/10/2025
Mise en placeA cambro full of prepped veggies with an unnecessarily fancy Japanese chefs knife and a bottle of sparkling waterA cambro full of veggies marinating in tandoor spices
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 21/09/2025
Time to start putting things up for the winter. Bourbon sage fig jam.
Figs, sage, bourbon and an empty pot on the range Pouring bourbon on the assembled figs and lemon zestProcessed jars of bourbon sage fig jam
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 13/09/2025
My beloved and I been having a rough go about the whole American project for a minute now, but we got a chicken 65 quesadilla from the Tikka Taco jawn on Preston where a Punjabi crew bought out the white boi burrito joint and we felt like patriots for about the length of said flatbreads
It’s two roti with a chicken 65 quesadilla in between I mean what more could you want okay yeah also there’s a bourbon highball in there it really rounds out the flavors and cleans up with the carbonation
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 11/09/2025
Lots of things happened last night but shout out to freezer martinis and fried chicken
A bottle of Ford’s gin martini (3:1) and a box gas station fried chicken
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 29/07/2025
A Velcro patch on a military uniform that says “gender reveal party technician” and depicts a person running from a mushroom cloud that is both pink and blue in color
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 08/07/2025
Does it add flavor? Nope. But it feels lavish.
A bowl of punch with a block of ice and dehydrated lemon wheels darkened with angostura bitters
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 05/07/2025
Caffè doing just fine as long as I don’t breathe too hard or often
A lagotto romanola (Italian truffle dog) lying at her “masters” feet we are varying shades of beige and oatmeal and an Oxford pattern shits real New England for Kentucky IDK
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 19/06/2025
Hydrangeas, marigolds, cone flowers, borage. All just steps from our house, though my arranging needs work
A bouquet of flowers for my baby on a rough morning
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 16/06/2025
Grew those cone flowers, too, but it’s better described as “didn’t get in their way”
An arrangement of flowers on a headboard in the downstairs guest room
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 16/06/2025
Yesterday I picked some of those flowers I mentioned because @ennuigo.bsky.social was redoing the florals for the week
A fist full of lavender, spiderwort, marigolds, and bee balm
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
It’s a dark art and I don’t pretend to understand it. I will start after the new year tho, I got a bench set up and everything
The seed bench, where I will get some extra vitamin D starting in January
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
On impulse I plunked down a bunch of gladiolus around the place, this pot was the three I was sure wouldn’t make it. We respect a plant what will not die.
Several gladiolus sprouting in a terracotta pot with an upside down wine bottle in it, we know who we are and we are unashamed
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
Foxglove loved the front yard: about half of these are volunteers from the initial two. Once we have a trouble of foxglove (foxdie? SNAAAAAAAKE) I'll probably try cutting some
foxglove planted next to a teak bench in our front yard, flowering purple in the foreground and white behind. could stand to be denser.
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
@ennuigo.bsky.social planted this hollyhock last year and it was a challenge to keep it alive— something was snacking on its leaves pretty aggressively, just getting it to flower was an accomplishment
hollyhock in bloom in our front yard, ahead of some cone flowers that are still in buds
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
there's a reason starts are expensive: these...forget me nots? (oh, the irony) were started in probably April with the idea of planting them by Derby. it is mid-June. There's a reason nobody is particularly precious about seedlings. 🌱
weak little puny plants that I water every other day and they're sitting directly in the sun. what more do you want?!?
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
an amaryllis that's flowered once next to tomato seedlings a neighbor grew and some strawberries in pots that yield pretty infrequently but man, that's a vibe
plants along a window ledge look this is a very visual thread if you're still along for the ride we are grateful
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
growing annuals and cut flowers as well, here's some what's the story (morning glories) training up
climbing plants trained to sticks in pots of soil
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
a plot of edamame that won't shut up about preferring pet sounds in mono (and a single pea shoot in the back what won't stop singing that Barenaked Ladies song, RIP brian wilson)
yung edamame, mixtape drops for labor day 2025
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
our first blackberry which I check every morning in anticipation of hand feeding it to @ennuigo.bsky.social
unripe blackberries trained along a metal fence
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
Lenny the beefsteak tomato plant, who is in tomato jail because he wouldn't stop getting spider mites
a tomato plant in a cage, he knows what he did
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
One (1) hipster's worth of kale
it's kale. lacinto, specifically.
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
Companion plants kicking it in the dirt (tomatoes, marigold, basil, some kind of volunteer squash)
a container full of companion plants, including tomatoes, basil, and squash
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
front: lavender, which prefers to be left alone, back is a dahlia that needs pruning and oh no I watered the mint oh god oh fuck
potted herbs freshly watered
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
a container fig tree that doesn't know whether to fruit or grow and really, whomst amongst us
fig tree in a pot with lots of new growth. I'll prune it next year if it survives the winter.
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
Bee balm, doing great in the sunshine. Attracts butterflies and bumblebees, smells of bergamont
bee balm in bloom say that three times fast
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025
Because I forced @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social to read the narration of my garden this morning, I give you: garden leave, presented by two weeks' severance.
a picture of our vegetable garden in mid June, with a makeshift path made of old tile, a raised bed made of wood and stone, and in the background big rubber tubs with tomatoes and kale. The ground is gently overgrown with clover and a border of wildflowers againt the north fence
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 07/06/2025
This place: the juice? Many are saying “could be”
A screenshot of some posts. The first is a picture of an occluded ad on the LA metro that says “La United against hat” because someone put a flyer in front of the last “e”. Below that, William Gibson reposts a quote from a bot that posts quotes from Moby Dock saying “yet this is life”
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 22/05/2025
Alright well that’s a hell of a start to the day please look at some pictures of our dogs
Two lagotto romanolo dogs, one brown one cream colored This same dogs on a blue velvet couch, draped around in front of a laptop like they’re tired of working remotely. What, Caffè, like you got bills? Brioche been doomscrolling again?
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 09/05/2025
Bring! Back! Cranks! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Justice Souter's house in NH. My man, insulation has existed since wattle and daub
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 09/05/2025
J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, of the Church of the Subgenius (maybe)
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 24/04/2025
So @davidwondrich.bsky.social I'm guessing Trader Vic didn't have a ghostwriter for his books, yeah? @ennuigo.bsky.social found a copy of Kitchen Kibbitzer a few weeks ago and it includes a lot of interesting biographical anecdotes (and this absolute short story of a cocktail spec)
a recipe for what appears to be a hell of a sidecar and a note saying the spec comes from the wife of a man who drank 5 zombies at Trader Vic's in March '45 and apparently didn't learn a goddamn thing
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 09/03/2025
Which yeah, I forgot to post these from work yesterday (do you even lift toddy, bro)
Pouring punch from a large bowl into cordial glassesThose same cordial glasses set out on a dining room table
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 08/03/2025
indeed.
deeply dorothy draper discussion pit in a 10k book librarycocktail tables in the 10k book librarythe conversation pit from a different angle, featuring the wind dial above the firepitclub chairs next to very old books
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 20/02/2025
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 21/01/2025
lol the fuck not
“The algorithm” suggesting I follow JD Vance and Melania Trump, people for whom pity and contempt vie for my attention.
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 18/12/2024
Holly, jolly, about to be full of rain
A stoneware mug from the Pendennis club in the foreground, a dim living room with a brightly lit Christmas tree in the background
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 24/11/2024
Cop the bag
Two dozen bagels to tide us over into the holidays
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 23/11/2024
i mean
white people shit that's been going around on the memes
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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 19/11/2024
Mothman is real And he is my boyfriend
Poster standing in front of a mothman effigy in Marlinton WV shortly before
Halloween, mothman looks like a gentle and thoughtful lover
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