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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 40m

Yeeeeeah I think I'll skip that 😆

Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 6h

"Sometimes rules are stupid and you gotta follow them anyway because a lot of people are stupid" is a useful life lesson.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 9h

Takes on new meanings with the new WICKER movie, though!

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Among the reasons I wrote STARTUP HELL...

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 13/10/2026

EVERYONE LOOK AT THE COVER FOR!! MY WIZARD BOOK!! ✨THE APPRENTICE LIAR AND THE DEATH OF THE WORLD💫 LYING! STEALING! AND ONE MILLION GAMES OF GO FISH WITH DEATH!!!!!!! MARCH! 2! 2027!

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hello, Long Island! I'm heading out to the Hamptons in November! Sunday, November 8 | 3:00–5:00 PM Osprey’s Dominion | North Fork, NY

Wine 'Round the North Fork Book Club at Osprey's Dominion
$65
November 8th 3:00-5:00PM
Two Writers Walk into a Conversation
Caitlin Rozakis & Heather Buchanan
Ticket includes:
A copy of Startup Hell & Signing opportunity
A playful, memorable author discussion and Q&A
Wine tasting and lite fare
Local vendor mini market

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And food is also so much more than sensory - it's also culture, tradition, and social connection. A kind of art. But that's why they want to remove it, I think. Because those don't generate value for shareholders. Processed meal-replacement bars do.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm trying to make healthier eating decisions (woo midlife cholesterol readings!) but I am trying very hard to do it by taking deep pleasure in healthier foods (and occasional pleasure in more indulgent foods). Like - it's apple season. Really good apples are AMAZING. Why drink Soylent?

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But the tech bros take "food is fuel" and turn it into the idea that food is JUST fuel and the only justification for it is turning it into work. And... we should enjoy food? The preparation, the anticipation, sight/smell/taste/texture, even sound can be deeply pleasurable and you should like it?

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The phrase "food is fuel" is such a double-edged sword, for example. In a time where Ozempic is making food and the desire for food an enemy, it's good to be reminded that your brain literally runs on glucose. We need sugars. Trying to remove food is literal death. Food IS NOT WEAKNESS OR BAD.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If only taking cold showers makes you 15% more efficient at working 80 hour weeks at a job that would replace you in a week if you died at your desk...what is the misery FOR?

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But I only want it so I can then spend that time/money/effort on something satisfying or pleasurable! I wanna be done cleaning the bathroom faster so I can read a book or spend time with people I like. I want money so I can do cool things and be comfortable.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Like, I totally get wanting to hack through unpleasant things. A hack for a chore I don't like that makes it take less time? Sure! A hack that makes effort go farther - that helps my workout build more muscle or gets the last of the expensive shampoo out of the bottle? Great!

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hey folks - the audiobook for THE GRIMOIRE GRAMMAR SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION from @titanbooks.bsky.social is 70% off through Nov 5 (so just $7.80!) at audiobooks.com.

Fall Sale 70% off through Nov 5 @audiobooks.com
Image: phone with audiobook of THE GRIMOIRE GRAMMAR SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION by Caitlin Rozakis

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They're so creepy I love them! (Also, excellent use of color.)

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes, they would. They want a robot to read to their baby, they literally don't want to do anything but give orders to robots and watching money piles get bigger. They don't actually want to experience life or longing at all.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He's a really cool guy, I like him.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh, that is EPIC. Major respect to her.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's MUCH easier when you're observing than when you're actively participating in the conversation. It's a lot of variables to be juggling!

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

and asked if the kids could come over to his house and stomp the spotted lantern flies menacing his grapevine. 😂 tl;dr I was weird in preschool and shockingly, my child is proudly weird as well.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I wrote a detailed email to the head of the summer camp, including links to all the relevant Dept of Agriculture pages. Fortunately, he was already aware of the spotted menace, apologized, promised to train staff on this one exception to "don't kill wildlife" rule...

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But my kid, who normally leaves bugs be (except mosquitoes), had already been trained along with me by my mom in spotted lantern fly identification and eradication. (Yes, Grammy is the problem here 😂 Sorry, Mom). And he was irate at the ignorance and injustice.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well, one of the counselors had gone off on them for animal cruelty. I think she thought she'd basically caught them pulling the wings off flies or something and was appalled.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

*note for non-US Eastern seaboard folks - spotted lantern flies are a HELLA invasive species that we think hit the US in 2012 but really exploded population-wise in the last five years or so. NJ Dept of Agriculture has a kill-on-sight order.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well, except that history then kinda repeated itself with my own kid. Several years ago, at summer camp, he came home absolutely furious. Because he'd found spotted lantern flies* and had organized a spotted lantern fly eradication team of kids stomping them.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And so I needed to not eat them, even though I was correct, because most adults were stupid and I shouldn't scare them. (I don't think this was how this was phrased. It was, however, how I took the message.)

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And she was like, "no, she knows what wild strawberries look like, she's correct. She'll be fine." Teachers continue to be appalled.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Teacher FLIPPED OUT. As far as the staff knew, I'd just eaten random poison berries and possibly tried to peer pressure friends into poisoning themselves, too. Mom was called, naturally.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In preschool, we were out on the playground and I found some wild strawberries. Sweet! (Literally.) I knew what these were, I knew they were edible, they weren't in someone else's lawn so they were fair game. I ate them. (I may have offered some to classmates, too, I was good at sharing.)

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So my mom is a Plant Person. Worked at a florist when I was small, was on the landscape design team at a major university when I was older, owned her own company for a bit, is now a Master Naturalist focused on native plants for southeastern Pennsylvania. So I grew up knowing a lot of plants.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Preschool. Story time about Caitlin and plant identification!

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm neurotypical on this particular axis, but even for neurotypical folks, there's a range in how fast people can process the subtext. I'm EXTREMELY good at understanding and describing office politics. But I'm not great at playing it because I can't parse and choose the next move fast enough.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

and they'd thrive if you transplanted them (don't do this! Avoid invasive species!) but is it fair to have them both in my secondary world fantasy deciduous wetland? What about the songbirds? I spend way too long thinking about this.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I know some stuff about plants and I do tend to think about biomes when deciding on flowers and wildlife...but I angst a LOT about whether it's fair to mix continents. Like, this flower is from deciduous wetlands in North America and this one is from Europe...

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think it says something about where my crafting brain goes that my first thought was "ooh, nice cookies!" 😆 Congrats!

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Sandra, present perfect, angry monster @sgwong.com · 13/10/2026

Related: baking chocolate chip cookies is mightier than Seasonal Affective Disorder

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There's a talking goat. And too many ducks.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's not a direct sequel - Half-Baked has new protagonists (but Valevna shows up as a terrible mentor and Orla gets to give baking lessons.) The comic book Crashed, on the other hand, is a new story featuring the core Dreadful cast. Eliasha's sister decides to get married at the goblin B&B.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hurray! Hopefully you'll like the next one too - it's a got a goat girl who doesn't want to be a wizard and a necromancer who just wants to be a baker and a talking goat and an overabundance of ducks!

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The cozi-fication is so important. It's getting dark. It's getting cold. It's time for warmth and comfort and friends, because even with electric lights and central heating, our animal bodies know it's the Bad Time.

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