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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

El lore de Letracienta en tapa blanda, dura, narrado, electrónico, ilustrado, miniserie y peli. Por favor y gracias.

Pepe the Frog medita rodeado por un círculo de velas, la palabra “manifesting” aparece sobre él.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

When you are an immigrant in the Netherlands and you pack for a brief visit to your family

Photo of a 65 litres luggage, open, containing 7 packs of stroopwafles, 2 packs of butter syrup cookies, 2 chocolate bars, and 4 packs of disco dip pretzels (small dry salt pretzels coated in white chocolate and covered in rainbow sugar sprinkles, as Satan intended)

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Vlad the Impaler getting all the bad rep while Olga of Kyiv is right there like

Kyoko Toshino from the anime series YuruYuri, laughing with a smug smirk.

Olga got a sainthood out of everything she did. You can listen to a jolly briefing on how she ran her royal business on the podcast “Half-Arsed History”.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Me ha dado la risa tonta (lo he comprobado, es verdad) www.reddit.com/r/popculture...

Commentary on Reddit, sub popculturechat, pointing out that the name of the general manager for the Dutch branch is Zoe Hamburger

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Street cleaning with some neighbours this Saturday morning #Amsterdam

A person stands at the border of a canal, holding a pair of reach extenders and a bucket. On the right there’s the canal and an old boat, on the left the street and a couple of parked bicycles, in front a few steps ahead a wood bridge that crosses from one side of the canal-street to the other. There’s a bunch of moss around.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Free tip to the poorly-lighted brains behind this AI ad: Get a native European-Spanish copywriter to review your work, so you don’t burn a marketing fortune on broadcasting to a TAM of 50 million people “Make your tasks even more difficult to solve” instead of “Simplify your hardest tasks” 🙃

An advertisement in YouTube, selling Google Gemini AI. The ad is written in European Spanish, in such a bad way that it is open to the both possible interpretations that I explained. For a casual Spanish reader, the wrong interpretation is the default one with that phrasing.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The book “Maskerade”! (Terry Pratchett) I have it on my lap right now, reading it once again over the weekend. It always brings me joy, and helped me cope in my troubled teen years back in the day. No matter how many times I read it, it makes me laugh and lose sense of time 🥰

The back of a book, a beautiful hardcover edition decorated with an embossed illustration of a theatre and a figure on stage. Printed on it, a text reads “The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night…”.

This book also contains witches, superb comedy, a perspective on cookbok publishing, and a lot of food for thought.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Me looking at the first images of Netflix’s #PrideandPrejudice like

A small opossum with big opinions voices its discontent at a microphone. Caption reads “I just want to say I hate this”

I need a massive microphone. This is even worse than their Persuasion adaptation.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Project Hail Mary: movie trailer. I so agree with this dude.

A dude called ThatARCGuy commented on the trailer in YouTube: "This movie better be 8 hours long."

And please 8 additional hours of behind-the-scenes content.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Teeny-tiny home-library setup ☑️

A cubic wood shelf rests on a wood stool, placed between two windows facing a street. The wood cube contains a bunch of books on arts and crafts, gardening, history, sociology, science fiction, fantasy, fiction, comics and (not very enthusiastic about those) business. Some new acquisitions are on top of it. It ain’t much, but it’s an honest library.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

That feeling when there’s bread and a jar of double-garlic Andalusian extra-virgin olive-oil mayo and nobody in the room to stop you

A glass jar containing my aunt’s signature mayo, jar mostly empty at this point. My aunt uses superb olive oil, the kind that very wealthy people wish they would get their posh hands on and keep exclusively for themselves, some of those olives harvested at my uncle’s farm. Assorted breadcrumbs around the jar are witness to the mayo’s glory. If garlic would show on radar, this mayo would mess up delicate astronomy sensors. In olden times, it would have been worshipped as the food of goods.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals ♥️

A photo of my beloved Christmas sweatshirt. It has printed on the front the drawing of the goose from Untitled Goose Game (a game where you, as a horrible goose, must wreak havoc in a village). The goose is wearing a typical Christmas hat and a red ribbon as a bowtie and it is honking. By its side, there’s a checklist form with the options: Naughty, Nice, and A Horrible Goose. Of course, the last option is checked. May we all find our inner horrible goose in 2025 and deploy it against the evils of the world. With much joy.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Cuypers Library, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Photo taken by me in late November 2024. It shows a neo-Gothic space of four levels around a central open space with desks at the ground floor. The walls are covered in books, the columns are tall and thin, supporting stained glass windows at the top of the North wall and a glass skylight above. Rijksmuseum visitors are allowed to peek inside this main hall of the library from a balcony, but cannot roam freely to avoid disturbing scholars and books, and are asked to not speak and been noiseless when in that space. This library is one of the largest and oldest public research libraries in the Netherlands.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

My friends got me an art supplies calendar that I was lovingly eyeing while trying very hard to not buy. I cannot thank them enough because this year is being a handful and EOY weeks will bring peak stress levels. Day 1 is a blue acrylic Sharpie that works beautifully even on black paper 🥰

Advent calendar from a popular art supplies shop in the city I live in. The box is smooth to the touch and quite big (approx the size of a coffee table) and standing on mu desk and against the wall. I pit it in a highly visible place to cheer me up, it is so pretty and reminds me of people I love.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Awfully intense week with jobseeking, interviews with dumpster fire companies, and event networking (and witnessing US elections) 🫠 … but on glorious things that money can’t buy, last two nights back on my way home cats approached me to demand pets 🥰 Happy #caturday everyone! 1/2 Thursday night:

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Midnight and first hours of Friday is the top attendance time at my neighbourhood's gym and something tells me that such level of occupancy is not caused by the cleaning crew

Screenshot of Google Maps showing the attendance data for the gym. Popular times are on Thursday, 11pm to 2am, with the annotation "Usually as busy as it gets". Any gym-oriented person knows that it means "So many people at the venue that you may have to queue for using the equipment".

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

The only positive of the mass migration of users from Facebook and Twitter to LinkedIn is that now the place of professional platitudes is the playground of superb shitposters

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by stand-up comedian Ken Cheng:

People have accused me of performatively reading intelligent books in public.
I was reading Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" in a cafe, and a woman came up to me. She said,
"You're not even reading that. It's upside down." I was holding it upside down.
"Oh you don't think I'm reading it?" I then read out three paragraphs from it while holding it the wrong way up.
She looked sheepish and embarrassed, and one man from a nearby table applauded (the whole cafe would've but it was a loud cafe and we weren't shouting the exchange.)
I've spent the last 5 years training this skill because reading things the right way up was no longer a challenge for me.
I now sit and read like this in public to see who is close minded and who is open to new ideas.
Reading normally is boring and for conventionals. Reading upside down is for true "Outliers."

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by stand-up comedian Ken Cheng:

The office kitchen Toaster is broken.
My employees have been complaining for several weeks.
Last week, one of them, my Assistant Head of Marketing tried to fix it themselves.
He watched several online videos and sought help from his electrician brother-in-law on Skype.
While fixing it, he electrocuted himself and had to be rushed to hospital.
On the way to hospital, in his injured state, he thought up a brilliant marketing campaign for our products.
We immediately put that into practice and our sales rose by 15%.
As he lay in his hospital bed, he hit it off with a nurse, and now that nurse is his husband.
Ladies and gentlemen, I broke that Toaster on purpose.
Sometimes being a great boss means doing the unexpected and seeing what happens.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

See? I'm not terminally online. Just gravely online.

A message from BlueSky telling me that I'm platform user number 1879528, out of the first 10 million of users - in chronological order of account creation.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

App notifications are the new email marketing and by Odin that tech companies can shove them up their shareholder arses

Screenshot of a pop up message in a phone from Spotify app:

Never miss a new song, episode, concert, or anything else. Turn on push and email notifications to get the latest on music, shows, and more.

Image of Bugs Bunny carefully pronouncing the word “No”

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

Both cats and mobile phones have airplane mode, but at least cats don’t have functioning issues when switching it on.

Picture of my cat-nephew Weasley, a ginger cat whose fur glows like the summer sun, from above. He has his ears flat and perpendicular to his head in a nonchalant airplane mode. Weasley was considering whether to pat my leg and maybe bite it slightly or not to demand more pets. He did not, which I appreciated greatly giving him more pets.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

Inside you there are a forest spirit reminiscing Studio Ghibli and seemingly bats, lots of bats.

Blurry selfie showing off a nice second-hand tee that features the drawing of a deer at night under a full moon and some small unshaped shadows which I unilaterally decided are bats.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Whatever business leadership everywhere are smoking lately their recruiters are also inhaling. 1st 🖼️: an actual job opening. 2nd 🖼️: I am not sorry one bit.

Text in a job offer:

"About the job

About the company:

Our vision 'A better chicken for a better life' summarizes why we exist - to create the conditions for a prosperous world with our product. For people, the chickens and our planet.

[company name] has been around for over 50 years and is [country name] market leading player in chicken with several major brands. Everything we do is based on your needs for convenient, healthy and tasty food. Our mission is to offer a safe and healthy choice with products that are good for humans, the chickens and the planet."

Yes, they said that killing chickens is good for the chickens.

No, unfortunately that was not an April's Fools joke.

I created a meme using Lord of The Rings scene of Aragorn at the Black Gate about to charge against the enemy in a heroic and desperate attempt at supporting Frodo.

But in my version, instead of saying "For Frodo" he says "For the chickens".

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Well, it has taken five years in #Sweden to feel that I have had enough snow, wind, and cold for my liking but TODAY IS THE DAY

Meme of a Very Disappointed Muhammad Sarim Akhtar with the text "When it's April and yesterday was 8 degrees Celsius, but today snow is blowing... horizontally".

I like winter, but by Odin after five months of this I could do with not needing ice-slip resistant shoes to venture the street (Stockholm's street maintenance in winter is embarrassingly lacking).

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Whoever created this #playlist, I see you and I love you 🎵📻💘

Screen capture of a Spotify playlist called "POV, I'm just a girl updating a playlist". The cover image for the playlist is a meme of a little furry animal fashioning a pink ribbon while looking at the observer with big imploring sad eyes. The playlist is an exquisite selection of the vibes "I am a young adult and everything makes me feel poignant, the world is an objective mess, and if that person does not look at me my world will end, only these songs understand me and can cheer me up". The playlist has been created by someone at the company and published under the company name so, alas, we don't know the hero's identity. Kudos to that amazing peson. Chef's kiss.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Weasley woke me up at a very AM hour, made me open the bedroom curtains, and THEN he did this 🐈 #monday #cat

Ginger cat getting ready for the first nap of the day, curled up on my fluffy home hoodie on the bed. I guess time for breakfast and being a rusty and mistreated cogwheel of capitalism for me.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Please please please consider keeping it as a feature

Alice falling down the rabbit hole, taking her to interesting places

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

@catsofyore.bsky.social presenting for your consideration despite the central figure is not a cat (but she is clearly cat-approved), and in case miraculously you didn't know this one already, A Merchant's Wife's Teatime by Boris Kustodiev.

This is the portrait of a wealthy dame serenely enjoying her tea at a terrace in a city house. She is surrounded by fruits, cake, greenery behind, and the company of a cat purring and curling to her shoulder. This painting delivers both joy and peace, illustrating how wonderful it is to chill and snack at a nice location in company of a cat. Life goals.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

In related news, in one of the random stages of this rabbit hole I stumbled upon a rug that apparently excels at attracting cats, according to several customer reviews. ALT: Screenshots of customer reviews showing their purchased rugs, in use by their kitties. Customer review in each image ALT. 🐈‍⬛

Customer review: "Excellent for standing on to take outfit selfies and for summoning my cat"

Customer review: "I successfully summoned my cat!"

Customer review: "Cat summoning successful"

Customer review: "The cat likes to sit in the middle and look like we summoned her from a Clow card" (this comment is a reference to the lore of Card Captor Sakura, a manga and later anime series - the rug design is clearly inspired by the magic circle the main character in the series used)

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Pleased to introduce Weasley to everyone. He is my hermoso guapísimo cat nephew, I catsit him every few months. Weasley, this is Bsky. Bsky, this is Weasley. 😽

Photo of Weasley in summer, sunbathing on the carpet and expecting treats. He is a ginger cat with green eyes, which in practical terms means that his eyes are the tones of tangy apples and his fur is like a warm summer day (and, like a Shakespeare play, he can be a tad theatrical).

Photo of Weasley in winter, or at least photo of his backside. He is sitting on the sofa, facing the wall at one paw distance from it, and looking at the heating unit installed under the window. He is obviously lost in thoughts about the joy of central heating in a city with snow 4 or 5 months a year. His ears are in airplane position checking what I’m doing. Taking pics of him, as usual.

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Double Garlic* @doublegarlic.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Project Hail Mary is that kind of book that will take you down rabbit holes. Head first. Exempli gratia me trying to guess what’s going on in chapter 7… 📚🐰🕳️

Screenshot of my phone’s browser opening a ScienceDirect page about a paper on the absorption of carbon dioxide in aqueous ammonia. To know why the hell I’m checking a paper on chemistry research you will have to read the book because I’m not going to spill spoilers. Honestly, it’s a wonderful book.

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