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Always so lovely and droll, and the details always give me more to smile about.

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So I guess... if y'alls want some pozole verde, come over with your own bowl and spoon. We have some radishes for garnishing but we don't have cabbage because the two of us can't eat a cabbage before it goes bad. There's plenty.

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I just had to decant to a large stock pot. Added the posole. Added some toasted ground pepitas. Added a bit more pork broth (we have some frozen) to thin it back down. Mind you I'm not eating all of this. I'm giving a bunch of it away to friends.

illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My 8 qt cast iron is full of pozole and I haven't even added the posole yet. Fortunately there will be some room once the pork bones come out. still. I think I may have to decant to a large stock pot in any case.

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lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote a thread earlier today (before even reading this story, actually) about how commonly the “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story are actually procedural distortions made by people in positions of power who are invested in disbelieving her:

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You know what Buddhism is like without the compassion and forbearance for others? A bunch of supercilious "I'm so much more advanced than you and if you did the exhausting prideful things I did to make myself fell superior to you you'd feel better too."

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What is it about white people appropriating the language of Asian spiritual traditions and then going around and accusing us of being wounded or damaged when we call them out on their wandering around telling people who are wounded by life to use their magical thinking to fix everything?

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Like, my sibling in Guanyin, you are NEVER going to be white. They are never going to accept you no matter how many of us you step on to prove you're just as good. And if you stop pulling up the ladder behind you, then maybe you might have a way back down to us when you need our support.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I honestly see this as an echo of what some ethnic Chinese people had to deal with a few years ago; they falsely assumed, that they were self-reliant, educated, working in high-paying fields, that they were as good as white Republicans. Then they encountered what it was be like to be the Other.

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I’ve resisted calling ICE arrests/detention “disappearances.” But now ICE’s apparent policy is that in some cases, you might not even know if your loved one is still in the US. IDK what else to call that. documentedny.com/2026/10/02/i...

documentedny.com

The Throughline: Is ICE “Disappearing” Detainees?

ICE is deliberately withholding the locations of some detainees from lawyers and loved ones. At what point does that amount to “disappearing” them?

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I don't go around telling them to meditate as I do. I don't go around claiming to be Enlightened. Nobody can be enlightened until they leave the cycle, and you know what? There's more good I can do here. So why don't you get off your high horse and stop bothering strangers online?

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you honestly sound like a cult leader. And you also know nothing about my personal, emotional, and spiritual practices which to inform you also include meditation and radical acceptance, also processing of trauma. And even so I do not purport to tell others they are wrong to be worn-out.

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The white nationalists are turning up the dial on racism against South Asian USians. Will we talk about the fact that the dial has been up on anti-Blackness among this same group for decades? Because I think that it's a barrier to solidarity.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

some of us have chronic health problems and /really/ don't have the energy to spare.

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Sometimes you go on co-op bombing missions, which means there's a second person sitting behind the pilot with a bunch of loose bombs rolling around in the footwell, and they have to pick them up with their hands, light them, and drop them over the side of the plane.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Concept: multiplayer aerial combat sim based on the first couple of years of World War I where nobody knew how air combat worked yet and rival pilots were just tooling around at double-digit air speeds plinking at each other with handguns from the open cockpits of their unarmed plywood death traps.

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When I did Wanderer's Palace (Hard) I was furious. "NOOO MY LITTLE GREEN FRIENDS!"

Yeah, my main is a GNB and I tend to just play tank all the time now, but he started out as an arcanist and I did SMN/SCH until he hit 70.

Indeed. Tanners and dyers and fullers were often stuck in the same district so people could try to not live near the workshops :p

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Old-fashioned tweeds often smell a bit like pee when wet because the crottle (lichen) dyes are often activated by ammonia, which... yes, come from aged pee. So as a fibers and textile person I'm amazed these people are drinking theirs instead of using it for a useful purpose like dyeing. Wasteful!

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They also used aged urine, or "lant", to launder garments. The urea broke down into ammonia, which helped lift stains. Can't have been pleasant-smelling, though.

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 01/10/2026

Cato the Elder said that bathing in a cabbage-drinker's pee would keep you healthy. You didn't even HAVE to be the person eating the cabbage, it was just any cabbage eater's. But I think his fetish was cabbages, not pee.

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It is Hallowmonth, so I am contractually required by the radge basturt spirits of my ancient forebears to post a *proper* Jack O'Lantern for the benefit of all you sweet summer children of America with yer cute lil pumpkins.

A proper jack o'lantern carved from a tumshie, a hideous leathery visage like the head of some terrible burn victim left languishing in an insane asylum for decades, the bandages stained filthy to the point of solidity, with a sick sheen. Pumpkins? Pfft!

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gosh that looks like an Asian schoolgirl polishing off sticks of Pocky.

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Since I'm sure you don't want chaos, and you want to help end crime in America by letting a private company use AI to track your every motion, I know you won't help any of these organizations.

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Trump’s AI chatbot turns on its master

Ahahahahaha! I mean, don't use this thing, it's AI just like all the other glurge they're trying to shove down our throats. But ahaha your programmed sycophant can't even stand you, hahaha.

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The famously fact-averse president rolled out a new AI tool – but its answers don’t conform to his version of reality

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the most underappreciated unforeseen consequences of the smartphone/streaming/social media era is the elimination of boredom as a key driver of creativity. Without boredom, there just isn't enough impetus for most people do go out and learn and do things.

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Torah Texts: Bava Metzia: 84a - Talmud

Aha, it was Bava Metzia: 84a! (I am not Jewish, although I have considered conversion I am not currently in the process. But I do read the Talmud as I do any other religious text, as someone who seeks wisdom and understanding.) www.chabad.org/torah-texts/...

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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I'd switched to tanking by then so it was basically me going okay I'm just going to explode-sword all these invaders to death.

They are my little green buddies, when I saw what happened in Wanderer's Palace (Hard) I got so angry!

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OK this part I did not know. But I now have the visual of a very bishonen drawing of Rabbi Yochanan sitting outside the mikvah with like, shojo manga style sparkles and bubbles coming off him.

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But also "Rabbi Yochanan was so pretty he was his own entire gender pretty much."

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I recall reading a bit about how um, some rabbis were insulted for being fat because they were too fat to service their wives, and they said "oh, but our wives are even fatter and lovelier than us, and LOVE MAKES IT POSSIBLE". And the text comes out and says "and they were SO HUNG it was!"

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