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@fcrouter.bsky.social
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Baker. I ❤️ glutenin + gliaden. Minnesota launched, Seattle landed.

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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 18h
I want to “like” this because it’s interesting but the whole thing (extra cops, the advertising of that fact, the oil money) is so repugnant I had to undo the little heart I just gave your comment. 😑
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Next up: window cranks! CRANKS CRANKS CRANKS
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m just gonna keep saying this, without context, until I get tired of it in approximately one billion years.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t get over the perfect handwriting! 🥹
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I keep thinking about what a Boomer woman said recently. Something like, “we were for Civil Rights, the environmental movement, first wave feminism. Don’t lump us in with the rest of our generation—we’ve been fighting these same fuckers since high school.” As Alternative GenXers, yeah. I feel that.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I suddenly had a vision of the photo that accompanied his hagfish slime article. 😂 I love his writing—thanks for the link!
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Same, Lulu. Same!
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m struck by the similarities with writer Ed Yong: he was inundated with personal stories when he started researching/writing about Long Covid. Just hearing so many patients’ experiences & learning about their real suffering was difficult—he had to step back from doing that work for a while.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Somehow, I imagine novelists to be supreme beings who read faster, more deeply, and take in all the peripheral information that the rest of us mere mortals miss. 😂 I love Mieville and can’t wait to get started on this.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ah! Fair enough
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*Before* the wedding?! Why, was your true love marrying someone else?!
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New BURRlin, WI (New Berlin)
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same—I LOVED the whole game cabinet! “Daddy Had A Bad Day, go back two spaces.” “Daddy’s Younger Boss Yelled At Him!”
A picture of the retro 50s-style style board game “Daddy’s Home” from Widow’s Bay with the rage-faced dad at the dinner table
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would rather play the game TEETH (from Widow’s Bay) with you.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What state recently came out of an 11-year drought? Ah yes—Queensland. And the Australian wildfires in 2020 are when I first learned of the existence of “pyrocumulonimbus” clouds. Sounds like a great place for a data center. 😐
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh! That’s like the reverse of William H. Macy’s character in The Cooler, where he starts out schlubby but gets progressively better-kempt as his luck changes! I need to watch that movie again.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I mean, yeah—Travis still creeps me out.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I want captions. “There aren’t going to be any casualties.”
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m not seeing any love for the Haralson apple, my absolute fave! Since they’re not ready yet, I’m enjoying First Kiss apples. I love tart early-season apples!
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thanks for the reply (and for dumping Facebook).
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026
Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm
Google Map of Seattle showing Lake Union renamed to Lake Confederacy
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Are you still in contact with this friend? 😬 Do they feel like the right things are getting done? I’m really curious! Do folks double-down at this point, or admit they made a bad choice?
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I will always remember The Onion and the movie Zoolander as the only things that made me laugh during that time.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A few years ago we were camping and a family called their goofy black lab back over to them. “C’mon, Trogdor!” My head whipped around so fast. “Trogdor…the *Burninator*?!”
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“We’ve been sent nice weather”
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Blessed Be The Fruit - The Handmaid's Tale
Alt: Offred, in The Handmaid’s Tale, with the caption Blessed Be The Fruit
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ugh, if you weren’t on such a tight deadline, I’d send you over to the Southern Living offices! But Friday night on a holiday weekend…I don’t think anyone’s still on the clock.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Purrdinand knows he missed the cutoff but insists he deserves to be counted
A self-satisfied looking cat (what else?) showing off his beautiful lion’s mane of a white ruff against his mostly gray body
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Creep glasses and neckspies. Coolcool world we’re living in
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh, no. New circle of hell unlocked 😖
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Minnesota Republican Party booth is flying the old state flag. Because *of course* they are.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Me to my friend: “I can’t wait until you visit. I wanna play TEETH” I love that show
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ah! More for me. 😉 Here’s a savory recipe that looks interesting: www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25544...
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Tas Kebab (Persian Lamb and Vegetable Stew)
Quince turns this Persian stew, called tas kebab, into an aromatic fusion of hearty vegetables and lamb seasoned with cinnamon and turmeric.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oooh! Quinces already?! Where did my summer go…I recommend pie! You can make it with apples and quince, too. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/21129...
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Honey-Poached Quince Pie
This honey-poached quince pie recipe features sliced quince, cinnamon, honey, butter, and double pie crust for a flaky pie that is rich in juicy flavor.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ugh. Just flashed to the board game from Widow’s Bay. Daddy Had a Bad Day! Go back two spaces.
A screenshot of an old-timey looking board game box called Daddy’s Home! with a rage-faced paterfamilias drawn in 1950s style, wife bringing a platter of roast chicken to the dinner table, and a boy and girl sitting at their places.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026
In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Glad to see that they’re arranged spines facing out.😏
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
That is such a maddening, inspiring read. @juliacurlee.bsky.social, I’m so grateful for all you’ve done in your career and so sorry for what you’ve had to endure.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I mistyped an email sign off as “all the bees” instead of “all the best”. I reckon I’m going to stick with it. I can’t think of anything negative that can possibly come of wishing someone all the bees.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ha! Or good ol’ sweet-smelling cow manure, as soon as the fields thawed in the spring.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What are you reading? Hopefully it’s something that doesn’t require deep concentration, so you can look up now and then and admire your surroundings.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
…but what about the fish that pulled the rod out of his hands in the first place?! I bet it was thiiiiis big!
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ahem. Malt-O-Meal is proudly made in Northfield, MN (although now it’s owned by Big Cereal) but yeah, I get your point. 😂 Just had to chime in here as a Malt-O-Meal stan. On some days, the smell of malt wafts across town, like a brewery
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Same! Spouse and I are still saying it to each other a week later and cracking up.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Namaste!” My favorite part
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Jeremy Irons, when I was about 9, watching Brideshead Revisited with my mom
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Brideshead Revisited 1981
Alt: Brideshead Revisited 1981, with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews looking dashing in their tuxedos
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Spouse and I still quote a Clippy hate-related comment from the late lamented NPR quiz show Says You: “It looks like you’re digging a grave! Is it a *business* grave?!”
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Clippy: The Microsoft Office Assistant
Alt: Clippy: The Microsoft Office Assistant who annoyed the heck out of everyone
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Wise eyes. Athena's eyes.
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I just read @amybrown.xyz ‘s piece out loud to my Bay Area-born spouse. He said, “I’m so glad to live in a place that passes a library bond by 70%” rather than voting against it by 70%. bsky.app/profile/amyb...
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’m going with Gary Oldman, for how delightful and unexpected it was
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fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Who sang the Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) best? a) Marshall and Ted in HIMYM b) Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) in Slow Horses, or c) Farmer George (Hugh Jackman) in Sheep Detectives?
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