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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Starting—starting!—to figure out pizza in the new place. Different flour, different tomatoes and cheese, different (electric!) oven, different mixer… but we’re getting there. #pizzursday #pizza #baking #sourdough

A Neapolitan style pizza with spots of mozzarella and large pepperoni. The crust isn’t exactly leoparded but it’s browning in a way that’s not dissimilar.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

And finally a twofer. Here we do have foot eyes, hand eyes, and some really lovely color that is still vivid after 800 years. Expand the full image, it rewards close attention. #ArtHistory

Another chapel interior. The central figure is a seated Christ. He’s surrounded by many angels, only two of which are our fellas. There is also a bird-headed woman and a woman-headed bird flanking him.

An angel with all the trimmings. This one has a more naturalistic face than what we’ve been seeing.

A similar angel but looking the other way. We see one wrist eye.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

This is the first one to show a little ankle, which I’m surprised doesn’t have any eyes on it. Strange oversight. #ArtHistory

Another chapel interior, this one larger. There’s central figure is the infant Christ on the Virgin’s lap.

A six-winged angel, eyes on wings and hands. His legs are visible from the knee down, with no eyes visible.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Intermission. I don’t know if this dog is biblically accurate or what but I bet he inspired Picasso. Or maybe Hideaki Anno. #ArtHistory

A dog with seven eyes, three on the left and four on the right, stacked vertically.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

This one is much more cheerful, presumably because he has his biblically accurate doggy with him. #ArtHistory

Another chapel, another large central Jesus flanked by friends and family.

Another six winged eye-covered angel, posed next to a dog-like creature also covered in eyeballs

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

This one seems less than pleased with his situation. Perhaps the censer he’s holding is chafing his hand eyeball. #ArtHistory

Another chapel interior. There’s a large central Jesus figure, flanked by saints and angels.

Another six winged angel. He’s got a glum expression. He has even more eyes, including some on his inner wrists. He’s holding a censer in one hand.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Your classic biblically accurate angel. Six wings, too many eyes. It’s what it says on the tin. #ArtHistory

The interior of a restored chapel, furnished with fragmentary religious murals.

An angelic figure with six wings: two up, two down, one to either side. The wings are covered with eyes. The lower ones cover the angel like a cloak. There are also eyes on its outstretched palms.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

My eclipse photos are pretty garage—90 seconds is not much time to figure out how your phone camera works!—but it was incredible to see with the naked eye and I recommend it heartily.

A wide photo of the eclipse showing dawn-ish light to the left and right with night and an eclipsed sun in the middle

A zoomed in eclipse photo, blurry as hell, showing the corona around the moon

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

You cannot take a bad picture inside La Sagrada Família. I tried. #FensterFreitag

A bank of stained glass windows ranging from green to orange, sunlight streaming in through them dying an interior space in absolutely saturated color

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Welcome to the nation that invented gastronomy,

A sign advertising Cheetos and Doritos hot dogs. I live in France.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Stained glass shadows in a church in Dubrovnik

The stone interior wall of a church, with tall stained glass shadows from one side cast on the supporting columns of the other

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Can I interest anyone in a discreet banana

Label for a “hidden waist bag”, or in French, “banane discrete”

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Today included voted for the people’s choice rose at the Bagatelle rose garden, and a lovely asparagus frittata. #vegan

A rose, densely packed petals. Each one is bright red on the inside and yellow on the outside.

A frittata in a cast iron skillet. It’s chickpea flour, studded with asparagus, and has halved cherry tomatoes and la vie bacon bits scattered across the top.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

LaCrèma had this amazing saffron date flavor as their special today. The person working insisted that I try it before I be allowed to get it; too weird for some people I guess? But listen: it was incredible. #vegan

A cup with a scoop of coffee ice cream, and a cone with a scoop of saffron and a scoop of vanilla. Both are topped with fluffy whipped cream.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Want to see the most French thing ever?

An Eiffel Tower made of bread, on a platform with the sign “fête du pain Paris 2026”

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Fontainebleau is beautiful and an absolutely unbelievable resource for climbers in Paris. It’s so wild to have world-class bouldering an hour (train ride!) from home. Too bad there’s no sport climbing though… #climbing

A wide angle shot of a boulder with crash pads in front of it. The boulder is 5-10 meters high (sorry I’m not good at meters) and totally riven with pockmarks. It looks like a set from Stargate. There’s a guy at the top, looking over the edge.

A bright orange crash pad in front of a boulder. The crash pad is in sunlight and is reflecting onto the boulder face.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Turns out Paris has wild parrots too. I feel right at home!

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Successfully made a bread! To be sure, some would argue that baking your own bread in France is like bringing coals to Newcastle. And this is true. But what if the commute is really pleasant? #baking #bread #sourdough #vegan

A dark brown round loaf of bread, heavily dusted with flour

The same loaf cut in half, exposing a fairly dense interior

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

Real Blade Runner vibes on my walk home today

Neon signs at a Chinese restaurant against a backdrop of a building surrounded by construction scaffolding and a dark rainy sky

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

I’m a week in to living in France. So far so bureaucratic. Somehow I have managed to sign up for a phone plan, a bank account (pending approval), and a year long lease on a furnished apartment (pending signatures). But Vélib’… velib escapes me.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

Throwback to Toes napping in the most ergonomic fashion known to rabbitkind #bunnies

A little cow colored rabbit sleeping with her face smushed up against a hard metal coffee table base

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

My wife made halloumi from Miyoko Schinner’s Vegan Creamery cookbook and it is amazing. So cheesy, great texture. (Forgive the presentation and poor photo, we don’t have a grill pan so no beautiful lines.) Underneath it is an einkorn bread I just baked! #vegan #cheese #cheesemaking

Three slices of bread on a plate. One has four slabs of yellowy white cheese on it. Another has peanut butter and jam (also homemade) and the third has just butter.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Ominous news in the coffee shop line

A label on the floor reading GREAT NEWS, FRIEND
YOU'RE NEXT

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

A special treat for breakfast: jam and cream cheese filled sour cream bread. It’s basically a long danish. Homemade jam, homemade sour cream, tofutti cream cheese. #vegan #baking

A small plate with two 3” long sections of a braided bread stacked on it. The bread is fairly flat, and golden brown on top, paler on the sides. A bit of filling is visible.

The same bread sections, seen face on. The filling is clearly visible: a layer of cream cheese atop a layer of jam.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

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A menu entry for buffalo cauliflower fried in beef tallow

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

TIL you can turn off the “news” aka ads in the stock widget. #ios

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

I know, I know, but I started the dough yesterday. This is a hybrid matnakash and a hybrid fougasse. #vegan #baking #sourdough #bread

A matnakash on a cutting board. This is an oval flatbread with deep furrows, meant to look like a plowed field. It’s golden brown with a lighter center, where it’s been brushed with yogurt. It’s topped with nigella and sesame seeds.

A big ol’ puffy fougasse. It’s roughly round in shape, with five slits evenly arrayed around the center. It’s topped with rosemary and flaky salt.

Both breads on the cutting board, looking handsome.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

At my wife’s request, I made meatball subs for dinner. Note to those following along at home: 10” is too much bun. Learn from my delicious regrets and make a 6” bun. Also note: my wife has good ideas. #vegan #baking #cooking

Two halved meatball subs on an earthenware plate. One bun is coated in poppyseeds, one is plain. Both have squares of Violife provolone mostly covering meatballs in marinara. One sub has Impossible meatballs and the other has Gardein.

Two sub buns, split open, each with one half full of meatballs and cheese.

The same buns pre baking. One has unmelted squares of cheese, and the other is as yet uncheesed.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

We are celebrating new years as the founders intended: with a large number of cookies #vegan #baking

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

First meal with my new tempeh! This is a double mustard special: the tempeh is marinated in a mustard sauce, served with braised mustard greens. #vegan #cooking #fermentation

A pyramidal stack of golden tempeh slices, in front of a wet pile of greens oozing red liquid

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

About 50 hours in, the tempeh is done and looking tasty. #vegan #fermentation

The block of tempeh is fully filled in with mycelium, beans only sporadically showing above the white surface

A quarter block of tempeh on my hand. The cross section shows dense white mycelium surrounding beans. It looks like a nougatty candy bar.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

Dinner tonight was homemade pasta with a preserved lemon sauce (they were also homemade) #vegan #cooking

A birds nest of pasta sits on a whole plate. It’s got a clingy yellow sauce. There are a few basil leaves scattered on top.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

After about 30 hours the fungus is well established and producing enough heat to keep itself warm. Probably about a day until the tempeh is done. #vegan #fermentation

The slab of tempeh is now looking like tempeh. There are beans visible but the bag is mostly filled with white fungus.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

20 hours later, the tempeh is showing some nice fungal growth. It’s also got some condensation inside the plastic, which isn’t ideal—the danger of a PNW ferment. Let’s hope it dries out. #vegan #fermentation

A plastic bag full of beans. It’s got barely visible white fungal growth, which looks more than anything like steam

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

It’s been a minute but I’m starting a new batch of tempeh. Chickpeas and red beans. Check back in 12-24 hours for updates! #vegan #fermentation

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

Anyway, our thanksgiving plate was moderate but very delicious. #vegan

A dinner plate with four neat quadrants. Roast purple Brussels sprouts, sliced turkey with sambal, mashed potatoes, and creamed kale.

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