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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17h

If you click through the quote skeet was in response to this I WAS providing nuance. But thanks for scolding me!

Back when I was apply to grad schools my undergrad mentor warmed off Cornell because they are also apparently the suicide Capital of American Academia (or were at the time)

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026

This is literally one of my favorite pasta shapes. Before people accuse me of being bougie I buy it at home goods!

farfallloni pasta i.e. giant butterful pasta but with smooth not rigid edges.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/09/2026

Nylon tea bags are both more aesthetically pleasing and allow for the tea to better expand. Lipton or other low cost tea bags are basically made of weird paper.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/09/2026

Like.... the light coming in was so odd it made me look outside.

photo of a blue and purple sky with a rainbow

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/09/2026

I was talking to a friend (my age!) over the weekend about students using AI to write and I said if schools really cared they'd bring back Blue Books (and locked chrome books for students with writing difficulties) and she asked what a Blue Book was ... and I'm sorry were they a regional thing?

a picture of a stack of Blue Books. They're thin books of 12 leaves or 24 pages wrapped in a blue cover.

The cover said Use your Imagination - Blue Book Examination book.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/09/2026

Yes what @alsorae.bsky.social said. I would also add, they're moving into more and more spaces that are outside of the areas that transplants traditionally lived in.

Transplants are called transplants for a reason. They specifically don’t engage in the communities they move to but aim to control and mold them to be more palatable to their own wants and needs.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14/09/2026

It never dawned on me that younger people would not understand how the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 were able to call their loved one's mid-flight to say goodbye, until I saw a video explaining sky phones. They didn't know about sky phones.

photo of a phone built into a seatback on an airplane.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10/09/2026

You've probably seen them without realizing. Their original design was to make it easier for stores to change prices without having to swap out the physical tags.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/09/2026

If you have a Brita filter, the BLUE filter filters out lead (the white doesn't).My last place DID have lead and I used a 3-stage water filter (second pic) from when I was worried about PFAS in NH, it also does lead! www.brondell.com/cypress-coun...

picture of a blue brita filter saying it removes 99% of lead

photo of the brondell countertop 3 stage water filter.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/09/2026

This was what was at then Thule now Pituffik Space Base. Also, fun fact: the pipes were (are?) lead contaminated. The original video was 1.2gb IDK why maybe I used my go pro? Anyway, this is compressed. ALSO, I HAD COVID so no I was NOT at my most eloquent

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 04/09/2026

THIS IS SLANDER as an NYC native. Not least because I've spent more time in BOSTON than I have in NJ

chart showing that I speak most like someone from New Jersey. New YOrk is 53% and Boston is 53%

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/09/2026

It ALSO to be clear works in SUPPORT of farmers. If I have to see one more tiktok take about how chickens in the US have such big breasts because of GMOs I'm going to lose my fucking mind. We selectively bred Cornish Crosses and respectfully, those bitches are brolic. This photo BTW is a lie

photo of 3 very brolic chickens in a field.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 27/08/2026

They're on the street? They also sell chicken on a stick and pretzels?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of the imagination library. Full disclosure: I stole it from another poster who decided to caption the image with an alt text that said "sorry I'm not typing all that" which is an abuse of alt text

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family
and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!

This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have
to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public
library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.

I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have
a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember ...

I Will Always Love You,

Dolly

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026

This is a photo I snapped on my phone in deep queens in the summer of 2018

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026

This was a photo I snapped in the Rockaways in 2014. I can say that NYC summer storms have gotten way more intense than I remember as a kid or a teen

ominous clouds descending on rockaway beach.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026

hahahaha no! they're bouncier! The below pictured I think are fried

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026

I just want to share that I'm obsessed with this ramen. I don't even like ramen like that. I was 100% an udon girlie The noodles are thicker than normal ramen which is why I like it.

a photo of a pouch of sun noodle jiro style garlic shoyu ramen. It shows a bowl of ramen with some kind of pork and cabbage on top.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/08/2026

He's not trying to find love, he's trying to fill a gap in the resume

Pascaretta also sent the team an Excel spreadsheet cataloging his must-haves: an accomplished professional, ideally a doctor, lawyer or executive, “someone like me who has been ‘heads down’ career focus, but now is ready for a serious relationship.” Someone who has never been married or is at least amicably divorced. Someone shorter than him. And someone between the ages of 25 and 43. It also detailed his strong preference for a woman who is, among other things, “naturally pretty” and “stylish,” “loyal, classy, ambitious, elegant, feminine, emotionally stable,” from a “well-respected family” and who went to a top-tier school.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/08/2026

Sometimes she wears a donkey mask and bops around in one of these

the classic red and yellow pedal vehicle of a little trikes coupe

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17/08/2026

The last thing, this graf is contradictory. We don't amputate healthy tissue. So, calling it "self-mutilation" is inaccurate. We amputate limbs and such because the consequence of NOT doing that is often worse pain and/or death. When we amputate because of necrosis, the tissue is already dead.

Going no contact is a kind of amputation. In my case, not only would it be an awful way to treat my father; it would also deprive me and my future family of a connection to the ideas and tradition that made me who I am. Cutting him off would be self-mutilation.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026

Context Brooklyn and Queens occupy the eastern ends of geographic Long Island but they are not ON Long Island. And nobody who grew up there is FROM Long Island.

A char t showing from biggest to smallest US Islands. Big Island, Hawaii; Kodiak island, Alaska; Puerto Rico; Prince of Wales Island, Alaska; Chichagof Island, Alaska; Barunof Island, Alaska; Long Island, New York: Maui, Hawaii; Oahu, Hawaii ;Guam; Isle Royale, Michigan;
Whidbey Island, Washington; Galveston Island, Texas; Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Staten Island, New York; Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands; Hilton Head Island, South Carolina; Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands; Manhattan, New York

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/08/2026

That said this exists. And you can use it for cold drinks!

a stainless steel giant beverage dispenser.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/08/2026

If you're unfamiliar with Maggi 1. I'm sorry for you 2. I do not understand how this seasoning that apparently originated in Switzerland has a lock on the global south beyond the fact that they predate MSG 3. In this case specifically I'm talking about the bouillon cubes. Here's the logo

the words Maggi in a red quote bubble against a yellow background.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 04/08/2026

For me the lightning moment was watching the Veronica Mars movie quoted below. She admits the rig is decked but STILL WANTS TO FIGHT. No, get the fuck out of the ring and unrig the deck!

Veronica Mars:
Dad always said this town could wreck a person, it's what happens when you're playing a rigged game.

Veronica Mars:
I convinced myself winning meant getting out. But in what world do you get to leave the ring and declare victory.

Veronica Mars:
This is where I belong, in the fight. It's who I am.

Veronica Mars:
I've rolled around in the mud for so long, wash me clean and I don't recognize myself.

Veronica Mars:
So how about I just accept the mud and the tendency I have to find myself rolling in it.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 03/08/2026

It's kind of weird that they buried the government funded arts bits Haha just kidding it's the WSJ

"Government support also helps. The U.K.’s Theatre Tax Relief hands non-touring productions a 40% tax credit, reimbursing producers for nearly half their upfront costs. The measure was made permanent in 2024."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/08/2026

I saw some girl on tiktok eating this pasta and it haunted me until I found it. I don't like farfalle pasta - in general I don't like foods with rough edges (see ridges potato chips) but this pasta I fucking love.

A clear bag showing La Fabbrica Della Pasta Farfalloni a giant butterfly style pasta with smooth edges like 2x as big as farfalle

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/08/2026

I also have OO flour so if I suddenly want fettuccini at 3am and don't want to go to the supermarket... I can make it. Because yes, I have SEVERAL pasta attachments for the kitchen aid.

photo of fettuccini on a pasta drying rack. This is before the noodles are spread out.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 31/07/2026

Gosh I do not think I looked at these photos since I took them

photo of celebrants at sunset. an american flag is in the distance. a young masked woman carries a Thank you Philly sign

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 31/07/2026

The thing I really remember is how euphoric the young people were (this was Boston Common). Also this was November 7th. It was so hot that day nobody needed jackets. In BOSTON. In my coastal NH town the beach was filled with people.

people celebrating trump losing . There are people standing on light poles waving flags.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 31/07/2026

After the 2020 election was called for Biden, I went down to Boston (I was living in coastal New Hampshire) and snapped this picture. I was in DC when Obama won the first time and I remember thinking that the feeling in Boston on this day was even more euphoric.

A woman driving a car out of the sunroof is a cardboard trump cutout. She's holding a sign saying "Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead" and there's a sign on her windshield saying Dindong the witch is dead. There are tons of people out celebrating Trump's loss.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/07/2026

Cleaning out old photo files and came across this image from the 2023 smoke event in NYC - I took this picture from the 20-something floor of a building in midtown.

photo of the NYC skyline heavily obscured by smoke.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/07/2026

Not going to drag them for the parking violation because it gets all of us eventually. Absolutely dragging for the speeding.

08/02/2025 6:51 AM
Manhattan
School Zone Speed Camera Violation
$50.00
07/20/2025 7:38 AM
Manhattan
No Parking - Day/Time Limits
$65.00

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 23/07/2026

Again, why not? The theme of the class was "inflated objects"

image of an inflated bread dough being cooked with a heat gun

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 23/07/2026

I'm fully a recreational skater. I'm not good. But I do have proper (as in exorbitantly priced) figure skates sharpened at a proper facility and I can grab my skate blades fine. They aren't as sharp as a knife in part because there's a hollow

chart showing the radius of different kinds of skate blades from less to more. The big thing is there is a hollow.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 23/07/2026

Every so often I think about how MIT let me spend four weeks trying to inflate mozzarella.

photo of blown up mozzarella with peeled tomatoes

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/07/2026

A friend was crashing and I made scrambled eggs for her in my 14-year-old stainless steel pans and at the end of the meal she was like, man, how do you get your pans so clean? I whipped out a can of this. IDC if you're making eggs or pancakes especially if like me you don't like butter. PAM.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/07/2026

So about this. An issue is a lot of people grew up on nonstick cookware. When they transition to stainless steel, they don't know how to cook on it. They don't know that food you have to wait for the maillard reaction to "unstick" food on stainless steel www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...

Caraway and Our Place sell the pastel pans: aluminum bodies under a ceramic "sol-gel" nonstick coating, pitched as the healthy alternative to Teflon. The materials science on that coating is peer-reviewed and brutal. A 2025 study ran five commercial ceramic coatings against ordinary PTFE across 90 simulated cooking cycles, and PTFE held its release performance the whole way while the best ceramics quit somewhere between cycle 30 and 60. Cook eggs daily and that is a pan with a working life that is measured in months. Both companies put that lifespan in the paperwork. Caraway covers its coating for one year. Our Place covered its coating for one year too, until May 2025, when it extended coverage on new purchases to three years after complaints about early coating failure had piled up in public. Let’s see how those claims end up being serviced.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/07/2026

Gotham Greens says their stuff isn't affected www.facebook.com/GothamGreens...

Wondering about the recent cyclospora headlines? Gotham Greens products are not impacted, and our lettuce, basil and salad kits are safe to eat.
Here’s why:
- Our salad greens and herbs are grown in controlled greenhouse environments, protected from many of the outside conditions that can affect field-grown produce.
- We continuously monitor and test the water used to nourish our plants to help ensure it meets our rigorous quality standards.
- We grow, harvest, and pack our greens in the same facility, so they go straight from our greenhouse to the grocery shelf.
- From seed to harvest to packing, we follow strict food safety protocols, routine environmental monitoring, and quality checks to help keep our products safe.
Every day, our team is committed to growing fresh, flavorful greens you can feel good about bringing home.

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