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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Making a shiso-infused sorbet base to use on a batch of lychee puree I froze down earlier this year. This is enough base syrup for 3-4 quarts of sorbet, so next maybe...shiso pear? Shiso blood orange? Just churn the base syrup and hope for the excellent shiso sorbet at Yakitori Torishin?

A black glass induction stove. On the main burner there is a steel pot with a milky liquid in it. Next to it sits a handful of shiso leaves.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Valrhona Manjari 64% chocolate, feuillantine, and homemade walnut praline paste. It's cut into circles to be a crunchy layer in some bonbons. Chocolate is setting in the molds now, next up is to make a ganache with a Nocino by Forthave Spirits.

An uneven and craggy brown expanse. Light reflects off the surface unevenly. It's basically super bougie Puppy Chow, if you're familiar with that, but it's being set up in a slab.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pepper flakes have been processed and I only have a little throat burn from opening this canister with no PPE to take a photo. This is the death spirals.

A red metal canister full of pepper flakes, shot straight at the opening.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Excited to see if I manage to process these super hot peppers without regretting too many of my decisions.

Swimming goggles, a non-medical N95 mask, and a pair of black nitrile gloves, sitting on a white surface.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Peppers are getting close to processing. This is a super-hot called a Death Spiral, which I am excited to try.

A textured and pointed pepper, peach colored with a vertical yellow stripe, hangs in front of leaves.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Look, I know it's my fault for assuming, but this was not the shape I was hoping for from a pepper named "Death Spiral".

A very pale green pepper, textured and pointy.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thanks to a delivery truck driving dangerously slowly a while back, I was reminded to try Ace Endico's Market. They had a bunch of stuff I wanted to play with, one of which was Callebaut Ruby chocolate. These have a long shelf life lime ganache in them.

A handful of pink angular chocolates, with the foregrounded one cut in half to expose the internal lime chocolate ganache.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Picturesque decomposition for you on this day.

A log covered with bark, with thin fin-like mushrooms running up the top and side, stacked like plates.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Once a few more artists drop out, "Choo-Choo" The Herky Jerky Dancer will finally be the only performer at Freedom 250 concerts.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Old Man Flirts With Cloud.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I referred to the band "Angine de Poitrine" as "Monsieur Bungle" earlier and I'm still proud enough of that to share it with you, personally.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Another batch of crunchy peanut butter dark chocolate bonbons.

Bell shaped chocolate bonbons, chocolate colored with gold lustre, sit on parchment paper. You can see both indoor lights and a window in the reflection on their exterior.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Me, reading a paper not in my field: I don't know what the ubiquitin system is, but I bet it's absolutely everywhere.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Made some new chocolates. It's a Callebaut 811 dark chocolate shell filled with a peanut butter based filling and some peanut croquant. Like most of my chocolate stuff, it's very lightly adapted from a starting point in Greweling's 'Chocolates and Confections'.

A shiny domed chocolate with gold lustre

A domed chocolate, cut in half roughly, revealing a peanut butter filling with crunchy peanut bits.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

In a sing-song: "I'm a danger to myself and others, doot da doo da doot da doo." from, I believe, Attack of the Giant Leeches.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

To get to half time, we must first get to quarter time. Then we must get half way again, to 1/4 + 1/8 time. Then we must get to 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 time. Followed to its logical conclusion, we will thus never see Bad Bunny. It's Benito Antonio Martínez OcaZeno's Paradox.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I flew over Greenland on a fairly clear day in May and took this photo. It doesn't quite capture exactly how gorgeous it was to see. I imagine the coast is currently socked in by ice and recently floated tupilak.

Jagged ice-covered mountainous terrain from above, disappearing into the distance.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Some days, if you leave me unattended in the kitchen to make lunch, it comes with pommes gaufrettes seasoned with homemade chive salt.

A lacey potato chip with visible chive flecks, being held by black, round nosed tongs.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Thanks to the excellent show The Lowdown, I have a new rule: If you hire a vocal performer to play a character in your tv show/movie, and that character isn't a singer/rapper, you cannot use a song from that performer as diegetic music where the character themselves can hear it.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A nifty coin from @edzitron.com has arrived. The inscription really made an impression on me.

$Obverse of a gold colored coin with an inscription that reads "NEVER FORGIVE THEM FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO THE COMPUTER". The bust is a fractured skull with multicolored cables coming out of the mouth. At least one looks like a 1/4" stereo jack. The rest might have RJ45 connectors? Or maybe USB? Not pictured, the reverse has the same inscription and the center says BETTER OFFLINE.$

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I thought this was a handsome photograph of an ugly pepper.

A wrinkly red pepper on a white background.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Harvested some Hurt Berry peppers (and a couple bowls of Paper Lanterns.) Trying to figure out what's for fermentation, what's for dehydration, and what's for using with chocolate.

5 ugly red peppers sitting in a steel bowl.

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 06/09/2025

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Starting an experiment without enough materials is how you end up with, like, one good blackberry sphere/pod

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Whenever I see headlines about ultra processed foods, I like to make some old fashioned, homemade, delicious Flavor Block.

A shiny red slab on a pale blue cutting board. A knife enters the right side of the frame for no real reason. It's watermelon that's been infused with freshly squeezed lime and compressed with a chamber vacuum sealer. Is it processed? Highly processed? Ultra processed? Fuck knows, but it's fun to read a paper's classification methodology and ask "Where do they put fresh watermelon and lime juice?"

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MC Frontalot @mc.frontalot.com · 14/07/2025

And you can download it in various file formats, but ONLY via FTP. Just for old times' sake. If you don't keep an FTP client installed, try your command line. I bet there's one there. 199.201.145.189 u: nerdcore p: //_]-[_1_P_]-[_0_P_\\

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230 Login successful.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-r--r--r-- 1 0 0 28112251 Jul 13 16:45 MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Hip-Hop (25th Anniversary Vocal Re-Record) [44.1].flac
-r--r--r-- 1 0 0 39994442 Jul 10 17:01 MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Hip-Hop (25th Anniversary Vocal Re-Record) [44.1].wav
-r--r--r-- 1 0 0 5079511 Jul 13 16:47 MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Hip-Hop (25th Anniversary Vocal Re-Record).m4a
-r--r--r-- 1 0 0 6050342 Jul 10 17:01 MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Hip-Hop (25th Anniversary Vocal Re-Record).mp3
dr-xr-xr-x 3 0 0 4096 Jul 13 16:55 the hi-res flac is in here
226 Directory send OK.
ftp: 610 bytes received in 0.08Seconds 7.63Kbytes/sec.

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I wrote DIR instead of LS because I gotta keep those feelings of impostor syndrome pulsating inside me.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Had a craving at lunch and realized that I only had a gaufrette blade for the bad mandoline. Oh well, they were still delicious with a sprinkle of the new chive salt.

A potato chip cut thin and waffle, but it tapers from too-thick to not-there because the mandoline had some flex to it.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I keep coming back to the cinnamon ice cream recipe in Keller's "Under Pressure." Cooking the custard base sous vide is really foolproof and the results are amazing.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

These arrived in the same package. I sure hope I don't develop a propensity for farce, slapstick, or gross out comedy anytime soon.

One small screw top container of bloodworms, and another screw top container of edible gold lustre.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Peanut croquant, we'll see if I actually have time to use this in chocolates of some sort.

Chopped peanuts covered in caramelized sugar on a baking mat.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Mucking about with EFF's rayhunter, my phone was acting a little weird. Finally put it together that connecting to wifi with no Internet access makes my phone worry it has been stolen and so locks itself seemingly at random.

An orbic speed LTE/wifi access point sitting on a grey desktop. There is a green bar across the top of the display, indicating that it's running modified software, and hasn't seen any indication of a stingray/Cell Site Simulator.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Making fondant potatoes sous vide looks quite otherworldly.

Squat, milky white cylinders suspended in a cloudy liquid. (Potato pucks floating in chicken stock and butter, in a sous vide bath.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I am hard pressed to think of a food that photographs as poorly as my shakshuka right out of the oven.

A half a dozen eggs nestled into what looks to be some kind of viscera (that's actually a tomato and bell pepper chunky sauce.)

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🚨BREAKING🚨 Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I dug through all my various bags and pockets after Shmoocon, so here are a few of the stickers that made it home.

Four stickers. 1) a black and white Jordi LaForge where his visor is rainbow 2) 5 marshmallow peeps making a pentagram, text: peep2peep network. 3) Solidarity fist in circles, outer circle reads "Bodily Autonomy is non-negotiable", inner circle reads "Abortion Transition '. 4) Middle finger, text: Nazi Hackers Fuck Off.

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Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I felt like making something to bring to friends at #shmoocon that don't normally get to try my food, so I made various chocolates. These are handmade and filled with an absinthe flavored ganache.

Three dark chocolate hemispheres with a dusting of green lustre.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Reading @krang.bsky.social recommend @papapishu.bsky.social as a Model Poster has taken the first, very tiny, bite out of my wallet. These sound very, very good for $25ish.

A pair of earbud headphones on a black wood desktop. Oh. Sorry. A pair of In Ear Monitors. The rubbery bits that you stick on your ear holes is bright read. The head phones, excuse me, in ear monitors are mostly black with a sorta-shiny orange plate, printed in white with "zero:2". If you could see the drivers, they'd look dynamic as fuck, I imagine.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

I made Fernet chocolates. These are molded with Callebaut 811 dark chocolate and then filled with a Fernet Branca ganache made with Cacao Berry Heritage Mi-amère. They are far more delicious than I was expecting. Now I'm tempted to try something similar with Malört...

Angular molded dark chocolate with a hint of orange tinted cocoa butter coloring the tops.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Soft poached quail eggs with brunoise in beurre monte, topped with bacon. Bacon and Eggs in the style of Per Se/French Laundry.

A row of six spoons on a metal tray, plated with tiny eggs, topped with bacon.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I've been playing with a chamber vacuum sealer for about a year. This video is of peeled toy-box tomatoes in a basil infused syrup. At the start is when the vacuum has been pulled, causing bubbles to form. When the seal is released, everything collapses under the outside air pressure.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Baking roulette is when you are in a video meeting you *might* have to speak during, but you risk starting a merengue anyway.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Raspberry and chocolate macarons in the works. I keep thinking I should make pistachio, and then I have a vivid flashback to blanching and peeling raw pistachios last year and think... vanilla maybe?

Chocolate macaron halves, baked on a silpat.

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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 27/11/2024

Reformatting this whole thing. Blocklist for Hugging Face, the AI company that's proudly stealing your tweets

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Powdered mad hatter peppers? Chicken feet? Gotta start Thanksgiving cooking early.

A ground dusty red powder, warped through glass.

Raw chicken feet in the bottom of a stock pot.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Changing out a leaky shower valve cartridge claimed the life of my little pocket tool. I think it's the first one that I haven't lost to the TSA.

A little black gerber multi tool, opened to show that one side of the pliers has broken clean off, lays on white porcelain with a strong single light source.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The chives were starting to look sad, so I harvested half and made an herb salt with them. I'll be very curious to find out how gracefully it ages, but right now it's great.

Chive salt in the process of drying. It looks green, lumpy and crystalline. It looks a bit like marijuana, I am told.

An egg cooking in butter in a cast iron pan. There are black and green flecks all over the top, which are pepper and chive salt.

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Kozmund @kozmund.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Any recipe description in a cookbook that ends with the boast "Most of them did not vomit" is worth backing up and fully appreciating.

Text block, full text below. The key sentence is: "Most of them did not vomit." It's from Magnus Nilsson's Fäviken: 4015 Days Beginning to End.

"habitual users already were naturally very excited as none of them had ever seen a crafted version of this otherwise thoroughly industrial product. The non-Swedes found it an irresistible curiosity that they just had to try. Most of them did not vomit."

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