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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 13h

i was very brave. tray bake with beans + veg from my csa box, sri lankan egg curry (lazy edition, with lentils), poached pears. the poaching liquid is just a tea concentrate with mix-ins, so i put it in my cold brew strainer and tossed it in the fridge. 😌

a large bowl full of greens, beans, peppers, and root veg

peeled pears in brown liquid, with cooked cranberries floating

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 07/10/2026

put this outfit together this morning and immediately realized that this is what i want my outfits to look like All the Time. we are ignoring the dog hair on the mirror

op posing in their mirror wearing a patterned multicolored skirt, black turtleneck, and a loose fringe shawl.

op posing in their mirror wearing a patterned multicolored skirt, black turtleneck, and a loose fringe shawl. this time their arm is raised to show off the fringe.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 06/10/2026

i think about this all the time

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 05/10/2026

sept roundup. once again the length of the list dictates how well i'm doing. this shortie says, "bad"

TAEMIN - Advice - The 3rd Mini Album
TAEMIN - PHASE 1 : Soft Violence
Ellie Goulding - Higher Than Heaven
Rocky (1976)
Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015)
Ellie Goulding - We Know Too Much
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat II
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
Carly Rae Jepsen - Day and Night
Miley Cyrus - Bass Persuades
Holding Absence - Modern Life is Lonely
How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time by Sarah Longwell
Resident Evil (Zach Cregger)
To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 05/10/2026

there is arguably a movie i remember scaring me first and i genuinely cannot believe that this vague-ass search query did it

ddg search query: movie about a man whog oes through hell to rescue wife
search results: what dreams may come (1998)

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 05/10/2026

i try not to do this too often but this is too funny a reveal to skip

playstation era of bugs bunny & taz: time busters

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 04/10/2026

alex lyon's suit jacket fucks but why does he look Haunted

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 03/10/2026

the curse of false efficiency upon ye!

The third is blunt and effective in a pinch, but could be considered rude or leave room for error. Properly interpreting, “Bathroom?” requires that the person you’re speaking to can use contextual information to conclude that you’re looking for a public bathroom. Also, humans tend to reciprocate a vibe, so their directions may be equally vague. Any time saved by cutting out supporting context will be lost again when you only have, “Over there,” and maybe a point to guide you.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 03/10/2026

happy sabres home opener to all those who celebrate

goalie ukko-pekka luukonnen sits on a bench on the ice. his pads make him look like a frog.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 03/10/2026

having a normal time writing a serious paper about my career

If tools are the language of production, then process is the syntax by which it is arranged. Now, when Producers talk about process, a chill washes over the room and the eyes of all those in attendance roll back into their sockets, tormented with visions of documentation purgatory and rigid rules around engagement. I think a really great process accomplishes three things: It offers a natural-feeling scaffold for completing tasks, supports open communication, and provides opportunities for play and discovery.
Let’s stick with the syntax metaphor for a minute. Imagine you need to find a public bathroom. There are multiple ways to ask after one. Consider this non-exhaustive list:
“Excuse me, do you know where the restroom is?”
“Where’s your bathroom?”
“Bathroom?”

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 02/10/2026

the chaos of my rating system revealed in this one screenshot. it's not about my opinion on the quality of the movie it's about whether or not it has accomplished its Purpose in my eyes. i hear angels in the hoah hoah song

screenshot of letterboxd recent activity
primetime (4.5 stars w/heart)
twilight (4 starts w/heart, rewatch)
resident evil (5 stars w/heart)
mortal kombat ii (3.5 stars)

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 02/10/2026

highlights from burlesque life drawing last night (ft model calamity chang)

sketch of burlseque dancers in two poses, one seated on a chair and one seated on a podium

sketch of reclined burlesque dancer, mostly undressed

various quick poses of burlseque dancer, done in pen in 1-2 mins (according to notes on page)

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 02/10/2026

really grim to repost a funny post and then go read an article in the athletic and go "oh no that was a joke based on a real thing"

1. In the offseason, the Sabres’ analytics staff put together a 50-plus page report on the team’s power play issues, what needed to be fixed and the characteristics of the best power plays in the NHL. Despite that thorough deep dive and plenty of work in camp, the power play came out flat. The Sabres were 0-for-5 on the power play on Thursday. In the second period, the Sabres had two full minutes of five-on-three after Mathieu Olivier took an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. They failed to convert and had just two shots on net. Overall, they had five shots on net during the five power plays.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 01/10/2026

happy sabres season opener day to all who celebrate

See?i don't know how to write someone privately.....Help me alex lyon whoever the fuck you are....
You're my only ho

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 30/09/2026

not to be too uhhHH honest on main about my personal life but man

The worst part about being chronically single isn’t the solitude, which I enjoy. I even enjoy loneliness; that melancholic note, issued from a single, plucked string pulled taut over an emptiness. The worst part is the ambiguity, which makes me susceptible to folk remedies, trite platitudes, and magical thinking. It will come when you least expect it. You’re looking too hard. What’s your sign? You’ll know it when you feel it. You’ll just know.

Thank you. I’ll stop looking until I find it. I’ll stop thinking about it so it can take me by surprise. This isn’t how anything else works, but I’ll give it a go. I wake up most mornings with a vague hope, smothered by the hour, and cruelly rekindled in sleep. I’ll have to stop doing that.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 30/09/2026

i wish it wasn't just fucking Vibes 💀 but it's approx this:

cook ~1.5c carrot, celery, onion finely diced or shredded (i use a frozen mirepoix mix for convenience) in oil on the stove for 5min or until it starts to soften
if you have minced garlic, the last ~minute of this process is a good time to add it
add approx 1/4 c flour to the mirepoix and stir
you can always make more roux in a separate pan if you want a richer/thicker soup; i am making this for meal prep so i am making it thinner
SLOWLY!!! add broth (i used beef this time bc i didn’t have chicken oops); approx … 6-8c? stir as you go
add chopped head of cauliflower. i literally shaved it in over the pot with a knife because apparently i don’t care if i live or die
gently boil for 10-15min until the cauliflower is cooked
turn the heat off and shred in 8oz cheddar cheese
again if you want richer/thicker soup you can add cream or milk or more roux or all of the above.
i also added radish greens bc i had radishes in my fridge; kale or spinach would be good too. and whatever herbs you got.
congrats this is soup

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 25/09/2026

hehehehe i know i'm not the target audience but i finally got my @dandypuppeteer.bsky.social bag!!!

picture of op in all black, holding a black leather bag that is an ace of spades

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 24/09/2026

tried to dig for some titles i don't normaly gab about, that either shaped my Systems Madness approach to playing games or just helped me fall in love with the medium. my mom's fake husband in moscow got me digimon worlds and it's the first game i remember playing for HOURS my9games.net/en/

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 23/09/2026

this has been brewing for years and one one hand i'm glad to see bigger coverage of it lately but on the other hand boy do i wish someone took it seriously years ago

Jacobs, the IFA, and every keynote speaker at this conference are affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, an apocalyptic charismatic movement heaven-bent on transforming America into a Christian nation and thereby kicking off the end times. As Christian dominionists, NAR members believe that God wants Christians to control every aspect of society, and they’re taking concrete action to make that happen. Several members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle are affiliated with this group; other members espouse their ideas.

“Their fixation with their own prophecies, and in the way they interpret biblical prophecies, is very influential today,” theologian and religious scholar Matthew D. Taylor told me. “ I wouldn’t necessarily say, ‘Oh, Donald Trump believes in their end-times prophecies,’ but they do, and they are advising Trump.”

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 23/09/2026

hehe. hehehehehehe. hehehehehehe!!!!

screenshot from amc theaters website; op is going to see resident evil tonight

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 22/09/2026

reading this blog post is making me sad because it's calling out all the ways in which art and research are very much the same, and therefore how the moneyed interests are tearing us apart.

This particular kind of applied AI research is beautiful to me, and why I fell in love with research. You start with an impossible problem, and laughably few resources, and then you ask: how clever can I get with this? And there are so many directions to explore. You might invent a better algorithm that takes advantage of the structures of the problem to chop away huge quantities of unnecessary work. You might discover a way of estimating parts of the answers that are always inaccurate but consistent enough to be useful. You might learn something interesting about the way humans solve the same problem, and figure out how to incorporate it into your solution. You will never get the right answer. That's not what you're here to do. You're here to squeeze every drop out of the knowledge, techniques and insight that you have around you, and to see what new things you can force out of what you already have.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 22/09/2026

while driving back to md from the hudson valley yesterday i found this cute little tasting ny store and it had a bunch of local-to-the-area goods. i brought the tart to my friend's mom's house when i stopped by to visit and it was? so good? (also i collect travel magnets and i love that acorn)

a small taste ny store in the middle of a highway in a very forested part of new york

op holding coffee-infused maple syrup in a jar

op holding a plastic-wrapped blueberry tart with latticed pastry on top

a handmade magnet in the shape of an acorn

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 19/09/2026

sorry i'm a political media sicko and i remembered that lovett or leave it had hasan on this week and that the show is now syndicated to msnow. unfortunately the interview airs at 11pm. which is a shame because i think if more people saw hasan just Talk it'd make all these segments toothless.

msnow schedule screenshot; hasan piker interview at 11pm

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 19/09/2026

it's butterfly season in maryland :)

a yellow butterfly with blue and orange spotting at the bottom of its wings is making a meal out of a floweing bush

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 18/09/2026

at least the science is for a good cause this time

ad for "the baltimore foodie bagel sandwich." describes the breakfast sandwich (double egg/meat + grape jelly) and announces the purple/blue bagel. the sales of this benefit the american foundation for suicide prevention

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 18/09/2026

i am once again putting things in my body. for science

half of a bagel sandwich. the bagel is purple and teal, there is jelly oozing out from beneath a pile of eggs and bacon.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 17/09/2026

texts received from one of my closest friends

i am running out of ways to respond to all of the perils and also the trials you are going through

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 12/09/2026

my friends really know just what to say

discord screenshot censored to omit all but op's identities

friend 1: you're totally allowed to show up empty handed but yes he is into whiskey
op: i show up hands and bra cups full no matter where i go
friend 2: it's what dolly would've wanted

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 11/09/2026

every year i change my icon to something halloween themed in october and then a new drawing of myself in november. here is a preview of this year's lineup. you've been warned.

a drawing of a smug looking jack-o-lantern

a cartoon drawing of op with unsettlingly large eyes, looking exhaustedly off to the side.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 08/09/2026

i love getting presents from past me

op is holding the breath of the wild vinyl

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 07/09/2026

WHAT DO YOU MEAN. WHAT DO YOU MEAN!!! LOOK AT THE CUT OF THESE FUCKING PANTS!!!

sylvester stallone in rocky standing in a beautifully cut pair of pants and a ratty tank top still looking fine as hell in his messy ass bachelor pad.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 07/09/2026

not to spoil it but we're watching rocky and creed for mortified this week and i'm fucking UNHINGED about the clothes and styling in this film.

screenshot from rocky where four businessmen are gathered around a table. the suits are beautifully tailored, some velvet, some patterned, the ties are colorful. everyone is distinctly styled.

screenshot from rocky where four businessmen are gathered around a table. apollo creed is without his suit jacket and just in a vest with a boldly-patterned tie. this is a better view of the red checkered sport coat and how well it's sitting on that actor.

screenshot from rocky where sylvester stallone is wearing dork ass glasses and a fedora, but they work.

full-body screenshot of sylvester stallone in rocky, wearing beautiful pants and heeled boots and a leather jacket and a tilted fedora. incredible work.

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 06/09/2026

the biggest grasshopper i've ever seen in my life has arrived to my mint buffet. after i took this photo he went into the pot. i hope this young man is having an abolutely hedonistic time in there.

a startlingly large grasshopper is enjoying some mint on the railing of op's balcony

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