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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That's odd, the unlock code is supposed to allow access by anyone - maybe it's just one person per link? Here's a newly generated one - see if it works for you: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

Picture of the cumin chicken fried rice recipe from The New York times cooking site - which is paywalled, but this gift link is supposed to be accessible by anyone:

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027682-cumin-chicken-fried-rice?unlocked_article_code=1.EVE.pR-C.fX3MaShgJmpC

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We just had the best fried rice Icve ever cooked myself - high-end restaurant taste, from our ordinary home kitchen! Here's a gift link to the recipe - we made it exactly per the recipe, including using our wok & manually grinding cumin seed You should make it ASAP with your choice of protein!

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Cumin Chicken Fried Rice

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Free link to the NYT Cooking recipe we've made most often - as many of the comments say, it shouldn't be this good . . . but it is! Make it soon (tonight!?) - take advantage of basil & tomatoes from a Farmers Market or your garden; taste as you add chili crisp (1Tbsp was plenty!) SO GOOD!

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Dumpling Tomato Salad With Chile Crisp Vinaigrette (Published 2023)

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

. . . and good riddance!

Picture of a gray trash can, black trash bag, green recycling bin, and three snow shovels in a variety of styles, colored light blue dark blue and silver, spread on a greening lawn

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I've had a couple of drummers ask about the drum rug markers I use to make set up so much faster I suggest the colored ones - which I was unable to get, so I used the more discreet numeric ones The numbers take noticeably longer to spot than colors would www.protectionracket.com/products/acc...

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Drum Mat Markers - Protection Racket

Protection Racket are drum cases designed by world leaders in the supply of affordable quality drum cases for drum protection and cases for other musical equipment. Designed for the rigours of cont...

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

We tried scattering zinnia seeds in a part of the backyard where we weren't sure there was enough sun for them - turned out fine! They are not only beautiful themselves, but attract butterflies such as this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, which has several preferred host plants nearby Win-win!

Picture of a Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly feeding on a bright red zinnia blossom, surrounded by luscious green zinnia foliage

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_glaucus

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

#MosquitoDoomBucket - half- fill with water, add grass, a stick, and a Dunk; attracts mosquitoes, then kills their larvae! Highly selective & inexpensive - get your neighbors on board to decimate local mosquito populations & reduce the likelihood of mosquito-borne illness in your own neighborhood

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Mosquito Bucket of Doom

Mosquito season is here! Instead of spraying pesticides onto our entire yards—and onto fireflies, ladybugs, bumblebees, and butterflies—why not kill *only* mosquitoes? But first: let’s PREVEN…

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

That's a great venue - hope to come see y'all! Still wondering if this is the real Foghat; if so, it's easy for you to verify: Change your handle from @foghatofficial.bsky.social to @foghat.com (by adding a TXT DNS record, or a special file to your website; see details in the attached article)

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How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky

Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

5.) Use the whole container of olives, too; halved black olives work perfectly with the other flavors If you're going to use olives with pits, then don't peel the garlic or the tomatoes, and only use whole anchovies raised by your family's organic aquaculture co-op - embrace the crunch!

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

4a.) Six oz of pasta is plenty, tho use the whole pound if you want to stretch it out Put the dry buccatini in a wide pan; break it in half if you like Add just enough cold water to cover the pasta, and turn up the heat - cover it & monitor carefully while it cooks; drain it before it's too done

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

4.) Use buccatini pasta - thick spaghetti with a hole through the middle, cooked to al dente, then added to the sauce once the tomatoes have cooked down Don't even bother with that pouring sauce over the pasta tripe - let the sauce seep deep into the pasta's flavor tunnel!

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

3.) Use the whole 6oz can of tomato paste, too - two tablespoons says "I want this to taste tomatoey, but not two tomatoey" Who needs that kind of negativity?!

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

2.) Use the whole 2oz tin of anchovies - that rich fishy flavor is the whole point! Counting out 4-6 fillets waste both time and flavor - use the oil they're packed in, too!

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Our tweaks: 1.) Double the tuna - add one can with the tomatoes (so it melts down to richen the sauce), and add the second can off the heat (for chunky tuna goodness!)

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

#Dinner tonight was this fantastic #Tuttanesca (our newly coined #portmanteau for "tuna puttanesca") - a quick, easy, and wonderfully flavorful meal (free link attached) See comments for our simpler tweaks that dial this up to 11!

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Tuna Puttanesca (Published 2024)

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 05/04/2025

“The drummer writes song titles on a whiteboard. The lead singer pours herself another water. The guitarist checks her daughter’s soccer schedule.”

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Rock ’n’ Roll Never Forgets. But Sometimes It Misplaces Its Keys | The Tyee

After a 30-year break, I joined a band again. It’s given me a new lease on life.

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Asteroids contain clues to the birth of the Solar System. Do recent proposals to mine them for precious metals constitute a risk to scientific discovery? We examine the feasibility of asteroid mining in this week’s Skeptic Check on @bipisci.bsky.social buff.ly/04RKy8m 🧪 🔭 🔈

Artist's illustration of a mining spacecraft over an asteroid's rocky surface.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 04/04/2025

Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not? Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Choices were made . . .

Picture of Krispy Kreme donut display, with a single bundle of broccoli abandoned on top of it

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The sounds of silence . . .

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Enjoying the little Miami River as the recent rain parades on by

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/03/2025

23andMe should give every user a real choice to say “no” to a data transfer in this bankruptcy and ensure that any buyer makes real privacy commitments. If you're looking to delete your data and destroy your DNA sample, here's how.

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How to Delete Your 23andMe Data

This week, the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale. If you don't want your data included in...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.

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RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’

“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.

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T Acheson @talitha-beetle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I remember rivers on fire, housing developments built on toxic waste dumps, air filled with leaded exhaust fumes…

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

On this day in 1981, an album dropped that was filled with some of the most amazing music I'd ever heard: Rush - Moving Pictures It became my daily drum lesson - hours spent (imperfectly recreating the impossibly-perfect drum parts Bass, too, and guitar, even some keys & vocals (8vb!) So good!

Today in History
RUSH
Moving Pictures released

Album cover depicting movers clad in orange jumpsuits moving paintings

Text from article (https://www.facebook.com/share/14REFjcEAZ/):

Today in 1981, Rush released their classic Moving Pictures album.

Geddy Lee: "At the time it was just another album in Rush’s history. But this was the point at which we made a real transition musically and lyrically. People might say it was the birth of the modern Rush. I think it was a more gradual process than that. But this album was a very important one for us."

Neil Peart: "We just made a record that we liked. That’s what we did all the time. But suddenly all of the stars were aligned."

Alex Lifeson: "There are a lot of songs that just reached a standard on that record. I think it’s some of our strongest, most enduring material. The songs were good, and they connected with a bigger audience. But there was also something about the sound of that record that resonated with people."

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Something you won’t find on Twitter.

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Absolutely agree with you, @thinkauditory.bsky.social - and I've just started a list for #JackTrip users bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

@tadonic.bsky.social, I've just started a list for users of those great tools - now if we can just get the wonderful folks at #JackTrip and #Jamulus etc to join us here where the skies are blue and the audio-collaboration is virtual! bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

@chitadenita.bsky.social, I have had some great success with #JackTrip, and also more recently, non-successful attempts - too much else going on to put much time into JackTrip But this seems like a great time to build a list of other users! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We were able to rehearse from our own homes singing in real time using JackTrip Studio. www.jacktrip.com In a land of Zooms, it was amazing. Not the same, but amazing, given the circumstances. 2/3

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Make Music Together Online | JackTrip Labs

Create, rehearse and perform music together online. JackTrip Labs connects the world's music makers.

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Tadonic the Flautulent @tadonic.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

I wish I could convert musicians to Jamulus, JackTrip, SonoBus, or FarPlay -- and others to Jitsi, etc.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 28/09/2020

Anyone trying to do music with other people online right now should know about #JackTrip. Excited to be developing a new partnership with @ccrma to COVID-proof our @Singwell research initiatives. Demo of low-latency rehearsal starting at 30 sec.: youtube.com/watch?v=N-tQy_…

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Fantastic review of new research by @erictopol.bsky.social showing link between microbiome & sweet tooth. Its all about the freefatty acid receptor FFar4 - this was lower in people with diabetes/High sugar preference & linked to decreased Bacteroides vulgatus which makes vit B (pantothenic acid) 🧪

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How Our Gut Microbiome Can Drive Sugar Cravings

More Evidence for Our Gut Taking Center Stage for What We Eat

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The Real Truther @therealtruther.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Dr. Paul Offit from last week's Roundtable on Vaccines: "The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."

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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Wise words from a Black Christian reverend.

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The Real Truther @therealtruther.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In 1962 author Roald Dahl's oldest child Olivia was infected with measles. Days later she died from encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. This was one year before the first measles vaccine. In 1986 he wrote a heartfelt letter to parents about the importance of vaccines.

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Right on! The Science feed is exactly the kind of organization that Twitter was lacking - the closest it got was finding someone smart who posted lists of handles to follow Gives me great hope for the future of Science in the face of this Dunning-Kruger presidency

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

One of our local biologists here in @yellowspringsohio.bsky.social posted this amazing photo of why you do not want to anger a snapping turtle!

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Don, you have absolutely captured Big Snapper Energy in action I stepped on one about that size (which was cosplaying a rock) when I was a little kid - it suddenly scrambled into the pond, tumbling me over, and scaring the crap out of me! That mouth is nightmare material...

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This is something I've been doing for ages - using empty salad-mix containers to regrow onions, green onions, and leeks. They spring up quite quickly, especially if kept warm. Early in the winter, I use them as green onions; later on, I save them to plant outside in the spring.

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

So the science feed is hand curated by a wide variety helpful subject matter experts - here's how that works . . . and how to get added (if, unlike me, you are worthy!) What an incredible resource - especially these days. Thanks, scientists!

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Mek @mek2112.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Something I loved about Twitter back in the day was how you could just wander around finding smart & interesting people, and read about things they do. Bluesky's #Science feed is great for that - here's one such person, from whom I (and now you) learned that sturgeon get snoozy on their backs

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 25/01/2025

Feels like a good time to remind everyone that if you are a public servant wishing to report retaliation, acts of corruption or abuse of government power, I have a page for that on my website: www.wyden.senate.gov/whistleblowe...

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Whistleblower Complaint | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

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