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Self-hating batchipper, apparently. Mod of whofic.com. May include occasional xposts from @nonelvispub on Twitter & Bluesky. Usually yelling about #DoctorWho […] [bridged from mastodon.social/@nonelvis on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 1h
MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network Tenured faculty are using rhinestones and googly eyes to demonstrate against 500-plus new cameras and plans to potentially implement AI capabilities....
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MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network
Tenured faculty are using rhinestones and googly eyes to demonstrate against 500-plus new cameras and plans to potentially implement AI capabilities.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Have just discovered that The Boston Globe's documentary festival includes a short film about the KAB Baking Hotline, and now I'm definitely gonna need an On Demand ticket: events.bostonglobe.com/2026/globedo…
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
@courtney Ooh, thank you for the reminder this is out on streaming! I definitely wanted to see it but never got to the theater. (And we have Kanopy.)
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nonelvis/117367828… tiny pawpaw no-bake cheesecake parfaits
the aforementioned parfaits, served in small jam jars: a large white chocolate/cream cheese layer atop crumbled Bordeaux cookies, all topped with a thin layer of chopped pawpaw
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nonelvis/117367372… tiny pawpaw no-bake cheesecake parfaits? tiny pawpaw no-bake cheesecake parfaits. *adds cream cheese & graham crackers to the weekend shopping list*
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
@haineux Yes! Excellent description.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Monthly surprise mushroom box included a non-mushroom treat: pawpaws! I’d never had one before, and now I understand why people love them: incredibly floral fragrance; custardy flesh; hints of banana, peach, and mango.
Whole pawpaw: a green and brown ovoid fruit. Two pawpaw halves with custardy yellow interior and large brown seeds visible
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
it is 9:42am and I may die if I cannot eat this dwenjang mapa dubu immediately buffetmagazine.net/mapa-dubu-recipe (subscribe to Buffet, it's great!)
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Dwenjang Mapa Dubu
Korean-Chinese fusion par excellence
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Dang, I can smell the fire in Teele Square a mile away. Hope everyone's okay.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: after far too many support messages, finally got someone to realize I know what I'm talking about and should be escalated beyond Tier 1
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nonelvis/117356445… Update: Teaspoon should be stable and accessible now. It definitely seems like the problem was a bot attack, so I'm leaving Cloudflare's Under Attack Mode on for a while.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
A Teaspoon And An Open Mind (whofic.com) update: We're having intermittent database access issues. A reboot will probably fix it; just waiting for hosting provider to do this.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
I feel like the number of times I as a person should have to think about the words "DMARC," "DKIM," and "SPF" should be zero, but again today is not going to be that day
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
anyway, most exciting thing today is getting hilarious AI spam from someone who says they "help under‑discovered YA authors build the kind of visibility that lasts not through hype, but through trusted reader communities," and who wants to talk about the book spouse & I co-wrote. this book is a […]
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Fred Haineux @haineux.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
So I went to makerfaire.com today and I have these items to report:
“Make an S, add some consummate V’s, and a very muscular arm”

Yes, it’s TROGDOR THE BURNINATOR in fine form, nearly 15 feet tall!Cute child about to be EXTERMINATED by a free-roving Dalek only nominally controlled by a secret acolyte.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
ah, the usual problem with making Ethiopian food: house smells incredible, dinner not for another 35 minutes 😭
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
cool and rainy outside, cozy PJs and slippers on, doro wat and stewed greens planned for dinner, fuck yeah, BRING ON FALL
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
In my continuing effort to figure out what to do with all the cape gooseberries we get from the farm share, I made a tiny pound cake yesterday and have turned that, the gooseberries, a bit of marmalade, and some leftover heavy cream & mascarpone into a small trifle. If all else fails, pound cake […]
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
@courtney Honestly, when we moved in, we barely needed them! 26 years of climate change later, however ...
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
1Password now fully expunged from my Mac. I have to hand it to them: their uninstall instructions were extremely clear. Sadly, so is their commitment to funding white supremacy.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Fairly certain the ongoing presence of so many new humans in this house has just broken Nicole. She's wandering around sniffing everything, and I just found her on top of a six-foot cabinet she's never climbed before. (Still, this is better than when she slipped into a 6" space behind the […]
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
@haineux We're not quite done, but confirming the heat pumps worked was a major milestone. We don't feel comfortable using them full-time until the electrical panel is upgraded to 200A (hopefully next week), and then there'll be a very noisy day when the team replaces the furnace with a hot […]
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nonelvis/117332306… holy shit, we have central air now just in time for the nor'easter, but still! maybe there'll be a heat wave soon!
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Five days of contractors in the house this week. Even Noir, who has been extremely chill, has started yelling at me about people moving her couch while she's on it. Feeling amazed I've billed a whole hour today.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
@courtney Indeed, testing out migration to Bitwarden tomorrow!
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
"Your 1Password subscription will renew soon" like fuck it will, you've done nothing to fix your commitment to funding white supremacists, will be cancelling before my next bill comes due Oct 1
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
@haineux Yes, but not in the way you'd hope, because Julia's kitchen is in the Smithsonian. Here's a gift link if you want to see everything: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/real…
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Julia Child’s Cambridge home hits the market for $6.475 million - The Boston Globe
Famed chef Julia Child was a staple of the Cambridge area where she lived for 40 years.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
@courtney The musical episode isn't bad! This season, though ... oof.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
who's got $6.5 million to give me, I need something www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/real…
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Julia Child’s Cambridge home hits the market for $6.475 million - The Boston Globe
Famed chef Julia Child was a staple of the Cambridge area where she lived for 40 years.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I haven't talked much about SNW this season because frankly, I've found much of it dire, but this finale? This was great. Celia Rose Gooding really knocked it out of the park.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Okra plants suddenly missing a number of branches that have clearly been snipped off. The only explanation I can come up with is that someone has mistaken it for marijuana, in which case I wish them the best of luck getting high with whatever leaves they dry
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
On the one hand, HVAC contractors unexpectedly not coming today means that I have quiet time on my busiest work day this week, and the cat won't be traumatized by noise. On the other: still got up an hour early (& spouse 2 hours early), am exhausted, and it's not even 8am 🙃
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
anyway, if anyone out at Mass Save is reading this, call me so I can redesign your pre-application process into something that won't make people want to commit [redacted crimes], because god knows that's what I feel like doing right now
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
I built my career on UX design to fix shitty, engineer-"designed" web apps that were basically user-hostile. I know my way around a bad UI. But I think the point where I had to give up and use the UI's tools to reply to a do-not-reply address asking "how do I do this" is the part that broke me […]
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
There comes a point during the Mass Save loan process – mind you, this isn't even the *actual* loan application, just them tracking exactly what's going to be installed to confirm you qualify to apply for money – where you realize that their software is so bad and the process so onerous that […]
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
there's someone on Reddit asking for DW fics that aren't "romance slop," and I want you all to applaud me for not absolutely laying into them, and only politely telling one person in the comments that there's plenty of well-written romance fic
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Doing menu planning to deal with the latest farm share, wondering what I'm going to do with the tomatoes and tomatillos, and anyway, guess this is dinner Monday night: www.seriouseats.com/tomato-tomatill…
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
@jette.bsky.social @courtney I've been to Lehrhaus twice with a friend who keeps kosher, and it's really good. Def rec if you come back here sometime, though of course we have lots of other options: www.lehr.haus
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Lehrhaus - A Tavern & House of Learning
Lehrhaus is a new kind of gathering space for 21st century Jews and people interested in Judaism: part Jewish tavern, part house of learning, it's a welcoming, smart, sociable neighborhood watering hole that brings people together to tap into the ancient, profound, and transformative practice of lea
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nonelvis/117282715… Having tried the deep-fried flavor, I agree with my spouse: actual deep-fried Oreos are much better, but these have once seen a deep-fried Oreo from a great distance, which means they're not bad. I still prefer the chicken & waffles […]
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
@courtney @jette.bsky.social Honestly, I'd eat it. The Jewish reading house/restaurant near us does a spectacular beet reuben.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
honestly, after today's HVAC work, with two sets of contractors constantly up in every room of the house, I'm calling "I was billable nearly two whole hours today" fucking victory
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nonelvis/117282715… It's been the kind of day here where I'm already, "fuck it, chicken & waffles Oreos at 10:30am," and incredibly, these are actually really good! Great balance of syrup and fried chicken batter flavor without any chicken taste (or actual […]
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
@haineux Spouse has tried the deep-fried ones and says, "While they don't REALLY taste like a Topsfield Fair deep-fried Oreo, they do capture the essential spirit of the thing, I think, in that they are a greasy sugar bomb"
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
SUCCESS* *whether they’re actually edible remains to be seen, but at least they’ve been acquired
A grocery cart containing a package of Oreo Chicken & Waffles flavor and a package of Oreo Deep Fried flavor
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
@haineux No workers until Thursday, at least. Noir is taking it very well; Nicole, however, is alternately hiding under a bed or hiding on top of the oil tank in the basement, poor thing.
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Submitted the Mass Save loan intake application so that we can apply for the *actual* loan through my bank; spoke w/plumber, who'll be installing new water heater Thu; have to be social at a retirement party this afternoon; have a 1.5hr mtg after that 😫
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
have discovered that somehow my spouse was wholly unaware of this song??? whereas I'm "I saw them open for Iggy Pop, what a fucking show that was" www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
@haineux A friend sent me this – haven't had a chance to watch in full, though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkKmLTcyxio
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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Every time someone has managed to drop a dumpster into our driveway despite the dumpster being only 1' narrower than the space it has to fit, I am in awe. These are some goddamned skills.
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