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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 16h

overall I think I have a pretty decent sense of humor but now and then there is something I just find disproportionately funny compared to everybody else, and this is one of those things

a double door on a exterior brick carriage house that is falling off its hinges and haphazardly boarded shut with boards at angles

the same double door in even worse shape but sloppily painted reddish brown

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On my morning walk every year I pass by this quince tree and gradually there are more and more quinces on the ground and I am a very tired person but those quinces weigh on my conscience tbh

pie chart showing historic recipes for quince with quince honey, quince jelly and quince preserves being the top ones

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if i posted a question on facebook (faulty premise already) and someone replied with "according to AI.." I would block them immediately

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

happy jacket-pocket time capsule day to all who celebrate. What did you find? A chapstick? A dollar? What's on your receipt?

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"please listen carefully as our menu options have changed" i will not and they have not.

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am really fascinated by the psychology of the buy nothing group no-shows. The no-showing/no reply is weird enough to me but then when I give the item to someone else, several of these people who ghosted me with no replies will claim they were “on their way“. What is in it for them?

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i can't come up with a comment worthy of this

Sign that says CRAB which stands for Creating Reductions in Accident Behavior

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

my ambivalence to oysters is perhaps only my 2nd-most traitorous Maryland opinion, losing out to my belief that Poe is a Richmond icon not a Baltimore one

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New post up is a short one - a vanilla nut fudge recipe from a woman I want to know waaay more about oldlineplate.com/vanilla-fudg...

Decorative plate with stack of white fudge with nuts on wood surface

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have an ever-growing waitlist for the tours which makes me wish I had a better way of managing an "events only" email list for people who dont want to receive the essays. But these things are all way more complicated than they should be

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the amount of long-put off cleaning and home repair stuff we magically have the energy to do today makes me wonder what life would really be like with 3 day weekends. Like... so much dust and decay that we just live with would not be part of our daily reality!

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Buddhabound @buddhabound.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The parents who cared about this already policed their own kids' access to books. The problem they had was they couldn't stop someone else's kids from reading whatever they wanted. So they went to the government and lobbied to get these laws passed so they could stop *your kid* from reading books.

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

this is horrible on many levels but I'm imagining me being 15-17 and subjected to this and I am losing my mind. My parents also would have been so pissed off if they had to check out all my library books for me!

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I made a fussy recipe for Baltimore Peach Cake because I prefer things to be good than to be easy oldlineplate.com/baltimore-peach-cake-my-recipe/

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Baltimore Peach Cake: My Recipe – OLD LINE PLATE

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I sucked it up and picked Oct 24th to do the tour this year. I feel guilty posting it on social media before I email my list but I kinda hate emailing people with announcements only? Feels like it'll annoy people. oldlineplate.com/product/a-cu...

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A Culinary Tour of Green Mount Cemetery – walking tour – OLD LINE PLATE

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

saddest thing ever this evening while walking home: guy blasting a song goes through busy gridlocked intersection. girls in car at stoplight laughing and singing the song at the top of their lungs. joy all around. making the most of friday night traffic jam! get home, google the song. its AI.

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I posted this photo that my grandfather took to one of the less-gross local history fb groups, with a caption clearly stating that its the Block, and yet people keep replying to it telling me where it is like its a quiz? Its incredible how people have been trained to mindlessly engage with anything.

photo of a busy street filled with nightclubs, during the daytime in the 1960s

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

im watching Jurassic Rebirth and they decided one of the plot driving points is finding a cure for... heart disease? weird choice for a few reasons

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Street market (CV) is terrible except for one thing: they always have great avocados. Best haas avocados around. How do they do this one thing right and nothing else?

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In my latest post I made "peach mango pickles" in which the peaches are the mangoes. Because "mango" means "stuffed pickle". Except sometimes, in some places, it means "bell pepper" and I wrote about that too. oldlineplate.com/peach-mango-pickles/

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Peach Mango Pickles – OLD LINE PLATE

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

remember when Santoni's closed and claimed the soda tax lost him MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in business and the local media just repeated it?

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

i'll be traveling this week so I actually looked up to see if there were any precautions to avoid cyclospora at restaurants and everything says "avoid drinking water that may be contaminated with feces." .... is there anyone who was not doing this?

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

as a camper who has had many a whipporwill ruin my nights sleep by not shutting the fuck up for so much as ten seconds between 8pm and 5am, its pretty satisfying to find out they look like this. like it takes as much of a toll on them as it does me

weird looking small brown bird with squinty eye, small beak, sitting on branch

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

happy Friday, the world is deeply unsatisfying so here's my satisfying thing of the week from the wikipedia entry of Amanda America Dickson, a mixed-race heiress whose white father left his estate to her in 1885. His white relatives appealed the will again and again and:

On July 6, 1885, probate judge R. H. Lewis ruled in favor of the will. In November 1885, the trial in the Superior Court of Hancock County began, with the eventual ruling siding with Amanda America Dickson and her two sons. Then, in March 1886, the white relatives filed their appeal with the Supreme Court of Georgia. On October 11, 1886, chief justice James Jackson, and associate justices Samuel Hall and Mark Blanford heard the case following the appeal. James Jackson expressed his firm conviction against upholding the will, saying, "I would rather die in my place than uphold the will." A few days later, he became ill with pneumonia and died

Amanda America Dickson, a mixed race heiress in late 1800s garb standing next to chair in front of tropical scene painting

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy friday-in-practice, I scanned the program from the 1995 HFStival and put it on internet archive. I will eventually do 1994 and 1996 as well. archive.org/details/hfst...

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HFSTival 1995 program : WHFS 99.1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Program from WHFS 99.1 HFSTival held Saturday June 3, 1995 at RFK Stadium in Washington DC.

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eastyjet @eastyjet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Marco Polo coming back from China:

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

for me its because I feel like this is one of the only scandals they'd actually be embarrassed about

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I could not have made up a controversy as fitting and timely as This Administration v. Dead Baby Duck and I feel humbled by that

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Building an AI Institute building next to the Center for Democracy building seems like putting a humidifier next to a dehumidifier

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

i haven't been to Bold Fork Books in DC but they seem cool (and they sold my book!) but it seems like they are attracting a lot of the culinary book release stuff that I wish would come to Baltimore. Everybody should do both!

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

i have to admit I've gotten a little bored with essays about how cookbooks/recipes are history, etc. I feel like at this point that argument has been made. I'd rather see people actually doing the history, or citing or something, not just these vague defenses of research that is theoretical

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

New on the blog: Did some research into Sherbert Dowell for "Uncle Sherbert's Sock-It-To-Me Cake," but also ended up down the rabbit hold of beloved Calvert County businesses past and present oldlineplate.com/uncle-sherbe...

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Uncle Sherbert’s Sock-It-To-Me Cake – OLD LINE PLATE

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

its pretty incredible how bad google is now. Searching with six keywords to find something hyper-specific that I wrote on my own website turns up completely unrelated social media posts from far more popular culinary accounts. bodes real well for ever reaching new readers.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Also worth noting that the red line was shovel ready back in 2015 and could be complete by now, but Larry Hogan killed it because he’s a corrupt clown

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

New blog post: Ellen Russell and her husband worked summers in Maine to save up for their beautiful (mid-century!) dream house on Lake Ashburton, which they lived in until their deaths in 1985 and 1990. oldlineplate.com/strawberry-r...

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Strawberry Roll, Mrs. William Russell – OLD LINE PLATE

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

in other grouchiness, while AI writing/art seems pretty obvious now, I will allow that it might not always be, and so I preemptively think people shouldn't be shamed for being tricked by it, just like I dont think we should blame people for being scammed. Because that's what it is, a scam.

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

In early 2025 I had a real "go for it" phase, applying to grants and scholarships/fellowships and even writing a book proposal. Eventually I got tired of rejection and moved on.

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I accidentally made this stuff invasive in my backyard but it seems to have died down a bit after a few years

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ever since I started doing research I've been of the opinion that newspapers should become public domain after a certain (relatively short compared to works of entertainment/art) amount of time

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

i searched through and read all the Maryland ones and I am proud to say that the narcs in our state appear to have much better spelling and grammar skills than elsewhere. Except the one from Westminster.

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I mean no shade to this specific library, and I'm grateful to have digital documents at all -really I am-, but this kind of thing drives me INSANE. Sharing your collections in an annoying javascript heavy viewer is not conducive to research louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/ob...

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Alie Austen McMurran letter, 1856 November

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Today’s morel report: mostly big and not worth keeping but make nice photo ops. Had to crop my face out because I’ve had a cold and look like death.

Arm holding a large dried up morel mushroom that is more than the height of elbow to shoulder

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

i hate that smoking is so cool. im glad a lot of people switched to vaping which is not. theoretically, lighting someone's cigarette for them should be like holding the door open, but when someone does it in a movie they're usually about to ruin your life

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

i have a million but Cryptid Dog, my place where I sell all the regional hot dogs named after their local cryptids is the big one

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 20/04/2026

TONIGHT ON PBS!! MOON CRAB My studio partner's lovely short film MOON CRAB will broadcast TONIGHT, Monday, April 20th at 9:20 PM on Maryland Public Television MOON CRAB will then be available on the PBS App, so if you don't catch crabs tonight, there is always tomorrow!!

MOON CRAB
Moon Crab will broadcast on
Maryland Public Television on Monday, April 20th at 9:20 PM
during
Chesapeake Bay Week.

It will then be available on the
PBS App!
A Film by Leah Clare Michaels

Illustrated with cyanotype prints of a horseshoe crab and other sea life shells

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

this thread caused me to spend too much time reading newspaper articles about people getting "nausea, rapid heart beat, stomach cramps" after eating Tuna Twist

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

this dog is pouting because the toy he was fetching went under the couch. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

dog sitting on rug with outstretched legs and pleading eyes with four different dog toys and a bone in background

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kara mae @oldlineplate.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

i had to make a linkedin because apparently having a decade plus old website isnt legitimate enough for google, anyway i dont plan to regularly haunt linkedin but if you do, add me there to make me look more real.

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