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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Made some birria. It turned out… just okay? Would have been better as barbacoa. But still! Dipping is always fun.

Three toasty golden corn tortillas in a glossy, black cast iron pan. They have been folded into half-moons. Crispy fried cheese and shreds of brown braised beef peek out the edges.

Three golden brown corn tortillas, folded in half, stuffed with braised beef and cheese and then fried, sit upon a white plate. Their surfaces are flecked with chopped white onion and bright green flecks of cilantro. Beside them sits a small white porcelain coffee cup. The cup is filled with dark, reddish-brown birria consommé. More white onion and cilantro lie on top of the broth. The plate of food looks good as hell.

Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh nooooooo. Man, this sucks. I really, really hope Sweaty Betty’s can hang in there. I love that place. Instrumental in me discover who I am and also a lot of good music.

A real estate listing for Sweaty Betty’s, a beloved Toronto queer dive bar. The building is up for sale. The listing notes that the tenant is solid and a good earner. Black background with a colour photo showing the red front if the bar, window festooned with posters and a Pride flag

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In these difficult times, may I recommend a heating… belt?

A black nylon heating belt. There are a small power socket and three flat control buttons on the front. Each button has a function icon: heat, massage, belly)

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The forecast today is “yellow”

A photograph of a yellow-grey lake and sky. The bottom left shows a still, grey lake. Dark trees line the far shore. Up the left of the photo is the spikey silhouette of a tall pine tree, with a small dock extending into the water at its base. The rest of the photos is an uncanny amber-coloured sky. It looks dull and smokey from forest fire smoke.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Trapped home for one day more. Transforming that energy into tourtière.

Two golden-brown tourtière, a quebecois meat pie, bubble and tan in a black oven interior, sitting on gleaming steel racks. Side by side, they glisten goldly and crisply. If you’ve had real champagne, they smell like that biscuit taste. Inside, you can intuit, brown and savoury meat bubbles and burbles and tastes like Christmas, if you’re a French Canadian pioneer, or if you’re anyone with the same kind of heart.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Seriously, look at these babies. Randa told me the secret is butter, but not too much sugar. Other places use sugar to add weight to their baklava, but not her. Butter, pistachios, real honey and love, babbyyyy.

The most gorgeous, jewel-like baklava, arranged on a clear plastic tray. In front is a thread-spun square number, with dark nuts and fruit in the centre. There are phyllo lozenges with bright green pistachio centres, cream-filled, honey-dripping cylinders, flaky golden pyramids. They are perfect. I want to go back.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Vegan caramel popcorn shoggoths, for my #DeltaGreen group.

Glossy brown and white caramel popcorn balls in a metal muffin tray. Coloured Gummie eyeballs and gummie worm “tentacles” sprout from each sweet and cronchy blob. Spooky, and really makes you think.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Baked goods? More like baked AWESOMES

The metal grille of a cooling rack sits atop the black burners and white surface of a standard oven. The main attraction, however are the golden brown, crispy craggily cookies. Amber chocolate chip cookies and darker oatmeal-maple raisin cookies. They look so damn good. It’s probably for the best that Bluesky doesn’t have Smell-O-Vision, but in this case, you’re missing out.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I visited the Mundare Sausage Memorial in Alberta. Breathtaking.

A giant, veiny, throbbing sausage sculpture, erected in a small town Alberta park. The huge, but surprisingly thin, given its length, brown sausage thrusts itself proudly into the blue sky, surrounded by trees. A heart shaped plaque at its base gives the history of the sausage and really sets the whole thing off. Always pay attention to the plaque.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! So I’m at my parents and desperately trying to cook supper before my mum gets too drunk to eat. Anyway, heres a lamb burger and oven fries.

A dark brown lamb burger, overcooked, sits on a white bun, on a white plate with some crispy (overcooked) oven fries. The background is a nice yard in the sunshine. You can tell that it’s like a million degrees and the cook/photographer is a little stressed.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

By GUM, I love a good banh mi. The tiny place in the laundromat. Better, even, than the old standby places on Spadina. And v. affordable. Fantastic crispy/fluffy bun. This one was crispy pork, but don’t sleep on the Vietnamese pulled chicken.

The remains of a beautiful crispy pork banh mi. A blue and white paper wrapper lies crumpled on a plain, white plate. A hint of bisexual backlighting.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

If you’re queer and it’s June and you make nachos, they’re Pride Nachos.

A closeup of the best nachos any one has ever made in a home toaster oven. The cheese is yellow and white and melted and glistening. Red cubes of pepper and red cubes of tomato dot the toasty surface. A few rounds of green jalapeño peel through the impeccably curated surface. Dark chunks of brown meatloaf and paler beans express themselves, subtly, but finely. Yellow tortilla chips form the matrix in which the glorious mix is suspended. You KNOW it’s fully and properly layered.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The time between a medical test and receiving the results can be fraught and fearful. It’s best spent making some delicious Chinese food. Here’s some garlic pea shoots, “Mongolian” lamb (Aussie takeout style) and Lazy Noodles. #woksoflife #justonecookbook

A wok full of bright green sautéed pea shoots. Glossy green leaves and lighter stems are slick with garlicky oil. This picture makes you crave green vegetables. You will now Green Goon. (Eat your greens!)

A cauldron (lodge brasier) bubbles with dark and glossy brown sauce. Strips of lamb Bob about, flecked with green onions and chilis. Oh my goodness it’s so sticky and good.

A wokful of ribbony yellow noodles, tinged brown with a soy-based sauce. Heaps of wilted green bok choi nestle in the centre. Scattered about are juicy strips of brown mushroom and tasty dark nuggets of beef. Oh baby, this is some noodles for YOU.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Made some cottage pie, from leftover pot roast and mushrooms. Perfect for a rainy day. Goes will with a big mug of tea and a round of Boltgun.

A closeup of the craggy, crispy, somewhat gooey surface of a cottage pie. The mashed potato topping is mixed with cheddar. Warm yellows and browns, with dark and crispy caramelized ridges. It looks good as hell.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I wish everyone cupcakes and the fulfilment of spring’s renewal.

Two homemade, frosted cupcakes sit in a shiny aluminum tray. The yellow cupcakes are frosted with gooey layers of marshmallow and vanilla frosting. The base layer is pale yellow and the top layer is bright green. Each cupcake has a few coloured chocolate candy eggs, nestled into a scattering of brown granola, suggesting a bird’s nest. They look way better than their maker thought they would and you can tell he’s pretty jazzed about it.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

So I’m experimenting with a genius brainwave idea I had. Stuffing Katsu. It’s like tonkatsu, but with stuffing instead of rice and a savoury light gravy, instead of straight-up tonkatsu sauce. This was a quickie, made entirely with storebought parts, except for the homemade tonk-gravy.

A lovely, trashy, gross-but-tasty “stuffing katsu” plate. A big, lumpy pile of brown stovetop, box stuffing sits at the top left of a round, white plate. Beside it flops a pile of creamy coleslaw. Covering the bottom third of the plate are thin strips of pork cutlet, drizzled with thick, brown mushroom gravy, mixed with tonkatsu sauce. Scattered about are bright yellow segments of lemon.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Made a Greek-inspired, mixed-greens pie. Not too bad, honestly. I was aiming for lower-sodium, low fat, so it’s not as good as the real thing. Maybe a little too much mint, maybe a little too much rice and would definitely benefit from some feta. HOWEVER! Still very satisfying and tasty.

A Greek-inspired greens pie. Top-down perspective. A golden-brown traditional pastry pie shell encases a dense trove of mixed greens. The craggily, burnished surface hides a wealth of kale, watercress, collards, parsley and spinach. Some of this peeks greenly, through vents in the pastry surface.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Each of these garbage cans was designed with the same degree of accuracy, ease of use and aesthetic clarity. They are equally popular elements of the Toronto urban environment.

A Tesla Chudmotruck gently nuzzles its parent, a Toronto public garbage can.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

GUYS, I swear to god this time I won’t make it too hot. I promise. I swear to g

A rolling field of bubbles covers what can only be the body of a ginger Adonis. A single foot, long, improbably long toes only, rises pinkly from the sea of pearlescent foam. Against a background of white tile, a shiny chrome tap vomits forth water. From the composition, you can tell that the water is slightly not hot enough, but the bather shoulders this burden like Atlas, if Atlas was taking a pretty decent bath.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Depression nachos turned out okay, actually. Layering. Maybe a little rich and heavy, but it’s -20° and I left the house for like, twenty minutes. So good on me and you.

Closeup of a sickass tray of nachos. Bright red cubes of pepper dot amongst brown lumps of taco ground beef, rotisserie chicken breast, white melted cheese and tan tortilla chips. The picture fills the frame. It’s nachos time, babbbyyyy there’s also bits of green onion, for health.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Pizza 2 Pepperoni and mushroom. My favorite. It’s turkey pepperoni, for health. Honestly, though? It’s totally fine. WAY less salt and fat than regular. And it tastes exactly the same as the regular supermarket pepperoni. I put basil leaves on before cooking, which I like sometimes, sometimes after

An awkward, rectangular homemade pizza stretches diagonally left, away from the camera. Large, browny-red rounds of pepperoni are laid thickly out across the pizza. You can see red sauce (just regular jar stuff) peeking out under a greasy layer of cheese. There’s some sautéed mushroom and a few toasted basil leaves on there. The edges of the crust are a little pale and dusty with white flour.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

PIZZA NIGHT! I’m al forno solo now, so I had to scale my plans back a little. Pizza 1 Half and half. Hawaiian, with Turkey bacon (gesture towards Health Conditions) and jalapeño. The other half is roast sweet potato, rosemary and goat cheese, no sauce, just a bit of olive oil.

A small, roughly oval half and half pizza. The lower half consists of orange and brown roast cubes of sweet potato on a puffy, golden, breast crust. There are toasty-looking lumps of white goat cheese dotted about. The top half is Hawaiian style. I love Hawaiian, but this time it came out a bit bland, tbh. Pale chunks of frozen pineapple break up the cheesy surface of a tomato sauces pizza. Red bits of leathery turkey bacon are interspersed with brightly green rings of jalapeño.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Gonna do a couple fat poodle legs off the top, then figure out how to blow rails vertically.

A small boudoir cabinet made entirely of mirrors sits on a grey street curb. The face of one of the drawers is cracked.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Pushing through the depresh to paint this angry little guy. I’d been looking forward to it, but I’m really struggling to get the paint on. It’s a Reaper Bones and it says it doesn’t need priming, but the paint is running all over the place. Do I keep at it, or cover it up with primer and start over?

Real angry little guy. A grey plastic miniature sits atop a bit of grey doweling, used as a painting handle. It’s a bulgy, muscling barbarian, with the rocker hair and a big sword, axe and furry cloak n’ boots. There’s some ruddy flesh paint on his chest and some grey on his fur loincloth. But it’s very patchy and runny-looking. You can tell just by looking at it that the painter is a little depressed and annoyed, and would probably benefit from some fresh air and sunlight.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If your understanding of quantum theory brought you to this, of what use was your understanding of quantum theory?

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I’m so sorry about your cat. What an awful loss. A miniature sounds like a delightful tribute. Dark Sword Miniatures has a whole line of animal characters. Great sculpts. There’s cats of all breeds and classes. I just primed one, to celebrate a furry fellow I know.

A metal fantasy miniature of a cat standing in armour, bearing a great sword in its paws. The cat has a furry face and a crowned helmet. The miniature is primed with a black undercoat and a white highlight, but is otherwise unpainted. It sits stuck to a small piece of brown wooden dowel.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Painted another miniature! Practising layers. Shield looks pretty rough. Early days! And it’s a good time.

Fantasy miniature of a knight in armour. They wear full plate mail, painted in gunmetal and silver. Dressed up in a yellow tabard, with red trim. They carry a matching yellow shield, with red trim and symbol. Their sword is gunmetal, with a brassy handle. The miniature is fixed by its base to a short length of wooden dowl, held by blue putty.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My best furry boy. He’s back at his mum’s place, but I got to cat sit this weekend. I love him so much.

Magnificent specimen of a tuxedo cat. Big, black face, gorgeous white whiskers and a little white paw.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Two science fiction series about how living under corporate, theocratic, feudal patriarchies isolate and deform us, robbing us of our shared humanity. Really makes ya think.

Poster image for the tv series “Raised by Wolves”. Stylized image of a female figure with grey skin, short red hair and glowing eyes looks down upon a foetus, cradled in her hands. Both the female figure and the held foetus have cybernetic implants. The background is roiling grey clouds, with the series title rendered in orange.

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