The only truly excellent pumpkin pie is Julia Child’s Aunt Helen’s made with specific recipe mods (drop sugar, do not whip those whites) and high-maintenance homegrown pumpkins. Others are okay as objects of nostalgia. RE:
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Jennifer Laughran (@literaticat.bsky.social)
Tell me your Thanksgiving Dinner Hot Takes. I’ll start: — Sweet Potato Pie is VASTLY superior to Pumpkin Pie — The best turkey in the worl...
Menswear Guy busting out CARDINAL NEWMAN was not on my bingo card I love this website RE:
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derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social)
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term ge...
What happens when a former vfx guy develops a truly weird visual anomaly that the internet has not yet correctly modeled RE:
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meetar (@fjord.style)
I've been "enjoying" scintillating scotomas more often recently. They're difficult to describe, and images online don't really capture it. But the ...
it is 2025 and no one can stop me from putting Holiday Lights on my computer
I’m not a skincare poster but I am a steadfast and slightly evangelical fan of Niod’s copper peptides + a couple of cheap things from The Ordinary and they are doing their annual month-long slow sale so if that is a thing you like, heads up.
I have read just enough history to know that the French Revolution was hell on earth for a decade or so but perhaps they did just one or two things right RE:
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derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social)
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI techn...
Eating your seed corn. RE:
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Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life.bsky.social)
WARN filings expose 4.7k of Amazon's 14k cuts last month. 500 PMs were laid off while engineers (1,800 laid off) were hit hardest, mostly SDE IIs w...
Coast Guard rescue helicopters keep boat crews from dying when things go wrong. Taking them away to make room for an ICE prison is going to get extremely ugly RE:
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OPB (@opb.org)
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Friday that the state is filing a lawsuit to force the federal government to return a U.S. Coast Gua...
I think of myself as being quite bad at understanding the inner lives of others so it is always alarming when so many clever people are apparently even worse at it
A roundup of personal data consolidation, surveillance, and destruction-of-oversight news from the [@unbreaking.org@bsky.brid.gy](
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How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unb...
 ) Data Security team, who will surely be having amazing conversations at various dinners next week. RE:
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The federal government continues to roll new datasets into its surveillance operation and use them to target immigrants. We learned this week that ...