Jesse

40-something California-born, living in the suburbs of Los Angeles (reasonably) well-traveled. He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

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2024-08-14 02:31:10

Fell off the bread baking wagon for quite a while after a run of frustrating failures. I'd meant to ease back into things with some Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day baking, but the BF got me a sourdough starter from an artisanal bakery in Pasadena. After a rocky start and some bad math, I got a shokupan that didn't quite hit the rim of the pan, but looks pretty ok. I suppose I'm back in.
#bread #baking
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2024-08-01 15:01:46

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@npub1w9a…04m0 🍾🍾🍾
Although now I'm curious what's going on behind the scenes there. This turd steamrolled the Senate.

2024-07-29 22:13:29

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@npub1gr8…c639 honestly, every time I see bees going nuts on the allium flowers I wonder what that'll taste like.

2024-06-21 23:33:56

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@npub1cel…pmxm ooh, postcards are exactly my speed.

2024-05-30 21:57:48

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@npub1l54…3lye I'm impressed you had something ready for the occasion.

2024-04-04 16:00:32

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@npub1tel…4v4v Is...is this real?

2024-03-13 17:07:49

#camera and #photography folks: my bf has expressed interest in an instant/polaroid-like camera and I've poked around a bit and am overwhelmed by choice. He just wants something fun and easy. Any recommendations?

2024-02-14 22:15:26

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@npub1gr8…c639 I'd imagine it depends a lot on your work culture, but in my office it'd just be "oh I can't do the after work drinks thing I have date." "Oh what's her name?" "His name is Gary" and then there'd be a brief look of confusion and then we'd move on.

2024-02-10 19:37:03

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@npub1gr8…c639 I was going to say it'd be a fun research project, but then looked and apparently folks are already on it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04450-9

2024-02-10 19:18:05

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@npub1gr8…c639 20ish years ago when Encarta was out and multimedia encyclopedias were a novelty, I was helping a friend's son with a project and we played the audio for African wild dogs. His two dogs ran in from the other room and sat at attention staring at the speakers.

2023-12-18 19:58:10

All right, finished and delivered the baby blanket for the baby shower. Managed to keep it a secret that I knew* how to #crochet and was doing a blanket for my oldest niece's first born from my extended family until the gift was opened.
*Using know extremely loosely here.
#YarnBothering #fiberarts
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2023-10-31 21:56:08

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@npub1lrv…tth9 the whole episode is baffling. They seem to have made a misstep by giving an inch to Raichik, which will likely just chum the waters, while arguing that the speech was constitutionally protected and that criticism of her "odious" views are still up in other sections of the site.

2023-10-28 15:26:53

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@npub1vs7…a6g3 absolutely knackered from the hard work of transcribing song lyrics for a friend. #caturday #Fountainpens
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2023-10-24 04:28:05

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@npub15x4…3p3l there's a really good Nixon/Kennedy debate joke to be made here but we're a quarter of a century too young to make it.

2023-10-04 16:12:31

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@npub1hvz…mle9 Back when I was slinging sandwiches and coffee at a local cafe, I found that just saying "You look like you want a ham and cheese on croissant" would always get an immediate decision from folks who had made it to the register and still looked adrift.
They would respond with "oh that sounds great [thank you for not making me make another decision today]" or "No, I want a tuna on rye" it seems like whatever that effect is is at play here too.

2023-09-27 16:12:06

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@npub1tel…4v4v Seaweed Blob 2024: Make America Nitrogen Rich Again

2023-09-06 02:46:46

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@npub15qw…3p2z The "Rudy fucked around, and now he's finding out" at the ~10min mark was so professional.

2023-08-15 17:53:01

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@npub1cel…pmxm This is the most "screw it I will accept being haunted in exchange for this house" house I have ever seen.

2023-08-11 18:49:30

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 so much vertigo. What a cool picture!

2023-08-08 16:53:15

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They just love WWII history! It just happens that a lot of it has fascist iconography. Don't make it weird.
[because this toot will be floating without its original context: absolutely do continue making it weird]

2023-08-08 16:08:45

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@npub15qw…3p2z wait, I thought he was being a racist shitbird under a pen name...he was also a racist shitbird under his own name?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817

2023-06-30 03:39:50

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@npub15qw…3p2z I can't tell if that's a harder knock on Shapiro or FedSoc.

2023-06-29 23:07:25

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@npub1ulm…hweg oh look, worse toas-tite sandwiches...
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2023-06-21 05:29:54

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@npub15qw…3p2z practicing Poe's Law now are we?

2023-05-31 17:22:09

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Weirdly, dispelling the myth that Chik-fil-A uses pickle brine to make their chicken taste good (it's MSG) has been more effective at making my crunchy evangelical friends/family weird on CfA than anything about their moral positioning.
I would also accept them softening their stance on MSG as a win.

2023-05-25 18:14:40

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@npub1su4…a0dw Three engineers are riding in a car that stalls out: a mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer and a software engineer.
The mechanical engineer says "I'll go check the belts."
The electrical engineer says "I'm pretty sure it's the wiring."
The software engineer says "We should turn everything off, all get out, get back in and start it up again!"
I'm glad to see someone was dedicated enough to this joke to make it a reality.

2023-05-17 18:15:43

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@npub15qw…3p2z "Should George Santos be giving press conferences?" Are you asking for our sake or his?

2023-05-09 20:47:26

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 I've only really found it useful for revision not creation. I asked it to read an email and ask me questions to refine its purpose. The questions were helpful, most of the text it recommended was meh, but knowing what I didn't want helped *me* clarify what I did want in the email.
That or having it rewrite text in an English Ballad format so that I can sing it to the theme from Gilligan's Island.

2023-05-09 04:48:21

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Such an exciting experience. Glad you're safe!

2023-05-03 21:32:00

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@npub19lt…qfjk I remember "Two of Everything" By Lily Toy Hong, which was put forward as a retelling of a Chinese Folktale. In it a farmer finds a pot that doubles anything put in it. The twist being that the wife falls in while duplicating something and is duplicated herself. I'm not sure I've conclusively found a version of the story that predates the Hong version though.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Two_of_Everything/80s3EAAAQBAJ

2023-03-30 19:10:15

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I'd made it so far without paying attention to the shenanigans at my alma mater. Thanks for being informative I guess.

2023-03-13 18:22:43

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#[0] Santa Cruz Island was lousy with them. We camped in the Scorpion Ranch area and they were too comfortable around humans, but very cute even if they have had a recent genetic bottleneck event and were a bit...twitchy.
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