Competition is tough in Texas but I think I have found our mothership of baked potatoes 👌🏽🥔🧀🥩🍖

Yasss Gruene has its own beer! Water Tower Amber by Save The World Brewing, and mighty tasty it is too 🤠🍻👍🏽

Dems ostrich stance is as terrifying as it is absurd Democracy won’t defend itself

Gandering around Gruene 🤠🍸🍝🎸

Me: I really need to have a shower where I wash my hair without getting my face wet and smudging my makeup Lovely JB: (quite sensibly) Good luck with that Reader, I succeeded 😁

Very happy to see the back of this week but also glad to be closing it out in style 🍸😊

India’s drinking culture is vibrant, dynamic & phenomenally diverse - and always comes with delectable snacks Read more about one of the fastest growing drinks markets in the world @insidehook.bsky. www.insidehook.com/drinks/drink...

“One video portrays Jesus weeping as he carries Kirk's body swathed in an American flag, rendered in the uncanny, plastic style of AI while non-descript Christian music plays” This is complete insanity

Seeing my work in print never gets old ❤️🗞️ Not one but two pieces in the current @austinmonthly.bsky.social 🥰

Ya gal has been waiting soooo long for a kick-ass laksa in ATX - and the fabulous Chef Laila Bazahm more than delivers with her signature dish at newly-opened Siti - get your ressies in now, this menu is on fire 😋🍜 More @austinmonthly.bsky.social www.austinmonthly.com/siti-brings-...

“The single biggest threat to the livelihood of authors and, by extension, to our culture…is AI. If you take away the one thing that makes us truly human-our ability to think like humans, create stories and imagine new worlds – we will live in a diminished world” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So we are pretty far into the whole dictatorship thing it seems

It’s been a really bad day but I’m trying Bespoke Manhattan - secret ingredients 🍸🤍

The use of AI in the arts is noting less than a grotesque violation of human creative talent - effectively harvesting our work to replace us with machines

Your voice matters in every election, not just the presidential ones. 🗳 This #NationalVoterRegistrationDay, take a moment to be sure you’re registered and ready to vote. To register or confirm your status, visit @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s resources at voting.naacpldf.org.

Late Texas summer 🌞🍏🍎🍻

Americans are witnessing one of the largest and most well coordinated attacks on free speech in generation, and it is only the opening salvo of the Republicans plan to destroy all ability to defend against their fascist violence and becoming fascist civil conflict

Tunnel rave 😁 🎶 💃🏽

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

I just coined the phrase ‘weird texty bromance’ You’re welcome 😁

It’s been a while since my last ‘you look so much like Mel B comment’ I actually don’t mind cos I love Mel B but y’know - there are other cool British women of colour 💁🏽‍♀️

This this this If all this hate, resentment & bigotry was here the whole time & ppl just pretended to believe in equality, all marginalised ppl have to reevaluate every interaction & relationship we’ve ever had They really do see us as less

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

“Drawing inspiration from old Spaghetti Westerns…the soundtrack is lo-fi surf-rock with a Western twang, evocative of dusty trails, the whip of horsetails & muscle cars on lonely two-lane blacktops” Texan-French delight Le Calamar @austinmonthly.bsky.social www.austinmonthly.com/la-calamar-g...

Houston so purrrty 🌃

Is anyone else just super distracted by Alcaraz’s hot super-coordinated outfit or is it just me… 😯

Houston Sunday happy place City Orchard cidery sippin on a scrumptious Mrs Green Rhode Island Greening single varietal 🥰🍏🍎🍻 Did you know RIGs are purported to originate from the apple tree in the garden of Eden?!

Our first Uyghur food outing and I am officially obsessed 🥰🍜🥟

Just in case anyone missed the memo, hello facism

Hey hey Houston! Loving gorgeous tiki-tastic Berwick’s Birds of Paradise - the Crocodile Tears martini with sea salt, black lime & coconut water is so my new go-to 👌🏽🍸 Look out for more on HTX neighbourhood bars coming soon 😊✍️

Love hangin out with this gal 🥰

Fabulous martini with pecorino-infused vermouth (!) at Geraldine’s media night is 👌🏽🍸 No idea how to infuse cheese but sooo want to find out 😋

Listening to Nebraska on repeat ❤️🎸

So delighted to have Christine’s wonderfully intuitive illustrations capturing my @camraofficial.bsky.social American heirloom cider apples series with such warmth and empathy ❤️🍎🍏🍻

Excited to share Part Two of my @camraofficial.bsky.social American heirloom cider apple series live now - learn how lost apples are being rediscovered by academics, orchardists, cider makers & apple detectives, & how historic injustice is being addressed learn.camra.org.uk/courses/amer...

The Pentagon authorizes military judges for immigration cases, the National Guard occupies DC, and Federal forces prepare to deploy to Chicago. They’re attacking democracy, terrorizing Black & Brown communities, and quelling dissent. We need to be prepared—learn how here: bit.ly/resistancetoolkit.

Apparently it’s okay to upcharge for a large ice cube… 🤷🏽‍♀️

Labor Day libations n live tunes at the lovely Dripping Springs Distillery 🤠🎸🍸

Small but proactive crowd at Austin’s No Kings Labor Day protest ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 Big props to the organisers for putting together activist bingo! #protest #buildtheresistance

Realising during an argument you’re the one being a loon cos of fucked up shit your parents taught you was normal but totally isn’t is never gonna stop being a special level of self-hate It royally sucks having to do all the work cos folks too irresponsible to grow plants decided to procreate😔

Texas Sundays are for soaking in the Hill Country, chilling to country tunes & sipping on delish local brews - sinking right into Ghost Note Brewing’s Sicilian lemon Farmhouse Shandy’s perfectly pitched bright tart tang 👌🏽🤠🍻🎸

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽😂😂😂👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

So awkward to be living through a dystopian novel about techno-fascist billionaires who have banded together with white supremacists, Christian nationalists, and international dictators in an attempt to overthrow democracy and commit genocide, all to establish tech-enabled fiefdoms in their wake.

Texas storms and snazzy bevs 🤠🍸⛈️

Hella fantastic show from the brilliant James McMurty at Gruene Hall, accompanied by the fab BettySoo - if you haven’t listened to The Black Dog & The Wandering Boy get on it 🤠🎸👌🏽

CMAT just extra-cementing her awesomeness 😁🎤 open.spotify.com/track/7zG2yp...

More amazing music than ya can shake a stick at at Robert Earl Keen’s Applause For A Cause flood relief fundraiser!🤠🎸🎻🎤💃🏽