Made sweet potato pies using my gramma's recipe written on a 3x5 card in her handwriting. It was as good as hers which never happens. Love her. Miss her. #richbakesagain #sweetpotatopie #pie

Sharknado Returns: Beloved B-Movie Franchise Set for 2026 Comeback

I don't wish to appear ungrateful, but my first experience of the Aurora Borealis was... underwhelming. Where I was (Central Iowa) and when I was (early in the night) it was a gray smudge in the sky with no color. Only through the camera was it visible. I think I need to trip north to be awed by it.

So many Trumplicans on my FB stream (in Iowa) are freaking out about the mayor of a city they've never even been to. You'd think Taylor Swift went to another football game based on their level of outrage.

First, Ikarus flew. He rose on wings made of wax and ambition, defying his father’s warnings. The sky wasn’t a limit—it was a siren’s call. Yes, it cost him. Helios saw him. The wax melted. Gravity remembered. But he died! Yeah, we all die. But HE flew.

Yesterday I heard of Czech #Trdelnik for the first time and immediately decided to make it. It turns out it's a sweet, enriched (VERY enriched bread -- butter, milk, lard, and egg yolks in it) dough rolled in cinnamon, sugar, and crushed nuts that I let cool and then filled with whipped cream.

I just finished Abducted by Roy Malcolm. It reads like Chuck Palanhuik wrote poetry. It's happy; the language is beautiful and is still in my head. It's a gay love story in space. I'll do a full review later but it's stuck with me: the words, the characters, the almost lyrical language. #bookreview

Mistakes were made. The red autumnal leaves didn't make an appearance. The batter was so runny it was pouring out the tip as I filled the bag. Spice cake (good) with apple pie filling (self-made, good) and stabilized rum infused whipped cream. (Good). It tastes a bit blandish. Needed more spice.

Every once in a while my sister and I facetime a Bake Off bake. This time it's a decorated swirl cake. No frosting. If you watch Great British Bake Off you know. This is my goal. Fingers crossed. Tomorrow we're "in the tent." Wish me luck. (Her, East Coast. Me, Midwest)

I've written a review of Grimoire of Kings: Tales of Bramoria (Book 1) by @blakerwolfe.bsky.social Short version: It's not so much book one of a trilogy. It's the first third of an epic. Read it that way. Good world-building, characters, and relationships. simplerich.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...

The answer is yes.

@blakerwolfe.bsky.social please tell me Tyler becomes likeable at some point in ToB

Yes, but I wanna see what the Las Vegas sphere is doing! Say less... liveworldwebcams.com/the-sphere-l...

Great... Another addiction. Just what I needed. So good.

You know, maybe Bethesda would get more done if they'd quit working on 20 year old games and put out something new or support their recent new IP with new content. Jeez. Only posting this while Oblivion remastered finishes downloading but seriously y'all.

I made Pan de Cristal, Glass bread, it was surprisingly good. I say surprising because I didn't expect a lot of flavor from equal parts water and flour. I was wrong. I heartily recommend you give it a go if you're a bread person. #Bread #pandecristal #RichBakesAgain

Snow from the blizzard is melting

Caught an eclipse in #starfield #gaming #xboxone #xb1 #screenshot

Learned a new phrase today, "plot armor." I like it.

#Sunrise drive listening to #DrWho audiobook is my happy place.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Depression #baking is a thing. I'm in #Iowa and we are going back in time led by a legislature that has such vastly different priorities than its constituency. I macerated strawberries using vanilla sugar I’d made and #dragonfruit salsa with mint and honey to have on #poundcake. I ate both.

I've got one of those insurance apps that rates my driving and I get a discount for having it. I'm a good driver. Zero accidents since 1986. I've run more orange lights to avoid ‘sudden stop’ penalty to my score. Probably not what they're after.

I work in a factory. It's very conservative, midwestern, stereotypical. No surprises. Exactly what you'd expect... except there's flashes of difference. There's a guy that comes in, walks past my department every day carrying a paperback book. It takes him about three days to finish a novel at work.

I'm going to have to depoliticize, deactivism my stream. I can't survive high level anxiety on every platform. I need somewhere to go that doesn't make me wish I lived somewhere with access to higher buildings... somewhere other than pornhub I mean. LoL

It's Friday. You know what to do youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

So when congress allocates money to an agency then the president dissolves it by proxy. Does he get to keep the money himself? Feels like if it's funded it shouldn't just cease to exist. Where's that money go? What about the obligations it's made?

Stupid fucking #Iowa is SOOO #NotOK

Make a couple loaves of bread just to try the honey butter I made? Um, yeah. What else am I gonna do? Use it on store bought gummi-brot? I don't think so. #bread #richbakesagain #honeybutter

I made a chili pie with puff pastry that I saw on @chefreactions.bsky.social YouTube channel. The guy that made it. I promise you, if you've worked in food you know him lol. It was good. I used fake cheese because lactose hates my guts. Still good. My inner fat kid already wants a third slice.

ICE is trying to deport Native American people to Mexico. This one from the Mescalero Apache Tribe. That's right. People indigenous to the United States, tribal members. ICE is trying to remove them from the US. This is the second verified incident I've heard about. We were here 1st. #ICE

@carter-the-author.bsky.social wrote a book, several actually, but I've only just finished the one. A Prince of a Man. I recommend it. I've bought the rest of the series after finishing the first. I talk about it here. simplerich.blogspot.com/2025/01/book...

I‘m playing #starfield again/still and there are times when I stop playing the game and just look around, not FOR anything, just at the world I'm in at the moment. I recommend it in game and IRL.

BEHOLD The Statue of Gayvid. I was told that without the traditional kitschy David in my house, I wasn't an actual ghey. So, I had a friend with a printer make me one that I hope is gay enough to make up for lost time.

Sen. Joni Ernst could've torpedoed Hegseth's nomination for defense secretary. She's a military veteran and survivor of sexual assault. Hegseth was credibly accused of abuse of women, including rape. Joni Ernst's "yes" vote will make women less likely to come forward. She voted for sexual assault.

When I was little we moved to Germany from USA (until I was 17) and when I asked the old ppl who had been there for WW2 what they thought was happening to their Jewish/gypsy/gay friends/neighbors carried away, they said they never knew. I think they DID know.

Cinnamon rolls and chili. I'd never heard of it until moving to Iowa. Everyone does it here

There has to be a word for when you've been ill and wake up one morning and you feel 'well.' You feel fully recovered but you know you aren't yet but you feel so much better overnight that you proclaim, "I'm well," and not just, "I'm better." That false feeling of wellness that's so much improved.

Homemade #pitabread for tuna salad is my new favorite easy to enjoy a +salad sandwich. #pita is less messy and relatively quick and easy.

Made crockpot baby back ribs for the first time and had them with collards sauteed in bacon grease with garlic and red pepper flakes alongside some skin-on red-potato salad with a hunk of sourdough and watermelon with lemon juice on for starters. #sawitontiktok #happynewyear

You ever notice the green peppers on frozen #pizza are absolutely the green pepperyest of green peppers? They out green pepper other green peppers in both smell and flavor. This is true across all frozen pizzas I've encountered. That is all. :)

I saw it on TikTok so, of course I made it. An entire orange including the peeling in a blender + sugar + oil + flour + baking powder = delicious light fluffy cake... I mean, it's fine... but it tastes like diet cake. It needs butter. It's the taste equivalent of a tinny speaker. #richbakesagain

I got a sourdough sampler as a Christmas gift from my landlady. She knows me too well. #bread ftw and now I wanna learn how to make #sourdough

Joy of Cooking cinnamon raisin bread without the raisins is what this morning felt like. #richbakesagain #bread #joyofcooking

I'm in Iowa. Got home from work 6am. Txt'd landlady. "Sorry to bother you and it's not urgent so don't pay weekend rates but I don't have heat. It's fine. 61F and I'mma be sleeping so sort of a blessing. Checked the breaker first. Again, no rush. It's fine. If I get cold I'll bake cinnamon rolls."

Snoop Dogg's PB chocolate chip cookies happened tonight. I chucked some salt on the tops of the last half dozen just because. Listen. Y'all need to make these. There's no chilling step so you can make 'em & eat 'em with no waiting. #richbakesagain #chocolatechipcookies #snoopdoggcookbook #cookies

Made Japanese milk bread because lookit it! Who wouldn't? I have no dignity and as it cooled I tore an end off, buttered it and ate it like a bridge troll noshing on a baby goat. No regerts #richbakesagain #bread #japanesemilkbread

One wonders if there was as huge a manhunt for the shooters in the other 900+ shooting deaths in NYC this year. I doubt it. I wonder what's different about this one? I mean, other than the victim being a rich white man. But surely that wouldn't make a difference. Justice is blind, right?

Cowboy boots if they're for style not function are just high heels for men. I said it.

I might need a dial for accounts. Turn this one down a little because they're a firehose... This one down because they're always angry about something and that's not how I want to start my day... This one completely muted in my stream but I can go look at them periodically to see what's up.