I invented a thing. We’ll see how it tastes later. Behold the babcaccia! Inspired by the hot chocolate focaccia in 3 Doughs, 60 Recipes and the jar of “anytime you have enriched dough you can make babka” dry mix in my pantry. It is non-dairy and smelled pretty damn good baking.

May I ask for 50 reposts? New York Magazine is a big deal! Thank you Bluesky!

Monster is very into crochet, specifically amigurumi. So instead of pulling yarn from my stash, she’s starting to build her own. We’re taking advantage of the current Knit Picks sale and she is reading the description of a gray yarn over my shoulder. Monster: “an elephant neutral.” Me: “elegant.”

One of the many obnoxious things about how people discuss Israel is they don't take it as just a place where ordinary people live and do ordinary people things but instead a criminal enterprise where every citizen is a vehicle for geopolitical propaganda & affairs. Israeli existence as conspiracy.

As a former ‘old soul’ teenager who dated a man in his twenties, the excuses being given for powerful men to abuse girls younger than I was using technical vocabulary is giving me some kind of feeling.

As always, listen to the workers when they tell you what they want. I do not cross picket lines, but I do it in the way that the striking workers ask me to.

Question for @travisbaldree.bsky.social - does yesterday’s new book include the story you were reading at Norwescon a couple of years ago? If not, when do we get more of Zyll, the Most Excellent Chaos Goblin?

I am so godsdamn tired of “takes/does not take AIPAC money” as the new political litmus test. The amount of money they toss around every year is an infinitesimal drop in the bucket compared to even the middleweight players in the lobbying industry.

Aurora in Seattle.

The Colorverse Ink one to start with. www.atlasstationers.com/products/col...

Purple Dewdrops on Alien Ferns. Yarn is assorted stash leavings, the beads (dewdrops) are standard pony beads. It’s a wall hanging that looks like a forest on an alien planet.

Any Harbor in an Ætheric Storm Pattern is the Gig Harbor Cowl (free from my LYS). Yarn is @thirdvaultyarns.com Alba Æther on their wool/silk DK weight base.

Pleiades As Seen From Mt. Coot-tha The first in a series of projects for & about the @brisbanein28.bsky.social bid for Worldcon, this beret is knit from the Adler pattern by Casey Noble, w/ yarn from @missbabs.com. The yarn is their Estrellita in Dark Pleiades. This is also my first beaded project.

I know that money is worth significantly less than it was 28 years ago, but I am astounded at the generosity of our friends and family in their gifts to Monster for her bat mitzvah.

I actually refer to these as ‘feel bad’ stories. They should make you feel bad that this is the depths we’ve sunk to as a society and country.

Welp. There has definitely been a change in the formulation of Kirkland oat milk. Thankfully it’s winter, which means my milk consumption is much lower (hot tea requires less milk than cold brew coffee to make it the way I like). Does anyone know if the Califa you can get in bulk is also yuck?

If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Following up on yesterday’s thread. There’s a reason I said disposable menstrual products. Yes, cups and discs (and cloth pads, and period underwear) are all much better for the environment and more economical in the long run. BUT.

At the end of most summers, I put food by. Summer preservation is water bath canning. Some years I get loads of savory relishes made, other years it's sweet preserves and pie fillings. Sometimes it's fruit I bought at the farmer's market, other times it's the plums off of local trees.

But again, the thing that food distribution centers need the most is cold hard cash. They've been telling us that for years.

You know what we donate to the local food pantries? We donate MONEY. Because they can turn that money into what those they serve need the most. I do not know what those folks need better than the food pantry does. So I give them my dollars and they turn them into something useful.

Potential wholesale customer: "I can give you cash when you drop the order off" Me: "PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT." I can make a check go into the business bank account. I have no way to make cash go in at the moment without three hoops.

The absolute fuck? Even food banks don’t usually have relationships with P&G, they have relationships with *food* suppliers. I’ve been saying for years that if you feel a deep seated need to donate stuff rather than money, donate diapers and menstrual supplies.

Monster: “I would like a Harry Potter Lego advent calendar. Why can’t she just die already?”

Monster’s reaction to knockwurst from Romanian (fancy kosher butcher and deli producer in Chicago): “It’s like a hot dog got stung by a bee and it was allergic to bees.”

And I gotta say, I have no idea how we even begin to get there with people who voted for Trump if we are busy being contemptuous of other people who didn’t vote for him because we don’t like that they wore pussy hats or thought marches would solve everything.

Keep scrolling, this is amazing.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the frogs They are leading forth the unicorns & funny cats & dogs They are coming from the rivers, from the ponds & from the bogs Their truth is marching on Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Their truth is marching on

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle: “Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Every time I see a cybertruck, I’m worried that reality has failed to render properly.

I will note that the fact that Inbar Hayman’s remains were returned to Israel bodes well for the prospect that all 28 deceased hostages will be returned. Because if they’re willing to let Inbar come home, no matter what her body could say about what was done to her, they should release the rest.

Tonight I only light 3 candles, for my three family members. The hostage candle is retired.

Two coffins have been transferred to the Red Cross and are on their way to the IDF. Two more coffins will follow. Today is simultaneously one of the greatest days and one of the most sorrowful.

Eitan Mor, Gali and Ziv Berman, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Matan Angrest, Omri Miran, and Alon Ohel are with צה״ל!!!!!!! THEY ARE COMING HOME.

I might be able to sleep when the first seven are in Israeli hands. Might.

THE RED CROSS DID A USEFUL THING

They’re chanting “it’s not a victory until the last hostage comes home” in Hostage Square.

The difference between the Jewish Internet and everyone else tonight is stark.

Please let this be the last week I light 4 Shabbat candles. Please let them come home.

It is wrong to blame an attack on a synagogue on Yom Kippur on Jewish support for Israel, and it is equally wrong to blame it on Muslim immigration to the UK. We can't give in to mutual hate. Be better, everyone.

And this is the problem. Because antisemitism is always, always wrong. This was an attack on British Jews, praying in their shul on the holiest day of the year. If your response to hearing of their murder starts with “but Gaza” you are missing the point.

if your response to jews being murdered at their synagogue on yom kippur is “anti-zionism is not antisemitism” or “blame netanyahu” just be honest that like seeing dead jews and want to see more of us dead. also, go fuck yourself.

Working my way through a bit of transcription backlog, and the following sentence stuck right in my ear, and needed a personal follow up. Board Chair: "the reports will continue to come" Me, in my head: "until morale improves?"

May Jane Goodall’s memory be a comfort and blessing to all of us.

With the obvious but important caveat that not everyone fasts on Yom Kippur, not everyone should fast, and that there is more to this commandment than just refraining from food and drink; I keep thinking about the value of affliction and how hard we work to make ourselves uncomfortable on this day.