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OK, a few things ... 1. @suzisteffen and suzisteffen at gmail. THOUGH I did just delete IG from my phone because f*ck Z*ck and all of the privacy violations. Sigh. I guess I'll always have Safari or Firefox tho. 2. I'm in Oregon, not the other coast, but would love a live cooking demo in November or December. 3. I don't eat meat, but my partner does, so I could definitely see this recipe happening in our house (MAYBE with one of those fake meats for me - I don't hate them but I don't usually make "

The Bluey episode is so moving - and so important! (Though if I were to have one note it’s that Bluey’s mum says ‘it wasn’t meant to be’ by way of explanation, which... 🙄🙄) Thanks for your kind words here too. The admiration is mutual! Xx Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfqbWmucismpqqop6uqLHToZyrmaCewLV7z2inq52Xo66vr9hmo6iro2Kur7CMm6Ounal0wrW5vqymrqqTmoqxu9KtXZynnaKyr8DSdqurrZVbwrW5vqacnaGlooq4scE%3D

I managed to find some honeynut squash, so I'll be making the soup! Question: how many people does the Instagram recipe serve? (Do I need to double for six people?) And, when you're doing the pecans, are you adding sugar or salt along with the red pepper? (I'll also be doing your vegan stuffing, after only ever making from a Pepperidge Farm bag. 🤞 Thank you!!! Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmirn525onrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeimrCqvMSsZKieXam1orrKrJ6irpmjtLR5z5qqrWeTpLqusc2tqg%3D%3D

I'm with you on the idea that there could well be an unknown force out there driving the universe. I don't have any sense that it cares one whit about humans in particular. As I have posted elsewhere, I belong to the Congregation of the Sublimely Indifferent. If no Daddy is going to reward me for being a good girl, I just have to choose what seems to be the best ethic to keep society functioning and go with it.

FULL BODY CHILLS!! Absolutely beautiful words and thoughts. Whenever I talk about my career path, I always find myself describing the feeling of choice paralysis. I know I can grab one fig and savor it, comforted by the fact that I can return to the tree (if I'm quick enough) to choose another, but the thinking is what consumes so much time. And the thought that opportunities can come and just as easily go is terrifying.

"To eager readers of New Yorker fiction about the superficial, frigid lives of readers of the New Yorker, it takes a thief to catch a thief, much as it takes opaque intelligence agencies to guarantee an open society." There's 3-6 devastatingly on point memorable lines in this but I'm going to put that at the top. Like most of us, when you & Taibbi discuss this group & the political-cultural rot it supports, you use the ambiguous pronoun "

I often miss the early days of home computers (i started with a digital typewriter, lol) and Internet. It was s terrifying place if you actually looked at what was going on. It also felt like actual people were on it, making things. Websites felt like websites of people. Everything is slicker now. Websites often feel like the product of templates and corporate production. In many ways this has helped so many people.

In reference to the horse Wisecracken, I can not find any racing or pedigree information on this horse. Due to a lot of online comments about horse breeders and the pedigrees of both Maple leaf Mel and New York Thunder I wanted to do one of those confirmation bias bit of research. Would you have the stable, owner, breeder or trainer information of this unfortunate horse? Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfnLyqusaipZyhopi5pr%2FDop6eq6RkvXC%2Bzq6roqaVYrqitc2tnKeZnpiybrDAsnaurJ2UwLDB0ZycdqifqMFnr86mpJ6mpKiKtb7Unl2urJ2UuqawyK6kdq%2BVlw%3D%3D

Thanks for the candid and detailed response. Considering that companies such as Fiji use the same kind of plastic as the companies which were tested to contain significant numbers of plastic micro (and nano) particles it seems to me it would be logical to assume that the same mechanisms of friction and other stimulus that results in the contamination that has been measured in other company's bottled water, is ubiquitous in all plastic bottled waters (in varying degrees based on how far it was shipped, what environmental stimulus the bottles were exposed to, along with other variables).