@kcar08.bsky.social
Tech writer, GenXer, history geek, slow hiker, fair-weather kayaker, romance reader, π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ mom & ally. The U.S. is terrible right now, so letβs make a lot of bread.
PS. Regarding The Γ re Murders: The dubbing in English is NOT good. I turned on Swedish and used subtitles.
10.09.2025 21:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0TFW you finish an audiobook and think, wow, thatβs 8 hours that I couldβve been listening to something else. π (Itβs no one that I follow.) But in good entertainment news, I really enjoyed The Γ re Murders on Netflix and now I want to move to Sweden and freeze my butt off.
10.09.2025 21:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Book display titled βBoos and Beausβ with spooky themed romance novels, including ZomRomCom by Olivia Dade
I love independent bookstores but itβs also nice to go in a mall and have a store full of things that I love (and a display of an author I love!). @oliviawrites.bsky.social
06.09.2025 21:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oh, Iβm so sorry about the Covid but glad that you are safely home! It was great meeting you in person on your whirlwind tour! Feel better soon. πππ
16.08.2025 16:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Author Olivia Dade chats with a woman getting her Zom RomCon book signed
Author Olivia Dade, a white wan with with pretty brown hair and a blue and white dress, wearing a mask, sits in a chair with pink hearts after signing a book for the white woman on the left, who has brown/gray short hair and is wearing a black t-shirt that says βBan Bigots Not Booksβ and is absolutely beaming with a big smile because she met one of her favorite authors.
Olivia is as lovely in person as she is online and as you can tell she is from reading her books! So nice to meet you @oliviawrites.bsky.social and getting to tell you how much joy your books bring me! β€οΈ
09.08.2025 15:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A life size cutout figure of Fabio in a crowded bookstore with a line of people waiting to get their book signed by the author Olivia Dade!
It took 3 hours to get here because of traffic π© but I am finally in the mass chaos that is bookstore/line to get my book signed by @oliviawrites.bsky.social ! πβ€οΈ
09.08.2025 15:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
07.08.2025 20:00 β π 32455 π 5677 π¬ 1010 π 444The way I clicked on the event for Richmond and pre-ordered my book the minute I saw this! I cannot wait! πππ
11.06.2025 18:16 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A sidewalk runs to the left of the picture. To the right of the sidewalk, thereβs a bed of crushed oyster shells. In the middle of the pic, directly to the right of the sidewalk, there is a square wooden fence about 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide. There are orange cones on the sidewalk and one on the gravel. There is a sign that asks people not to disturb the nest. Itβs hard to see, but a killdeer is sitting on the nest inside of the framed fence.
This cute little killdeer just plopped her nest down right next to the sidewalk. The awesome park rangers at #machocomico built some protection for her and the babies!
04.05.2025 02:00 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 04:30 am Anxiety Wakeup Club member reporting for our meeting, hope someone is serving coffee.
15.04.2025 09:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It would be really nice to be able to fall asleep. The longer I cannot, the more stressed out I get, and going to sleep seems even more difficult. π
11.04.2025 05:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The demographics my company used to display (that have been removed in the DEI purge) showed itβs ~70% white men (and in tech roles, over 81% men). All mentions of diversity and equity have now been scrubbed, but we really werenβt doing so hot with it anyway, were we?
08.04.2025 23:32 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well, my company removed the words βdiversityβ and βequityβ from its βDiversity, Equity, and Inclusionβ page & moved our βDEI Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officerβ to a new role as βVP of Open Source and AI Program Office,β if youβre wondering how things are going at US tech companies. π€’
07.04.2025 18:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yummmmm
07.04.2025 02:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Baked sourdough batard with raisins resting on a black wire cooling rack. The outside is a bit pale but where it was scored is golden brown.
Sliced section of a cinnamon raisin sourdough batard. The crumb is fairly dense and studded with raisins. You can see a tiny line of cinnamon in the middle.
Cinnamon raisin #sourdough made with apple juice instead of water. Elaine Boddy Sourdough Bible recipe. Really good! Kind of similar to a cinnamon raisin bagel texture, so I will experiment next time with adding more water to make it a bit fluffier. #breadsky #bakingfuriouslywhilemycountryfallsapart
07.04.2025 01:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh no, itβs fine! Youβre totally right to point out how many people have enabled all of this in both RWA and in our country. π’
03.04.2025 13:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Absolutely. I was being sarcastic, but I did note that nothing recapping the βdramaβ mentioned him and instead just mentioned Courtney. π
03.04.2025 12:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It really does. Along with the parallel that many of the people doing the actual work of founding and maintaining the entity had their contributions minimalized.
03.04.2025 12:53 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0If we are gonna blame the demise of RWA on one person, could we not pick Damon Suede?!
03.04.2025 12:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Itβs 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
03.04.2025 04:13 β π 10712 π 3994 π¬ 175 π 446Golden rectangular loaf of bread resting on a wooden cutting board. The end is sliced.
Two slices of square homemade bread resting on top of a wooden cutting board. The crumb has small irregular holes in it.
Golden brown rusty batard shaped bread loaf resting on a black wire cooling rack. The design from the banneton can be seen on the sides. The bread has a large split where it was scored.
Three slices of sourdough bread resting on top of a wooden cutting board. The color is mottled brown and lighter brown from the flouts. The holes in the bread are small to medium and irregular.
Recent #sourdough: pumpkin semolina + white spelt/whole wheat. I finally finished the 5 lb bag of Giant (store brand) whole wheat flour and it actually wasnβt bad - and really affordable. The taste of the pumpkin semolina was great but I didnβt love the texture - dense and sort of floppy.
03.04.2025 11:53 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Aw, November canβt come soon enough! Canβt wait to read it. β€οΈ
01.04.2025 18:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hiked this weekend and got the first tick of the season (luckily not attached). Good thing Iβm in a Lyme vaccine trial, I guess? π (Iβve had Lyme before and it sucks.)
31.03.2025 12:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Interactions with two groups of people today just have me wondering, βWhy are people so mean and shitty?β In both cases, they werenβt being shitty to me, but Iβm tired of politely ignoring it like Iβve always done. Because if you donβt say something, itβs as good as condoning it.
29.03.2025 02:07 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A sourdough batard that is cut open resting on top of a white dish towel with black chickens on it. The crumb is moderately open and not super dense.
A slice of whole wheat bread flour sourdough from a batard resting on a wooden cutting board in front of the rest of the loaf. The scoring and βearβ gives it the classic βbunny rabbitβ shape.
This was last Fridayβs #sourdough that I took on another girlsβ trip. My friends said it was good! Bread flour/whole wheat mix (~80/20) and proofed in my new $40 Breadtopia proofer which I like so far. #breadsky
25.03.2025 10:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And Kaine? Guess theyβll find out that voters remember these things at the polls. At least, I do.
25.03.2025 00:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Text she wrote that was overlaid over pics of the school board meeting that she posted: TyrantHunter 3,414 posts Did you see that hateful bigot that did a Nazi salute?! Can you believe she said fuck the Frederick County Sheriffs Office?! I gave a lil sieg heil at the end of my speech and the left wasn't happy. Notably, the school board chair wanted me to take pictures of his vehicle. So I did.
In case there was any doubt that it was a Nazi salute, hereβs her post about it.
19.03.2025 04:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was 3.5 hrs of π€―
19.03.2025 03:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A screen cap from a video shows a woman wearing black with a black hat and long hair with her arm raised straight and slightly up in a Nazi salute. She is leaving a packed school board meeting. The screen at the back of the room displays the FCPS logo.
Just a local parent, throwing a Nazi salute at the School Board meeting. Later in the meeting, our January 6th-er school board member called those of us speaking out against banning books βa bunch of perverts.β Just another day in Frederick County, Virginia.
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