Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈

Well, bless your little pea pickin' heart, aren't you just God's most special child.

To be clear, I cannot bake, especially not angel food cake.

Though now that I've said it, I miss my grandmother's cake.

I had dreams all night of having to compete in some Master Chef baking competition and I made gluten-free angel food cake. Gordon Ramsay told me it had the texture of fiberglass insulation, and I'm still horrified by that insult now that I'm awake.

I would've been all over this as a kid, though admittedly, I was a very weird kid.

need to make everyone in San Francisco watch this video every morning and every night

France is owned by Rothschilds. To be free of war it must be willing to remove the Rothschilds grip on it's very foundations to give the country back to it's people. France must make the choice to do this alone. Allies will help from outside in ways that they can. France is for the French. I didn’t include the AI slop image because I have no idea how I would describe what horrors it inflicted on neo-classical architecture.

Somehow the anti-dreyfusards returned

rat coin purse

Nothing like severe thunderstorm warnings with high winds to ensure the parade routes are going to be pandelerium tomorrow when folks go to find their chairs and tarps. Especially with parades starting at 11am. At least it's not impacting Zulu again. Last year, everything was shortened for weather.

No, absolutely not. Once I started reading, I discovered that much like researching the Shoah, once I think we've hit the bottom of the barrel of cruelty and horror, I find three more barrels below that one.

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If you want something actually fun to celebrate, this is @aivalentin.bsky.social 's birthday and you should send him birthday wishes. We can't go out for dinner today because of Mardi Gras madness but if you'd like, you can send him ice cream and taco money for next week.

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Working on 19th century New Orleans: I concur. The more I learn, the worse it gets. When I first read about the Zong Massacre of 1781, I was sobbing.

There is no end limit to the horrors of slavery. Whatever you imagine, it's infinitely worse.

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High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

Most R1 English departments, my entire career: *very skeptical of English education*

@manshel.bsky.social: The high school English classroom is the most important literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars.

Me: 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

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I'm ready to Yee their Haw with all the force of a Southern Jew.

Statewide Mardi Gras Accessibility Guide 2026 » Imagine Water Works Including street closure times, where to park, locations of ADA compliant sidewalks and sensory friendly spaces, viewing locations, and more. Compiled with information from the Governor’s Office of Di...

If you're disabled and ready to do whatcha wanna this Mardi Gras, @imaginewaterworks.org has an accessibility guide for the GNO and surrounding parishes. Carnival is for everyone who wants it. Make sure you catch a cup for me. #MardiGras

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Olympic body criticised for selling Nazi-era Games T-shirt The International Olympic Committee defends the T-shirt as being part of its Heritage Collection, celebrating styles from all editions of the Games.

Tada, the bottom of the barrel: www.bbc.com/news/article...

It might've had a Streisand Effect, but it's just another example of the IOC's willingness to cozy up to dictatorships despite their rhetoric of democracy and universal humanity in sport.

But they've also been selling merch of the Berlin Olympics of '36 in the official store, so I'm not shocked.

Stress Break, brand new seal pup!

Monsters parade on Feb 13 Call 919-MON-STRE for location No humans allowed

if anyone wants to join the monsters parade tonight #nolasky #mardigras

What is this three day nonsense? I don’t want to hear from anybody until next Thursday minimum. Even that’s pushing it.

YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc. Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

Peak Jewish mother in the best possible ways.

YouTube video by Madonna Madonna - Vogue (Live at the MTV Awards 1990) [Official Video]

Madonna's 1990 MTV Music Awards performance of Vogue gone full Rococopuff is my Roman Empire.

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@MadocCairns (the monarch has just died) lets raise prayer most Ardent that the next Soverig'n will be a right godly one (my catholic wife glares at me) ande thatte they return to the faith catholick (i see the constable passing by my window) *sweating* which is alfo in Truth reformede,

Mason @realMasonMohon : 1h You have a pride flag in your bio. You obviously think marriage is a term with no actual content that can be applied to anything. No wonder we say you don’t understand marriage Ephraim Stone @TEStoneWrites - ih The rainbow in my bio is a reminder that G-D will never again bring destruction to creation, that His covenants are eternal, that his word is unfailing, and that His gifts to my foremothers and forefathers are everlasting. Mason @realMasonMohon - 23m Apologies for misunderstanding. As I’m sure you know, many others use it to represent something else Ephraim Stone @TEStoneWrites I also suck dick

I'm sorry, but this is not a cat, this is an adorable wizard who has a quest to bestow. It's easy to get confused.

(Amazing, adorable kitty, give many scritches as is tolerated.)

Not loving how Copilot keeps getting installed and opening up on my laptop. I can barely keep LibreOffice and Zotero running at the same time. I do not want AI slop eating up my processor to give me wrong answers. I can be wrong on my own and I consume far fewer resources, too.

This seems like something that runs against the Establishment Clause, but what do I know?

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James Van Der Beek’s wife has a gofundme to try and ensure her children don’t lose their home.

This is the reality of America’s for profit healthcare system.

James auctioned off Dawson’s Creek memorabilia.

Costars raised money.

His cancer still left them financially devastated:

Thailand has one of the harshest lèse-majesté laws in the world, I'd be shocked if a name from the royal family was included in any document released to the public.