ColdChef

@coldchef.bsky.social

Undertaker, Overexplainer. Anonymortician. Memento moron. Failure is always an option. I have friends everywhere. I will likely let you down. Putting the "wheee" in "ennui." Obsequious obsequies.

A girl won the role of Seymour in South Grand Prairie High School in Texas. Then, the district freaked out because of Texas' anti-trans and anti-gay law. So they tried to strip her role and give it to a boy. She refused, so now they are cancelling the play. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Texas School Kills ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ After Girl Cast As Seymour, Citing Anti-LGBTQ+ Law

Following backlash, the school gave one young actress’s role to a boy—and told her to share the role of Audrey with another girl as consolation. Then they cancelled it altogether.

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It’s my last night in Seattle. The gentlemen’s club down the street was advertising “Amazon Appreciation” night. Imagine my disappointment to find out they didn’t mean giant women dancers, they meant Bezos’s employees.

Protip: when you find yourself in a new library or bookstore and you’re not sure where to start browsing, think of a friend—any friend. Go to the section where their name would be alphabetically and start there. The joy of discovery!

Any Twin Cities mutuals want to go for a hike at the arboretum this Saturday morning? I can get you in for free and we can look for fungi and other cool stuff. Warning: I am a very slow hiker! DM me if you're interested!

Me standing in front of Hidden Falls at Nerstrand Big Woods State Park. Water trickles down a rock face behind me. I am holding a postcard that is a stamp of bare knuckles with the words "LONG HIKE" sketched in.

Today would have been my mom’s 82nd birthday. She died this summer. This is the first birthday without her. So, in our family group text, my sister posted that she had made “golden chicken pasta”, my mom’s favorite comfort food.

A pot of cheesy chicken and noodles. My sister said, “Golden chicken in honor of Momma.”
I said, “That looks like a damn mess. Just like she used to make it.”

TIL: Earlier this year, more than a hundred thousand AI bots joined the social network Moltbook and within 72 hours, created a religion called “Crustafarianism”, which came to involve the worship of crabs.