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King Cake Inspired Bostock

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Abney Park Cemetery

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Crispian Bakery, 1700 Park St, Ste 120, Alameda, CA 94501

Crispian Bakery, established in 2014, specializes in French-inspired American breads and pastries, including macarons, cookies, scones, croissants, Bostock, Danish, cakes, cupcakes, pies, quiche, naturally fermented breads made with seasonal produce from local farmers’ markets. Prices were lower than what I expected (I’m sure the same items would be more expensive in SF and LA). The chef-owners both worked at Bouchon Bakery in NYC.

Everything in the pastry case looked good. They also serve coffee and tea, including drip coffee, espresso drinks, cold brew, tea lattes.

Gluten-free pumpkin muffin: small but nice and moist, with love pumpkin spices, a little chewier than a non-GF muffin

Chocolate chip cookies (pack of 4 for $6.50): these were wrapped in plastic and on the smaller side (but not mini cookies). They were about medium thickness with small chocolate chips. The cookies were hard, dry, and didn’t have enough chocolate. They also didn’t seem fresh.

Cheese roll: on the dry side, needed more cheese and more butter or something

0n Tuesday – Wednesday, there’s a limited menu of pastries and coffee. On Thursday – Sunday, you’ll find the: full menu of bread, pastries, and coffee.

3.5 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

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Bostock Hippodrome in the Montmartre neighbourhood of Paris

French vintage postcard

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I'm trying to distract myself from The Dread, so come gather around and meet my current comfort plushies!

From left to right we have: Panko fox, Bostock deer, Baa Nelly lamb, Choco cat, and Suzu cat. A little (or large) blurb about each one below the cut....

-Panko the fox is Sunlemon's Hizakitsune. I got Panko in 2020 and he was there for some tough times. He's looking pretty well loved, which I think is a beautiful patina.

-Bostock is a small version of Aurora's reindeer plush! Not much to say about him. I got him this past spring. He's just really soft and very sweet!

-Regarding Baa Nelly: I've wanted a Lollie Lamb for years and jumped on it so quickly when Jellycat rereleased her. I knew her name would be Nelly, and I carefully sculpted her face to enhance her natural expression. Enter my 1.5 year old son, who has recently mastered the sound a sheep makes; whose favorite book is currently Sheep in a Shop; and who was starstruck upon seeing Real sheep at a pumpkin patch last month. He immediately bonded with Nelly, who was forcefully renamed Baa. Now Baa gets to "taste test" all of his meals and go on all manner of spontaneous "climbing" adventures (i.e., being smacked against rocks and trees). But he also just likes to hold her too :) It is currently unclear how long his stewardship over Baa will last.

-I really like Choco!! They're Build a Bear's Chococat. I shortened his legs and neck, and I added bean bags to his paws and torso. This was the first time I brought my mom to Build a Bear with me, and it was really special because she got to put a heart in him and we did the ceremony together. She doesn't recognize Cho ocat specifically, but she is an old school Sanrio lover, being born in Japan in the 1960s. Both Baa Nelly and Choco came home on Oct. 18th!

-Suzu the cat is officially Koharu from the Japanese brand Cuddly. She also arrived this past spring, and she's a really comfy cuddly guy. Like, pleasantly sized, soft and squishy, shaped perfectly for hugs, and has a high quality, handcrafted feel with dense fur. And her paw pads are three dimensional!!

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Grumpy Girl, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. 2018

Photo: Julia Bostock

[justinssportscorner]

Mira Lazine at LGBTQ Nation:

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined 23 other states in filing an amicus brief in support of banning trans girls from sports. Specifically, the brief asks the Supreme Court to review and overturn an injunction placed on Arizona’s ban on transgender athletes by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Marshall wrote the brief alongside Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and with support from Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming. The court instituted the injunction in September in a 3-0 decision in response to Arizona’s Save Women’s Sports Act, which enacted a blanket ban on transgender girls in girls’ sports, regardless of how long they had been transitioning and if they were on puberty blockers. The plaintiffs in the case were two trans girls and their parents suing to overturn the law.

[...]

The amicus brief makes several arguments in favor of banning transgender girls from sports. One such claim is that it would be expensive and difficult for schools to implement policies allowing trans girls to participate on girls’ sports teams – an argument that ignores the ease with which many schools across the country have implemented trans-friendly policies.

The brief also argues that sex is not equivalent to gender identity under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution – a claim that ignores established precedent from the Supreme Court case Bostock v. Clayton County, which ruled that trans people are subject to sex-based protections due to their gender modality. The Attorneys General then make two legal arguments, claiming that the Circuit Court made its decision on erroneous grounds and that other readings of the law may be more plausible. They also argue that a rational-basis review is required to determine if the plaintiffs’ claim is underinclusive. This means that an additional overview, informed by constitutional law, would be done to determine if the argument being made is internally consistent with equal protection – if not, it would get thrown out. It is unclear whether these arguments will hold up in court. SCOTUS has given no public indication of whether it will take this case. It has already accepted the case of United States v. Skrmetti, which will determine whether states can legally ban gender-affirming care for minors.

There is no evidence that transgender girls have a significant biological advantage in sports. Rather, evidence suggests that transitioning levels the playing field.

24 Republican Attorneys General file transphobia-fueled amicus brief in Petersen v. Doe to convince the MAGA majority on SCOTUS to uphold bigoted bans on trans women from women’s sports that has zero to with “protecting women’s sports” and “competitive fairness.”

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Trudy Ring at The Advocate:

If you’re looking for yet another reason that Donald Trump shouldn’t be elected president again, we have two words for you: Project 2025. You’ve probably been hearing these words, but you may be sketchy on what they mean. We’re here to fill you in on the details thanks to a report by Accountable.US.

What is Project 2025?

Basically, Project 2025 is a blueprint of what far-right activists want from the next conservative president — and Trump is the conservative who’s running. It includes plans to fire as many as 50,000 career federal employees and replace them with people who have unquestionable loyalty to the president; restrict access to contraception; possibly implement a national abortion ban; cut federal health care programs; and much more, designed to make the U.S. an authoritarian nation. And LGBTQ+ people are directly in its crosshairs. “Project 2025 couldn’t make its anti-LGBTQ+ agenda any more clear. With far-right extremists at the helm, the project is a power grab by conservatives attempting to turn back the clock on hard-fought progress and fundamental rights,” Accountable.US President Caroline Ciccone said in a statement to The Advocate. “Project 2025 doesn’t just pose an existential threat to our democracy but seriously threatens the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ+ communities across the country.”

[...]

How will it affect LGBTQ+ Americans?

Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” is a document taking up 900 pages, but Accountable.US has put together a succinct summary of what Project 2025 would mean to LGBTQ+ Americans, and The Advocate has a first look. Here are the key points. The project urges the next conservative president to basically ignore the 2020 Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, in which the court found that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in banning sex discrimination in the workplace, also bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. President Joe Biden, in contrast, had directed all federal agencies to implement the provisions of Bostock not just in the workplace but in health care, education, and other aspects of life. It calls for barring transgender people from the military and to stop what it considers the “toxic normalization of transgenderism” across the government and American society. It seeks to abolish the president’s Gender Policy Council, “which it views as promoting abortion and the ‘new woke gender ideology,’” Accountable.US notes.

The next Health and Human Services secretary, Project 2025 recommends, should reverse what it calls a focus on “‘LGBTQ+ equity,’ subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work, and penalizing marriage, replacing such policies with those encouraging marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood, and nuclear families.” “The Project 2025 playbook laments the fact that family policies and programs under President Biden’s HHS are ‘fraught with agenda items focusing on “LGBTQ+ equity,”’ making it clear that they intend to roll those agenda items back,” Accountable.US explains. It further calls for the Department of Justice “to defend the First Amendment right of those who would discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. It also objects to the DOJ notifying states that their bans on abortion and medical services to transgender persons may violate federal law,” Accountable.US reports. On foreign policy, Project 2025 says a new conservative president should dismantle and U.S. Agency for International Development programs that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, such as what it dubs “the bullying LGBTQ+ agenda.”

Project 2025’s harmful anti-LGBTQ+ agenda is just one piece of the radical right-wing Heritage Foundation document. Project 2025’s goals are to make life harder for LGBTQ+ Americans.

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god i wish i were an ancient beekeeper taking my boat full of hives up and down the river po

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The Subway Sect Mark II shattered after performing their Club Left 'Songs For Sale' set in Paris in 1981 as captured by Sarah Partridge (photo no.1).

So what did punks do after the early days of filth and fury? By ’78, the early UK punk scene was already fracturing: after the Pistols crashed & burned, a fraternity of post punk musicians attempted to break from punk clichés and experiment with non-rock styles, Crass declared that punk was dead, as did Pete Shelley with Buzzcocks entering their pop punk formative phase while street punk and Oi! Bands attempted to redefine punk.

Vic Godard was there right from the very start, since his Subway Sect were among the performers at the legendary 100 Club ’76 Punk Festival sharing the bill with Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Clash and the Sex Pistols.

theguardian.com/ : “Vic, in league with Bernie Rhodes, was thinking of an even more shocking revolt against conventional taste: cocktail jazz. Rhodes persuaded Godard to ditch the original Sect and hired a fresh group of musicians with a little more swing than the original band. One of the first public expressions of this was Club Left, a regular night that ran at the Whisky a Go Go in Soho as the ‘80s began. The idea was to annoy everyone. But this sonic handbrake turn went on to point a lot of music – and a lot of punks – in a very different direction.”

The Clash’s manager Bernard Rhodes recruited keyboardist Dave Collard (photo no.2 by Coneyl Jay), bassist Chris Bostock (photo no.3 by Ian Usher), guitarist Rob Marche (photo no.4) and drummer Sean McLusky (photo no.5), key members of various Bristol groups, who along with Vic Godard formed a new incarnation of Subway Sect with a completely different sound influenced by ’40s-style crooner music mixed with jazz, soul, rockabilly and skiffle, which was referred to as ‘Cool Bop and Swing’. These cool cats, a London ‘Rat Pack’ with Johnny Britton as the regular Club Left DJ, even toured extensively and their refined set became the “Songs for Sale” album.

“I remember looking down from the club’s floor-to-ceiling window one night just before opening, and seeing a queue stretching round the corner into Shaftesbury Avenue. We attracted an amazingly eclectic crowd, and you never knew who would turn up together with our hard-core regulars…”. Rob Marche “Club Left hosted a weekly array of great performers. If it had an ethos, it was a simple nod to the Beatnik past of Soho and Paris of the 60's”. Sean McLusky

The far-retro Club Left project reintroduced various people to easy listening. Artists such as Sade or the group of young women, who had supplied occasional backing vocals for the likes of Shane McGowan’s first band, the Nipple Erectors, and went on to become Bananarama. When Vic Godard got married and took a break from music in ’82, the rest of the band with the addition of Dig Wayne became the JoBoxers, fusing elements of northern soul, rockabilly, NY disco and funk.

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[fullcravings]

Black Sesame Bostock

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10.106 Instant Response

Last appearance for Adam Bostock. He had a couple of proper roles right in the beginning of the season, and was established as an obnoxious, sexist type, then faded into the background, basically becoming a credited extra with a lot of silent appearances. Can’t say I was disappointed.

A high-tension, high-action episode with some excellent war room tactics from Ray and Andrew and great driving and navigation from Tony and Reg.

[quotesfrommyreading]

Sometime in 1598, Jane Bostocke, a young Shropshire gentlewoman, finished a long worked-over project, carefully stitching her designs and lettering into a piece of linen with various coloured silks, and decorating the result with small beads and seed pearls. As well as intricate geometric designs, she carefully stitched a dog with a collar and a lead, as well as a rather more exotic chained bear. She included trees and flowers and a small heraldic lion. It is clear that Jane changed her mind on more than one occasion, carefully unpicking a castle on an elephant, a squirrel cracking a nut and a raven.

Jane intricately stitched the letters of the alphabet, too, before recording her name, the date and the birth of her cousin, Alice Lee, on 'the 23 of November being Tuesday in the afternoon 1596'. She may already have begun the work before her cousin's birth, later deciding to present it to her as a gift. Undoubtedly, the work of stitchery must have taken her many hours of careful work – sometimes by the light of the window, sometimes with a candle burning close at hand. The result is the earliest surviving English sampler that is dated, and it now resides in London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

Upper-class Tudor girls, such as those at Sherriff Hutton, and women such as Jane Bostocke spent much of their time at their needlework. A sampler of the kind on which Jane worked was intended for the beginner, allowing girls and young women to perfect different types of stitching. Another surviving Elizabethan example, by a girl who stitched her name as 'Susan Neeadri', contains the queen's arms and initials accompanied by heraldic beasts. This sampler, which is long and narrow, is extremely intricate, its top panel embroidered in red and gold silk and the second panel in black and silver. The remaining bands were worked with cheaper, linen thread.

Lower down the social scale, too, girls were taught embroidery. Thomasine Wolters, an orphan living in Sandwich, Kent, in the 1580s-90s, was boarded out in the house of a Mistress Smythe. There, she was taught to sew; she later purchased her sampler from her old mistress when she left to marry. The Sandwich Board of Orphans, which oversaw Thomasine's modest inheritance and paid for her maintenance, also periodically purchased silk thread for her work. As well as producing beautiful embroidery, Thomasine had been taught to stitch her own gowns and coifs to cover her hair, and to make lace.

Sewing was, after all, a practical skill. Tudor women commonly made and repaired their own clothing, and even high-born women stitched clothes. Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was skilled at shirt-making. The future Elizabeth I sent her half-brother, Edward VI, a shirt 'of her own working' as a New Year's gift when she was just six years old. Women frequently made vestments and other items for churches, too. Elizabeth's lady-in-waiting, Blanche Parry, gave an altar cloth that she had made to the church of St Faith's in Bacton in Herefordshire in 1589.

There was nothing unusual in seeing Tudor girls and women of all classes sitting with their heads bent, stitching.

  —  The Lives of Tudor Women (Elizabeth Norton)

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On December 5, 1717, Notorious Pirate Blackbeard Ransacks the "Margaret."

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