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(DIR) Post #AtCrjK8XFUgASWZbpg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T06:06:51Z
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Everyone gets so mad at me when I say "NYC is basically in New England."but then these same people walk around. talking about "fog lights on the DEP boat" and "a big nor'easter coming in"Like this is a fishing village with rocky soil. (Which it kinda is)
(DIR) Post #AtCswiUS79Q5i0m6uO by paninid@mastodon.world
2025-04-18T06:20:25Z
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@futurebird Where do people think “York” is?
(DIR) Post #AtCtbsZJY1f8q6g1nE by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2025-04-18T06:27:59Z
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@futurebird NYC can't be the seat of the empire for western civilization and also a quaint village where everyone knows everyone great grandparents. Even upstate NY is ... well, uppity.
(DIR) Post #AtCwlIkDtZVIUWxov2 by cford@toot.thoughtworks.com
2025-04-18T07:03:10Z
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@futurebird I had no idea New York wasn't part of New England until this toot.
(DIR) Post #AtD3G4NzvfeQf4cgG8 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T08:15:58Z
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@futurebird I grew up thinking of "New England" as not having definite or well-agreed on boundaries. Long Island, might or might not be included, I thought, depending on context. More parts of New York, maybe even the whole state might be included, or might not. Some or even all of New Jersey could creep in. Maybe even parts of Delware or even Pennsylvania. Is northwestern Maine, with its vast forests of moose and lynx really part of New England?
(DIR) Post #AtDaf6f3u6i7Re9Ong by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T14:30:13Z
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@apLundell @llewelly My husband is the same way and it's endlessly odd to me. He gets offended when I get it wrong. But growing up in the midwest we thought Philly, DC, Boston all of were "new england"
(DIR) Post #AtDb3iRh4ejva5dGpE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T14:34:45Z
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@apLundell @llewelly My husband just saw that I typed this and let out the strangest little cry of pure anguish and ran out of the room... uh... hold on. Gotta check on him.
(DIR) Post #AtDbVFAhVYPsthoIpU by dx@social.ridetrans.it
2025-04-18T14:39:41Z
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@futurebird @apLundell @llewelly Oh, oh my no. I was willing to cede NYC, but Philly is a bridge too far
(DIR) Post #AtDbrl1lkUkc4GMsim by andytiedye@sfba.social
2025-04-18T14:43:47Z
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New England is Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Not New York.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AtDcxAuX2ie1kH87lo by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-04-18T14:55:57Z
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@futurebird @apLundell @llewelly I grew up in the "mid-west" (southern Ohio) and moved to Madison, WI a few years ago.And I find it endlessly strange to hear native Madison folks refer to this as the "mid-west".I don't know where I am currently, but it feels to far north to be the mid-west somehow.
(DIR) Post #AtDemyR4lndO4DcETY by msh@coales.co
2025-04-18T15:07:04Z
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@cford @futurebird it always has been. New Yorkers are just in denial :blobcheeky:
(DIR) Post #AtDemzagTYujeJ7Q5g by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T15:16:31Z
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@msh @cford No, if we are in anything it's the Hudson.
(DIR) Post #AtDeviTzS60pCD9DGa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T15:18:08Z
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@msh @cford **Jazz Hands!**... are also useful for deflecting rotten vegetables.
(DIR) Post #AtDo4yWs3niP9mz7Zo by maddie_dee@mastodon.social
2025-04-18T17:00:35Z
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@futurebird there’re seals in the harbour
(DIR) Post #AtDpkxNYpJxjhrDDdI by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-04-18T17:19:25Z
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@futurebird Blindfold them, take them to City Island and ask whether they're in New England or not before revealing that they're in the Bronx
(DIR) Post #AtDzSOkZptqQdVld1E by msh@coales.co
2025-04-18T19:08:03Z
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@futurebird that #DadJoke is all wet@cford
(DIR) Post #AtE0AdYi8hCBJ2JNqa by mikeswimm@mastodon.social
2025-04-18T19:16:05Z
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@futurebird 100%I grew up outside Syracuse, NY. My wife grew up in Maine / NH. Culturally, it is virtually identical (minus coastal stuff). We talk about it all the time. It really goes back to Dutch vs. English settlers. Although any Dutch influence on upstate NY was lost to me by the time I grew up in the 90s.
(DIR) Post #AtE4zZJI5xRIiLdlya by emeb@society.oftrolls.com
2025-04-18T20:10:04Z
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@futurebird @apLundell @llewelly Hah - I grew up in Ohio and can remember a visit to some family friends in Massachusetts who asked my parents "How are things out west?" - that blew my pre-teen mind because "out west" was always Kansas to California for me. I discovered relativity...
(DIR) Post #AtE9HM4sQoRWhgdRrs by sbourne@mastodon.social
2025-04-18T19:48:40Z
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@mattdm @bhawthorne @futurebird Their crullers were fantastic. You could see the end coming when they dropped them from the menu because they were harder to make.
(DIR) Post #AtE9HMzF3FWtWV0Siu by bhawthorne@infosec.exchange
2025-04-18T20:51:13Z
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@sbourne @mattdm @futurebird They certainly were. Cinnamon cruller was my normal if I was getting coffee. If it was just donuts, I would get a jelly donut and a Boston cream.
(DIR) Post #AtE9HO8ql0oF6aVeL2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T20:58:09Z
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@bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm Krispy Kream is still good. IDK why anyone would go to Dunkin Corn Syrup Bricks when you could have a donut that's as insubstantial as ether that tastes like it was made for the angles.
(DIR) Post #AtE9NLSncz1KXJgIAC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T20:59:16Z
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@bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm As for "What is New England?"If you know what a Nor'ester is and eat chowder (either kind I don't care) then you are in "New England"
(DIR) Post #AtE9YVmDcjjDhw5ZVQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T21:01:17Z
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@bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm Frankly the Krispy Kream technology is dangerous IMO. Because no matter how totally stuffed a person is they could still eat a Krispy Kream. And that shouldn't be possible. There is some violation of the laws of space time going on there.
(DIR) Post #AtEABKxRmXuJRmr1gO by billseitz@toolsforthought.social
2025-04-18T21:08:16Z
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@futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm it's Tardis based, it makes you bigger on the inside.
(DIR) Post #AtEACAiLLwity0BhMO by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2025-04-18T21:08:24Z
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@futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm Not so much made for the Angles as coming from the Angels and their Kata Vertices
(DIR) Post #AtEAl7icTxXOoNz196 by bhawthorne@infosec.exchange
2025-04-18T21:14:45Z
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@futurebird @sbourne @mattdm I consider Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be lovely but much too fluffy and sweet for my taste. They taste are more like dessert pastries than doughnuts to me. Now that DDs are terrible, my favorites are when I fry up a batch of cider doughnuts at home myself, or pick them up fresh from one of the local farms that make them in the fall.So, question for KK lovers: Do you eat them mostly as breakfast cakes or as after-dinner desserts?
(DIR) Post #AtEB9OcHJBi4AXahhw by sbourne@mastodon.social
2025-04-18T21:19:08Z
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@futurebird @bhawthorne @mattdm There is also a Rhode Island clam chowder: fish broth, no milk or tomatoes.
(DIR) Post #AtEBATgVwxuOB55X72 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T21:19:23Z
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@bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm It's not the kind of thing you plan to eat? You bring them to a morning meeting if you called the meeting to apologize for making everyone get up. You need to pick them up on the way over so they are still warm. So you have one if someone brings a box and it's fresh.It's its own category of food.
(DIR) Post #AtEBiaPzQCO0uIchUW by bhawthorne@infosec.exchange
2025-04-18T21:25:30Z
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@futurebird @sbourne @mattdm Nah, knowing those things means you are from the coast of the North Atlantic. Most of New England hasn’t ever seen fresh fish, let alone clams, and most of our bad weather comes out of Canada or the Great Lakes!
(DIR) Post #AtEBnSOKgyVJScAdpw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T21:26:21Z
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@fritzoids @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm When I've been the "cause" of an early meeting (or a Saturday meeting) I look into such things. There is a 7/11 that gets them right from the distributer 3 times a day and these are good enough for a meeting apology box. But only if the truck just left.
(DIR) Post #AtEBoKgGqUwFpsyjIG by spacegeck@astrodon.social
2025-04-18T21:26:28Z
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@futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm if you eat enough of them the atoms in your stomach collapse into a ball of degenerate matter and then it just falls right through you to the floor
(DIR) Post #AtECxM01PdvIUB5Arw by JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com
2025-04-18T21:39:21Z
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@futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdmNew Englander here.You are so, so right. DuDo doesn’t even make their donuts in the shop anymore so they can’t ever be fresh.
(DIR) Post #AtEDKBLDCodq5esZqi by JoeWynne@mstdn.plus
2025-04-18T21:43:26Z
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@futurebirdAfter they age a little, the Krispy part turns to slime. Object lesson in proper timing of consumption.I attached a pic of plaque from sacred ground. @fritzoids @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm
(DIR) Post #AtEKYKnbXNiJ9mr584 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-18T23:04:30Z
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@mattdm @oscherler @fritzoids @bhawthorne @sbourne They don't really work without the obsessive cultural traditions around "getting them at the right time" and showing up with your scarf nicely tied on a cold day with the box just ever so faintly warm to the touch. Unless you have a whole city of people excited about doing that it's not gonna work.
(DIR) Post #AtELKMSef2QoDBxOvQ by flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
2025-04-18T23:13:10Z
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@futurebird True. If Upstate NY gets split between MA and PA, and NJ gets Staten Island and Long Island, then the other four boroughs (plus southern Westchester) are part of Fairfield CountyWait until these kids hear about Marble Hill
(DIR) Post #AtEMRlSQDw0piXwTT6 by BustaMarx@corteximplant.com
2025-04-18T23:25:42Z
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@futurebird As a native New Englander this is heresy of the first order. Some of us do not even claim Connecticut or Rhode Island, let alone NYC.The fishing village thing is a fair cop, but I'll take Maine over Long Island any day TYVM.
(DIR) Post #AtG9nKq8xOZkRpuf9U by Peter_Panther@mastodon.social
2025-04-19T20:13:21Z
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@futurebirdIt is called #UPF aka ultra processed food@bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm