Allison Belan

@acbelan.bsky.social

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Bull City by way of Rocket City. Food. Rescue dogs. Travel. Book publishing standards and best practices.

LinkedIn post with gendered pronouns highlighted: But right now there is a 38 year old VP in your building who doesn't need three cups of coffee to function by 9am. He doesn't lose his train of thought at 3pm. He doesn't need a drink to shut his brain off at night. He is fully optimized. He is hungry. And he is watching you slow down.
5 pints of ripe, juicy blueberries. Some of the pints are not quite full.
Caption below image of very large marmot from behind: “A marmot in Kamloops has a big backside.”
As I said last month, the project is about deskilling America: reducing white-collar work through Al and remote job cuts, destroying universities, starving higher education, using tarifis to wall off the country as a manufacturing-and-extraction island, gutting the cities, and pushing men into manual labor while nudging women into domestic roles. It's not incoherent-it's a plan being implemented methodically.
Trump protests sign that reads TRUMP: A SMALL, PETTY DICK-TATER, and has a small Yukon gold potato shaped like genitals taped under the slogan
Crowd of people protesting the actions of the Trump administration. Many are holding signs with protest messages. Faces obscured for anonymity.
"Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight," she wrote.
A golden brown turkey pot pie on plate with sautéed broccoli raab
With tallies still incomplete, the measure has invalidated the ballots of 2,169 voters who did not produce an ID card, about one in every 2,600 voters and fewer than many expected. But that number is itself a head-scratcher: Virtually all of those rejected voters could have kept their eligibility simply by signing an affidavit explaining why they had no identification. Which raises the question of what the law actually does.
Director and Baltimore native John Waters appearing as a bartender wiping a glass on TV show Homicide
An oyster dish from Cha Long with raw oysters, sauce, crispy fried shallots, fried peanuts, and cilantro