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Ari "Too Spooky" Jackson replied to Ari "Too Spooky" Jackson's status

Somebody needs to #Cheese this one for me.

ꙮ 𝄃𝄁𝄂𝄀𝄀𝄁𝄃🇫🇯🇱🇨🇱🇧

Кто вчера и сегодня ест вкусный #сыр 🧀 — тот мы!
🐐 🐄

#têteDeMoine #cheese #sainteMaure #вкусно

Ryan

New #blog post

#vocabulary #words
#cats #cheese
#reading #books #media #games #tv

https://polydactica.neocities.org/posts/2025-09-20-Marginalia

LordWoolamaloo

Out with dad, who's feeling better (but sensibly not overdoing it).

Visited charming new, wee Indie #bookshop in #Bearsden , Bookmonger , which is also does cheese, charcuterie & wine! Treated myself to The Novel box: 3 cheeses, oatcakes, fruits, nuts & dressing.

#books #livres #cheese #fromage #bookshop #librairies #Glasgow #bookstodon #Bookmonger #cheese #fromage

Grey painted wooden exterior of Bookmonger bookshop in Bearsden, set in an old stone building

Looking inside the box from the previous pic, showing cheeses, fruits, oatcakes and more, with "literally delicious" printed on the front of the box

Assoc for Scottish Literature

We have seen thee, queen of cheese,
Lying quietly at your ease…

James McIntyre (1828–1906) was born in Forres, & later emigrated to Canada. He wrote poetry, much of it about cheese. His “Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weight Over 7,000 Pounds“ was about a huge cheese produced in Ingersoll in 1866 & sent to various international exhibitions.

Published in Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, 1889)

#Scottish #literature #Canada #Canadian #cheese #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #BadPoetryDay

James McIntyre
ODE ON THE MAMMOTH CHEESE.

Weight over seven thousand pounds

We have seen thee, queen of cheese,
Lying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze,
Thy fair form no flies dare seize.

All gaily dressed soon you'll go
To the great Provincial show,
To be admired by many a beau
In the city of Toronto.

Cows numerous as a swarm of bees,
Or as the leaves upon the trees,
It did require to make thee please,
And stand unrivalled, queen of cheese.

Vivi H.

Need to scratch my tongue #cheese #gingercat

daniel

What kind of cheese is your man? (from an archive we have of She magazine, founded by Zuhra Karim, an LSE graduate and pioneer of women's journalism in Pakistan)

#pakistan #archives #cheese

A photograph of a page from a magazine showing different men holding up cheeses with a description for each cheese. English cheddar for example is described as "gorgeous and slightly nutty"

Vegan FTA

The #Dairy Industry does NOT want you to see this. 😱 🎥: VeganFTA x johnoberg (IG) Clips from bobbysud | thesavemovement | laanimalsave | galapagos_marc | lightmoveme (IG) - DM for credits #milk #cheese #veganactivist #vegan

A. Rivera

> French wine and cheese makers say U.S. tariffs would hit hard
https://www.reuters.com/business/french-wine-cheese-makers-say-us-tariffs-would-hit-hard-2025-07-13/

FTA: ""Products like wine, especially, are consumed for pleasure -if you have less money to spend, you might forgo the purchase...".

Eventually though, the French will adapt, find new markets, and just #BoycottUSA. Gringos, enjoy your brie while you can.

#BadEconomy #wine 🍷 #cheese 🧀 #France

Vivi H.

#zen #sleepyhead #cheese ❤️ #gingercat

A. Rivera

> Some of the World’s Best Cheese Comes From ... Self-Milking Cows?
https://www.foodandwine.com/rogue-creamery-cheese-self-milking-cows-11766513

Will the wonders never cease? How long before the bulls get their own "milking" machine? Hey, don't give me that look. . . there is money in that other "cream" too, you know.

#cheese #cows 🐮 #cattle #tech

Dailingual replied to Dailingual's status

I ate a lot of #cheese last night, so I see a pattern emerging. 🧀

Sasu reviewed When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

John Scalzi: When the Moon Hits Your Eye (AudiobookFormat, 2025, Audible Studios)

The moon has turned into cheese.

Now humanity has to deal with it.

For some …

Amusing, but doesn't live up to its potential

3 stars

Content warning Some discussion of plot structure and hints about the ending

I listened to John Scalzi's When the Moon Hits Your Eye because the combination of the premise and Scalzi's reputation for irreverence reminded me of the film Don't Look Up, which I remember as one of the best movies I've seen in recent years. Perhaps that was not the most ideal place to read from, but that's where I started anyway.

In short, I found the book amusing with a few good moments. However, having listened to the whole thing, I'm left with the sense that it was too #superficial to be satisfying. Some scenes did go a bit deeper, especially those that dealt to any significant degree with the emotional implications of the impending #apocalypse, but on the whole, I thought that the opportunities for #satire afforded by the #absurdity of a moon made of cheese were used mostly for simpler humor instead.

I think that the chapter involving #writing deserves special mention. I experienced it as the most moving part of the book by far and suspect that it might have been even stronger standing on its own as a short story, possibly with a bit added for context.

I was surprised and somewhat aggravated by the abrupt twist near the end, but what I thought was really clever about it despite my frustration was the amount of #doubt that was left open as the book ended.

From the afterword, I got the sense that this book probably would have been more satisfying if I had approached it from the perspective of a dyed-in-the-wool Scalzi fan (which I am not, even if I often enjoy his writing) who just wanted to read something amusing, be entertained, and enjoy some light satire. I can also imagine that the lightness of the satire might make it something of a "gateway" to considering things from a different perspective for anyone who would find something like Don't Look Up difficult to digest.

#Scalzi #JohnScalzi #DontLookUp #WhentheMoonHitsYourEye #Moon #Cheese #CheeseMoon #Luna #Caseus #ScalziFan