Joe 🌵🐻

@zonabear

Take off your shoes when entering. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Detroit Tigers & Arizona Diamondbacks Arizona posting Leftist politics he/him 🏳️‍🌈/ Phoenix, AZ pfp art by Patrick LaMontagne

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Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Jun 26

Nothing really surprising here but yeah it seemed fairly well put together

Survey Results

83% woke 17% chud
41% tech bro 59% neo-Luddite
50% hopepilled 50% doomed
77% Davos 23% Dubai

Closest match: NYC Mayor (2026-present) Zohran Mamdani

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Jun 25

A man standing in front of heavy construction equipment saying “It’s all so tiresome”

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Jun 3

I am just chilling outside enjoying the nice evening weather and I see a small animal trot by. First I thought it was a cat, but the tail didn’t look right. Just a little coyote!

Blurry picture of a small coyote trotting away toward some foliage

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· May 17

Really no surprises here

FindMyPolitics.com test results

Democratic Socialist
Far-left/Anti-capitalist

Economic: 91% left-wing
Social: 84% libertarian
Civil liberties: 69% (nice) Pro-liberty
Governance: 34% Globalist
System trust: 19% Low trust

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· May 17

FIFA painted over a Wyland mural in downtown Dallas. Same artist who did the whale mural in Detroit among other works (that’s also covered, temporarily. Free the whales!) Fully painting over it is a complete disgrace and should not have even been in the conversation.

A beautiful mural depicting a pod of whales swimming near the surface being covered up with cerulean blue paint

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· May 13

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A make and female mallard trying to stay cool in the shade under some water misters

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Apr 27

A frankly delectable pineapple upside down cake

Golden brown and delicious sfogliatelle ricce with a bite taken out showing the sweetened ricotta filling and topped with powdered sugar

A Christmas panettone with a slice taken out and laying on its side displaying the succulent raisins and candied fruit

A plate stacked with a bunch of Italian rainbow/tricolor cookies

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Apr 11

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Same post as above but instead of SHARING it said SHARIA

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Apr 10

Bree Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives 2004) looking shocked

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· May 7

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· May 1

Ok apparently we have a real leak of the #Dbacks new City Connects. I prefer the previous versions with the ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS on it. I’m not really a fan of these.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Apr 18

An appropriate day to share controversial opinions.

Comic strip meme

“Most people rejected His message. They hated Jesus because He told them the truth. Gal. 4:16”

The silhouette of Jesus in front of a group of men, one of which is telling him to shut up.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Apr 18

Yeah, they’re fully egg shaped and filled with peanut butter crème.

A six egg container filled with yellow foil wrapped Reese’s eggs. A hand with black glossy nails holds one that’s been bitten into showing it filled with peanut butter crème.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Apr 16

So it seems like these are prototypes for the new #Dbacks City Connects. I…really dislike them. Huge swing and a miss going for dark on dark. Feels a lot like the Tigers horrible city connects.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Apr 9

A meme of a couple sitting next to each other saying

“Did it work for those people?”
“No, it never does. People somehow delude themselves into thinking it might….but it might work for us.”

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Mar 12

I do really think that we need to be building more smaller, compact houses or row homes, similar to what this developer did in Arkansas. Especially in areas served by public transit. Bring back the streetcar suburb! www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...

A split image with the top showing a lot plan with 28 housing units on a relatively small, irregular triangle shaped lot. There are detached row homes facing the main, angled street with attached townhomes/row homes making a smaller triangle in the back corner. The plan also includes a mixed-use building on the corner at the end of the row homes.

The bottom part of the image shows a street view of a small and medium sized row home. They are both unique colors and architecture set close to the sidewalk with small side lawns/garden spaces and front porches.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Mar 5

Describe yourself using four foods

Cheese enchiladas with rice and refried beans

A plate of angel hair aglio e olio (oil and garlic)

Peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich

Escarole sautéed in olive oil with a lot of garlic

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 26

Everyone’s kind of familiar with the Swiss Guard’s ceremonial uniforms. Other members of the Guard, like musicians or officers, wear different, increasingly ornate, uniforms.

Artist’s rendering of Pontifical Swiss Guard uniforms. From left:

Enlisted guardsman, the traditional blue, yellow, and red striped medieval looking outfit with a bright red plume on the black helmet.

Sergeant, dark red pants with lighter red highlights. The top part of the uniform is black with red highlights in the upper arms with a bright red plume on the black helmet.

Sergeant Major, same as the sergeant but with a large white plume.

Officer, solid dark red uniform with goldenrod trim/piping. There are some dark green accents around the upper torso, dark maroon plume on a silver helmet.

Colonel, same as the officer but with a bronze helmet with large white plume.

Musician, similar to the guardsman uniform but without the red highlights, with a blue and yellow striped plume on black helmet.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 25

Oh yeah, baseball is so back

Graphic from MLB gameday of Dbacks @ Cubs, Cubs hitter at the plate.

Strike zone is divided up into six rectangular sections. There are two pitches, one in the center rectangle and one in the middle left rectangle that are called balls instead of strikes.

The hitter eventually walked on a 4-1 count.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 22

I need this shirt

A salmon short sleeve button down shirt. On the front is art of a VERY fat raccoon in a tiny cowboy hat and boots in front of a couple small cacti.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 22

I really hope the new rumored purple city connects are along the lines of the old purple jerseys

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 20

Well it was nice for the whole like week of winter we got

A white cat with a red filter applied over it having a very wide open yawn with the caption [high pitched screaming]

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 18

It feels like every other day I see someone else on the Red Sox saying something in a press meeting that’s causing drama following the Bregman signing.

A newscaster facing into the camera with the caption “What on Earth is going on in the House of Commons”

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 18

Video from a plane holding short waiting to enter or cross the runway when the Endeavor flight crashed in Toronto.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 18

Apparently the Orioles are going to have a full orange, kind of retro, alternate uniform this year. Makes me wonder if the Diamondbacks will bring back one of their original uniform combos to replace the “serpientes” City Connects?

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 17

HOLY SHIT I just got sent this from my pilot friend (who got sent it from his network of pilot friends for work). This is in Toronto.

A Delta Connection (operated by Endeavor Air) CRJ flipped upside down on a snowy tarmac. There’s visible smoke coming from the fuselage and the wings, tail, and engines seem to be missing. The forward landing gear is extended. Various people are scattered around the plane.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 17

Good morning everyone!

A picture of a busy intersection from a light rail platform. The sky and wispy clouds are painted with orange and pink hues from the morning sunrise

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 15

I found it. Unfortunately the directions are specifically for using a kitchenaid mixer with a dough hook. You can probably replicate without a stand mixer, it just might take longer and be more painful a process.

My mom’s bread recipe part 2/4 continued

Add the extra virgin olive oil to the yeast mixture. Add about half the flour/salt to the yeast mixture. Mix with a dough hook attachment on the mixer’s stir or lowest setting for two minutes.

Increase mixer speed to next setting. Start to add flour little by little — mixing for 1-2 minutes before adding more flour. The dough will start to pull away from the sides of the bowl. Keep adding flour until the dough no longer sticks to the sides and bottom of the mixing bowl (you may need to use more than the original 4 cups). Mix for another 1-2 minutes.

Includes pictures of the yeast mixture and first half of flour at the beginning of the mixing process where it still looks soupy and a picture where it’s starting to form a ball of dough on the hook but still slightly sticking to the sides of the bowl.

My mom’s bread recipe part 3/4 continued

On a lightly floured counter, knead dough into a ball by hand until the dough is smooth and no longer sticky.

Place dough ball in greased bowl and turn it over to coat both sides with oil. Cover loosely with plastic wrap to allow dough room to rise.

Place in oven to rise until double in size. This takes about 1.5-2 hours depending on if you warm the oven or not.
You can warm your oven at 100°F (37.7°C) or on a proof setting if your oven has one. It is not necessary to use a warmed oven, it just helps it to rise faster. You just need a draft-free environment for the dough to rise.

Includes pictures of a dough ball after kneading and the dough ball placed in a large metal bowl for proofing.

My mom’s bread recipe part 4/4 continued

When dough is double in size, punch it down in the bowl. Now you can shape the bread into whatever size/shape you want. See below.

After shaping, cover the dough with a towel. Let rise in the (warm) oven for about an hour.

Bake at 425°F (218.3°C) for 10 minutes. Turn oven down to 350°F (176.7°C) and bake for another 10 minutes or until light brown. While baking, sprinkle/spray dough with water a few times — this will help the bread develop a crusty top.

Shaping the dough

When I make rolls, I split the dough in half. Then I slam one half of the dough on the counter repeatedly to lengthen it and get more of the air bubbles out. Then I cut the dough into six pieces and roll each one into a ball. Place on a cookie sheet sprinkled with semolina (optional). Repeat with the second half of the dough. I use a sharp knife and make an X on each roll.

Also, I make baguettes by using a three baguette form/pan I bought from Sur La Table (local? kitchenware store) years ago. I split the dough into thirds and slam each one on the counter like above. I roll into a baguette shape and place in the form. With a sharp knife, make slashes in the dough.

King Arthur flour company has several videos on YouTube demonstrating how to shape the dough into different loaves as well.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 15

This is completely unsolicited, but I saw the chicken tab and was reminded of a recipe from my mom for chicken cacciatore I found stashed away in some old files I had. Definitely one of my favorite dishes for special occasions growing up.

Recipe for chicken cacciatore:

2.5-3 lbs chicken (cut up into pieces of breast, thigh, etc)
2 14oz cans of tomatoes
2 medium onions
1 8oz can of tomato sauce
3-5 cloves of garlic, minced
1-2 bell peppers, cut up
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons each of dried oregano and basil
1 teaspoon salt
0.25 cup dry white wine
0.5 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
0.25 teaspoon pepper

In a large skillet, heat oil and cook the onions until almost tender. Add the garlic and cook a few minutes longer until tender. Remove from pan and set aside.

You may need to add more olive oil to skillet. Brown chicken over medium heat about 15 minutes, turning pieces to brown evenly.

Place onions/garlic back in skillet over the chicken. Combine the tomatoes, tomato sauce, peppers, herbs, salt, and pepper. Pour over the chicken and onions in the pan.

Cover and simmer for 30 minutes.

Stir in white wine and cook *uncovered* over low heat for about 15 minutes or until chicken is tender (turning over occasionally).

Serve with white rice or artisan bread.

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear· Feb 15

You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the chase?