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Y-Combinator’s Demo Day for its Winter Batch of 2024 (YC W24) is just around the corner, happening on April 3rd and 4th. YC’s demo day is an online, invite only event open to some 1500 investors where companies from the current batch are allowed to make a short pitch and grab additional funding. Companies like Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Doordash all had their starts here. We, at Crustdata, have been tracking all of the YC companies since their inception.

My first book, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, came out in 2007, back when conversations about trans people were mostly relegated to feminist and LGBTQIA+ circles and a few academic subfields. This is why, in addition to analyzing and critiquing cissexism, transmisogyny, and anti-feminine prejudice, I spent much of the book dissecting and refuting past feminist, academic, and scientific stereotypes of trans female/feminine people.

INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup butter (softened) 1/2 cup white sugar 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 large egg 1 1/4 cups flour 1/4 tsp baking soda 1 tsp peppermint extract ** 1/2 cup crushed candy canes 1/2 cup white chocolate chips DIRECTIONS 1. Cream together the softened butter and sugars together until it turns pale in color. 2. Then add in the egg and 1 tsp of the peppermint extract and mix until combined.

This issue of The Boy Who Bakes is sponsored by Wilfa Happy Friday! Are you ready for the weekend? I have family visiting so it’s a pizza party and games night kind of weekend ahead for me. When we have a crowd visiting I often turn to making pizza because if you’re already making one, it’s really not that much more work making a bunch, especially the sheet pan pizzas I like to make for these occasions, quicker than individual pies and I can bake multiples pizzas at the same time.

Photo Credit: The Athletic Since the Chicago White Sox drafted Sean Burke, he has been a pitcher that scouts have kept their eyes on. Due to his success at the University of Maryland, Chicago made Burke a third-round pick in the 2021 draft. It was a process that the Worcester native will never forget. “It was stressful, honestly,” said Burke. “I had some friends and family over the day of the draft.

THE WHALE is a slow, magnificent dream come true, an embodiment of the surreal. Especially the white whale. Sea glass is unburied treasure. On the beach at our bare feet, it offers mindfulness in the search and a tangible reward in the discovery. Especially the blue glass. Butterflies occupy a place in mind and nature somewhere in between whales and sea glass. Gossamer, elegant, glittery, they fly barely beyond our grasp, even when they’re mating.

You might find it easier to walk on the moon than pass through the glowering doors of White’s Gentlemen’s Club in London (Anthony O’Neill, geograph) Here’s a confession. I’ve always wanted to be a member of a private club, ‘gentleman’s’ or otherwise. It’s the thought of sitting in a nice comfortable chair, in peace and quiet; just me and my newspaper with, perhaps, a plate of sandwiches and a drink at my side.

Dear Healthy Jew, Some months ago, I posted in these pages about the 12 tribes of Israel, and explained how 12 different lines together create every space - just as Yaakov’s (Jacob) 12 different sons together forged the Jewish nation. The message: We allow God inside our world when we build for Him a place to dwell in Israel, each tribe in its own line, all working together.  Why Israel Has 12 Tribes·

The other week, shortly after The Mix published the 2023 edition of “The New York 50,” I got an inquiry from a subscriber. The list was great, they said, but among the fifty cocktails singled out there wasn’t one Perfect Manhattan. What bar in New York, they wanted to know, serves the best Perfect Manhattan? I had to admit I had no idea. In my many years of drinking in Gotham, I don’t think I’ve ever ordered a Perfect Manhattan—the name given to a Manhattan cocktail variation that splits the vermouth portion between sweet and dry.