Added Lavender and Red to my library. I have all the rest and have worked through all but 4 I think. Solid list.

1. Mostly movies from yts . mx, and movies and tv shows from watchsomuch . to.
2. Mostly for convenience and I think information should be free. I cam back to the high seas after they decided to have 4,758 different streaming services and kind of hate exclusive as an excuse to get you to pay for one service over another.
3. I have a dedicated 6TB hard drive(wish I would have paid a bit extra for an 8 or 10 though). I also used it for rsync back ups but that’s it.
4. I switch back and forth between Jellyfin and Plex. Jellyfin is a bit fiddly but open, Plex “just work” but is closed source. I try to use free software as much as I can.
5. Both JF and Plex will keep track, but I’ve had issues with JF if a movie or show doesn’t want to run(I think it’s a transcoding issue) sometimes I lose progress of my most recent watched stuff. Kind of sucks. I’ve had more issues with JF than with Plex which sucks.

I hate consumerism and try not to sell things to people, but seriously, if you are gonna be pressing tofu, get a tofu press. It really is one of the most used tool in my kitchen, like right behind my dutch oven and rice cooker.

Amen, brother. It’s not like it’s those shredder claws lol. Like I don’t have any other use for it but I use at least 1 lb of tofu a week so it’s still super useful regardless. I’d honesty recommend it for those that use tofu as much or more than I do.

To add to the habits question. I’ve gotten way more serious about looking at ingredients and will even do an internet search in the isle on ingredients I’m not sure about so that I don’t make the purchase and find out later that I goofed.

As dumb as it sounds, I bought a tofu press like a year ago and have gotten a ton of use out of it. I know you can just use plates and cans to weigh it down but having this one “single use kitchen gadget” has actually been really useful. I just toss a block in and snap on the rubber band things and press down the side arm things and forget about it. I set it next to my coffee maker by my sink so when I go get another cup of coffee I remind myself to drain the water.

It’s not even fancy, just like a cheap plastic one that cost me like $10.

E: I suppose this is habit adjacent.

I think it’s honestly just a defense based on the stereotypes about veganism from the media. I’m still new-ish to veganism but it took me back a bit. Like I don’t really care what my chud Trumper mom eats.

I just told some discord friends about it and now they are screeching about Tienanmen Square and such. Whoops.

I’m gonna be doing the impossible and try to set up a PSL branch deep in Christo-fascist Trump land.

It’s gonna be pure American Fascism. Our leaders wrote the fucking book.

You’re laughing? The fascist girlboss genocider might lose against the fascist old white dementia genocider and you’re laughing?

Anyway, I am not a vegan myself but I support veganism and I can see that you have positive intentions with this instance. I think that it’s a valuable space and component of the fediverse and I hope it continues to grow. I hold a great deal of admiration and respect for vegans, especially those who do it for ethical reasons.

Got curious and went outside of my HB bubble and saw this. I’d just like to say, if you claim to support veganism, but don’t care to actually be a vegan, then no you fucking don’t.

I have a 3d printed fidget slider and a custom-made worry stone I almost never leave the house without.

I’m mostly non-combative about it unless I see someone being deliberately obtuse or antagonistic about it. Then I go off a lot of times.

I’ve just sort of learned that most people who have opinions about veganism don’t even know what it is. Their opinions are mostly from the circlejerk around PETA and the “annoying vegan” trope.

When I first switched to plant-based. I told a co-worker in passing because I thought he was a friend or something. His response was “Pffff why?” He’s a libertarian chud that really likes his guns and hunting though so whatever. He did try to find a place I could eat for a lunch meeting thing when he came into town though so I guess that was nice.

I told my mom and her response was “Well I’m still gonna eat meat.” I don’t understand why that was her response but it was.

I told another co-worker after he went in a 15 minute unsolicited and rather unhinged rant about how shitty vegans are. I was basically like “You know I’m vegan right?” And his response was literally another rant about how he doesn’t really mind vegans as long as they don’t shove their beliefs down his throat, then he asked me “…so you still eat chicken though, right?”

So yeah I mostly just don’t bother with people irl.

Candy

I drink trash wine and love carbs anyway so I’m going with Jesus.

I settled on Cinnamon after jumping around a bit. I do still like Gnome though even if both are fairly bulky DEs.

I do cook a lot actually, but I’m just hella depressy right now. I’ve been trying to focus on mock meat repalcements for traditional omni meals for the sake of my family. I’m the only vegan in a household of 4 and don’t wanna push it on them. I’d rather they come over because they want to. But I will replace beef with tvp for spaghetti for example. What I’m wanting to do is eventually move over to WFPB and move away from junk and mock meat as much as possible and then treat those as a treat once in a while. I made the curry I posted on the Home Cook discord server and that’s gonna be my lunch for the week. It’s a step up from stuffing my face full of ramen.

I think I’m aiming for whole food at beginning of next year(resolution or whatever). With that said, I’m on the hunt for recipes so if you have anything you wanna toss my way, that would be amazing.

I know this community says it’s an anarchist site so I figured I’d fit in lol. Outside of seeing awesome recipes on the home cooks discord server I’ve seen nothing but positive leftist discussion and it makes me feel all warm lol.

I’ve got the social justice autism… and the wall of text autism.

When I started college I was probably a left-leaning Democrat but halfway through, because of my econ, marketing, polysci, etc classes, I basically left a full blown socialist. I’m the boomer chud meme.

Over time I started to understand what my worldview was. As it came more into focus, the pandemic hit, and the BLM protests happened and I got active. Not like super active praxis 24/7 but I was at marches and and demonstrations when I could be. I even did a sit-in during college for a protest for a law that was passed that let cops take homeless people’s belonging if they were charged with “camping” in parks and other public places.

During the pandemic, I was a paying “at large” member of the DSA and a local chapter was started, I was contacted to join, and did. We did some activism for woman’s rights, handing out literature, etc. but we weren’t super active and lacked dircection. Towards the end, a newer person joined and took over after a president moved away. They tried to rekindle it but it was basically dead. Another activist did use us as a vessel to bring more awareness to the issues the homeless in our area faced but they left because we live in a hyper conservative area and they wanted to live somewhere that was more friendly to trans and queer people.

So the DSA fizzled out but during all of that I sort of started reading a bunch of theory. I knew I was a lefty but felt I needed to get more educated. I read Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and some Anarchy theory(Maletesta, Gelderloos, etc). So I guess that sets the foundation I’m floating somewhere between ML and anarchism right now. Among other things, veganism, vegetarianism, plant-based diets, and other diets that are better for the environment came on my radar. (I know vegetarianism isn’t environmental harm reduction but I’m getting there. At the time I was naive.)

I was gifted with the gout in my early 30s because I spend my 20s eating a bunch of red meat and drinking. Fall of 2022 I had the worst flair up of my life. I was practically unable to walk for 3 weeks. I finally decided I was gonna try vegetarianism. By spring of next year, I gave up eggs and dairy and went full vegan. Here’s why:

I’m allegedly a software developer, although my work history suggests I"m actually a bum. But back in 2022 I finally got a programming job after trying for 6 years. The job was writing feed automation software for feedyards and dairies. I got a crash course on just how fucking awful the industry is. Like not front row seat, but a few rows back. I learned that vegetarianism is not any less horrible. I learned that a dairy cow’s life is about 4 years, and they are forced pregnant every year. After they dry up, they are turned into food. The dairy industry is just as bad, if not worse, than the beef industry. I’ve seen parlors get washed out in the Texas panhandle where we are facing an eminent drinking water crisis. How much water is wasted is one thing I don’t see get brought up enough, the PTSD of workers in the industry is another. Bonus points for the vitamin D myth when people tell you supplementing is not the way to go because, well whole milk with vitamin D is supplemented with vitamin D. It comes in big plastic jugs like fryer grease and it’s dumped onto their feed.

I went full vegan in the spring of 2023.

It was weird still working in the industry while becoming a vegan and I was definitely aware of the hypocrisy but I was getting paid well for the first time in my life and I sort of would just disassociate while I was at work to get by. I was fired summer of last year and have been trying to find something that is a bit more friendly to animals since, but I’d actually like my freelance web dev thing to get off the ground. Shameless plug but I am trying to carve a niche for lefty and alt spaces because I really don’t wanna make websites for chuds lol.

I’ve sort of been figuring it out since but have been surviving on a lot of vegan junk food and accidental vegan stuff but I am looking into going towards whole food/back to Mediterranean.

It was my first time seeing it in the wild so I’m gonna cherish it lol. They missed out on a bomb ass sandwich.