Same. I have no more patience for it and if the discussions go into things that actually matter like Palestine I’ll state my opinion, but won’t spend any energy on debating them anymore.

I just do my work, spend time with my commie partner and kid. I am ok with not having libs as friends, I cannot look past the way they ignore everything. I am polite with them at work, but tend to keep to myself as much as possible.

When younger I tried so hard to fit in and got burnt so many times

Remembering the beautiful rant Parenti had on people who think it’s Gaddafi in their mailbox, Gaddafi in their bathroom, Gaddafi in their bed at night.

I am audhd and all my life been enjoying some form of these mostly for breakfast/lunch/before a workout, because I often either forget to eat or just don’t feel like it, can’t be arsed or am not hungry until later in the day.

I love that these are no longer just diet foods with incredibly low calories, lots of diet culture marketing and stuff that can easily slip into ED territory. In the past I would use a marker to cover especially triggering slogans and stuff from the packages as I have a history with this stuff. But these days you can buy decent vegan options that actually hold you over and have enough energy to be a proper meal.

I mostly buy a vegan meal replacement one that has plant based proteins, vitamins, fiber, probiotics and even digestive enzymes added to it and it surprisingly isn’t that expensive, I buy it when it’s on sale. My go-to flavour is chocolate and I always just mix it with water.

Nowadays I also like eating smoothies with vegan protein after I discovered those go-to smoothie machines where you make the smoothie straight into the bottle and there is no other washing apart from rinsing the blade. (I still do the meal replacement shake on my 100% no spoons days). I also recommend this for easy meals. Just get some plant based protein powder, oat milk, frozen berriers or fruit, some flax meal or psyllium husk for fiber and a sweetener. I typically do mine with frozen lingonberries, banana, psyllium and flax seeds, strawberry flavored protein powder, oat milk, vanilla & sweetener. It is about 350-400 calories, almost all of my daily dietary fiber and lots of protein & omega 3s. I take a probiotic with it as my tummy gives me a lot of grief these days (thanks covid).

I use Tapo smart plugs for my plant lights and they have a warranty of 2 to 3 years and have worked well for over a year now without shitting themselves. I use them on a timer and there unfortunately is an app, but it’s relatively unannoying and straightforward.

I had a deltaco smart extension chord that just stopped working one day right after the warranty ended, switched it to a Tapo and it too has worked great since.

Meamwhile Finnish national news just published the israel side of things only, along with the “selfieship” crap and how the ship has just been diverted and Greta is safely on her way to israel. Disgusting complicity.

Yes, all my life. Even on any sort of social media, including here. I have long ago stopped trying to “get in” which used to feel pretty soulcrushing when I was younger. I stick to my neurospicy immediate family and partner now

At work, hobbies etc. I am always seemingly very well liked, but they don’t allow me into their actual thing, not all the way in at least. If I leave or stop going to something, nobody ever asks where I went. I had a workout center I went to for almost ten years with several women who I always chatted with before and after the classes, they had intimate little parties and stuff, I was never invited to those. But they were always very friendly with me. So it’s odd.

At work my co-workers had a party that they did invite me to and I went. Then they made plans there for going together to a march a few months later which I never got a message on, went to the march with my partner and saw the group there who happily all said hello, but had decided to not include me or invite me. So it keeps happening.

Before I understood I am neurospicy I always just thought that I must feel somehow hard to approach or am just different somehow, sometimes I thought I am somehow broken. These days I get it, sort of. But it still feels very lonely at times and I have no real friends to turn to because of it. The few I had growing up have all been scattered into the winds and it is what it is.

“How men with testicles spar”

Haha, hahaha, hahahahahahaha. I can’t with this shit.

Also the whole penis as a weapon-thing from Will to Change inevitably comes to mind. These types of guys imagine their bits as some sort of front-bearing swords and have an entire theory about it. It’s hilarious.

Oh woe is me with my hidden from sight bits that make me communicate indirectly.

These types of guys continue to remind me of this:

Oh man, when covid started and there was the initial surge of solidarity we had a thing where everyone would play Sandstorm from their homes, balconies, phones at the same time weekly.

It isn’t on the bds list so I didn’t know. It’s also the food I can still afford to buy around these parts, but thanks for the heads up.

They have also started to sell the vegan “lax” now which are basically just sliced carrots marinated in liquid smoke and spices. This I always make for Christmas myself as it’s very easy. It’s very good on rye bread.

It’s called rapsi in my native language and most definitely has nothing to do with ****. The word comes from latin and basically means turnip.

I’m comparing this to the meat versions and this one was basically like eating mortadella or very close to that. Also got one with no added seasoning, but haven’t tried that one yet. But yeah, this one was good. I’ve also gotten those cardboard ones or ones with just weird floury taste so it’s hit and miss.

There is one other brand in my country that is a lot like this Lidl one and was my favourite before, but it is very much out of my budget so rarely do I buy it.

This was 1,99€, it’s still not cheap by any means.

I do this too and it’s distressing seeing the consent building machine at work. In my local context it offers a lot of alt right, male rightwinger and war hawk content by clearly well funded but not mainstream ghouls. All male panels and also lots of religious and conspiracy stuff. No left wing content here as far as I’ve seen.

These come up no matter what sort of gardening or houseplant care video I am watching, it seems to push the reactionary stuff everywhere if using it anonymously.

The term “canola” denotes a group ofremovedseed cultivars that were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and which are especially prized for use as human and animal food.

I don’t think the word here has anything to do with uhm, what I think you are implying.

The term derives from the Latin word for turnip, rāpa or rāpum, cognate with the Greek word ῥάφη, rhaphe. Natopedia link

In my language this plant is called rapsi. Has no connection whatsoever to sv.

Yeah I don’t have the spoons for that which is why I’ve had a hard time with sandwich toppings in my quest to reduce meat consumption. I do a lot of avocado when it is in season and grown closer, but the “cold cut” open sandwich is the staple thing around here so am happy that at least some options are vegan.

Was just thinking how incredible it would be if no capitalism, we would have such variety of vegan food and meat would probably not be eaten much at all. Because it makes no sense. But here we are, in the endlessly subsidised meat production era. It’s the reason the hams and stuff are all cheaper than this and you get like 100 different types when there are literally only 3 different vegan options that I have seen.