Notices by Jules she/her (afewbugs@social.coop)

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116250312744812844

Just waiting for someone to close the circle and ask Fedizens who are cows whether they have ever sat on a cat.

@nlupo @Natasha_Jay
Aliens ❌
Ancient Gods ❌
Art students doing it for a laugh ✅

Gen X, this is your time to shine. My friend has spilled a cup of tea (containing dairy milk) on their partner's limited edition Bob Vylan cassette, of which there are apparently only 200 in existence. I am providing desiccant beads, but is there anything else that needs to be done and will the cassette still play?

#ask_fedi

More fun with switching my parents over from Windows to Mint: they used to have Kaspersky as an antivirus, and apparently it showed a little green tick next to links if they were safe to click? Does any sort of add on for Firefox exist that will do this without paying for a subscription? Yes I have explained to them about the padlock symbol and https, but unfortunately I've drilled into them so well about the dangers of clicking links in dodgy email they're now scared to click anything

The repair cafe my brother volunteers at in #Totnes #Devon will be running this event on the 18th of April https://www.shareshed.org.uk/events/? and are looking for volunteers to install Linux on people's laptops. If anyone's in the area and interested there's a form to fill out at the link.

I'll be there too teaching coil basketry, and I promise I'm moderately normal in real life and definitely not one of those axe murderers you meet on the internet.

Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

"A ban would mean, for example, bean burgers sold in Europe having to be relabelled as “patties” or “discs”, while the Welsh breakfast staple Glamorgan sausages – made of cheese and leeks – would probably become Glamorgan “tubes”."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/13/food-firms-urge-europe-not-to-ban-calling-non-meat-products-sausages

#Food #Vegan #Vegetarian #PlantBased #MeatIndustry

RE: https://mstdn.social/@sodslawyer/116056688380387248

One of the greatest strengths of the English language is any noun can be an insult if delivered in the right tone.

@Fragglemuppet It was the week before I submitted my Master's thesis, so I was very stressed and sleep deprived, and it was twilight. I was walking home when I realised I'd left my phone in the library, so turned round and headed back up to university in a bit of a panic. There was a girl with long blond hair, a pink sweater and beige flares walking ahead of me. She started to cross the road and then vanished before getting to the other side. I actually ran up and down the road looking in house front gardens to try and figure out where she went.

@Fragglemuppet Hypothesis 1: she never existed, my tired brain somehow glitched out and hallucinated her. Hypothesis 2: she existed but my tired brain somehow glitched out and failed to register where she went. Hypothesis 3: some spooky shit that contradicts the understanding of reality that has served me very well to date, and as I am a coward I have deliberately never tried to investigate whether a young woman ever died in an accident on that stretch of road, possibly in the 1970s, because I'm not sure how I'd cope with finding out someone did

Cashews are expensive, fair trade cashews doubly so, but a good hack in recipes that involve soaking and then blending them to make a creamy sauce or dessert base is to use sunflower seeds instead which work just as well but are much cheaper. We tend to save the cashews to eat whole.

#food #vegan

#WhatVegansEat, because I seem to have somehow accidentally gone from a bee sex shitposting account to a vegan cooking account over the weekend so I may as well lean into it. After all the discussion of dahl I was going to make one, but by the time I got round to thinking about it my wife had already started making a tofu and cashew stir fry so we had that instead.

#Food #Vegan #PlantBased

There are sadly often a lot of labour abuses in cashew harvesting and processing, so we always buy #Fairtrade. In the UK a good brand is https://chooseliberation.com/

#Food #Vegan

@laurasophiegolightly @Infoseepage Look, I agree with you that we're in a very bad place in wealthy Western societies where a lot of people can't afford nutritious food, and I would like to see more people reduce the amount of animal products they consume because of the horrendous impact the industrial animal agriculture system is having on animal welfare, the planet, and human health. But in the end I am just one little nerd whose lovely wife cooked her a delicious dinner last night. Whatever your issue is with meat substitutes I am not responsible for it and can't really do much about it

@Infoseepage @SaintlySin @tobyjaffey interesting and possiblity slightly counterintuitive fact, but in spite of being more processed meat substitutes are still often healthier than the meat they're replacing https://social.coop/@afewbugs/115581974260708891

@Infoseepage I knew I was going to get at least one comment assuming this is what we eat every day, this always happens when I post a special meal and people see that but not our regular boring food. Vegans don't eat steak substitutes every night because they are expensive, just as I imagine non vegans don't eat steak and blue cheese sauce every night. 95% of our meals are based around tofu, beans or lentils not meat substitutes, but you don't see that because we don't post every curry or stir fry we make or everyone would be bored to tears

#Food #Vegan

@SaintlySin made the most incredible celebration dinner last night with Juicy Marbles steaks (https://juicymarbles.com/) and La Fauxmagerie Brixton Blue cheese sauce (https://lafauxmagerie.co.uk/) and if I hadn't known I honestly would not have been able to tell these weren't animal products from the taste and texture. There really is no need to eat meat* when vegan alternatives are this good.

*unless obviously you have a health issue that requires you to.

#Food #Vegan #PlantBased #VeganFoodUK

Hell I even see it in queer spaces where the women, femmes and enbies are the ones organising booking the venue and bringing home made cake after checking everyone's dietary requirements in advance. The first step towards dividing the tasks that bring the glory and the tasks that just have to be done up fairly is just noticing how they're divided now

Oh and before anyone says "Oh but women are good at recurring maintenance tasks because they're naturally good at multitasking": 1) saying this will earn you a block. 2) No, we're not, we had to learn to be. That's why I need a task manager to tell me to keep on top of things like that. If you're willing to put in your share of the work to maintain a healthy, functional environment both at home and at work you can learn too

See also: "But women naturally notice mess and dirt in a way men don't." No, women learn to notice because we're shamed for not noticing and keeping on top of things in a way men aren't. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0049124119852395

So we've strayed a very long way from Nextcloud's task manager, but the older I get the more I see "Who does the dishes after the revolution?" as one of the first questions that should be asked in any progressive space. I've seen at permaculture camps where the men wonder off to form a drumming circle while the women set up the cooking rotas and compost station. I've seen it at the meetings where the men stand up and give inspiring speeches while the women organise drinks and take the minutes