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

I'll be teaching @NetMaking with Jack Raven #Bushcraft in #Kent on the 3rd of May, https://www.jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/net-making-course/. This full day course will cover the technique of net making, which is surprisingly relaxing and meditative once mastered, as well as cordage making from natural fibres like nettles and a discussion of the archaeological evidence for the historical use of nets for fishing and carrying.

#AncestralSkills #HeritageCrafts #Ashford #Westwell

@cwebber yes mentioning IQ seems to function as the new calling women females as a good marker

Does anyone know of any #MaskBloc s or #CovidSafe groups near #Exeter #Devon? My work has just found three crates of FFP2 masks with an expiry date of November 2025 but which will at least provide partial protection. Does anyone know of anyone who might want these?

@sheffieldmaskbloc @maskblocorg

Please boost

#ShareFest #Totnes
Sat 18 April, 10am to 4pm, Totnes Civic Hall

This free and family-friendly event aims to showcase a wide range of projects that encourage a more resourceful, collaborative and sustainable lifestyle.

Activities include:
#RepairCafe
Bike Repair and Maintenance
#ClothesSwap
Skillshares <- this one's me teaching basketry
Pay What You Feel Cafe
Plant & Seed Swap
Community Singing
Tool Sharpening
Tech Amnesty
Craft Making
Children's Activities

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharefest-totnes-tickets-1983361764428

#Devon #HeritageCrafts #AncestralSkills #SolarpunkSunday

Is it time to ban balloon releases, or indeed balloons altogether?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/the-dark-side-of-the-balloon-boom-is-it-time-they-were-banned

I'd say yes, not just for the rubbish they scatter over the countryside but also because as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has recently hopefully demonstrated, helium is a finite resource with important medical and scientific applications

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116321104173678252

Apparently some furry conventions offer STI testing and people are making judgemental memes about it. Whereas as anyone who has ever attended or worse had to arrange a scientific conference will tell you this is something every conference should be offering.

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