the arrogance of a human deciding that human life is more important so the cruelty is justified... who are we to play god and place ourselves above all else?

Glad I added it to the URL blocklist a while ago. Fuck PBC

This has been on my todo list since the blender 4.0 donut tutorial came out like a year ago. It's been really fun and I'm watching it an hour at a time haha (it's like 5 hours long)

Day 2 and I have sprinkles.

I have begun making the donut in blender.

I couldn't pass the opportunity of posting the single meme I have in relation to this song X3

1. I've been listening to a bunch of music lately and I've been reading (a physical book) for the first time in five years, which is cool.
2. I discovered "cooking" with tofu a year before I became vegan when I was a vege****an. I would take it out of the fridge and eat it raw in the block it came in. Now, when I use it I actually make sure it soaks up the flavours in my cooking , but I still sometimes get the urge to eat it on its own haha.

Where were you while we were getting high?

Tagging @Arcanepotato@vegantheoryclub.org as the picture didn't federate to pixelfed

Thanks for sharing. Never heard them before, but I like! They kinda remind me of The Stone Roses, which I really like and need to listen to now

I love this track so much that it got stuck in my head for a week when I listened to it for the first time haha

Almost reminds me of Pink Floyd for some reason.

That's why I like them so much! They're kinda like an Australian Pink Floyd that still produces music. Although most people just know them as the "Under The Milky Way" guys, which was their one hit wonder.

I really recommend "A Face In A Film", "Destination", and "Field Of Mars" from The Church if you liked this :)

The keyboard is coming along nicely and improving the ergonomics of your setup can definitely be a hobby. I'm sure you'll have a better typing experience in no time.

Gamedev is really cool and I need to get back into it properly! Your joy with it made me install godot and add learning how to use it on my TODOs. Hopefully the next hyperfocus I can reason my brain into following a tutorial for it.

Those banana peels you posted look really cool! I've never thought to cook with them before.

Gardening's really fun. I miss having a garden and can't wait to have a front or backyard when I move. For some reason I get lots of cool insects come inside over the year. I keep getting praying mantises flying inside this time of year, with the last time one stealthy laying eggs by the windowsill. Later I had dozens of "ants" on the windows until I noticed they were actually baby mantises!

This is the first weekly thread since I've become an admin here. Just wanted to briefly update everyone on things.

There is a veganhomecooks (veganhomecooks.com) Pixelfed instance. It is able to federate images here as posts by mentioning the lemmy community in the body. (i.e. appending @homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org to a pixelfed post caption will make a post on the !veganhomecooks@vegantheoryclub.org community).

Unfortunately, under normal circumstances, comments only federate from lemmy to Pixelfed and not the other way around. I have developed two scripts that I periodically run to resolve the veganhomecooks comments and index them here, but it is a somewhat manual process as the Pixelfed instance doesn't allow scrapping (you need to be logged in to see the content). Rarely, this fails to work, so almost all the veganhomecooks comments can be seen here on vegantheoryclub. There is an issue with deletions not federating both sides, but it can be manually done if need be.

In my opinion, I think Pixelfed is not really fun to use as it lack even basic features like federating text only posts. I know it's meant to be for visual media only, but if a mastodon user can follow you and comment on your pictures and federate their own to you then I don't see the appeal of purposefully not receiving any of their other text posts. Mastodon feels like it can do much, if not all, of what Pixelfed can do, and more. Pleroma, Akkoma, and Misskey having even more functionality and interoperability than mastodon. I just wish it was a configuration option (that worked) to enable text only content, I really fail to see how it would undermine the experience of using Pixelfed or add much in the way of complexity to the project scope.

I'm curious if anyone else has any opinions about Pixelfed yet. I've only discovered text posts don't federate after making an account and using it so my expectations may be out of scope, but I don't see the appeal of this considering federation is a core part of why it's used.

o7 I hope this is the right call 😅 but I trust your judgement (I wanted some community consensus on appointing another admin first). I'll maintain this instance as is for now and will try not to cause too much drama. Also, I think we have admins on either side of the world so that's probably good for dealing with things in a timely manner.

Edit: We probably should announce there is another instance admin now for transparency, just in case people don't check this thread and follow along.

I'd be willing to help out with any of the aspects of hosting this instance (finances, sysadmin, moderation) if you (both Hamid and the instance members) would like. This instance, especially recently, has been the place on lemmy I'm the most comfortable being. If it has to go then so be it, but I'd like to see it keep kicking along in the meantime provided you are ok with it :)

Also, need it be said, but death to amerikkka.

I think she deleted her account after a lot of people got upset from her banwaves. This was after we decided to rescind the lemmy world community and hand it over new moderators, but for some reason she kept her account as a mod and stirred up some drama.

Thanks for the question! I used to walk a bunch when I lived in the country (rural). I really miss bush (wilderness) walks and get frustrated walking where I live seeing just seeing concrete, asphalt, grass I'm allergic to, and noisy metal death boxes around. Legitimately, I nearly get run over every time I go out, it's so frustrating it makes me want to never leave my flat.

Thanks for the questions! It's always good to be prepared and helping others do so is nice. I'm NC with most of my family, so I spend my resources on helping friends, although I should probably do a better job at that. I think there was a discussion thread about this in the !diy@vegantheoryclub.org community a while ago, so feel free to post any advice you have there :)