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Last night I had a tofu steak that was marinated in soy sauce & miso coated in cornflour to make it super crispy cooked with field mushrooms and black fungus, served with baby broccoli and jasmine rice.
#WhatVegansEat #vegan
I seasoned the mushrooms, broccolini and tofu with ⅛ teaspoon of monosodium glutamate to enhance the flavour and the difference it makes is astounding. Prejudice against MSG is racist and not science based - get yourself a bag and try it!
Some American dude suggested the 1954 Alistair Sims version on tiktok and I watched it. Eventually you watch 'An inspector calls' from your GCSE 1988 syllabus.
I'm watching videos on Londonscreenarchive.org.uk and the Jolly Cockney pub on black Prince road was changed to the Jolly Gardeners at some point in the last 53 years. I'm amazed the posh culture warriors at reform aren't outraged (but as they don't actually follow history they wouldn't even know).
I am finding the story of #JasonArday really tragic. It looks likely he was bullied into suicide by (mostly) the right wing UK press, despite the fact that autists are 9x more likely to kill themselves than the average person, and suicide is the second most common cause of death for autistics. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/14/jason-arday-found-dead-after-resigning-from-cambridge-over-plagiarism-claims?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics@fedigroups.social #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic
I looked at a couple of recipes online and I've realised that #vegan Dauphinoise potatoes with spinach, using cashew cream and some vegan cheese would be quite easy, and really delicious. I'm going to make it in the next couple of days.
I swear I walk in a shopping centre and I have a headache in less than 10 minutes.
Everyone's whining about potholes on Victoria's roads. I don't see political parties suggesting getting freight off the roads and onto rail to reduce the wear on them. Trucks produce vastly more damage than cars, never mind bicycles.
At some point in time I would like to live in a country that I don't think is morally shit as an entity.
The only easy, legal, options are Wales and Eire.
I acknowledge my fucking Roaring loud privilege. Look at me with my fancy arse passports.
Whenever I see a politician talk about "common sense" it irritates me. It just means they can't make a reasoned argument, or point to any evidence to support their point. They just have a biased opinion and don't even realise.
At the rate of growth Count Binface has seen between his last two elections, 0.2 at Makerfield and 26.93 in #Clacton - 13,365% it now seems inevitable Bins will win every democratic election in the world.
I for one, welcome our totally rubbish overlords.
A bunch of brands sell "deli style chips" which is hilarious, because no delicatessen in Australia makes their own potato crisps. These brands can ask fuck off with their bullshit marketing.
Send complaints to all the 15 publications that hounded Jason Arday in one go. Also a IPSO complaint.
https://newscord.org/action/jason-arday-pile-on
#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics@fedigroups.social #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic
I just did numerous searches on duck duck go and Google to try and find any surveys that have ever been done about party political preferences and voting choices amongst disabled people. I can't find any. Considering that disabled people and spending on our lives is often an issue in elections this feels like a massive oversight.
#disability #disabled #autism #PoliticalScience
I think you're doing a disservice to vegans if you produce a book with recipes that include "six slices of bacon sliced into strips and also use smoked "40g grated parmesan (optional)"
Presumably you're meant to understand and use alternatives. Oh. The fucking chef isn't even vegan. Career chefs trying to use politics for business. Fuck off. #vegan
This review of autistic burnout might be useful to people who experience it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735825001369?via%3Dihub
#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics@fedigroups.social #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic
The scary part of near 5 star reviews of Uber drivers is that these people don't know how close to death they are with them.
They also usually brake too late and too hard. It suggests they aren't looking into the distance to work out when they might need to stop. They are just looking at the car ahead and reacting to that when it is about 10 metres ahead.
Why is massive wealth unethical?
Another million for a billionaire is like "Adding a bottle of carbonated water to a swimming pool while children looking over the wall are dying of thirst"
I remember in the mid eighties seeing a group based in London that was campaigning for the independence of the Baltic states from the Soviet Union. I thought, do they really think a few people are going to be able to alter the position of an actual superpower? It wasn't them specifically, but they got there within 6-7 years. And yes, I was an unusual teenager.
If you want affordable housing and food and jobs for people, a reasonable choice is the Socialist Party. However, I will be voting for The Animal Justice Party. You'll vote for them if you like animals. Actually like animals. Or humans. And want them all to live. They don't exclude any of the Socialists ideas.
Please read all the manifestos.
https://vic.animaljusticeparty.org/
https://www.victoriansocialists.org.au/
Ridiculous idea I know. #vicpol #auspol
I have been awake for 24 hours and feel like I'm never going to sleep again. I nearly fell asleep at 4am last night, but then a plane went over and woke me up. I nearly fell asleep just now but some bastard started using a lawn mower.
It's another instance of American exceptionalism that Trump is claiming his new tariffs are based on 'forced labour' when the USA literally allows imprisoned people to be used as slaves in its constitution. #auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-24/us-trump-administration-new-tariff-announcement/106938462
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_exception_clause?wprov=sfla1
I just remembered that I had a mobile phone and internet access at home before I owned a colour television (black and white TV licences are cheaper in the UK).
Autists are much more likely to want to die, and die from suicide than allistcs.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40474-024-00308-9.pdf
One of my minor victories in life is convincing my children that homemade pizza should have a lot of tomato paste on its base. I once had a friend visiting who complained mildly that it was too tomatoey and my kids have also said there wasn't enough tomato on a shop bought pizza.
If you have tiny children, use this one simple hack to get more phytochemicals, obviously lycopene, into them, hopefully for the rest of their life.
I just looked at my bag of salt (which was the cheapest salt at the supermarket). It's 99% sodium chloride, so why be fussy, but I can imagine "naturally evaporated sea salt from the Southern Ocean", the least peopled and maybe the cleanest sea in the world as a premium product elsewhere.
I had a nightmare last night where every time I blinked and looked again something had changed, for example a copy of myself was standing completely still a few metres ahead of myself, or a locked door would be half open. I had goose pimples from the creepiness of it everytime something happen and was glad to be awake.
I just realised these are basically vegan Skips, which were my favourite crisps as a child.
When I was mostly asleep last night I dreamt that the sausage onion existed, that is to say, someone had bred onions to be long cylinders instead of just spheres.
I was just thinking- I haven't taken my SSRI for a few days, and I want to die. It's funny, they are marketed as "anti depressants" but are they actually 'stop you from suicide' pills? What is the percentage of people on these drugs in advanced capitalist nations again?
I just had a taste of an off brand sancerre (Sauvignon blanc from the loire valley) and it instantly transported me 30 years. I used to drink a lot of French wine in the early 90s, but now I drink the local stuff. Australian wine is very good, but a different thing from French.
I like the "hypothetical patient" text on this advert.
"So right yeah, we're looking for a model who is fat but not too fat and not too unattractive, do you think you could do that for us?"
Fucking arses.
I just learnt that "a pinch" is actually a defined measure of a substance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinch_%28unit%29?wprov=sfla1
So Dyson just do vibe adverts now that are obviously "sex sells vacuums and fans". Right?
I literally never see people like Gary Stevenson mentioned in the media. I ( thankfully) think he is enormously important in elections.
I don't know about the right wing ones, who are they?
I dreamt I was going around Bristol with two others doing normal things but the military aircraft and distant buildings being blown up we kept seeing weren't solid, they were like hot road mirage. We realised they were real, but we were in a different dimension or something.
Are most people going to get the underworld/Trainspotting reference?
Imagine most news outlets were trying to get to the truth, and they were stopped or corrected by an outcome like this.
https://michaelwest.com.au/retraction-of-article-published-on-june-12-2026-and-apology-to-mr-richard-albarran/
It is rare I'll say a Tory is doing the right thing. But Andrew Hastie correctly took the stand in a court of law to give evidence in a war crimes case, but has been branded a 'traitor' by One Nation. Whatever you think of people who sign up for armed forces, they are clearly brave and patriotic, unlike fascists who often hate many aspects of their own country.
I just discovered another geographic game! https://geoslice.net/play-halves
I swear some *seriously* weird record mastering decisions were made when putting The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess onto a double LP.
I have never heard of, nevermind seen a smooth side of vinyl.