My #Robin friend Little Mate chatting on his fence on this cold and icy morning in #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #Birding #Nature #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #BirdsOfMastodon
#liquid life (add water with food often - not just eating solids mostly... more water-based = healthy / sustainable...
Add Water to all food - #BetterPractices
Like soups / juicing / blending / liquefying but more water + heating / boiling items submerged under the water as solid / partially chopped to drink)
Make soups from everything or flavoured water from many things you have to make your food last longer.
Search for "OTHER IDEAS" on this post (CTRL-F) to see the quick list of ideas I've done / you can try regularly without dying and maybe the opposite!
You can eat solids but after sinking them in water first or boiling it all in a big pot and topping it up with water after each drink. The extra steps (however you like) are the key to making things last and cheating the solid food cost and weight on body suddenly. Often body just needs a top up on fuel or hot liquid (like if you're cold).
Drink the water first like tea until there is no taste you like AND THEN ADD MORE.. then at the end EAT the solids. Heating helps bring it out but some foods like oats don't even need - the room temperature and mixing is good (drinking liquid first and adding more water, then after eating oats).
█Water = #SavingPlanet #Saving Less #Buying - more abundant style of #Economy usnig #Water
(less land and money strain overall).
█Healthier in terms of digestion as body needs to break down less.
█Body is water ( 70%+/- !) and natural replacement and regeneration for it
Still ok to have lots of solids, just tease yourself more and more to find the right combination of crazy stuff knowing you can have it at the end
█ almost thinking of it as dieting or
█ cheating capitalism by having more water-fied food / liquids.
Like a hot soup is to vegetables but for everything. I don't mean just blasting it in a blender as you can eat it too much that way... has to be separate or easy to drink without it all going.
Must be a name for this type of submerging / milking / or soaking... :)
Things can be put into any pot of water and ideally heated almost to boil (I have wood stove so a big pot is on all the time, but even soaking a carrot or drinking boiled carrot juice works in something small works (even carrot in a kettle)
█ left in water is also to avoid you touching / eating it too quickly so it's also a self-check mechanism (with the water added in between to last longer or keep you moving around / not just eating from nervousness)
█ Like tea is. Make Liquid by mixing water in everything - all foods can be done the same (or almost all)
OTHER IDEAS:
█ olives
█ tomatoes chopped / blended to make base of juice
█ beetroot (juices from jars are usually sweet so this can be diluted and so can the beetroot after - not emptying juice or drinking it all at once! Dilute!)
█ anything in a vinegar
█ the tea leaves from boxes nobody ever touches + bit of sugar left over - even old tea bags died or not!
█ empty honey jar / honey combes or old jars filled with boiling water until honey or whatever in there is all gone.
█ even with sauces (dilute)
from over-spiced things to make less spicy (like from takeway food - often happens) but not just bland watery either (balance / push limits!)
█ meat and chicken also ok (not my first recommendation but if you drink more meaty juices than a bag of vegetables that it better in a few ways - especially if it would go to bio trash anyway)
█ Nettles - honestly the best and most available weed like drink best hot (like leaves of ganja, hemp, cannabis but more subtle - still a boost from it's green, and seed ok too... underestimated / dare you try boil water and let it sit or add in foods like spinach (is very close I've done half a bush in big pot and last ages and works like spinach with everything else throw in
█ fruit whole in a pot cooked (even orange peels or citrus peels can be put into water for hot or cool drink later rather than throw away - yes even with possible pesticides)
█ chopped cabbage (red especially or any dark food), same with diluting the supermarket juices that come with it or just half bake / boil a big piece of cabbage or all of it if you have a witches style pot / cauldron!
█ herbs - try them all heated and unheated - cheap bags of herb can last a while (but do try nettles literally put in whole or by holding the bottom of stem and with other hand running fingers- the leaves fall into pot but stem is ok too)
█ Kombucha style stuff (mushroom, tea fungus, yeast)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha
█ cucumbers + dill (often already in jars or with all that other mini salad stuff in jar dilute / make tea from it)
█ candy sweets plopped in water 🍬 !
█ flowers - more petals the better in many cases and you'll know by smell and tasting raw (blue soft petals usually perfect flavourFULL)
(last few seem more extreme but try them all or whenever you come across them and can save it for 'a test')
Heating constantly (especially in winter) means drinking warm liquid solves the craving to get warm because you are tempted to eat solids when cold trying to get warm so instead of overloading solids trying to get the body to convert to heat inside (or from nervous loading of food), just drink and keep busy with your day knowing you can top up (thermos useful).
A warm or hot drink in helps you last longer.
Happy to help you setup with whatever you have around - ask with any crazy combinations as I've lived in the 'bushes' and do make things last so you can pick your level or desperation as I would like to see if I can fit that into your life too and test my experience. 🌿 🍉 🥕
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Fascist and Nazi, Terrorist (definition)
@strypey #fascists #Nazis #Hitler #ACAB #Capitalism creates #war #terrorists
I think definitions of #fascist and #Nazi are clearer than that of 'terrorist' because I think I have the meaning more clearer for how and why; based on how 'those people' or groups are basically financed or financially backed from basically chains of people who are the uncaring heads of snakes of various types of extreme - and monetising or magnifying those perspectives / their politics onto others (doers ignoring or supporting that in various amounts to be call it in more or less justified ways).
Basically groups or individuals can be labelled or self-labelled fascist or Nazi and are those who are or expect:
- people to follow blind
- extreme authority
- all or nothing perspective
- workaholics / for a cause with direct dire consequences to life (even though complete apathy could be as non-human as a Nazi and at least a Nazi 'cares' for something maybe as a slight winner!)
- doing biddings and horrible acts 'like a Nazi'
- and more, full circling back to the division of people based on various politics or politics of money or separatism which almost everyone is capable of to a varied amount (I say tentatively)
especially when conditions get tough (jobs are low and it becomes this or that culture "taking our jobs" or looking for excuses not accepting or focussing on large elephant / gov in the room taking / stealing it all)
Not a complete list above, but some food for thought.
This video below should help too based on the root of not caring and financially-backed looking at people / abusing them that way... and using various levels of force / coercion that is more measurable and often more real that 'terrorist' (which is used sometime very incorrectly) and more accurate could be used or searched for if able to understand the why etc of the 'terrorist' subject . For example without conversation or choice everyone may become a terrorist of various kind from lack of choice / access to the stolen or spent public money on violence and bad circle of progress.
"Put more simply, it's possible to rigorously determine who is a terrorist if you go by the actual meaning of the word, but in practice the term is almost never applied in accordance with a strict definition."
In these post-truth days of political marketing, the same is true of other terms commonly used as vague pejoratives, including "hate group", "fascists", and even "Nazis".
@d0c40r0 Maybe watch some as training as a kind of replacement?
(happy to send you a clip as 1 MMA technique if interested - mostly from the better battles from UFC fights)
@lorihc I will sound like a fan already because I've liked these things so much in the past before (including the original art) BUT (IN A GOOD WAY) to avoid me getting too excited I always wondered (and would like to ask) how I can help such a person other than buying?
I know the answer or can suggest things but would like to ask you, since by now I may have forgotten many an artist...
Ok 1 answer is if they took me up on a small audio clip or mini interview (edit and previewed by us) about the artists own work (as good soft advertising) and then that would help us / other have a more memorable contact or connection (not just consumer / material / money type of contact which people are free to do but feeling is more-personal = long term way between us all)...
Hope you get what I mean... and happy to say more...
Below is a quick 1min introduction to a podcast idea I would pitch to / the artist / almost anyone I like. Totally non-commercial / safe as I can imagine (let me know what you think):
One of my directs gave me a card today with artwork done by his sister-in-law, based on his description of me to her. I 🩷 it! More of her work: https://catsandmaidens.art
@strypey Yes
@strypey In regards to the playlist link here, is there a way to do a playlist with different videos from different channels and without logging in?
(like just from the url customise a link to send someone?)
@garyackerman Ok - I read that as a small chance in some way... ( not totally hermit yet!...) and I think as final effort on my part may I send you my "best of" ideas in a small audio recording (sent privately here) explaining those "best of" ideas by voice because I think this will convey my efforts a lot better.
Won't mind resigning after and calling my endeavour of checking with you complete :)
Finding people of certain calibre is hard...
(so is it OK if I send you an audio file to play whenever you like?)
@freemo It was quoting you so I assume it should have been your post add inline in quotes so I don't have to type it out.. (i.e. clicking quote on a post, then typing my text which goes above quote?)
Ideas are usually a mutual endeavour...
@garyackerman Elated to hear back and sentiments received.
As a quick check Y/N or Maybe...
Do I read you correctly:
1- you might be looking to improve education if it gets results more obviously?
2- At this stage in life you are leaving it to next generation more often (while posting messages collected from your notes from the past online for people to learn from instead)?
3- You prefer not to do the same old and looking for new ways?
( Y/N/Maybe is fine )
Fast replies to people + pointing out people / groups not doing it on Fediverse...
1/ #Bestpractices for #Education #Fediverse
(TLDR for this = Fast replies to people)
2/ Pointing people out on #Mastodon #Fediverse
(TLDR for this = announcing / pointing out people / groups wanting help or contact but not doing it on Fediverse
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Longer answers for the 2 points:
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█1/ Faster replies to people makes things better online, both as an individual experience and in terms of development for makers / developers. For bigger groups to have dedicating people for faster contact I recommend...
The list of 1-way communication / broadcast-only / 0 response accounts is actually quite high or higher than they say (e.g. "this is a broadcast only account") even for good things on #Fediverse that seemingly want support (or just money?)
█2/ I might make a list of 0 responders as I go and of those lacking individuals clarity - it's not ideal to point but I think reasonably it's a culture ultimately or cultural ultimatum we're all facing to change / interact on Fediverse, and frankly not good enough if the goals are highly same not to have a way on Fefiverse to use reply button! 📨
so without forcing people indirectly or bullying but pointing a bit I think is fair, else they can let me know / put in their bio "why we don't answer back" as fair expectation.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Experience
Oh shit another person on my - reply list replied... :) thank you (:
https://qoto.org/@garyackerman/111767408491510915
█ If you the reader are not sure or defensive, then put "tentative to reply" or something short at the top... just as a sign to expect hesitation but that you "don't want to block completely but reduce / find exactly what we can work on quickly"
#BetterPractices short version
How to spread alternative links and educate people better...
(like Invidious / Nitter links etc...)
1- pump out alternative links (like invidious / anti-advertising links personally (for youtube or https://nitter.net/DrStranglelove/ etc)
2 - people try it more often
(make *all your links* are invidious)
3- others catch on / find it less strange / respect it...
4- they become a source of links themselves in their own profiles or life (copying and pasting more often / joining the anti stuff more politically
5- others try their links from their new habit in the same way and repeat this process to continue the wave of education to others ... ![]()
Not sure if that's normal to say 'Unlisted quote' when I quoted you @freemo (screenshot part below)
It hits home when it comes to the root of the problem really... Police clearly play by different rules and have different laws than the rest of us. Thats what happens when you have qualified immunity and prosecuting illegal activity is entirely at their discretion.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins hehe "issue a warning to self" that would be true justice :) and a way to make 'systems' of people better processes since it can be occasionally conflicting if there is more than one law and one law has more priority than another other law (so "issuing to self" could be a way to flag that!)
Kinda nice for a complaints department or true just system to review this flags or flagged issues
(rather than in commercial systems use it to design by-passes or hide flagged problems even more somehow).
It's about changing / opening our minds...
I give people time and I thnk that's the difference to others online who really don't have or give time and give up on people really easy... (don't mean to be competitive, no put-downs, just I more dedicate time to others and weave us together).
So you don't even have to read any of this because EVERYTHING needs time + communication and without that a lot is broken and even less human even if it's for good...
Just follow and put notifications on to TEST MY FEED.... the rest below is just over-info for most poeple.
Open Learning School or Freedom University...
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A lot you might be at length and depth, but if you're easy about it, you can take the best and even take me along to understand life with others!
To learn and do everything practically! (this is a practical living (and gets stuff done as much as we can).
Fan of Fediverse!
Quick Look - peace-loving work / services:
█ Mini-Podcast (few mins each, examples below)
█ Picture remixes / video remixes
█ Lessons without being too 'teacher' about it. Teacher has teeth for eliminating doubt.
█ Food for thought as gentle soul also.
█ Unique ideas - often impossible for professionals (they are burdened by financial repsonsibility and therefore associational risk in saying things). I'm more diverse and occasionally direct (with respect, though I don't shy away from reminding people).
█ Not too embarrassing to say "I don't know" but can still chase things.
█ More responsive than casual users usually because people think having 'job' is enough in life. I say it's not! And even faimily is of no use if it's only getting worse (in everything!).
Podcast Examples:
1. Gary Ackerman's thoughts on AI
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111867522723922385
2. The Little Prince book
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845561003150354
3. Fantasy genre from a fan's perspective
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845709367492677
I help people create audio / edit educational audio / podcast / music / visual short videos / transcript text
+ I like to add a bit humour while being quite strict in my own politics (opinions) but open / inviting for others to tell me what I should do if they can explain more than just a short comment (I don't mind it's healthy for me at least if you have logic and can stand yourself explaining).
FreeSchool is about Learning towards Freedom (which is about Uniting everyone slowly, even "1 by 1"... Easy with The Fediverse!
Not virtue signalling here only, but practise of EVERYTHING as we go. Judged by getting in contact (many have) and having courage to communicate (or seeking it from others is ok, EVERYONE needs a bit of courage or hand-holding to make big personal changes). Who else is there for example if family doesn't understand?
Learning and watching can be good and staying out of people's way, BUT better is doing something every day and helping each other with some tough decisions / lessons... and then being bold enough to do them. 1... 2... 3 that is all that's needed.
Let my posts do most of the talking.
Put me on notification (click bell that appears after follow ia accepted) and if it's not interesting switch off after and tick me off the list of potential people to follow daily!
Media version of my posts here... open link for later... good for visual scrolling version and judge me on that I don't mind...
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/media
I'm usually impressed with my media gallery as I work on posts a lot usually or hit the "Aha!" moments and capture it (other people may forget it for years, not me!).
Freedom is about *making it work together* better like using #Mastodon on the #Fediverse daily for better platforms with more #bestpractices and 'best' people to help us which I kind of collect here and
when it's #1 comment!
I am measurably better because I reply and stick to everything to the end(!)
No cancelling friendship suddenly without saying why or being moody!
Freedom is to Learn, Respect and Love eventually and ️to Unite!
Practically it's also like Tetris - add yourself to the puzzle and watch it all happen...
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talk more on Mastodon and the Fediverse and puzzle it all out using better ways to less use the other bad commercial / extractive people...
L£$$ of the less caring people like the ggl's / ytb / gmail / mainstream communication points etc who are offering lots of space 'free' and it's not free of peace there.
We GIVE to real people (TIME NOT JUST MONEY).
There's no buy-in solution - we have to make it with selotape or whatever we have - it's not shameful to bring whatever you have.
FreeSchool is terminology put together from many good things from past (coined in 1950's/60's. I / we become it eventually through being.
It's a movement for Freedom via Learning it all (learning self included and less active stuff) and doing the learning *together* --> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeschool.
I encourage you warmly to participate with me as a I have time and then spiral out naturally to others (we are part of humanity and so naturally a sort of evangelism or ecological pyramid of life as we choose to spread lesser suffering while accepting consuming is part of it).
Less-commercial in orientation (in everything) and happy to think / work for free.
Naturally you will hesitate if someone is sure of themself or ok standing on shoulders what we copy do the best from humbly but not too sterile either.
Based on just emotions ruins almost everything, which seems very common - very ungraceful - so don't disconnect... do it gracefully at least!
A "school" of thought is here you can interact / ask and make best together as free/low cost as possible.
Even a bad answer you can take best from (of course I won't know all your situation when I suggest something but I don't need to answer 100% - you also need to help me!).
Leave perfectionism, we are all imperfect humans! Let's do it... Choose something ANYTHING and keep the thoughts rolling together...!
All content under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA-NC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1 Thereby, ideally, only using tools and resources that are #FLOSS #OpenSource. #nobot