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lots of ADHD, likes knitting, cooking, nerdy stuff,

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RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

bubblewrap,
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@RickiTarr I live in Karlsruhe in Germany
Pros:
it is pretty okay for biking.
It is big enough to have a nice choice of shops and restaurants.
It is not so big that getting to the other side of the city feels like a big trip.
It is the warmest bigger city in Germany.
The black forest is not far for hiking.
There are several lakes close by.
Good farmers markets.
France and french cheese is only 25mins away.
The cost of living is not too bad.

bubblewrap,
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@RickiTarr cons:
It is the warmest bigger city in Germany
In summer it can be excruciatingly hot and humid
Winter is mostly wet and gray.
It is maybe not the coolest city with the most avantgarde cultural life (although it's not too bad either)
The city is only 300 years old so there is hardly any old town to speak of.

bubblewrap,
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@RickiTarr yeah In Germany not so much, there are cities founded by the Romans not too far away, so in comparison it feels very young.
Also the city was planned with big(ish) streets along a radial grid, which may also give it a less ancient and more modern/turn of the century vibe. Also also I really like old towns with half timber houses and twisted alleyways and miss this here sometimes

bubblewrap, to random German
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Well in the few moments when it's not raining, it is quite nice here actually

bubblewrap, to random German
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I think I finally found a visual representation of my gender!
This is from a paper from sigbovik titled "Gender is Complex: pulling the Laplacian EigenGender from
relationship graphs"

skinnylatte, to food
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There are parallels between super foods, trendy ethnic foods and the wellness industry:

“It is no accident that (sexy trendy super foods) are usually from the Global South. Where, may not matter. The idea that the food should be from somewhere that is ‘elsewhere’, an elsewhere that is somehow ‘less’ and therefore exploitable is crucial”

The show also says it’s a new form of Orientalist spice trade, but you don’t even know where it comes from anymore

https://www.whetstonemagazine.com/radio/bad-table-manners/episode-9

#Food #Podcasts

bubblewrap,
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@skinnylatte While this is true and a lot of superfoods come from the global south for me the funniest "superfood" is still kale.
Here in Germany kale was for me (in south germany) this veg for traditional northern german very hearty food where you cook the kale to death and eat it with sausages and more meat and potatoes (like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkel). Now it is suddenly a health food to be put in smoothies.

Fischblog, to random German
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Weitere Termine für wissenschaftliche Whiskytastings.

(inoffiziell/geplant ☝️)

  1. Mai Karlsruhe

  2. Juni Online

  3. August Berlin

tbd Heidelberg

tbd Hamburg

tbd Offenbach

bubblewrap,
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@Fischblog Hm, schenk ich das meinem Freund zum Geburtstag? Aber es gab erst vorletztes Weihnachten ein Whiskytasting bei der lokalen Brennerei, dann ist das ja fast etwas unkreativ. Also die andere Idee aktuell ist ein Schmiedekurs

bubblewrap,
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@Fischblog bzw. gibt es schon einen Ort in Karlsruhe?

bubblewrap,
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@Fischblog danke

bubblewrap, to knitting German
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My partner has a 3d printer since 3 days. I now have neon green cat shaped markers!

MCDuncanLab, to random
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Our grad programs have mandatory once-a-week courses where students present to other students with a few faculty in attendance.

The goal is for students to get to practice public speaking and to share techniques/info between labs.

I attended one yesterday and was shocked to see at least four students knitting, many students glued to their phones, and others working on their computers.

Is it not considered rude to obviously ignore a speaker anymore?

bubblewrap,
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@MCDuncanLab @SnoopJ I have to do something with my hands while listening to a talk or my mind wanders completely. I was able to retain a lot more from my university lectures when I started knitting, than without. Especially when the slides were available so you don't have to write down everything that the professor is writing/showing. I would say that knitting can be a very socially acceptable fidget/stim toy.

Fischblog, to random German
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Moin allerseits.
Protipp: findet dieser Tage mal raus, ob ihr und euer Umfeld gegen geimpft seid, besonders die Kinder. Und wenn irgendwo ne Lücke ist, holt das ASAP nach.

bubblewrap,
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@Fischblog seit 8 Jahren oder so ja. Hatte einen anthro Kinderarzt, der Masernimpfung unnötig fand und meine Mutter überzeugt hatte, dass eine Infektion besser sei. Als ich dann mit 14 immer noch keine Masern hatte (zum Glück) gab's zumindest eine impfdosis. Und als ich dann vor ein paar Jahren mich gegen fsme impfen lassen wollte, hatte die Ärztin erstmal alles nachgeholt was sonst noch gefehlt hatte (mmr 2. Dosis, Tetanus...)

bubblewrap, to knitting
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I want to knit a baby cardigan out of this yarn but I can't decide on the pattern, can the fediverse help me decide? poll in the next toot

bubblewrap, to knitting
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just a heads up for anyone interested in Hunter Hammersen knitting patterns. They are back for this week. Most of her patterns were retired last year, but they will come back twice a year (once in early summer, once in late autumn). I just love her creativity and pattern writing skills . https://payhip.com/tinynonsense

bubblewrap, to random German
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Und immer die Frage bei Metalkonzerten, ist das jetzt ein nazi/nsbm Shirt oder Ironie oder Provokation? Also in dem Fall ein Skelett mit Pickelhaube und dem Text "für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland, 1914".

kristinHenry, to random
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Hey! Do you have ideas for drawing prompts? Especially for SciArt?

Reply with a single word prompt, and if we get enough, I'll work on making a prompt list tonight and post it for tomorrow.

?

bubblewrap,
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@kristinHenry size

jon, to random
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Question ONLY for followers of mine using Android, Windows and Linux

What apps are you using to access Mastodon? Are they free? And would you recommend them to others?

And on Windows and Linux are the apps significantly better than the Mastodon advanced web interface for you?

(I know the Mac / iOS app environment well already)

bubblewrap,
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@jon I use tusky on android, it's free, and I would definitely recommend it.

jon, to random
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Ahhh 😊

This is the sort of thing that makes me happy to be back in Germany

Störtebeker Pilsener. A really good pils. For just €1,29 at my local REWE

If only you could get anything like this, for anything close to this price, in Bourgogne

bubblewrap,
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@jon I mean we brought back more beer from our trip to Brittany than from czechia, but you're right it wasn't cheap. Also these were all breton beers mostly from the same town where we were staying, probably other parts parts of france are more wine country.

bubblewrap,
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@jon But also I definitely learned in France as well as Czechia that you can make really great (craft) beer if you aren't bound by the Reinheitsgebot or rather the current beer laws of Germany (yes I know they also prevent the worst kind of industrial beer). I had a really great apricot sour beer from Nancy, a blanche beer made with sea water, and generally beers with interesting spices and flavors added.

bubblewrap, to ADHD German
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That feel of: let's just grab a sweater before going to the farmers market, right I wanted to tidy up the closet, oh these sweaters and jeans really need to be mended, I should at least mark all the fragile bits. And then it's somehow at least an hour later and you still don't have a sweater on.

esther, to random

I still haven't found the right water bottle. I don't know why I'm being so picky about it either. The result is just that I don't have a water bottle at all.

Putting perfect before good here really. Thanks, brain.

This is more of a vent that anything else but hey, if you know now that fits these criteria, let me know:

  • made of metal
  • no complicated straw/spout mechanism that needs constant cleaning (Berlin water is very hard and creates calcification quickly)
  • red
  • 0.5 liters
  • a way to hook it to something, wither at the cap or the body

Bonus points for:

  • ability to open and close with one hand
  • customisable, e.g. with engraving
bubblewrap,
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@esther How about a (maybe boring) SIGG bottle? They last forever (well if you don't lose the one you used for decades in the tram) are actually by default red, althoough there are about a million other designs, and the cap has a loop that you could hook into e.g. a carabiner.

bubblewrap,
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@esther I just had a look at their online shop, apparently you can personalise your bottle directly there. I haven't tested it, but here is their tool: https://sigg.com/de/sigg-unique-bottle/?sku=8326.90

bubblewrap, to random German
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Telekom-dude klingelt an der Tür um VDSL zu verkaufen (was wir eh schon längst von denen direkt haben) und fragt erst Mal ob meine Eltern da seien.
Ich bin 34 und wohne seit 15 Jahren über 200km von meinen Eltern entfernt, habe dann sehr gelacht.

bubblewrap, to knitting German
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Knitters of Mastodon I need your help in deciding what to do with all my nice single soft variegated fingering weight yarn in mostly greens and blues. There are 15 skeins of nice yarns. I don't need one project for all of them together but I also don't need 15 one-skein shawlettes. Do you have good ideas for projects that use at least 2 colours, but with mostly coordinating colours? @knitting

bubblewrap,
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@knitting just to make it clear my problem is that these are all in itself mostly very variegated yarns and also the colours have mostly very little contrast to each other

bubblewrap,
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@knitting thanks for all the ideas. there where quite a few ideas for shawls with low contrast. I will probably also knit some mitts and gloves as I lost one of each of my pairs this winter. This still means I have to decide which patterns and what to knit first, but I have ideas.

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