Some people show you love in the quietest of ways.
My wife is baking us banana-nut bread using my mom's recipe. I watched her prepare the ingredients from a picture of the original recipe card on her phone.
"How come you don't just transcribe the recipe into your recipe app?" I asked her.
"I like reading it in her handwriting" she said.
And now I'm in my study quietly sniffling into my coffee...
#Introduction
I was never on twitter, but I figured I'd try out Mastodon. I'm a chemist and chemical biologist by training and my work comes home a bit too often as an amateur baker. I've done bike commuting in worse climates with better infrastructure (Fort Collins, CO and PDX) and better climates with much worse infrastructure (Orange County, CA). Anti-car, pro-community. #Science#Chemistry#ChemicalBiology#Baking#Biking#BikeCommuting
I guess I should do an introduction... I joined Mastodon way back when Twitter imploded (not that I was on Twitter, but it seemed like the place to be), but really didn't figure it out. Now that Reddit's imploding, I'm gonna give it a real shot. I read that it's only polite to do an intro so here I am.
I go by Krispy in every place except work, I'm 36, married, with a dog, two cats, and two snakes. I don't have kids and do not plan to. I have a variety of hobbies, some outdoor (biking, disc golf, birdwatching, etc), some more sedentary (video games, board games, reading, etc), some creative (miniature painting, fountain pen/handwriting, TTRPGs), and some consumptive (tea, baking)... I'm probably missing some.
I love animals/wildlife/ecology. I got my Masters in wildlife parasitology and though I don't use that in my career, I've kept that curiosity and interest. I'm obsessed with paleontology and obscure animals.
I love stories, mostly fantasy, sci fi, mystery/thriller, romance, in virtually any medium. I'm currently playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, reading Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan, listening to A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie, and watching Drag me to Dinner.
I have a strong science background and believe in questioning everything, but with the understanding that I can't know everything and much in life is unintuitive, so something not making sense to me does not mean it's wrong.
I have no idea how to find people to follow, so if anyone makes it to the end of this and thinks I seem interesting enough to follow, I'll follow you back... I'll start there.
I've been on Masto for several years, but not very active. I recently changed instances, and never did an #introduction post before, so here we go!
I'm a photographer based on Halifax, NS, Canada, though my day job is as a software developer. My main interests are, in no particular order, #photography, home #baking & #cooking, #programming, #security, #equality, and #cats. Many others, but yeah.
My own posts will be mostly photography focused, and with that, here's a photo of my fluffy boy.
I live in the neighborhood of King Arthur Flour. Great products, great classes, employee-owned, and a commitment to diversity. It's a good time to show them your support!
I baked a loaf of bread the other day, first time in years, maybe decades. Baking bread from scratch makes you feel like you can do anything! And it smells great.
My name is Bea and I’m a front-end software engineer with a strong passion for #accessibility. You’ll see posts of my senior cat, Artemis, during #caturday. He is the sweetest orange tabby. I’m currently studying #herbalism with a focus on serving BIPOC folks and anti-colonialism.
Witches! As I melt in this current heatwave I am reminded of a thing I used to do back in my witchblr days.
The great Autumnal Summoning... with pie!
The first week or so of Sept I encouraged as many witches who could to bake pies. And in doing so, focus their intent and magical energy on channeling cooler, autumn weather.
I made my first ever batch of Soul Cakes today! Hopefully, they'd get the approval of Mrs Ward or Mrs Gill, who continued the tradition on in their little parts of Shropshire 💚
I figured it was finally time for a new #introduction post, so here goes.
Hi, I’m Deanna (they/them) :blobfoxwave:. I’m nonbinary and genderfluid. I’ve moved around Europe a lot, before finding my home in #Finland. I have #misophonia and I’ve been dealing with #LongCovid since mid 2020.
I work as a physicist studying some of the cool stuff that happened in the early universe. I’m very passionate about science #outreach and I’ve been doing #cosmology livestreams - called #CupOfCosmology - since late 2015 (link in bio). I'm also open about my struggles with #MentalHealth in academia, and my experience as #LGBTQInSTEM and as a (perceived) #WomanInSTEM.
I love meeting new people, so feel free to follow and interact!
Hi I’m Nika (they/them) and my hobbies are gaming, cooking and baking, knitting and crocheting. I bake my own sourdough bread since 2015. I organise my life with a bullet journal.
I speak German and English.
My posts will be written in English most of the time.
"If everything you know is passed through word of mouth and from generation to generation—if the land and olive trees are gone, and the places that birthed recipes and stories are gone—stories are all that’s left."
Genuinely I believe that most people (including me a few years ago) think they can’t bake or make bread because there are so many awful recipes on the internet.
Use a good book, or a great resource like King Arthur’s Recipes, AND a scale, and things get so much easier