ArtBear

ArtBear, 4 months ago to vegan

Making sausage sandwiches! I'm like a trailblazing culinary genius with this amazing idea I invented!! #Veganuary #Vegan #Plantbased

I will say I really like the Linda McCartney Red Onion & Rosemary bangers. Proper tasty!

#Cooking #Food #NewYearResolutions

ArtBear, 4 months ago to fediverse

Chpt.1
Where am I?
Is this the #Fediverse? What is the #Mastodon? How do I #Firefish? Am I #Pixelfed? Do I #Lemmy? Deja-vu with the #Catodon?

Hi there👋
This is a good place to be!
My thread here condenses the key learning I've made so far about Fediverse, in case it helps others.

Click this post if needed, scroll down, to read more below.👇
#FediTips #Help #New #Welcome #Newbie

ArtBear, 3 months ago to climate

Stats worth remembering.

If we ate mostly plant based diets, nature would get around 75% of the planet's fertile land back. Our oceans would recover too. Simplest solution for carbon capture, natural world, climate resilience, food chain preservation & biodiversity. A massive step to a sustainable and safer future for humans.

Studies show that shifting to a plant-based food system would release fertile land the size of combining the entire United States, China, the European Union, and Australia.

#climateChange #climateCrisis #environment #agriculture #vegan #plantBased #plantBasedFuture
@vegan @plantbased

ArtBear, 4 months ago to Help

I lost all my people as the migration off the (rather broken) Firefish.social server hasn't worked properly.

Could ppl boost this post please so I can reconnect with folks again?

Much appreciated! ❤️#Introduction #help

ArtBear, 3 months ago to Meme

Those toms.

#Meme #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

ArtBear, 4 months ago to random

I'm giving Catodon.social a go.
Unfortunately Firefish.social has become so broken it doesn't even respect migration requests (let alone post downloads). So a lot of people will miss seeing my move 🫣. I suppose people will find me again over time, but that's a real shame for a server to get that neglected.
I do also have my @ArtBear account which I won't be migrating (it's just offline for DB maintenance for a few hours, don't freak out anyone).

Why Catodon?
I'm sure other projects are interesting too.
I liked how @panos interacted & was committed to community building on #firefish.social. I feel like it's important for any dev team to have in mind Community, not just features, nor just admin, nor just moderation it's all really important but community is the base. I liked how he posted his frustrations with the very large parts of the firefish project that were not a team endeavour that could be picked up & redistributed, but solely resting on only 1 individual. I like the Catodon mission statement about being a team wanting to dev for a lot of servers, and not dev for some mega flagship server (which is a vulnerability of fedi. decentralised & well distributed is good). Also the 1st set of improvement notes were really good at logical cleanup, changes & taking the good parts of stalled firefish forward again, but in a more streamlined direction.

Right away #Catodon feels like an old friend, I really missed:

markdown!
awesome super customisable UI!
properly rendered links so you don't have to click away!
multi links in a single post!
proper quote posts! (really it's users, not features!)
threading display so you actually know if you're in a thread & where!
floating user info cards with actions like follow (not clicking away to a profile)!
custom emoji reactions! (like 😻 or 🥴not just ⭐!)
custom feeds & also lists, are amazingly flexible, you really need to try them!
widgets!
storage with all media for re-use (with editable #altText!!)!
search your contentsearchbox [search]post controls!
blogs (pages)!
forums (channels)!
8000 word limit (be afraid, be very afraid muhahaha!)
and so much more...

Anyway, here's to a new #Fedi adventure! ​:catodon:​💜🐻🎉

ArtBear, 3 months ago to random

Billionaires are not wealth creators, they are wealth extractors and wealth hoarders. Each billionaire is evidence of society failing on costs of living vs wages, failing on taxation, and crucially failing on reinvestment. #NoBillionaires

ArtBear, 2 months ago to unpopularopinion

#UnpopularOpinion, if people in #USA & #UK on here are serious about 2024 elections & not losing to Republicans & Conservatives in 2024 they need to spend more time talking to swing voters.

That means either getting them in here, on #Fedi, or talking to them where they are.

ArtBear, 4 months ago to music

I like to share music sometimes. Here's a big varied playlist with quite a lot of new music and more obscure tracks. Most of these I've shared as individual track posts on the #Fedi using the tag #bearTracks.

A thread of different #playlist for a wide range of #music tastes.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Cfnw4ZRUGfr86nPRbdJX5?si=b8650e2a3e1c4612

ArtBear, 3 months ago to random

Which of the Mastodon' front ends add extra functionality you really appreciate?

For example sengi would split long posts up so they ran over several threaded posts. I thought that was pretty cool!

Didn't one of the Masto front ends do quote posts?

ArtBear, 3 months ago to Georgia

Making coconut sweet potato lentil curry and listening to today's new releases like
#Georgia - Too Much Too Little
open.spotify.com/track/6uB9IlAd8cad9y7yDCeALb?si=wzOUcv8ISA2dKe33TV7Pqg #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #BearTracks #JukeboxFridayNight

ArtBear, 4 months ago to vegan

So has anyone tried these new plantbased marbled steaks that are cheaper than meat steaks apparently?

From #JuicyMarbles, they're selling in Tesco in the UK and on their webstore and various supermarkets internationally.
#Plantbased #Vegan #Food
https://vegconomist.com/company-news/juicy-marbles-whole-cuts-tesco-lower-price-animal-steak/
@vegan @cooking @cooking

ArtBear, 4 months ago to Finland

Functional democracy, + collective bargaining.
#Finland #CollectiveBargaining #Unions #NoBillionaires

ArtBear, 2 months ago to Ukraine

Big shout out to all the folks who can't decide between:

Candidate A who:
Wants to increase genocide in #Ukraine.
Wants to increase genocide in #Gaza.
Wants genocide in #USA.
Will happily order quadruple genocide with a side order of fries.
Doesn't do science, facts or truth.
Does do lies, crimes, conspiracy theories.
Wants to infect you with COVID.
Wants to end democracy in US.
Has tried to end democracy in US.
Is trying again.
Wants to deport or imprison minorities & critics.
Is a racist rapist mobster.
Has committed treason in multiple ways.

Candidate B who:
Hasn't stopped genocide in Gaza.
#Trump #Biden

ArtBear, 2 months ago to random

Mediterranean feel.
#TinyHomes

ArtBear, 3 months ago to random

Everyone cares, until they have to do something themselves.

ArtBear, 3 months ago to random

The core problem with how algorithms are implemented is they try and show you things you are already familiar with. Instead of broadening your horizons, they confirm your biases.

Not having algorithms here is a huge step forward.

Additionally, I'd sometimes like to have an optional feed that is just posts that haven't been replied to. There should be enough air in the room for everyone to get heard sometimes.

ArtBear, 3 months ago to fasting

Intermittent #Fasting & #workout question.

Do you think having tea with oat milk during the day probably 1 big mug sometimes 2 before afternoon workout breaks/drgrades the intermittent fasting effect?

ArtBear, 2 months ago to Israel

#LetsTalkAbout how did #GeorgeGalloway get shock #byelection win in #Rochdale Labour safe seat?

#Labour took a minus 44% swing having suspended their own candidate over comments on #Israel & #Gaza.

#Galloway won by campaigning on Gaza ceasefire discontent and dissatisfaction with Labour's lack of socialist policies mostly, but also campaigned against trans rights wokeness etc in parts of the constituency. Showing a much more sophisticated micro targeting & granular political machine than most independents can ever muster/afford.

Nominally pro-gaza pro-Muslim Galloway also received support from radical islamaphobe, far right white nationalist Nick Griffin. Which makes absolutely no sense what so ever.

Unless you put stock in factoring they are both the sort of extremist divisive agitators that #Moscow & #Putin seeks to support in driving wedges in to democracies.

The sad loss for the people of Rochdale was decent local independent #DavidTully with a normal independents low level election machine and backing only came in second place. After being entirely ignored by mainstream media, as a decent not inflammatory candidate with integrity that doesn't bait clicks.

Galloway, called a divisive grifter by some & regular on #RussiaToday channel, will doubtless continue to get completely outsized media coverage as an 'exciting figure' that generates views. Many politicians and commentators are already using this upset to 'prove' the UK electorate support some version of their personal views.

My personal views are this demonstrates #Westminster and #Media are failing voters.
#UK #Politics #UKPol

Galloway's shape shifting campaign. Far right language campaign letter.
Galloway's shape shifting campaign. Leftist language campaign letter.

ArtBear, 3 months ago to HashtagGames

The Hunt For Red Hot Chili

#ChiliAMovieShowOrPlay
#HashTagGames

ArtBear, 2 months ago to random

Rendering of a #TinyHomes concept with a definite design nod to solar panel facing / yield. Although I wonder a little about the pitch angle / latitude.

ArtBear, 2 months ago to random

I think when Auto Correct typed on my phone to complain about it, and it autocorrected itself to
Auto Irrelevant
is just about right!!!

ArtBear, 1 month ago to random

Non-voters, whether for protest or political apathy or other reasons, are so crucial to establishment control.

In the 2016 US presidential election 43.2% of voting age didn't vote.

54.8% voted
24.7% for Hilary
26.3% for Trump
3.8% for others

Even just a small chunk of that 43.2% could have made Trump now a distant memory of failure that was quickly abandoned, and shifted the US political landscape majorly towards more progressive policies, just by denying success to the republicans.

ArtBear, 1 month ago to ai

Pinterest takes my award for most annoying and useless platform on the internet.

Every link to there is trash that never actually shows you what you clicked on. I quite genuinely detest that site and feel like the internet would be a more functional place without #Pinterest clickbait BS mis-directions infesting (image) searches.

Long before #AI was turning everything to crap, Pinterest was already fire-hosing search with BS.

ArtBear, 7 days ago to random

Still haven't seen a single person anywhere, explain how Trump means less genocide.