Fermentation, horse dairy
I had airag for the first time today.
It tastes a bit like a combination between champagne and a fancy cheese. It's not very sweet, pretty sour, and much smoother in texture than I was expecting. The aroma is basically champagne, at least of the kind I had.
It's a milky, pale liquid that's mildly effervescent and often has little drops of oil floating on the surface. It has about 2% abv. It's a little funny, but not too bad, especially if you have it with some crackers or similar, the way you'd pair a cheese or yogurt with grain.
Because it's a bit like champagne meets a cheese, I do wonder if we'll see some kind of westernization of the stuff sometime in the next decade. It reminds me a bit of khombucha in that way.
Anyways, would recommend, have it with some friends, it's pretty cool.
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A screen reader for Linux (GUI) is being developed in Rust. If anyone knows Rust and would like to help, or to just view the great work taking shape here, see:
more times communism worked
Question from somebody on discord who doesn't have mastodon since y'all know hosting stuff
"Idk if this is the right channel for it, but do yous happen to know any good website hosting services for sites containing pornographic art and weird leftist zines? Ive been wantin to put my stuff on its own site but its hard to find places that are willing to host that. Im esp interested in co-op/nonheirarchical ones."
mh, COVID-19 booster shot eligibility (+)
the CDC added mental health conditions to the list of underlying medical conditions they consider to increase risk of severe COVID-19, which is the same list that most areas in the US are using to determine booster eligibility
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mental-disorder-cdc-covid-eligibility/2021/10/27/2a45eea0-32ae-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html
• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html ("Mental health conditions" section)
Finally for Ace Week, if I'm allowed to self-promo a bit, I'm an asexual author who has published two books with asexual protagonists and ace romance.
Trying to write the kind of books I've always wanted to read!
BOOKS & BONE is a haunted but oddly sweet story of librarians and necromancy.
https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/books-and-bone-by-Victoria-Corva/
NON-PLAYER CHARACTER is a cosy queer portal fantasy where a group of TTRPG nerds in their 30s must navigate the world of their game.
https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/non-player-character-by-victoria-corva/
Come hang out with actual clowns as they take a break from reality to spend the night encouraging levity (and defying gravity) in the #CircusInPlace video chat!
The fun starts at 8pm UTC-5:
antitrust case against Google; collusion with Facebook & Microsoft
"Ok so, I just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and I have to say that either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we'll find out which.
Unordered list of fun things I learned:
- google has a secret deal with facebook called "Jedi Blue" that they knew was so illegal that it has a whole section describing how they'll cover for each other if anyone finds out
- google appears to have a team called gTrade that is wholly dedicated to ad market manipulation
- Google is willing to do almost everything to prevent people from circumventing their ad exchanges
- This is what AMP is about
- Google habitually insider trades on their ad exchanges in every way you can think of and every way you can't.
- Google has worked with Facebook and Microsoft to discourage them from increasing user privacy, lamenting occasions where they prioritized their reputation over their collective business interest
- Google had a plan called "Project NERA" to turn the web into a walled garden they called "Not Owned But Operated". A core component of this was the forced logins to the chrome browser you've probably experienced (surprise!)
"
from: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452053938195341314
Friend received a corporate-branded copy of the game Monopoly from their workplace as a thank you. I can appreciate the thought, but there's something extra dystopian about a multimillion-dollar company sending its employees a branded version of a game whose theme is "it is impossible to ethically succeed at capitalism"
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
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