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chiraag

@chiraag@mastodon.online

#democraticsocialist #engineer #scientist #antifascist #vegan #cis #intersectional #antiracist #antisexist #prohuman #freepalestine #tootfinder

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futurebird , to random
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If you see a new youTube channel with a plain sounding name like "NatureView" or "BrightScience" etc. and there is what looks like a tempting video on a specific education topic "Most Active Volcanoes" or "Incredible Carnivorous Plants"

There is a 50/50 chance it will be a generated voice with stock footage and a script written by GPT.

I am now avoiding videos if I don't recognize the creator, or don't see signs it was made by a person.

So much spam!

chiraag ,
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@futurebird Oh god, it's started 😔

So thankful I found creators I like before all of this bullshit started flooding everything. Most are on Nebula too, which is an added bonus (hardly go to YT anymore except for a few channels I can't watch on Nebula).

chiraag , to palestine group
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This piece was shut down by the board which oversees the Columbia Law Review before being uploaded to another website to keep it available:

https://static.al2.in/toward-nakba-as-a-legal-concept.pdf

@palestine @israel

pluralistic , to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Joseph Cox's "Dark Wire"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/04/anom-nom-nom/

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chiraag ,
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@pluralistic @josephcox

mondoweiss , to palestine group
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Indiana University's "Liberation Commencement" was a celebration of the students' brave commitment to fighting powerful institutions and their involvement in challenging Zionism and the Palestinian genocide.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/a-tale-of-two-commencements-how-gaza-solidarity-encampments-are-changing-the-way-we-see-university-education/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

chiraag ,
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@KathyLK @mondoweiss @palestine @israel Palestinians' lands should not have been stolen to create the Jewish state. The mere existence of Israel in the place it is today depends on ignoring the Palestinians whose land was stolen by a colonial power to give to European and American Jews fleeing antisemitism at home. Whether or not you agree that there should be a Jewish ethnostate, Israel was built on theft and murder.

chiraag ,
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@nicholas_saunders @KathyLK @mondoweiss @palestine @israel So are you disputing that Palestinians were living on what is now considered Israel?

chiraag ,
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@nicholas_saunders @KathyLK @mondoweiss @palestine @israel You're evading the question. Palestinians were living in the area now called Israel before Israel was created. They were subsequently kicked out to enable European and American Jews (who were and are just as American or European as anyone else) to move in. We can talk about how we should address this fact, but trying to deny this fact is denying history.

And I never beat my wife, so the question is meaningless.

chiraag ,
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@KathyLK @nicholas_saunders @mondoweiss @palestine @israel The only way this make sense is if you're implying that European Jews are more Jew than European (i.e. they aren't "true" Europeans). People have been scattered from whatever homelands for dozens of reasons over millenia - does that mean they can just go back and kick out whoever's living there now?

chiraag ,
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@KathyLK @nicholas_saunders @mondoweiss @palestine @israel Put another way: Should indigenous Americans be able to kick all other people off their land in the US, Canada, Mexico, etc? What about Maori in New Zealand? How about indigenous Australians?

mondoweiss , to israel group
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The current American threats to sanction the ICC could spell the death of International Law. Whatever little hope people had for a just international system will disappear.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/biden-and-congress-are-destroying-international-law-for-israel/


@palestine @israel

chiraag ,
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@Flowermob @nabz123 @ViXY_DBC @mondoweiss @palestine @israel It is simultaneously true that Biden is actively supporting a genocide in Gaza and that Trump would actively be worse - not only for Gaza, but for Americans as well. Both things can be true and people are allowed to be horrified about the fact that we are forced to choose between two genocidal maniacs. The fact that Biden has done some other good stuff does not erase this.

chiraag , to random
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Making myself available as a resource for anyone leaving Windows for Linux due to Recall (as if the ads and other built-in spyware weren't enough...).

loren , to random
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i thought this video was a really nice overview of periodical cicadas. i definitely learned some things!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5yTNdVb68

chiraag ,
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@loren Yes! Real Science is also a part of Nebula (if you're not aware, Nebula is a creator-owned streaming service): https://nebula.tv/realscience/

mikeblake , to palestine group
@mikeblake@climatejustice.social avatar

"I hope you will receive it with love" 😭❤

Students in occupied Gaza.

from Middle East Eye Telegram channel
@palestine

Young girl speaking Arabic standing in the door of a school. Her words transcribed to the bottom of screen: "We the people of Gaza are very happy when we see American students standing with us and feeling for us. So we wanted to thank you in our own simple way. I hope you receive it with love. " She waves the camera into a one room building where about 20 children, ages 5 to 12 sit around a long table, holding signs with University names . The camera stops at each sign and the students say "Thank you Columbia. Thank you Emory. Thank you Sciences Po. Thank you Palacion. Thank you U.C.L.A. (I tear up here with their heartfelt precise pronunciations of each school name) Thank you Students for Justice for Palestine" Then the children all smile ear to ear and wave.

chiraag ,
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@mikeblake @palestine In before some jackass says "If it's a genocide, why are these children still alive?"

OwenTyme , to bookstodon group
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I just made a couple of posts on my blog, though neither should be too surprising to those that have been paying attention to my posts on Mastodon.

https://owentyme.us/blog/new-stores-for-my-books.html

https://owentyme.us/blog/she-goes-to-war-now-in-print.html

@bookstodon

chiraag ,
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@OwenTyme @bookstodon Nice to see Smashwords has decent revenue sharing! Or is just that there are fewer middlemen?

chiraag ,
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@OwenTyme @bookstodon Yeah, I like Smashwords for the DRM-free reason (it was one of the first places I started buying ebooks once I got a Kobo Libra).

rbreich , to random
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The most important thing I teach my students https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-thing-i-teach-555?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

chiraag ,
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@rbreich Have you considered migrating to something like @buttondown or Ghost? Especially since Substack doesn't seem to have any problems with hosting Nazis?

breadandcircuses , to random
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How many people alive today have read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair? Less than 1%, probably.

How many people have seen "Our Daily Bread" from 1934, or similarly subversive movies? Less than 1%, probably.

How many people have read "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn? Less than 1%, probably.

Almost everyone is traveling blind.

The education we receive and the cultural literacy we are allowed has been carefully crafted and controlled to serve the interests of our capitalist masters.

chiraag ,
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@breadandcircuses We read The Jungle in school! And I've read (and listened to) parts of APHotUS, though it's on my reading list.

Never heard of "Our Daily Bread"!

adachika192 , to palestine group
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-agrees-israels-rafah-plan-return-not-carrying-out-major-iran-strike?nid=354591&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=510791

US agrees to Israel's plan in return for not carrying out major strike: report (Middle East Eye, 2024-04-18)

@palestine

chiraag ,
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@adachika192 @palestine And the quick goosestep towards complete annihlation of Palestinians continues.

chiraag , to israel group
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Hey Germany,

So to atone for a genocide you perpetrated 80 years ago (and not only against Jews, but against Romani, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, etc), you're going to vocally support another country committing genocide? I guess any future Palestinian state would be justified in committing a second Shoah then, given all the murder of Palestinians Israel has been committing.

Right?

@germany @israel @palestine

chiraag OP ,
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@YakyuNightOwl @germany @israel @palestine Sure. My point is that Germany's reasoning leads to a very dark place.

Strandjunker , to random
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Here’s the deal: Women stop having sex with men until Congress protects Roe v. Wade.

chiraag ,
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@Strandjunker Going all Lysistrata, I see 🤣 As a man, I approve.

eeyam , to palestine group
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I thought we had reached a certain level of obscenity in this genocide but apparently not..

FYI. There are no routine amputations for handcuff injuries. This is plain torture.

@palestine

chiraag ,
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@eeyam @palestine How much do you want to bet they don't use anasthesia?

appassionato , to palestine group
@appassionato@mastodon.social avatar

Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker who was killed in an IDF attack in Gaza.

Australian PM Anthony Albanese says the death of an Australian aid worker in Gaza is “completely unacceptable” and “beyond any reasonable circumstances”, saying the government will call in the Israeli ambassador and contact Israel’s government.

Albanese says the government is demanding “full accountability” over the death.

@palestine



chiraag ,
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@appassionato @palestine Ah yes, it's only once Western people start dying that these governments even pretend to care. Ugh.

faab64 , to israel group

How do you argue with this level of inhumanity?

@palestine @israel

chiraag ,
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@SonofaGeorge @faab64 @palestine @israel It never had one - it was always built on stolen land and on the backs of oppressed Palestinians.

chiraag ,
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@SonofaGeorge @faab64 @palestine @israel Not nearly the only one (the US is absolutely another such country - we have so much to atone for as a nation, so much harm to repair).

jeffowski , to random
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chiraag ,
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@jeffowski I'd be happy because I can't eat Krispy Kreme anymore 😉🤣

pluralistic , to random
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Earlier this month, Ed Pierson was supposed to fly from Seattle to New Jersey on Alaska Airlines. He boarded his flight, but then he had an urgent discussion with the flight attendant, explaining that as a former senior Boeing engineer, he'd specifically requested that flight because the aircraft wasn't a 737 Max:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/boeing-737-max-passenger-boycott/index.html

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chiraag ,
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@pluralistic I was personally terrified when I found out I was booked on a Max 8. Luckily, everything went smoothly without incident.

futurebird , to random
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Here is how I “watch YouTube” first I check that my ad blockers are on, and the extension that hides thumbnails, and the extension that gives videos more neutral titles. I look at my subscriptions and add videos to a playlist. I search for topics I’m currently concerned about. When I have about 90min of video. I shuffle the list and check the order. Then (and only then) do I get to kick back and “watch TV”

YouTube isn’t easy to use this way.
Anyone else do something similar?

chiraag ,
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@futurebird Most of the YTers I watch are also on Nebula, so I just go there. Otherwise, I have very specific channels I just search for and check for updates.

18+ MikeDunnAuthor , (edited ) to random
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Nearly all of the most recent famines have been due to war:

1998–2004: Second Congo War. 2.7 million people died, mostly from starvation and disease
2003–2005: Famine during the War in Darfur, Sudan (200,000 deaths)
2011–2012: Famine in Somalia due to drought (285,000 deaths)
2016–present: Famine in Yemen, arising from the Yemeni Civil War and the subsequent food blockade of Yemen by Saudi Arabia (85,000 children have died so far)
2020–present: Famine in the Tigray War, Ethiopia
2021–present: Madagascar famine due to drought
2023-present: Gaza, Palestine, due to war and food blockade

Current famine in Gaza came on more quickly than any other.

https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IPC_Gaza_Strip_Acute_Food_Insecurity_Feb_July2024_Special_Brief.pdf

chiraag ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor Thank you!

poligraf , to palestine group
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« … the time is now to force compliance with US law and the standards of humanity, and fulfill our obligations to the American people to suspend the transfer of US weapons to the Israeli government in order to stop and prevent further atrocity… »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZdrZ-uiIT0

@palestine

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️ 🇺🇸

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf What are you even talking about? The reservations are the construct of the US, and we very much tried to extinguish indigenous cultures (look up residential schools, where we *literally had the US army kidnap indigenous children and force them into boarding schools whose whole point was destroying indigenous cultures and breaking cultural transmission of language and customs).

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf Any indigenous cultures that remain today are a testament to the sheer will and tenacity of indigenous folks to hold on to their cultures against all odds and even when the most powerful country in the world is kidnapping your children to "beat the Indian out of them", as the saying went. We owe indigenous folks and African Americans so, so much in reparations.

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf We kidnapped Africans and brought them here where we forced them to work on land we stole from indigenous people. We then forced indigenous folks to move to land the US government explicitly deemed uninhabitable (no joke) and kidnapped their kids to try to destroy their cultures. How do you even begin to repair this level of harm and trauma?

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf But they didn't! They were literally kidnapped by the US military at gunpoint.

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf No, I'm talking about indigenous children kidnapped by the US military. As for slavery, the sheer scope of chattel slavery (and the permanent nature of it, along with being decoupled from war) makes it very different.

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf I honestly don't know what you're trying to defend at this point. It feels like you have (at best) a passing understanding of precolumbian (precolonial) US history and you also don't know much about how the US has interacted with indigenous folks since then. All I can say is that I hope at some point, you look closer into this history because you're mischaracterizing so much.

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf Look, I only responded because you said "nobody can stop them from studying Navajo anyway" and that's clearly BS. The US has tried (for centuries!) to stamp out all indigenous people in this country. Then it seemed like you were saying that chattel slavery as practiced by the Europeans and the US wasn't unique because other people had slaves too, without regard to context.

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf Now you're trying to change the subject to Russian serfdom, which is also bad, but...completely different?

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf Ah yes, because Christians are the only civilized ones.

GTFO. And maybe read some real history that isn't steeped in Christofascism.

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf Just. Stop. Again, maybe actually read some real history books, for your own sake.

chiraag ,
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@Helgi @immibis @palestine @poligraf So you've decided that you alone have the 'right' view of history, ill-informed though it may be, and that all non-Christians are barbarians.

I'm done with this conversation. All I can say is that I hope you one day reconsider, because you're veering very close to white supremacy (if not already there). As someone who is not white and not Christian, I stand in solidarity with everyone demonized by white supremacists.

pluralistic , to random
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The Democratic Party Pizzaburger Theory of Electioneering is: half the electorate wants a pizza, the other half wants a burger, so we'll give them all a pizzaburger and make them all equally dissatisfied, thus winning the election:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/that-boy-aint-right/#dinos-rinos-and-dunnos

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/20/actual-material-conditions/#bread-and-butter

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chiraag ,
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@pluralistic Excited to read all of these!

jeffowski , to random
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chiraag ,
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@jeffowski Seems at least somewhat misleading:

> Latomus' three books were subsequently published as one volume: in these it can be seen that the discussion on heresy revolves around the contents of three other books Tyndale had written on topics like justification by faith, free will, the denial of the soul, and so on. Latomus makes no mention of Bible translation; indeed, it seems that in prison, Tyndale was allowed to continue making translations from the Hebrew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale

evanpeterjones , to bookstodon group
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Curious how Mastodon reads compared to the YouGov poll of the US population below

How many Books did you read last year?

https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/48239-54-percent-of-americans-read-a-book-this-year

@bookstodon

chiraag ,
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@evanpeterjones @bookstodon Pretty much all of my reading last year happened during a month-long vacation, so...not really all that representative. As others have said here, I wish I had more time to actually sit down and read.

chiraag ,
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@themusicman @xapr Yup, that's mostly how we shop. I'm vegan and my wife is vegetarian, so fruits, veggies, legumes/nuts/seeds from the bulk section, dairy and tofu from the fridge sectioo. Some of the 'safe' inner-aisle foods are pasta (we get legume pasta), canned tomato (we get the ones without salt), artichoke hearts, and that's pretty much it (oh, I guess silken tofu is in an inner aisle as well).

chiraag , to random
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The frustration for many of us with Biden comes from a place of knowing that he could do something to alter Netenyahu's calculus. He could withhold military assistance until Netenyahu stops committing the genocide, or come out publicly against what he's doing. Instead, if reports are to be believed, Biden has stuck to privately criticizing Netenyahu, which isn't working. This is appeasement all over again, but because the victims are brown, everyone looks the other way.

chiraag OP ,
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The whole point of spreading the GenocideJoe hashtag is to try to pressure Biden to actually act. We are not your enemies, liberals. We just want Biden to do better. Telling us to shut up about Biden's aiding of a genocide really makes y'all look like you agree with said genocide.

It is fair to say that things would be worse under Trump. Absolutely! But it's unreasonable to try to say Biden should be free from criticism. That's not how democracy works.

chiraag OP ,
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Denying that Biden is abetting a genocide is just as bad as Trumpers arguing that Trump should be free from consequences for Jan 6 and every atrocity he has wrought against the most marginalized people in this country. In both cases, your dear leader should be free from criticism because "it's an election year and the other guy is worse" or whatever. No! Criticizing Biden is fair game, along with contextualizing it within the other options.

RememberUsAlways , to palestine group
@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social avatar

All the good people online eating terrorist propaganda like candy makes me sad.

Trust me when I say the following:
You don't want to be on the wrong side of history once you examine under a microscope.

can't hide anymore and their sponsor nations are quite upset, having fits around the world.


@palestine
@israel

chiraag ,
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@RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel So when will you also put Israel under said microscope? Do you even care what ordinary Palestinians (not Hamas) are going through, not only now, but since 1947?

ArtBear , to random
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This became a cooking motivation (& a bit weightloss) thread I refer back to. Pretty much everything in here is tasty, filling, but also fairly decent for new years resolutions & general weight goals. I try to do fairly natural whole ingredient based cooking. Nearly all plant based, but I do choose some flexibility for occasions or accommodating social stuff.

Mostly I do whole ingredients but plantbased switches have really come along in the last few years. Here I'm making sausage sandwiches! I'm like a trailblazing culinary genius with this amazing idea I invented!!

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

The apron is an awesome gift from my GF 😺

chiraag ,
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@picard @Leisureguy @ArtBear My wife and I cook 4 portions at night - two for dinner and two for the next day's lunch. Makes things a lot less hectic!

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