Starting the week off on a high note, with a Monday morning coffee date with @courtney@pdx.social ☕️💜 (Not at Case Study, but I forgot that they had this location!)
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Yesterday my partner ran with two of his friends from Leif Erikson to St. Johns and to the University of Portland, ending up at Cathedral Coffee to complete a DIY half marathon.
My job was to take his car from Leif Erikson to St Johns and stand by for pickup instructions. There was a farmers market (and later on, a parade for some reason) so it was rather crowded, but I still ran a nice slow 5K and enjoyed all the nice views 🏔️❤️
I gambled on a container of unmarked rice I had in the pantry, and made fake clay pot rice (with dried Chinese sausages, tofu puffs, and shiitake mushrooms)… it turned out okay, but I’m pretty sure this is some variety of basmati rice. Was I supposed to use jasmine rice? Or the whatever generic long grain that I use for arroz rojo?
My Mexican partner says “rice is just rice”, but I grew up in a medium grain japonica variety household (thank you Kokuho Rose farmers 🌾❤️) so it definitely matters!
Today I finally had enough energy to go grocery shopping and make my all-purpose vegan tom yum soup 😋 though “tom yum flavored vegetable ginger soup” is more accurate, because I threw in 2-3 tablespoons of fresh ginger into the pot to aid my recovery.
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I wish I could visit #Yemen one day, and marvel at the Old Walled City of Shibam, with its beautiful tall buildings entirely made of air-dried mud bricks. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/shibam-mud-skyscraper-yemen
Hi #vegan friends 🌱 I have a huge can of jackfruit in brine that I’m hoping to use up in at least five different ways. Please send me your favorite (and hopefully failproof) recipes! Extra bonus points for any Mexican carnitas recipes, because I’m going out to get a few teleras at my local tienda later. I also have an Instant Pot available to use. Thank you!
WHERE ARE THE ASIANS WE ARE BEING SUMMONED
Some people on here use “neurotypical” like a slur, stereotyping as if we all love the imprecise AI/LLM “search” we have now over the precise Boolean search we used to have, because that’s just how our imprecise NT brains work. Nope, plenty of us hate this bullshit too! 🙃
Today I drove from the Grant Park area (my partner carpooled with his friends to The Dalles) > Whole Foods > Golden Hour Coffee Co. > Goodwill (donated, got a plant pot) > Cedar Mill Library > home (ate lunch, re-potted a plant, took a quick nap) > BottleDrop Redemption Center > Uwajimaya > Target > Home Depot (didn’t buy anything; no coconut coir instead of peat moss) > Trader Joe’s > home.
I got a lot done in a way that’s impossible on a bike, but I’m very exhausted
I’m not particularly feminine (I don’t wear makeup, do my nails, wear jewelry/pretty clothes, or shave every inch of my body every day… all I use are lotion and sunscreen) so I feel very weird when I go to Japan and see the blatant patriarchal pressure on women through constant relentless fearmongering masquerading as “advertising”.
I don’t know what “being a woman” means, but it’s sure as hell not whatever that is!
I abruptly stopped streaming Occupied City https://a24films.com/docs/occupied-city because there is a man open water swimming through what I can only assume is the middle of #Amsterdam in winter! Hardcore Dutch people!! 😂
RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@m/116885837961672202
My parents’ house in the SF Bay Area was built in the 1940s and we still have the original pipes, so we have a filter system at the exit point (the faucet). Pipe replacements are expensive! 💸💸
Though I still prefer this to the situation in Mexico, where no one trusts the tap water and everyone drinks bottled water (and have garrafónes at home). Or the situation in Europe (though I’ve only been to the UK, Ireland, and Italy) where the concept of “a free glass of water” apparently does not exist.
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@cshishido@infosec.exchange Oh I didn’t know! But I went to UC Davis and worked as an interpreter for an agricultural exchange program for a few summers, so I’m familiar with the rice farms in and around Woodland. I was so happy when my friend got me bags of Tamaki from the mill in Winters! They all work incredibly hard; my partner and I make this joke all the time 🙏
By any chance, would anyone in the #Beaverton #Hillsboro area be interested in signing up for the #Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District's buddy personal training program with me? 🏋🏻♀️
Location: Cedar Hills Rec Center https://maps.app.goo.gl/L9hyLN3gDaDJQ15j8
I'm going to ask for Ramya (NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist), Jeremy (WKC Strength & Conditioning Specialist), or Laura (RRCA Run Coach): https://www.tualatinhillsparks.org/494/Personal-Training
RE: @jdlh@mstdn.ca
Let’s say I switch my handle to Japanese and people want to mention me (without replying to one of my posts). How are they supposed to do that if they 1) can’t read Japanese, and 2) don’t have the Japanese keyboard installed, even if they could read it? The expectation is for them to go to my profile and copy/paste every single time? Or are we assuming that 100% of interactions will be replies?
“Inclusive” is a nice buzzword, but the Latin alphabet (only 26 letters!) has its advantages.
My partner ran the México Imparable half marathon in Oaxaca, which was race #3 out of 4. He’s now pumped up to register for #4 in Creel, Chihuahua… in June! ☀️🔥 At ~8000 feet elevation!! https://mexicoimparable.com
But the Oaxaca race was terribly organized (the bib pickup took 2 hours, and they had ~7 porta-potties for hundreds of people on the day of the race with no toilet paper or handwashing stations, so my partner had to go back to our Airbnb a block away) so I honestly wouldn’t recommend it.
RE: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
Open registration is a model for corporate social media, where the goal is to host anyone and everyone to vacuum up all their data, which in turn generates revenue for them to store this infinite data forever.
And on that note - please auto-delete posts when possible, please and thank you 🐘💜
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@kzodasnowman@spore.social To be fair, our culture may be a liiittle bit too obsessed with this haha 🍚🌾 https://www.sirogohan.com/sp/recipe/suihan-togu/
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@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com On second thought I should’ve cited the number of 常用漢字 (2136 kanji) not 教育漢字 (1026 kanji)… but Japanese is a child’s game compared to Chinese, they regularly use 6000 or 8000 or some other truly impressive number 😂
EDIT: I got curious so I looked it up: the 常用國字標準字體表 (standard list for Taiwan) has 4808 kanji, and the 通用规范汉字表 (the standard list for China) has 8105 kanji!
Good news: I’m on my way!
Bad news: I just missed the 1:30pm MAX so I won’t get there until 3pm 🚉🐌
Ugh… Project Hail Mary was terrible 🫠 I far prefer The Martian; at least it didn’t waste so much time on stupid “comedic” moments.
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@courtney Thank you! Yes I’ve been back since 1AM on Tuesday, suffered through Wednesday, and on the mend since Thursday… just a few more days, I hope.
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@PizzaDemon Nah I’m not super athletic (I’m always out of breath + high HR; I get “low HR” alerts at 176)… so I didn’t run in Oaxaca (elevation 5000+ feet) and I certainly won’t run in Copper Canyon! 😂
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@shom@gts.shom.dev @m@autistics.life Aww thank you so much, Shom! 🐘💜 And hello and welcome, Micah! I’m the one that just sent you an email, so please feel free to DM me with anything you might need!
Also as a side note, we’re with masto.host and the data centers they use are in France: https://masto.host/infrastructure/
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It was also very cool to see Bike Friday bikes in person! Unfortunately, the man at the booth was busy talking to the other man, and they didn’t have a demo bike for folding/riding so all I did was lift one, but it was amazingly light! Apparently the pakiT (presumably with the ultralight frame upgrade) is only 15 pounds! #MADEBikeShow https://bikefriday.com/product/bike-friday-pakit-compact-folding-bike/
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@m@autistics.life Yes, Hugo is the best! 🙌
Not to immediately indoctrinate you in the Keep Portland Weird cult or anything, but “move by bike” is an awesome thing run by @shift2bikes@pdx.social in the city, if you ever have such a need (sadly I’m out in the suburbs and haven’t moved since I got here, so I’ve never experienced it in person): https://www.shift2bikes.org/pages/mbb/
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And for whatever reason we’re also blessed with Trung Nguyên Legend Coffee a mere < 10-minute bike ride away!? Let’s gooo 🇻🇳 https://maps.app.goo.gl/15eaaHJAQEu98879A
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@lionso@mastodon.social I appreciate the effort! I haven’t had soursop before, but I don’t believe they’ll taste similar to jackfruit because I’ve had cherimoya before (in the same genus as soursop, according to Wikipedia).
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@jdlh@mstdn.ca I wouldn’t underestimate people like that (they may use it less, but it doesn’t mean they’re clueless and can’t even manage handles), but perhaps having more options is better than not having options, even if it results in more siloed and disconnected inter-language communities. (As in, it’s not as if people are especially keen on communicating across language barriers to begin with, so it probably doesn’t matter if no one outside of your language community can @ you or not.)
Got the "#PDXSocial hosting is over the plan limit (80GB)" email so checking into what might be impacting our database size...
I've been a bit concerned about sportsbots.xyz because apparently some of their accounts have millions of followers, but that shouldn't impact us, right...?
UPDATE: We're now at 66GB 🙌
1. tootctl status remove (ran this one with --clean_followed and --days)
2. tootctl accounts prune (didn't run this one, yet)
3. Setting 'Remote content retention period' (still 600)
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@kzodasnowman@spore.social I rewarded myself with some ぬちまーす snacks! I was hoping they’d be salty so I can replenish during my runs but they’re quite sweet… still good though! Maybe the 梅 ones will be nice and sour 🍅
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@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com The advantage of the Latin alphabet is that, even if you know zero English, 26 letters is far easier to decipher than, for example, 46 hiragana + 46 katakana + 1026 “mandatory” kanji which you learn in grades 1-6 (this doesn’t include the “modified sound” letters like っ or ば or ぱ, which will add another 100 maybe?).