Hey, I urgently need to move to #berlin, and my flat arrangement just fell through, so I'm looking for a room. Ideally:
- lease at least until July
- with Anmeldung
- near Görlitzer Park (Kreuzberg)
- with lovely people
But I literally need to move in within 10 days, so I'll take anything. LMK if you/someone you know is looking for a mostly quiet, mostly clean, mostly vegan flatmate.
Hey, I urgently need to move to Berlin, and my flat arrangement just fell through, so I'm looking for a room. Ideally:
- lease at least until July
- with Anmeldung
- near Görlitzer Park (Kreuzberg)
- with lovely people
But I literally need to move in within 10 days, so I'll take anything. LMK if you/someone you know is looking for a mostly quiet, mostly clean, mostly vegan flatmate.
The @ACLU is right.
Biometric mass surveillance is too dangerous a tool - that's why we're asking the European Union to ban it.
If you're a European citizen, sign our petition and join us: https://reclaimyourface.eu/
#ReclaimYourFace https://nitter.net/ACLU/status/1362087112347164676
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#veganuary dinner no. 4 - veg manchurian
Pretty much this: https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/veg-manchurian-veg-manchurian-gravy/
It's a very interesting fusion of Indian and Manchurian cuisine.
I ordered too many of those, dm me if you'd like some posted your way!
Design files:
https://tinyurl.com/yynjt9tm
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#veganuary lunch/breakfast no. 3 - mushrooms with white wine & herbs
The white wine is reduced to the point where it forms a delicious sticky sweet/sour coating on the 'shrooms
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#veganuary dinner no. 3 - sweet potato curry with lemony rice
https://www.gousto.co.uk/cookbook/vegan-recipes/sweet-potato-spinach-curry-with-lemony-rice - this, but the shop was out of spinach
I yearn for the days when ridiculous ideas had to be nuclear-powered. At least the barrier to entry was higher:
I just learned about this ridiculous spider-shaped lunar rover that uses WiFi to talk to the lander, with 'built in drone technology'.
From the company behind the Blockchain for Space Alliance and Blockchain Based GPS...
For the record - this is not a joke, I checked. How do these things make it past the editing process?
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#veganuary dinner no. 2 - Oyster mushroom goulash with potato rösti
Basically this recipe:
https://www.doradcasmaku.pl/przepis-gulasz-z-boczniakow-wg-piotra-oginskiego-412174
but sans pickles, with vegan cream, and eggless rösti. To make vegan rösti, just grate some potatoes, add a few tablespoons of plain flour and a few tablespoons of starch. Form into patties, fry in a pan. You're welcome.
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#veganuary lunch/breakfast no.2 - Nachos
This one is super lazy.
Violife vegan 'cheese' does undergo the Maillard reaction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction) and tastes OK, but it needs a higher temp (>200 deg. C) and more time than regular cheese. Vegan sour cream/yoghurt isn't too bad either.
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#veganuary dinner no.1 - Porcini & roasted buckwheat 'risotto' (buckweatto???)
Made the same way as you'd make any risotto, maybe without all the silly stirring. I fry mushrooms beforehand and then add them after the buckwheat is almost ready, so that they don't disintegrate.
I swear it tastes way better than it looks; porcini are super flavourful and go very well with the white wine in the risotto.
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lunch/breakfast no. 1 - Za’atar Man’ouche.
This is my favourite flatbread. The olive oil dough takes 10 minutes of actual work to make from scratch, and the combination of sesame and sumac gives it a unique Meditaste.
Here in my slightly burnt 2AM edition 😅
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To force myself to cook this #veganuary, I'll be posting the food I'll make. Coming up, among others:
What blew my mind is how we count energy spent on refining petroleum and mining (~7% of US energy) as 'useful', when they're really losses. Which decreases the round-trip efficiency of IC engines by a fifth.
Really interesting talk about energy flows in the economy and about how a lot of our ideas for solving climate change are wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ewEaTlGz4s&feature=youtu.be
(on youtube, sorry)
This is a 180 kW digital hydraulic machine. It has 12 valves, each can switch at 50Hz. 12 x 50 Hz = 600Hz, which means that it can play (barely) distinguishable musical notes.
A MIDI keyboard, a Raspberry Pi and two hacked pump controllers give this:
https://scitech.video/videos/watch/909a9a32-3e70-4ed3-9d1d-994e34aa441c
Please excuse my nonexistent piano skills.