I’ve got a post talking about how I like vegetarian food even though I’m not vegetarian and on that post a lot of people are like “just eat food from cultures that are already vegetarian”

Look. Although I do think that people should absolutely try food from other cultures (I absolutely love all kinds of different food) you can’t just tell people to stop eating food from their own culture.

Sometimes people want the comfort food they grew up with. That’s the reason behind making vegan and vegetarian versions of old recipes. Things like vegan miso and potato pot pie exist because people get creative with their own cultural dishes and frankly they’re delicious.

I think that eventually most of us should get comfortable with reducing our meat consumption if possible and making vegetarian versions of our own comfort dishes is a great way to do that. It lets you get creative. It lets you engage with your own culture or other people’s cultures in an interesting way. It’s tasty and fun.

Like absolutely broaden your horizons if that’s something you want to do. There’s a lot of great vegetarian food out there. Don’t discourage innovation in the space either.

I’ve got Twitter set up to occasionally give me notifications from news outlets and it used to mostly give me pings from left wing or center-ish news outlets like msnbc, local newspapers, cnn. You know.

Lately though for some reason it’s been giving me alerts from like right wing podcasters and meme blogs making islamaphobic content.

Look I’m barely on twitter at all as is but I can feel myself ready to delete the app. It’s become useless for like the one thing I was using it for.

I had a dream last night that I was turning 40 and still not financially stable enough to have kids yet.

Most of the time your dreams are mostly random but sometimes they’re really not subtle.

I saw a play tonight. Choices were made.

Lately I often swing wildly between “I think it’s possible to live through this with democracy intact and I don’t want to leave my home” and “oh my god the US government is going to kill me eventually please for the love of god somebody fly me to Portugal or something”

And sometimes I swing between these perspectives within the span of like 2 minutes

I think im not a good metric of what the average person knows because I collect obscure facts that nobody cares about and get deep into certain topics but also I don’t know what most carpentry tools are called despite the fact that I know how to use them.

I am also unsure about what makes cars go. I think there’s something called a spark plug in there but I can’t be sure.

All respect to Chris Fleming but he’s constantly talking about scenarios that I’ve never come across in my life as if they are universal

It’s been many years since I tried doing meditation regularly and I’ve decided to get back into it using a different technique this time and heck it actually does make me feel calmer overall ugh I hate it when the people telling you to fix your mental illness with hippie stuff are actually onto something

My YouTube channel recommendation right now is Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Tor Parsons is sort of new on the scene but he’s making video essays on things I never see on YouTube and it’s always about the most random things. Like Chinese slow trains, or lesbian neo-Victorian neo-Nazi sex cults. Or bad journalism about mole people.