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  #3GoodThings I got to go to an event of that new Kansas City area synagogue today without sizable travel difficulty. I got to vent a little at that event & say Kaddish for my father. It didn't rain today so my spouse was safe here as I went on said outing.

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  #3GoodThings My aunt was supportive of my choice on the marking wording for her brother. The trash collection tool finally arrived in the mail. This, my first attempt at making regular Kosher meatballs came out well. The simple recipe being 1. About 1.5 cup of breadcrumbs (3 large slices of Italian bread, panfried with olive oil/toasted & crumbled up) 1 egg & 1 lb ground beef, mixture balled, seared on all sides, let rest for 20 minutes, boiled for 20 minutes.

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  @_elena@mastodon.social if I can't trust a storage system without a backup storage system, then there's no point in using the claimed solution of a storage system to begin with. This is why I moved away from Google initially, to avoid cloud storage systems, none of which I've seen are secure & reliable.

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  Thinking back to that time I had someone who likely was at least low level economically rich... who saw me doing origami, said I was "really talented & could do that as a business she'd help me with" then after at her urging I made something nice that could be used as a "Christmas ornament", (which I almost never did) and that took me about 5-7 hours to make, and then when I did as she asked to include my time & materials costs gave her...

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  The question of this day was "Will the hens eat leftover cottage cheese?" And the answer is: Yes! After at first being a little confused by the new offering, one took a peck& then after consuming that, the other joined as they both ate it together. #Chickens

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  Well at least the birds have fresh bedding so they should feel a little better tonight & tomorrow with that, especially as they really dig on through it.. likely eating the used coffee grounds.

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  Got 12 tomato seedlings, 4 cucumber seedlings, 2 sage & 1 oregano seedling that I've still not transplanted yet outside & with the cold nights likely to continue for at least another week- beyond the herbs I'll just be uppoting them all, so I can keep them inside at night for the colder ones... #Gardening #GrowYourOwn

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  @aj @taylorlorenz I think it's better to describe it more as a matter of a contrast, as the centralized big tech platforms like Twitter/X, Facebook and Instagram are like city & town hall meetings, with a huge number of rules, official & unofficial that keep them extremely hierarchical & very loud, but the fediverse is like a set of mostly rather small coffee shops, which makes it much quieter and more meaningful, without much of a hierarchy, but nonetheless very much with rule...