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I'm slowly navigating life after becoming vegan and this hasn't been true all the time for me but when it is, it fucking hits hard.

My chili recipe was converted to vegan early on after I came over and you can't fucking tell it's vegan. I've said before on reddit but I will put it up against anyone's "prize winning chili recipe".

I made sloppy joe's last week with TVP and day one was ok but when it came time for the leftovers, you woundn't have know it was vegan. To me, it was exactly like the slop I grew up with.

I'm still trying to master tofu. I can't get it at all like my favorite Thai place does it.

I've been working a bit with the soy curls and "beef slices" you can find from Asian stores and it's been hit and miss with trying to get it right but a few weeks ago I made a mushroom, spinach linguine using the slices and it fucking slapped. I hydrated the slices with veggie broth and some spices and then sauteed them in a pan with my shrooms and spinach and tossed the pasta in at the end and sort of winged it but it was really fucking good.

Another thing that I think needs to be mentioned is that most meat subs are like half the cost of the animal counterpart. Beyond and manufactured seitan obviously isn't but any of the soy products I've tried are. You also get the same or more protein with the substitutes.

Last time I had a convo where compromise was brought up it was over minimum wage. Dude said that "both sides just need to compromise on it." And I was like you know that that compromise is somewhere between an actual living wage and literally $0, right?

“I was deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion of the hospital in Gaza yesterday, and based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you.”

- Joe "I totally saw a picture of small babies without heads, trust me bro" Biden

I really need a new pfp lol

This is my first foray into anarchist theory so I really only know a bit about mutual aid and sef-association so far, outside of the concepts that overlap more with ML, the state, police, church, etc.

I have tried listening to Anarchy and other Essays by Goldman but realized I really wasn't paying attention so I will start that over at some point. I also have some more Errico Malatesta and some Daniel Guerrin on my list. I think Guerrin might be more modern though. I did toss God and State by Bakunin on there as well. There is a few counter argument pieces I wanna get to but that will be for later.

Lol yeah. Epub*

Anarchy Works was recommended on a few reddit posts while I was looking for books to add. It seems like a modern take on the theory. Conquest of Bread has been on my list since I started reading theory because it's so highly regarded. The question is, do I wanna keep reading really old stuff and get the foundation or read something more modern for a change of pace?

I do plan on reading both this next year though.

If you are gonna do Mao, I'd say grab Five Essays. It's got On Contradiction and On Practice both, which are always recommended for good reason, but it also has a few other really good works by him.

I'm trying to find it as an epud to add to my collection but I listened to the audiobook version which is on Spotify.

I finished The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State last week and then decided to finish this chunk of my deep dive in theory with Critique of the Gotha Programme.

My next big focus is gonna be in anarchist theory so I picked 2 small pieces to read through to get a basic understanding: An Anarchist Programmer by Errico Malatesta and Are You An Anarchist by David Graeber.

Before I actually jump in to that I wanna get a few more chapters knocked out of Inventing Reality and Killing Hope though. I'm having a hard time deciding on Conquest of Bread or Anarchy Works for my next book though.

Joke's on you, I'm already unemployed.

Those fake bacon bits that are bright red and crunchy that people put on their salads and such are made from soy. The real stuff that is chewy is def still pork.