I made cream cheese from scratch today and it was a lovely experience (and tastes AMAZING). My wife and I make all our own granola, yogurt, and cream cheese these days.
But WHY?
Because it's CHEAP. By shopping at Costco, I can get two gallons of milk for the price of a 1/2 gallon at Whole Foods. All that milk then gets easily turned into amazing dairy nummies with nothing more fancy than our handy-dandy InstaPot.
#Food #Home #CottageIndustry #CottageCore #DIY #Homesteading #Life #Dairy #Yum
Inside The #CottageIndustry Of ‘#Experts’ #Paid To #Defend #AntiTrans #Laws
Their #purpose is to try and convince #judges that #genderaffirming #Healthcare is #scientifically #controversial, #unnecessary and #dangerous — and they're increasingly having an #impact.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paid-experts-defending-anti-trans-law_n_65021a7ee4b01df7c3b6d513
Inside The #CottageIndustry Of ‘#Experts’ #Paid To #Defend #AntiTrans #Laws
Their #purpose is to #convince #judges that #genderaffirming #Healthcare is #scientifically #controversial, #unnecessary and #dangerous — and they're increasingly having an #impact.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Courts #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Religion
#Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paid-experts-defending-anti-trans-law_n_65021a7ee4b01df7c3b6d513
... The appetite for growing one's audience means defederating will be suppressed.
#AttentionEconomy means the trolls and right wing assholes will be needed in order for one to assert one's better beliefs.
Those who do defederate will conserve the #CottageIndustry nature of #Mastodon
The 21st century has seen a return to the #CottageIndustry - a form of production that once saw workers labor far from their bosses and thus beyond their control - but shriven of the autonomy and dignity that working from home once afforded:
https://doctorow.medium.com/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk-463e2730ef0d
The rise and rise of #bossware - which allows for remote surveillance of workers in their homes and cars - has turned "#WorkFromHome" into "#LiveAtWork."
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#WhatIf society as we know it ended, all semiconductor based technology was wiped out... but slowly we crawl our way back up to a #lowtech #solarpunk future where we found ourselves in a kinda stable semi self-sufficient peaceful world where we miss the intern/et and would like to reinvent it but we didn't have large scale industry and we didn't have a global supply chain… all you have is the local #CottageIndustry to work with
Could one do meaningful #semiconductor
development and production in such a context?
Could there be a non-semiconductor alternative technological branch which would be more suitable to this context?
Paths we never even explored since we had semiconductor technology?
What would you try first on your path to a new computer? How would you rebuild an internet? What would be different?
Couldn’t decide on ribbon colours to stick this year - so I think I got them all. 🤪
I think this deep sienna is still my favourite (from last year) as it goes with everything, and every door. #doorsofmastodon #wreaths #cottageindustry
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈
Lydia Conwell 
Cory Doctorow
Artemis
Tamar
Clare Curran
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