I meant to be finishing a post about books I'm reading but I got distracted and wrote ~2500 words about Mastodon and Bluesky and the related things (welcoming design, insular culture) I've been stewing on for a few months

And also about vegetarian meat substitutes in the 1980s, which were *really something*

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

@kissane I was a beta tester for the Tofurky Thanksgiving dinner. (Verdict: everything but the gravy was pretty good.)
@glennf I love this
@kissane my parents went all in on natural foods when I was 10! My dad later started and ran a granola company for a decade. (it was delicious)

@glennf my family later got goats and ran an organic dairy

I had my rumspringa in my 20s and now I eat a real specific diet to control autoimmune stuff and grow my own herbs and greens and make my own granola, I have fully reverted to type 🤦🏻

no goats, however. yet.