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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2h ago

Also storing green onions with roots in water can help they stay crisp longer.

On this matter, and this is overcomplicated, but avoid having water in contact with the bulbs.

The roots should be roughly 75% submerged or less. 100% immersion in water will kill the green onions because they have air roots and those need to be able to breathe.

Suspending green onions over water can be a bit tricky. If you're going to use them in a typical timeframe then the damp paper towel method on the roots is going to be best for a simple option for getting the most lifespan out of your onions without it being fiddly.

If you want to really step it up a notch or you want your green onions to last for weeks or longer, get a net cup and place it into a jar or a drinking glass. This will suspend the green onions above the water and as long as you have a few roots reaching the water through the net cup, the onions will keep on growing. (You can also DIY a net cup by modding a small pot and cutting holes into it.)

Put it by a bright window sill, if possible.

At this point you're only about one step away from non-recirculating hydroponics (aka the kratky method) and, by adding hydroponic nutrient to the water, you're there. There's a little bit more to it but that's probably overcomplicating things a whole lot.

3h ago

Obama's two cents [The link goes to his Bluesky post.]

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 3h ago

You're here now and you know better. They're never getting that genie back in the bottle.
Obama thoroughly poisoned the well when it comes for hope of any positive change amongst progressives and it was absolutely a slow-burn radicalising period for a lot of people. This created a perfect opportunity to agitate amongst disaffected progressives and I'd argue that it's part of the backdrop of why the Dems can no longer mobilize their own fucking voterbase to prevent Trump from getting into office a second time despite knowing exactly how bad he is (!!!) There's a collapse in the Democratic party and they all know it. They sold their voterbase on a lie and burned so many people. Now they can invite people to a ceremony for the Fell For It Again awards, which doesn't get nearly as much traction, or they can run a "nothing will fundamentally change" candidate, which doesn't get nearly as much traction either.

They really stripped the copper out of the walls to sell for ~~scrap~~ votes and now, a decade later, they are wondering why nothing happens when they flick the light switch on.

When you think about it, isn't this the real change we can believe in?

3h ago

Weekly Improvement Thread - Jan 25th 2026

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 3h ago

The book gave me the idea to buy spinach powder so that I can boost my intake of leafy greens every day.

You love to see it!

As a brokie, spinach powder is kinda expensive where I live so if anyone is feeling inspired by this idea and they want to try something similar out you could always look for bulk dried herbs, especially parsley (as the drying process loses a lot of the flavor compounds from the parsley, making it less ideal from a culinary perspective but more ideal as a greens booster for your diet) or, my personal favorite, dried nettles.

Dried nettles taste pretty neutral and "green." It's usually sold for use as a tea in the west but nettles are completely edible and they are so nutritious that they are a candidate for being marketed as a superfood (🤢🤮) I tend to use it in place of parsley or anywhere that something like spinach fits. Nettle soup was a peasant food and a subsistence meal for countless centuries so don't be afraid of eating it.

It's a really good, easy way of increasing your vegetable intake and it's perfect for people who have accessibility issues (e.g. if you have motor issues that make vegetable prep hard or you're living in a food desert or in poverty where it can be prohibitively difficult to access fresh vegetables regularly.)

E: Oh yeah, you can powder these things in a food grinder if you want to as well. I'm too lazy for that and I'm not bothered by the texture but it's always an option if you want to do it.

4h ago

Least evil and racist "Christian nationalist"

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 4h ago

*Appalling

4h ago

Least evil and racist "Christian nationalist"

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 4h ago

Counterpoint: have you ever considered that my dad could beat your dad up? (/s)

4h ago

I swear all libs do is spam me

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 4h ago

5h ago

You know you’ve stayed up too late when you get to this point

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 5h ago

Hard yes

12h ago

Thread for self defense and weapons training

The best OpSec practice is to assume that all orgs have been infiltrated by the feds.

Go for the training. Don't talk in a way that could get you dragged off to some dungeon or before a judge. Beware of anyone who encourages others to take things to the next level. Don't share recipes for how to make IEDs.

You'll be fine, just keep your head on your shoulders and guard your words. (Also maybe consider Pink Pistols or whatever the successor org is?)

12h ago

America is just bringing democracy to America. Finally!

Hitting myself in the dick with a hammer*

"How could the Middle East do this to me?!"

12h ago

Obama's two cents [The link goes to his Bluesky post.]

Whoa now, you'd need to be qualified as a constitutional lawyer (preferably one with a history of teaching constitutional law at Chicago University) to be able to understand that.

Don't you think that's a little unrealistic to demand that of Obama?

12h ago

Obama's two cents [The link goes to his Bluesky post.]

This has to stop.

Big "somebody has to do something!!" energy, Obama. You had the perfect opportunity to abolish ICE and repeal the post-9/11 acts to prevent this from happening.

You fucking taught constitutional law. You know that DHS and ICE and CBP were given carte blanche to violate the constitution. Don't tell me that you never had discussions on this, that there were never any debates, that you never read any articles or marked any papers on this.

You fucking knew, you had the most powerful mandate for implementing

in recent politics.

You did nothing. You let this whole thing play out and you did nothing.

Now you're really seeing those chickens start to hatch and you're standing by the sidelines wringing your hands and calling for action. The absolute gall to do such a thing.

Utterly spineless, zero accountability, and issuing bullshit performative strongly-worded statements? Yep. No wonder this guy is looked upon as a hero by progressives.

12h ago

You know you’ve stayed up too late when you get to this point

This is such a good reply, thanks for sharing it.

I know that my bias is motivating me to say this because I do genuinely love this stuff—call me a cracker and waterboard me with mayonnaise—but it's discussions like these that convince me that even just a foundational understanding of philosophy is so critical to approaching matters with a clear-headed perspective.

I think, at its worst, if that then-anarchist led an anarchist revolution and they drove the post-revolutionary reconstruction then they would have done a liberalism speedrun. I know that sounds uncharitable ("Har har, anarchists are all liberals!!") but if you're starting from the principle that natural rights exist then the logical conclusion is to implement mechanisms to safeguard and defend these rights, which sooner or later leads to creating these apparatuses that merge together and eventually form what resembles a liberal state. Yeah, the exact contours will differ but if it goes on uninterrupted then you're gonna find yourself with a recreation of liberal state eventually, at least imo.

Coincidentally, this is where I arrive at my own Euthyphro-like problem because for me this about understanding class conflict and this is rooted in dialectical and historical materialism. My answer to that problem is that I arrived at DiaMat etc. because it led me to the right conclusions and not that it's the right conclusions because DiaMat concurs with it (but I'm lucky because I was an anarchist for a long time so I'm confident that it's not just a case if "this agrees with a DiaMat view of the world so therefore it's right" because I've seen the way that this plays out on an infinitesimal scale within orgs where the foundational hypothesis of liberalism exists like a seed crystal that creates conditions for its inevitable growth until it creates something almost identical to what liberal political philosophy always creates.)

Don't take this as me dragging anarchism unfairly though. I've gnawed away at this problem for a long time and believe me when I say that I regularly turn the matter over in my mind about how revisionism and liberalism creep into revolutionary movements - you don't get to reinstate liberalism in a nation like the USSR without it being a pressing issue for communists just as equally as it is for anarchists.

14h ago

Rip

Yeah, it was very cool reading about that when it happened.

It's a bit heartbreaking for me to remember that because, prior to that point, there wasn't any real confirmation about why Parenti stepped out of the (admittedly small) limelight to seemingly retire but I could tell it was due to dementia because I could see the early signs of it in his lectures and there's a clear progression of symptoms over the passage of time. I probably shouldn't have done this but online occasionally people would ask what happened and occasionally I'd respond telling them what I had observed and that it had all the hallmarks of the onset of dementia. It sucks to knowing you're right while hoping you're wrong, only to eventually get confirmation that you were right the whole time.

It feels like such a cruel injustice to have such a sharp mind robbed of its capacity like that.

14h ago

Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

Same.

Nexphone isn't this, at least not currently, but I could see it lurching in this direction if it gets enough traction. Though no small part of me has the vaporware detector going off with this because it's promising a lot and at a very competitive price so I'm hesitant to put any hope in it until more info gets revealed.

We really ended up on the wrong timeline when the boat sailed on the Ubuntu Edge 💔

14h ago

Microsoft just issued a second emergency OS update for Windows 11 this month

People claim that Linux has no advertising budget and yet it seems like nobody takes into account the massive contributions that Microslop makes in advertising Linux such as this one.

14h ago

Microsoft just issued a second emergency OS update for Windows 11 this month

Turns out that vibecoding is a bad idea when the vibes are off.

Worse yet, when the very thing that you rely upon to tell you when the vibes are off isn't capable of telling you because its own self-assessment is based on the very vibes that you know are off, you're left with the awareness that something is wrong while also getting a readout that assures you that nothing is wrong.

14h ago

You know you’ve stayed up too late when you get to this point

A while back I got into a pretty pitched disagreement with a then-anarchist creator who disagreed with me that the concept of natural rights was a liberal concept that is predicated upon the existence of a state to determine the nature and limits of rights which its polity are entitled to and that rights are thus inherently something that does not fit within anarchist principles.

What determines and defends (or limits and violates) a person's rights if not a state?

I think because we are in a deeply within liberal cultural hegemony it makes sense to refer to rights conceptually as a shortcut term but your ideological position can't really rest upon the bedrock of natural rights without smuggling philosophical liberalism in through the back door, intentionally or otherwise.

Oh well. That point of disagreement is moot since they turned ML.

22h ago

Rip

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 22h ago

A little while back there was a small group of people who reached out to Parenti's kids, who were taking care of him due to the progression of his dementia, and asked if they could visit to meet him and pay their respects.

They reported that he seemed happy and well cared for and, from memory, they also said that they explained to him that he had become a topic of memes amongst the left and they showed him some. If I'm recalling correctly, he seemed to be a bit puzzled by the memes but he appreciated them.

I'm not a very sentimental person and I don't believe in the afterlife but I think that if Parenti could see it, he would be equal parts touched and baffled by all the shitposts in memoriam. (And honestly, I feel the same way.)

1d ago

FEELS GREAT, fuck off