That’s awesome, congratulations to you too!

It’s our first wedding anniversary today and we agreed no pranks so we could relax and enjoy it. Not that either of us are the pranking type anyway really, but better to agree it out loud 😄

I remember posting this question just after the Reddit exodus so went back to look at my stats from back then. According to the post I’d been on Lemmy for 12 days and had subscribed to:

• 121 Lemmy communities
• 42 Kbin magazines
• 163 total

That was just on this account though, and I have two accounts with fairly different feeds. So let’s say I was probably on a total of around 180-200 then across both accounts, and have been adding them at a slow but steady rate

That gives us a scientifically sound estimate of my current total subscriptions: a lot.

Ooh what are you on with atm? I’m embroiled in a minimalist city builder thing and just got to the part where I need to learn to animate things, which I have been full-on dreading.

I could’ve written this comment word for word. It really does make things a lot easier to just be direct, being able to do this is one of the very few outright advantages of our non-standard brains imo!

As one of those people who is struggling a bit: Never let the state of the rest of the world stop you from celebrating your own wins!

Congrats on the raise, that is really awesome. Remember to put a decent chunk into savings :D

Might not be the kind of arts and crafts you’re talking about but I mod both !knitting@lemmy.world and !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works, plus there’s !crochet@lemmy.ca , !sewing@lemmy.world and plenty more that would be happy to have you!

Yep you’d expect it to climb significantly once .world upgrades. Basically this update messes with the baseline stat a lot so no reason to celebrate, but also no reason to really be fussed either way as long as we’ve got plenty people here to talk to 👍

This might be the showerthought that’s given me the most to think about ever. Can’t stop thinking about licking my couch, for a start. Well played OP.

Figure out what sort of thing you’d like to see, check out the related hashtag feeds. You can follow tags as a good way to get started and follow individual people as and when they pop up with something cool.

That’s amazing! Congrats on being an inspiration :D

Jes!

(That’s Esperanto for “yes”. It’s pronounced “yes” 😄)

Saluton, mia amiko 👋

‘Bough’ and ‘bow’ are pronounced the same

Except, of course, when “bow” is pronounced “bow” instead.

Yeah there’s definitely still some gaps. I was weirdly obsessed with scampi as a child and can’t imagine there’ll ever be a good alternative to that, but ultimately I’ve made my peace.

Hope it goes well, sending much moral support your way!

Trying to get to grips with the full horror of what my todo list has become while I was basically incapable of doing anything other than wheeze and sleep for the last couple of weeks.

It’s not pretty 😬

BUT a couple days ago I got random act of kindness-ed by a fellow Lemming, and while it has technically added a fair amount of tasks to the list that now need doing asap, it was an amazing thing to do for a stranger and is going to let me move forward with a personal project that means a lot to me. So a long todo list isn’t always terrible, is the moral of this story.

Idk how long it’s been since you last tried (or where you’re from) but I can say as someone who’s been veggie in the UK for over 20 years, every year it’s getting easier to make the switch.

We’re getting new meat substitutes all the time if that’s your thing, there are ever-increasing amounts of veggie and vegan food porn for cooking inspiration, and in a lot of countries you can basically just assume that any given restaurant is going to have at least a couple of veggie-friendly options (wasn’t the case for the US when I was last there but that was in 2015 so has hopefully changed - they even put surprise meat in my egg-fried rice over there)

So if it’s been a while you might find it easier this time round just based on sheer availability of options!

Remember though, it’s ok to do it gradually too you don’t need to go full cold turkey. Reducing meat consumption is a great goal regardless of whether you ever become a full vegetarian or not, and anecdotally I’ve known a couple of people who found telling themselves “I’m just reducing meat, not banning it” made it a lot less pressure and the switch became easier.

Anyway this is getting to be a long comment because I’m avoiding work as per usual. The main thing I wanted to say is GOOD LUCK!

p.s. couple of inspiration communities for you

• !vegetarian@lemmy.world
• !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world

I seeee! Never heard the finer details of that whole thing (I was young and not super into his stuff anyway). Smart guy though by the sounds of it!

Hope everything goes smoothly and your newfound event planning forte is recognised appropriately!

Could’ve picked something easier to pronounce, though.