#wastenotwantnot — Public Fediverse posts

got very spicy outside all of a sudden. definitely storminess incoming.

flag is good tho! 🇵🇸

#palestine #freePalestine #gaza #endgenocide #israel #BDS

#bcstorm #poolpond #backyardProject #diy #landscaping #wastenotwantnot

the skies have opened! retreating inside. Got some more rock down. #bcstorm #poolpond #backyardProject #diy #landscaping #wastenotwantnot

just cleared some of the rocks I had stored along the edge of the pond. Use them for some of the rocks under the shed since it doesn't matter if they're dirty.

At the same time doing the scariest thing in pond making.

Cutting a liner away.

It's sort of like taking off training wheels. You're not sure if things just gonna collapse lol but you're pretty sure it's OK

#bcstorm #poolpond #backyardProject #diy #landscaping #wastenotwantnot

the wind was threatening my thrifty waste usage before i had the chance to get drainage rock down! deploy big rocks! 🪨

Sky is looking threatening. There is lightning off the West Coast this morning.

#bcstorm

#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #landscaping #wastenotwantnot

one man's scrap is a another man's perfect fit.

corollary.

"you have a huge piece of thick underlay that would easily fit that entire area! Why don't you just do it in one piece?"

"why would I do it in one piece when I could use up 10 pieces? 😆"

ground is level or at least as level is it is going to be under my supervision lol. Laying down some gardening cloth to keep out blackberries mostly. Next I will put down drainage rock which will bring it to the right level to put down the rubber horse mat, which will then be the same height as the other shed
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #landscaping #wastenotwantnot

Gah!

I opened an old laptop that I'm repurposing into a server so I could add some storage. Found this lovely spicy-pillow inside

I guess it's not going to have a built-in UPS after all.

The good news is it still boots without a battery, so my plan continues...

#spicypillow #homelab #wastenotwantnot

Tässle Kaffee?

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/daily-coffee-tea-lower-dementia-risk

Besser kann eins #Prävention hier nicht betreiben.

#Kaffeetrinken #Demenz

Nachtrag: Dass die Illustration zu dem Artikel To-Go-Becher mit Plastikdeckel zeigt, find ich suboptimal.

#WasteNotWantNot

There was about 5.5 litres of whole milk BBD 18th Jan in the office fridge. When I put the new milk from the doorstep into the fridge in the morning I carefully lined it up so there was a new row and a yesterday BBD row, as most sensible people will use the yesterday stuff — it was entirely fine and good. When I went back later someone has clearly had an attack of disgust and shoved them all right up the back top corner of the fridge in their own little quarantine zone.

I asked if I could give them a good home, which the office manager gladly agreed to given she'd just have to tip them down the sink otherwise.

The milk is now ricotta. Just done the simple way: citric acid and salt (I do have rennet, but time is short and that's a faff.)

I may take a ricotta cake into work on Thursday (as I'll need WfH Wednesday time to manage such a thing.)

#CheeseMaking #ricotta #cheese #milk #cooking #WasteNotWantNot ? #IfOnly #Trite

Feeling very pleased with myself: made bread and butter pudding out of stale stolen #WasteNotWantNot. It's a whole new level of xmas gluttony 😋

Richard had Thanksgiving leftovers for supper. I made 6 quarts of turkey soup from the breast carcass. I had a mug of that for supper. After it cools down enough, I will freeze the rest. #ICanCook #ICanUseUpLeftovers #WasteNotWantNot

I wonder how many other people are eating a parsnip and cabbage sarnie for lunch? #leftovers #WasteNotWantNot

What a weekend at the Laois Repair Café! 🚗💡 Over 45 items fixed, including a heartwarming story about a rocking chair restored to life. Big thanks to our amazing fixers! 🙌 https://www.tog.ie/2025/06/the-rocking-chair-that-came-back-to-life-at-laois-repair-cafe/ #RepairCafe #Sustainability #Community #WasteNotWantNot #Laois

I've got an old #cisco #ASA 5512-x laying around that I figured might come in handy some day.

My brother recently sent me an article to a fellow who got #opnSense running on it, and of course I had to bite.

It was almost too easy! I tracked down an ancient VGA to IDC connector, installed it on the motherboard, and then changed the BIOS around to boot from a thumbdrive. OpnSense installed without issue, and BAM I have a 7-port gigabit router with a #xeon processor, 8GB of DDR3 and a 128GB SSD.

I haven't tested yet, but supposedly these bad boys can push *almost* full line speed.

Not too bad for free! It appears these can be had online for under $50 all day long.

#SelfHosting #RecycledTech #WasteNotWantNot #RightToRepair