[harryshouse]

so

we have this app called toogoodtogo where restaurants/cafes/bakeries/hotels and so on sell their leftovers for really cheap to reduce foodwaste

i got all of this for €4 from starbucks

bless

[frompawntoqueen]

The America version is called FoodForAll

[somecunttookmyurl]

I love TooGoodToGo all of this sushi cost me £3.50 (the chinese food cost me £3.59)

[korben600]

YOOOOOOO, they’re formalizing this?!?!

I used to do community service at a community breakfast, we’d go to the local Safeway and get all their stale bread, the local bakery for their stale baked goods and whatnot.

They throw away so much food it’s ridiculous, I’m glad someone finally created a program like this!

[askawelfarecaseworker]

The American app isn’t available everywhere but if you’re broke in NY or Boston, check it out!

[tundrakatiebean]

The US app logo currently looks like this and was last updated 3 weeks ago (as of January 25th 2020)

[sissikuk]

TooGoodToGo is available in many European countries, including the UK, much of Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and the Iberian peninsula. 

[unzip-your-guts]

In Canada we have flash food, I dont know if it’s just confined to loblaw stores but you can get food that stores have to throw out for dirt cheap

[defira85]

I know I reblogged this once already but I’m back to say there’s an Australian version!

YWaste has been around since 2017 apparently, so they’re quite well established if you’re Australian and in need of options

[he-who-ships]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower boost?

[sleepygyal]

Systemic racism against Indigenous Peoples in Canada is very real and present, especially in the health system.

Today, Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman from Manawan First Nation, died in horrible conditions and around racist staff at Joliette hospital in Montreal city. She shared a live video of her on Facebook crying for help in her mother tongue, saying that she received too much medication. In the video, we can also hear two caregivers saying violent and harmful words to her, like “fucking fat woman, it’s better if you’re dead” “are you done joking around” 

This is so revolting, and unfortunately it’s a reality for the Indigenous community here. They’re completely marginalized. The health care system doesn’t care about them. 

[just-a-random-artist-weirdo]

I can’t really express the pain I felt for the past two days. I cried all day, I was only thinking about the family. I didn’t know until recently that she is family, she is my mom’s cousin and it breaks my heart.

Those pictures are from different community, different nations from Quebec. Even non-indigenous were there, for Joyce Echaquan… another stolen sister.

If u want to donate this is the site where u can donate. The money will go to the family

https://gf.me/u/y2z9wu

Justice pour Joyce-Justice for Joyce, organized by Chantal Chartrand

Jeudi dernier, Joyce Echaquan, 37 ans, s’est rendue à l’hopital pour  des dou… Chantal Chartrand needs your support for Justice pour Joyce

[feminismandmedia]

[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying

"fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug"]

[taehyungsgrowl]

I don’t know of the original poster might not be aware

but!

if you’ve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public

it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)

ALSO : 

you don’t need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that you’ve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.

[orgy-of-nerdiness]

Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_confidentiality_program

Address confidentiality program - Wikipedia

[la-laborista-republiko]

[cryptiboy]

what if public libraries were open late every night so that:

- children and teens who cant get home until a later time have a safe, warm, well lit, populated area to socialize, charge devices, rest, etc

- children and teens have a safe place to go to stay away from danger

- people who have jobs that take up most of the day would still have time ANY DAY OF THE WEEK to go use the libraries facilities (printing, computers, etc)

[raptorkin]

This is exactly what public libraries are trying to achieve - public libraries as a third place is a whole thing - it’s just that the funding isn’t there (yet).

[captaindibbzy]

Libraries need and deserve so much funding

[entamewitchlulu]

I’m going to apologize if this post comes off as sounding very aggressive, but having just been through one of the most stressful experiences of my entire career in libraries: 

if you want this, you need to be at your local community government meetings. you need to be talking to your representatives.  you need to be out there Lobbying.

Just a few weeks ago, my library, me, my coworkers, we had to write letters, send emails, make phone calls, speak at council meetings, just to beg our aldermen to give us our usual funding. Which they didn’t even give to us last year.  Losing last year’s funding forced us to cut staff, hours, and all of our databases.  If we’d lost this year’s funding? two positions would have been gone and we would have likely had to close on Saturdays.  On Saturdays.  The day of the week most of y’all working M-F jobs actually have time to go to the fucking library.

And do you want to know how much money we were asking? We were asking for an increase of approximately 13 cents a person.

13.

Fucking.

Cents.

ACROSS AN ENTIRE YEAR.

No one seems to understand how libraries are funded.  It’s not just Free Stuff.  It’s your tax dollars being paid back into your community.  It’s crowdfunding.  The highest cost anyone in my community pays for the library a year is approximately $250.  Divide that up.  That’s just $4 a week.  That’s less than a coffee.  It’s the equivalent of purchasing about 10 hardcover books a year.  For that price, you could have access to every book that has ever been written, a place to go that’s not a bar, programs for kids, teens, and adults, educated staff that can help you find the answers to your questions, and so much more.

You want these late-night libraries?  You want all this stuff?  Start fighting for it.  Start showing up.  Start making phone calls.  It’s not going to come out of thin air.  Start fighting to erase the idea that taxes = evil.  Start fighting to spread the understanding that taxes are what help us build a better society.

Make sure the people who represent you know that you want this.  That this is where you want your tax dollars to go.  That this is what you want them to support.  That you are willing to see your tax bill go up a few more dollars for this.

Because otherwise?  None of this is going to happen.  Libraries are going to keep cutting their opening hours.  Keep cutting staff.  Keep cutting programs and databases and collections.

We NEED your support, and we need more than just a post on Tumblr.  We need to see people show up and speak out. 

[adhd-hippie]

[ID: Tweet from erin glass @erinroseglass “What if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation.”  / End ID]

[caramina]

We are taking one piece of food out of the bowl at a time to eat it in the middle of the room

[fumblebeefae]

I know you didn't say anything about hating vegans or anything but are we actually doing a bad job? like is all of this just a lie and not actually helping the environment or anything :/ because one of the biggest reason for me to go vegan is cause of environmental issues and all

I don’t hate vegans, not the ones that aren’t spreading misinformation or think they are on some sort of moral high ground to everyone else. But I don’t agree with it myself because it is all superficial, without any proper action if I’m being honest.

And when there is action it’s usually targeted at the wrong issue and does more harmful then good. My main issue is that vegans see animals as very individual. They want to save every single cow or pig or chicken without thinking about it rationally or about the horrible impact that would have no important species (species that are actually vital to ecosystems). Veganism fails to see the bigger more important picture. 

“Saving” domesticated farm animals is not important. I’m sorry but it’s just not. Not when it means “saving” these animals will have drastic negative effects. 

I mean there are always ways that agricultural and animal industries can be improved. But just refusing to buy meat or use animal products don’t change anything. And realistically we’re not going to stop eating meat or producing wool ect. You have to understand that and accept it and look at ways to improve those processes not try and shut them down completely.  

And more veganism just means more demand for certain crops, which require more land clearing + more pesticides ect. Veganism is just as bad for the environment and animals as any other diet is. In a capitalist society there really isn’t any ethical consumption.

The world and the environment can’t survive under a capitalist society. Capitalism is what’s stopping us from using green energy solutions or inverting more. Not because these solutions are “expensive” or hard to make or whatever use excuses are being made. It’s because they won’t make as much money as easily. 

Just like buying honey isn’t going to “save the bees” or turning the tap off when you brush your teeth won’t save water. They’re things corporations and company’s push because they’re easy and shift the blame onto consumers and away from them. 

We need to look into real solutions. Realistic solutions that aren’t just superficial I-want-to-feel-good-without-doing-anything-too-hard “solutions” but real ones. And they need to be towards actual important significant issues.  Animals being killed for a source of food or harvesting honey or wool, is not even close to being an issue we should be worried about. I’m sorry that you’ve been led to think otherwise, there is alot of misinformation out there and people will lie to get their agenda across. But veganism just doesn’t help the environment. It just doesn’t. 

[witchknights]

I’m brazilian. Our government recently authorized the burning of a good part of what’s left of our rainforest so it can be used in agriculture, and that probably means soy.

soy is not part of the average brazilian’s diet. Maybe soy oil, but not soy protein or tofu or milk. Soy is an export crop - actually, we’re one of the biggest sellers of soy in the international market, and it’s a huge part of our GDP. Soy is also an important protein source in vegan diets.

if the entire population of the US suddenly turned vegan, you bet your ass we could kiss goodbye to a lot of forest around here, and a lot of animal species would go out of existence in flames - because cutting down wood is too expensive, so we just burn them and release enormous amounts of smoke in the air. And we’re going to treat these crops with a lot of chemicals and pesticides and this thing and that other thing and these are all very very bad for whatever insects were left, and the animals that eat those insects, and i guess you see the picture.

like, i get it that you want to be environmentally conscious and you love animals and you think they don’t deserve to suffer, but the small farmers that suffer aggressive harassment from big landowners to sell their properties so big corporations can sell more soy to the international market are suffering. you can bet the low income families that can’t afford food because it’s more lucrative to plant export crops rather than brazilian staple foods are suffering, as well as the entire brazilian population that has to eat low quality fruits and vegetables because our best goes to Europe and North America. Like, i’m not kidding, i’ve been to grocery stores in the US and Europe and on average your stuff is a lot better than what we have available here.

You can support local, organic farms. you can fight against the use of pesticides and fight against cruel practices in the meat and dairy industry, and that’ll be doing a lot better for the planet than just going vegan and pressuring people to do the same without thought to what it actually means.

[hundred-and-one-bettas]

I hope you are aware that a good majority, or at least half of the corn and soy grown is sent to feed livestock. I’m not sure why people seem to think that vegans and vegetarian people would eat more soy than mass amounts of cows. The entire world wouldn’t suddenly turn vegan overnight, everyone knows that. But, if more and more people slowly stopped eating meat, the demand of meat would go down. The amount of grain sent to feed animals would go down. There’d be more room/grain to feed people. The amount of grain/crops that animals need to eat to produce meat vs the amount that humans would consume is far higher, so as far as being economical and using the least amount of resources, raising animals for meat to feed a certain amount of people requires far more water and crops/grains than it would if the said water and crops/grains were used and eaten by the people directly.

[scoutsmoocrew]

The soy that gets fed to livestock is soy meal, which is most of the bean, and isn’t very nutritious for humans

The more profitable part of the bean is the oil, which is almost exclusively used for human consumption

If livestock didn’t exist but we continued wanting soy oil, and subsidizing soy growing, all that would change is that we suddenly have all this soybean meal we don’t really have anything to do with.

Corn it’s the same deal - iirc most goes to ethanol these days, and then the byproducts from ethanol and stalks and stuff from the plants are all fed to livestock. Some farms grow feed for their livestock on-farm but I don’t think that’s most corn.

Livestock aren’t eating what people can eat, they’re eating leftover from human food crop production.

[probablyasocialecologist]

I’m confused by this, the UCUSA and WWF both say that about 75% of global soy goes to animal agriculture, and only 6% of soy is “turned directly into food products for human consumption”, so reducing meat/animal agriculture consumption would definitely reduce soya production and by extension reduce deforestation.

[scoutsmoocrew]

75% by weight, because most of the bean/plant is basically useless for us nutritionally without first filtering it through an animal. The oil is the more profitable part of the bean and is the main reason for its growth, but it leaves behind the rest of the plant that livestock is much better at converting to nutrients than we are directly. Only about 5% of soy is grown ONLY for animals and as it stands getting rid of livestock without soy oil would really just leave an endless supply of soy meal sitting around, or being put into junk food

[mostlysignssomeportents]

FTC about to hammer Intuit

In most of the world’s democracies, tax prep is really easy: the government uses its own employer-supplied payroll records to estimate your taxes, fills in a tax return for you and mails it to you.

If it looks good, you sign it and return it. If not, you amend it (or hire an accountant to do so).

But not in the USA: here, the tax-prep industry makes billions charging Americans to gather information the IRS already has and send it to the IRS (again).

Naturally - this is America ca. 2020, after all - the tax-prep industry is highly concentrated, with a few megafirms capturing nearly 100% of the business, and when industries are that concentrated, they get to write their own rules.

They do that in three ways:

Concentrated industries are small enough that they can readily agree on a common lobbying position;

They extract monopoly rents and can mobilize these excess profits to lobby on their common position; and

They so dominate their industry that their own regulators are drawn from their executive ranks and/or hope to cycle out of public service and into the firms’ executive structure

Big Tax Prep did all of these things - but at long last, it’s catching up with them.

The worst offender of all is Intuit, makers of Turbotax, whose fraud is matched only by the company’s weird culture, built on a literal personality cult around the company’s longtime CEO Brad Smith:

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

Smith didn’t just orient the whole company around literal worship of his person: he also transformed the company’s longtime opposition to free government tax-prep into the centerpiece of its political activity.

It was under Smith’s leadership that Intuit convinced the IRS to kill plans for free tax prep and replace them with “Free File” - a program where Big Tax-Prep offered free tax prep services to low-income Americans.

Free File is an INCREDIBLE grift. Free File companies used deceptive tactics to make it virtually impossible to use, and they were successful. Almost no one has heard of Free File - and of the people who have, almost no one has successfully used it.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol/144-dark-pattern

Instead Free File became a sales-funnel: low-income filers who tried to use it would get diverted into expensive for-pay alternatives.

That sales-funnel came in handy after the Trump tax plan eliminated the need for high-earners to itemize deductions - that when Intuit targeted elderly people, people with disabilities, and students to make up the difference.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-law-threatened-turbotax-profits-started-charging-disabled-unemployed-and-students

How did they get away with this?

Bribery.

Intimidation.

Stealing IRS internal files.

You know: “business.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-tried-to-hide-emails-that-show-tax-industry-influence-over-free-file-program

But here’s a Smurfs’ Family Christmas miracle for you: thanks to relentless, deep reporting from Propublica, led by Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel, the IRS actually cracked down on Intuit and the rest of Big Tax-Prep.

Last New Year’s Eve, the IRS and Intuit announced that Intuit was now banned from hiding its Free File offerings, and the IRS announced that it would drop a policy banning it from creating its own Free File competitor.

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-reforms-free-file-program-drops-agreement-not-to-compete-with-turbotax

And the hits keep on coming! The FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection has been investigating Intuit’s Turbotax scam for more than a year. In May, the FTC sent Intuit a wide-ranging subpoena, demanding both documents and sworn testimony from company execs.

Intuit sued to block the subpoena, but they just got their asses handed to them by a bipartisan vote of FTC commissioners:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ftc-is-investigating-intuit-over-turbotax-practices

The commissioners rejected Intuit’s claim that handing over documents and giving testimony was “burdensome,” in light of both the depth of the inquiry and the pandemic.

The FTC joins at least four states that are investigating Intuit:

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-tricked-customers-into-paying-to-file-taxes-now-several-states-are-investigating-it

A group of taxpayers who were tricked into paying Intuit for “free” services are suing the company, having beaten its bid to force them into binding arbitration (where people are forced to argue in front of a corporate “arbitrator” instead of a judge):

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2020/03/13/judge-turbotax-users-who-claim-they-were-eligible-for-free-tax-filing-belong-in-court-not-arbitration/

Chances are you’ve already filed your taxes, but just in case, here’s Propublica’s guide to successfully using Free File. If you have simple taxes, you should never have to pay for tax-prep:

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-file-state-federal-taxes-free-2020#175169

Image: Phil Catterall (modified) https://he.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Henhouse_near_Ganthorpe_-_geograph.org.uk_-_670026.jpg

CC BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

[allthisandtea]

@desperate-acts-of-capitalism possible future episode?

[caramina]

This is my new reaction photo for everything.

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

[clockwork-hobbit]

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

[neon-classical]

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

[dr-dendritic-trees]

This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner. 

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

[swankyangles]

You all can't be trusted to eat the rich.

[nigga-hime]

Remember kids. Billionaires are bad. But not cause money is bad. They’re bad because there’s no way to make that much money without hurting people to get that much money. 🥰

[thebookofloveislong]

There is no ethical way to make a billion dollars.

[emiliusthegreat]

1 billion is a THOUSAND MILLION. 1 trillion is 1 THOUSAND BILLION. Which means a trillion is a MILLION MILLIONS. Vs John’s 6 million.

The difference between John Boyega’s 6 million and Jeff Bezos’s hypothetical trillion (he’s not there yet) is so huge, the mathematical equivalent going the other way is the distance between 6 million vs $36. I double checked my math. (someone may need to triple check me cause math isn’t my strong point)

[pippindot]

Me: crying on the couch

Pip: gently stealing my tissues off my lap and throwing them on the floor

[intriga-hounds]

me: in excruciating pain bc i threw out my neck again

baz: cannonballs onto my chest

sivi: yells bc HE wanted to be the one on my chest

[sevdolo]

[askiathedickhead]

Yup

[lovelengua]

Pronunciation Resource - YouGlish

YouGlish aims to improve your pronunciation through Youtube videos of words and phrases spoken in context. When you search for a word, there are thousands of videos to choose from that have that word spoken in context clearly. The site automatically jumps to the point in the video where the word is spoken. 

Underneath the video there are subtitles and you can also adjust the playback speed so you can hear the sentence spoken more slowly (or faster) if you’d like. There’s also a ‘Nearby Words’ section that shows you similar sounding words to the one that you searched.

Languages available: Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, French, English, Turkish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Sign Languages (ASL & BSL). You can also filter by accent. For example, in the English version you can filter by US English, UK English, and Australian English.

[turing-tested]

its really weird to see all these articles about how people who have ADHD have sleeping problems but the issue I have is that if you look at it as a matter of your circadian rythym being out of sync? of COURSE you’re not going to be able to sleep. we don’t say people who can’t fall asleep at 4 pm and sleep 8 hours have insomnia, because that’s not a normally agreed upon time to sleep and its not your bodies time to sleep. if you tell someone to go to bed at 10 and they can’t sleep till 3 am sometimes in just not insomnia. people with ADHD are often wired to sleep from 4 am to 12 pm ish because of the delayed onset of melatonin but if you let us go to bed at the time we need? most of us actually sleep pretty well and consistently.

[raven-dreaming-deactivated20210]

wAIT THIS IS AN ACTUAL THING THAT EXISTS

[turing-tested]

“For most adults the onset of melatonin is around 9.30 pm; in ADHD children compared to controls this occurs at least 45 minutes later, and in adults with ADHD even 90 minutes (van der Heijden ea, 2005; van Veen ea 2010). After melatonin onset, it normally takes 2 hours to fall asleep, but in adults with ADHD it takes at least 3 hours (Bijlenga et al, 2013).”

[flukeoffate]

Look at me awake at 1:47 am and reblogging this post.

[kayeych]

So I’m actually trained in therapy for addressing insomnia and one of the things we learned is that a good chunk of sleep problems are societal disorders - as in they WOULDN’T EXIST as problems if society didn’t assume everyone was on the same circadian rhythm and that being up and working 9-5 was mandatory/normal. Blew my mind and made so much sense. You are not the problem, society is literally the problem.

[doberbutts]

Honestly take out ‘sleeping problems’ and insert 'disabilities’ and you have the current correct disability worldview in a nutshell- disability would not exist if society didn’t decide everyone has to fit into a narrow box of ability and accomodations to make people’s lives liveable and enjoyable were as commonplace as canes and glasses. No one asks the person with glasses if they’re faking to get better treatment and the few people who simply like the look and buy fake glasses have no negative effect on those who rely on their glasses to see.

[caramina]

She's an instagram model now

[caramina]

Adventures in stealing woodchips

[caramina]

She was so cute at 6 weeks

[caramina]

Mina had to get rinsed off bc she rolled around in a pee puddle from another dog in the complex and now she's LOSING it. Also my bed is going to smell like wet dog