eatcakeanddie

Hello, internet. I'm Sarah. An herbalist, folk scientist, over-sleeping, bad-dancing, do-gooding, chronic snack-eating, compost-obsessed feral cat mother. Commonly seen themes on this page include: feminism, anarchy, homesteading, street art, trash crafts, the forest, the cosmos, strange things, pretty things, interesting things, drag queens, zine geekery, and most likely an embarrassing amount of cuddly animal stuff.

[eatcakeanddie]

Welp, haven't wandered 'round these parts in nearly a decade.

If anyone is still here: hiiloveyou.

If no one is here: *SCREAMS INTO THE VOID*

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Watch: President Obama delivers pointedly feminist speech at United State of Women summit

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Slay potus

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Look at this beautiful Floridian Swamp Cat and her adorable kittens.

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That There is A Gator

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No that’s a Floridian Swamp Cat

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boss fight

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This gave me pure unremitting joy

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These guys are called TOO MANY ZOOZ and there is much enjoyment to be found on their youtube

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Http://Toomanyzooz.bandcamp.com for their albums which are great

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goooooooooood morning

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Wednesday. 

[eatcakeanddie]

Our little local library has been fundraising for ages in hopes of expanding. Now a chain convenience store is moving in and wanting the area where expansion would take place to be rezoned for commercial use. If the library wants to expand it will have to purchase new land/build from scratch and that will cost waaaay more than simply expanding. After budget cuts last year, this is not good news for the library. Please let the city council know that this rezoning idea stinks and sign this petition if you have a moment. Thanks!

[joshpeck]

this is so funny & pure

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I’m such a happy Chewbacca!!

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my mom

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This is the best

[eatcakeanddie]

I just laughed with her until I cried...in the break room at work. I love this woman!

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There’s nothing quite like putting one’s unique stamp on a graduation ceremony — and Latinx grads nationwide are making it happen in 2016. This one is stunning: “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”

[pluckyyoungdonna]

They didn’t know we were seeds.

[eatcakeanddie]

La Gattara Cat Cafe & Wine Bar Arizona's First Cat Cafe!

Please help us to open Arizona's 1st Cat Cafe where people can enjoy a beverage and a snack in the presence of adorable adoptable cats!

Only 27 hours left and a little over $9,000 needed to reach their goal! Please pledge to this awesome kickstarter campaign if you have a few bucks to spare. :) 

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This is probably the best video on this whole website.

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CONGRATULATIONS! YOU SURVIVED THE WINTER!

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Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss. 

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In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them. -Source

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One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.

How have I never heard of this?

[fieldbears]

People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.

[maudnewton]

“When Burks was a girl, she said, her mother got in a final, epic row with Burks’ uncle. To make sure he and his branch of the family tree would never lie in the same dirt as the rest of them, Burks said, her mother quietly bought every available grave space in the cemetery: 262 plots. They visited the cemetery most Sundays after church when she was young, Burks said, and her mother would often sarcastically remark on her holdings, looking out over the cemetery and telling her daughter: ‘Someday, all of this is going to be yours.’

‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’" 

Wonderful woman. Wonderful story.

[changingthingslikeleaves]

This woman is extraordinary.