be kind or else

i love you. im glad i exist.

[grannybeards]

CoplandVintage - Etsy UK

Shop items by CoplandVintage.

Hey I know I'm not the type but times are hard - I have a four month old baby and no childcare options so returning to work is off the cards for now. Even just a reblog of this post or a read of it will make a huge difference to me.

I'd really appreciate if anyone fancied a look at my new Etsy shop, it's going to be mainly jewellery and antique curiosities. We've currently got some really lovely gold rings for sale, all 1920s or earlier and have some great little pendants and charms coming soon too.

I can assure you all of the quality of our items, my husband is an antiques auctioneer and valuer so we are checking all the items in person before buying them and pricing them as fairly as possible for what they are.

I know they're luxury items and lots of people don't have the money for that at the moment, but if you could just have a nosy and maybe a favourite that would mean the world to me and would be a big step towards getting us some sales to support my family.

Love you all very much and please don't feel obligated to do anything you don't want to!

Nelly x

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[bbcwhereareyou]

Coming nonprofit corner store finds a way to allow SNAP purchase of hot foods

People will be sold raw ingredients to be taken to a separate area in the building to be cooked.

U.S. Department of Agriculture rules stipulate that hot food can’t be purchased with SNAP benefits, which are conveyed through Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. Rotisserie chicken and prepared deli foods are also off limits. ...

But the store will also be selling the raw ingredients of portioned-out meals in kits, like chicken with potatoes and vegetables. After the customer buys the uncooked foods with their SNAP benefits, they will leave the grocery and walk to the rear of the building, into a separate shop that contains a kitchen.

The customer will hand over the meal kit to a worker, who will, in turn, give them a recently cooked version of the raw meal at no charge. The uncooked ingredients will then made into another meal, for another customer.

Oh this is a dope idea.

[madcatnobody]

Is there an actual reason to forbid people using EBT on hot food besides intentional cruelty?

[bbcwhereareyou]

Cruelty. Also the law is 50 years old and while the world has changed significantly since 1973, Congress hasn't changed it.

[naamahdarling]

Like, with no working oven and no dishwasher, it gets a lot harder to cook. And that's where we are. Hand-washing dishes for over 15 years. And for well over a year, no oven. And people on SNAP are often disabled, or have significant demands on their time. Stovetop cooking is great and all, but you might only have one working burner. And if you can't stand or repeatedly get up and babysit the food, your recipes are limited. I don't have the energy to stovetop cook most of the time. Even if I did, if you have to wash everything by hand, that adds extra exhaustion even if you use disposable plates and dinnerware. The crock pot is nice, but it's very heavy to clean out and it's hard for my short ass to really manage it, and won't fit in a tiny sink, and the liners don't work. I have a microwave and a fridge and a toaster and a rice cooker. That's it. Combine that with some funky nutritional and digestive issues, the fact that fresh produce goes bad very quickly and needs to be processed and frozen by me because the pre-frozen stuff is way expensive now and isn't good quality (six tiny broccoli florets, all the rest is stem?!), and my options are very limited.

So yeah, a rotisserie chicken from the grocery lasts me for about four days. I put it with rice and season it with some cheap herbs, and that's a meal. Or I make a sandwich with it. But I always eat some while it's hot and maybe get a little side of mashed potatoes or something because stuff from the deli is the only hot and fresh non-fast non-microwaved, non-fast-food I get in a week.

I'm not looking for advice on recipes, I can get that, I'm doing that, I'm looking for all y'all to fucking care.

[vandijkwrites]

Please do things to strengthen your attention span. It stresses me out so much when people just accept their small attention spans and cater to them without any acknowledgment that they are making it worse by doing that.

There is a reason attention spans are worse now and it didn’t just happen by chance. Media and the internet designed it that way and we went with it because it was easier.

Some of us with ADHD and brain fog need to meet ourselves where we’re at and lengthen our exercise span by watching a two minute video instead of a one minute video. Some of us need to sit down and read a novel with our phones turned off.

Wherever you’re at, just realize that not doing things that feel hard will keep making your attention span worse.

[heritageposts]

The new fabricated piece of Israeli atrocity propaganda, that Hamas baked a baby in an oven, is lifted directly from Palestinian survivor testimonies about what Zionist militants did during the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948.

[Warning, explicit descriptions of torture and violence.]

“I saw the Zionist terrorist soldiers ordering the bakery man of the village to throw his son in the oven and burn him alive. The son is holding the clothes of his father tightly and crying from fear and pleading to his father not to do it. The father refuses and then the soldiers hit him in his gut so hard it caused him to fall on the floor. Other soldiers held his son, Abdel Rauf, and threw him in the oven and told his father to toast him well-done meat. Other soldiers took the baker himself , Hussain al-Shareef, and threw him, too, in the oven, telling him, “follow your son, he needs you there”. - Testimonial from Othman Akel, recorded in Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre (2010).

Like the saying goes, "every Zionist accusation is a confession."

It almost makes me wonder if it's part of a deliberate tactic to obfuscate search engine results. Because if you now search for something like say, 'Israeli solider put child in oven,' all the top results will be about Hamas, not Deir Yassin.

[heritageposts]

I've pointed this out before, but it's worth repeating that Ezra Yachin, that 95-year-old IDF reservist who has been celebrated as an inspirational war hero in Israeli media, participated in the Deir Yasin massacre.

And if there's any part of you that's still doubting whether Zionist settlers really could commit an act that depraved and cruel, here is what Yachin has to say about Palestinians in 2023:

"Be triumphant and finish them off and don’t leave anyone behind. Erase the memory of them," Yachin said while addressing Israeli troops this week, in a video that has since gone viral. "Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live." "Every Jew with a weapon should go out and kill them. If you have an Arab neighbour, don’t wait, go to his home and shoot him."

From MEE (video in article)

[catchymemes]

[mariacallous]

[softpastelqueer]

Gaylors are truly unhinged

[stephenroot]

Trans people can be baptised in church and be godparents, says Vatican

Vatican office adds there must be no ‘situations in which there is a risk of generating a public scandal’

[just-sans-things]

i cant hang out tonight man. no i have to explode into a millions thousand pieces. yea tomorrow works

[rabinovitch]

happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday

[gothic-chicanery]

happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday

[crayola-samgirl]

[un-monstre]

Disability will have you thinking shit like “I’m not even that disabled. I can manage as long as I limit myself to very specific careers, never go shopping for more than an hour or two at a time, keep my plans open so I can cancel and stay in if need be, and only go out a few nights per week at the most”

[gaytanic-panic]

[the2headedcalf-archive]

You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

oh…………………………………

[urlocalchangeling]

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds - Ada Limón

[generic-dumb-bitch]

[tundrakatiebean]

[gingernutsenthusiast]

@filmnoirsbian

[chambaeli]

[chandaniyan]

[chandaniyan]

[url-is-url]

@thebibliosphere didn’t your Magic Physio Man become a Magic Physio Man after learning about his mom’s back problems?

[thebibliosphere]

Yes. She was in severe pain for many years and didn’t tell anyone. Just kept looking after the kids and dragging herself along because they were too poor for her to prioritize herself.

Magic Physio Man took a massage class for fun one year and needed someone to practice on, so he asked if he could practice on her. A couple of minutes in, he realized there was something severely wrong, pressed her about it, found out the extent of her relentless pain, and threw himself into a lifetime of learning how to ease the pain of others.

[recomvery]

People always say: "Not everyone is gonna like you, and that's ok, nothing to take personally, it doesn't matter" yet it still sucks. It sucks when it's your teacher, it sucks when it's your boss or co-worker or family member. It even sucks when it's a friends friend or someone we barely know. It hurts. And you do not have to gaslight yourself into thinking that it doesn't hurt when it does. You're allowed to be upset when life is hard. You're allowed to feel an emotion, even more when it makes perfect logical sense. We talk to a friend about our feelings, journal, reflect, use coping skills. We find peace after a while, that's a more realistic solution. You got this. It will be ok.

[proteinmom]

[bering-strait-deactivated202005]

Story time: I’m a trans guy. I have an identical twin. We’re both tall, androgynous, and have naturally deep voices

In high school a rumor was spread that one of us was trans. For years, everyone in school had convinced themselves that my twin was “the trans one”. She rolled with it to keep me safe, and said it felt like a compliment to be mistaken for a trans woman since she looked up to a lot of trans women. That didn’t stop the bullying, but it’s easier to deal with when it’s directed at the wrong person. I’m engaged to a feminine cis guy who is several inches shorter than me. I have 20-30lbs on him and I can dead lift him. He’s more delicate and soft both physically and socially. He cries during sad movies, owns half a million stuffed animals, and clings to my arm when he’s nervous or it’s cold out (oh yeah, also he’s adorable) Whenever the topic of being trans comes up, cis people tend to think he’s the one who is trans. Direct all “what do your parents think?” comments onto him. Completely ignore me. Ask him invasive/transphobic questions about his body. Tell him “you pass so well!” through grit teeth. Like with my sister, I get pretty pissed about this, but there’s not much I can do about it. I have had to argue with cis people to establish the fact I’m trans because they don’t believe me & think I’m joking. they’re like “but he’s - no, she’s trans!” and frantically point fingers at my fiance and sister. Because there’s no way an adult cis woman could be taller than 5′9 and choose to be bare-faced, and an adult cis man could love How To Train Your Dragon 2 with a fiery passion, enough to watch it 3 times in the theatre.  Terfs take one look at us and try to convince my sister she’ll never have a uterus or that she’s “appropriating women’s spaces”. Transphobes say my boyfriend will “always be a girl” and call him gendered slurs. They talk over them, block them, and grill them about what genitalia they have online. Completely unknowing that they’re talking to two cisgender people who are gay and gnc. @ young, closeted, scared trans people: any cis person who insists they can somehow “know” your “birth sex” by looking at you because “it’s so obvious!” is full of shit. people come in all shapes and sizes regardless of gender. Not only are they being transphobic, but they’re being homophobic too.

[jokeboy-deactivated20260221]

edible turned me into a word document