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“Hobby lobby took out a full page ad in the Register-Guard this morning. Talking about how America should only be led by Christians. Absolut

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Let this be our July 2021 reminder that Hobby Lobby stays a truly dangerous, disgusting company and you’d do well to get your craft supplies from just about anywhere else.

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At this point, I’ve learned it’s actually cheaper to shop and cook for a community than it is for an individual or even a family unit to do so.

This last year learning how to batch cook massive amounts of food for the communities I’m a part of has shown me how aggressively cheap it is both to eat plant-based and feed a large sum of people.

One of my favorite stories is a recipe I kinda winged with my mutual aid group in Tx. We served 75 bowls of lentil soup over rice and it only cost us $4 to make that quantity of food. Literally, the cost per bowl was like $.06 to make and so much of the produce was donated.

Like, let that sink in. We fed 75 people for $4. How much do we spend on groceries for ourselves or families on a monthly basis?

All of yesterday, a comrade and I cooked 60 hearty bowls of a Spicy Split Pea Soup and Pinto-Potato Chili. We wanted to meal prep together but fucked around and made enough to feed 8 other comrades and have a ton to distribute to the unhoused community in our city. In each container is 2 cups of soup/chili over 2 cups cooked rice. That means one box is gonna be 2 meals cuz leftovers.

Currently, the project I’m trying to make a reality is a Plant Based Community Kitchen. The vision is to build a small menu of recipes, no more than 10, that all incorporate 2 base grains/legumes/starchy vegetables.

To bulk-buy ingredients that are paid for by donation to batch cook in a meal-prep style so that there is a variety of dishes that can be made in batches that can feed a comrade, college student, family of 4 up to a week’s worth of meals for dirty cheap.

We’d have volunteers come cook and help deliver and distribute, hoping to save comrades money, battle food insecurity, help feed more consistently the unhoused, and build the communal structures that allows us less reliance on money/capitalism to meet our collective needs.

For instance in my city, these are some numbers/costs from a restaurant supply store nearby and template recipe I made to estimate yield and price.

This basic ass template recipe at these prices would allow me to make 900 meals for under $100.

If 10 comrades threw in $20 once, this kitchen would be funded for months, and cook enough to food to feed people consistently for long periods of time, and have a variety of flavors and meals all combating food insecurity, food deserts, and food swamps.

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So me and a few comrades are trying to setup an Instagram acct, do some graphics and do some recipe writing.

If any of my followers want to help by donating time, skills or money, hit my dms here and I’ll try to keep up with everything here until we’re more organized!

Cashapp: $Anarking

Venmo: @King-Sage

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Heads up pet keepers: zebra mussels have been spotted in Petco Betta Buddy brand moss balls.

If you don't know what zebra mussels are, they're an invasive aquatic species that reproduces incredibly quickly, to the point where it can damage power plant equipment and pipes, and also is a major threat to native mussels as it rapidly outcompetes them. They are a scourge on lakes across the midwest and spread easily on boats or other watercraft thats been exposed to them.

Finding one in a chain pet store item is BAD NEWS. These items are sold across the entire country and this has the potential to be a major spreader event. If you spot a zebra mussel on marimo or on any other aquarium plant please make a report to the relevant wildlife officials so they can be controlled. Do not dispose of any aquarium animal or plant in a waterway.

If we are vigilant, we can help keep our native mussels safe.

lingeringlilies

Amazon Unveils a [Horrifying] Fanfic Publishing Platform

Today, Amazon announced the imminent launch of its newest endeavor, Kindle Worlds, a publishing platform for fanfiction. When I read the announcement, I was horrified, then angry, then sad. I want to take a moment to explain why this is such a tragedy.

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This is REALLY IMPORTANT guys. AO3 is so special as a platform. Don’t get suckered in by shiny features or whatever!

thenerdyindividual

If you don’t feel like reading after the read more, here is the most important stand out of Kindle World’s TOS.

“By using the platform, authors give all rights to the work to Amazon, who can then license your elements to other authors with no compensation to the original poster.”

If you want to retain rights to your work, don’t use this site. Stick to AO3.

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Credit: @juliehangart

sandersstudies

I had my “not like other girls” phase in middle school - so glad I overcame that. I’m delighted that I’m like the girls and women around me, because the girls and women around me are incredibly unique and powerful!

overworked-strawberry

This comic is glorious i adore it

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Holy fuck

musingsofaraven

This works best if you keep windows closed.

Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.

This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.

https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html

A better more efficient and odor eliminating homemade air purifier than just taping a 20x20x1 filter to a box fan. Sometimes you need to

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IT’S OFFICIAL!!! DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN IMPEACHED AGAIN. HE IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO BE IMPEACHED TWICE

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Totals:

Yay- 232

Nay- 197

Non-vote- 4

10 republicans voted to impeach Donald Trump a second time

sarcasm20202

What does this mean exactly? Doe he have to leave before the 20th now? Does this mean he can't run again? How baldy is he screwed by this?

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Impeachment is basically the legislative version of a criminal charge. It’s a power that is held by congress as a check on both the executive and judicial branch, and it happens in two parts. First, the House of Representatives introduces and votes on articles of impeachment. If they pass the house with a majority vote, like they have here, they are sent to the senate for a trial. After the completion of the trial, the 100 members of the senate vote to either find the person who was impeached guilty or not guilty. A two thirds majority is needed to return a guilty verdict.

Last year, the House of Representatives waited close to a month before delivering the articles of impeachment to the senate. Now, nobody’s exactly sure when they will be delivered. It is completely up to Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house, who has control of the articles of impeachment and can send them to Mitch McConnell at any time. Odds are they will wait until after January 20, when the Democrats will have a majority in the senate and will be able to dictate the rules of the trial. But once they are sent over there will be another senate trial of Donald trump, the second in as many years. And the hope is that after being charged with inciting an insurrection, they will vote to find him guilty and bar him from ever holding office ever again.

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[goes door to door in a suburb like ‘have you heard the good word?’ but instead of religious pamphlets it’s native seed packets and information on backyard habitat restoration and alternatives to chemical treatments]

bastard’s degree

bastard of sciences

motherfucker of arts

if you bought a ticket for endgame you are required to also go see Fast Color this weekend! support a superhero movie starring black women!

here’s the trailer:

Go buy your tickets here!

And if there’s no showings in your area? Tweet at your local theater! Or call them or comment on their Facebook or Instagram page.

It’s especially important that you post about the movie, even if you can’t buy a ticket or get your local theater to screen it. Lionsgate, the distributor, threw it under the bus by giving it barely any marketing, putting it the same weekend as Endgame, and only releasing in limited theaters.

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So the director came out and openly said that the film’s distributors fucked over this movie. This is BULLSHIT.