A Loveable Dirtbag

📍minneapolis queer homecook your chaotic guide to food & adventure

[loveabledirtbag]

SUMMER SALAD + ROASTED POTATOES

[depsidase]

[loveabledirtbag]

spicy greek yogurt chicken bacon rigatoni

[anarchistmemedistro]

[poemslifeandstuff]

"I didn't report it because I had learned nothing would happen"

And this is why it's so important for cis people (as a cis person myself) to call out transphobic bullshit, regardless of who it's from and regardless of whether there are any trans people present at the time of the comment. Fuck transphobia. Fuck the indifference that leads to trans people feeling like they're unheard, because it's proven to them over and over again that they are unheard.

Be the person who hears and reacts instead of standing by.

[loveabledirtbag]

bartering cooking for tattoos is maybe the best skill trade i can imagine

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[weavemama]

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

[jackharknessday]

I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.

I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

Do not give to the Salvation Army.

[gayfeatherfiend]

Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army

[rab-it-deactivated20231030]

My turn.

I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.

I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.

I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.

They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.

Then I found out.

Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.

Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.

[knight-of-vengeance-deactivated]

The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.

[fisharescary802]

Unsettling update

[oldearthaccretionist]

Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!

[moonybyte]

Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?

Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.

They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.

And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:

And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that

So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad

[supernovafirefly]

The “Fuck Salvation Army” posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder: Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.

Do not support them in any way, shape, or form.

[eagletrekkie]

‘Tis the season to say FUCK the Salvation Army.

[punchspeedchunk]

If you see the timestamp and think ‘maybe the Salvos got better in the last 8 years’ no. No they didn’t. Actually they got worse. DON’T GIVE TO THE SALVOS. THEYPISS ALL THEIR MONEY UP THE WALL ON THE CORPORATE END AND DO LITTLE TO NOTHING TO HELP WHO THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP.

[aetherograph]

if you want to help homeless people go and find a homeless person and hand them the money you were going to give a charity. That will help more than giving any amount to charity. Just go and hand it to the person in need directly. Cut out the middle man. Stop being a coward and get to know your homeless neighbours.

[kawaiimunism]

also get engaged in on-the-ground mutual aid (which will also help you get to know your homeless neighbors)

Home

Solidarity, not charity. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a grassroots disaster relief network based on the principles of solidarity, m

[loveabledirtbag]

idk, i’m tired

[loveabledirtbag]

where’s the best tacos in the city?

[loveabledirtbag]

i’ve been on a big pasta kick this summer, apparently

this isn’t super fancy, or complicated. ideally, i love a pasta that cooks for four hours or so, but when i started it was 8pm, and i wanted dinner ASAP. but even quick and easy spaghetti doesn’t mean i skimp out on the flavor

it’s the caramelized onion. the blooming of the red chili flakes. putting the parmesan rind in the sauce to let it absorb the rind’s cheesy, salty goodness.

so yeah. i might not have had any fresh herbs. i may have had frozen gluten free texas toast. i may have used cheap canned ingredients. but it’s spaghetti. it’s going to be good no matter what.

do y’all have any tips or tricks for good pasta, made in a hurry? i’d love to hear them!

[loveabledirtbag]

[loveabledirtbag]

i’m just so tired of being tired

minneapolis, july 3rd 2025

[loveabledirtbag]

KOREAN INSPIRED SHEPHERDS PIE

i mean, you've heard of shepherds pie, but have you heard of korean inspired shepherds pie?

you ever get an idea in your head and you can’t rest till you get it out into the real world? yeah. me too.

[loveabledirtbag]

Beef Pho

to do this right, this is an all day affair. but trust me, its so worth it

more than anything else, i crave beef pho. breakfast, lunch, and dinner. i’ve been wanting to make it from scratch forever! so i finally said, fuck it. and i did. enjoy!

[klapollo]

the way sesame street, a pbs puppet show for literal babies, is pressing on with pride content despite vitriolic monsters descending on every post to insinuate they're pedophiles or demons while some of the biggest companies on the planet who could swim in olympic swimming pools of money like scrooge mcduck on steroids buckle and cave just emphasizes how completely and utterly pathetic these corporations are. they'd butcher a baby if it meant saving a penny.

[klapollo]

where Starbucks and Target and Budweiser will be bullied into submission with the slightest push, puppets and people in your neighborhood stand tall

[adobe-outdesign]

Sesame Workshop has been doing pride stuff since 2017. The Muppet Wiki has a nice list of stuff they've done:

LGBT culture

LGBT culture describes the social paradigm by which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals sometimes identify. C

[aquilathefighter]

Jim Henson supported his openly queer colleagues in the 1970s! The Muppet performer Richard Hunt was majorly influential on Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock.

They also dumped Chick-fil-A in 2012 when CFA made their stance on gay marriage known.

It would be a dishonor to their memories for the Jim Henson Company to kowtow to queerphobic demands when their namesake always stood for diversity and acceptance of everyone, and it makes me proud to be a Muppet fan to see that insisted upon 💖🌈

[einaudis]

Question: What is the greatest magic of all? Answer: Friendship, right? [B]: The greatest magic of all is not friendship, it's chronomancy, the ability to control and warp time. If friendship were the greatest magic, look, it's a pet peeve of mine (...)

DUNGEON MASTER BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN ANSWERS DnD QUESTIONS (TECH SUPPORT | WIRED)

[aleshakills]

Too many of you believe that the evils of capitalism begin and end with whether or not workers get paid enough. But capitalism is inherently wasteful by design. It is resource intensive and exploitative by design. Even if we killed every billionaire and redistributed all their wealth tomorrow (a good thing) we would still have to restructure how we manage society from the ground up, globally.

And no, you as an individual are not responsible for figuring out all of the answers, sad white person. There are people all over the world already working on the solutions their communities need. We just have to empower them to make those solutions happen.

[aleshakills]

If the U.S. minimum wage became $25 tomorrow and everyone got universal healthcare, capitalism would still be bad because it would still be a system that prioritizes exponential and limitless economic growth over everything else.