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I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

what-even-is-thiss

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

what-even-is-thiss

People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.

infiniteglitterfall

ancestralsurvival

To OP’s point, Indigenous Bridges put this statement on Instagram in late 2023:

the-library-alcove

#i feel like a lot of folks think that by saying Palestinians are native to the area known as the Levant#they are saying that Palestinians have a right to do literally anything they want there to other people who are there#and that is why they push so hard to make Jews NOT native to that land- because if Jews ARE native?#then by their own logic they are allowed to do whatever they want#of course this doesn't actually hold up and I promise you that if any native tribe here in the USA gained the power to have a state-#a full state on their land of origin#the leftists would turn on them in a fucking heartbeat#it's like... like to me#this is why leftists are the way they are about the fucking Holocaust and trying to claim it for everyone BUT the Jews#because they cannot stand that the Jews- who they HATE. HAVE something in their eyes#to be native is to be oppressed which is to have social capital to them and to be more valid#to have experienced genocide and pain is to be oppressed and is to have again that social capital and validity#and the PROBLEM they have with jews having those things is that if we ARE indeed marginalized oppressed people...#then the left is going to be forced to listen when we tell them all how fucking antisemitic and racist they are and they DON'T WANT TO HEAR

@hazel2468, your tags pass peer review.

jewishgay4il

I love how pro-Palestinian activists have to tread on eggshells to make sure nothing they can say can possibly be construed as anti-Jewish or reference any of the historical anti-Jewish tropes accidentally, they have to make it clear time and again that their issue is with Zionism and not the Jewish people, and they'll still get accused of anti-Semitism anyway.

Meanwhile Zionists can just go "I mean, Jewish people are just better than Arabs, you know? All they know how to do is destroy instead of build, and the only reason people support them is because all of the Arabs in our country are part of a Middle Eastern conspiracy that pays and controls them."

I too think "treading on eggshells" just to threaten to murder half of the global Jewish population is a bit much, they could just be honest and save everyone the time.

And I have a few ENTs to recommend, clearly you struggle with hearing lmao

nonbinaryjudean

the walking on eggshells in question:

infiniteglitterfall

ancestralsurvival

To OP’s point, Indigenous Bridges put this statement on Instagram in late 2023:

the-library-alcove

#i feel like a lot of folks think that by saying Palestinians are native to the area known as the Levant#they are saying that Palestinians have a right to do literally anything they want there to other people who are there#and that is why they push so hard to make Jews NOT native to that land- because if Jews ARE native?#then by their own logic they are allowed to do whatever they want#of course this doesn't actually hold up and I promise you that if any native tribe here in the USA gained the power to have a state-#a full state on their land of origin#the leftists would turn on them in a fucking heartbeat#it's like... like to me#this is why leftists are the way they are about the fucking Holocaust and trying to claim it for everyone BUT the Jews#because they cannot stand that the Jews- who they HATE. HAVE something in their eyes#to be native is to be oppressed which is to have social capital to them and to be more valid#to have experienced genocide and pain is to be oppressed and is to have again that social capital and validity#and the PROBLEM they have with jews having those things is that if we ARE indeed marginalized oppressed people...#then the left is going to be forced to listen when we tell them all how fucking antisemitic and racist they are and they DON'T WANT TO HEAR

@hazel2468, your tags pass peer review.

prismatic-bell

I've had three separate propals get mad at my pinned because, according to them, if Palestinians aren't indigenous to Israel, then they have no human rights.

Note: not civil rights. HUMAN RIGHTS. As in "if you're not indigenous, you have no right to be alive."

Further note: my pinned explicitly notes that not being indigenous doesn't mean Palestinians shouldn't have the right to dignity and safety.

They are literally defining humanity by some weird "your culture must be this noble savage" metric.

tanknaka

hey

hey friend

dont kill yourself tonight ok

you have a really pretty smile and i know its not always easy to manage one but itd be a bummer if we never had the chance to see it ever again

youre really important and you matter a lot so stay safe and try and have a nice sleep

landmineblogging

if you only knew the lives that this has saved

hypnagogy

hello leftist. in front of you is the state of israel. your challenge is to not use its governmental wrongdoings to slsnder the name of random israeli citizens or the jewish people as a whole. your time starts now

zionismandunashamedofitforever

the challenge also includes not to call out any actions of the government of Israel as wrongdoings if your indignation is not based on facts.

also, if you are going to call Israel out on some wrongdoing, tell us first if the matter is unique to Israel. if so, prove that. if not, provide a reason for calling out Israel first or exclusively disregarding similar matters elsewhere.

picunha

the transition im crying

vanity-complex

I am walking onto the field. Haters are forcefully removing me from the premise

quixoticanarchy

damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

quixoticanarchy

i (type 1 diabetic) was explaining autoimmune diseases to someone and she was like ohh right so yours is the good kind of diabetes where you didn't do it to yourself. to which i objected that's not how type 2 works either. and she said well that's the fat old people disease. and i was like you can't say that, a) not how it works and b) extremely rude. and her defense was her grandparents have type 2 and "did it to themselves" and since they're fat old people she reserves the right to hate on them. i understand hating shitty grandparents but YOU are the shitty one here to hate on them for their medical conditions and weight rather than literally anything else. hello?!

anyway type 2 diabetics i'm sorry about the world. everyone* be kind to type 2s or else

*note to type 1 diabetics especially we need to be better at solidarity and not cling to being the "good ones" at type 2s' expense. what the fuck is a good kind of diabetes anyway

quixoticanarchy

also worth saying diabetes is a complex reaction to a not-yet-fully-understood set of factors and environmental pressures and genetics and it's reductive and fatphobic to say fat=diabetes BUT EVEN SO no matter if someone did incontrovertibly "give themself diabetes" that's not a free pass for dehumanization. shut upppp

fymenhera-deactivated20181216

Friendly reminder how to actually use band aids on fingertips because we see people doing it wrong all the time.

velken

silentlycrazy

Reminder?! How was I ever supposed to know this?!

stupid-elf

Today’s lucky ten thousand! Wait, no… That’s for things that are common knowledge…

With your help, we can make this reach ten thousand people! And then it will, in time, become common knowledge!

oidheadh-con-culainn

modern medieval fantasies don't have enough weasel-based necromancy

maniculum

Please elaborate on this topic at length

oidheadh-con-culainn

i think i've made my position clear

oidheadh-con-culainn

anyway here are some medieval discussions of weasels and their necromantic abilities:

gerald of wales: The weasel also, when its young are dying from any hurt, recovers and restores them to life by the use of a yellow flower. We are told by persons who have witnessed the fact, having put the whelp to death to make the experiment, that the weasel brought the flower in its mouth, and first applied it to the wound, and then to the mouth, nostrils, and other orifices of the little animal, that it might inhale the odor, by which, through the efficacious touch of the plant, breath was restored, though life seemed extinct, some slight and imperceptible vestiges of it only having remained.

aberdeen bestiary: it is said, also, that they are skilled in healing, so that if by chance their young are killed, and their parents succeed in finding them, they can bring their offspring back to life.

thomas of cantimpré: Accordingly they are said to be expert in all the arts of medicine, so that, if they find their offspring dead, they make them naturally recuperate by means of a herb

also in marie de france's lai eliduc, guildeluec uses a flower she got from a weasel that was resurrecting its weasel friend to resurrect guilliadon

conclusion:

behold, a necromancer

[more about medieval weasel beliefs]

leeshajoy

If this isn't a plot point in a @tkingfisher story yet, that needs to change immediately.

homunculus-argument

in Finland, it is illegal to kill a bear when it’s hibernating. If you ask a hunter why that is, a number of them will tell you it’s wrong simply because it is the law, and they don’t make a distinction between what is right, and what is legal. Most people like that are perfectly normal, decent and respectable people, just like the rest of us.

But if you ask people who think about things, the answer is vague. Killing a hibernating bear would just feel… impolite? You can’t fucking shoot a man when he’s sleeping, that’s just fucking rude. It’s just not the right thing to do.

Long before hunting laws were established in Finland, you couldn’t kill a sleeping bear, and what commands you is something older than law: tradition. Even at a time when hunting was a matter of life and death, and a bear fighting for its life is mainly a matter of death, you just didn’t kill a hibernating bear, you have to wake it up first. Hunters risked their lives, the lives of their brothers and everyone in the hunting party, who were friends, family and men that they loved, to give the bear a fighting chance.

In the modern time, the hunting season of bears is in the summer, for the warmest summer months. There are many reasons for why they are allowed to tread safely in autumn and to sleep in peace through the cold months, almost all of which are rational and scientific, and do not touch the old traditions.

Old faith says a living thing has many souls - henki, luonto, itse. Plants only have one - the one that wills them to grow. Animals have two, both the spark of life and nature that enables them to act. A human being also has the third, one that makes them a person, personality, itse, literally “self”. But the soul that travels in your dreams is not the soul that defines a human - animals have that one as well. When your dog runs in her sleep, her soul is elsewhere, where a dog is needed.

One’s waking soul is elsewhere when they sleep and dream. A bear’s soul is somewhere else when they are hibernating - there are two words for “hibernation” in finnish, one of which is talviuni, “winter sleep”, and that is the one that bears have - and if you kill a sleeping bear, their soul is not in the body, it is still out there, and it can find you, and as a revenge for killing its body, Ghost Bear will kill your entire fucking family.

katajainen

A small addition: bears, as omnivorous mammals who sometimes walk on two legs, were also considered about one measly step removed from humans – enough like us to be kind of kin.

And as much as you wouldn’t stab your fellow human in their sleep, you wouldn’t stick a spear into a sleeping bear. And in case the bear hunt was successful, you’d hold a (drink-laden) wake for the bear to see its spirit off into the afterlife just as you’d do for a deceased human.

Also I have a very vague recollection of a myth about Finns (loosely defined) being descended from a bear ancestor, and how the wake celebration for a bear might include a symbolic wedding of the bear spirit to a young girl. More folkloric-minded people with actual references, please do weigh in on this!

nicky999doors

whoarethegirls

ID: white text on a pink background reading “men in LA...get off ur phones & STOP becoming influencers...we need GAFFERS ! ! ! these shows dark as HELL i cant see SHIT” followed by three crying emojis. end ID

theartistrans

My fiance and I are currently unpacking from being evacuated cross-country (trans, intersex, immigrant reasons), he's just changed his name for the sake of his saftey and is ammending the required documents, we are getting decent medical care for the first time in a decade🎉 I am also going through an ill timed cancer scare and we are struggling to keep up with our bills, and feed ourselves. I need to eat to take my meds. I need the phone on to contact my doctor and schedule rides to appts.

Right now we are primarily concerned with the phone and power bills. The phone bills is due tomorrow. We had a payment plan to pay off the past due amt, but there screw up in making the payment plan and as a result, they want the full amount. We are $200 short for that rn.

I have art for sale on my kofi, and I will be posting more frequently. If anyone would like to buy art or jist throw us a bit to help with all of this, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Kofi--PP--$C--V

theartistrans

To summarize a previous update, we got the phone bill paid, the power bill is due, and I had a doctors appt today. Nothing has been recieved since we got the phone bill covered.

The doctors appt was. Eventful. I will be getting a pulmunary function test, cardiac monitor, 5 refferals to specialists, and if one of those goes well, I will be getting very major surgery in the relatively near future. If another one goes well, I may not need to pay for the MRI out of pocket, but thats not for certain. This is all on top of my biopsy, which has taken a while to schedule because it keeps getting passed to more knowledgable surgical teams. Our food stamps application was also resubmitted today, after some confusion regarding the documents.

Right now, our most urgent needs are food, $50 for the power bill, and anything to cushion the blow of the next phone bill and the likely upcoming month or so I will be down due to massive surgery. This is something I am stressing about, because it will be hours away, and I have allergies such that hospitals can't normally feed me without killing me, so I will need to spend a lot on pre-prepared food.

theartistrans

My fiance is back in this hospital, this time hetting checked for a blood clot (recently he had pancreatitis) Hospitals can't feed him due to multiple cross contamination sensitive allergies to common foods, so we may fairly urgently need some help with food costs.

theartistrans

We are back home, they didnt find a blood clot, but his bloodwork was all over the place, so theyre concerned and very adamant he keep his upcoming drs appt. We could really use some help with food in the meantime as we are waiting for snap, and we may need some help with the prescriptions the ER discharged him with.

theartistrans

I know this has a lot of notes, but right now we need $60 to get our meds from the pharmacy. His prescription from the ER and mine for migraines are both not getting covered by insurance. We have 3 hours to be able to get them because the bus is our only way into town rn, and there's only the one line back home.

jewish-rock

it should be socially acceptable to wear whatever type of clothes you want anywhere and i am not kidding

jewish-rock

dress is an indicator of status that poor people, people of color, disabled people, some religious people, and women consistently fail to meet due to social prejudice or barriers to acquiring the appropriate clothing

jewish-rock

obviously there are scenarios where specific clothing is required (like PPE at a job site)

but a person coming to an office job in sweatpants doesn't make them less qualified to do their work, it just means they're more comfortable while doing it

jewish-rock

"you're required to wear a face shield, an apron/coat, and closed toed shoes in this lab environment for your safety" awesome perfect, i love safety, and i can wear whatever i want under it.

"you're required to wear a suit to present your lab work" i do not become less intelligent wearing non-formal clothing, and this presentation has now become inaccessible to someone who cannot wear appropriate formal dress

jewish-rock

I FORGOT FAT PEOPLE IN MY ORIGINAL REBLOG, DONT REBLOG WITHOUT INCLUDING FAT PEOPLE

paltrymarshmallow

Happy Glorious 25th of May! How do they rise up

I love this holiday. It feels like both a chance to remember to be principled people, but also a time to reflect on loss and be a little melancholy. I always take this time of year to both reflect on our internal strength and the ability to do the thing right in front of us, and to think about the reality of Alzheimer's and everything that it takes away from us.

It's been about a year since my dad was accepted into a larger group care facility and it seems to suit him better. It's also been interesting to see all the different ways that Alzheimer's affects different people. Some (like my dad) lose their ability to speak in recognizable sentences, some lose sense of where they are and what's going on around them, and some suffer in anxiety where they can't quite place why something feels wrong. It's a devastating disease and so unpredictable at that...

I'm glad I don't know the details of what Sir Terry Pratchett went through with his diagnosis. It's extremely personal and none of my business. But the thought of what might have happened to this wonderful author, this wordsmith of the highest degree hurts my heart.

If anyone wants, please feel free to use this Glorious 25th to donate to the Alzheimer's Association, or any other Alzheimer's charity.

Alzheimer's Association national site – get information on Alzheimer's disease and dementia symptoms, causes, treatment and care. Join the f

For anyone who is struggling with Alzheimer's or for anyone who has loved ones struggling with it, remember that sometimes the best thing is to take life a step at a time and to do the job in front of you. Happy Glorious 25th of May, everyone.

foldingfittedsheets

Holy god. It’s the bomb of all Drama at work today.

foldingfittedsheets

Okay it might be less insane than previously thought.

Basically I got in and there was an email that there was a new policy on lunch breaks which is that we are required to clock out for 30 minutes for a meal break. Which wouldn’t be a problem except we’re often staffing stores alone. And the company was like “You’re not allowed to close the store, though, just clock out and don’t get paid for 30 minutes.”

This made a lot of people very unhappy and was widely regarded as a bad move.

So our manager was trying to go over the changes and I was like, “So I’m required to clock out for 30 minutes even if I’m alone in the store for the day.” Yes.

“I am going to leave the store. I am legally allowed to leave if you are not paying me.” You will get written up.

“That violates the labor laws and this company has had to pay for these violations previously. I will leave and look at birds.”

After a very long very aggressive meeting it turns out we might be able to waive the break and still get paid but calls are flying and we still have the right to clock out and close the store if we are working alone all day. The company loves to pretend that we do not.

foldingfittedsheets

As a follow up on this policy the company stated that we couldn’t close the store if there was only one person on shift.

When we clock out we get an option to say whether we took a lunch. If we say no it then asks if it was voluntary or not.

If it’s not voluntary then the company has to pay us a penalty for not giving us an opportunity to take the break.

Every single shift I worked alone (which was most of my week at that time) I marked the penalty box. If I couldn’t close the store and was working alone then I did not voluntarily give up my lunch. Turns out, I wasn’t alone in doing so.

Three months later the company sent out signs that we could put on the door for lunches and an official update that we could close the store to take a lunch.

Malicious compliance their asses.

era-of-ages

Can’t find the post I was looking for but found the image at least. Doing this to all my friends.

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