people need to get more into journaling and also masturbation i think those are two of the best things you can do for your well being
[ID: a tweet from @/posthuman. It reads, “Remember, if you buy an album from bandcamp, it’s around the financial equivalent to the artist of you streaming their music every day for 3 years.” /end ID.]
bandcamp fridays 2022 are coming soon!! if you buy from artists on friday march 4th, april 1st or may 6th, they will get all of the earnings from sales (as opposed to the usual 80%). support ur local independent artists ^^
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.
They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.
THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.
Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
They did the same to brisket. You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply. And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month. And it was tasty. I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.
It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.
But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket. Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque. And the price of brisket went up. A lot.
I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now. And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes. It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.
Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’. Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls? Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.
Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently? You guessed it. Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.
Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon. For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.
Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.
blackwitchmagicwoman
LMAO. Wait.
Anyone else’s eye twitchin?
strongorcbutch
Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.
Chicken wings. My mom gripes about this every time we’re at the store because they were cheap, garbage meat all her life until Buffalo wings or whatever came along. Her favorite part of the chicken, lol, and now they’re a luxury buy which she never indulges in.
Guys
Ramen and sushi were street food
helium balloons are canceled. we need to save the helium
to use it to make funny noises?
NO!
helium is a finite resource and it's used in electronics and medical equipment and we've just been squandering it on balloons and silly voices. fools... we've been.... fools.........
avatarerin
Hi, I’m Erin, does anyone have $25 for dinner? I finally got my SSI January 1st, but all went to paying my abusive grandma rent (lights, water, oh and 190 for taking us in, a.k.a bullshit), my meds , bills I had to delay paying (my new therapist who is a lifesaver costs 100 per visit) I signed up for food stamps and am STILL waiting to hear back but until then, the kids are hungry and keep asking when is dinner, where is dinner and I don’t know what to do. I had hoped I’d get food stamps earlier but nope, I have to get my ID renewed first, which is what I'm doing on Monday, if I get a ride. I was hospitalized not too long back because of cardiac arrest due to an accidental overdose of potassium and I also had pneumonia which thankfully I got better from and am still recovering from the mental trauma. I don’t know what to do. My last post died and I have no money currently to buy food as we’re going through a very hard time. I know everyone’s going through a hard time at the moment. Anything is appreciated, be it a penny or a dollar. Thank y'all .🙏 💙 No one has to donate if they don’t want to or can’t, it’s okay! Hate will be blocked.
being a woman is just *hates current appearance* *looks back a few months later* wait i was beautiful.....*hates current appearance* *looks back a few months later* wait i was beautifu
this website was made by actual palestinians. it debunks myths, answers faqs and it also explains the history of palestine in detail for those who want to learn more. spread this instead of spreading carrds!!!!
I know this isn’t the point, but even if you’re 100% on board with Palestinian liberation, you should still check it out bc it’s literally so well designed, and frames things in such an accessible way
The album, called Songs of Disappearance, features 53 of Australia's endangered birds. Pls listen and support. ♥
Eat Blood? Yea that mean Ur a Dracula
OR.
Those Feratu….
Anonymous asked:
so i got top surgery. super great. but it turns out im built like the worms from Men in Black. decidedly not so great.
Transmasc swag unlimited true form
I used to pretend to be these guys, I thought they were so cool (cis man here)
Now THIS is allyship
