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jeans-marrow:

Can we give it up for the one and only, Yasmin Benoit

As we were saying, you can’t fight aphobia without fighting terfs.

Her first response to JK + The Tweet under the cut

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housegoblin:

imagine if it were that easy

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tam–lin:

goneahead:

sonicskullsalt:

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avari20:

But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?

Let me tell you a thing.

This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then. 

This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together. 

AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing. 

You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already. 

Here’s her list of kitchen basics. 

Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic. 

Make your own pasta–gluten free. 

She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.

She has vegan recipes.

A carrot, a can of kidney beans, and some cumin will get you a really filling soup…or throw in some flour for binding and you’ve got yourself a burger. 

Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section. 

She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days. 

Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling. 

Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.

I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that. 

If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this. 

Reblogging for all the impoverished students. Jack is the breadline queen. And if you don’t need this - donate to your nearest food bank, stat.

Reblogging for students, working folks, and everyone who’s ever had to choose between essentials at the store because you can only afford milk OR bread, not both.

Her blog is called Cooking on a bootstrap now

Here’s an up to date link

COOKING ON A BOOTSTRAP

by Jack Monroe, bestselling author of 'A Girl Called Jack'

COOKING ON A BOOTSTRAP

reblogging and adding another very useful website of cheap recipes: budgetbytes.com

Linked websites are down (at least for me, at this particular moment). Try this link:

COOKING ON A BOOTSTRAP

by Jack Monroe, bestselling author of 'A Girl Called Jack'

COOKING ON A BOOTSTRAP

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taliadoesrpgs:

neovid:

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meatmanuel:

mech fans are so funny. what if there was a guy who was normal and doing just fine

Guy with the worst BO you ever smelled cheerfully slapping the shoulders of a quivering traumatized mess crawling out from under watching two dozen people melt into reusable plastic slurry, he’s like, “Dang! Hot in there, huh! You’d think they’d spring for decent A/C. Welp, catch you on the flip flop!”

I picture him as the golden retriever emotional support animal of some squad of fucked up trans pilots, like the sweat becomes practically comforting because no matter what happens this one guy is so unfailingly mentally stable that anyone can hang onto him for as long as they need. He makes nachos and does movie nights with a projector in the big bay while the other pilots are all piled up on him, and he has the worst taste in movies, it’s so bad, and he loves them and says “this is the best part” about ten times per film, but the other pilots aren’t even annoyed, it’s like a cat purring.

Sometimes on leave they hit up local bars and it’s one big beefy dude surrounded by a crowd of the hottest people in the room. He’s like a damn sheepdog to this gaggle of pilots half of whom are fully dissociated at any one time, fake dating everyone and real dating no one in the squad because he’s so painfully normal about sex he thinks you can’t do that sort of thing. Once in a blue moon a bar patron or rando may get a little handsy, too familiar and he like sidles up and says, friendo for your own good I think you want to take about four steps away, because she’s about to tear your face off.

He’s too cheerful to stand, but also that annoying af back slapping comradery reminds you that you’re alive and grounds you to something concrete enough to make it another day in the corp.

I hope no one is imagining this guy is skinny. He’s fat and awesome.

He’s the size of a fridge and soft anywhere you hug him, with a gut he uses like a airplane tray table when lounging back on the couch. But underneath he is pure steel from wrestling a manually controlled mech every day.

He tromps into the debriefing room carrying two bowls of popcorn in his hands the size of catchers mits. Shouts “MOVIE NIGHT!” at the group of twitching pilots before shoving the bowls into two glassy-eyed pilot’s hands. Then he scoops a half-catatonic pilot up and plunks them on his shoulders like a kid being carried by their dad. Grabs one of the ones he gave the bowls under each arm, and hauls them off to his improvised theater, a trail of popcorn in their wake for the rest to follow. His voice booms cheerfully as he excitedly explains “I got a copy of of Mega-Lazer Race 7! It has that guy who was in the other thing! Oh man! Wait til you see the part with the Electro-Giraffe!”

@taliadoesrpgs

Does this guy exist in Bliss Stage?

@neovid

Keenan Caine pretends to be this guy to score dates with Sara.

stripedroseandsketchpads:

silenthillmutual:

silenthillmutual:

i genuinely think ocd is incredibly underdiagnosed bc i will see people posting what are obvious rituals, compulsions, intrusive thoughts, spiralling, hyper morality, etc and its like Have You Considered This Might Be An Issue

it isnt actually good or normal to have moral dilemmas every day about which posts you reblog. it isn’t actually good or normal to check and recheck every message you send “just in case” you sent porn instead of a ‘hi how are you’. it isn’t actually good or normal to believe that your day will only go well if you have a specific keychain or whatever with you. like i’m not going to diagnose you but i do think some of you need to look into obsessive-compulsive disorder beyond “ha ha funny man wash his hands” portrayals.

I always tell people that even if they’re not pursuing diagnosis they should at least look at OCD support organizations’ pages on moral scrupulosity because that mindset is one you can literally see people developing in real time online.

I find this can help chip away a bit at stigma and confusion for people who have misconceptions that rituals can’t be mental (much of what people will describe as “checking for thought crimes” sounds a LOT like a mental ritual), as well as guide them towards tools for breaking the cycle of intrusive thoughts, obsession and ritual—or at the very least help persuade them that rituals reinforce, rather than “fix” those obsessions.

Like I do absolutely think people, especially ones who have access to counseling already, should raise and ask about these issues, including “I’m wondering if I might have OCD because…” (that is part of how I got diagnosed!), but these resources can be helpful for those who maybe haven’t had that kind of thought pattern before but encouraged themselves to do so because of social pressure to the point where they now have to un-learn it (essentially where it’s become disordered thinking) but will maybe balk at the idea of diagnosis because it hasn’t always been like that, or similar situations.

I try to emphasize that tools like this are open to anyone for whom they might be helpful, whether or not they have diagnosed OCD. Especially because some people who may get a diagnosis in future can still educate themselves now, and perhaps work towards one that way.

But for real, since I’ve started talking about OCD on my blog I’ve had literally half a dozen people talk to me (anon or not) about “…oh shit I had no idea OCD could look like [xyz thing]” and have The Realization, some of whom I know got diagnosed later and others of whom felt empowered to look into it when they hadn’t before because they were worried that seeking help with scrupulosity would be “appropriating OCD experiences” (people struggling with scrupulosity being scrupulous around needing help is definitely a bigger thing than I realized—it’s not just stigma or ignorance!).

Which is why I try to emphasize that everyone can and should take some time to learn about this stuff! The worst that can happen is you go “hm that doesn’t describe my experience” and you still know more about OCD and are better-prepared to support people who do have it.

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yebisu:

This is so fucking funny. Late 90’s early 00’s syndicated scifi was great.

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Anonymous asked:

did u go protest today

tf2heritageposts:

tf2heritageposts:

good evening officer

don’t tell social media if you went to protests or not(especially if you didn’t), don’t give cops an easy way to track down protesters. punk life advice

emcapi:

the-eccentric-eclectic:

Hey kid, look at me.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you’ll have to start all over.

Hey, I know another type of stretch for this!

I had to go to occupational therapy a while back due to pain in my ulnar nerve (same nerve that acts as your ‘funny bone’). It was getting compressed from jamming my elbow against hard plastic armrests that were in a too-tall fixed position on my cheap old office chair. I was having burning and tingling pain and numbness radiating from my elbow into my ring and pinky fingers. It sucked. Honestly, I found it worse than carpal tunnel, because a rigid elbow brace makes life way harder than a rigid wrist brace.

Anyways, the main exercise that my occupational therapist had me do was called a nerve glide. The stretches OP describes help improve flexibility, but the nerve gliding exercise helps move the nerve out of the pinched spot so it can move more freely.

Here’s the best diagram I can find of it:

It’s a little confusing, so have some extra description on the weird parts:

• Step 3: thumb side moves down and towards the front.
• Step 4: hand rotates out and around, pinky side first.
• Step 5: nothing fancy here, just straighten your elbow.
• Step 6 (not on diagram, but recommended by therapist): with arm in the same position, tilt your head towards the opposite side for a few second (works as a stretch).

Ulnar nerve compression (aka cubital tunnel) is apparently super common, but I had never heard of it before I started having issues. If you lean forwards on your desk or armrests a lot, I’d suggest giving these a try. It feels kind of weird because you can feel the nerve, but it shouldn’t hurt at all.

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professionalchaoticdumbass:

professionalchaoticdumbass:

i feel like the term “dogwhistle” is becoming increasingly misused and it’s going to become dangerous at some point

dogwhistles are used as plausibly-deniable signals to other members of the in-group to signify the person as a member, while remaining at least somewhat inconspicuous to outsiders. they are not a general “oh i recognize this as terf/nazi/hategroup bullshit, therefore it’s a dogwhistle”.

“1488” is a dogwhistle. “Wombyn” is a dogwhistle. “Globalist elites” is a dogwhistle. Calling trans women “TRAs” is a dogwhistle. Saying “total jew death” or “biological males don’t belong in women’s spaces” are not dogwhistles, they are just the explicit rhetoric of neonazis and terfs, respectively.

i need people to learn to differentiate between “this is a dogwhistle” and “this is outright bigotry” because i am tired of seeing people say “omg dogwhistle” to terfs outright saying trans women are men. please. at this point it’s just giving them more plausible deniability.

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singlecellanniversaries:

Mr. and Mrs. Plankton - The Best Dancers in Bikini Bottom!
—S14E6A “Tango Tangle”

this episode was so astonishingly wonderful and perfect in every way possible, I just HAD to gif it!!! enjoy!!!!!

also bonus:

they’re so bisexual

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goldtweaker:

BOY SIT YOUR ASS DOWN

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