#food on a shoestring

[foldingfittedsheets]

I’m in the little store today and every time I think I’m gonna have downtime I pull out my laptop and every time I pull out my laptop we get a bunch of customers.

I feel like I’m just gonna post up on a bed with my kindle instead of chancing fate a third time.

[mobydyke]

honestly the lack of late night french fry places in modern american cities is our greatest failing as a country I think

[speckeltail]

putting my head in my hands. grad school

[redlionknc]

I think it’s time we all finally admit to ourselves that even with the insane homophobia aside Chick-fil-a is mid

[psychoticwillgraham]

CRAB!!!! this is what I had for dinner btw bc dad was paying and he said get anything I wanted so. I got snow crab :3 didn’t expect this much so I was just like ‘:O’

[duranduratulsa]

Tonight's dinner...Ribeye Cheeseburger 🍔 with handcut shoestring fries 🍟 #food #foodporn #burgers #cheeseburgers #ribeye #ribeyesteak #ribeyecheeseburger #fries #frenchfries #shoestringfries

[neuromantis]

i have 8 days to go till my paycheck and i am already down to struggle meals

[queencvbra]

Tory hates ranch more than she hates Taco Bell

[shinylights]

so many fries…

i’m eating fries so i’m curious

[blixabargelds]

the john and gale in sympathy for the devil btw. the hosts of 100 haunts. they fuck twice a day and think that nobody knows it. they are so in love and they don’t know it. john has tried to quit cigarettes 5 times and gale has to be reminded that coffee isn’t food. people ship them online. the first episode they filmed was done on a shoestring budget and posted on youtube. john’s least favourite investigation was the tower of london, not bc either of them believe in ghosts but because there’s not one good coffee shop within a twenty minute walk. gale’s favourite was the rms queen mary because he’s a history nerd. john’s gonna propose one halloween in the future despite the fact gale’s so sick w flu he thinks he might actually be seeing ghosts, john just thinks it would be really funny to do it then. so he does. but that’s way after filming their last season. like at least a month.

[catboymoses]

My friend @rawanshihada11 is raising funds so she and her family can evacuate Gaza. They've been displaced 6 times since their home was destroyed last year, and are currently living in Zawayda with little access to essentials like food + water. The danger increases every day. More info here, please share + donate!!

https://gofund.me/7d25f91c

[phoenixyfriend]

That one post about great domestic policy and HORRIFIC foreign policy just does not stop being true

Domestic Policy Win: The American Museum of Natural History in NYC is closing down two entire exhibits of Native American belongings in order to comply with a federal order that requires museums to obtain the consent of indigenous nations in order to display artifacts of native origin. The linked ProPublica article specifies that the exhibits in question are the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains Halls. To quote:

The new federal regulations, which went into effect this month, prohibit the display of items subject to NAGPRA without tribal consent and ban all research done without tribal consent. In addition, the regulations closed a loophole that had allowed museums such as the American Museum of Natural History to keep ancestral remains and burial items by claiming that they are “culturally unidentifiable” — meaning in their view they could not be connected to present-day Indigenous communities based on available evidence — and therefore could not readily be returned to tribes.

Foreign Policy Fail: The United States, the UK, and several other nations, in response to claims that several members of UNRWA were involved in the Oct. 7th attacks, have cut funding to the relief agency in question. The Al Jazeera article profiles the Palestinian response, and also specifies that this funding was pulled after the UNRWA launched an investigation in response to Israel's allegations that 12 members of the relief agency were involved.

Australia, Canada, Italy and the United States said they would halt funding to the agency, while European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the 27-member bloc would “assess further steps and draw lessons based on the result of the full and comprehensive investigation”. Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom then also joined the list of countries pausing financial aid to the UN agency, whose facilities where displaced Palestinians sought shelter have been repeatedly attacked in Israeli air raids. Ireland and Norway, however, expressed continued support for UNRWA, saying the agency does crucial work to help Palestinians displaced and in desperate need of assistance in Gaza. - Al Jazeera

"One million displaced people are currently taking refuge in and around UNRWA buildings. They are the ones who will suffer as a result of this decision," said Mr Gunness, adding: "The curtailing of UNRWA services will also destabilise the region at a time when Western governments are trying to contain a regional conflagration." [...] The US, Germany and the EU are among some of UNRWA's biggest donors. - BBC

Unfortunately, the WSJ article is paywalled, so I can't access the full thing for a quote.

Anyway. Call your reps. I'm not even talking to just the Americans this time, call your fucking reps. If they aren't donating to UNRWA, then make them do something. Is the organization possibly a security risk, and the concerns legitimate? Maybe! But you cannot cut the funding that is keeping 2.3mill people alive on an already shoestring budget and not immediately put a backup security net in place.

Until then, pick a charity with a good rating, donate and signal boost it, and politely harass your politicians.

Politely as in "don't shout at or cuss out the staffers that man the phone lines," because they are not your reps, but also because your number is going to get blocked and then you won't be able to pressure them in the future. Do be firm, though.

I'm personally picking the PCRF this time, since one of the three remaining hospitals in south Gaza has been evacuated and shut down, and the evacuees reportedly include women who just got C-sections, which means the evacuees also include newborns, and medical care is in high demand. They're also currently focused on providing clean drinking water to the people of Palestine. That said, so is food, and shelter, and winter clothing. Pick a need, find a charity, and toss them some money.

[possiblyscrewed]

This is really misleading

Trump’s proposed policy affects federally qualified health centers, which are often severely underfunded and already doing their best to provide medication for free to anyone who can’t afford it. They also have access to a federal discount program that allows them to get medications as cheap as $0.01. This has historically been a way for the health centers to augment their budgets because they can bill the insurance and get reimbursed at a higher rate. I imagine if you have cash pay patients who can afford $20 a month for insulin that would also help to offset the patients who really cannot pay anything for their more expensive medications.

Essentially what Trump did was he looked at places that already serve the very poor and try to provide free or deeply discounted medication to people who need it, and he said “hey, if you don’t do that 100% of the time with these two medications, I’ll take away your funding.”

And then he turned around to the public and said “look what a great job I’m doing addressing insulin and epi-pen prices��

I’m not an expert on this so I can’t say what the true implications of Trump’s policy would be. But my gut feeling is that anything that threatens to defund critical healthcare access is not really as good as it sounds in the headline.

Media for 4 years: OMG! Trump is literally killing poor people with diabetes!

Biden:

Media: *crickets*

[arcanechariot]

watching for cecil dennis (spoilers)

sure okay lets just rip off the bandaid with this one

jesus this is so hard to find a good stream of. the only one i can find atm is full of glitches and screen tearing

i actually cant find a good stream of it where i can take screencaps so ill just put my notes under the cut

oml cecil is such a baby boy 🥺🥺 hes so affectionate

can i just say real quick that brian petsos is such a bad actor? hes so unconvincing and wooden

cecil is absolutely a stoner and i wanna have slow high sex w him

dude why is elijah wood here he mustve been reeeeally hurting for cash huh

rip frodo

not the sloppy bathroom sex with cecil aaaaaa hes so cute wth

oml he whimpers i love him

no his handdddd

"that was my good hand.... now its my bad hand...."

cecil not knowing how to fill up his car hes so cute im gonna die

god this bit with the lawyers is going on faaaaaar too long

cecil is obviously bi (its the only explanation for him being so indecisive about his food order)

i love this silly giggly boy

lowkey cecil just needs a really good friend who gets high with him and gives him head sometimes 🥰🥰

the fucking sombreros (ngl im enjoying this movie way more than i probably should be)

NOOOOO THEY BROKE MY BABYS NOSE

lowkey tho watching kristen wiig getting pistol whipped was a big highlight of this movie imo

oml hes so supportive too he wants to see it through to the end cecil is the loml

that was so silly

okay i liked it a lot more than i was expecting. it was like fear and loathing in las vegas but on a shoestring budget and written by a dumbass

and yes hes going on the roster

[ourfag]

i think when ed’s feeling his will to live flag a little he might lie in bed and think of foods he hasn’t had in a while so he can make plans to make or obtain them. parmesan shoestring fries from that one bar. tuna sushi. gooey cinnamon bun with icing. pizza bagel. smoothie bowl. silken tofu. and then he gets out of bed and neglects to make or obtain any of those things bc well its not like theyre. necessary. and then stede is lying next to him one night and asks what he’s thinking about and he says ohh death and bananas foster. and stede is like Together??? and ed’s like no im just weighing my options here. and stede is like well if i get a vote i’d prefer the bananas foster. and ed is like well then maybe i’ll also pick the bananas foster. and the next day they go get the ingredients for a bananas foster