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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird
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Ugly bird girl. Angry. Parent. Artist. Nonbinary, She/Her. Not anyone of note. Cat pictures happen here. I block image scrapers. Basically a chubby trash panda with anxiety, autism, untreated ADHD and a couple chronic diseases. You've been warned.
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People who are following me and have fundraisers: I do not have any money to spare, that's why I've had a little fundraiser to help pay for taking basic care of some street cats who live under my porch.

My roof leaks, my car is 22 years old. I don't have anything to give you but cat photos.
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
This woman is giving ”lady who used to pee in the doorway of the bookshop where I worked" with that lipstick.

She's 35? That's some hard mileage.
Why did my oven pick now to die?

It's fixable. I have to order parts and I can unscrew and swap them myself. But it has to wait for payday, which means a week or two without an oven as the weather is getting truly cold.
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When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?
High praise for the chalkolate, really.

I will still eat them.
Also, weirdly, the reissued ones taste like the new factory had to buy all new flavoring ingredients.

The old ones were definitely less flavorful and chalkier. Which is saying quite a bit given how flavorless the new ones are...
I am tickled that others are discussing the fossil candy that I am inexplicably fond of.
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My eldest kid went to the store and bought me a cylinder of chalky sadness. I'm so happy. I love these weird little things that taste like they were made in 1847.

Even the chalkolate ones.
As if trans people of any gender aren't parents, or partners, or people who live in shared housing and do their part, or have jobs...

incomprehensible levels of deliberate obtuseness here
He's like a clock that runs alternately fast and slow. Sometimes he's right, often he's wrong, and the timing is random.
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If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
My college is doing a food drive for the no questions asked food/toiletries station. Spur of the moment, set up end of last week.

For some reason.
Woke up this morning unable to find my glasses.

Several minutes of frantic feeling around on the floor and under the head of the bed later, there were "cat chewing a thing they shouldn't" sounds from the foot of the bed.

So now I'm trying to repair my glasses while blind. Bad omen for the day.
Sadly, no, do not purchase the infant swamp god.
But the horrible stuff got done between 1925 and 1945: original kitchen cabinets were long gone, the bathroom was "modernized" with plastic tiles on the plaster, an awful 20s sand coat was plopped right atop 1910s wallpaper, and a bay was badly added to one side of the house in 1923 or so.

(2/2)
We were very lucky with our house. They had left the windows, but put on aluminum storms, left the woodwork and put up 7 different kinds of paneling with a different ugly carpet in every (every!) room, and did dozens of harebrained diys that were reasonably undo-able. (1/2)
Um, yeah. It wasn't just a reference for me. We had historic flooding, only lost a vehicle, nearly lost life, but that was the straw that broke our tiny emergency fund.
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The SNAP program "maintains a reserve, currently estimated to be about $5 billion, that can help cover emergencies and shortfalls."

The Trump administration is refusing to use those funds.

No words.
Trump Administration Won’t Use Emergency Funds for Food Stamps During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
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SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.

SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.

Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.

People need & deserve assistance

Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich

Be mad about that
Yeah, this.

Also don't forget the number of enlisted families that depend on SNAP, WIC and food pantries when pay isn't stopped is pretty considerable. And all of *those* have been stopped or had funding cut.