hey my name is red, or you can call me bat i use he/they pronouns
im here, im queer, and i dont have a career
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You don’t want a parrot- you want domestic pigeons. Quieter, friendlier, untraumatized by mere human existence, less likely to remove a finger, can find their own way home if they get out, thousands of years of domestication in your favor, did I mention quieter?
I don’t want to be the one to say it but old men need to start gatekeeping classic rock. classic rock shouldn’t just mean “older than 20 years”. bc quite frankly boulevard of broken dreams and dani california should not be on the same playlist as pink floyd led zeppelin rolling stones AC/DC the eagles queen ccr the doors etc. Like boys I really need u to step up for once and clarify I won’t ask again
I was thinking this guy was fortnite dancing until I realized this is probably where Epic stole it from
Donald Faison improvised this dance on Scrubs and yes, Fortnite stole it.
He also wasn’t compensated or credited, and he’s pissed about it
There was a big discussion on people copying Black dancers, not giving them credit and profiting from it. Fortnite was highly criticized for doing this with multiple dances.
Also Black choreographers on TikTok would get copied by white dancers and only the white people would go viral. In frustration and protest, a Black person who created many viral dances but never achieved fame made a video that looked like the start of choreography but instead was them giving the middle finger and walking away. The message was ‘you’re not stealing any more dances from me, I’m done’. Not getting the message, white tiktokkers stole that as well, making throwing up the middle finger and walking away the last viral “dance” from a non-celebrity.
Day 286 of quarantine I have discovered www.webstaurantstore.com
It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.
30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.
But what gets me
What truly gets me
is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE
FOR LESS THAN $20
Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENTfor the fucking PENNIES that is $50
I’m so sorry for the normal person I’ll be after quarantine because the cabin-fever version of me I’m inhabiting right now is perhaps just uninhibited enough to follow through on this dream I’ve just discovered of out-ricing myself.
real talk though, if you had a large number of people in your community who wanted a particular food item and couldn’t afford it (for instance if you’re in a food desert and need produce or if you’re a part of a large disabled and/or overworked community who all need prepared frozen food), you could pool funds and get an order from a supply store like this.
it requires organizing for finance management, ordering, transport, and distribution, but if you build a stable mutual aid network, it’s genuinely within the realm of possibility.
This idea is called a buyers club (or buying club, buying coop, etc) and it’s a great time-tested method of mutual aid. And there are guides and tools for starting your own at managemy.coop
Depending on where you are it takes a little more creativity and organizing but medication buyers clubs are also a thing.
