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At this point, I’ve learned it’s actually cheaper to shop and cook for a community than it is for an individual or even a family unit to do so.

This last year learning how to batch cook massive amounts of food for the communities I’m a part of has shown me how aggressively cheap it is both to eat plant-based and feed a large sum of people.

One of my favorite stories is a recipe I kinda winged with my mutual aid group in Tx. We served 75 bowls of lentil soup over rice and it only cost us $4 to make that quantity of food. Literally, the cost per bowl was like $.06 to make and so much of the produce was donated.

Like, let that sink in. We fed 75 people for $4. How much do we spend on groceries for ourselves or families on a monthly basis?

All of yesterday, a comrade and I cooked 60 hearty bowls of a Spicy Split Pea Soup and Pinto-Potato Chili. We wanted to meal prep together but fucked around and made enough to feed 8 other comrades and have a ton to distribute to the unhoused community in our city. In each container is 2 cups of soup/chili over 2 cups cooked rice. That means one box is gonna be 2 meals cuz leftovers.

Currently, the project I’m trying to make a reality is a Plant Based Community Kitchen. The vision is to build a small menu of recipes, no more than 10, that all incorporate 2 base grains/legumes/starchy vegetables.

To bulk-buy ingredients that are paid for by donation to batch cook in a meal-prep style so that there is a variety of dishes that can be made in batches that can feed a comrade, college student, family of 4 up to a week’s worth of meals for dirty cheap.

We’d have volunteers come cook and help deliver and distribute, hoping to save comrades money, battle food insecurity, help feed more consistently the unhoused, and build the communal structures that allows us less reliance on money/capitalism to meet our collective needs.

For instance in my city, these are some numbers/costs from a restaurant supply store nearby and template recipe I made to estimate yield and price.

This basic ass template recipe at these prices would allow me to make 900 meals for under $100.

If 10 comrades threw in $20 once, this kitchen would be funded for months, and cook enough to food to feed people consistently for long periods of time, and have a variety of flavors and meals all combating food insecurity, food deserts, and food swamps.

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Reblog if you’d be okay if your friend came out as transgender

let’s see how many transphobics we can weed out

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Star Trek Introduces Transgender and Nonbinary Characters

The American science fiction TV series Star Trek is not new to making progressive cultural moves.  There was, for instance, the famous interracial kiss between Uhura and Captain Kirk back in 1968. 

The third season of Star Trek Discovery will present two new important characters. Blu del Barrio will play the role as the non-binary character Adira (to the left in the picture above.) Ian Alexander will play the transgender character Gray (to the right).

“Star Trek has always made a mission of giving visibility to underrepresented communities because it believes in showing people that a future without division on the basis of race, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation is entirely within our reach,” said executive producer Michelle Paradise. 

“We take pride in working closely with Blu del Barrio, Ian Alexander and Nick Adams at GLAAD to create the extraordinary characters of Adira and Gray, and bring their stories to life with empathy, understanding, empowerment and joy.”

The third season of Star Trek Discovery will premiere October 15. 

Deadline has more.

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'No experience' is default for MAGA swamp.

#LouisDeJoy #USPS

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For anyone who hasn't heard, this is what's going on in the U.S. right now

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TEEN HORSE GIRL MOVIE WHERE THE HORSE DIES AN HOUR IN AND THE SECOND HALF IS THE GIRL LEARNING OCCULT SCIENCE TO REANIMATE IT SO SHE CAN WIN THE BIG DERBY

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US Holocaust Museum’s “early warning signs of fascism” sign is going viral

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wants to make sure that fascism doesn’t make a comeback. 

A Twitter user snapped a shot of a poster from somewhere inside the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. 

Judging by dollar sign symbol in the lower right hand corner, the sign looks to be a poster for sale. 

The poster is derived from a 2003 article detailing the potential warning signs of an incoming fascist regime. Read more.

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Reblog if you are antifascist.

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I’m the birb that gets embarrassed by her man

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Carla always wanted an “Addams Family House,” and when this 1874 Victorian  came on the market, she was discouraged to see that it was on “Millionaire’s Row,” in Danville, Virginia, but then she realized that a million was a lot less back then, so she and her husband were able to buy it.

This began a 15 yr., & counting, marathon restoration project. Carla didn’t want to keep the white paint on the outside and was eager to see what was underneath.

This was the front parlor in the 1880′s.

This is how they found it.

Carla cleaning it up- she said she doesn’t know what made her think she could take on a project this big.

The parlor under construction.

The elegant finished product.

This was the music room before.

The music room after.

The previous owners had remodeled the kitchen, but Carla wasn’t having it.

So, the kitchen was completely taken down to the studs.

And, look at how incredible it is, now. 

The fridge and freezer were hidden in this exquisite cabinet. 

The finished exterior. Magnificent. You can follow the project by clicking on the link below.

https://danvilleexperience.blogspot.com/

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He sure did learn his lesson, didn’t he, Susan Collins?

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