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hauntedhideaway

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Library director and author of Sherlock Holmes AU pastiche The Twisted Blackmailer. Into fundraising, nonprofit management, Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who, Batman, The Phantom of the Opera and more. Convert to Judaism. HMU if our interests align. North Eastern USA.

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I was in school before most schools had a free breakfast program. This meant most mornings I did not eat breakfast. By mid morning, it was hard to concentrate. I'd be watching the clock until lunch, which I got for free due to financial hardship. This was alleviated when I went to a school with free breakfast, for which I qualified. I still had ADHD struggles, but at least I wasn't watching the clock anymore, waiting for lunch. There was a brief time where I didn't qualify for free lunch. Lunch looked like a peanut butter sandwich, often without jelly, or buttered bread, and sometimes just a carrot. Subsidized school meals was a lifeline for me. Now some people want to grow the program, so that kids don't fall through the gap like I did, and others want to take it away completely. Children can't learn when they're hungry. And sometimes, those school meals are the only decent meals they have. Summers can be rough.

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Food insecurity is a huge issue for many families, and it's a growing issue as things become tighter and tighter with out of control inflation and depressed wages. I don't think there would be so many children in need of subsidized meals if we stopped people from falling in the river and created a system whereby their parents did not fall into poverty and need to begin with. I acknowledge that school lunches are a bandaid on a societal problem. But right now, they're what we have, until we're ready to seriously make sure food insecurity is no longer an issue for ANYONE, up river. Until then, we'll just keep plucking people out of the water down stream. It hurts to know there are people who would let children drown, rather than pull them out of the water.

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Sapphire is trying to tell me that she is a dog who needs pudding. I think she is a dog that does not.

hauntedhideaway,
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@purplepadma I ate it all 😂

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Snackies, you say?

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Snackies?

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Tell me: carrots in tuna salad? Or no.

hauntedhideaway,
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@ochaos My husband is a strict Miracle Whip adherent. I can't tell the difference.

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@regordane @ochaos Personally, I think it's mayonnaise with a fancy name.

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If I could do expensive PR, I would tell everyone how valuable libraries are. Not just how much they save you. But how valuable they are toward building community and preserving democracy. Everyone should be using the library!

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Padme went from a badass to a weepy chick in one movie.

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@shekinahcancook I guess.

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I needs it. (A Phantom of the Opera mezuzah case) https://www.tumblr.com/behindthemirrorofmusic/745696765073817600/stunning

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@mivox RIGHT?!

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Never mind. I just threw up and now I feel better. This is not the best.

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In our defense, it's not just a culture shift from "use it up, wear it out" to "dig, burn, dump," but a design in the system. When stuff is made of molded plastic, and it weakens and snaps off, can you really fix it yourself? Products are built in such a way that they're meant to fail in so many years, forcing you to buy a new one, or features become unavailable, forcing you to upgrade. I really think we do need to fight for the right to repair, and that products need to be made repairable. The amount of waste we generate in always upgrading and replacing is unbelievable. https://nextcity.org/features/repair-cafes-are-the-beating-heart-of-the-right-to-repair-movement

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I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say an attack on libraries is an attack on democracy. I know that sounds really self-important and inflated. But look at who is attacking libraries, and their relationship to the future of democracy. Look at why they want to stop libraries: we make ideas available. We give people the means to educate themselves. We protect freedom of speech. There are groups that actively HATE that and work against it, because democracy hinges on the free exchange of ideas and guess what they don't want?

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I fell asleep for about five hours when I got home. You know what that means: up all night!

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@purplepadma sounds like a plan.

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I was sitting here writing something and my earring just yeeted itself out of my ear and onto what I was doing.

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@purplepadma But it doesn't want to live. It was throwing itself to its death 😂​

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I have so much to do today. I’ll probably just take a nap instead.

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“Democracy is a bad idea because sometimes people do things I don’t like and give things to people I don’t like. Fascism is awesome because the people currently in charge of it hate the same people I do.” That’s it. That’s the current argument against democracy.

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A sleepy Pancake for you today?

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Cooking is an extreme struggle this evening. Just got to take the recipe step by step and not panic.

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@purplepadma still suuuuper exhausted. I have a doctor’s appointment today. Maybe they can tell me something.

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