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The current shitshow tying together Disney, Don’t Say Gay, trans kids getting fucked over, and the financial shitshow between DeSantis and Disney World…is making me so goddamn tired. The housing crisis in Florida is horrific, and Disney has a direct hand in it. They have for years and years and years. Disney’s land development scams started the second Walt started buying up land around Kissimmee and they never stopped.

I keep seeing posts saying shit like “omg don’t personify Disney as the Mouse, say the names of the CEOs,” and as someone who was born & raised in Florida, I need y'all to understand that it’s not just a single dude, or even a handful of dudes. The entire fucking company permeates daily life in Florida and seeing that rat’s fucking face everywhere makes me want to burn Mickey in effigy.

The Mouse represents everything about Disney that makes living in Florida increasingly inaccessible to the poor. They could replace the entire Disney board of directors tomorrow and the Mouse would still be a symbol of everything Floridians are suffering under.

This loss of status is in response to Disney pausing (not ending; pausing) donations to politicians who supported Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill; Gov. DeSantis has been upfront that this is retaliation. There are a lot of takeaways from this: most notable to me, this decision is confirmation that Republicans love social control more than “free market” capitalism, and indicative of the right-wing’s slide towards fascism. But there is going to be a tendency to simplify this into DeSantis = homophobia = bad VS Disney = LGBTQ+ rights = good. Disney is not good. Disney is not on the side of the LGBTQ+ community.

I mentioned that choosing social control over “free market” capitalism is a tip towards fascism, but “free market” capitalism over human rights to food, shelter, and all other necessities is a MUCH MORE PERVASIVE fascist threat. Disney is responsible for enormous economic and environmental inequities; not just in Florida, but in every place they maintain resorts or other entertainment sites. They are a “too big to fail” mega-corporation that is not only devouring the creative industry, but also a vanguard of neocolonial culture-as-aesthetic and culture-as-consumerism mindsets. They will bleed you dry, then make an Oscar-nominated musical out of it.

this whole situation is very funny

The federal poverty line, the biggest determining factor for public assistance, has been kept artificially low for decades because it was based on the outdated assumption that food was the primary expense for most American households. For decades now, shelter has been the larger expense, but the federal poverty limit has still been determined based on the prices of food commodities.

Because food prices have recently gone up, the federal poverty line has gone up significantly as well. This means if you were previously slightly over the income limit to qualify for public assistance such as food stamps or medicaid, you likely qualify now. I'd like to encourage everyone who thinks they might qualify to apply for these programs. The qualification cutoffs are still absurdly low, so please be assured that if you qualify for assistance, you're not taking something you don't need or deserve.

I think this is one of those “roly-poly” dancers that went viral from China a while back, who would use a similar mechanism to sway back and forth, with similar hand gestures (calling back to traditional Chinese dance) while wearing hanfu.

You can see a dancer in action in this video!: https://youtu.be/GRcERvuJpR8

And here’s how she looks completely; as you can see, the round thing she’s riding is basically hidden by the skirt of her hanfu:

A Death that need not fight against you, that will often fight for you, because why not? It will gather you home eventually. Why not enjoy you first?

A Death that treasures those who fight it most ardently. That loves healers and defenders and survivalists and necromancers and mad scientists and immortal gods. That lets them pour everything they are into fighting it, denying it, adoring every desperate scrap of strength and will and brilliance and raw determination poured out against it. That catches you when your strength is done and all your will and brilliance run out, that gathers you close beneath a warm, dark cloak, and whispers well done, oh child, you were magnificent, well done.

A Death who will not seek to hasten an inevitable end, who will chastise those who seek to hasten it for others in Death’s stead, who will slowly and patiently plot and sow and siphon away from the great monsters of the world. Because who are they to hasten Death’s domain, who are they to deny Death its time and its place, who are they to cut short these vital glories that illuminate it so? Who are they to presume upon its will, that is so much larger and so much longer than theirs?

Who are they to call, and presume that Death, of all beings, should obey?

A Death that is not a hunter but a gatherer, who is always and eternal, who loves you, and can afford to wait. A Death who will fight for you and defend you, who will place its hand upon those who would speed you to its embrace, who has no need to rush you, only to greet you when you call.

A Death who is kind.

And patient.

And, before all and above all,

and presume that Death, of all

beings, should obey?

Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are great, and I suspect it’s because they were made by someone with limited resources. But they found a way to make something good, maybe even something fantastic with those limited resources, and they wanted to write it down and share with their friends so that they could also make something out of saltines and potatoes. Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are written down and shared in love.

…………….y’all ready for Pesach?

after being informed it is not:

“At that point you should just go outside and build a kosher hut” 

also

For you and the rest of the peanut gallery, the joke here is honestly…. just kind of something you had to have lived through to really get? 

So you may be aware that many Jews (in particular, religious Jews, but some secular Jews also) keep the dietary laws known as kashrut. The really, really basic meaning of this is that we only eat meat from certain animals that has been slaughtered in a certain way, and we separate meat and dairy. How people observe this in practice varies a lot. If you follow the strict traditional rules, you have separate dishes, cookware, and ideally appliances for meat and dairy. However, there is a whole continuum of practices that are more lenient. 

In any event, for eight days a year, during the holiday of Pesach (Passover), those who keep kosher year-round (and even some who don’t) observe unique kashrut rules that involve removing all of the chametz (leavened grain products) from the household and one’s diet. If one holds by traditional observance, ridding one’s life of chametz in preparation for Pesach is a BIG deal, and includes a truly insane amount of cleaning and then the covering of surfaces that cannot be kashered. 

People literally clean for a month to be fully prepared. In fact, you know what? I’m just gonna drop this here: https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/664473/jewish/Printable-Passover-Guide-2019.htm. 

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