I hate how living in the “ghetto” is both something people will discriminate against while also wanting to act like they grew up in it. What sparked this thought was hearing two pasty foreign teens say, “why you lowkey ate with that?” I remember when talking like that would make whites think you were mentally deficient and now they do it all the time while acting like they grew up in the projects even though most of them live in the nicest suburbs.
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Eminem and his consequences have been a disaster for American culture.
There were a lot of these white boys when I was in high school who would talk in AAVE and impersonate Eminem. They listened to no other hip hop and were complete posers. Our school was in one of the safest places in the city, yet these whities were acting like they bang.
While we didn't have many black people where I grew up, we did have a lot of Latine people. So of course these dumbfuck kids are also racist and classist while their parents buy them cars to sit around in and beat box in the parking lot. A lot of them played sports on top of that, which got them more leeway when they did stupid shit that would get other kids suspended.
I don't know what happened to all these preps after graduation. I imagine they inherented their dads' boat dealerships. I'm ranting. You just unlocked a memory of people I loathed back in high school lol
I've consumed so many beans this week and I'm already soaking more for tomorrow. 20 bucks for a large bag it just makes sense to base my diet around this 
I get some veggies on the side but other wise it bean town babee
what's your recipe? do you use a pressure cooker
slow cooker but I do chop in some serranos and bit of garlic, I used to have a pressure cooker but the lid finally crapped out on me not to mention it kept knocking the power out in my kitchen.
bean are so good, today i had a beans with pasta soup
hmm nice sopas
saving this recipe for the weekend 
Used last of my plasma monies for gas, still no update on what's gonna happen on my mom's truck. Gonna go for another donation tomorrow, just need to make sure to bring more water with me. Damn plasma place's water fountain has been down for a month it seems, like you're draining us dry already at least have the decency to make sure there's water around. I will say being stuck so many time with that big ass needle has very much gotten me over any fear of sharp objects now or blood 
I wrote this frustrated update in my most recent mutual aid post
Okay, I'm really fucking tired of this shit. Remember this? Despite another lengthy absence, he still lives here. What the fuck? I don't even understand. It's been over 80 days, and I just happen to see him today. I was going to go on a walk, but I felt too emotionally shattered to even do that. Honestly, I'm just going to stick to how I've been going about things since before he went on this absence. I'm not going to use the kitchen barring the microwave and maybe the toaster and air fryer. This job is a monumental moment because the fact that I have networking on my side makes me tons more confident I'll get it, but not only that, landing some stable work will finally be my ticket to getting the fuck out of here, and that cannot be more valuable. I will make that of the utmost financial priority once I start working. When I get into this position (I hope it's not too bold for me to say "when" instead of "if"), I also intend to open myself up to finding a partner and eventually getting stuff to record my album, but good God, I'm pissed right now, so I'm reposting this to make sure I'm definitively covered for transportation. When I do see him, I'm taking a whole gray rock approach and not acknowledging his existence in any way. Thankfully, it's gotten pretty natural for me.
Despite this, I still just thugged it out and went on the walk anyway, and it was nice. I'm not gonna let him get to me. Really, it seems like a burnt toast theory moment because now I feel even more inclined to do stellar on this job interview, which I was already feeling pretty confident about. I'm about to go 1000% in! As soon as I get this job, I'm workin' and stackin', and I'll try to find somewhere else. There are some specifically BIPOC and queer-friendly spaces maybe. I'll reach out to queer comrades where I live and see if they know a place.
Gonna touch grass while it's sunny today...
Don't know where you are but wearing a big hat in the park has helped me greatly today. It's my old straw hat I had from forever ago 
Seeing white Americans hating HOA is nice but attributing it to sexism (Karens) instead of their own racist ass practices does make me angry ngl. Not gonna defend either but gonna enjoy watching them fight
bean sammies
dangerously close to beans on toast tho
Isn't tomato-sauce beans on toast originally USian food, that was advertised back, by Heinz, to British people as breakfast? 
The british people I know have claimed it as theirs, I can vibe with some tomato in my beans but it best be diced instead of sauce.
I know... but I must admit that I love to eat such a cracKKKer creation on the regular
Still 
Same 😔 also
That's some nice sarnies.
went to the queer clinic, they took my blood
I tend to think queer thoughts whenever I'm donating plasma in the hope the woke mind virus spreads
wtf they made plasma donation woke
the wokeness shall spread 2 patients at a time (that's what they tell me one of my donations go to and so on) think of it like a reverse funnel or something
queer vampires?
The manager for the job referral finally got back to me and wants to schedule an interview! 
Hope you get it! You've been on the hunt for years (plural) now, haven't you?
Almost. It really started in February of last year. I've had a few pockets of grace, but they didn't last long.
One job I got terminated without explanation and the other was a temporary position which sucked anyway (especially due to issues like misgendering and microaggressions) so I left before it even ended but it was close to ending when I did.
A few other jobs seemed like promising offers but ended up being misleading and deceptive.
Since this is the only instance where I leveraged networking to increase my chances of getting a job, this one seems to be far more likely to land.
!!! massive
had a really sad dream where i remembered the last time someone told me i was important to them and that was more than 6 years ago :\ heavy heart. and even that ended up being untrue
there's no way life is supposed to be like this; why is everyone seemingly okay with surface level connections and not questioning anything about the way we live and treat each other
Back at it at the plasma donations, was hoping after my training things would be different with job and shit 
things aren't dire yet but still waiting on to see if my truck is gonna be alright and if the warranty is gonna cover the repair or not. Been applying to HVAC places where I can but no real call backs or anything yet, feeling down but not out yet at least hoping for some good news today truckwise
Got paid 
very little but at least I don't gotta worry about gas money now
CW// talk of SA
Every time I see a topic of SA under colonialism I notice Europeans/colonizers don't even do apologism, they twist it into "in their cultures they isolate and shame the victims this is so sad"
Second CW actual awful shit in reddit comments post and story example: top comment here
top comments villifying Islam when it's a non-Muslim European colonizer who committed those SAs
Reddit really not beating the 
accusations
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Through a text, I called my landlord out on this bullshit and emphasized that she has no legal evidence to charge me for this. I'm not expecting her to push back because I believe that me having willingness to refute this shit just immediately foils her plan because her ability to go through with this manipulation is contingent on me being totally compliant. I'm not—hell no! I also know that her assumptions are rooted in anti-Blackness and her not expecting a Black person to have awareness of their own damn rights.
I'm getting back on the plant based wagon after falling off for a long while. Feels really great. It's been a work in progress for a while, but most of my meals are starting to be plant based and it makes me happy 😊
I'm stressed about mass deportation, but still doing my best to get out there and resist ICE despite being part of their target demographic. I figure being out in front is safer since I can at least partially set the terms of engagement. I really don't want to be blindsided, I've already accepted that bad shit will happen. I just don't want it to be a surprised when it finally does.
Beans are real good for plant based and 
on ICE. Been worried on this so been accompying my parents when they go out, also got them though red cards and one for myself. Not gonna say the legal system is gonna protect us but it's some small annoyance to the fash in charge at least
Chickpeas are GOATed.
My main bean is and will always will be the humble pinto, they so damn cheap
I fucking hate, hate, hate, hate landlords.
That's all.
so fucking true
Wtf was up with the recent post that was removed? Someone equating Judaism and Zionism 
I think it was saying the global religion holds a lot of zionist bloodthirsty for a Holocaust on brown peopl in the middle east. I think we give a lot of leeway to Judaism, which was clearly co-opted by zionist ideology, I think in the 70s. The difference with other religions, is the Christian zionist gives the support and firepower and monetary gain. We can't have meaningful dialog about antisemitism when isntreal is commiting this genocide + terror in the middle east in the name of Judaism while the only oppression Jewish people are facing right now is getting arrested for protesting that rhetoric or having their religion conflated with zionism because of the same, which is just word and not power.
49 upbears on this shit is excellent proof of the theory that people just blindly upbear shit.
(I hope.)
Many westerners still hold reactionary beliefs despise being leftists
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