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The Buffalo shooting occurred in a food desert. That was the main groceries store and it’ll be closed for quite some time. So here is one concrete thing we can do to help and that’s donating to the link below:

Buffalo Community Fridge is no longer accepting monetary donations.

Here are some organizations they recommend donating money to instead:

HEY HEY LISTEN THE VOICE OF THE MTA TRANSIT SYSTEM, ALL THE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE NYC SUBWAY LINE??

SHE'S A TRANS WOMAN AND TRANSITIONED AT 66!!!!!! THE BACKGROUND HUM OF MY CHILDHOOD, AND SHE'S LIKE ME!!!! WHAT THE FUCK

Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

Hi this currently has 37 thousand notes and I just want to ask - why?

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Wealth, weal, and plentiful spoons are coming to me 👏

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🇺🇸tony's chocolonely chocolate bar recall due to rocks🇺🇸

literally, due to rocks. they got rocks in them

april 2, 2025

Tony’s Chocolonely Inc., a New York, New York Corporation, is voluntarily recalling seven lots of Tony’s brand Dark Almond Sea Salt Bar (6.35oz); and Everything Bar (6.35oz) because the product may contain small stones. The products were distributed nationwide and sold in the United States via retail stores and www.tonyschocolonely.com; distribution of the products began February 7, 2025 and ended March 24, 2025.

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this recall only affects some lots of the dark almond sea salt bar and the everything bar, due to the rock problem. they were distributed nationwide in stores and on the internet. I included their pictures at the top.

I am not able to format a table for tumblr, so check that recall link for the specific lot codes and expiration dates.

The recall was initiated following 12 reports of consumers finding small stones in the product not filtered during third-party almond harvesting and the almond processing process. All complaints occurred outside of the United States and Canada, and no injuries were reported.

they found rocks after there were 12 reports that said hey. there are rocks in this. this can easily lead to dental problems if someone tries to bite full force on a rock and breaks a tooth or otherwise injures their mouth. dental infections can eventually become life-threatening even in people who are young and otherwise healthy. so it is a good thing nobody apparently ate the rocks yet. or at least, nobody got injured while potentially eating rocks. yet

If you have purchased one of the affected products with the specified lot codes and have not yet consumed it, you are advised not to eat the product. Please return the product to the store of purchase for a refund or replacement or dispose of the product. Please consult the following webpage to confirm how to identify the lot code and claim a refund or replacement in your market: https://us.tonyschocolonely.com/pages/recall-fo-intl-0325

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please do not the rocks. thank you

2025 had a record setting 157 food recalls in Q1 alone. Most are for listeria and salmonella, but sometimes they're for rocks in your chocolate or wood in your Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli.

Deregulation of food safety is so profitable for companies. You don't get a refund when they admit whoopsies, your Alehouse Clam Chowder and Smoked Salmon Chowder are infected with Clostridium botulinum. They already have your money! It's up to you to stay on top of the recalls and throw away everything that's contaminated.

This isn't just annoying - it's lethal.

Every listeria and salmonella recall notice comes with a warning that X people have been hospitalized and Y people have died. That's how they trace the listeria - by working backwards from known infections. Those numbers only reflect insured people whose doctors or the ER thought to check, so they don't include the poor and uninsured. The real hospitalizations and deaths are so much higher.

If you're poor, you're not throwing away perfectly good food - especially if you got this food from a food pantry. You'd think the recalled foods would go in the trash, but last fall when cucumbers were lethal they were plentiful at food pantries. Same for the listeria broccoli and bagged salad mixes. I bet there will be surprise chocolate bar treats at pantries in the near future.

Groceries get a tax credit for all food donated to a pantry, regardless of whether it's safe, so this is a win-win for them. They get it away from the paying customers and get social good credit for donating X pounds of food per year to the poor.

This is all due to food safety deregulation.

It doesn't have to be this way. If you're already calling or emailing your local reps and throwing a fit about Trump's policies, add food safety to your rant. Let them know we remember when a food recall was shocking, and those are the Good Old Days we long for.

I know most people don't care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.

Please don't vote for Poilievre. He's basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.

Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He'll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.

Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren't Canadian.

Not sure if I have many Canadian uni student mutuals, but dropping this link just in case—info about on-campus early voting

I DONT WANNA PAY BILLS I WANNA USE MY MONEY FOR FOOD AND LIL GIFTS FOR MYSELF AND MY LOVED ONES

this post was a big hit in the adults who have bills to pay fandom

hold my hand. sometimes someone who creates something you care about is going to do something terrible. it is okay to mourn your trust in them. it is okay to be upset to find that a youtuber you liked is racist, that a musician is transphobic. i won't tell you what to do next but your hurt is real.

i don't think its parasocial actually to think "man this thing that brought me joy is harmful, and i am going to miss it, and my memories of it will hurt now. this feels bad."

Sounds like a degree from Columbia, something students pay to attain, is not the long-term guarantee it was once thought to be. Sounds like a good reason to transfer out, not apply there, and never plan to attend. If they can just take your degree away after you've already earned it, what good is it?

And to be clear: this isn't a thing. Serial killers don't get their degrees revoked. War criminals don't get their degrees revoked. This is straight up fascist nonsense that makes a degree from this institution categorically a bad investment.

So. I don't mean to offend anybody but Rachel Zegler is courageous and brave in a way that I'm not sure I would be at 23 years old with my career on the line. She tweeted 'Free Palestine' on her personal account and now she is being blamed/made the scapegoat for why the Snow White movie is not doing as well as Disney predicted.

For context: Gal Gadot (of "let's sing 'Imagine' to healthworkers-fame and 'I'm proud to have served in the 1DF' fame) plays the evil Queen.

Also for context: the producer, Marc Platt, flew across the country to reprimand a 23 year old for making said tweet. He asked her to delete it. She did not. Now Marc's son has taken to social media to "expose" Rachel's selfishness. They strongly believe her tweet is hurting the box office and jobs. The movie is done. There are no more jobs or employment. Producers get a cut from box office earnings. So all they really had to say was, "Rachel's tweet is costing my father and my family money! Take it down!"

Anyways. She didn't. And hasn't.

Good for her. The absolute balls of steel tbh.

"you shouldnt use ai for schoolwork because its not actually helpful" this is true "and anyways if you cant even write a 600 word essay then you're stupid and an idiot" well now i think we've gone too far in the wrong direction.

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