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(DIR) Post #AzpuW3pqrBv8ai2316 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T13:24:17Z
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If you are in the USA have you or anyone you know well (people you see every week or enough that they a part of your life) using SNAP benefits?
(DIR) Post #AzpuerD5APKg2a5nOK by housepanther@goblackcat.social
2025-11-02T13:25:59Z
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@futurebird My fiancee is on SNAP benefits. This month I am going to have to help her out with food. I don't mind because I love her dearly but this hurts the finances.
(DIR) Post #AzpuuduUNpAFQPvGpU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T13:28:52Z
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Where I live in the Bronx about 40 percent of families use SNAP. But, people are very embarrassed about it.Every person I know who uses SNAP works more hours than I do OR they are very old or sick.We are setting up a pantry in the laundry room, but it's not the same. Nobody wants the strange canned food that I don't want. It's not the same as $40 you can spend on the food you really need.
(DIR) Post #AzpuzXZPNmvvD4OjB2 by platypus@glammr.us
2025-11-02T13:29:42Z
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@futurebird yes but it’s a very small set by comparison with those who don’t. I would guess there are some folks who I know have more strained finances and lower incomes but aren’t close to enough to have mentioned it.
(DIR) Post #AzpvAyK0GGszMbdw6C by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T13:31:47Z
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The Bronx will adapt. People will squeeze in even longer hours, adults will focus on buying food for the kids and forage themselves. Bagels at work? Better eat three and call it a day. It's just another thing making it harder and no one deserves it. These are the hardest working people I know on the damn planet. It's always one more THING. Anyway I will take the cans down to the laundry room now.
(DIR) Post #AzpvsrZKjGv3A6k6GO by HappytoBe@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T13:39:42Z
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@futurebird One problem I see with this poll is most people who use SNAP don't share that with friends or family. They are often ashamed and/or don't think it's any one else's business. It would be interesting, if the SNAP suspension continues, to run a poll in about a month and see how many people became aware of friends/family who use it during the shut down.
(DIR) Post #AzpwWsBLruu2eBbTpg by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T13:46:55Z
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@futurebird Get you on the weird canned food, maybe you could leave a few gift cards for a grocery store (not sure if you have grocery stores in the Bronx like we do in the Midwest where you can get a gift card that is only good at the grocery store).Alternatively period products or diapers, if people don't have to spend money on those they can spend more on food.
(DIR) Post #Azpxg3SdP5r4Bid5wu by roytoo@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T13:59:42Z
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@futurebird Thanks for bringing up money donations.Our local food pantry sent out very good messaging in early October about: It's better to give money because the recipient knows better what they need.I had to talk myself out of an "ingrained from a young age" mentality of: But they might spend it on "bad" things!(Heard lots of sermons about helping the less fortunate but usually only in a VERY controlled way.)When I catch myself thinking in that crappy way I shake it off and do better
(DIR) Post #AzpxsIhQZZfkvOO7sm by kastope@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T14:02:01Z
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@futurebird snap is necessary for many people to get off the streets.
(DIR) Post #AzpxyCqzDin0X1fvay by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:03:08Z
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@kastope Is it possible to sign up without an address though? I thought it wasn't.
(DIR) Post #AzpyFKMYYRTCkBbcbg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:06:13Z
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@roytoo Totally. Don't try to shop for other people. They might have allergies. They might have 20 pound of potatoes at home but nothing to put on them so they need some freeze dried parsley. You don't know.I do think that now is a nice time to clean out the pantry and see what you can give away that you won't use. But this is more about morale. The $20 donation will do more. But how would it feel to throw out food at a time like this. It would feel very bad. Give it all away.
(DIR) Post #AzpyzeA7H00lTHsEwy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:14:35Z
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@roytoo I went off on a tangent so I want to say the important part again:Don't try to shop for people you don't know. Don't try to buy food for people. It's not helpful. You probably aren't even good at making good purchase decisions for yourself are you*? Donate the money or give it to particular people who can use it directly. *speaking from experience
(DIR) Post #AzpzLikatW224ZSgjY by roytoo@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T14:18:33Z
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@futurebird Said so well I'm breaking my soft rule of "only boost the start of a thread" and boostng this too.Thanks for putting it into better words than I did.
(DIR) Post #Azq0NLak4NCWmQC1a4 by springdiesel@spore.social
2025-11-02T14:30:01Z
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@futurebird I read one time about a building who set up a bulk buying club. Residents would sign up for whatever they needed and a couple people with access to a van would make a Costco or Sam's Club run to get the bulk savings.Maybe setting up something like that with a means to accept money donations to offset some cost could help?
(DIR) Post #Azq0Wj28HbKa5cTbRA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:31:46Z
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@MCDuncanLab Diapers are always needed and also cat food. Cat food isn't covered by snap but it always went FAST when we had it. People want to take better care of their pets. Anyone who says poor people can't feed their cats can jump in the east river and I'd be happy to help them.
(DIR) Post #Azq0xvTk7TCyVUMSY4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:36:40Z
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@ZahmbieND @MCDuncanLab Gift cards are better than trying to buy food. But, they are also limiting. I might force someone to make an extra trip to an inconvenient location. And then there is the problem of there being like $2.42 cents on a card and nothing to buy that fits. I promise you the worry that people are using money in a frivolous way is not worth worrying about. Free yourself from such thoughts. Frivolous spending is its own punishment. Money is freedom in this world.
(DIR) Post #Azq14TKv9NODFhM9AG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:37:52Z
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@MCDuncanLab This kind of thing pisses me off so much. :(
(DIR) Post #Azq19nlwb75O54XO6K by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-11-02T14:37:49Z
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@roytoo @futurebird Giving money rather than food to food banks also lets them do bulk purchases at much lower cost than individuals paying retail, greatly increasing the amount of food they can get.In terms of helping individual people on SNAP:There are some legal restrictions on giving cash or gift cards rather than buying food for them.On this I have learned from @mattbc , who has relied on SNAP themself as well as knowing the relevant law:https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-help-who-142285490
(DIR) Post #Azq19oin4K9p1a4NpA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:38:47Z
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@michael_w_busch @roytoo @mattbc Worth thinking about for regular donations.
(DIR) Post #Azq1Jaxz42NxGBq4dk by Laukidh@infosec.exchange
2025-11-02T14:40:34Z
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@futurebird I expect I know people on SNAP, it just has never come up
(DIR) Post #Azq1VNTn2Ba2uEKmZ6 by hakona@im.alstadheim.no
2025-11-02T14:42:32Z
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@futurebird Your cat can be what's keeping you sane, able to dig yourself out of whatever hole you're in. Speaking from experience. @MCDuncanLab
(DIR) Post #Azq1obeeYUXGN6aHzM by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T14:46:10Z
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@futurebird @ZahmbieND Yeah, I get that. There are Krogers all over here so if you gave someone a Kroger card they could likely use it without going far.I give cash to my local food bank and stock up on 10's every couple of weeks, I try to give it away to whoever I see and not make any judgements on whether they are worthy. There aren't that many pan handlers around her
(DIR) Post #Azq20Sq59pOyVOaILY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:48:21Z
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@hakona @MCDuncanLab It's easy to imagine other people, especially people that are often not talked about with much respect as if they are just frozen in amber. As if they aren't trying to do anything with their lives, build anything, make a better future. It's a kind of mental trap. And with the way the US does so little about poverty it would be much less upsetting if one could imagine most poor people as foolish and nothing like ourselves. That couldn't ever be you, right?
(DIR) Post #Azq2HsaqemvvItlNXk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:51:29Z
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@hakona @MCDuncanLab I have an uncle who tells the same story from the 80s where he saw a woman from a family who he "knew" was on food stamps buying a bunch of steaks and ribs at the butcher. This story is so old that there still was a butcher in the little Pennsylvania small town. "And I was standing there with my chicken." he'd go on all indignant. Dude is on social security and a US steel pension and owns his house. A few years back I got sick of that story and said something.
(DIR) Post #Azq2Qzs4y1QgTxAcLI by kastope@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T14:53:07Z
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@futurebird shelters and transitional housing are set up to accept mail.
(DIR) Post #Azq2TCwPLRILb3FVbs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T14:53:33Z
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@hakona @MCDuncanLab So he hasn't told it around me anymore, but I think what can really bother people is there isn't much separating them at all from being in the same boat. So you make up a story about how you are making good sensible choices and THAT's why you don't need to worry about SNAP, or the hours of the food pantry. It's not just a mix of luck and circumstances. That would be terrifying wouldn't it?
(DIR) Post #Azq2qSgIzNE34go0i8 by StephanieMoore@mastodon.online
2025-11-02T14:57:42Z
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@futurebird I like the wording of “don’t know of.” This isn’t something that people discuss a lot.
(DIR) Post #Azq316mUkmKyL0mGzQ by StephanieMoore@mastodon.online
2025-11-02T14:59:37Z
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@futurebird Here, local restaurants are offering free soup, bread, etc for those on SNAP. But I wonder how many people will take advantage of that as it means self-identifying publicly in front of restaurant staff and others who are there.
(DIR) Post #Azq3C97kNpl2mzyu4u by snork303@toot.community
2025-11-02T15:01:37Z
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@futurebirdMy beloved son was significantly disabled and received SNAP benefits. He tragically left us in 2013 and one of the few things that keeps me going until I see him again is the knowledge that he got out of here before he had to live through this shit.
(DIR) Post #Azq3L0Cguyv1jJW6VM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T15:03:16Z
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@hakona @MCDuncanLab Sometimes I think "that could never be me my family could help me" but with the way things are going? Imagine your whole support network is tapped out. You know you can't ask for help because they are dealing with similar problems to your own. Or you are the one who needs to help them. The strain spreads like hairline cracks until the whole foundation falls out. Then someone looks at you sideways for having a coffee. "That's your problem, that fancy coffee."
(DIR) Post #Azq3d6aZushOkJK1Vg by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T15:06:28Z
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@futurebird @hakona Yeah so like this one time, he saw someone who was buying something he thought they didn't deserve. I bet that one event is his entire moral justification for why the poor deserve to be poor. And he could have been wrong.She might not have been on food stamps, someone might have given her some money and told her to treat her family to the steaks and ribs, she might have a stew recipe that stretches those steaks and ribs for a month.
(DIR) Post #Azq3qseKXX8FZFe4vI by kimlockhartga@beige.party
2025-11-02T15:08:58Z
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@futurebird I checked in with my friends and discovered that most only receive like $10 or $24 in SNAP benefits per month. As a result, they rely heavily on the bigger food pantries that you drive through and they load up your car. They get weird stuff sometimes (like a huge bag of onions), though they'll take whatever is given. Food banks and food pantries are going to be under tremendous stress. I hope that most states have discounted or free lunches for kids in schools, though I know many of those programs have been scaled back, especially breakfasts for school kids. Teachers don't get paid enough, but many are stocking snacks just so their hungry students can pay attention.Some reluctant churches need to step up and live out their faith in action as well. The other faiths are pretty consistently doing this.
(DIR) Post #Azq4C6LincBu8d3ncm by roknrol@beige.party
2025-11-02T15:12:48Z
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@futurebird Former family members, plenty of friends, and a LOT of people that have used it on an "as needed" kind of basis when they're hit with high healthcare costs or can't find another job right away.I personally haven't needed it, but man, it was only because I have been extremely fucking lucky (and more than a bit privileged).
(DIR) Post #Azq4JN62vqd26cC9J2 by davidhmccoy@mastodon.world
2025-11-02T15:14:08Z
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@futurebird @roytoo Cash is the perfect gift. Generally, you put thought into getting it. It’s always the right color. It always fits.
(DIR) Post #Azq4QfwpF3PwbCMgKG by johnzajac@dice.camp
2025-11-02T15:15:27Z
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@futurebird @hakona @MCDuncanLab A cat, a birthday dinner of ribs and steak, cable television (Reagan's fav moral panic), going to the movies - these are the difference between living and merely surviving.The idea that people without means *do not deserve to live*, but only to survive, is just about as bad as the idea that they deserve to starve or be houseless, and springs from the same extremist ideology that animates both what we call "centrism" and "conservatism".
(DIR) Post #Azq4TqEfRs9JNIDhLc by TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange
2025-11-02T15:16:02Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab my local animal shelter does a pet food bank, so that’s a thing worth knowing exists (they also do community vet clinics so people can get vaccines/etc for their pets at very low cost - shelters do more than just adopt out animals!)
(DIR) Post #Azq4h95IgDrBb9BMmm by michelestrider@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T15:18:26Z
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@futurebird I voted "don't know" because I am not actively aware of anyone. But statistics suggest that I probably do, and I am just not aware. Which makes me feel very weird.
(DIR) Post #Azq5DSJOjEHUUuBPLU by ATLeagle@mastodon.online
2025-11-02T15:24:17Z
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@futurebird @roytoo we used to have a free fridge near my house. The pantry side would often get really full of items that needed tools to prep and store. I would take these unwanted things home, do the work, and bring them back in prepared portions. Those would fly out of the fridge. Space , tools, and utilities aren't always considered
(DIR) Post #Azq5PRKqBZuewXZYFU by paulc@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T15:26:25Z
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@futurebird @roytoo The annual Scouting for Food stickers are appearing on doors this weekend. I wish they provided a donation website. Some years I had suitable food in the pantry to give. Other years I buy food knowing that giving money is better. This year I’ll give food and money. I will look up recommendations from the local orgs. In my first good job the org was involved in respects to international disasters. Learned that money was king and that some donations did more harm than good.
(DIR) Post #Azq64e37oqsWFTvyrI by MaryMarasKittenBakery@troet.cafe
2025-11-02T15:33:52Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab 💕💕
(DIR) Post #Azq6SD5RiVprZlFxoW by paulc@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T15:35:32Z
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@futurebird @roytoo A benefit of the food drives is that it gets people to donate, even in not the most efficient way, who might otherwise not donate and exposes youth to doing good, though hopefully not in a superficial way.
(DIR) Post #Azq6d3KELmx6UDLG9g by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T15:40:09Z
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@paulc @roytoo This is why I think it's important to try to accept donations of physical items even though it's not as efficient. It's an important experience for the *donors* But when being a donor one can be aware of that, and grow. But it's like when you cook something and bring it to a person who lost a loved one. That's not really for them. It might be for you.
(DIR) Post #Azq6g2hL8gMTPSZpMO by rtyler@hacky.town
2025-11-02T15:40:33Z
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@futurebird @roytoo What i I find incredible is that conservative economist and all around shitbag Milton Friedman agrees with this.He actually made compelling UBI arguments that if you're going to have a "welfare" it's more efficient to simply give people the money rather than put means restrictions on it, because as you point at: they know what they need.
(DIR) Post #Azq6mfv2EIWcmx94Ge by ketmorco@fosstodon.org
2025-11-02T15:41:48Z
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@futurebird "have previously used SNAP" would have been another good option
(DIR) Post #Azq782UbUpfssfyAWe by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T15:45:42Z
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@futurebird @roytoo One thing that I've done since slightly before the pandemic is keeping more food on hand than I need and rotating space unexpired stock to the food bank.This means I'm not wasting food, but keeping what I think is a safe buffer.You need to have the space for it and some level of organization. I just have a notepad and as things go into the pantry they get logged by date bought, expiration date, and date used or donated.Also lets me track my consumption.
(DIR) Post #Azq79J1xUghYSiAuLQ by chiroptera@ecoevo.social
2025-11-02T15:45:55Z
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@futurebird as someone who grew up poor and on SNAP and food bank donations (all of my life until my 30s)….i have so many memories of eating salty canned potatoes when we would get food drive donations. apparently this is what people would donate often.We would also do pasta with just canned stewed tomatoes, s&p (never had pasta sauce) from donations. Honestly became my comfort food in my 20s, too.
(DIR) Post #Azq7zHHHFxPY5G7dY0 by not2b@sfba.social
2025-11-02T15:55:20Z
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@futurebird None of the options apply to me: while I don't have close friends or family using SNAP, my brother is a social worker whose clients rely on SNAP, and he is scrambling to find help for them (I am contributing money to his organization to help).
(DIR) Post #Azq83NC5CaB7ahe4iO by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T15:14:17Z
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@futurebird @hakona And even if he wasn't wrong, she's not on Food stamps because she eats steak. She's on Food stamps because she for whatever reason can't earn a living wage. And it's can't not wont. You don't get on Food stamps by sitting at home and not working, there are all these rules.If she can make steaks and ribs work on a poverty budget, yay for her, she should give lessons.If she's cheating, boo, but that's no argument that the poor deserve to be poor.
(DIR) Post #Azq83OWKGnxthm7kuG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T15:56:05Z
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@MCDuncanLab @hakona I mean, if it's such a good gig being on SNAP... then go get on it. Quit your job and go live the good life. What is stopping you exactly?
(DIR) Post #AzqADpSz8inu55fHO4 by run_atalanta@beige.party
2025-11-02T16:20:19Z
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@futurebird @paulc @roytoo Just "praying" - person praying does it to make themself feel like thay're actually doing something. "thoughts and prayers" "I really can't be arsed to do anything useful"
(DIR) Post #AzqAHYDjCar7kfIrB2 by simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-11-02T16:21:02Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab I remember when I was actually #homeless and very badly #insane, I went to my local Citizens Advice Centre for help to fill out a form, and when they discovered I hadn't eaten for several days, they gave me a food parcel.But what broke me is that they asked if I had and pets, and when I said I had cats, they added cat food. That felt SO HUGE.#Madnesshttps://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2011-06-06-on-living-rough-with-cats/
(DIR) Post #AzqB9gZONKGHHhFXsG by Bfordham@infosec.exchange
2025-11-02T16:30:49Z
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@futurebird @paulc @roytoo That’s what I’ve been trying to tell people. If you have stuff to give, do it. But the folks at the food bank can probably stretch you money further than you can. Not “it’s bad “ but “cool, but there’s a better way,” I do think for some (I’m thinking of my kids, for example) giving food items is easier to grasp. And it helps point them toward “community cares for community “
(DIR) Post #AzqBNG6nYPgtGqLbCi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T16:33:18Z
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@Bfordham @paulc @roytoo If the giving part is important see if you can be the person who gets groceries for someone in your building or neighborhood who could use help with shopping. I used to do this for a few people in our building and I kind of miss it and may see about getting back to it. The social part is a little stressful but that is something I'm working on.
(DIR) Post #AzqBdKFluafsl6CpTE by Bfordham@infosec.exchange
2025-11-02T16:36:13Z
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@futurebird @paulc @roytoo that’s a great idea. I’ve put out the word in our neighborhood FB group that folks will help. We’ll see if anyone takes us up As an aside, I’m pissed that I was totally off FB and other big tech social media until this came up. It’s totally inconsequential but I’m still mad about it lol
(DIR) Post #AzqC0Wuwzc32hEX1Ie by purrperl@kinkycats.org
2025-11-02T16:40:21Z
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@futurebird Used to use SNAP, but not any more.Don't know of any friends/family who do.
(DIR) Post #AzqCGQKtEN4CuvF8z2 by aprilfollies@mastodon.online
2025-11-02T16:43:13Z
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@futurebird My friends are off SNAP now, but during and just after their college years it supported them and their baby. (Both worked as well as going to college.) It showed me how vital SNAP is, in the absence of better alternatives (living wages, UBI, free food…)Tangentially, I heard another person say they were at fault, because despite their needing help with food, they had a smartphone. … which I gave them. 😡
(DIR) Post #AzqCNqy8blmlXr8z1U by PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-11-02T16:44:35Z
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@futurebird As of this post, I'm in the privileged bubble where I am not aware of any of my friends/family needing SNAP.And, as I take the bus from the morning farmers market past a food pantry distribution point, I am very aware of how many cannot afford sufficient food on their income.As I walk past the community center providing seniors free lunches, I am very aware of the need.And if I lived in the suburbs, or drove everywhere, I probably wouldn't see the reality so many struggle with.
(DIR) Post #AzqCgKSBivA6Cd0eKO by dnkboston@apobangpo.space
2025-11-02T16:47:45Z
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@futurebird A good friend of mine was homeless for a little while. I told them how impotent it made me feel to give a dollar or two to someone on the street--what good is that when they need actual shelter? My friend said that bit of money can help them get bandaids, which is a big deal when they're literally constantly exposed. As well as whatever else they might need. It's made me less miserable about giving money. @roytoo
(DIR) Post #AzqCnyVRCxP6RyAwCW by kastope@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T16:49:20Z
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@futurebird and they do send someone around to check.
(DIR) Post #AzqCqjm0RNGJcsF5Ga by waitworry@sakurajima.moe
2025-11-02T16:49:49Z
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@futurebird i'm kind of surprised how low the number of people on SNAP are here but I mainly hang out with other queers with no money
(DIR) Post #AzqCsJRVJB5mXfP5uq by lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net
2025-11-02T16:50:04Z
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@futurebird No snaps - I prefer to use only apt (though I confess that I sometime used flatpaks).
(DIR) Post #AzqE4h61I6HDKap3jc by run_atalanta@beige.party
2025-11-02T17:03:32Z
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@futurebird @roytoo Others remarked that they use physical donations to rotate the contents of the emergency pantry stock. You know, those shelf-stable items for when a storm or emergency breaks things.A great idea to keep things from expiring and then being sad, uneaten food, since it is theoretically good food that you'd want to eat.
(DIR) Post #AzqNSA1angbnId14T2 by Longspeak@chirp.enworld.org
2025-11-02T18:48:33Z
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@futurebird I know people, and in the past used programs of similar provenance for my family.
(DIR) Post #AzqOKG4OXZjpga7fUG by cobalt123@beige.party
2025-11-02T16:39:43Z
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@Bfordham @futurebird @paulc @roytoo We don’t have available cash to donate but foods I have stocked up on in the past we’d be happy to share. Unfortunately food banks here won’t take them. So waiting to see requests come up in NextDoor.
(DIR) Post #AzqOKHc6niIgTQu6fw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T18:58:25Z
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@cobalt123 @Bfordham @paulc @roytoo Is there a place in your building or neighborhood where you could put a box and invite people to do an informal mini-pantry?
(DIR) Post #AzqOzI8bkyhzyLexFY by Uair@autistics.life
2025-11-02T19:05:48Z
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@futurebird I chose "use SNAP" because I do qualify, but I saw this shitshow coming and didn't renew my benefits this summer. I'm a single guy who can survive without them; I figured I'd save the assistance for poor parents.
(DIR) Post #AzqRIIRz1EEGLsucMK by cobalt123@beige.party
2025-11-02T19:31:37Z
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@futurebird @Bfordham @paulc @roytoo My son thinks we could put a box of food out on the corner sidewalk with a sign to take what you need. I’m thinking about it still. We in Phoenix are still getting up to the low 90°s.
(DIR) Post #AzqTqnd5nl9Ao4gkVM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-02T20:00:20Z
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@cobalt123 @Bfordham @paulc @roytoo A temperature controlled spot would be better.
(DIR) Post #AzqVv2tfBDkNDwaki0 by alex02@ieji.de
2025-11-02T20:23:29Z
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@futurebird I don't qualify... lol
(DIR) Post #AzqXvDAVBrEWzNftho by raphaelmorgan@disabled.social
2025-11-02T20:45:55Z
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@futurebird about 35% of the respondents to this poll desperately need to scroll the mutualAid hashtag and give people money 🙃 or go buy a bunch of stuff from impoverished artists/artisans, or both
(DIR) Post #AzqYNO861wLV5oz904 by raphaelmorgan@disabled.social
2025-11-02T20:51:01Z
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@futurebird @ZahmbieND @MCDuncanLab I agree that when giving to a person, it's pointless to worry about what they might spend the money on. But it seems the concern here was other people who aren't really struggling, seeing free money and taking it because they don't give a shit that other people can't afford food. If we had more resources, that'd be pointless to worry about too, and it might still, but I understand wanting to increase the odds that this money gets to a food insecure person
(DIR) Post #AzqZinolohzynbijvk by liferstate@mas.to
2025-11-02T21:06:06Z
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@futurebird I have used SNAP in the past, had friends who were also on SNAP, but not currently. Different phase of life I guess.
(DIR) Post #Azqa6A7H4tB0cJVxo0 by bardmoss@autistics.life
2025-11-02T21:10:18Z
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@futurebird In US and got kicked off snap a few months ago
(DIR) Post #Azqf2Y8qJHWPk6LRYW by BashStKid@mastodon.online
2025-11-02T22:05:40Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab Nobody should face a choice of going hungry to feed their pets.
(DIR) Post #AzqjfPl3oUd0qs0ano by foolishowl@social.coop
2025-11-02T22:57:28Z
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@futurebird I'd add that I've been on SNAP benefits a few times in the last few years, and I'd expect to apply for them in a few weeks if they're available again. I'm a contract worker and go back and forth between middle income when employed to long periods of unemployment.
(DIR) Post #AzrlGnDZqZWZREh6Ke by GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
2025-11-03T10:50:10Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @hakona it's the socialists /j
(DIR) Post #AzrmkqgdcAlmq1BOSW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-03T11:06:49Z
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@spacehobo @hakona @MCDuncanLab Yes. Red meat is generally more expensive than chicken. Fish is complex, some fish is fancy some isn't.But as Speed demon says the prices generally reflect these differences.
(DIR) Post #AztaQOcBStzGqiV4k4 by tarheel@mstdn.io
2025-11-04T07:58:06Z
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@futurebirdI was on a church mission trip to Appalachia a few yrs ago and the leaders had a special session for everybody to discuss that family that had a big-screen TV in their leaky mobile home. Basically: in a life with few sources of pleasure, everybody deserves a little bit of pleasure.@hakona @MCDuncanLab
(DIR) Post #AztbmuBmqyO96GRz5k by tarheel@mstdn.io
2025-11-04T08:13:23Z
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@futurebirdThis. Going backwards in time as I scroll, so I posted something in response to something else, but: this.@roytoo
(DIR) Post #AzwOipKQGeSew85ujY by Burnt_Veggies@mstdn.social
2025-11-05T16:31:06Z
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@futurebird too late to vote but I work with the homeless/uninsured so I know lots of folks through work that are on Snap. I have family members that use it. My mom used food stamps and government housing when I was young.