Chocolate sugar cookie sandwiches with peanut butter buttercream filling. All home-made from scratch = u =

swankivy:

I’m seeing this too often and I want it to stop.

I talk about asexuality and someone responds with “I know what that’s like, because sometimes my sex drive is low and I don’t want sex at all. And you don’t see me calling it ‘asexual.’”

A demisexual person talks about the difference between…

Sugar cookie sandwiches with home-made almond* buttercream and chocolate**-almond buttercream filling.

*Note that if you use almond extract rather than vanilla, you’ll want to halve the amount to only one teaspoon. Even if you really, really love almond.

**I made the chocolate-almond buttercream by taking that recipe and adding another 2 tablespoons of butter and half a cup cocoa powder.

lafemmeindienne:

Reevaluate your lives. Forreal.

(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

gardenup:

Food Deserts Leave Many Americans High and Dry

Where fresh foods are scarce, so is good health

FOOD DESERTS NYC: I used to live in a food desert in the South Bronx, NYC. It was easier to get a bacon, cheese, egg on a roll for breakfast from the local Indian deli than it was to find a supermarket with bacon, fresh eggs and real cheese. Fortunately I had the ability to grocery shop outside the neighborhood. But for thousands and thousands of people, especially those in the projects, that choice was not available. I read statements published by conservative or whatever politicians saying “food deserts don’t exist.” Well, they do. Look right in the backyard of New York City. 

Good piece from Scientific American below…

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Even within the borders of one of the world’s top agricultural countries, healthy food can be hard to come by. Many Americans reside in food deserts—communities where retailers offering fresh food are scarce but fast-food restaurants and convenience stores selling prepared foods can abound.

The top two maps at the right show the proximity of full-line grocers to two groups for whom healthy food is often difficult to procure: low-income households and those without access to a vehicle. Scientists are still exploring the links between food deserts and health by investigating how the nonavailability of fresh food may spur obesity, diabetes and other diet-related conditions. One 2006 study found an association between the presence of supermarkets and lower obesity rates. Convenience stores, on the other hand, were associated with higher rates.

“You always have to be careful about suggesting cause and effect,” says Mari Gallagher, whose Chicago consulting firm carries out case studies of local food environments. The relation between food and health is complex, and personal choice clearly plays a role. “But we do think that the environment, in a lot of different ways, matters,” Gallagher says. “You can’t choose healthy food if you don’t have access to it.”

Map linking food deserts to medical problems. 

there are a lot of places like this in NYC

Some Avengers-inspired cookie sandwiches! They’re sugar cookies with flavored cream filling. The Hulk sandwiches have vanilla-flavored filling, and the Captain American and Iron Man sandwiches have almond-flavored filling.

Something that was difficult for me to write but I think it’s important…oAo so might as well cross-post.

My thoughts/feels on the phrase ‘herp-derp’ and peoples’ defense of it. Or…well, mostly just me informing people where it comes from, since it seems many people who use it really don’t know what it means.

Sorry I haven’t been, I’ve been trying to remember to tag for warnings and stuff like that but I know I’ve been crap at it

I’m still really new to tumblr guys you have to understand I take awhile to adjust to new things lmfao, I still can’t play Pokemon Black/White because it’s TOO NEW AND SCARY SJFMLDSGLRKE

Also hello new genderfluid trans guy follower, I think you’re cute and fantastic and my boyfriend agrees * u * although you’re also practically me so maybe that’s just narcissism?

damnlayoffthebleach:

daninm:

And they don’t really even know what it is, is astronomically high.

“Oh my God, who cares if I only draw white people?”
No one, unless you are drawing an original PoC or brown character as white to make them look prettier or to draw them how you see fit. If you draw all white people as your original characters no one gives a shit, we might think maybe you are a little closed minded and some other negative things but not a white washer.

“This is just another tumblr fad.”
Fuck you and take a seat. White washing has always been a problem and many people talked about it before a couple of big named blogs got all this attention. Most attention from Butt hurt assholes who deny that white washing is a problem and they didn’t do it.

“I don’t know how to draw brown skin”.
This is the biggest load of farse I have heard in a while…. They give you all the browns you need ever in every colouring, picture editing, photoshop, paint, corel….. blab blab blab ever. Thing is most of you never tried. Or you did and probably said ‘oh this is too dark, its ugly’…. in which case you are a white washer, probably racist (even if not racist white washing itself is a racist act and probably makes you racist automatically) and probably an ass hole.

“I cant draw PoC features.”
You know how you figure out how to draw all well and stuff when you learner to draw, you practiced first… DO THE SAME THING. You can ise referance photos or something… it really ain’t that hard.

White washing goes farther than just drawing people to fit a certain look. Its in the media, it is every where. PoCs just wanna actually feel beautiful the way they are naturally and not conform to the euro-centric idea of what is beautiful. I’m done with this rant though. I needed to let that out of my system.

BRHood: Boom.

All of this.

Whitewashing pisses me off, as a person and as an artist.

fracturedrefuge:

EVERYONE HOLD THE FUCK UP.

THIS IS A VIDEO OF A BLACK MUSLIMAH HIJABI SIGNING “THAT’S NOT MY NAME” BY THE TING TINGS.

WE THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR ENTHUSIASTIC PARTICIPATION, BUT THE INTERNETS HAVE BEEN WON, YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID AND YOU CAN ALL GO HOME NOW.

(Also, totally submitted to Oppressed Brown Girls Doing Things.)