the vampire by philip burne-jones (1897). the model is actress mrs patrick campbell; burne jones was the oldest son of pre-raphaelite painter edward burne-jones.
I need white people to understand that in their hatred towards ICE, the regular law enforcement such as the police has been doing this shit too. Stealing phones from a tenth grader? Pfft, how about picking up kids and dropping them off in rival gang territory.
They steal all the time. They arrest and resell your belongings. There is no “Law Enforcement doesn’t work that way” argument that is directed solely at ICE because you mean “Law Enforcement doesn’t work that way for you.”
Alright folks this is my dysautonomia/POTS DIY electrolytes recipe.
These ratios are the exact same ones LMNT uses for their flavorless electrolytes. It’s on their website if you want to check. Potassium and magnesium are important components to maximise your body’s use of the salt, as well as maintaining blood volume.
- 500g pickling salt
- 77g potassium chloride powder
- 78g di-magnesium malate powder
Single serving = 3.3g per 16 fl oz and contains 1,000mg sodium per serving
Pickling salt is stupid cheap, Morton’s brand sells it for $4 at my grocery store. You want pickling salt specifically bc it dissolves the best and doesn’t contain anti caking agents that otherwise cooking salt contains and makes it harder to dissolve. Some people like sea salt but I find it does not dissolve easily like pickling salt does. The other powders you can source for cheap on Amazon, I used a non Amazon source (Professional Supplements dot com) and paid $30 total for both, and the jars are 8oz which is about 230 grams so they’ll make about 3 batches.
Each batch is a total 655 grams, and with each serving being 3.3 grams (a little more than 1 baking teaspoon/2.5g) per 16 fl oz, each batch gets you almost 200 servings. 200 servings for about $15 total of ingredients used = actually only about 8 cents a serving. Your upfront cost will be closer to $35-40, but that will get you ~600 serving total. (Again, if you use Amazon and your powders end up being cheaper than what I spent, you’ll save even more money).
When you go to combine the ingredients for a big batch, it’s best to use a kitchen scale in grams. If you can’t access a scale, it may be best to make smaller batches with the same ratio and measure the best you can with a baking teaspoon, which equals 2.5 grams, or baking tablespoon = 7.5g. If you do make a big batch, you want to make sure to measure just the pickling salt first, because it might be clumpy, and you need to grind the clumps out either with a mortar and pestle or whatever’s on hand. Then add your other powders and mix it really well (the other powders consistency will be extremely fine and can get in the air pretty easily kind of like powdered sugar but worse so go slow). I store mine in a glass jar with a little measuring spoon.
Lastly, if you need flavor in your electrolytes like I do, you can just buy really cheap tiny bottles of those liquid water “enhancer” flavor add ins, there are so many brands and flavors, my local grocery has their own brand and it’s less than $2 for a lemonade flavored bottle and I typically go through a bottle somewhere around 2 weeks, but ymmv.
Whether you just want to save money and not spent $2 a serving on big companies preying on you or if you’re like me and literally can’t tolerate all the extra B vitamins in Liquid IV, I hope this saves y'all money. Peace and love on planet earth 🙏
posting this again as a fresh post, please share, please help if you can afford to even a little bit. as the year closes out my health insurance coverage is looking more and more spotty and more complications developing with family matters. housing options are still looking rocky, anything helps at all.
i am still desperate. the burden has been lifted a bit but it wont be truly gone until i can get this high interest debt truly cleared
im most likely losing my health insurance for 2026. im already in such a bad spot, the help has been immense but the debt feels endless. every month i go without fully paying things off is another stack of interest added on. please help me climb out of this hole i am desperate
yeah insurance is no longer covering the cost of my meds. another amount i have to spend every month. it just keeps getting worse im sorry it’s dire. please share i am losing hope
my last post has been getting 1 or 2 notes every time i reblog it so i’m remaking it. i’ll try to keep this short but i doubt it
hey everyone, i’m an illustrator that’s been struggling with severe burnout and progressively worsening disability since 2021. i’ve been fighting to get approved for disability benefits since may 2022 and have been denied 5 times already. my mother is also disabled and barely able to work (we live together), we’re in a lot of debt and are struggling to stay afloat. i need to pay my mechanic over $900 to get my car fixed, yesterday my mom’s car battery died on us so now she needs to scrape up $309 to get it replaced. we are struggling to afford groceries, meds, food for my cats, basically most essentials.
i’ve been trying to raise money for my car repairs since october and my posts keep dying and i haven’t been getting much help. i’ve had all this shit weighing over my head for so long and it’s just making me so depressed, like i’m constantly thinking about just how hopeless my situation feels. i just really REALLY need help getting out of this hole. if anyone who has the means can throw a few bucks my way i would be so so thankful. it all adds up and it really means more than i can express. please spread this wherever you can if you can’t help but still want to support me. it means so much! thank you!! 🌈💖
feminized: passive, a process that is done to something/one
feminizing: active, a process that is done by something/one
one of the postfeminist misogynist queer men who verbally abused me this summer got really stuck on how I was using these words and started lecturing me on how I really intended to use the word “feminine”
“Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I’m sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:
ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later.
But the community is fighting back.
Protests are happening every day.
Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed.
THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.”
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