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Brilliant idea, I really hop this develop well in the US and all around the World!

Pakistan-born, Komal Ahmad, develops phone app to feed almost 600,000 homeless people in San Francisco.

While she was walking near campus one fall day, a homeless man approached her, asking for money to buy food because he was hungry. Instead of giving him cash, Komal invited the man to lunch. As they ate, he told her his story. He was a soldier recently returned from Iraq and had a bad turn of luck. “He’d already gone on two deployments and now he’s come back, he’s 26 and on the side of the road begging for food,” Komal said. “It just blew my mind.”

It bothered her so she decided to do something about it. Within a few months, Komal set up a program at UC Berkeley that allowed the school’s dining halls to donate excess food to local homeless shelters. That program then expanded to 140 college campuses across the US in about three years.

Komal, now 25 years old and CEO of a nonprofit service called Feeding Forward, is looking to expand even more into what she calls on-demand food recovery. Through a website and mobile app, Feeding Forward matches businesses that have surplus food with nearby homeless shelters.

When companies or event planners have surplus food, they tap the Feeding Forward app and provide details of their donation. A driver is dispatched to quickly pick up the leftovers and deliver them to food banks. 

“These are huge cities that have absurd amounts of food thrown away every day,” Komal said. “We are trying to make the Bay Area a case study to say ‘Hey, if it works here, it can work anywhere.’ 

“I’ll DM you,” I said.

You sit patiently, expecting a private message at any moment. There’s a knock at your door. It’s me, dressed in a surprisingly well made wizard robe, arms full of books and dice.

“Roll for initiative.” I utter.

La Ligue du LOL, une armée de harceleurs au service de la classe dominante

[TW cyberharcèlement, sexisme, racisme, grossophobie, LGBTQIA+phobies]

▪️ Dans un article de Libération à l'angle discutable, en ce qu'il met la parole des victimes et celle des harceleurs sur le même plan, certain·e·s découvrent l'existence de la #LigueduLOL, cet escadron de soi-disant “trolls” des débuts de Twitter, obsédés par leur notoriété et leur influence au point d'écraser les plus vulnérables pour mieux se mettre en avant, ces journalistes qui ont bien réussi, se cooptant dans les rédactions, et pour certains, se rachetant même une “bonne conduite” à coup d'articles dégoulinants d'humanisme.

▪️ Nous tenons à le souligner haut et fort : il ne s'agit pas de “trolls”, encore moins de blagues ou de regrettables erreurs de jeunesse. Il s'agit d'une organisation méthodique pour faire taire les personnes minorisées. N'en déplaise à celleux qui croient dur comme fer à l'horizontalité du web, chaque voix ne s'y exprime pas sur un même niveau, et ces violences en ligne contribuent à faire d'Internet un espace d'expression réservé aux dominant·e·s. La liberté d'expression est importante nous dit-on, mais on omet de préciser que dans les faits, elle semble l’être seulement pour celleux qui abondent dans le sens de la classe dominante.

▪️ La lutte des classes n'a jamais été LOL, et on ne nous fera pas prendre des vessies pour des lanternes ou du cyberharcèlement pour de simples blagues et autres “saillies ricaneuses”. 

🙌 Soutien, force et courage à toutes les victimes et merci à celles qui dénoncent aujourd'hui cette armée de “sales petits mecs”. Il est grand temps que le fait d'exercer de telles violences ait enfin un coût social.

3D-printed prosthetic costs way less than other alternatives

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Damn how could I not know that :/

"Wasn’t Kurt Cobain that guy who committed suicide?"

No. He was a lot more than that, you ignorant fuck.

I have no words. This saddens and angers me so much.

Today marks the 26th anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, in Montreal, Canada. A cowardly, misogynic act which left 14 promising women dead, simply because they were women:

Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a Mini-14 rifle and a hunting knife, shot 28 people, killing 14 women, before committing suicide. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students. After claiming that he was “fighting feminism” and calling the women “a bunch of feminists,” he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. He then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women to shoot. Overall, he killed fourteen women and injured ten other women and four men in just under 20 minutes before turning the gun on himself.[1][2] His suicide note claimed political motives and blamed feminists for ruining his life. The note included a list of 19 Quebec women whom Lépine considered to be feminists and apparently wished to kill.[3]

After this despicable act, Canada adopted gun control measures. Since gun control measures were adopted there has not been another mass shooting killing more than 10 people in Canada. Since École Polytechnique there has only been 9 massacres in Canada; 9 in 26 years.

Please remember these women.

Tweets by the YWCA of Toronto

Finally getting to do that “all the Zodiac Starforce covers in one place” post I said I was gonna do!

So gloriously pink and fun and exciting!

Issue #1 Big Planet Comics variant by Paulina Ganucheau, regular cover by Marguerite Sauvage, and the Books-A-Million variant by Noelle Stevenson.

Issue #2 cover by Kevin Wada.

Issue #3 by Jacob Wyatt.

Issue #4 by Babs Tarr.

Chosen_Undead by Selann