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Uh oh. Trunmp WTF did you do!
Food and it's ties to the Strait of Hormauz
"Oil powers cars. Nitrogen powers crops. If the strait of Hormuz closes, the most consequential price may not be Brent crude but the cost of feeding the world."
#FoodScarcity
Why shouldn't governments that promote Scarcity instead of Abundance be seen as Enemies of the People?
"Millions of Americans greeted the end of the government shutdown — and the resumption of food stamp benefits — with relief. But others are learning they could soon lose federal food aid permanently.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins directed USDA staff during the record-setting 43-day shutdown to continue ushering states toward compliance with Republicans’ signature tax and spending law, which is projected to kick millions out of the nation’s largest anti-hunger program in the next few months.
Those changes, combined with other provisions in the new law, will represent the most significant cuts to the social safety net in decades. And it all comes as low-income families are confronting stagnating wages that aren’t keeping up with the skyrocketing cost of living — an issue that some Republicans blamed for their losses in off-year elections this month.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provides an average of $6 per day for nearly 42 million people, roughly 40 percent of whom are children. Under the new law, parents and older Americans will be required to meet stricter work requirements, and states eventually will have to share in the cost of SNAP benefits, which could force further program cuts, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Tens of thousands of legal immigrants will also lose access to the program under the law."
#USA #Trump #Austerity #FoodStamps #FoodScarcity #Poverty #Inequality #Kleptocracy
Here's some picture's for the concrete slab and electrical outlets for the new Free Fridge in town!
Note: Free fridges don't usually require this level of installation. As long as the fridge has power and a place to sit (even if its on a used pallet), thats good enough.
This church was given a donation with the stipulation that it go to serving the local community, and they decided to install a free fridge and put some infrastructure and accessibility behind it.
#solarPunk #mutualAid #freeFridge #foodSecurity #foodScarcity #postScarcity
@tinker Tagging this thread for #SolarPunkSunday ! #MutualAid #FreeFridge #FoodScarcity #FoodSecurity #SolarPunk #PostScarcity
Update on the new Free Fridge and Community Pantry in town!
They've completed the electrical work and are laying a concrete slab today. They're also bringing in a person to build out a pantry and paint a mural on it.
We have a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for December 7th where folks will bring shelf stable food and fresh produce to add to the first stocking of the fridge!
Note: this site really wanted to go all in. You really only need electrical and something to put the fridge on (minimum concrete blocks or a pallet). But these folks decided to put donated funds to it as they are focused on serving the community.
I'll post pictures of the ribbon cutting ceremony!
Also also! Two other sites have expressed interest in hosting a free fridge now that they've heard about this one! Once you build the first one, subsequent ones become easier!
#freeFridge #mutualAid #solarPunk #foodScarcity #foodSecurity #postScarcity
NC Local: Need food in NC? Use this map to find it. “NC Local created this resource to make it easier for everyone to find food assistance. Even as the shutdown of the federal government nears its end – and as SNAP payments promise to resume, we know that many people in the state will continue to face food insecurity. We will continue to update the data and refine the interface.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/16/nc-local-need-food-in-nc-use-this-map-to-find-it/
Via MottG on Mastodon: Lemontree. From the About US page: “There are more food pantries in the US than McDonalds. Yet, no one has accurate information on their location and hours. We’re building the most comprehensive dataset on food resources, backed by up-to-the-minute data & real user feedback.”
Spotted on LinkedIn: The NYC Directory of Resources and Aid. “Showing 109 resources and 48 weekly food distros.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/the-nyc-directory-of-resources-and-aid/
University of Kentucky: Find food assistance, community support through FindHelpNowKY.org. “Kentuckians experiencing food insecurity can access immediate, local assistance through FindHelpNowKY.org, an online tool that helps users quickly locate food, housing and other community resources by ZIP code or city.”
If you are concerned about food scarcity in your community (and I hope you are), keep in mind that food banks and food pantries may be inaccessible for people who can't drive.
Make sure your people have the means to get food, and if you are going to a pantry for your own household, see if you can give a friend a lift or pick up food for them, too.
State of Massachusetts: Ahead of November 1 SNAP Freeze, Governor Healey Launches New SNAP Resource Hub. “The Governor launched a new SNAP Resource Hub at Mass.gov/SNAPFreeze that includes information on how families facing hunger can get help, ways for people and businesses to offer help, and a new digital map showing how many people depend on SNAP to feed their families in each Massachusetts […]
WOWK: Two West Virginians create a food resource database to assist through SNAP pause. “Cecelia Thompson and Crystal Colyer have teamed up to make a comprehensive, publicly accessible list of every blessing box, free meal kitchen, and food pantry in the Mountain State…. So far, there are around 650 food resource centers on the list.”
If you follow US politics, you will know that a critical food assistance program is being suspended as the country heads into cold weather. TL;dr People are going to die.
If you can support people you know directly, please do it.
If you can donate to US food banks in absolutely any region, you can save lives.
I don't know if this will work, but I want to give it a try:
If an incentive would help you to donate to a food bank, I will happily give a free audiobook to anyone who donates.
Send me a DM of your receipt with your personal details blacked out if you need to, or just tell me you've donated (this is Fedi, I trust you), and let me know:
1. The title of the book you'd like. (A link to my catalogue follows at the bottom of the post.)
2. If you want a redemption code for Audible US or Audible UK (my only options; you can change your browser setting or app country code to make them work if you are in other regions).
*I am largely offline at the moment but will do my best to respond within 24 hours.
Lives genuinely hang in the balance. Please do what you can, whatever that might be.
https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f
#USPolitcs #USPol #Food #FoodBanks #FoodPantries #SNAP #FoodScarcity #Poverty
"This is an astonishing world. Blame for current disasters cannot be offloaded to ‘human nature’. All who take care of children know that children can learn to live within limits and that they can develop a realistic sense of time, that they can learn to forego some pleasures and wishes. From psychoanalytic work, I find that people can learn to be objective and to have a conscience. But everywhere there are examples of shocking entitlement, lying, distorting facts. A recent Guardian Weekly posted an article about Davos on one page, about the promises of AI, technological advances and growth, and on the opposite page the climate disasters in California, droughts and flooding, loss of agriculture, burning of whole towns, death. Climate-related disasters in every geographical region are reported and then lost to follow-up.
These disasters are less than what is in store because of thermal inertia, the lag in the Earth’s adjustment to carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration. There is even talk about the collapse of civilization as we know it, yet little mention of agriculture, though agriculture marked the beginning of organized civilization. People in positions of authority and influence do not feel urgency about this or other existential emergencies."
https://socialistproject.ca/2025/09/intertwined-food-and-climate-emergency/
Well this is amazing!!!
We just got our first host that wants to put up a Free Fridge!!!!
I was going to put in a post of how we have multiple leads out and various irons in the fire, but dang, this one came quick! We've been talking to various folks for the past couple of months and there have been various interest, but nothing has been set in stone yet.
So, I posted a couple weeks ago how our Free Fridge and Food Rescue group got featured in the local town paper ( https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/114949623055200806 ) . Turns out various folks read it and were interested, both in the food rescue and in the free fridge aspect.
We have one free fridge in town hosted by a local community garden, but that is completely run by them. We help keep it clean and we help stock and utilize it, but my group was created to build other free fridges throughout town.
And sure enough, a local church read the article and came to our monthly meeting. They invited us to go to their church and tour it and see what they were doing.
They're a small church that is heavy in working with the Food Bank and doing distributions. They recently received a generous donation with the request that the money be used for community service. They're going to source the refrigerator, pantry, and even build out an area to provide cover and a walkway to it.
The location is great. It's accessible via public transit (such that we have here). It's decently walkable and the city is putting in improvements in the next year. They have a good parking lot and a location that is accessible to the public 24/7.
So I've put together a little project plan:
- Go onsite and create rough site plan: Designate location. Measure out area for concrete slab, awning, and potentially walkway
- Get estimates for outside electrical outlet installation, concrete slab / walkway construction, and awning construction
- Contact appropriate municipality / county to sort out any requirements or approvals
- Complete construction
- Source and install fridge and pantry
- Open to community & advertise new location
The head of their food missions has already sourced and purchased the refrigerator. So wow. Next step will be to go back onsite and do a rough site plan. Basically measure out the spot and sort out the concrete pad dimensions.
This is the first time I've done this... so I'll be learning along the way and documenting it for other sites (hopefully) in the future.
This is amazing. Our first fridge for our group and the second for my region!!!
#freeFridge #foodScarcity #foodSecurity #postScarcity #solarPunk #mutualAid
There are a lot of resources on Free Fridges and Community Pantries.
The Freedge group has a wonderful site that has resources for finding fridges in your neighborhood or installing new ones:
- Freedge: https://freedge.org/
- Starting a Free Fridge in your Town: https://freedge.org/freedge-yourself/
- Map of current Free Fridges: https://freedge.org/locations/
Some folks have had questions or concerns as it relates to Free Fridges. I have posted my answer to a couple of them below:
Worry about folks "taking advantage" of free food
https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113765243630873685
Worry about tainted food being placed in the fridge?
https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113765319396269374
Do free fridge initiatives even work?
https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113766774842784296
I'll add to this post in the future if I find other resources.
#freeFridge
#foodScarcity
#foodSecurity
#postScarcity
#solarPunk
#mutualAid
I'm looking to build out the Free Fridge & Community Pantries in my town.
I'll continue to update this thread with my progress.
So, the idea is to have nodes throughout town that allow folks to "Give a Food, Take a Food". Similar to "Little Free Libraries" are to books. Folks who have extra food can drop it off there, folks who need food can grab it there.
The focus here is mutual aid, not charity. So, absolutely, if you are food insecure or hungry, utilize it, right. Beyond that though, this is a great piece of infrastructure to share extra food with your neighbors. I will go down to the free fridge we have in town, drop off some of my extra produce that I have grown, and then pick up a can of black beans if I need it for dinner that night. We're meant to contribute AND utilize the free fridge.
There are many ways to create and maintain free fridges, from something as simple as a small box or outdoor cabinet on up to full stand up refrigerators and freezers with an outdoor pantry.
In general, you want it to be a couple of things:
- Accessible to the public
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Unmanned
- No restrictions on who can utilize it or take food from it - it should NOT employ any means-testing
- Receive shelf stable food and/or refrigerated food and/or frozen food
Further, you can break up the different groups that are involved in the free fridge:
- The Host
- The Maintainers
- The Community
The Host - provides a location for the fridge and pantry to be installed and accessed. They also provide electricity to power the fridge/freezer
The Maintainers - this would be my group. We source, install, maintain, repair, and clean the fridge, freezer, and pantry.
The Community - contributes food to and utilizes food from the fridge and pantry. This is important. While the host provides the site and the Maintainers keep it operational, neither one has to stock food or coordinate utilization. The community does it themselves.
Having it split up like this is nice. Can folks from the Host group maintain it? Certainly. But extrapolating it allows for ease of use.
So. Keeping it stocked is up to the community. I've seen it stocked by gardeners who have extra produce (Zucchini turns folks into socialists is the joke! You just grow sooooo much you end up LOSING FRIENDS when you try to push it off on others!). I've seen it stocked through Food Rescue efforts. Some families buy extra from the grocery store and this is a great place to drop it off. I've even seen the local Food Bank drop off extra food when they had left overs from a food distribution.
Keeping it utilized is also easy. You don't want the fridge to stay stocked, right. You want it to stay in the fridge for as short a period of time as possible before someone comes and grabs it. Heck! I've seen a food rescue of fresh produce from a farmer's market vendor be dropped off at a free fridge and then claimed by several families even before it had a chance to be placed physically into the fridge! This is ideal. One fridge and pantry needs to serve the local neighborhood. That's many many families. It can only do so if its filled up and then utilized multiple times a day.
Next post, I'll put some resources on starting your own in your town.
#freeFridge #foodScarcity #foodSecurity #postScarcity #solarPunk #mutualAid
#MarkCarney: locks in another 30 years of #BigOil infrastructure on YOUR dime
Stop him. Do it for your kids. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/07/22/united-nations-chief-antonio-guterres-foresees-fossil-fuel-tipping-point/ #cdnpoli #abpoli #Wildfires #FoodScarcity #Climate
Meanwhile The Banker #MarkCarney is looking to sink YOUR MONEY into a pipeline for the foreign-owned #BigOil companies. This is what #DanielleSmith calls #DeRisking. To Carney & Smith there's no risk if it YOUR taxpayer dollars. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/22/antonio-guterres-climate-breakthrough-clean-energy-fossil-fuels #cdnpoli #abpoli #Wildfires #FoodScarcity #Climate
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