Adam K. K. Figueira
@akkfigueira.bsky.social
I'm just doing this.
My local food bank used to send thank-you cards to donors. One day I wrote them saying "I appreciate it, but please use my donations for food, not greeting cards." Shortly thereafter they added a box on their donation form where you could opt in to thank-you cards.
Remember that while food banks welcome donations of food, they prefer $$$$$$$. They have deals with grocery stores and suppliers. You can only buy one dollar's worth of food for one dollar, but they can buy several dollars' worth. So don't, like, buy food to donate it, just give 'em the dough.
November 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My local food bank used to send thank-you cards to donors. One day I wrote them saying "I appreciate it, but please use my donations for food, not greeting cards." Shortly thereafter they added a box on their donation form where you could opt in to thank-you cards.
Reposted by Adam K. K. Figueira
Remember that while food banks welcome donations of food, they prefer $$$$$$$. They have deals with grocery stores and suppliers. You can only buy one dollar's worth of food for one dollar, but they can buy several dollars' worth. So don't, like, buy food to donate it, just give 'em the dough.
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Remember that while food banks welcome donations of food, they prefer $$$$$$$. They have deals with grocery stores and suppliers. You can only buy one dollar's worth of food for one dollar, but they can buy several dollars' worth. So don't, like, buy food to donate it, just give 'em the dough.
Reposted by Adam K. K. Figueira
Not fun fact according to the American Federation of Teachers: As of 2020, 25% of adjunct professors were eligible for public assistance. I had colleagues who used food stamps.
Poverty doesn’t always look like what you’d expect, and none of us are guaranteed a life without un- or under-employment.
Poverty doesn’t always look like what you’d expect, and none of us are guaranteed a life without un- or under-employment.
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not fun fact according to the American Federation of Teachers: As of 2020, 25% of adjunct professors were eligible for public assistance. I had colleagues who used food stamps.
Poverty doesn’t always look like what you’d expect, and none of us are guaranteed a life without un- or under-employment.
Poverty doesn’t always look like what you’d expect, and none of us are guaranteed a life without un- or under-employment.
Corn on the macabre.
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Corn on the macabre.
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HI HELLO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
November 15, 2024 at 8:21 PM
HI HELLO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
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Some child in Ravenna has established a Little Free Library But For Toy Cars and it’s very charming
October 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Some child in Ravenna has established a Little Free Library But For Toy Cars and it’s very charming
Started reading Redwall to my kids. Most of those who are listening seem to be liking it. This was one of the first books I fell in love with as preteen.
October 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Started reading Redwall to my kids. Most of those who are listening seem to be liking it. This was one of the first books I fell in love with as preteen.
Today, on an article about autism, I read a comment saying, non satirically, "thank goodness we have a HHS secretary dedicated to getting to the bottom of these issues affecting our children" or something like that, to approving responses. That was when another little part of me died.
I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.
October 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Today, on an article about autism, I read a comment saying, non satirically, "thank goodness we have a HHS secretary dedicated to getting to the bottom of these issues affecting our children" or something like that, to approving responses. That was when another little part of me died.
If this happens, it will be a stain on the state and further proof of Utah's leadership's complicity with evil. Shame on us.
Utah is among five states set to receive a new migrant detention center with capacity for 10,000 people, according to CNN.
CNN: Immigration detention center to be built in Utah with expected capacity for 10,000
Utah is among five states set to receive a new migrant detention center with capacity for 10,000 people, according to CNN.
www.sltrib.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If this happens, it will be a stain on the state and further proof of Utah's leadership's complicity with evil. Shame on us.
The fall colors are stunning today.
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The fall colors are stunning today.
What's a movie that invades your thoughts far more often than it has any reason or right to? For me, it's Demolition Man.
Demolition Man Police GIF
ALT: Demolition Man Police GIF
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October 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
What's a movie that invades your thoughts far more often than it has any reason or right to? For me, it's Demolition Man.
Love it how all the electronic signs on the train just shut off after the second to last station. It's like, nothing can change your destination now, so why bother knowing?
October 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Love it how all the electronic signs on the train just shut off after the second to last station. It's like, nothing can change your destination now, so why bother knowing?
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
Table read tonight.
October 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Table read tonight.
This ticks all my nerd boxes. Truly beautiful work here.
youtu.be/Vg0ftclnwzI?...
youtu.be/Vg0ftclnwzI?...
What Happened to Walt Disney’s Lost Cinema Lens?
YouTube video by Mathieu Stern
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October 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This ticks all my nerd boxes. Truly beautiful work here.
youtu.be/Vg0ftclnwzI?...
youtu.be/Vg0ftclnwzI?...
Making spam musubi tonight for a table read tomorrow.
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Making spam musubi tonight for a table read tomorrow.
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Byers makes a comment about ICE not targeting "actual, professional journalists."
"You're making a distinction among journalists?" Ellis asks.
"There's people with cell phones, calling themselves journalists," Byers responds.
"You're making a distinction among journalists?" Ellis asks.
"There's people with cell phones, calling themselves journalists," Byers responds.
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Byers makes a comment about ICE not targeting "actual, professional journalists."
"You're making a distinction among journalists?" Ellis asks.
"There's people with cell phones, calling themselves journalists," Byers responds.
"You're making a distinction among journalists?" Ellis asks.
"There's people with cell phones, calling themselves journalists," Byers responds.
Singing at a funeral today for a neighbor who was my bishop back when I was a teenager. It's a double quartet. Rather an unexpected privilege to be included with this group for such a significant occasion.
October 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Singing at a funeral today for a neighbor who was my bishop back when I was a teenager. It's a double quartet. Rather an unexpected privilege to be included with this group for such a significant occasion.
It's grading day for the first quarter, so of course Canvas is down.
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's grading day for the first quarter, so of course Canvas is down.
Somebody find a nearby kneecap photographer.
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Somebody find a nearby kneecap photographer.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
LIVE WEAPONS OVER FREEWAY what a totally normal, non dystopian sign, cool, cool.
Wait wait wait they did their stupid stunt and managed to SHELL A COP?
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
October 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
LIVE WEAPONS OVER FREEWAY what a totally normal, non dystopian sign, cool, cool.
I just got called as the ward music coordinator so now I'm in charge of our Christmas program, among other things. It's been close to a year since I was released from the last one, so it's good to have an assignment again.
October 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I just got called as the ward music coordinator so now I'm in charge of our Christmas program, among other things. It's been close to a year since I was released from the last one, so it's good to have an assignment again.
Heard a straight faced comment in Sunday school today citing online "exmo" influence as a serious source of ongoing persecution towards the church. This is how I know there is someone else in that class who spends too much time online.
October 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Heard a straight faced comment in Sunday school today citing online "exmo" influence as a serious source of ongoing persecution towards the church. This is how I know there is someone else in that class who spends too much time online.
Millions of citizens peacefully and often joyfully bearing it's flag in defense of others on one hand, and a president fantasizing about bombing those citizens with feces on the other. One of the two definitely hates America.
October 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Millions of citizens peacefully and often joyfully bearing it's flag in defense of others on one hand, and a president fantasizing about bombing those citizens with feces on the other. One of the two definitely hates America.