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unFun Fact 4: It’s not easy being poor. It’s costly. You’re scrutinized. The idea that people “want” to be poor in a society built on money with virtually no safety-net is a made-up fatasy.

✨ STOP GATEKEEPING FOOD FROM THE POOR ✨

#SNAP #SNAPbenefits
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29.10.2025 06:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

unFun Fact 3: The average SNAP benefit (for qualified recipients) in FY 2024 was $187.20/mo.

Not exactly a lot to feed the poorest of our neighbors.

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29.10.2025 06:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

unFun Fact 2: It’s difficult to meet work requirements—even when working—because the types of jobs available in the low-wage labor market can’t meet SNAP’s harsh requirements.

Fun Fact: SNAP benefits act as a stabilizer during recessions, by providing an automatic stimulus to the economy.

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29.10.2025 06:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

✨ STOP GATEKEEPING FOOD FROM THE POOR ✨

unFun Fact: Work requirements for SNAP only increase the number of people without food—they do NOT increase employment. (And SNAP has stringent 3-month work requirements. And resource/asset limits.)

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29.10.2025 06:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Every 👏 Person 👏 Deserves 👏 Food 👏

There are 0 undeserving people on SNAP.
Come on, now!

29.10.2025 06:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Recognizing that it could be YOU—really that humans are fundamentally of equal dignity—is how we do better for each other, collectively.

So yes, all people deserve to be housed, have healthcare, & living wages.

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28.10.2025 01:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

✨ Just World Fallacy ✨
One of my (least) favorite cognitive biases. 🧠

It’s the assumption that people generally get what they deserve, the corollary being that one who is suffering likely deserves their plight.

The reality?
Things happen whether or not we “deserve” it.
All the time.

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28.10.2025 01:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s wild to me—did people forget what it was like before the #ACA?

Do they know anyone who has had (or lives with) an illness?

Do they know seniors and others on #Medicare?

Do they know the working poor on #Medicaid?

Do they know that they can get sick or have an accident at ANY time?! 🙃

28.10.2025 01:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok, but can you send me one because I want be involved in some quirky accident involving these. 🤣

(Also I’m a nerd & curious for the lols 🤓)

28.10.2025 01:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Climb every f**king mountain.” 🏔️ 🎵

28.10.2025 01:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I LIVED & studied in France. Still not fluent. I used to call myself “semi-fluent” but like…that’s still not fluent-fluent.

15 mins?!

More like YEARS + immersion + actually enjoying it.

(I need to get my French back. 😭)

27.10.2025 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot, with highlights, of a footnote on regarding Apple Watch hypertension notifications. “As of September 9, 2025,” [highlight starts] “hypertension notifications are currently under FDA review” [highlight ends] “and are expected to be cleared this month, with availability on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later” [“Apple Watch Series 9 is highlighted in yellow].

Screenshot, with highlights, of a footnote on regarding Apple Watch hypertension notifications. “As of September 9, 2025,” [highlight starts] “hypertension notifications are currently under FDA review” [highlight ends] “and are expected to be cleared this month, with availability on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later” [“Apple Watch Series 9 is highlighted in yellow].

Since this seems to have been missed my most:

The Hypertention Alerts (or what people are referring to as blood pressure monitoring) are NOT exclusive to Apple Watch Series 11.

They, along with the sleep score, will be on Series 9 and Series 10 as well as Apple Watch Ultra 3 and 2. #Apple

09.09.2025 20:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely. In fact, I like the design of the 10/11 better than the 9 and earlier.

But the neural engine (which was introduced with the 9) is a welcome improvement.

Definitely worth it from an S7! 😊

09.09.2025 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Side by side comparison of Apple Watch Series 11, 10, and 9, focused on the Chip. The highlights show the differences with the only difference being the name of the chip "S10" (which is highlighted in green on the Series 11 and Series 10) versus the
"S9" on the Series 9. Otherwise, 64-bit dual-core processor, 4-core neural engine, W3 Apple Wireless Chip, 2nd Generation Ultra Wideband, and 64GB capacity are identical.

Side by side comparison of Apple Watch Series 11, 10, and 9, focused on the Chip. The highlights show the differences with the only difference being the name of the chip "S10" (which is highlighted in green on the Series 11 and Series 10) versus the "S9" on the Series 9. Otherwise, 64-bit dual-core processor, 4-core neural engine, W3 Apple Wireless Chip, 2nd Generation Ultra Wideband, and 64GB capacity are identical.

The Apple Watch Series 11 internals look a lot like my Series 9 (and Series 10)…

I was hoping for a reason to upgrade 😭
#AppleEvent #AppleWatch #Apple #AppleWatchSeries11

09.09.2025 19:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Yeah, I mean…I do something like that… 😏

04.09.2025 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a message from “ileavebreadcrumbs’s community” with a highlighted section that reads, “I believe in making space to help people grow but cutting them off once you take their joy. Be you, be true, be happy.” This is a message from Joshua Alan Snyder-Hill to recast his 3 years of a fabricated relationship & feigned repair process, psychological & emotional manipulation, and his use of another human being’s body and mind as self-care—without an ounce of remorse or reference of his own words and behavior.

Screenshot of a message from “ileavebreadcrumbs’s community” with a highlighted section that reads, “I believe in making space to help people grow but cutting them off once you take their joy. Be you, be true, be happy.” This is a message from Joshua Alan Snyder-Hill to recast his 3 years of a fabricated relationship & feigned repair process, psychological & emotional manipulation, and his use of another human being’s body and mind as self-care—without an ounce of remorse or reference of his own words and behavior.

Spreadsheet of messages from the public figure, Joshua Alan Snyder-Hill, aka ileavebreadcrumbs, from May 10, 2025 in which he states his understanding that he “knows” he “seriously wronged” J and does not believe that J did so to him. He commits to making “a serious effort to fix it / Understanding that [he] ha[s]en’t as of yet.” He confirms understanding and knowledge of the impacts on J’s “body and mind and business” as well as “physical impacts” and that he “knew,” backtracking to “reckless indifference” because he didn’t want to cause the harms, but then that he “had enough info from” J to know of the injuries, so back to a “yes” on the question of his knowledge.

Spreadsheet of messages from the public figure, Joshua Alan Snyder-Hill, aka ileavebreadcrumbs, from May 10, 2025 in which he states his understanding that he “knows” he “seriously wronged” J and does not believe that J did so to him. He commits to making “a serious effort to fix it / Understanding that [he] ha[s]en’t as of yet.” He confirms understanding and knowledge of the impacts on J’s “body and mind and business” as well as “physical impacts” and that he “knew,” backtracking to “reckless indifference” because he didn’t want to cause the harms, but then that he “had enough info from” J to know of the injuries, so back to a “yes” on the question of his knowledge.

Public figure #ileavebreadcrumbs wrote that he engaged in behaviors, knowing of (or recklessly indifferent to) the serious harm. For 3 years. False repair promises. For his comfort. At my expense.

It’s NAUSEATING to see Joshua Alan Snyder-Hill recast it as cutting me off b/c I take his joy. Be true

17.08.2025 03:35 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why is this so precious?! 🥹

08.08.2025 04:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“The reason why we lose elections is because we’re arguing about X.”

Brillant.
YOU’RE BRILLIANT! 🥹

🏆*Nobel Peace Prize Granted* 🏆

🤯*Political Scientists’ Brains Explode* 🤯

👻*Critical Thinkers?! VANISHED!* 👻

31.07.2025 01:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok I’ll post about something else.

It would be nice to have a PC to edit videos and stream games. I have everything but the PC. 4K editing is annoyingly pricey.

And it’s this weird Intel thing where you can get a deal, but get locked out of Copilot+ because of the NPU.

Wait longer? But tariffs. 🙃

31.07.2025 00:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the end, my responses inevitably take the shape of one who has experienced prolonged coercive control. It’s not pleasant or pretty.

I wouldn’t wish this suffering on anyone.
And, despite what it looks like,
I’m terrified of him.
Of them.
Of everyone.

Constant fear.
It shouldn’t be this way.

30.07.2025 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And for anyone who cares: I say very little about the details in good faith: both because the impacts on me make it difficult to put together a public-friendly narrative & because I actually genuinely don’t want to cause h-rm (which, realistically, would impact me more). It’s NOT a revenge fantasy.

30.07.2025 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Regardless: I don’t want more suffering. This isn’t “revenge.” I want restoration. I want my life.

The status quo destroys me—as it does to others like me. It protects public figures and, in the process, allows this to happen over and over.

I’m sorry my personhood is an inconvenience.

30.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One should not be able to systematically destroy someone’s life while claiming they “tried” when the “trying” was a painful campaign of dehumanization. Of control over meaning, truth, reality, language, and time.

Was I not human? Just an object? Where was my right to make informed choices?

30.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This silence isn’t “self-protective” or neutral. Responsibility (ethically) doesn’t evaporate because one has the privilege to ignore others and let the system wreak havoc and drown them out.

30.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The lack of understanding is a choice. Selective amnesia doesn’t erase the written record or the response to it: denial, avoidance, etc. it doesn’t erase the severe impacts.

Turning away from the facts doesn’t make them not exist—that goes for those who have enabled this via a culture of silence.

30.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s convenient to present as a neutral/safe person—profiting of it & blurring the public/private divide. It’s wild to ignore one’s public figure status, as it was used—along with false statements—to gain, encourage, and maintain trust, safety, & connection.

30.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Using someone as a means to your own ends for such a long period, taking advantage of their known vulnerabilities & relational power dynamics, and doing so in writing, so much that chronic dissociation and retr—mitization continues to this day is no small feat.

30.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s also relevant to note that “stringing someone along” isn’t close to describing the sustained (and apparently intentional) pattern of psychological manipulation and expl—tation that many would call 3 years of a—se.

Even without the s*xual aspect, this would scream for actually repair.

30.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think it’s important for @ileavebreadcrumbs.bsky.social to understand that lying about material details that I asked for (in writing) over and over so that he could gain access to me s*xualky & emotionally sure as hell is NOT consent, even if it may be legally.

How many others are there?

30.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Honestly. This happens all the time and I’m like 🤣

I’ll just stay inside.

27.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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