☀️ Solarpunk Adept 🌹 @adeptomega@sunbeam.city

@KawaSeadrake Yeah! That's the conclusion I came to as well; punishing poor people. That's not the reason they'll give on paper, but it's the reason they do it.

@pooka The fuck. That's horrible. I'm so sorry to hear that :(

@pooka Oh dear. Do you mind if I ask what happened there?

This program in particular is harshly enforced. It's easy for the store to lose their license to process the food checks; if any given detail is wrong down to the specific brand and ounces of food the whole transaction will not be redeemed.

We need to put the register in a special mode to refuse to scan any non eligible items, and the list of what is eligible changes all the time. For example, this week generic store brand loaves of bread didn't count anymore.

One of my customers wasn't able to get baby food today because the nutritional assistance program she was on is ridiculously strict and she didn't have the requisite ID on her person. I'm angry at the chucklefucks who decided that assistance programs for the poor need to be such a mess of red tape and restrictions.

Apparently someone has designed a tool to block not only Amazon, but its subsidiaries during the prime day strike! I'd actually be really interested in a version of this for Firefox...

https://solarpunkwitchcraft.tumblr.com/post/175779611088/doomy-doomy-i-made-a-chrome-extension-that

@Zero_Democracy Oh hey Monster Prom! 💙

Looking at how elaborate the rules and training for processing WIC checks are is just a reminder how much simpler and easier direct cash aid would be by comparison. x-x

The number of people writing their pronouns on their nametags here gives me life 💛

Nice 💙

@tastymochafox This is why I love being a support class. u-u