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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

asortoflight asked:

My boyfriend saw my bar soap in my shower and said “bar soap? What am I, 80?”

Since you are an ethically sourced unpaid soap intern, how do I convince him that soap is valid in bar form?

Your boyfriend is way behind the times!

While liquid soap/shower gel is still barely clinging to its spot as the hip/cool way to get clean, it is not the best or most efficient way for your boyfriend to get clean.

It is not the best because Sun Basin Soap is the best. Some bar soap can dry your skin, especially if you really scrub it in, but this is not in my experience an issue for Sun Basin Soap (or other luxury soaps for that matter; it’s just that other luxury bar soaps charge too much and don’t donate their profit to charity).

Both bar soap and shower gel/body wash will get you clean, but bar soap is much, much better because it is much, much more carbon efficient. Liquid soap weighs a LOT more than bar soap, and it’s mostly water. You’re paying to ship a bunch of water around, which is both economically and environmentally inefficient, because there is already water coming out of your shower or bath.

I envy your boyfriend. He is about to discover the unbridled joy of Sun Basin Soap, the lucky bastard, and he will be free at least from the clutches of Big Liquid Soap conglomerates.

butimwritingthisat3am asked:

How do you feel about people pirating your books

It’s very contextual to me. If you have access to a public or school library, I really wish you wouldn’t pirate my books–instead, I wish you’d support the systems we’ve built to distribute curated information for free, because I think they’re better than the systems that have been created to support piracy (which are mostly not curated by experienced professionals, and which mostly pay for itself through dishonest advertising and surveillance capitalism).

If you live in a country or community where there are no systems to support free reading, then I’m glad you have the chance to read my books and support you doing so in whatever way works for you. Like, thousands of my readers live in Sierra Leone. Obviously you should support local booksellers when and where possible, and there are many such booksellers in SL, but many of my readers can’t afford to support them, and I understand that.

So I am opposed to piracy, but I am more opposed to information poverty, if that makes sense.

(I might be wrong about this, of course, and reserve the right to change and grow. I have often been wrong over the years, and I don’t want to get stuck in an opinion simply because some past version of me expressed it on the Internet.)

amidourstars asked:

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I'm sure you have a million and one asks, but the US census records for hospital beds in 1925!

Wow! Thank you!! (This would indicate there were almost as many sanatarium beds for TB patients in 1923 (~650,000) as there were hospital beds available for ALL OTHER CAUSES COMBINED. That’s how big a deal TB was 100 years ago in the U.S.)

excuse-me-thanks asked:

Doctor Who is big on Tumblr again. Can you connect it to tuberculosis?

It’s not even difficult!

David Whitaker was the first story editor for Doctor Who.

In 1934, when he was a five-year-old boy, David and his brother were both sent to live in a TB sanitarium (like millions of children around the world before the discovery of antibiotics that could treat and cure TB).

In most sanitariums, visits from family were discouraged, not only because it could spread the disease but also because visits might “excite” the patients, and the patient’s job was … to be patient. Experts believed patients had to be as calm and still as possible in order to recover.

Now, I should acknowledge here that there are many stories about why the show is named “Doctor Who,” and credit is often given to co-creator Sydney Newman. I’m not an Doctor Who expert, just to state the obvious!

BUT David Whitaker’s surviving family members told this to a biographer, and I have no reason to doubt them: in order to pass the time in the utterly boring, anti-child environment of the sanitarium, David and his brother invented a game to play together in their minds. The game was called “Doctor What and Doctor Who.”

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