The Awesome Coffee Club

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

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

jonberry555 asked:

What's better, TB awareness or ethically sourced coffee?

I am a very, very big fan of our coffee, but…

If everyone in wealthy countries understood that TB has killed FORTY MILLION PEOPLE since the year 2000, and if everyone in wealthy countries was angry and disgusted by the ongoing horror of underfunded research and treatment distribution, then TB death rates would decline by 60 or 70% over the next decade, simply because more resources would be devoted to finding new treatments and effectively distributing current ones. (We’ve seen this happen before! Look at HIV/AIDS death between 2005 and 2015! They fell by over 50%, not primarily because of new treatments but because of a dramatic expansion of existing treatments. Same thing could happen with TB.)

Like, we might lose 20 million people in the 2030s to TB, not because it’s an impossible problem to solve but because we do not treat the problems of impoverished communities the way we treat the problems of rich communities.

So yeah, TB awareness (and activism! and fundraising! and advocacy for patients!) is vastly, vastly more important than the world’s best coffee.

tuberculosis coffee company god i am so mad about tuberculosis it is the first thing I get mad about every morning and the last thing I get mad about every night donald trump got to be president for four years and not only did he never SAY anything about tuberculosis he was never even ASKED about it global health injustice is killing tens of millions of people every year poverty is the world's leading cause of death

vwampires asked:

what's your favourite taste

Not sure how many times I have to say coffee. It’s coffee, especially coffee that donates 100% of its profit to charity.

The socks and coffee clubs have donated over $2,000,000 to support a stronger healthcare system in Sierra Leone. Who could imagine a better taste than the world’s best coffee supporting broader access to healthcare?

coffee company my favorite taste it will never end but that's okay i'll just keep selling coffee

It is a very strange experience to have tens of millions of people like your work and then later have tens of millions of people hate your work. I cannot fully recommend the experience–although as miseries go, it is certainly a minor one–but for me, personally, it was hard. I often handled it poorly, and I feel a lot of regret about that, but I also think it’s a hard thing to navigate.

For a long time, I thought I wouldn’t write again. Writing leaves you so vulnerable, like a patient etherized upon the table, as Eliot put it. And being vulnerable sucked. But then it turns out that not being vulnerable–shielding yourself behind endless layers of ironic detachment and feigned coolness–also sucks. It removes you from the reality of others’ suffering, and makes you think that only certain kinds of problems are really real and worthy of attention, and maybe even that only certain kinds of people are really real and worthy of attention. 

So in the end I decided to go back to writing with much MORE vulnerability instead of less. In Turtles All the Way Down, I wrote as close to the bone of my own mental illness as I could get. And in The Anthropocene Reviewed, I wrote about myself for the first time, my way of looking at the world and the people I love in it.

I don’t know if my work has gotten better or worse as a result of the weird trip I went on, but the big lesson from those strange days for me is that if I must choose between being cold to the reality of feeling and being cringe, I always want to be cringe. I want and need to write because it is my way of understanding myself, because, just as with reading stories, writing them is an “axe to break up the frozen see within us,” to borrow a very good line from Kafka. 

I am so grateful to have been read so generously by so many people. The hard things that come with that gig took over my life for a while, but these days I’m able merely to be grateful, and overwhelmed, and astonished. So anyway if you’ve ever read one of my books, thanks. I don’t say that enough. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

furetosan-blog asked:

Do you truly believe the apparent temporarity of people

My friend, I’m just trying to sell coffee.


(I do not know the secrets of the universe. Knowing the secrets of the universe is for ideologues. I am quite old now, and I’ve had my ideological rigidity beaten out of me. I am just trying to do three things at this point: 1. get by; 2. help those I love get by; and 3. expand my definition of “those I love” to include everyone.)

I am really grateful to be here on this Earth with you.

You, a person who is I believe genuinely doing their best despite challenges that I can’t pretend to imagine.

Me, a coffee company. It’s just incredible that we get to be here together in these strange and difficult but also beautiful days. 

No leaves on the trees yet, but the snowdrops are blooming in Indianapolis. You’re getting through your day. I’m selling the world’s best tasting coffee. Life is not easy, or simple, or merely good. But it’s not merely anything else either.