The Awesome Coffee Club

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

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

one thing we forget about people on the internet is that we know almost nothing about them. Would i know if somebody’s kid has congestive heart failure? Only if they tell me! Would I know if somebody is experiencing severe mental health problems? Only if they tell me! Would I know if someone has cancer? Only if they tell me!

This is a weird thing about being online. We can know a lot about someone–this person is a Christian, and a father of three children, and married to that person, and likes Cheerios–but we only know what they told us, which is–of course–almost nothing.

And yet, human pattern-makers that we are, we inevitably fill in the gaps in information with assumptions that are based on whether we kinda assume the best of someone or kinda assume the worst of them. Like, I do not imagine that Elon Musk came home from his hard work making everyone’s life worse yesterday and held a sick friend’s hand as that friend died–but of course that’s possible! I don’t know!

This happened to me a lot when I was on tumblr the first time. People often filled in gaps by assuming the worst in me, and that’s fair enough, I guess. These days, people tend to (although not exclusively) fill in the gaps by assuming the best of me. But both are assumptions informed by extremely limited information, which is almost impossible to remember in the daily grind of Internet Life.

i am a coffee company

nyssafromtraken asked:

What's the difference between a Sierra Leonean child and a Palestinian Child? I don't mean this in a combative way. I just don't understand the cognitive dissonance.

I appreciate the question, and you not asking it in a combative way. I guess I don’t think there is a cognitive dissonance. I condemn the bombing (and have publicly called for a ceasefire since October). I have helped raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for aid to Gaza through the Project for Awesome, and I have personally donated tens of thousands more to support Doctors without Borders’ work in Gaza. Equally importantly from my perspective, I’m regularly reaching out to my congressional and senate representatives to let them know how I feel about the horror of my country sending bombs and other weapons to Netanyahu’s government.

If you’re asking why I don’t talk about Gaza every day, there are a few reasons, but the biggest one is that when I do, it doesn’t seem to push people toward more organized or effective activism; instead, it seems to lead to people yelling at each other and dehumanizing each other and also parsing my words in ways that seem unfair to me. There’s a lot of, “Why did he say this or not say that,” rather than my motivating more attention or resources to the cause of a free, safe, and secure Palestine. I’m sure that’s a problem with how I’m talking about this, but I’ve tried talking about it in a variety of ways and in a variety of places and always with the same outcome.

I would also argue that it is not your job to talk about tuberculosis every day (which killed over 100,000 people needlessly last month), nor is it your job to talk about the crisis of maternal and infant mortality in Sierra Leone (which kills over 50,000 people needlessly each year). There is more than one problem in the world, and I feel that my time and resources are best focused on making long-term, open-ended investments into issues that are not receiving much attention in the rich world. That’s my personal approach to making change. It is not meant in any way to diminish your approach to making change, which I think is also legitimate and effective.

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Awesome Coffee is just better. Good Store has raised over $7,500,000 to fight maternal and child mortality, and we pay a premium to our farmers to get the best beans and support efforts to reverse deforestation. Plus no billionaires get richer.

gentle reminder that i am primarily not an individual endowed with a soul but a coffee company that donates its profit to charity the fine line between human personhood and corporate personhood coffee company
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Hello, nerds. Take a break from debating the plot choices of a TV show that got canceled six years ago and enjoy some coffee.

The Awesome Coffee Club has just released a seasonal light roast. This is a coffee designed for coffee snobs and aspiring coffee snobs to get all the complex tasting notes you get from a great glass of wine, and gosh it’s good.

We also make regular coffee for people who are accustomed to grocery store/starbucks coffee but want something a lot better, and a well-balanced light roast, but this new one is only available for a couple weeks and it is special.

Best of all, 100% of the profit goes to support stronger healthcare systems in impoverished communities. You get to drink better coffee. No billionaires get richer. And the world sucks a little less. It’s a good value proposition.

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storyzen asked:

Arw you really the author John Green? The same person who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska?

Yes, but I published one of those books 19 (?!?!?!) years ago and the other 12 (!?!?!?!?) years ago. What have I been up to since then?

  • My brother Hank and I started Good.store, which delivers high-quality socks, coffee, and soap to your home and donates 100% of its profit to charity. Through good store, we’ve raised over $7,500,000 to support efforts to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, where as recently as 2019, one in seventeen women could expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth.

(In fact, technically I am here on tumblr as an unpaid intern for the awesome coffee club, which you should really sign up for if you like ethically sourced coffee that tastes delicious and doesn’t enrich billionaires.)

  • I wrote the novel Turtles All the Way Down and then had a little existential crisis and wrote a nonfiction book called The Anthropocene Reviewed, the latter of which is my first book for adults and my first attempt to write as myself.
  • I helped produce made a movie adaptation (streaming now on Max!) of Turtles all the Way Down.
  • I helped raise my kids and supported my spouse as she wrote her book You Are An Artist and created a PBS show about art called The Art Assignment.
  • I ran the educational media company Complexly and the merch company dftba.com while my brother had cancer.
  • I bought around 2% of a fourth-tier English football team called AFC Wimbledon. Wimbledon are different from most football clubs because they are owned by their fans, each of whom gets one vote in the club’s leadership regardless of how much money they put into the club.
  • I became obsessed with tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease (it will kill over a million people this year despite being curable), and how TB both exemplifies and reinforces human-built structures of injustice, which is the subject of a book I’m writing that will come out next year.
what i've been doing since a lot of people are new here which is a little terrifying but we'll probably get through it and if not i can always deactivate this account and start a new one as one does john green coffee company

shining-dawn asked:

You can't fool me, I know there's no way you're actually John Green. I know a gimmick blog when I see one.

Here is a video I made over a year ago about running this tumblr. It has my face and voice in it. Hopefully that’s sufficient proof!

I want to be very clear though that 1. it’s fine that so many people don’t think that I’m me (and on some level they’re right; I’m not really me. I’m a coffee company that donates its profit to charity!)

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2. I’m 100% okay with so many people reblogging my stuff not know that it’s me sharing it (I don’t need tumblr at large, if there even still is a tumblr at large, to be intruding into this strange and lovely thing we’ve got going).

I just like it here. Which, like, if you’ve told me that in 2015, I would’ve told you that’s literally impossible.

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