i am glad queer representation has drastically improved in my lifetime. because now i can say that i dislike a gay book and not feel like i’m invalidating stonewall
also, remember to do your daily clicks here (it’s 100% free to do; how it works is that it generates ad revenue that goes towards aiding Palestinians), spread word about what’s going on, and donate to vetted fundraisers if you’re able to!
I love this post because the replies are like “for anyone who doesn’t know what nestle did, they benefited from [insert human rights violation here]” but nestle has done SO many fucked up things you get a different topic in every comment
Nestle has:
Drained water from places suffering from drought for absolute pennies.
Made African mothers dependent on their milk formula, which they gave for free, until their milk dried up. Then they required them to purchase it, mothers could not afford it, mixed in too little to fulfill nutrient needs, and mixed it with polluted water. Children died.
Used slavery to produce their cocoa.
Pushed for water to be considered a “want” not a “need” and is at the forefront of arguments that water is not a human right.
Poisoned Chinese infants with melamine in their milk formula.
Demanded Ethiopia pay a debt owed to Nestle, during a FAMINE.
Price-fixed food items.
Contributed to deforestation for their cocoa farming.
The worst thing is, Nestle owns TONS of other brands, making it difficult to avoid for certain products.
Nestlé is LITERALLY the largest food company in the world and have one of the worst track records. Pls avoid their products if you can
I’m in Wilmington - the dot on the lower end of the coast. We are watching our mountain and foothills brothers and sisters and SOBBING for them. We’re also rallying. We have been on the receiving end of so much care from them for our disasters, and now we are responding to theirs.
They were not only not prepared for this, there was no way for them to be. It wasn’t just water, the entire earth moved.
They are still in the panic response - trying to get out, find family and friends, and just survive one day so they can try to survive another. Don’t make it harder for them. If you are traveling anywhere near the effected areas - don’t. They need the gas, groceries, and access to driveable roads more than you do.
Donate to the Red Cross if you can. Cash is needed to move resources and supplies to those who need it.
the way that estrogen softens your skin kicks so much ass like even before i had any idea i could possibly be trans i was always so sad about not having soft skin
like you know when you’re a teen boy and you touch a girl’s hand and just feel an odd sadness? like that’s just normal dude stuff right
me, back in 2005, seeing Sarah Kerrigan in Starcraft, getting put into a Zerg Chrysalis and seeing her transform within it into something else, eventually emerging as a new entity, different, more powerful, more dangerous…
this may seem extreme but i think the incredible levels of drm people put into ebooks warrants execution
“PLEASE only read this book through our broken proprietary windows and smartphone application OR our broken browser reader do NOT open your ebook wherever you want in whatever you want. Because of reasons”
malls are dying because they don’t have blacksmith, apothecary, alehouse or peddler’s
We must create dungeons that expand for miles under the earth and malls are the hub areas where warriors gather to venture deep beanth the surface for treasures yet discovered. It’s the only way to save the economy.
Audio transcript : Hamster balls are like so dangerous for small animals. You know why? Because like, they can’t extend their back properly, so their back is like thi– (cuts off abruptly as the creature in the hamster ball is revealed to be a crab; pauses. The following is said with an affectionate tone like one uses when speaking of a cute animal:) Well, he can’t break his spine ‘cause he don’t have a spine.
The official Weibo account of Beijing Toutiao, an outlet under a media conglomerate controlled by the Beijing branch of the Communist Youth League, shared a notice from a police account about the detention of a Ms. Liu, who disregarded an October 29 order to quarantine at home and continued about her life in Beijing. On November 2, Ms. Liu tested positive for COVID-19. Police then charged her with violating laws regarding the transmission of infectious diseases. Beijing Toutiao attached the hashtag “Beijing Woman Causes 2,700 People To Be Temporarily Quarantined” above the post. The comment section soon filled with criticism about naming and shaming the woman, with some likening it to the Cultural Revolution-era practice of parading supposed political enemies through the streets with placards identifying their “crimes.”
Weibo user @毕达哥拉斯远房亲戚 (which translates as “Pythagoras’ distant relative”) expressed their disagreement with the post by offering this riposte to the hashtag: “Beijing Man Causes 1.4 Billion People To Be Quarantined Long-Term,” an obvious reference to Xi Jinping.
Soon after, censors deleted the account. Searches for @毕达哥拉斯远房亲戚 no longer return results, and clicking on the original Weibo page link generates a pop-up message indicating that the user does not exist. Another netizen, riffing on @毕达哥拉斯远房亲戚’s comment, wrote, “Beijing Man responsible for the deletion of 1.4 million Weibo accounts.”
“we live in an uncaring universe” yeah dude and I live in an uncaring house. and I shit in an uncaring toilet. but do you touch an uncaring lover? do you comfort an uncaring child? do you guide to sleep each night a cold and uncaring self?
please hurry up in reblogging this I wanna jorts it before someone puts it in one of those heartwarming tiktok slideshows
I know most people on here don’t like to go to the gym because you’re all gay nerds. I like to go to the gym. For the purpose of understanding this post please try to imagine that you, too, enjoy going to the gym so that you can empathize with my point here.
Anyway, so imagine you are going to the gym. You’re pumped about the concept of getting some muscle on you. Plus, the gym has this “lift weights every day!” challenge with a feasible plan to slowly and safely increase the amount of weight you can lift by the end of the month. Cool!
So anyway you go there, and you’re having a good time. But then you notice something. Some people are coming in with these guys in shirts that say LIFT FOR HIRE. You’re curious, and you notice over time that some people are actually paying these guys to come in and do the lifting challenge for them.
“Huh,” you say to your mega hot, muscled gym buddy. “That’s so weird. What’s in it for the people paying these guys?”
“Dunno,” says your friend, mid bicep curl.
“Um, actually!” says the gym owner. “Some people are disabled, so the only way they can lift weights it to pay LIFT FOR HIRE, inc.”
“But wait,” you say. “They still aren’t lifting the weights though? Paying someone else to lift for you doesn’t mean you’ve lifted the weights.”
The gym owner gasps. “How could you SAY that?”
“Because… it’s true?” you say. “Uh, if you pay guys to lift your weights, that’s probably really good for the guys you are paying. But it’s not going to develop your ability to lift at all. Your muscles aren’t going to grow, you’re just going to lose money and get no results.”
“That’s ABLEIST,” they say. “How DARE you! Some people are LITERALLY paralyzed, did you think of that?”
“Well, yeah, some people are, and that means definitionally they can’t lift weights,” you explain. “And paying someone else doesn’t change that. Maybe if they wanted to like, move something in their house it would make total sense to hire these guys! But if you hire them to do your workout you get nothing, because the purpose of a workout is personal development. I’m not morally condemning people who do it, but it seems like a waste of money when this event is, again, about improving one’s personal abilities.”
“This is absolutely DISGUSTING, CLASSIST rhetoric!” the gym owner roars, and then turns to one of the LIFT FOR HIRE guys, “Pay no attention this disgusting person, dear sponsor, we support your business and we totally want you to keep funding our gym!”
“Sponsor?” says your hot muscled friend who was way too busy actually doing their workout and getting gains to engage in dumb discourse. “Oh, now it makes sense.”
“Shut up, you don’t understand our love!” says the gym owner, before sloppily making out with a LIFT FOR HIRE guy in front of you.
Anyway, that’s what learning about the whole AI nanowrimo controversy was like for me.
I know most people on here don’t like to go to the gym because you’re all gay nerds. I like to go to the gym. For the purpose of understanding this post please try to imagine that you, too, enjoy going to the gym so that you can empathize with my point here.
Anyway, so imagine you are going to the gym. You’re pumped about the concept of getting some muscle on you. Plus, the gym has this “lift weights every day!” challenge with a feasible plan to slowly and safely increase the amount of weight you can lift by the end of the month. Cool!
So anyway you go there, and you’re having a good time. But then you notice something. Some people are coming in with these guys in shirts that say LIFT FOR HIRE. You’re curious, and you notice over time that some people are actually paying these guys to come in and do the lifting challenge for them.
“Huh,” you say to your mega hot, muscled gym buddy. “That’s so weird. What’s in it for the people paying these guys?”
“Dunno,” says your friend, mid bicep curl.
“Um, actually!” says the gym owner. “Some people are disabled, so the only way they can lift weights it to pay LIFT FOR HIRE, inc.”
“But wait,” you say. “They still aren’t lifting the weights though? Paying someone else to lift for you doesn’t mean you’ve lifted the weights.”
The gym owner gasps. “How could you SAY that?”
“Because… it’s true?” you say. “Uh, if you pay guys to lift your weights, that’s probably really good for the guys you are paying. But it’s not going to develop your ability to lift at all. Your muscles aren’t going to grow, you’re just going to lose money and get no results.”
“That’s ABLEIST,” they say. “How DARE you! Some people are LITERALLY paralyzed, did you think of that?”
“Well, yeah, some people are, and that means definitionally they can’t lift weights,” you explain. “And paying someone else doesn’t change that. Maybe if they wanted to like, move something in their house it would make total sense to hire these guys! But if you hire them to do your workout you get nothing, because the purpose of a workout is personal development. I’m not morally condemning people who do it, but it seems like a waste of money when this event is, again, about improving one’s personal abilities.”
“This is absolutely DISGUSTING, CLASSIST rhetoric!” the gym owner roars, and then turns to one of the LIFT FOR HIRE guys, “Pay no attention this disgusting person, dear sponsor, we support your business and we totally want you to keep funding our gym!”
“Sponsor?” says your hot muscled friend who was way too busy actually doing their workout and getting gains to engage in dumb discourse. “Oh, now it makes sense.”
“Shut up, you don’t understand our love!” says the gym owner, before sloppily making out with a LIFT FOR HIRE guy in front of you.
Anyway, that’s what learning about the whole AI nanowrimo controversy was like for me.
I know most people on here don’t like to go to the gym because you’re all gay nerds. I like to go to the gym. For the purpose of understanding this post please try to imagine that you, too, enjoy going to the gym so that you can empathize with my point here.
Anyway, so imagine you are going to the gym. You’re pumped about the concept of getting some muscle on you. Plus, the gym has this “lift weights every day!” challenge with a feasible plan to slowly and safely increase the amount of weight you can lift by the end of the month. Cool!
So anyway you go there, and you’re having a good time. But then you notice something. Some people are coming in with these guys in shirts that say LIFT FOR HIRE. You’re curious, and you notice over time that some people are actually paying these guys to come in and do the lifting challenge for them.
“Huh,” you say to your mega hot, muscled gym buddy. “That’s so weird. What’s in it for the people paying these guys?”
“Dunno,” says your friend, mid bicep curl.
“Um, actually!” says the gym owner. “Some people are disabled, so the only way they can lift weights it to pay LIFT FOR HIRE, inc.”
“But wait,” you say. “They still aren’t lifting the weights though? Paying someone else to lift for you doesn’t mean you’ve lifted the weights.”
The gym owner gasps. “How could you SAY that?”
“Because… it’s true?” you say. “Uh, if you pay guys to lift your weights, that’s probably really good for the guys you are paying. But it’s not going to develop your ability to lift at all. Your muscles aren’t going to grow, you’re just going to lose money and get no results.”
“That’s ABLEIST,” they say. “How DARE you! Some people are LITERALLY paralyzed, did you think of that?”
“Well, yeah, some people are, and that means definitionally they can’t lift weights,” you explain. “And paying someone else doesn’t change that. Maybe if they wanted to like, move something in their house it would make total sense to hire these guys! But if you hire them to do your workout you get nothing, because the purpose of a workout is personal development. I’m not morally condemning people who do it, but it seems like a waste of money when this event is, again, about improving one’s personal abilities.”
“This is absolutely DISGUSTING, CLASSIST rhetoric!” the gym owner roars, and then turns to one of the LIFT FOR HIRE guys, “Pay no attention this disgusting person, dear sponsor, we support your business and we totally want you to keep funding our gym!”
“Sponsor?” says your hot muscled friend who was way too busy actually doing their workout and getting gains to engage in dumb discourse. “Oh, now it makes sense.”
“Shut up, you don’t understand our love!” says the gym owner, before sloppily making out with a LIFT FOR HIRE guy in front of you.
Anyway, that’s what learning about the whole AI nanowrimo controversy was like for me.
Palestinian blogs on here are not scams. Palestinian blogs on here are not scams. Some people are scammers taking advantage of a situation, but most people just want to live. Vetted blogs aren’t scams. They aren’t scammers. There is a person on the other side of that screen who doesn’t want to die. Do you get it yet.
Dismissing all Palestinian blogs on here as scams to absolve yourself as guilt makes you a horrible person just so you know. Ignoring the pleas of suffering people because you’re selfish and can’t be bothered to even extend sympathy makes you lower than dirt.
remembering the time I called american psycho (a satirical film about toxic masculinity) a dark comedy and the overwhelming response was ‘oh so u think men killing sex workers is funny? u think THAT’S funny?’ like no I find a patrick batemen listening to 'i’m walking on sunshine’, killing jared leto while wearing a clear raincoat and giving a dissertation on huey lewis n the news, using 'I need to return some video tapes’ to get out of awkward situations, throwing a hissy fit about business cards, dropping a chainsaw down a flight of stairs, thinking an atm is telling him to feed it cats, and crying hysterically under a desk is funny. but thank u for ur wonderful insight
still thinking about “decolonising” missionary work.
the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work
the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:
“but it’s part of my religion to evangelise”
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“but we need to go to Ethiopia (one of the oldest christian countries in the world) to make them the right kind of christian!”
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jaguars
“but…”
🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆 jaguars
“but missionaries bring schools and hospitals to poor countries” that’s called humanitarian aid and trying to use humanitarian aid to get religious converts is actually SUPER fucked! hope this helps 🐆🐆🐆
Dear, my name is Abdullah. I am 35 years old and the father of four children: Khalil, 7 years old, Fares, 5 years old, Bilal, 3 years old, and Aseel, 4 months old. It became fully operational after October 7. We lost our house because of the war. We are now displaced and displaced from somewhere else. I wish you help in getting out of Gaza. Please help me by donating or sharing the private link. with me
Context: This is a grocery store in the town of Black Mountain, NC, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene. The police will not let anyone in to get food or clean water or even baby formula and diapers, not even if they have cash to pay. This is being framed as “stopping looters”. This is apparently the best thing the cops have to do with their time, during a widespread emergency.
The store has no power - the food will rot anyway.
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can we talk about how the mechanisms provide a perfect case study of all the kinds of players who show up to a dnd campaign
we have the player who fully understood the assignment and even integrated other characters into their backstory (gunpowder tim). we have the person who made their character at the last minute and just gave you the basics but they’re fun and cool character choices that you would like to know more about (raphaella). we got the player who has not shared any meaningful backstory but always kills it in rp (marius). the player who actually wrote out a cool backstory and a great character concept but refuses to engage in roleplay (ivy). the player who has to leave in the middle of the campaign and the dm wrote them out in a heartbreaking way (nastya). the player who clearly made their character for a different campaign but did a pretty good job of integrating it and you can tell the dm had a hand in it (the toy soldier.) the player who understood the assignment and made a super hot character that everyone loves (ashes). and the character with the most insane all over the place backstory that they refuse to elaborate on and rarely comes up in roleplay (brian.)
and of course the dm who set the assignment and has all the load bearing pieces of canon in it (jonny)
Unless you were a tech at NASA back in the day, when one time some hydrogen a) escaped in a particular building, and b) caught on fire. This was extremely difficult because hydrogen does NOT burn on the visible spectrum humans evolved to see (and flee). Rather, it technically does, but it’s so pale that in practice, no one could see it. Additionally, pure hydrogen burns without smoke and with so little ambient heat that you can’t really sense it till you walk into it. So, per the lore, for a few days all the techs in that building just walked around brandishing brooms in front of them like lances. If your broom lit on fire, congrats! You have located more burning hydrogen! Do not proceed!
one time i was in an olive garden bathroom and my packer fell out of my shorts and this ten year old boy just looked at me with absolute terror and without thinking i said “that’s what happens when you don’t eat your vegetables” later i saw him eating salad at a speed no human should be capable of
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