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[agentduckorico]

For those curious, I have a witchcraft/paganism blog @agentwitchorico, an art/moodboard blog @agentartorico, and a multimuse rp blog @thedxckpond

[honorthegods]

20 July 2027

National Moon Day (U.S.)

International Moon Day (Planet Earth)

Moon day celebrates the historic Apollo 11 mission which culminated with a landing on Earth's moon, 20 July 1969.

This is the Project Apollo insignia, adopted in 1965.

The name "Apollo" for the U.S. project to land an astronaut on the moon and return the astronaut safely to earth was suggested by NASA's Abe Silverstein, referring to Apollo's chariot, which traverses the sky each day. The face on the golden moon represents Apollo. The art seems to have been a collaboration by several NASA employees and contract workers.

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_program.svg

Image license:  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International 

Read more:

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/apollo-mission-patches/

https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/naming-apollo-why-nasa-chooses-greek-gods-as-names/

[latter-day-saint-nick]

I'm really tired of people outside the UK claiming that JK Rowling's bigotry doesn't extend to trans men and non-binary people. I can't get an autism diagnosis, because I'm scared that it will be used against me to deny me the healthcare I need, as Rowling and her ilk have been spreading the rhetoric that transmascs are just confused autistic girls who are too stupid to know their own gender.

[pollybeary]

Are we still friends? (Teacher AU)

Ahhh, that moment when you’re reminiscing about lunch time in your friend’s classroom.

[d1procrasinator]

"Was it... what human say? 'Casual', question?" Rocky asked slowly.

Grace turned to his friend, a lingering and familiar ache in his ribs blossoming.

"I dont know, Rock." He sighed after a moments thought, his eyes drifting to the open window, watching the stars drift by. He thought back to those days on Earth.

"I dont know."

[bananonbinary]

tony's chocolonely mildly pisses me off every time i eat it. like yeah i get it ur doing a whole symbolism thing about unfairness and whatever, but its actually SO DIFFICULT to eat fucking. gerrymandered chocolate. your symbolism is ruining my chocolate experience.

who approved this.

[bananonbinary]

like. ur already more expensive. i understand this. i am willing to pay more money to have slave-free delicious chocolate. why must you punish me further by making it a goddamn puzzle to break a piece off.

[closet-keys]

Tony's Chocolonely does not ensure a living wage for cocoa workers in West Africa (see 2020 report by Voice Network).

Food Empowerment Project maintains an updated list of chocolate brands they recommend based on the following standards:

transparency about the country of origin for cocoa

if sourced from Western Africa, the workers must own the companies/be in charge of the profits from their labor (this standard is because child labor and slavery have been widely documented for decades in this area)

if sourced from Brazil, the workers must own the company and/or be in charge of the profits from their labor, or the company must be going above and beyond to support the workers and their families (this standard is because "child labor and slavery only recently have been documented in cocoa in Brazil" and they are "giving Brazilian companies that are trying to address the issue by supporting the workers and their families the benefit of the doubt.")

this isn't perfect, obviously, but it is much more grounded in the rights of workers than the various certifications (e.g. Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc.) you'll see on product packaging

[aloofraven]

I think it should be noted that the Food Empowerment Project specifically only lists companies making "at least one vegan chocolate product" and that they only ask about the companies' vegan chocolates specifically. Their list is not an exhaustive resource for every type of chocolate.

[Source: "Understanding Our Chocolate List" from their website]

Before I found that link I was curious as to why I didn't see any Norwegian manufacturers on their list(which makes sense now, as their chocolates are almost exclusively milk chocolate) and looked up where our companies source their chocolate from and found Nidar gets theirs from the Rainforest Alliance and Freia from Cocoa Life, both of which have been under scrutiny for not preventing child labour and not paying farmers a living wage among other things. So it appears Norwegian chocolate is out of the ethical picture.

[roninnozlo]

I stated this in the comments of the post already, but it’d probably be better to add it as a reblog, so it’s more visible and doesn’t need to be restated by anyone else in the future.

So, Tony’s allied with Barry Callebut to get its cocoa. Barry Callebut is one of the biggest chocolate companies in the world, and it is unethical, obviously. This led to Tony’s revealing in February 2022 that 1701 child laborers were in their supply chain. Barry Callebut had over 21K at the time. Both of those numbers have risen, and Tony’s has outright admitted they don’t give a fuck about child labor laws when asked about it, content to let children to continue farming their cocoa instead of actually doing the activism they claim to do. (business-humanrights.org, feb 6 2022)

About a week ago, Tony’s joined Barry, Nestle and Ferrero in pushing against the reinstatement of important EUDR deforestation legislations. Under that regulation that they pushed against, they would’ve had to be more transparent about their supply chains for their more key ingredients - So Tony’s is lobbying against the exact thing they claim to stand for. (confectioneryproduction.com, mar 18, 2026)

Won’t restate @closet-keys’s addition, of course. That’d just be redundant and maybe annoying since, yknow, it’s already been said.

If you wanna find a better chocolate brand it’s really damn easy. There’s lists on slavefreechocolate.org of both the ethical and unethical companies. Both lists can be found here:

Below is a list of chocolate companies that only use ethically grown cocoa.  Find out how you can tell if the chocolate you are ea

And it doesn’t have the vegan product restriction the other list has, which solves @aloofraven’s issue.

[heydocverdant]

I did some research into the claims on this post, and while they’re mostly accurate, they are being presented in a way that could be a little misleading for folks, so here’s some additional information.

First, it’s worth noting that slavefreechocolate.org doesn’t really have a defined metric for grading companies for being slave-free — it’s more of a blog operated by a grassroots organization seeking to draw attention to the prevalence of modern slavery in the chocolate industry. To be clear, that’s a noble goal for them to be doing, but a bad grade from them is also less of a big deal than a lot of folks might realize: they specifically removed Tony’s for collaborating with notoriously-exploitative chocolate company Barry Callebut to source cocoa, but Tony’s themselves have remained critical of Callebut for the same reasons despite their partnership, and insists that its collaboration with Callebut is designed to operate alongside Callebut’s own pipeline instead of drawing from it, basically as way of showing how to ethically use the currently-existing framework on an international scale. Here’s a press release from Tony’s on the subject, though obviously you should always be a little skeptical of press releases.

Similarly, the claim about “Tony’s revealed in 2022 that they had 1701 child laborers in their supply chain” is true… because one of the company’s stated goals is transparency, and they regularly publish results detailing the failings they’ve found within their own pipeline, and the ways that they’ve rectified it. The chocolate industry is rife with exploitation and abuse, and that can’t just be undone overnight: instead, it is important for companies to be willing to take responsibility for their actions and the actions of their suppliers, which Tony’s does. (Here’s a good John Oliver video about chocolate to help explain why it’s so hard to fix a lot of the exploitation in the industry.)

So yes, Tony’s has some problems with it. Most chocolate does, in fact. But unlike what a lot of comments on this post are saying, Tony’s isn’t being hypocritical: they’re doing exactly what they promised they’d do, by openly discussing the problems with the system and finding ways to rectify those issues for the future. They’re still the second-rated chocolate company on the Chocolate Scorecard (which does actually have a metric for its ratings), which recently raised the bar for its scoring by ranking corporate promises far lower than their actual successes.

Chocolate Scorecard is coordinated by Be Slavery Free, with universities, consultants and civil society groups engaging in transforming the

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

Simon realizing he's going to die vs realizing someone else died, by the way. In case you needed your day ruined.

[mike-wheeler-is-in-the-closet]

hey op? KISS THE BRICK BEFORE YOU THROW IT

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[nitewrighter]

Ozempic scares the shit out of me. You're telling me there's a drug that takes away both the craving side of hunger and targets the brain's rewards center for eating. You're telling me it takes the joy out of eating and it turns you into a skeleton. Why did we turn The Curse of the Black Pearl into a drug. What the fuck.

[nitewrighter]

I actually want to thank the diabetics coming on this post like "actually it genuinely is a great treatment for diabetes and it hasn't affected my mood or my enjoyment of food. The real issue is it's getting abused as a weight loss drug which also makes it scarce and more expensive for those who can genuinely benefit from it." Kind of reminds me of the time my brother got permission from our family psychiatrist to try my ADHD medication and his reaction to it was "what the fuck are you on. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON. WHY DO I FEEL LIKE CRYING. YOU'RE ON THIS EVERY DAY!?!"

Body chemistry! It makes a big difference in how your body processes a drug! What can be genuinely helpful for some folks is The Curse of the Black Pearl for others!

[omtai]

Normal groceries like milk or bread or whatever running out is whatever. Just anotha day. But when stuff like salt or cooking oil or rice runs out it feels like You’re supposed to be here for me and you’re leaving. You’re just like everyone else

[arcane-trail]

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[parasocialites]

how did a woman manage to date elvira for 19 years and not tell every single person she knows

[onetine]

[jeezilikesports]

YESSS

[writing-prompt-s]

You’re a regular office worker born with the ability to “see” how dangerous a person is with a number scale of 1-10 above their heads. A toddler would be a 1, while a skilled soldier with a firearm may score a 7. Today, you notice the reserved new guy at the office measures a 10.

[captain-acab]

You decide it’s best to find out what you can about this person. Cautiously, you approach his desk. He’s a handsome man, tall, but with a disarming smile. How could such a friendly guy with such cute, dorky glasses be dangerous?

You extend your hand. “I noticed you’re new here. What’s your name?”

He shakes your hand warmly. His gaze is piercing, as if he’s looking right through you. “The name’s Clark,” he says. “So, how long have you worked for the Daily Planet?”

[misscrazyfangirl321]

This one wins.

[janothar]

It’s been a few weeks, and one of Clark’s friends shows up.  She’s pretty and all, enough muscle that she must work out.  First thought would be that she should be maybe a 6.

Clark’s introducing her around.  “This is my good friend, Diana, she’s in from out of town.”

You blink, and take a step back in fear.  You’ve never seen an 11 before.

[aniseandspearmint]

The day Bruce Wayne shows up for his long promised interview with Lois Lane, you can’t help it, the mug your holding drops from your fingers and sends a shock of hot coffee and ceramic shards across the floor.

Clark stops a few feet away and squints at you worriedly from behind those ridiculous glasses you’re 99% sure he doesn’t actually need, and asks tentatively, “Everything all right?”

You ignore him in favor of staring at the inky dark numerals hovering over the beaming fool gesticulating some fantastic yacht story for a gaggle of secretaries and minor columnists.

That’s it. Your gift has officially gone haywire. There is no other explanation. Because there is absolutely no way that Brucie Wayne is a 10.

[petitstar]

At this point, you’ve seen it all. Miled manner reporters and billionaires at a 10 and a model-like woman at 11. You were really starting to doubt your power. The day you really stopped believeing in it was when Bruce Wayne came for another visit, and this time with a kid. The kid couldn’t be more than 10 years old, a bit on the short side.

He was an 8.

[lainathewitch]

The day you started believing in it again was when you saw on tv the formation of something called the justice league.

There were those same numbers over superman, batman, wonder woman and robin. That’s when you put two and two together. You wonder how nobody at the daily planet noticed that Clarke was Superman with glasses. You wonder why you didn’t notice. You wonder why nobody put two and two together that Diana Prince and Wonder Woman looked exactly the same. You look in the mirror as the realization hit you and you see your own number change from a 3 to a 9.

[ribbonsflyingoutthewindow]

I don’t think I’ve ever actually reblogged this magnificent post and that’s shame.

[dc-comics-heritage-posts]

dc comics heritage post

[lana-is-reading]

since this is being posted i believe a month after the last part im gonna say that yes they've been at this for 4 weeks and grace categorically refused to engage with a weird dream riddle and delegated that in favor studying of his new front yard decoration until frustration finally broke him

we love an avoidant behaviour king

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 3.5, part 4, part 5

+ bonus what i imagine the eridians looked like witnessing the Plot™

random yapping by yours truly below the cut

i have FINALLY finished this thing!! holy crap thank you to everyone who has been following and for the incredible, enthusiastic comments that have been feeding my ego!

this wasn't honestly supposed to go beyond the first part but the muse asks for no opinion when she takes a mallet to your head i guess,,

since ive personally always been a fan of people showing sketches with their work heres some stuff from my process:

these are as i affectionately call them my insane person notes, frantically scribbled down and barely legible to even me

and here's a random warm up page that i did:

once again thank you everyone for your support and interest, it's been amazing

[tragicwaif]

now let’s see him getting triggered during sex

[filmphotofranz]

I get the importance of the transfem community warnings but sometimes I see shit like girls talking other girls out of trying to get their teaching certificates because of the potential for harassment from conservative parents and idk that's very real but also at a certain point we are just doing preemptive hiring discrimination to ourselves

[filmphotofranz]

Like on the one hand it is very real that societal transphobia would like to see us all unemployed, forced to do survival sex work. But also that's not the only reality available to us at this point! And sometimes I worry that we are self policing in a way by flooding so many trans girls with this message of "your only options are to get super good at onlyfans or be Raytheon's strongest coder" when like, so many of the women I know are teachers, home care workers, nannies, day care workers, postal workers. Not glamorous, but like, idk the world of lower middle class pink collar jobs is available to us more or less at this point. Other girls have office jobs, some girls have to work food service and retail. But we get to exist in some form besides either NEETs or internet famous porn girls. And obvi hiring discrimination is real, and obvi disability issues come into play for a lot of us that makes a lot of the work I just mentioned inaccessible. I'm not saying things are sweet out there. But there is a world out there where you can live. Maybe not in the exact way you want, maybe not super easily, but you can live.

[oberorka]

you people

*realises some of my followers may be therians*

you living beings

*realises some may also be non-living otherkin*

you physical bodies

*realises some of them may be incorporeal*

you entities

*forgets what I was going to say in the first place*

good enough *sends post*