I don’t want to end Amazon, because it provides an incredibly useful service to the disabled community, the elderly, and those who simply don’t have time to go shopping due to working three jobs and the like. There currently isn’t a major alternative on the market that is the same level of cheap and accessible.
What I do want to do is enforce some goddamn antitrust laws on major web-based companies like Amazon and Google and Facebook, and roll back their attempts at monopolizing entire industries, and make them pay their lowest-rung workers a fair wage and stop running their warehouses like a scene from a dystopian nightmare.
Corwin’s Follow Forever!
Whether we’re mutuals or not, these are some blogs that I really appreciated this year and loved them showing up on my dash. I’m thankful for all of you equally, and I’m so, SO sorry if I left anyone out by accident.
Whether we talk a lot, have never spoken at all, or communicate subtly through likes and reblogs and ask games, I tried to get in everyone that I could. There were actually a lot more of you than I thought! I’m very fortunate to have such a diverse friend group here on hockeyblr, or at least a diverse mutual group, and I know people from all sides. You’re all great, thanks for making 2020 an amazing year for me <3!
Hey all, a little Social Media PSA if you have the Facebook App on your phone.
With the last update, Facebook began tracking something called ‘off-Facebook Activity’ which keeps up with all apps and browsing you do off of Facebook and collects that information with the purpose of targeting ads… which means they’re selling it to ad agencies. This includes access to any banking apps on your phone and your spending habits.
Not only is this a major breech of privacy that Facebook didn’t have to tell us about when they updated the app, it’s, of course, automatically turned on.
To turn it off, go into your Facebook app, pull up the menu from the main screen [the button with the three horizontal lines] scroll down to security and privacy, find ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ and hit the button that lets you manage your history to see all the apps it’s been collecting from. From there, you can clear the information it’s already collected, and there will be a button regarding ‘Future activity’ where you can turn the ‘feature’ off, at which point Facebook with give you an ‘ARE YOU SURE YOU DON’T WANT US COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION TO SELL YOU THINGS???’ screen. Yes, yes you are sure. Because this is disgusting.
Facebook made this super hard to find, so I’ve written up instructions for how I got through it (on my app - I don’t know if there are other versions where it’s different):
From Facebook, go to the Menu by clicking on the three horizontal lines on the top right of the screen.
Scroll down to the bottom and select the Settings & Privacy drop-down menu.
Then select Settings (the first option under the drop-down).
This will take you to a screen showing multiple headers with lists of links under them
Scroll down to Your Facebook Information and select Off-Facebook Activity.
The next page has a short explanation of Off-Facebook Activity. Click Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity after the What You Can Do header.
This will take you to a screen with an option to Clear History (which I recommend). To actually turn off this feature, you will have to click the three dots at the top right of the screen and select the Manage Future Activity option that pops up.
This will take you to a page explaining in more detail what they’re doing. Select the Manage Future Activity at the bottom of the page.
THEN you can finally select the toggle to turn off Future Off-Facebook Activity.
If it’s glowing blue with the circle on the right side, it’s active, and if it’s gray with the circle on the left side, it’s off.
Hi!! Would you please do #1 with Mikko Rantanen please? From the snowy/winter prompts
Fun fact: I’ve apparently spent so long by myself in quarantine/using my "please take me seriously as a professional” voice at work that I’ve forgotten how normal people speak, so thank you to @bellemareyouserious for reminding me how to be a real person
#1: we just had a one-night stand but a massive storm hit so now we’re snowed in, hello awkward
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. The plan was to go with your best friend to the local bar, pick up a random guy, have some wild, casual sex, and then get back home. The first three steps had gone to plan, but Mother Nature had put a hold on step four by deciding it was a good time for a snowstorm. So now, three hours later, you found yourself awkwardly on the other end of the couch from your hookup, whose name you unfortunately had forgotten approximately five minutes after he told you at the bar.
“Want anything to drink? I have beer, gatorade, and coffee.” He walked into the kitchen, rummaging around in the cupboards, finally triumphantly holding up a box of teabags that looked like they’d been in the cabinet for more than a few years. “And some tea that my mom bought when she visited.”
“Beer's good, thank you.”
“So...what do you do?” he asked, gesturing for you to have a seat on the bar stool at his kitchen island as he dug through his fridge. You couldn't stop yourself from admiring his body a little bit, the lean muscles of his back as he pulled out some bottles.
“I’m a teacher. How about you?”
“I, uh, play sports.” He looked a little uncomfortable, running a hand through his tousled blonde hair. "Coors or Blue Moon?"
“Whatever you're having. And that's fun, University of Denver, I presume?” It wasn't uncommon for you to bump into college athletes in the local area, although the large collection of shoes at the entryway to the house suggested a budget above that of the standard student.
A slight grin appeared on his face, disappearing almost as quickly as it appeared. "Umm...professional hockey. For the Avalanche."
Well, that certainly explained the stamina earlier in the evening, although now you felt even more embarrassed about the fact that you could not remember his name. Your friends were probably never going to forgive you for this. "Must be exciting to live out a childhood dream like that, right?"
"Sometimes it doesn't even feel real, it's still crazy to speak to players I watched as a kid. Did you always want to be a teacher?"
Scoffing, you took another sip before speaking. "Hell no. First, I wanted to be an astronaut, and then I thought I'd go the engineering route. But I took one education class my freshman year as a credit area requirement and I was hooked. Never looked back once, even if my fifth graders test my patience sometimes." Your face softened at the thought of them, letting your mind wander away from your current situation to the kids and the list of things that you needed to finish for the rest of the week. "I probably should try to get home soon so that I can get some sleep."
Drawing back the curtains, he gestured for you to look outside. "It's really not safe for you to drive right now; there's at least a foot of snow and," he pulled open the weather app on his phone, "there's no end in sight."
You rubbed your temple, cursing the weather. "Believe it or not, I don't usually make a habit of sticking around with my one-night stands."
His face lit up and you knew you were in trouble. "The night is still young, you could always leave in the morning and it's still a one-night stand."
Dear god, how were you supposed to resist that crooked smile? "If you're sure, I don't want to ruin your plans. But I do need to call my friend so that she's not worried about me."
"You in my bed sounds like the opposite of ruined plans." Giving you a little smile and a wink, he sat back as you dialed your friend, who picked up on the second ringtone.
"Are you caught in the snowstorm? Do you need me to come get you?" she questioned, before you could even get a word in edgewise.
"Yes, but I'm okay. I'm staying here for the night."
"Ooh, the hot blonde? About time you finally got laid. What's his name?"
You glanced up, hoping she wasn't loud enough for him to be able to hear, but his body language as he scrolled mindlessly on his phone was unreadable. "I don't remember."
A piercing cackle filled your ear. "Of course you hook up with a guy and plan to spend the night there, and you can't even remember his name."
"In my defense, I have a lot of things on my mind."
"Too busy thinking about sex to make room in your memory for a name, huh?" You rolled your eyes at her teasing, letting out a deep breath. "But in all seriousness, please find out and text it to me, so that I know what I'm putting on a police report if you don't show up tomorrow."
"Yes, mom. I promise to not get murdered and I will see you at brunch tomorrow, okay? I love you, bye." You put down the phone before she could throw in another joke at your expense, sighing fondly.
When you looked up, your hookup was looking back at you, a teasing grin on his face. "So clearly earlier wasn't good enough to remember my name? Guess I have to work a little harder in round 2."
You winced at the realization that he heard the other side of the conversation. "Alternatively, I was so focused on bigger matters that it didn't seem particularly relevant anymore?" It came out as a half-question, half-statement, and your eyes dropped lower at the innuendo, causing him to let out a soft laugh. "Anyway, you probably aren't much better - what's my name?"
The flush rising on his cheeks gave you the answer. Sticking out your hand, you waited for him to shake it. "Hi, I'm [Y/N]."
"I'm Mikko. Usually, I'd offer to buy you a drink, but," he tapped his beer bottle against yours, "I'm too late for that. So how about I show you around the house instead, and we end up in my bed?"
PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)
FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)
Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)
Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( x x x )
The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( x x x )
Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( x x x )
A good way to know if a nonprofit you’re donating to is allocating their money in the right way is to check out their Charity Navigator rating: http://www.charitynavigator.org
If anyone deserves a raise it’s the employee from four seasons total landscaping who answered the phone and went “yup, we can set up a podium and everything” and just acted like nothing was out of the ordinary.
i never talk about these things but i can’t remain silent.
i know tumblr doesn’t give a SHIT when things happen in countries outside the “most popular ones” (such as the usa & england). it’s true, don’t lie to me. y’all don’t give A FUCK. not every issue and problem in said countries gets the appropriate exposure but in general shit shows up on the news WORLD FREAKING WIDE. you set up donations, you help out, your spread the word, you say “pray for x”……
southern europe is burning.
my country is burning.
people are dying - at home, on the road, trying to run away, in their cars.
yesterday my country had 300 active fires.
people are losing EVERYTHING they own.
i have a friend that is on a train right now passing through places that have been burnt to the ground and she says the smoke is so intense it’s getting inside the train and she can barely breathe.
and yet, even though several people (myself included) have been trying to bring awareness to what has been happening in southern europe… what we get from most of you, those not part of the countries suffering, is silence. we don’t ask for money, we don’t ask for shit other than a reblog to spread awareness… something you can delete in 24/48hrs if you wish.
i don’t know what to tell you. i’m angry. i’m frustrated. i’m disappointed. i feel like i’m screaming into the void. “a reblog does nothing” - you know that’s a damn lie, you know exposure always helps, you know people start paying attention when posts on social media become popular. my country in particular is a small one, we get ZERO exposure. y’all are only starting to figure out we even fucking exist bc of the shit we’ve been winning lately.
but hell, if the EU doesn’t give a shit, why should some user on tumblr dot com?
again, i don’t know what to tell you so i’ll let the images speak for themselves:
An image captured by a Nasa satellite shows a thick plume of smoke blowing southward from the Greek island of Chios over the island of Crete
Torneros de Jamuz, Spain
Duca, Croatia
A helicopter from Italy’s civil protection service drops water on a fire near the railway between Venice and Trieste
Residents take refuge on the beach as a wildfire burns on the mountain next to the village of Lithi, on the Greek island of Chios
Men gather cattle during a forest fire in Vieira de Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal.
Charred trees are seen on the hills above the Cloister of Thivaidas on Mount Athos, a World Heritage Site in Greece
This is fucking important. I am glad someone fucking spoke about this and said what they had to say. The damage is terrible, and all the evergreen, stone, even the ground is black. I was fucking terrified when Croatia was burning. The fire was near a village where I like and I thought it will burn down. I thought the church will burn down. I thought the cemetery where my grandpa is buried will burn. I still remember the smell of smoke, and when I went to check how bad is fire, my clothes and hair and skin all stunk of smoke. It didn’t go away for weeks.
This is NASA’s picture of Croatia and Montenegro burning. My fucking country was burning. Fucking reblog this. I don’t care that it isn’t UK or US, or that it doesn’t go with your blog, fucking. Reblog. It.
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