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PETA

you guys remember when PETA stole people pets off their porches and euthanized them?

you guys remember how it came out that PETA kills about 90% of the animals it takes in, including healthy and adoptable puppies and kittens, stating “ We could become a no-kill shelter immediately. It means we wouldn’t do as much work”?

you guys remember when PETA advocated killing all pit bulls for the crime of being pit bulls?

you guys remember when PETA handed out these comics to children when there were no adults looking?

you guys remember when they made a porn site and then filled it with videos of animal abuse, and (also in that link) claimed cats should be vegetarian?

you guys remember when PETA lied about sheep shearing, got caught, and defended the lie as true even after they admitted the sheep in their picture wasn’t even real?

you guys remember when they tried to excuse their horrifying ways by claiming that the person who exposed them was manipulating the facts by taking them and putting them in the wrong context?

Because I remember. I remember everything. 

And I’m gonna make sure everyone else remembers too. 

[ourladyofpainourladyofdreams-de]

Why would they kill pit bulls they’re sweeties

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Because PETA does not care about animals. they do not care that these dogs live and breathe and feel and want love like every other dog. they do not care about the history of human/dog bonding and co-evolution, they do not care that dogs and human beings have relied on each other for millennia, they do not care that its cruel and morally repugnant to put down an animal just because you can, they do not care about animals. 

PETA cares about money and publicity, its a corporation run by a psychopath who is afraid of pitts as it states in the link: she was apparently bit by one, and now she hates them. 

PETA doesn’t give a rats ass about animals. They just want to kill and make money off of idiots who fall of their spiel.

[ourladyofpainourladyofdreams-de]

Some celebs support them

[i-n-m-h]

ah c’mon, dear-tumb1r, I think you’re being a bit harsh. I mean, okay, PETA’s done some questionable things, but it’s not like they’ve also

-spread false information about milk causing autism based on outdated bullshit information

-used holocaust imagery to compare the meat industry to concentration camps (no pictures)

-used a young man’s brutal death as a way to say “yeah that’s awful but it happens to animals every day and nobody cares about that” (tw: no pictures but the way the guy died is described and it is really horrible)

-dressed up in KKK robes and protested outside of the Westminister Dog Show to protest breeding/pure bred dogs (tw: racism)

-offered to pay the water bill for literally the poorest neighborhood in Detroit if and only if they all went vegan for a month (tw: self-righteous shitheads)

-and they definitely didn’t have two of their workers accept perfectly healthy animals from an animal hospital, with the implication that they would give them good homes, clarify that these animals were all healthy and well-tempered, and then euthanized them all in the back of a kill-van before dumping their dead bodies behind a grocery store (tw: PICTURES OF DEAD ANIMALS, animal death)

-and they totally didn’t get off pretty much scot-free for it because PETA has loads of money and lawyers to defend themselves, which coincidentally might be why the Cerate family hasn’t seen justice for their kidnapped and murdered dog, Maya. (tw: animal death)

Nah. PETA’s not that bad.

(/the heaviest of all my fucking sarcasm, I am salty as a fucking winter road, lord do I fucking hate PETA)

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Did you think i was fucking joking, PETA?

I will make sure everyone fucking remembers what you’ve done. 

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Bringing it back, because it’s charity season and people need to know NOT to give charity to these fuckers. 

[pr1nceshawn]

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

[mediamattersforamerica]

What are the odds that Fox News completely ignores this?

[unicornempire]

This needs to be aired everywhere, day and night. I hope people turn it into advertisements. Damn, I hope it changes a few minds, because this is the reality that so many people are facing every day- and to go back to a system that lets people die for not having enough money is simply inhuman. Our system even still needs massive improvements, it it is BETTER than it was, let’s keep it that way.

[criscowashere]

Why do people not understand this.

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[yogartofficial]

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okay jesus fuck this conversation has gone far enough so:

hey, so you like bernie sanders! i like bernie sanders too! i agree with his politics! he is doing better than people expected in the democratic primaries, which is cool!

what are you going to do if he loses?

because given the tone of the conversations i hear on this website right now– given the sheer hatred of hillary that’s emerging, given the overwhelming feeling that bernie sanders is amazing and the messiah and the only candidate that’s worth voting for in america– here’s what i see happening in mid-2016:

bernie sanders, who despite his better-than-expected performance still has an unbelievably low chance of winning the primaries, loses the primaries to hillary clinton

the leftist wing of the democratic party (that’s us– tumblr, yeah, but also the whole occupy-black lives matter-third wave feminist-young educated millennials crowd), having spent the past 10 months campaigning against hillary clinton, is overwhelmingly disappointed

while a few people are willing to bite the bullet and campaign for hillary, energy is low, disillusionment is high, and many leftist americans don’t campaign, don’t donate, and don’t vote (or vote for third-party candidates, like the green party or the peace and freedom party)

the republican party wins the presidential election.

(i literally shivered as i typed that last bullet point, btw– i know there are people voting in 2016 who were ten years old when obama was elected, and y’all may not remember much of the bush years. i was only 13 when bush left, but jesus christ– remember when hurricane katrina was overwhelmingly badly handled? remember when the patriot act passed? remember when the housing bubble collapsed? remember when the president said god told him to invade iraq? y’all wanna do that again?)

so what are you going to do if bernie sanders loses?

i need you to think about that now. i need you to not be surprised when it happens. i need you to not put all your hopes in one basket.

you think the gop won’t be pouring all their resources into this election? you think the superpacs and the koch brothers and the oil lobbyists won’t be throwing their money at ballot boxes until they spit out the result they want? you think the rich and powerful and conservative won’t be bringing their best game? 

they will, and if we don’t work twice as hard as they do– no matter who the democratic nominee is– we are fucked.

i need you to be okay with the idea of hillary clinton being president of the united states, and i need you to make peace with that before she wins the primaries, so that you’re prepared and ready to campaign for her with all your might if she’s the democratic nominee.

because i honest-to-god believe this country will not survive another four, eight, twelve years of a republican administration.

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Bridging a Digital Divide That Leaves Schoolchildren Behind

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote soon on a plan that could add subsidies for broadband Internet services in low-income homes.

With many educators pushing for students to use resources on the Internet with class work, the federal government is now grappling with a stark disparity in access to technology, between students who have high-speed Internet at home and an estimated five million families who are without it and who are struggling to keep up.

The divide is driving action at the federal level. Members of the Federal Communications Commission are expected to vote next month on repurposing a roughly $2 billion-a-year phone subsidy program, known as Lifeline, to include subsidies for broadband services in low-income homes.

Some details in this article pertaining to what was posted yesterday about a “work from home” school day:

Students that have no internet at home stood outside the school at night to get their work done on the wifi network, using their phones.

Some schools park buses in residential neighborhoods so students can connect to the in-bus wifi to complete homework.

Libraries and fast-food restaurants are used for free hot spots.

In cities like Detroit, Miami and New Orleans, where as many as one-third of homes do not have broadband…

“This is what I call the homework gap, and it is the cruelest part of the digital divide,” said Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democratic member of the commission who has pushed to overhaul the Lifeline program.

[jemcarstairz]

Me: *mentions Malec*

Random mundane: What is Malec?

Me:

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Real life.

[dboybaker]

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'Cause I'm fuckn fabulous!!

[evanfleischer]

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Lmao!

[sciencetylia]

One of my favourite twitter trending topics I’ve seen in a while: #GirlsWithToys.

This came as a response to an Astronomer’s remarks that Scientists are ‘boys with toys’.

Glad to see such a strong response from the women of STEM. :)

[hpldreads]

Books dealing with…

Depression:

Cut by Patricia McCormick 

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Path

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Bipolar:

72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell

Find You in the Dark by A. Meredith Walters

A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma

The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder

Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves

Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh

Anxiety:

Don’t Touch by Rachel M. Wilson

The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart

The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti

I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz

Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets Evan Roskos

It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

OCD:

Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern

Total Constant Order by Crissa-Jean Chappell

OCD Love Story by Corey Ann Haydu

OCD, the Dude, and Me by Lauren Roedy Vaughn

Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready

Mr. Monk Goes To The Firehouse by Lee Goldberg

Schizophrenia:

Life is But a Dream by Brian James

Lowboy by John Way

Crazy by Han Nolan

Freaks Like Us by Susan Vaught

Cameron and the Girls by Edward Averett

Schizo by Nic Sheff

Eating Disorders:

Butter by Erin Jade Lange

Perfect by Natasha Friend

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Purge by Sarah Darer Littman

Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos

Unwell by Leslie Lipton

Addiction:

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Clean by Amy Read

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson

Exit Here by Jason Myers

Stoner & Spaz by Ronald Koertge

[yalibrarianintraining]

#mentalillness #RA

[wantyousafe]

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“Then we could be dancing No more missing you while I’m gone”

[criscowashere]

The fangirl's guide to the galaxy A handbook for GIRL GEEKS By Sam Maggs I have only read the chapter titles and already am in love with this book...the author is truly One of Us!

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[melthedestroyer]

there’s a big difference between “i’m sad because a character i was emotionally invested in was killed off” and “this character’s death served no purpose, was used for shock value, and is the product of bad writing and i’m upset about that”

[candicespatton]

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mic drop.