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Shark finning infographic by ripetungi.

MANDATORY REBLOG

This sounds like a lot, but it’s true. An estimated 100,000,000 sharks per year are killed, threatening many species with endangerment or extinction.

traveling-spartan

Scary predators are important to the ecosystem, too. Conservation’s not just about the panda bears.

ardate

Per hour. Not per week, not per day. PER. HOUR.

heallbeecat

THIS SHIT IS NOT OKAY!

i hate when i talk about boys to my friends and i’m like “i wish he would break my heart” and then he goes and does it??? the audacity of the universe...

toookish

you know what else i loved about black panther that i haven’t seen around yet?

the male characters were allowed to grieve: t’challa cries, erik cries, his father cries. i can’t remember the last time i saw a man cry in a movie

rootbeergoddess

For real, that is one of the reasons I loved Black Panther.

Like one of the reasons I have been so over the Avengers is because the characters are just macho all the time. Yeah…that isn’t how people work, including men. Men can grieve. We see Peter grieve in Guardians 2 when Yondu dies and we see T’challa grieve a lot. Even Erik gets a chance to grieve the death of his father.

LET YOUR MALE CHARACTERS FUCKING GRIEVE GODDAMNIT.

xswestallen

When I’m scrolling through a blog and see they reblogged one of my posts

earth-tooth

dont support industries that are driving animals to extinction thank you!

butterflyinthewell

If you are giving your autistic child chlorine dioxide, YOU ARE A FUCKING ABUSER and you fail as a parent.

Chlorine dioxide is basically bleach that gets peddled as a cure for autism.

Parents give this to autistic kids either by mouth or as an enema.

They assume the distress, pain, and mucus being vomited or pooped out is “ropeworms” aka they assume it is the autism “leaving the child’s body.” This is actually the mucous membranes from the child’s digestive tract being burned off.

These awful, horrible, very bad people are destroying their child’s body and causing them immense pain and distress because they want to cure autism. The child learns that if they act autistic, they get hurt, so they stop acting autistic and the parent calls that “cured”.

Any parent who does this should be in prison for child abuse.

If you know of a parent who is doing this to their child, report them to the authorities immediately and get those children out of that abusive home.

chronicallycozy-deactivated2018

So I read up on it and what’s actually happening is much more nefarious than even what the post says. Well-meaning but dangerously misguided parents are unintentionally poisoning their kids, and it’s making it impossible to tell who’s doing it on purpose and who’s not.

So a mixture of sodium chlorite and hydrochloric acid is being sold under the name Miracle Mineral Solution, presumably to sound like a wholesome, “natural” treatment for a wide range of conditions including autism and Alzheimer’s. I also came across an article advocating its use to treat cancers.

In the body these chemicals combine to make the same kind of bleach you use to clean the house with. It’s dangerous and can’t feel good, but it usually isn’t lethal. The way these sick fuckers have tricked people into killing their kids is so sneaky it’s hard to tell what the parent’s intents are.

The way that the bleach becomes chlorine dioxide, a much more powerful, lethal bleach, is that people recommend drinking fruit juice with or directly after it. To most people this would seem harmless. “Fruit is all-natural and always healthy” they might think, but it acidifies the bleach, turning it into chlorine dioxide, which kills.

I have a feeling one reason they did this is that if chlorine dioxide gets banned or people realize what chlorine dioxide is, their product doesn’t technically contain chlorine dioxide, and unless people understand the chemical process, which they probably don’t, they still won’t realize the kind of damage they’re doing.

So don’t just report them if you know they’re using chlorine dioxide, report them if you hear them talk about Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) or if you see a bottle that looks like this.

Also, if you know anyone who’s using this to treat a condition, warn them. The 1 person I know of who’s died from this was actually an old man who was self-administering it.