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On this moon day Monday let’s give particular notice to the BLACK WOMEN responsible for getting us there in the first place shoutout Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson we quite literally could not have done it without them and the countless other Black women to which this entire goddamn nation is deeply indebted to

knightofbluh

MOON DAY 20TH JULY WAKE UP EVERYONE WE CELEBRATE THE FACT THAT WE LANDED ON ANOTHER PLANET MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO!!!

i might get an ebike when i move out so that i can commute to work . depending on how close i am

#theres one walmart sells for less than $550 that allegedly has 40 miles per charge #thinking . pondering #SEE THIS IS WHY I WANNA SAVE BIG MONEY FOR IT FIRST #cupid.txt

lemonsweet

Do you remember the episode of Spongebob where he's training gary for the snail race and does a coach persona + calls gary a girl and has an aside where he's like "I called you a lady to demean you 🤓" and right after he says that it cuts to sandy and she somehow telepathically feels that Spongebob just did something misogynistic and us like I feel like I need to kick Spongebobs ass for some reason. And then she appears just at the end of the episode to kick his ass.

hitmyvape

Actually embarrassing I have to send this text to the work gc

woman-becomer

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

#magicians tophat

if i put aside 350 bucks from each paycheck id be able to get an apartment in like 5 months . dude the plans are all coming together in my head

#cupid.txt #im doing some math . its all comin together

looking at apartments Even tho i cant get one rn just bc im thinkin about it . trying to findnthe sweet spot between shoebox and shipping container

#cupid.txt #there was one i saw that was super cheap but thats bc it was just space for a king bed and a half bath #i need smth w at LEAST a built in microwave

thinking . i wanna try saving up 3-3.5k so i can move into my own apartment i think. so thats the first month of rent (like 1.2k max depending on where i wanna stay, sometimes under 1k for a studio) and money for a first month of necessities like groceries, internet and phone, thrifting some furniture if the apartment doesnt come w any, etc . and ideally by then i will also have a new full-time job that pays more so i can keep up w all of those things as well

#cupid.txt #floating in the water on my back looking upnat the beautiful blue sky

thepaisleyelf

There’s a liquor store near my house that seems to be run exclusively by frat boys. They lovingly curate these bags, which I browsed today while “Oops I Did It Again” played through the store speakers. This is art to me, there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see it

thepaisleyelf

The update everyone has been waiting for….

virtualgirladvance

everytime i see this it makes me want to buy from them exclusively

mollys weirdo anon in my askbox GET A JOB

#cupid.txt

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.

dateamonster

can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot

catgirlcowboy

kay im recovered, got my ebt sorted kinda-ish sorta? I have to reschedule a ton of things I missed, I'm still dealing with the repercussions of being ill for a week and a half via being behind on bills both coming up and passed, im overwithdrawn due to fees and i have a phone bill at the end of thr month I need to pay to keep in contact with my social worker and long distance family.

I need help affording laundry, phone bill, overdraft charges, and like ??? tbh i really need a new pair of glasses lol, my eyesight is going to shit really fast and I broke my emergency pair.

Anyting helps but im setting the goal to 400 just to make sure any and everythibg is covered even if something rediculously evil happens. my luck lol.

Comms are open again on kofi, I also have designs for sale if you dm me and you can find all the info for custom designs on kofi as well.

ppl: [email protected]

$app: $shinybynature

kofi: holoshift

catgirlcowboy

no progress, just got back into art again and am playing catch up, PLEASE consider commissioning me!

mynnthia

seeing news about the fallout remaster announcement feels like cruel irony to me

microsoft games are a bds boycott target, and because both bethesda + obsidian are owned by microsoft, this includes the games published by them.

microsoft is gonna further profit from a new virtual playground of ~post-apocalyptic bombed out towns in the desert~ while contributing to creating bombed out apocalyptic conditions in gazan towns, by collaborating with israel on so many fronts that bds calls microsoft the most complicit company in palestinian genocide.

and nostalgia-baited fans will still buy it bc playing pretend in a virtual world thats a knockoff of what real life people are currently facing – a virtual world funded by that very suffering of those real life people – is more important to them than simply playing a different game

mynnthia

anyway, to make this rant productive – if you have the means to send donations to palestine, heres some community initiatives:

Mona’s community aid initiative – verified by el-shab-hussein

The Sameer Project – has a british partner org, so UK folks can donate with gift aid here with no transfer fees

Revive Gaza Farmlands – has a canadian partner org, so canadians can donate via direct bank transfers with no transfer fee

Crips for eSims for Gaza – canda-based, so canadian e-transfers saves on transaction fees

crabussy

if I had even slightly less self control I would reblog the "tumblr is a nightmare for people with ocd" post 500 times a day but I think we all know this already. hoooooooooooooooooly shit

crabussy

sometimes a post has a really good point but the way it is worded is so bafflingly Terrifying that you just have to sit back and go "hahaha. okay" and if you're unlucky and your brain is a bit tricky, spend the next hour or day or week or month or longer ruminating on it. sucks! I would love to see less of these posts [:

crabussy

and sometimes you will desperately plead with the people who see your posts to not mention a topic that sends you spiralling and someone will take that as an invitation to tell you that you are Bad for telling them not to talk about the topic on your post. it's beyond comedy. hi everyone I love you and I'm sorry if you have a tough time online because of the posts you see or the interactions you have. ocd or not. it can be tough! these are words on a screen and they can be scary but your life is big and beautiful and you aren't what strangers say about you. peace and love

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