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sagihairius

no phone i did not “miss a call” i watched it ring the whole time

weavemama

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY

jackharknessday

I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.

I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

Do not give to the Salvation Army.

gayfeatherfiend

Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army

rab-it-deactivated20231030

My turn.

I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.

I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.

I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.

They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.

Then I found out.

Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.

Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.

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The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.

iraffiruse

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This post is so important.

softnocturne

@cynfinnegan and @noelleian XD

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Omg. 😂

daydreaming-of-puppiess

Life imitates art.

sirowl1

@klubbhead

klubbhead

😁

catchymemes

smute

“you are a lawyer and he is a hamster” is one of the funniest statements ive ever had the pleasure of reading

becausebirds

🦢 Wearing is caring. 🦢

captainnickii

6 feet sweetie

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powerfulwizard

concept: bootleg copies of memes

W h o a

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You know what? Fuck you *eats a nature valley on your bed*

sonnearchive-deactivated2022120

hydramaticide

Work it grandma

hydramaticide

OK I SAID WORK IT AND SHE REALLY DID

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dankmemeuniversity

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A N G R Y

C A T F I S H

catchymemes

twomillionbees

I’m fairly certain the person who made the tweet was joking and this is actually spiegeleierkuchen (fried egg cake)! The “egg white” is a thick frosting made from yogurt/milk and cornstarch, while the “yolks” are tangerine halves. Here’s a recipe: https://www.sprinklebakes.com/2015/04/german-fried-egg-cake-spiegeleierkuchen.html?m=1

dollsahoy

Fun to look at the notes and figure who has and who has not seen the explanation

witchaj

I was still worried because those are definitely not tangerines, but then I looked at the recipe in the link and it turns out they are actually apricot halves. I feel much better now.

literaphobe

“oh my god, it’s finally over!” i say, about a zoom class that i wasn’t paying attention to at all

literaphobe

I have been a victim of gaslighting. Not once, but twice. In my entire first relationship, which lasted 4 and a half years, I was gaslighted. He lied to me, broke promises, denied the things he said and did, and he made me feel like a piece of garbage. I let it go on for 4 year because I believed I was “too sensitive”, “a bitch”, etc. It escalated quickly, too. I moved in with him and started seeing my friends less. I felt isolated for a while. He hurled constant insults at me, occasionally covering it up with gifts and kind words so I would “feel better”. He belittled me, constantly told me my friends were “horrible”, and made me feel bad everytime I talked about my feelings.

My second time being gaslighted was by someone who I thought was my best friend. We had known each other for years. I trusted this girl with my whole life. But I was so blind to how she really was. She manipulated me to turn on people and she denied things she did. She would make new friends, blow me off, and then deem those new friends “toxic” and come crawling back to me. Recently, she accused me of being “toxic”. She told me it was for things I had never done. She told me she was grown and was tired of our relationship. In an attempt to talk to her about it, she told me she didn’t owe me anything and shut me out of her life for good. I was blindsided by this. She had denied anything she had ever done to me. She told me not to pin it all on her and that it was my fault.

In the end, I’m better without those people. I’m the one who has managed to grow from it. It feels like a weight is off my shoulders now, not having to deal with that type of abuse. I feel free.

**If you think you’re being gaslighted, don’t take it lightly. It’s abuse. Message me anonymously, or not, if you want to talk about it**

#gaslighting #toxic friendships #toxic #bad friends #bad relationships #growth #personal

Listen I haven’t posted in a long ass time but I realize this is a good place to rant. If you wanna read it, go ahead. If not, that’s okay too.

Recently my “best friend” (we will call her Emma, for privacy) called me toxic. What? I was blindsided. We had drifted apart this last year or so, but I thought nothing of it. People drift, but manage to come back together in the future like it never happened. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the case here.

I had reached out to her because a mutual friend of ours told me Emma had deleted her on social media. I was taken aback. This mutual friend hadn’t done anything wrong. You might not think it’s a huge deal but it felt like it to me. Even after Emma had ignored me multiple times before and blew me off once, just in the last month.

Anyways, Emma deleted me too. So I reached out to her. I also brought up that she hadn’t really given me the time of day lately. She told me it was because I was toxic. Now, anyone who knows me knows that is in no way the truth. But here is also how I know it’s not.

Emma blew me off for other “friends” constantly in the past. Always. She’d get a new friend, blow me off, and come crawling back when they got “toxic”. I was always there for her, the only friend that was constant in her life. I was there for her no matter what. Even when our high school friend group had a blow out, I took her side. I really wish I hadn’t now. Emma cut me out of her life like I was nothing.

Now, take what you will from this. It’s one side of this story, but many people have backed me up. I’ve learned that some people are probably dealing with their own shit. Their own problems. And sometimes, they take it out on you. Did I take this personally? Hell yeah I did. I was hurt. Cried hours on end, wondering how in the heck someone thought I was so terrible, so vile to them.

You know what else I did learn? Who my real friends were. Who was really there for me and who actually cares about me. I learned that people come and go for reasons, sometimes unknown. It’s truly a blessing in disguise and I actually feel better for it.

Thank you for reading my rant if you did 💕✨ Somethings just need to get off my chest.

#ex best friend #best friend breakup #toxic friendships #growth #I’m happier now #happiness