March4fun @march4fun - Tumblr Blog

Do you think tumblr will ever learn the difference between “I’m defending this person because I agree with them wholeheartedly and I am also like this person” and “I’m defending this person because your behavior is dangerous and you need to stop”

legsdemandias

IMO, blurring the lines between “I’m defending them because they’re right” and “I’m defending them because you’re taking this too far” is step numero uno to cutting down the very existence of fair trial and democracy–even in places where saying that might seem a little dramatic.

Mob mentality is extremely strong in humans and it’s also extremely dangerous. Mobs don’t think things through. Mobs kill and they destroy and they can’t be reasoned with. Someone trying to calm a mob down isn’t someone defending the ~problematic party~ It’s time we re-learn that.

clickbeetle

shoutout to whoever stole my amazon package containing nothing but a single pair of shoelaces.

clickbeetle

mistercrowbar

Astarion didn’t take too well to the “vampire spawn always land on all fours” comment. (:

Another stupid gameplay moment I had in the secret passage underneath Rosymorn Monastery. I thought Wyll was safe because the trap didn’t trigger where he was standing, then I had Astarion disarm the trap, and when the d20 screen faded Wyll was just… GONE. 😭 I felt so bad but it was kinda funny alongside the other comic.

enki2

spicyraeman

I <3 buff women

chokedqwerty

that au wehere ilyukhina and yao dont die and everyone is a bit more happymaybe? a bit sillier?

chokedqwerty

everyone saying they would starve if the crew didnt die BE QUIET taumeoba soup 4 everyone 5ever

luisonte

Inventacos

something-truly-evil

me and my friends at the thingamabob and doohickey convention

peachnix

okay fucking fine guys lets make the most fucked up sandwich ever since that's all you want to do.

I'll start: bread

Peanut butter

Jelly (grape)

Bread

guys...

I love environmental storytelling

Ita fucking hieroglyphs with you people

matrixdragon

destiel-news-channel

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

solarishashernoseinabook

Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".

I hope your nostalgia is worth it

textonly

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.

barkyshark

Woolf: the Imposter Pokémon (Normal / Ghost). This Pokémon is the result of a Wooloo that has been ostracized from its herd. In attempting to evolve into Dubwool, it finds its transformation interrupted by its feelings of loneliness, becoming instead something its herd fears. Depending on the emerging Woolf, it still may do its best to fit in with its herd, playing the part of a Dubwool. In other cases it may embrace its new nature and become a guardian that patrols the edge of the flock. Others, however, delight in their newfound capacity to terrorize their herd in revenge for their prior treatment.

An alternate evolution for Wooloo! I love making custom Pokémon to match my dnd players' characters, and since Blythe matches Wooloo so well, I went ahead and made something befitting her lycan form, Turmoil.

barkyshark

The Boffin • It's bad news when an archfey gets bored and becomes a very evil scientist

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

March4fun