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It his day.
10 years of CALVIN
finally giving in and admitting to yourself that it's not ironic
LIFE magazine, 1915
virgin bible vs chad fashion magazine
Ah yes, consequences: formerly known as “I hurt you for your own good”
someone cancel goody parker, I heard she was out dancing with the devil!!!!
"Cancel culture" can either refer to harassing a teenager for making a tasteless joke that was intended for a few close friends or Louis C.K. being booked in fewer clubs because he sexually harassed people at work.
it can also mean “seriously endangering an independent author’s livelihood because they said something that implied they have a Political Viewpoint”, don’t forget that part. >_>
Yeah, I think that’s also an important distinction. There’s a difference between “we’re boycotting this person because they engaged in harmful behavior or did something illegal” and “we’re boycotting this person because we don’t like their opinions.”
What's wrong with boycotting someone because you don't like their opinions? Morality isnt just based on what's legal.
Livelihood =/= life and if your sales drop because you said something that pissed off your fans well that happens. That's always existed before and independent of "cancel culture".
Boycotts have always existed, but the pervasive policing of fiction via social media is fairly new. The internet has changed the dynamic.
If an author does something that pisses off their own fans and the fans abandon them, fair enough.
The dynamic I’m talking about here is more “some people decide to make it their mission in life to police the morality of every book that comes out and then try to pressure and shame other people into not reading things that they find objectionable.” And, again, this has always existed to some degree and in certain subcultures (religious fundamentalists are notorious for it) but it has become much more ubiquitous these days due to social media.
Another important distinction, I think, is in the past these boycotts were mostly targeted at books that were already famous and successful (because if they weren’t no one cared enough to boycott them), and nowadays the scope of what gets “cancelled” is much wider.
This creates a climate that is pretty bad for all authors but disproportionately impacts upcoming/less popular/struggling authors with less power. The famous and successful ones will be fine regardless. The ones who don’t already have a large platform are the ones who have to live in fear of being cancelled.
Why lush is so expensive
Please remember that Lush is a fair trade company. This means that all they pay ALL of their workers a livable amount, and don’t take advantage of workers and harvesters in third world countries like many brands do. They test none of their products on animals as well.
Please keep these things in mind! Just know there is a reason that they cannot sell their bath bombs for 99 cents each. Doing so would mean that hard workers are being under paid.
other reasons it’s expensive:
constant checks on their resources - They will drop any company that they are partnered with if they learn that they are gathering ingredients in an inhumane way, harming the environment, or puts their people at risk
charity work - if you’ve ever heard of Charity Pot, it’s called such because 100% of the cost (not proceeds) go to charity. It’s not what’s left over after they’ve paid the workers or bought the ingredients, it’s every single cent.
kitchens instead of factories - They dont have a big warehouse of stock. They don’t have processing plants. What they have are buildings with industrial kitchen equipment, where all products are made by hand.
fighting animal testing - a lot of companies say that they dont do animal testing, but they don’t do anything to prevent animal testing and may use ingredients sourced from animal testing. Lush leads protests, creates bills, and spreads information, as well as only work with those who don’t use animal testing, in order to fight the system
helping their sources- If they find out that something is wrong with one of their companies, they’ll do what they can to fix it. That means, if something is broken, they will fix it, even though it’s just someone that they’re partnered with.
delicate products - everything they sell has an expiration date, because it’s all made out of fresh ingredients and they use as little preservatives and unnatural things as they can. That and bathbombs break, all the time. They can’t sell it if it has any damage larger than a dime.
this is… actually really nice information to know? im too broke to be able to afford their products, so the only access to any info about them i have is either word of mouth or if i were to actually look up information about them.
i always assumed it was some status symbol thing like apple but im always happy to learn that things arent like that!
They’re very liberal with free samples too. I’ve never come out of one of their shops with just the thing I bought. I always get sent out with something that a staff member has recommended.
I also like that they can trace every single tub of product to the exact employee who made it.
The image of this historical moment is haunting me
here’s how bernie can still win
honk
Anyone have the gif’s of the Chilean goalkeeper Christiane Endler lifting two of her teammates with ease.
I need them for um reasons lol
Let’s take a look at it one more time
Just so we’re clear about what an absolute unit this woman is
Update: She can actually hold up three team mates.
Bugs Bunny could singlehandedly defeat Thanos by dressing up as a TSA agent and setting up a metal detector in the middle of the battlefield saying that all metal objects must be removed if you want to pass on through now stick around for my 2,000 word essay on just how effectively he would convince The Mad Titan to comply
“For shame, doc! Dontcha know we got other folks waiting?”
(Thanos looks behind him and sees dozens of Bugs Bunnies dressed as angry yelling travelers with huge bags of luggage. Thanos rubs his neck guiltily and begins sliding off the gauntlet)
I felt compelled
I don’t think I’ve seen such a finely crafted Looney Toons joke in over two decades. Bravo.
I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(
hnn I WANT IT SO BAD
on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!
IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
now we enter the testing phase
yup. looks good.
Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?
OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement
*roar sound effect*
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help
(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)
There’s more!
I love.
I saw that people are reblogging the thread again, so I thought I’d give you all an update on how Wexter is doing!
(just fine)
Wexter And The Case Of Her Continuing Marvelously Naughty Garden Adventures
Wexter says SHE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING (but she might chew your ankles a little bit maybe)
so it’s come to my attention that at some point this weekend Wexter blew past 100,000 notes, and I for one think that’s very cash money of her.
it’s been a few weeks, I suppose we should check up on the AHSGSHGAFB?!
ajdhf.
well that’s just,,,
REXCELLENT
so many gifs of ostriches doing their mating dance for humans but did u know
they actually did a study on this
and ostriches repeatedly found humans more attractive than other ostriches
yes
ostrich farmers have trouble setting up their ostriches with each other because they’re just not interested, they want their farmers instead
it’s incredible
also, ostriches show notable sexual preference
some male ostriches will only display for male humans, some will display for anybody, some will display for female humans only
I can’t believe ostriches are reverse furries
great we gotta kinkshame the fuckin birds now
the fact that phones dont have little charm loops in them anymore only goes to show that humanity as we know it is on the decline
