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Aizawa: we have very simple rules. Don’t break Mina’s stuff, be nice to Kirishima and don’t fuck with Midoriya
Todoroki, who genuinely misheard: we weren’t allowed to fuck Midoriya?
Aizawa:
Aizawa: that’s not what I said and I never wanted to know less about a situation in my life
to all the non-delhi residents/people who can't join the protest for xyz reason, who are feeling helpless and guilty and don't know what to do: spread the word.
no, seriously, spread the word. there is so much misinformation out there, partly due to the useless indian media channels who are calling protestors fighting for a chance to be heard "terrorists". they're saying that the protestors are committing brutality (like throwing stones) against the police when it is the opposite.
its a police using teargas and batons against teenagers, women and literal children. they're ripping the clothes of the women. people are badly injured. all because our corrupt coward "education" minister cannot take accountability for paper leak which caused over 20 deaths by suicide.
some are trying to derail the protests, calling the protestors "anti-national" and but you have to do your part in ensuring that this revolution isn't over until dharmendra pradhan resigns and the youth of india are heard and acknowledged. it will save the future of the students who are currently preparing/will prepare for similar exams.
spread the videos of the police brutality (save them if you can), write emails to the pmo, and share as much info as you can about the protest; how and why it is happening. speak up; online and also in real life, translate posts/videos, make your own. correct and educate people who are still against this movement. don't let this die out until our government finally listens to its citizens.
don't stop making noise.
please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.
you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.
first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.
now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:
in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.
and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.
and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.
it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:
• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.
• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.
• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.
• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.
• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.
• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.
and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.
what i'm asking:
if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.
if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.
india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.
we can still save her. but only loudly.
reblog. share. don't scroll past.
They call themselves the "cockroaches" and they're on the march — demanding action against corruption, amid a shortage of opportunities for
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zero likes and i’ll post the stray kitties i give treats to on my walk home from work
ignore the quality but aren’t they so cutieful
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
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PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
LOVE THIS!!!
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Happy Moon Day, everyone!
IT'S MOON DAY MONDAY LADS
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We could have been eating him
reading crime and punishment feels like this sometimes
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
they used to do nothing to me back in the morally neutral lab. it sucked
you were the control
fuuuuck what were they doing to the other folks #fomo
What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)
this post has more people in my inbox defending working for lockheed martin than you'd expect
i found a book that i used to read a lot of as a kid, The Essential Batman Encyclopedia by Robert Greenberger. i got it at a library book sale as a kid and read this thing until it is in some places tearing to shreds because of how much i read it (yes i was a kid deriving joy from reading an encyclopedia, leave me aloneeeeeee). but anyway, this encyclopedia was published in early 2008 (and new entries into it stopped in september 2007), which is obviously a weird time as a stephanie brown fan because she had not been retconned back to life yet. i didnt know anything about steph at the time that i got the book, but being a steph fan now i wanted to check and see what this book, and by extension dc editorial, were saying about her before they brought her back. i have tried to find as many notes about steph as i can, but it is entirely possible i have missed some things along the way (there is no appendix to cross reference.)
lets be clear about the scope of this: this is an encyclopedia largely written by one person, but as the acknowledgements attribute a person who was pulling knowledge from DC's staff and archives as well as asking questions and getting infor from a number of comics writers. all this is to say, is this book the be all end all of what is canon? no. it is, however, a database published and supported by dc comics, so im choosing to see it at least in part as the official views of the company at the time of publishing, with the caveat that of course different writers and editors will have different views on these things. i am showing you these details from these pages because i think they are interesting to note within the frame in which they are published and i am intrigued by their implications. do with that what you will, this ends my disclaimer.
lets start with a big one: This book officially considers Steph to be a Robin. this may be an odd thing to have to include, but consider that frequently after steph's death, multiple writers and editor dan didio refused to consider steph a real robin. i think its noteworthy that this book does. the gigantic entry for Batman includes a sub-header called "The Relationship with Robin(s)", it is separated by the names of robins bold and italicized, and right after tim drake is the entry for stephanie brown. heck, her entry is nearly as long as his. however, her entry is not exactly flattering. it is as follows:
"Batman never thought Stephanie Brown had what it took to be a member of his team. He tried to train her and even asked the Birds of Prey for help. Stephanie proved to have desire and spirit, but she lacked the keen mind and athletic skills needed to be the exceptional crime fighter Batman's mission demanded. When she lobbied to become the fourth Robin, Batman accepted her and drilled her harder than he had her predecessors. Unlike the others, he never revealed his identity to her or entrusted her with many secrets. Largely, that was a result of his belief she would not live up to the role and the blind obedience it demanded. She proved him right and was fired. They remained estranged until she lay dying, a victim of Black Mask's torture. Batman was filled with grief and guilt for not working harder to make her dream a reality."
Steph shows up in a few entries throughout this book, but they all tend to follow this general pattern that holds with how the company usually views her situation: They state that she has "More Heart Than Skill" (most entries term it this way), Batman didn't trust her with his secrets and believed she would disobey him and not be good enough, she proves him right, starts the gang war, and she dies. the misogyny is as present here as it is with usual company attitudes towards steph, but i want to highlight two things about this particular entry.
First, I'm really interested in the notion that Steph received the most difficult training of any robin. im well aware of the difficulties she faced in terms of Bruce constantly comparing her to Tim, but like. as far as we are aware, steph's training with bruce was never the problem during her time as robin, it was his need for her to obey. steph was given 3 months of the hardest training any robin had ever received, and for all we know she was doing well. the idea that bruce fired her not out of a lack of competency (yes i know the rest of the entry is implying her incompetence but im ignoring that due to the writer and dc's misogyny) but just out of a need to control the situation, control her, is reaaaally juicy to me.
The second point here is the ending, Bruce's apparent grief over "not working harder to make her dream a reality". i am so intrigued by this because like, the entire aftermath of war games is trying to not show this. so much of the aftermath of war games and war crimes is dc comics tripping over themselves to have every character steph has ever met blame steph for her death. i am very interested in the idea that amidst all that, after bruce manipulated steph so much in trying to bring tim back as robin, like. the idea that after all that, bruce wishes he had done more to make her a robin for real. i want to imagine him sleepless one night after firing her, so so lonely, wanting to send her a com message asking her to come back. like, realizing that by firing he had sent her to her death. god, war games would be in some ways marginally better if we had actually gotten to see something like this from bruce. i wish the writers hadnt killed steoh to begin with but like. in a world where they did kill her, i wish they had thought of this.
moving on, we get to cass's entry! cass' space doesnt say too much about steph, but it does have the following:
"A friendship blossomed with Spoiler, although Cassandra had a habit of giving her friend a concussion rather than let her participate in battles she was clearly unprepared for."
NO NO NO CASS NOT THE CONCUSSION NERVE STRIKES!!! as if the jaw fractures weren't enough... cass is gonna give steph cte.... post concussion syndrome stephanie brown... oh wait, whats that im hearing from steph's entry?
"Batgirl liked Stephanie a lot but protected her by frequently giving her a mild concussion to prevent her from endangering herself in critical situations"
oh its ok, its only a MILD concussion. crisis averted.
one weird thing about cass and tim's entries is that neither mention steph's death being part of the reason for their move to Bludhaven? like i know it wasnt the only factor, but for cass the only justification they gave was that they were "In the wake of a devastating crime wave in Gotham...". just kind of odd to not mention it
this book weirdly glosses over arthur's abuse and crystal's addictions? i guess its because crystal doesn't even have an entry, and both of these factors are only really developed towards stephanie, who this book would likely consider a fairly minor character. however, the book does later mention the fact that one of steph's babysitters tried to rape her and he later died of an overdose, so like. it clearly cares enough to mention some stuff but not others. this book also affirms that dc sees the brown's financial situation as being one of struggle. arthur's entry says he turned to crime to pay the rent, and steph's entry mentions that her family "enjoyed a middle-class life until Arthur's television series was canceled. They spiraled towards poverty until he adopted a costume and gimmicks to begin a crime soree to provide for his family." which like. why is it trying so hard to portray arthur as a good father, or at least one who wants to help his family??
Tim's entry is more of the same, but it does make sure to characterize steph as "desperate to find affection and approval" , and "craved full acceptance [as a crimefighter]". weirdly, the book says here that steph's motivation to stop her dad was "in an attempt to retain some semblance of a family"?? its a bit of an odd one.
Steph's own entry provides us just two more points. Firstly, in regards to her Robin training, it says she "absorbed more than thought possible. In addition to her successes, she also did as he expected, saving his life by disobeying an order." so for one, im glad they acknowledge that she broke the rule TO SAVE HIS FUCKING LIFE, and secondly, i was right earlier! she was succeeding! she was receptive to the training! he trained her harder than any other robin, and SHE. WAS. DOING. WELL! i find many ways to be mad at bruce, and this is one of them. let her stay!!!!
secondly, we get to her actual death. the book says "[Catwoman] took the dying girl to Dr. Leslie Thompkins for treatment but her injuries were too severe and she died, the Dark Knight at her side. In one account, Thompkins so disapproved of what had transpired that she allowed Spoiler to die, but the events of Infinite Crisis wiped that from reality." i truly had no clue that Infinite Crisis was the justification for the steph retcon. like i guess its the best way to do it? i just had no idea. thats wild. that basically makes steph's resurrection as much a result of reality warping as jason's.
thank you for staying with me on this! i have one final note that is just an addition from me; this book repeats "more heart than skill" so much for steph that part of me was fucked up and evil and thought what if steph had a memorial case and this was the epitaph bruce put and when she came back she got sooooo rightfully angry about it. just a final silly from me. thanks! love yall! good night!
P.S. let me know if yall want me to look at anything else from this book! its an odd one! id be happy to provide pics or transcriptions
