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someone pointed out once that i get really aggressive when someone says something that's wrong in an annoying way and i rediscovered that about myself when i saw the "making fun of bad ukulele covers is transandrophobia because it's transmasc culture" post and said out loud NO THE FUCK IT'S NOT

mabelsguidetolife

apparently shaq was using his sponsorship with sora to make pictures and videos of his imagined romantic life with marilyn monroe and the children they would have together……. and then posting it where the entire world, including his real actual children, can see it 🫠🫠🫠

mabelsguidetolife

no bc how else are you supposed to react when your dad is proudly presenting a clip of himself and a dead celebrity, frozen in time, creating an ostensibly perfect nuclear family on valentine’s day…… and tagging papa john’s in it……..

innerchildabortionclinic

"dog residue" post means so much to my ocd

innerchildabortionclinic

daughter-of-sapph0

a lot of you think intersectionality means that privilege and marginalization cancel out like pemdas

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.

innerchildabortionclinic

tortured to insanity = psychotic break

tortured for being insane = antipsychotics

dogpuppy

#soldier in white catch 22

deathwarlock

Shaved my head today

issablog

@staff @wip @engineering stop recommending me this post

“based on your likes”

i’ve literally hit “NOT FOR ME” 6 times and you keep showing me BALD

STOP

deathwarlock

look at my head boy

#all timer #look at my head boy

transfemininomenon

literally my favorite kind of posts are ones that are like "i never see positivity posts for [group of people that society is built around catering toward]"

trying to find a way to phrase this in a way that doesn't make me sound like an ass but i think some of the things yall claim are trans culture are actually just things you and your friends like that you've decided are universal for some reason

pitbolshevik

i need everyone to know that this post was inspired by seeing a transmasc claim that making fun of bad ukulele covers is transandrophobia because it's transmasc culture

#...

cdigoddess

everyone on dropout has this bloodthirsty look in their eyes, like they'd kill you in an instant for a cameo in brooklyn 99

pitbolshevik

speaking of trans clothing: no newly out tboy do not buy the $60 special afab boxers

anglaised

every “hand made boxers and briefs for transmasc and nonbinary fxlk” subscription box is $80 and everything is polyester and the exact same as regular boxers at like walmart but have a ⚧️ emoji sewed into the side like a cutie mark and the company is like if u donate 25 extra dollars to us with your purchase we will donate to jellyqueens and make a hugggge important impact on the world 🌈 and then jellyqueens is just.. like a small business jam and jelly company with flavors based on different pronouns and gender descriptors (like tme for example) with very obvious like weird assigning of bioessentialist presentation to fruits for the jellies like “amabs” are blueberries and kiwi and “afab” are cherrys and watermelon and the jellies aren’t even good and actually are lying about being gluten free and also get moldy very fast bc they aren’t using preservatives but they still only deduct -$3 from the original price when they do pop up shops in brooklyn while selling them and the impact on the world mentioned by the boxer company is just to reduce jellyqueens pass due bills bc they keep getting fined for avoiding inspection of their kitchen (its in their apartment but they own five cats and let them stay on the counter while chopping and cooking the fruit for the jelly) and also they take a extra $5 dollars from you as a “service charge” on the boxer companies website because the ceo is using that money from every purchase towards their anime boy maid cafe budget for theirnext trip to japan