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The fish from the new Finding Dory movie, the blue tang, is in danger.
With the new movie coming out, everyone and their kid is going to want a blue tang. Clown fish sales SKYROCKETED in 2003, when the original movie Finding Nemo was released. Unlike the blue tang, clownfish can be bred in tanks, are a more easy saltwater fish to care for, only needing 4 gallons per clownfish, and an anemone.
The blue tang CANNOT BE TANK BRED. They are captured live from the ocean, which can be damaging to the coral reefs.
The blue tang gets HUGE, and eventually you’ll need a tank the size of your couch to accommodate it.
The blue tang gets SICK. VERY EASY.
“In order to create an environment at home large enough for a Blue Tang to grow, swim, hide, and thrive, your family would need to invest up to $1,000 in a 180-gallon saltwater aquarium. That’s an aquarium over 6 feet long, 2 feet wide, 2 feet tall, filled with water and weighing nearly one ton! Plus, Blue Tangs require a significant level of saltwater expertise and dedication to properly care for, often culminating after years of experience. Therefore, we do not recommend Blue Tangs for beginners.” – liveaquaria.com
Do NOT get a blue tang, SERIOUSLY. If you are well equipped, an experienced saltwater fish owner, I mean go for it, but don’t get them as your child’s pet. They will be bored of it in a week anyway, and the fish will probably die. There’s tons of Finding Dory merchandise (shirts, bags, stuffed animals, seriously they have everything) to buy yourself or your child.
PLEASE SAVE THE BLUE TANG.
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Hey so now we’re paying attention to Captain America
I’d like to draw more attention to antisemitism that affects real Jewish people, because honestly? I have not seen as much outrage over the lives of actual people than I have over a fictional white gentile. So I’ve compiled a list of posts and blogs for my fellow gentiles to read.
Here is a post discussing why tumblr’s social justice community often forgets or dismisses antisemitism
Here is a post about antisemitic microaggressions
Here is a post detailing recent antisemitism in Europe
Here is a post regarding the girl who took selfies at an anti-Muslim protest, and her antisemitism
Here is a post about Jewish coded characters and using Jewish history (among others) for tragedy points
And here are some Jumblr blogs I highly recommend reading and following:
And some more blogs for learning:
Please support Jewish people, not just on Tumblr, but in real life. Please educate yourself on antisemitism so you can fight it, not just when it affects your fictional faves but when it affects real people.
Saving 20 odd dollars a week by not going to Dunkin Donuts for coffee isn’t going to help when the working poor’s real problem is worrying about being able to still make rent if they miss work due to the flu, so let’s stop pretending like this “junior piggybank savers/guilt the poor out of simple comforts” technique is a viable solution to the problem of stagnating wages and skyrocketing living costs.
#reblog#god yes#fuck this mentality that poor people are expected to scrimp and save just to get buy#a person with a job should be able to afford to get some GODDAMN COFFEE IF THEY WANT TO
Small simple comforts are often easier to achieve than big things, and sometimes you just need to have some boba tea once in a while and relax. Being poor does not make you less of a human and less needing of small comforts. Things are affordable – big stuff: rent, healthcare, education – these fixed costs are hard, because they keep going up and far outpacing the rate of wage growth.
(example: My little bro and I are 8 years apart. He is starting this fall at the same “affordable” state school I went to. Tuition has almost doubled since I started there in 2008. My parents’ wages sure as hell haven’t doubled. What they pay on campus definitely hasn’t doubled, and he has celiac so he’s stuck paying more for food anyways)
So let poor people have their small comforts without shame. It’s fucking hard these days.
STUFF TO NOT EVER DO: tell a person with depression/anxiety/eating disorder that their illness makes YOU suffer
never ever do this please this is the worst fucking thing you could ever tell someone who is sickI got anon hate for this post, keep reblogging it
Same for sensory sensitivity disorders! NEVER get mad at someone for their sensitivities and tell them that it’s making YOU feel bad. Never ever do it.
for those who don’t know: today was Yom HaShoah, holocaust remembrance day. since it was may 4th this year, Yom HaShoah has been very much pushed under the rug by all the star wars content
if you haven’t already, please take this time to reflect on how exactly we can prevent antisemitism in our communities. what actions can you take to support and uplift your Jewish siblings? whether it’s standing up for a Jewish coworker who “takes too many holidays off” or refusing to laugh at an antisemitic joke from a friend, it is critical that all non Jews do your part to stamp out antisemitism.
thank you
now that donald trump is the actual GOP nominee this is your reminder that voting for a Democrat You Hate is still a useful harm reduction procedure that will cancel out a vote for Trump. please practice harm reduction. please, even more importantly in small/red states, vote all the way down in your local races where the margins of victory can be 100 votes or 10 votes, so your state legislature/governor/etc will be strong, if/when everything on the national level goes to hell
believe what you want about your vote not having the intended or ideal level of power, believe what you want about the electoral college or the modern role of voting in a democratic society, believe what you want about american centrism or flawed systems, but don’t let anyone tell you there’s “no difference” in the general election, please don’t let anyone tell you voting does nothing. your vote CAN and WILL protect vulnerable people and help you stand in for people whose votes are being taken away by a gutted VRA and gerrymandering
please. please vote tuesday november 8th. please.
The phrase “you don’t know what you have until it’s gone” can apply to terrible things too. You may not realize the amount of pain, depression, or abuse you are living through until you experience what life can be without it
my abnormal psych prof and i dont always see eye-to-eye on things but a while back he told us all something that i think Certain Groups on this site could stand to learn:
you can’t force treatment on people who aren’t an active danger to themselves or others. that means that no, refusing to tag trigger warnings isn’t the same thing as exposure therapy, and you’re not obligated to try to dispel people’s delusions if they’re not actually hurting themselves or others. you are not entitled to police other people’s coping mechanisms if they aren’t using them to hurt other people. you are not allowed to send otherk!n “YOU ARE A HUMAN” over and over and over again because you think you’re “”””””discouraging a delusion”””””””.
basically the moral of the story is: stop trying to play armchair psychologist to strangers, actual psychologists with degrees think it does more harm than good.
Minimum wage in Puerto Rico will be lowered to $4.25 per hour
Slight reminder to my non-Rican friends that the US leeches billions upon billions of dollars from us, we have no say in anything especially anymore with the “reform” that has taken away most of our rights, we pay same taxes as you people in outrageous numbers (right now at 11.5% on everything), AND have the most expensive import embargo that being the USA’s.
All of this is being ignored by the media and CNN, FOX and US media outlets keep pushing that WE’RE the ones leeching off of the mainland and it’ll cost YOU guys money to help us. This is bullshit. They’re killing us here and taking our rights away slowly. Please stop ignoring this.
Listen, I moved away from Puerto Rico because there was nothing there for me besides my amazing friends. And I hate telling people I’m from PR because of some deep seeded hatred of the people, the politicians, the culture, etc. etc. etc. But do I like seeing what used to be my home taken advantage of, and destroyed by big business and big banks? No. Shit like this has got to stop. The import embargo, and the Jones Act are fucking PR royally, besides the effect the “War on Drugs” has had on our citizens. This minimum wage would effectively throw the country into deeper debt, destroy its economy and serve literally no purpose other than to cause an even larger and even faster mass exodus of its people to the continental US and abroad.
Not to mention that Puerto Rico has the most Walmarts and Walgreens per square mile than any other country in the world. AND K-marts employs mostly people within the age this minimum page will affect.
In other words, this lowering the gap will only cause an increase in debts and only benefit foreign US retail stores that already suck us dry. (Which comes to no surprise) And let’s not forget that Wal-Mart sued the island because it didn’t want to pay as many taxes and WON.
Chiming in to say I’m in the same boat. Even in the country’s current state(paging somewhat above this proposed minimum wage) I could not find a job within one year of graduating from a bachelor’s degree. I spent a year looking for work on the island and found nothing, not even fast food restaurants wanted to hire me. Our generation is being slowly forced out of the island with this selfish legislation made so the US can keep profiting off the Puerto Rican people. Every year I hear about more and more friends who have to leave to find a better life, and most of them are young adults our age, with no established careers. Please spread this, please make others aware of the systematic abuses at work that keep my country and my people down.
The United States is an oppressive, colonial force willing to exploit a people so deeply mired in a land fraught with political corruption and economic disparity.
Hey friends don’t forget the US has Puerto Rico in a colonial stranglehold
Minimum wage in Puerto Rico will be lowered to $4.25 per hour
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