Tag: important

gentlyglows:

support ppl whose mental illnesses may never go away or get better (namely personality disorders)

support ppl for whom recovery may never be something they get to experience and have to learn to live with

support ppl whose hard times may never come to an end and who may not get thru it eventually

post-teenager:

ablacknation:

The Prison Industry: A new form of slavery in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a 90 cents – $4 a day. [X]

According to California Prison Focus, “no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens.” The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than any other country: a half million more than China, which has a population five times greater than the U.S. 

Prison labor has its roots in slavery. After the 1861-1865 Civil War, a system of “hiring out prisoners” was introduced in order to continue the slavery tradition. Freed slaves were charged with not carrying out their sharecropping commitments (cultivating someone else’s land in exchange for part of the harvest) or petty thievery – which were almost never proven – and were then “hired out” for cotton picking, working in mines and building railroads. From 1870 until 1910 in the state of Georgia, 88% of hired-out convicts were Black. In Alabama, 93% of “hired-out” miners were Black. In Mississippi, a huge prison farm similar to the old slave plantations replaced the system of hiring out convicts. The notorious Parchman plantation existed until 1972.

During the post-Civil War period, Jim Crow racial segregation laws were imposed on every state, with legal segregation in schools, housing, marriages and many other aspects of daily life. “Today, a new set of markedly racist laws is imposing slave labor and sweatshops on the criminal justice system, now known as the prison industry complex,”

The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States and its investors are on Wall Street.

MAJOR CORPORATIONS BENEFITTING FROM PRISON INDUSTRY COMPLEX. [X]

  • McDonalds

McDonald’s uses inmates to produce frozen foods. Inmates process beef for patties. They may also process bread, milk and chicken products.

  • Wendy’s. 

Wendy’s has also been identified as relying on prison labor to reduce it’s cost of operations. Inmates also process beef for patties.

  • Wal-Mart 

The company uses inmates for manufacturing purposes. The company “hires” inmates to clean products of UPC bar codes so that products can be resold.

  • Starbucks

The company uses inmates to cut costs as well. Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions hired Washington state prisoners to package holiday coffees.

  • Victoria’s Secret

The company uses inmates to cut production costs. In South Carolina, female inmates were used to sew products. Also, inmates reportedly have been used to replace “made in” tags with “Made in USA” tags.

The most fucked part of this whole twitching disaster is that these sorts of programs are used to corporations to paint themselves as humanitarian. ‘

Capitalism must be stopped.

I feel this is important to say:

rifa:

dogdeer:

shotgunheart:

staff you are literally making your website harder for people to use.
That isn’t hyperbole or over reaction.

You swapped the ‘post’ and ‘close’ (cancel) buttons.

EVERYONE has muscle memory, everyone is going to at least catch themselves about to hit the wrong button. But especially those with cognitive problems with change.

You removed the formatting bar & hid it in popups.

This literally loses functionality with read more cutoffs, which did not formerly need an entire new line break to be used. It is intrusive when highlighting text for editing purposes (such as restructuring) and distracting. Yes, a large amount of users will adjust. However, there is a responsibility of accessibility for platforms, especially platforms that have a significant user-base that HAVE accessibility problems.

In short, you are changing fundamental parts of your interface to appear “sleek” or “edgy” or whatever other reason you have behind the decision.

But in the process you are turning a blind eye to your users that are negatively affected by such fundamental changes.

In particular, the lack of a formal “beta test” (as far as I am aware) is particularly telling, as it is indicative of an arrogance of knowing what your users want without bothering to ask. Transparency in social media staff decision making is vital in maintaining trust with your users.

staff you are simply not trusted by your users. You have deserved this mistrust on multiple occasions.

And you are going to lose your user base.

You are not facebook. You are not embedded into society; there isn’t a tumblr page for my local dentist. The only incentives to remain here is content & social circles. BOTH of those can be relocated to literally anywhere.

Already there are websites being formed promising a better, more accessible, more transparent-decisions, more feedback-fueled experience. AND ways to migrate data. (And tbh, even lacking a data-migration ability, people can do things manually just fine.)

With your reckless actions, staff , it’s not a matter of IF you lose users, it’s a matter of when.

@everyone read this reblog this make it heard

good points

themerrygentleman:

pomegachikorita:

kingcheddarxvii:

I’m calling this crap out. How is this a fair standard to hold people to? Counselors are licensed professionals who spend years studying psychology, not kids online trying to maintain positive attitudes, often against REALLY difficult circumstances. How are sad teens supposed to know how to approach this kind of thing?

Maybe this is just a joke but it’s tiring watching grown-ass adults complain about kids trying to look out for each other. Cringe all you want but grow up about it and keep your petty grouchiness to yourselves

Friends who reblogged this – you can do better

also tbh that kind of post on tumblr makes me feel 500x safer than any therapist or counselor ever has considering that positive posts on tumblr dont have the ability to get disabled kids institutionalized

Fun fact: posts mocking tumblr/fandom behavior with exaggerated disdain make the people who made them look much more pathetic than the targets of their scorn, without exception

reblogging again for that last comment

ryenross:

kanrose:

kanrose:

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 sick

I got anon hate for this post, keep reblogging it

this goes for PTSD/OCD/bipolar/schizophrenia and other “scary illnesses” too please don’t leave them out because they aren’t normalized on tumblr

megachikorita:

kingcheddarxvii:

I’m calling this crap out. How is this a fair standard to hold people to? Counselors are licensed professionals who spend years studying psychology, not kids online trying to maintain positive attitudes, often against REALLY difficult circumstances. How are sad teens supposed to know how to approach this kind of thing?

Maybe this is just a joke but it’s tiring watching grown-ass adults complain about kids trying to look out for each other. Cringe all you want but grow up about it and keep your petty grouchiness to yourselves

Friends who reblogged this – you can do better

also tbh that kind of post on tumblr makes me feel 500x safer than any therapist or counselor ever has considering that positive posts on tumblr dont have the ability to get disabled kids institutionalized

Source: kingcheddarxvii

“Does comedy have to punch up to be funny?”

bogleech:

This question has been flying around tumblr lately and of course the consensus among white, straight men is an emphatic “no,” but the question itself is a little misleading to begin with.

Nobody’s made any claim that comedy “has” to do anything in particular to be funny. You might find poop funny. You might find a featureless white cube on the end of a stick funny. Who the hell knows.

There is an understanding among most people, however, that certain things are unnecessarily cruel and heartless.

“Punching up” is a term in comedy for laughing with your audience by picking targets that might actually need to be taken down a peg. Wealthy, powerful people should be able to take a joke at their expense. Abusers have done things to warrant active derision.

People who already put up with sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and other forms of discrimination, however, do not need to “be able to laugh at themselves” or have “the piss taken out of them.” They’re fighting a lot of bullshit and haven’t done anything to warrant collective ridicule.

So no, it’s not that “punching up” is a requirement to be funny, it’s that it’s a requirement to be a remotely decent member of a civilized society. If you really don’t support prejudiced attitudes, then no, you wouldn’t be saying diminishing shit for “just a joke” either. You do not run up to a survivor, make fun of their suffering, and insist they be okay with it because you’re “just” doing it to be “funny” or “just” practicing “free speech.” Just admit you’re a racist or misogynistic assbag already and stop trying to weasel-word out of it. Assbag.

bogleech:

missespeon:

i love how now that its been out that that miyazaki quote is fake suddenly all the completely good points people said about the anime industry are suddenly ridiculous and invalid even though miyazaki literally actually said otaku culture is destroying the anime industry albeit in a different context

so take a step back before you start feeling less weird about owning body pillows of underage anime girls and accusing these people of not knowing shit thanks

Yeah and he’s always been critical of the industry and fans. Everything people have said on that post is still accurate.