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emailing one of the local auction houses this week like "hi i'm a person with completely normal interests but incidentally i noticed that based on the serial number the mini fridge you're auctioning is actually subject to a safety recall. yeah i know this for reasons other than reading about product safety recalls for fun" regular guy behavior

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Tumblr in 1860 probably: Please remember that some people NEED their slaves due to disabilities that prevent them from performing labor on their own. Don’t shame disabled slave owners. 

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I do not like the word "unhoused."

And don't start with me about the stigma of "homeless" - being homeless is inherently a bad thing. It is a negative state of affairs. It's honestly kind of ghoulish that you'd try to promote a word that obscures how horrific it is that there are people in our community without a safe place to live.

And I really hate it because it reduces that horror to a person's relationship to a commodity. A house is a thing you buy or rent. These people don't have one. No further implications are made about why they don't have one. You might as well call me un-labubued. A home is more than that, and saying a person is homeless is an indictment of their entire community. As well it should be. Homelessness isn't a problem of one person's relationship to a commodity, it's a problem of a community that fails to meet the needs of its members.

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the world doesnt make men feel beautiful and make women feel ugly. it makes women feel they literally exist for men’s use. that is why redefining beauty is idiotic. why are we trying to expand the parameters in which you can exist in to be deemed fuckable by men when the problem is this tyrannical idea in the first place

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genuine question — how is donating money going to help Palestinians if no food is going in? What is the money for?

Medicine, water, supplies, food, fuel (much of it black market being upsold at egregious prices) — these all cost money and pretty much all Palestinians in Gaza have no source of income now. It’s drops in the bucket compared to ending the siege and occupation but it’s one way to do at least something small to help. Others are in need of money to evacuate when the border opens again (which hopefully is asap…), tuition and supplies for school to continue studies despite it all. Another fund is focused on trying to rebuild farmlands in Gaza to get food again that way.

I can’t tell anyone what to do with their money but I don’t think this mindset of “well nothings going in so we can’t help” is helpful for people on the ground who are the ones saying that donations can and do help them survive.

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"why should I care about Africa"---> lives in a country that's upheld by the current and past exploitation and destabilization of Africa

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Hannah Thomas lost her eye, but never lost her humanity. She came back again to stand with us.

I am not asking you to lose your eye for us — just please share this, and donate if you can.

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this qrt has absolutely fucking sent me

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You there! Federal museum professional educator or FEMA climatologist or NOAA metereologist or CISA cybersecurity specialist or Army civilian logistics employee. How would you like to work for ICE? No? Not interesting? You’re working for ICE now. You’re working for ICE or you’re quitting. You don’t get a choice. You’re an ICE brown shirt or you’re out of a job.

This is not hyperbole. This is happening across the entire United States government.

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"Men should have high body counts and women should be virgins until marriage" is funny only if you think of it shallowly, if you reduce this to an occasion to make jokes about these wannabe alpha males secretly being gay.

In reality, what these men are telling you is that they think there should be an underclass of women that's to be considered even less human than the one they want to marry. They want a selected group of women to be forced into a prostitution they will never be able to leave, to be raped by johns until the day they die.

They want sex slaves.

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I feel like the way ai is currently being used is one of the various things that completely shatters the incel argument that every woman on earth wakes up hoping they get an opportunity to falsely accuse a man of sexual assault or abuse.

If that were actually true we would have thousand upon thousands if not millions of cases of women using ai to try and frame men for crimes they didn’t commit. but we don’t have that.

but you know what we do have? thousands upon thousands if not millions of men using ai to sexually harass women and little girls.

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the i “shave for sensory reasons” argument is so funny bc a lot of times those girls are doing stuff with their makeup hair nails and clothes that would be much more of a sensory discomfort than hairy legs. it’s just so interesting that what they can and can’t tolerate perfectly matches up with society’s beauty standards for women…crazy coincidence…

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"There are more than 20 million fewer children in child labor today than in 2020...

This reduction is especially welcome news given that so many development trends, including child labor, stalled or reversed during the pandemic. Experts weren’t sure if or how quickly the world would get back on track.

Here is the even better news: since 2000, there are 108 million fewer children in child labor, even as more and more children were born during that same time period. 

To be clear, the child labor I am talking about isn’t your teenager pulling some shifts at the local ice cream shop. These are kids as young as five in poor countries who are out breaking rocks or working the fields when they should be in school.

Per a joint report by UNICEF and the International Labour Organization, since 2020, progress has occurred across all global regions and also included a substantial dip in hazardous work, defined as work that is likely to compromise a child’s health, safety, or morals.

The global goal was to end child labor by this year. With 138 million children still engaged in it worldwide, we are clearly far from success. But, the report says, “most regions could see the near or total elimination of child labor in the coming decades,” with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, where birth rates remain high, conflict rife, and economic growth slow...

If the current pace of progress continues, child labor in Asia and the Pacific will be eliminated by 2060 and near zero in Latin America and the Caribbean...

What is behind the downturn in child labor? One big factor is that old, familiar song of economic growth—parents who aren’t cash strapped don’t need an extra pair of hands. A second is better access to schooling, and a third, social protections for children like healthcare and cash transfers."

-via The Progress Network, July 3, 2025

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Note: Something that article, which is pretty short, doesn't get into is that progress WILL increase and speed up significantly in sub-Saharan Africa. A number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa are undergoing huge revolutions in access to basic needs, economic development, and quality of life. Child labor rates in sub-Saharan Africa are NOT going to continue declining at the current rate, they are going to increasingly decline at a FASTER rate as access to clean water, plumbing, electricity, and sanitation will all drastically change the labor landscape of Africa and reduce child labor. These trends are already happening in a number of countries, as they have in the other regions of the world.

Every single one of the factors in the reduction in child poverty listed in the final paragraph of the article is improving already in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, albeit in fits and starts, with uneven progress that will almost certainly even out further as African nations and activists and governments etc. all learn from each other and are able to offer pockets to stability to move forward. (x, x, x, x, x, x)