Airheads
i ain’t fartin on no snare drum.
reverse side:
DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY
I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
Do not give to the Salvation Army.
Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army
My turn.
I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.
Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized.
Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is an abundance of resources. That isn’t how it works. That isn’t how it’s supposed to work.
ok so my roommates are anthropology students and their favorite example for debunking the ‘survival of the fittest’ bs is shanidar 1. (x, x, x)
shanidar 1 is a neanderthal who, at a pretty young age, was hit in the head hard enough to blind him. this also led to that side of his brain shutting down and withering his right arm, and possibly crippling his entire right side. not only that but his skeleton also shows that at some point, he broke a bone in his foot and, in addition to the other factors, resulted in a noticeable limp. there are some sources which say he likely had degenerative diseases. (arthritis was really common in neanderthals)
going off of widespread ideas of “”primitive”” (no longer the word used in anthropology/academia to describe early-modern humans) societies, shanidar probably died really young, deliberately abandoned or killed. i mean, he was severely crippled, blind, etc., he couldn’t contribute anything, he would have been a “”burden to society””, right?
except he lived to be between 40 and 50 years old. (about ~80 in human years)
this means that his social group had to have taken care of him for a minimum of two or three decades without his ‘contributing’ anything significant to the group. this discovery (and Shanidar III’s) was huge because it basically proves that early humans had a concept of hospice. early modern humans cared for the sick and the elderly, greatly extending their lifespan, simply because they cared.
tl;dr: the concept of someone needing to be ‘’useful’’ or ‘’’productive’’’ in society in order to be valued and cared for is a very modern concept and our quasi-predecessors would be ashamed
Also, Shanidar I was buried with flowers. They cared about him after he was dead, too.
Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says
Stone age toddlers may have attended a form of prehistoric nursery where they were encouraged to develop their creative skills in cave art, say archaeologists.
Research indicates young children expressed themselves in an ancient form of finger-painting. And, just as in modern homes, their early efforts were given pride of place on the living room wall.
A Cambridge University conference on the archaeology of childhood on Friday reveals a tantalising glimpse into life for children in the palaeolithic age, an estimated 13,000 years ago.
(via Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says | Science | The Guardian)
“Some of the children’s flutings are high up on walls and on the ceilings, so they must have been held up to make them or have been sitting on someone’s shoulders,”
チヂミザサのねこかご…家主は平日、朝少しずつ作っています
I'm making a Mr.J's grass basket a little in the morning of weekdays.
ところが…ご想像どおり、じゃまっこ登場。
But... A big nuisance appears as you imagine.
作るそばから食べます(/ー￣;)
He is eating while I am making!!
カゴよりオレ大事アピールなんでしょうが…
He must appeals he is more important than the basket.
粗末に扱っているようで、「オレの座布団」くらいの認識はできているようです…
But Mr.J now seems to understand it is his... Cushion?
ツメもとぐんです！これで！Σ(￣ロ￣lll)
But!! He shapes his claws with this basket!!!
Self care is chain smoking, dropping acid, and chugging coffee until you astral project to the castle at the center of the labyrinth to fight david bowie
nuh uh fellas i come pop my head in here to find not one of you posting terry in the captain’s chair at trekonderoga this weekend? lord alive what has broken in this space
fellas. im serious. you gotta get it together out here
::sweatdrop::
guh
ds9 but every time dukat starts talking sisko pulls out an airhorn and you can't hear anything dukat is saying
Why tf is this so funny lol
finally some good social media management
Important addition
Tokyo Disney Resort:)
i cant believe you can eat Donald’s ass at Tokyo Disneyland
you’re all going to internet jail
spam email that starts off with “Behold!” is setting a damn high bar for itself
Broke: Starting your spam email with “Behold!”
Woke: Starting your spam email with “Hwaet!”
Muse, tell me the story of a complicated man,
the man who sold aluminium extrusion at an incredible price,
I sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy, exiled by fate came to Italy and Lavinian shores, with a really unnaturally large dick, here look at these pills they’ll change your life.
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to save up to 80% during our Easter mega-savings sale event
After a refurbishment lasting from October to March, the York Street department store of Gloucester & Bros. will open on June 1st. Advertising fliers are appearing in mailboxes everywhere…
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.Now are our lowest prices cut again;
Our special value items made more special yet;
And in the special sale on Thursday of next week,
Will be reductions wond’rous to behold.
Soft-furnished chairs reduced by more than half!
And now, instead of paying when they leave,
As would have happened in the older store,
Our customers may take advantage, if they wish,
Of discount cards for later charge.There’s more! Our Children’s Section offers two for one,
And in our Pets and Livestock you will find
The cost of horses less than you expect.
Bulk purchase in our fine wine-shop is better yet,
Tower-brand Malmesey by the butt is best of all.There are so many things that we could tout,
But why not visit us in person and find out?
Remember, shoppers, now you’ve read this post
That those who get here first will save the most!
Reblogging this at @dduane‘s request…
…and restraining myself from reworking the penultimate stanza, after 9 months which doesn’t seem to scan properly any more.
(CHORTLE)
The Brighton tailor whose identity became his business
Zack MacLeod Pinsent dresses as a Regency gentleman every day, saying that the clothing is a “huge confidence builder”.
He ceremoniously burned his last pair of jeans when he was 14-years-old and hasn’t looked back since.
His passion for historical outfits has led him to take up a career in tailoring, making clothes in period styles at his workshop in Brighton, East Sussex.
He now has clients overseas and has recently returned from a business trip to New York.
Video journalists: Adam Paylor and Ben Moore
Slideshow…
m’dandy
idol let’s just say that
FUCKING SUPERB YOU FUNKY LITTLE FOP
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