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I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

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The Olympics are really coming for Black people this year....

It ain't just She'Carri Richardson

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Finally you get to see the bird feeder in normal speed The birds have absolutely loved the sunflower seeds and soon polished them off I now have new seed holders set up around my yard and the birds are taking their time to get used to them first, but as soon as they do I'll get my camera out again Filmed with Kaiser Baas x230

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So, this hasn't crossed my dash yet. (Not blaming anyone, there is soooo much going on in the world and I'd also missed it in the noise).

There is currently a strike at Frito-Lay. in Topeka. These workers are striking because:

They were being forced to work 84 hour weeks. The company's best offer so far is a 60 hour cap. This is shit we fought for a century ago, people.

Their generous offer also includes a whole 4 percent wage increase...over the next 2 years. I'm not sure what COL is in Topeka, but... Well, it's better than the entire 77 cents they've apparently gotten in the last decade.

There's also a report that a worker literally collapsed and dropped dead on the line and the foreman's response was to make them move the body out of the way and put in a replacement. (However, this is unconfirmed and, of course, the company denies it).

There have been multiple OSHA violations at this plant over the last few years, including a forklift accident that's under investigation.

They've now been striking since July 5 but, of course, it only hit the national media yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/14/frito-lay-strike-forced-overtime/

So, why am I signal boosting this?

Because Frito-Lay is refusing to budge. They are attempting to make the excuse that union leadership agreed to the 60 hour work week and crappy pay cut...when union leadership only agreed to put it to a vote.

And this means that we need to put the thumbscrews on them. Remember, this is about 19th century style working conditions.

So, I'm calling on my followers to boycott Frito Lay's until the strike is involved.

Frito-Lay owns:

Lay's

Doritos (Sorry. I really am. I KNOW there's no good alternative to Doritos, although Zapp's are good if you can find them).

Fritos

Tostitos

Cheetos

Ruffles

Sun Chips

Baken-ets

Chester's

Cracker Jack

Islen plantain chips

Funyuns

Grandma's (the cookies)

Matador Meat Snacks

Maui style potato chips

Miss Vickie's

Munchies

Munchos

Rolled Gold

Sabritones

Santitas

Simply

Smartfood

Stacys

The Walking Taco

NatuChips

PopCorners (this one wasn't on their website, but was bought by Pepsi's in 2019 with the intent of adding it. So best avoided just in case). Yes, this really is more than half of the snack aisle. Suggested alternatives:

Kettle Brand Chips

Zapp's (If you can find them. My supermarket had them once and not since, so I'm guessing the culinary cowards in this neighborhood were afraid of "Voodoo" flavored chips).

Pringles

On the Border for salsa.

Wise Cheez Doodles

Bugles

Utz

Store own brand alternatives, if your store has ones that are any good.

Cheez-its

Check before you buy and let's tell these people they don't get to treat workers like that.

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internet friends, i’m so impressed every day by the concern you’re capable of showing to people you’ve never met. you have big hearts, and we’re all lucky to benefit from your love, presence and passion, so please put it to good use

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ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

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The thing that really gets me about Mount Rushmore is that even if the Lakota, and the other tribes that Sox Grandfathers is sacred to, get their rights to the Black Hills back, how do they fix that? Those faces are literally CARVED INTO the mountain, so the choice is to leave them (preserving the legacy of genocidal colonizers) or trying to carve them out and risking causing even more harm.

There is no good solution. That mountain, all of the Black Hills, have been permanently altered by white supremacists, which can't even be denied considering that the first lead sculptor was involved with the KKK and the second sculptor was his son.

Mount Rushmore is probably one of the most blatant and visible disregards for Native peoples, one of the most violent symbols of stolen land physically possible. It's disgusting.

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so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

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maybe i am too old for tiktok

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Y’all being pregnant while moving into a new house is BUCKWILD

My husband is an intelligent man, but he has gotten in his head that if I lift one box I will PERISH

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hey!! are there any australian orgs for Aboriginal people i could donate to?

There’s about a million because many are focused on a specific community and there’s a bunch of different issues that they focus on like health services, legal support, domestic violence survivor assistance, inter-generational trauma of the Stolen Generations, LGBTQIA+ specific Indigenous peoples, better education outcomes, etc. A lot are specific to either a state or even a city so there may be some in your community.

Here’s a big link dump for you though:

Legal:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services Qld Limited (Queensland, including Torres Strait)

Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Incorporated (South Australia)

Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia Incorporated (Western Australia)

Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited (New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory)

North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency Limited (Northern Territory north and south zone)

Tasmanian Aboriginal Community Legal Service (Tasmania)​

Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Co-operative Limited (Victoria).

The Aboriginal Legal Service

Other subjects:

Children’s Ground

Bridge The Gap Foundation

The Healing Foundation

Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) which I can’t find a website so I think just has a Facebook page

Grandmothers Against Removals (another Facebook page)

Black Rainbow

Pay The Rent

And people will mention many more in the notes. 

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What the hell does " pro-veteran anti-military " mean?

it means i can oppose war, american imperialism, the military industrial complex, and the cult of male violence without discounting the myriad factors that contribute to someone enlisting, including but not limited to millions of dollars spent annually to recruit children. 

also means i’m disgusted with a culture that superficially venerates veterans for nationalist and capitalist purposes while simultaneously fucking them over re: housing and healthcare and suppressing veteran voices should their experience as a vet happen to inform anything resembling anti-military sentiment 

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stop telling chronically and disabled people that we’re “lucky” to have one chronic illness instead of another. stop saying “well that’s bad, but at least it’s not *insert another equally valid chronic illness here* i’ve heard that that sucks” oh? you’ve heard? is that so? well i’ve LIVED mine, and i can promise you that it is debilitating. just stop invalidating chronically ill and disabled people like that. none of us are “lucky” to be chronically ill.