having a liberal “anti-racist” consciousness without a materialist decolonial anti-academy consciousness is how you get people saying shit like “Africa is seriously underrepresented in archaeological studies due to racism, therefore we need to perform more digs in Africa”

1. Who is “we”?

2. Who would benefit from these digs, materially? Which people and institutions?

3. What is the history of archeological digs in places other than Europe (and in places within Europe with displaced Indigenous populations)? How might the answer to this question have bearing on how you chuse to advocate for “more digs” as an anti-racist proposition?

erm. official tumblr page btw.

oh so staff finally decided to go mask off i see

No yeah I'm sure it does

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.

The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.

Unsettling update

Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!

Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?

Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.

They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.

And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:

And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that

So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad

The “Fuck Salvation Army” posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder: Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.

Do not support them in any way, shape, or form.

‘Tis the season to say FUCK the Salvation Army.

i think if you're going to love a young boy character who's filled with an inescapable sadness and overperforms masculinity you're really just going to have to accept that some people are going to see those issues and decide estradiol and she/it pronouns are the fix she needs

everyone in the tags who's like "nay, i shan't say whomst" first of all im so sorry and upset that fandom has made you feel that you can't express a fictional character's transfemininity, and second of all PLEASEEEE PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE PLEASE TELL ME PLEEEEEEEEEASE

maelgwyn "confidence alive" the traitor prince is a deeply closeted trans woman and you CANNOT convince me otherwise

Oh… um! Should we be putting Neil Gaiman above Palestine for the tumblr fandom week in review…

Also titling it “The brain rot continues” when the number 5 trending topic is an author that is very publicly on your website that has major sexual assault allegations and the number 6 trending topic is a genocide

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Homeless people getting removed from their accommodation so that the city can host a billionaire’s concert.

via BBC news.