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How you can help Congo
- Donating to Congo
- Not buying new phones: Trust me, your current phone works really well. If the screen is cracked, get it fixed.
- Not buying new electronic devices in general. You can buy them from your neighbours if they're selling.
- Not buying new cars: Your current one works well. You can carpool or use bicycles. You can also use public transport.
- Boycott American, British, French, Canadian and basically western products.
images I screenshotted towards the end of this video clip:
Original Tweet/X Post states: Presenting, "your sustainable future with eV batteries" Brought to you by: Cobalt Mines of Congo. Twitter/X User Response: What scares me is so much "green" technology and products and such are built off human suffering. The entire world is built on this. The entire world is irrevobaly tied to mass exploitation and I desperately hope that changes in my lifetime. #CongoGenocide #CongoIsBleeding
I have attached a video below these Tweet/X images of Congolese people in Cobalt mines. Video Description: Men, in front of a large, dark brown and muddy area of the mine are digging other men out of a hole that have been inside, excavating for Cobalt. These men are not wearing any protective equipment; other than something to cover their eyes, like goggles and lights attached to them. There is a crowd of people surrounding this area and many are cheering them on; a few men are pulled out due to the velocity/force of being pushed out of the mine area they are coming out from. It looks like the mine is opening up and down like the entrance of a beast's mouth. The exit of this part of the mine opens and closes several times during this video. I took a screenshot at the end of the video to showcase how many people have gathered, and there appears to be hundreds.
I want to add that it appears they are rushing to get out and being shouted and waved at to do so because the mouth to the mine may be about to collapse, as evinced by the speed and tension in the gestures and the intermittent fall of mineral debris from the slope above, which is frequently being cleared away from the mine entrance by the man calling to his compatriots from outside.
If that is the case, then this video showcases enslaved Congolese miners just barely escaping possible death, all so people in the West can have electric cars and iphones.
images I screenshotted towards the end of this video clip:
Original Tweet/X Post states: Presenting, "your sustainable future with eV batteries" Brought to you by: Cobalt Mines of Congo. Twitter/X User Response: What scares me is so much "green" technology and products and such are built off human suffering. The entire world is built on this. The entire world is irrevobaly tied to mass exploitation and I desperately hope that changes in my lifetime. #CongoGenocide #CongoIsBleeding
I have attached a video below these Tweet/X images of Congolese people in Cobalt mines. Video Description: Men, in front of a large, dark brown and muddy area of the mine are digging other men out of a hole that have been inside, excavating for Cobalt. These men are not wearing any protective equipment; other than something to cover their eyes, like goggles and lights attached to them. There is a crowd of people surrounding this area and many are cheering them on; a few men are pulled out due to the velocity/force of being pushed out of the mine area they are coming out from. It looks like the mine is opening up and down like the entrance of a beast's mouth. The exit of this part of the mine opens and closes several times during this video. I took a screenshot at the end of the video to showcase how many people have gathered, and there appears to be hundreds.
I want to add that it appears they are rushing to get out and being shouted and waved at to do so because the mouth to the mine may be about to collapse, as evinced by the speed and tension in the gestures and the intermittent fall of mineral debris from the slope above, which is frequently being cleared away from the mine entrance by the man calling to his compatriots from outside.
If that is the case, then this video showcases enslaved Congolese miners just barely escaping possible death, all so people in the West can have electric cars and iphones.
Remembering Chadwick Boseman On What Would Have Been His 47th Birthday Today
GET A JOB LEAVE HER ALONE
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“i love complex queer identities” you all couldn’t even handle jacob anderson's louis de pointe du lac
"ugh you're so sensitive"
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what does your blog smell like? (idea from @constantlymisgendered <3)
i think mine’s scent would be cinnamon and cigarette smoke <333
tagging @bambibells @constantlymisgendered @lanadelreys-middle-child @lizzygrantsangel @izzy444angel @rosyclouds22 @actuallyblonde-xo @monothenightmare @dark-nymph3t @emlovier @arabellasthunderstorm @queen-of-heartbreak24 @lu-luvslestat @delusions-inpink @angelicgirl444 @strwbryxluvs @lanascinnamongirl777 (no pressure <3)
cigarette smoke, leather, mold, and a bit of blood. Maybe a hint of vanilla?
thank you for the tag @carm3n-carm3n !
freshly baked cookies, strawberries, milkshakes, and a bit of tres leche <3
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Vanilla glazed cake with fresh oranges and cinnamon!
Tagging @panthera-dei @adorablemaneater and @sophiedaisy and @sophidria
I believe mine would smell like roses
Definitely something sweet by Ariana G
this is such a cute trend🤭 mine smells like sweet tooth by Sabrina Carpenter mixed with strawberries and cream pies🍓🩷
tagging: @matrosskoye-sky @babiedspice @lovergirlfemme
this is so cute and interesting~~ including aesthetic and content I produce, I feel my blog smells like an icy, crisp, winter night with a hint of of vanilla and teakwood
My blog definitely smells like something sickly sweet with hints of winter fresh gum
Aww okay. My blog smells like a brand new Prada Purse. It's expensive with a little sweetness. 🫶🏾
Tagging: @markiemocha @yourmomni @hiyyihs-aein @r-a-v-a
Yay My Blog smells like camomile honey and buns <33. Its a home🎀🌺
Tagging:@panjakes @paisholotus @hunternity @xikerhunt
Ocean breeze and lavender. It's like a fresh laundry kinda feel.
aloe gel, fresh notebooks, shea butter and those Jungle magic sanitizers
Tagging: nakiaslilhoodoo @tallulahchanel
People on here and Twitter are turning the term “refugee” into some sort of joke - so I’m just going to kindly ask everyone to stop tossing the term refugee around like it’s not an extremely politically charged term
- sincerely, someone who’s family are literally refugees
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Just something I think people that write for ATSV should watch
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I think we need to get serious about nuclear family abolition instead of the childfree meme culture of "we don't want your snot-nosed gremlins." I love kids. I love their joy, the insight of not yet being acclimated to capitalism and social norms. I had a certain naive wisdom as a kid, making crowns out of dandelions without knowing they were weeds. When my mom tried to explain gender reassignment surgery to me, expecting me to be repulsed, I instead blurted out "cool!".
But despite my love for children and sentimentality for my own childhood, I don't want to "have kids," as it's conventionally understood to mean, nor do most of my age peers. The expectation of children to be the property and sole responsibility of two parents (or as patriarchy would insist, one mother) is a cruel and unrealistic in any historical moment but especially the present. It is cruel, not just to people who don't want to be parents or shoehorned into heterosexual norms, but traumatic to the child. Surely we should know this better than anyone, and come up with a more mature response than just hating kids. There is a stark difference between this response and the queer legacy of mutual aid to support kids neglected by the nuclear family (the House Mothers of the ballroom community come to mind).
My issue with the childfree movement, as it exists online, is that it centers individual choice rather than a structural reevaluation of the family as we know it. We are told that queer life is purposeless and lonely, and that's without a genetic lineage we have no future. These arguments are in fact indictments of a system that has failed to produce collective visions of purpose, social fulfillment and futurity. None of us should be obligated to "have kids," nor tone down our culture or activism in their entirety to be "family friendly." But we should be driven by a desire to support those most disenfranchised by family norms instead of just hating them.
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Prev tags: #i also incidentally think that #no criticism of the 'childfree' movement #is complete without acknowledging #the rampant misogyny in those circles
Seconding this because it's so true. I don't know where these people get off telling mothers or pregnant people "I'm not going to give you special treatment just because you let a man [sexual harassment]," or make fun of mothers for how hard it is to raise kids without adequate safety nets, parental leave, community support, or even their own husbands' support. They have a "sucks to suck" attitude towards parents almost similar to how pro forced birthers talk to pregnant people about the "consequences of sex." Legitimate feminist/queer critiques of the nuclear family are sympathetic to these struggles, and that to me is the difference between a political tendency and a meme.
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Ok so I’m trying to make a little extra cash so I converted some of my fics to not be fics and put them on Amazon for 2.50 does anyone want to support? I’d really appreciate it.
Search up I like it rough by A. Addams on kindle.
Biiiiitch I’m at 9.36
Here’s the link cuz duh 😭
Girl!! 👀 I'm proud of you
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"Pouring one out for the homie" is traced all the way back to the practice of libation, or "Drink Offering" to the gods or memory of the dead. It is an ancient and well documented practice. Not ghetto at all.
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💝Vday Otps ➡️ T’Challa/Ororo
“What could I possibly steal from you?”
“My heart, T’Challa. My heart.”
Yes. Excellent. All of the above. In this house we love inclusive and accessible sex education!
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