I went on a date with a guy on vacation from Switzerland a couple years ago, and had almost this exact conversation with him when it came time to pay for the meal. He knew tipping was part of our culture and always left a few dollars because, as he said, “your minimum wage is so low compared to everywhere else” and I informed him that servers make less than half of minimum wage and the rest comes from tips, and he was horrified. Like he had just witnessed a murder. He about emptied his wallet out on the table and vowed to tip 25% anytime he was in America. As someone who has worked as a server/bartender, I know a lot of folks in our industry don’t like serving foreign customers because they don’t tip well/at all, but it’s because we’re the only country that does things in this fucked up way, and they truly don’t know that in many places, people are making $2/hr. Like, yes, sometimes you can get enough tips to be making $30+/hr, but then there’s all the side work you have to do that nobody tips you for, the hour before open/after close where you are prepping and cleaning, the complete lack of breaks despite it being illegal. The best industry job I ever had paid me the full minimum wage instead of the server min. That’s extremely rare. I wore the soles completely off my shoes and destroyed my knees and had no social life for an industry that considers $10/hr to be a crazy high wage.

stole this from the tl but i need to know

Red delicious for the win

are you clinically insane

[cw police brutality, racism, blood, massacre]

5/6/2021 Today in Rio de Janeiro, the police massacred 25 Black people from the favela in violation of a court order. It is one of the city’s most deadly attacks.

In a barbaric and dehumanizing display, one of the police officers propped up a dead Black man on a purple plastic garden chair, with one finger placed inside his mouth.

There were executions of people who had already surrendered. Please pay attention to Brazil. Please pay attention to these Black lives. Please. I am begging you. They are Black lives that mattered.

#ChacinaDoJacarezinho #BlackLivesMatter

Here is an ongoing Twitter thread by a Brazilian discussing the recent police attack in Rio, along with information on the ongoing genocide and deliberate government attempts to let Covid and starvation murder Brazilians. [Content warning for the thread as it contains graphic videos of the aftermath of the massacre on the favela in Rio.]

If you are not Brazilian and trying to support and donate:

Here is a thread with a list of places international people can donate (you may need to use google translate for some of them) Remember that 1 USD is 5.28 BRL so US dollars go a long way!!

Here is a thread teaching international people how you can help if you don’t have money to donate

I will list the donation sites here in case you can’t access the thread:

The OP of the twitter thread offered to vet donation sites if you find more that you want to link here.

* Remember that it is likely going to be very hard to get actual aid to the poor & marginalized Black people in the favelas so for international people these are our next best options for now

If any Brazilians can reblog this with more ways we can support the favelas, let me know and I will boost it for you.

Update: I’ve learned that Voz Das Comunidades (listed above) is the fastest and most reliable way to get help to Brazil

Here is their Twitter with updates: https://twitter.com/eurenesilva

Here is their PayPal: [email protected]

additionally:

1973 NYT article supporting coup against chilean president salvador allende

'Weak Journalism': NYT Fails to Disclose Op-Ed Writer's Close Family Ties to Venezuelan Opposition Leader

NY Times admits it sends some stories to US government for approval before publication

found it

behold. my quite specific dni list

dni if: you cannot do long division, play idol gacha games, like white chocolate, like anime men, have your permit/license, can ride a bike, use snapchat, take prozac, know what baldi's basics is, use ibis paint, listen to hozier, have over 400 followers, have never read an x reader fic, wear vans, your queue tag is a pun or a saying or whatever, are active on twitter, have considered moving from tumblr to twitter, have a nature aesthetic, don't think mcdonalds is good, can play rhythm games successfully, don't use a vpn, have remade more than once, can make gifs, don't know what sweet tea is, are under 5 feet, have never played an instrument at some point in your life, have ever made a "how about you get among some bitches"-esqe joke, rb people's promos but don't follow them, don't like broccoli, play/have played csgo, you know anything about astrology, your first name and last name start with the same letter, you have a car from the years 2004-2013, are good at first person shooters, main yellow in among us, don't know what the capital of belgium is, have never listened to pearl jam, are the first kid to be dropped off when you are being taken to school, wear contact lenses, like the feeling of velvet

ok but im actually angry that??? this is happening???? montero is NUMBER ONE p much everywhere but it’s getting. fucking taken down. this isn’t fair i swear to god

~ fire signs (aries, leo, sagittarius) can live in the fire of spirit because they have a type of flesh that allow them live in the fire;

~ earth signs (taurus, virgo, and capricorn) can live in the flowers because they have a type of flesh that allow them live amongst everything;

~air signs (gemini, libra, aquarius) can fly because they have that flesh that belongs to the air

~water signs (cancer, scorpio, pisces) have different flesh that allow them to live in the water and be mermaids

The shit just never ends huh

$10 says none of you even watched it. Ya'll are obsessed.

Ah yes. REAL racism. Not the kind of FAKE racism spread to mostly impressionable young white boys who parrot everything Felix says in a desperate attempt to be cool and popular with their peers and thus grow up thinking racism is humour. Not that racism.

From "Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel"

And that’s why “it’s just a joke” don’t mean shit to me

StopLine3

All k9 dogs are abused hands down if you post any pro k9 stuff on my dash you’re unfollowed I don’t care if we’ve been mutuals for years, you can claim to be anti-cop or a leftist or whatever but if you post k9 dogs with like “a good doggo! A good boy!” fuck off, if I lose followers over this then good riddance

It’s ALSO worth saying that police dogs serve a significant role in worsening police brutality. A dog trained to attack a human will maim them. A cop looses a police dog on someone, and that person is expected to peacefully cooperate while a dog is trying to tear their limbs off. It is very easy for those massive wounds to get infected. It is an absurd amount of violence. And beyond the initial attack, the fact that a “poor sweet innocent doggo” did this is used to excuse that brutality in court. Especially if the victim, panicking in the moment, lashed out at the dog. As this website has demonstrated many times, majority-white juries have more sympathies for injured dogs than the people of color who are most often victims of police brutality. So they’re not just systemic animal abuse, they’re also a tool for increased police brutality and to excuse

Police animals are weapons and should be treated as such, worthy of either destruction or seizure from the state.

Yeah while it definitely sucks that dogs are abused by police, I definitely agree with the replies here that the focus should be on the fact that they are used as horrific weapons to brutalize people.

In addition to using dogs to just straight up maul people, police use dogs as detectors for reasons to arrest you, and police frequently arrest people even if the dog doesn’t find anything but sent up an alert. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that dogs are dogs, no matter how well trained and will fuck up frequently. There’s been investigations that show police dogs are more concerned with pleasing their handler than actual evidence. Which makes sense, a dog doesn’t actually know what the significance of cocaine is, it just knows that sending alerts when their master is looking for things gives rewards.

multiple studies have shown that police dogs have false positive rates of 50% or more, meaning that half (or more) of the times the dogs detected something the people had no drugs on them whatsoever.

Dogs also learn what to perceive as a threat based on tension from their owner, and if their owner is racist (and that owner is a cop, so let’s be honest…) then, yes, the dog is gonna be racist. Which is a big deal when that dog is weaponized.

We need to make $300 to be able to make rent! I will be selling things on my store and taking on more freelance work to try and help! So, it's not all on you!!

Please reblog or share if you can! And please DM me if you have any ideas to help. Thank you so much, you guys have gotten Yazid and his family through so much loss, illness, and hunger. I have lots of plans for the future that I'm working towards to be able to contribute more, but right now, I'm still stunted by my health. If you want to ask for details of how I'm trying to help or how hard yazid is working, DM me or him.

Pay/pal: [email protected]

Cash/app and ve/nmo: savegodprovides

Gofund//me link is in the replies with image IDs! Thank you with my entire heart and soul!

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jennifer’s body not realistic bc if i had a demon friend who killed dumb ass men for sustenance i would let her like we can work that out

astrology observation: plutonians

Plutonian people often experience having to fight a destructive side of themselves, and this frequently seems to stem from early life experiences. There’s a duality to Plutonians, between who they want to be, or who they want to be seen as, and who they feel they are underneath. They often feel they have to keep parts of themselves hidden from others, and these rejected and repressed parts can feel like housing a caged beast inside themselves. Sometimes they can feel it stalking the halls of their soul.

Megan Thee Stallion for Calvin Klein (S/S, 2021)

SHE HIT EACH AND EVERY POINT

[TikTok by @haileyych, split between two people]

Person 1, in a Kagome from Inuyasha cosplay: [text on screen says “So ive been noticing ‘stop asian hate’ has been trending”] I’ve been noticing “stop Asian hate” has been trending…where’s the “stop all hate” people?

Person 2: She’s bringing up a really good point-why were white people so threatened by Black Lives Matter that they had to create a whole reactionary movement against it…but they’re not really making that big of a fuss over “stop Asian hate”?

It’s because “stop Asian hate” is empty. It doesn’t go after the root cause, which is the state and its institutions.

“Hate” implies interpersonal feelings and individuals, so the message is, “Oh! Just don’t be a crazy person and hate crime Asians” and the work is done. When Asian racism isn’t just hate, it’s a deliberate narrative crafted to justify imperialism and war.

The U.S. killed millions of Asians overseas. The only way you can maintain public support for that is by dehumanizing Asians at home.

But “hate” doesn’t address any of those systemic issues because you can just reduce it to “a bad apple”. And so the white corporate media can weaponize this to their advantage by saying, “Oh it’s just a black vs. Asian issue” all while leaving the larger systems of white supremacist violence intact.