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.

Donation season is coming up and this is important. I have friends who depend on help from shelters so this is important

When New Yorkers hear a violin 🤣🤣🕺🏾🔥

This is what I should think when they say “Boys will be boys”

Wholesome content~ xD

embodiment is a powerful intelligence 🖤🖤🖤

I’m wearing my binder for the first time ever. I’m really nervous about what my friends will say when they see me. I just hope no one notices, but if someone does, I hope they wish me luck.

Show your pride!

~°o0o°~

3/20: Appreciate a Hufflepuff today!

I am actually a Hufflepuff myself!

3/21: Let’s give Slytherin’s the love they need!

3/22: Gryffindor’s are amazing adventurers to have fun with!

3/23: Ravenclaw was actually what I thought I belonged to before I took the official Pottermore test

Show your pride!

~°o0o°~

3/20: Appreciate a Hufflepuff today!

I am actually a Hufflepuff myself!

3/21: Let’s give Slytherin’s the love they need!

3/22: Gryffindor's are amazing adventurers to have fun with!

Show your pride!

~°o0o°~

3/20: Appreciate a Hufflepuff today!

I am actually a Hufflepuff myself!

3/21: Let's give Slytherin's the love they need!

It’s science

Perhaps all of them

everytime you see this post you gotta compliment yourself!!!!!!!! at least once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha

every member of the lgbt+ community can

support and motivation is good!! it’s really good!!! but please don’t try to force anyone, coming out and how to come out is a decision for the individual to make by themselves!

me on ellen 

ellen: so i hear you’re a big fan of the fallout series

me: yeah 

*loud, thundering booms are heard from outside of the studio and a siren begins to wail as the audience breaks out into complete pandemonium* 

me: oh my god ellen you didn’t

This video has a 74.8% chance of giving you satisfaction

unmute

thoroughly satisfied

Line Rider Present Day

damn

The Green Dragontail butterflies

Best quality: his wiggles!

IM SORRY, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CREATURE NATURE HAS TO OFFER?!!?!

Amazing

"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

Apparently people are rediscovering this post somehow and I think that’s pretty cool! Having experienced similar violations of trust in my youth, this is an important issue to me, so I want to add my personal story:

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

Information about almost every issue that you think you have to snoop for can probably be obtained by communicating with and listening to your child.

Part of me is really excited to see that the original post got 200 notes because holy crap 200 notes, and part of me is really saddened that something so negative has resonated with so many people.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget children are people.

a platypus?

PERRY THE PLATYPUS??????

Sometimes I just start singing and my mom joins in

Whoa…

#don’t trust this #they’re probably sirens

These two are singing “O magnum mysterium” by Tomas Luis De Victoria! It’s a very pretty piece from the renaissance that has a lot of different voice parts singing totally different melodies that mesh well together. I sung tenor for a song of his as well. It sounds ethereal in cathedrals and bathrooms alike my opinion. Its the room’s ability to bounce sound and make it resonate, giving it it’s “mermaid siren” like quality. It sounds great. Congratulations, you both! Sounds very pretty and seems like a fun time to clean with things like that.

yes its back on my dash

god lol

I always reblog the bathroom sirens <3 

The bathroom sirens.

I was uncontrollably hype when I recognized this song in chorus the other week.

If this is how sirens sound I’d surely die because I’d approach these beautiful voices.

I’m so glad that I wasn’t alone in having my first thought be “sirens”

oh my god they sound so pretty-

this is too heavenly sounding for my ears, I don’t deserve it

For the bathroom sirens!!

this tip tho!!!!!!!!

I need to try this for trips I only bring a carry-on to.

I use to do this all the time in the military. Just forgot how to over time o.o

I wish I’d known about this when I was homeless.

I could’ve taught it to all the other ladies at the shelter and Darlene could’ve sucked a sour one because she never would have been able to bitch at us for “having too many clothes.”

reblogging this to have it forever because holy god damn