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Space Shroom for getting so high, you’d be out of the exosphere ⭐🌟✨
ID: digital art of purple mushrooms with stars on on the mushroom caps. End ID.
it should be illegal to tow a car as punishment and i’m not even kidding
you park in the wrong spot somewhere. maybe at a friend’s apartment complex, or at a store when you’re actually walking somewhere else, or whatever. they could ticket you—still charge you a fine for parking where you’re not supposed to. but instead, in a far more crippling way than a fine (which is already hard enough for low income people), they call a third party and steal your car. so you have lost your means of transportation, which you will only learn the next time you need your car, because they don’t have any need or care to notify you.
so first, you have to figure out which towing company they used. which you can only do if the place that decided your car was in the wrong spot is still open, or if you can get someone on the phone.
assuming you figure out which company towed your car, which one time took me over an hour on its own because the number on the signs warning about towing in the parking lot was a dead number, you then have to figure out how to get there. without a car. god help you if you don’t have someone in your support network to pick you up or public transportation, because most of the time it’s at least a mile away.
you find a way to get there, you call them to see if your car is even really there, and they tell you they won’t give your car back until you pay them. how much? well, it’s not regulated, so they can pretty much say whatever number they goddamn feel like. i recently got towed by a company infamous in my college town and they charged me a whopping $180–half of my paycheck for two weeks during the school year. when the same company towed my brother last year, and we both have the same sized cars, they charged him $300. they don’t have to justify the charge, they don’t have any itemized receipt, because what are you going to do? not pay it? you have to get to work and you’re already short on time because you had to walk to the goddamn towing place or have someone come get you to bring you there or spend an hour on the phone with different people trying to figure out where the fuck your car was in the first place.
it’s extortionate. it’s absolutely insane that they can, without exaggeration, steal someone’s car and hold it for ransom under the assumption that you will pay anything to get it back, because of the extent to which our society is dependent on cars.
This happened to me so we just abandoned the car cuz we couldn't get it out, which means they sold it off. This was way back in 2016/2017 I think.
And a few days ago a debt collector had us served for the almost $10k we still have on the car.
So yeah not only will they steal it and sell it but you will still also have to pay for it anyway.
Because you parked in the wrong spot for an hour or two.
I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but intrusive thoughts are basically your brain’s (sometimes very upsetting) way of saying “If there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what?”
I’ve personally found that adding the “would that be fucked or what?” part in myself really helps put the more disturbing thoughts we sometimes get into perspective. Helps me say “yeah thar sure would be fucked up” and move on with my day.
It’s not a secret desire, it’s not something that only occurs to you because you’re a bad person. It’s just your brain deciding to process the fact that it knows an uncomfortable thing exists in the world by feeding it to you in an absurd “what if” with you as the main character.
I don't know what the point of this new feature is but I'm obsesseed with it.
moderation in all things except sex and intoxicants and shirking your responsibilities and profaning the name of god
Scotland is the best thing to have ever happened (ty for the reblogs/likes holy heck ima jus bein silly lil bean :3)
LETS HEAR IT FOR WOMEN WITH FLAT CHESTS CAN WE GET APPLAUSE FOR WOMEN WITH FLAT CHESTS
my work shoes fell apart so I no longer have shoes comfortable enough to get me through a workday without causing me pain
I can get a replacement pair, tax in, delivered to me for 115 CAD
if anyone can donate to help me cover that, it would mean the world to me, especially since I have work this friday
or dm for etransfer
thank you!! 115/115 CAD
hi hello I'm sorry to do this again but my next credit card payment is due before my next paycheck so I'm in need of help
I'm trying to raise 450 CAD, which I'll keep track of below
thank you to anyone who can help me out, either by donating or sharing!
6/450 CAD
I've been told before you shouldn't talk about politics or religion on a date because it might make things awkward, so I try to touch on both, partly because those are genuinely interesting subjects and partly because "bad first date" seems a thousand times better than "finding out six months later that you've fucked a staunchly conservative fundamentalist".
Like yeah disagreements are uncomfortable but you know what's worse? Waking up next to a dipshit
Gays used to be better at boycotting shit. Like we boycotted orange juice and sent Anita Bryant PACKING, 50 years before "cancel culture" when gay sex was still illegal, and now in a time of unprecedented "visibility" Paris Hilton can still headline pride events even after saying "gay men are disgusting and probably all have AIDS," and every Connor and Tanner on the internet is still posting about how "homophobic chicken hits different 💅"
Happy Pollinator week to the Baltic Isopod, the first underwater pollinator discovered by science! Lab studies imply that their activities help pollinate seagrass and macroalgea. Is there anything isopods can't do?
"how dare you say we piss on the poor" is honestly like. a god tier post of all time. beyond a world heritage post. it is on par with like, the old testament. to me
girl i am not looking at your tits i prommy i just hate eye contact
"my eyes are up here" believe me, i know
best thing tumblr ever did for me is the term "rotating it in my mind". it's really true that sometimes you think about something real hard but you can't tell what the thoughts are exactly. it's revolutionary stuff, i might even say
sometimes the subject of your thoughts is just in this thing
Ah, there it is!
The TUMBLER!
The tumblr blorbo in the blorbo tumbler.
For the first time an investigation has linked collagen powder to violence against Indigenous peoples in Brazilian forests
The stench arrives before the lorries do. They are carrying skins that were stripped from cattle carcasses days ago. Flies are everywhere.
The lorries’ destination is Amparo, a small industrial town in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. Here, Rousselot, a company owned by the Texan business Darling Ingredients, extracts collagen – the active ingredient in health supplements at the centre of a global wellness craze.
But while collagen’s most evangelical users claim the protein can improve hair, skin, nails and joints, slowing the ageing process, it has a dubious effect on the health of the planet. Collagen can be extracted from fish, pig and cattle skin, but behind the wildly popular “bovine” variety in particular lies an opaque industry driving the destruction of tropical forests and fuelling violence and human rights abuses in the Brazilian Amazon.
An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the Guardian, ITV and O Joio e O Trigo has found that tens of thousands of cattle raised on farms damaging tropical forests were processed at abattoirs connected to international collagen supply chains.
Some of this collagen can be traced all the way to Nestlé-owned Vital Proteins, a major producer of collagen supplements championed by the actress Jennifer Aniston. Vital Proteins is sold globally – including online on Amazon, in Walmart stores in the US, in Holland & Barrett and Boots in the UK and in Costco in both countries.
The investigation – the first to connect bovine collagen with tropical forest loss and violence against Indigenous peoples – found at least 2,600 sq km of deforestation linked to the supply chains of two Brazil-based collagen operations with connections to Darling: Rousselot and Gelnex, which is in the process of being acquired by Darling for $1.2bn. It is unclear how much of this deforestation, which was calculated by the Center for Climate Crime Analysis, is linked to Vital Proteins.
Also collagen supplements like. Literally do not work. Not that this would be remotely okay if they did, but also like. They really really don't.
As someone who works with a lot of biologists and biochemists you can mention collagen supplements to them and watch their eyes immediately go red with rage as they launch into an impromptu lecture on how THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS. Just because you consume collagen doesn't mean your body can actually USE IT it like that. You literally might as well just take capsules of protein powder instead, at least then your body doesn't have to work to try and break it down itself. Which is what it will do to the collagen. It won't just go "oh free collagen" and use it. It'll break it down into smaller proteins and amino acids best it can and then use those for literally whatever and dispose of the rest. It will not provide or produce more collagen specifically. You are just taking the shittiest most inefficient protein powder possible.
Collagen supplements are a scam and a lie. A scam that is apparently also contributing to environmental harm and racist exploitation and violence.
Source: thebureauinvestigates.com
coworker told me he “hates all mollusks” today. and to each their own obviously but like… theres 100k species of mollusk… you really hate all of them bro? nautiluses and oysters and snails and nudibranches and chitons and thousands of animals youve never even heard of???? what did ammonites even fucking do to you
he hates sea bunny?
AND leaf sheep??
pro tip for disabled people (especially autistic people) that i just realized after literal years of chronic illness...
when a health professional asks how you're doing, it's not small talk. they want to know how your health has been. do not reply "good." if you seem them for chronic pain, talk about your pain. if you see them for mental health, tell them how you've been feeling. etc. etc. again... don't reply "good." jump right into it and be honest about your health.