anonymous leaked bolsonaro’s private info including his credit card number and someone on twitter bought a whole ass macbook pro with it. yes. a person bought an macbook pro with the president’s credit card. this country really isn’t for beginners
uh oh not me yelling at tumblr again
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If you’re not aware of what’s happening in the Philippines right now then you need to read about it because it’s important.
I know people hate having to go the lengths of googling or yahooing things themselves, so I’m gonna make it so!! easy!!!
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Here are links to read about what is happening:
Washington Post
The Guardian
CNA
CNN
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How can I help?
Link to a carrd full of organisations to donate to
Here’s a link to a Tumblr post full of more places to donate to
Or just scroll through the #ph-typhoon / #donate tags for more donation resources/info!
https://nikov.tumblr.com/tagged/ph-typhoon
https://nikov.tumblr.com/tagged/donate
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How can I help (if I can’t donate)? Use your platforms to spread donation links and information about what’s happening, please!!
— (and I’m not talking about bare minimum! go HARD with boosting donation links and information! I’m talking 10 posts a day! if you can queue 30+ edits of yabooks then you can queue 10 posts of important resources!)
• watch this playlist of videos!
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The US elections are over and though I know Tumblr likes to focus on US-centric drama and news, you have to pay Southeast Asia attention.
People are dying from this typhoon and their homes are being flooded ON TOP of having to deal with a pandemic.
There are videos out there of people crying for help and whole areas being flooded.
For contextualisation: Keep in mind that Typhoon Ulysses is roughly equivalent to a Category-2 Hurricane.
** please feel free add to this post! if there are any inaccuracies in this post please tell me and I’ll edit it. thank you!
my parents aren’t teaching me life lessons.
#i need some adults to TEACH ME SHIT ABOUT LIFE
Saw this on Twitter and needed to share! Covid hasn't disappeared, so please be extra careful if you go protesting! And if you feel ill, please, please find other ways to support the cause until you're sure you're covid-free. If you have covid, staying home can help save Black lives.
Things are very dire. The world is aflame. Our political will is in tatters. But despite all this, there are leverage points, where a small intervention can have gigantic consequences.
One of these is an obscure political race in Texas.
It’s been 26 years since a Democrat was elected to the Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state oil and gas industry, whose practices are lethally dirty, even by the industry’s own homicidal standards.
https://capitalandmain.com/race-obscure-texas-office-could-have-lasting-impact-climate-change-0910
Particularly egregious is Texas’s world-killing flaring process - burning off usable gas and creating massive amounts of CO2 for no useful purpose, merely because it is inconvenient to capture it - in 2018, West Texas flared enough gas to power the whole state for the year.
For the first time in a generation, one of the three seats on the board that oversaw a transition from responsible capture to toxic, reckless flaring might go to a Dem.
The Democratic candidate is Chrysta Castañeda, the superlawyer who got T Boone Pickens $145m from the partners who ripped him off.
Her GOP opponent is bizarre: Jim Wright, who primaried the GOP incumbent. Wright’s company paid a $181k fine for violating commission rules.
Wright - who, recall, is running for a seat on the commission - owns DeWitt Recyclable Products, a company that “toxic waste to pile up and leak into the soil.”
It’s also been repeatedly sued by oilfield operators for fraud.
Wright is a staunch proponent of flaring, insisting in print that “If you do away with flaring today with no other technology, that would shut our oil business down.” (This is not true)
The Railroad Commission is a century-old, extremely powerful bulwark against pollution, and it can only grant licenses to flare if all three commissioners agree. A single commissioner COULD END ALL TEXAS FLARING.
Castañeda is a long-time opponent of flaring. Her work led to ex-commissioner Ryan Sitton publishing a report that called out the worst flarers, and the oil industry promptly raised a war-chest to mount a primary challenge against him, creating this competitive race.
“Wright, who won the primary with barely $12k on hand compared with Sitton’s $2m, now has more than $400k in his campaign bank, much of it from employees of the sectors he intends to regulate. (Castañeda has slightly more than $120k)” -Judith Lewis Mernit/Capital and Main
Here’s Castañeda’s campaign site. I just made a donation - these leverage points are few and far between, and we can’t waste ‘em.
https://www.chrystafortexas.com/meet/
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listen, my social worker “woke” gay roommate called the cops on me when i had a psychotic break. that was his first reaction. he didn’t attempt to contact my friends or family first. he also illegally prevented me from entering our apartment to pick up any of my furniture or personal belongings. at that point, he knew more about psychosis than i did because it was first episode psychosis. social workers are absolutely violent to people with psychosis. i don’t want to see that post supporting them replacing police or other services again.
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