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Time Sensitive- Apply before August 25th, 2023 (8/25/23)!

Filing a claim takes less than ten minutes, and can be done HERE

Excerpt from article:

Anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years can now collect a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations — as long as they fill out a claim on a website set up to pay out money to the social network's users. 

The settlement stems from multiple lawsuits that were brought against Facebook by users who claimed that the company improperly shared their data with third-party sources such as advertisers and data brokers. The litigation began after Facebook was embroiled in a privacy scandal in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica, which scraped user data from the site as part of an effort to profile voters.

Meta denied any liability or wrongdoing under the settlement, according to the recently created class-action website. However, the agreement means that U.S. residents who used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, can file a monetary claim as long as they do so before August 25, 2023. 

Please reblog to signal boost this! As many people as possible should know about this to make their claim, if you don't do anything you don't get anything. It takes less than ten minutes to file and pick your payment option including pay/pal and ven/mo .

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My thoughts are killing me

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you become a bit dumber when you’re on your period because your brain is too busy fantasizing about reaching into your body and ripping out your uterus with your bare hands follow for more science facts

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…and invariably I will at times randomly drop the work so a and you will see the gremlin within

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What Native people say about the use of sage: you can use sage, but you cannot smudge as nothing you are doing (waving sage around) is actually smudging. Smudging is a ceremony and you are, we promise, not smudging. Please buy sage from either us, or someone who sources the sage from us. White sage may not be considered endangered by the US government but corperate sourcing is making it difficult for us to source sage for our own religious purposes. Let alone to sell it.

What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.

Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.

1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.

2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.

3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.

I’m tired of this nonsense, y’all.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk ™

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I often wonder what happened to authors of unfinished fanfictions.

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Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.” 

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Where in the world did we go wrong?

 The whole world seems to be just going completely.... I don't know the word to describe it, and insane just sounds too bland a word.  The world just no longer seems normal, what with the need for all these hashtags; #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo and the like.  How is it we need to make people aware that, yes, serving beer in open cups and leaving it in the open where it can be easily tampered with and drugged to send innocent victims to the ER or worse (I'm looking at you here, TwitchCon!) is NOT A GOOD IDEA?!  How can we still have people who are responsible for deciding a person's guilt allow that person to get away with such heinous things just based on what the victim was wearing, or the accused sports prospects?  

   I finally got around to watching the series, Surviving R. Kelly, and whilst I am only around four episodes in, I can't help but to feel completely sickened by the stories told by the survivors of this behaviour.  But what made me feel the most disgusting is how people defending these crimes.  Like the juror who voted NOT GUILTY in the infamous trial simply because of the clothes worn by the witnesses, and most importantly, by the 14 year old in that video.  A 14 year old was deemed to not be a victim of a child molester in a case with damming video evidence because of her clothes.  

   And this is me being horrified and saddened for these girls from a documentary on freaking NETFLIX of all things!!!  I'm a quite privileged white girl from the UK, and whilst I have experienced sexual abuse from a person I trusted,  I cannot begin to imagine this situation that these girls found, and continue to find, themselves in.  And I am so sorry to all my sisters of colour, that your voices have not yet been heard, and will not be until at least your stories are listened to and heard with the same gravity that a white woman's is.  For all the sexism that we all face as women, I get it that my voice as a white woman is more likely to be heard than that of a POC, and that is what needs to end.  

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ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

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A GUIDE TO MAKING EFFECTIVE SLIDES aka how to create presentation slides that actually improve your presentation

By Eintsein

(apologies for the variation in image quality. idk what went wrong with tumblr)

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Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

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Amazon having one of their numerous corporate bots pretend to have depression is one of the most disgusting and dystopian things I can think of tbh.

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Reblog to save a life, and please retweet if you have Twitter.

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Everyone is born with 3 dates on their wrist. One represents when you will accomplish your life’s goal, one is when you will meet your soulmate, and one is when you will die right down to the second. Yours are all the same day within a minute of each other.