so as it turns out, staff never actually removed the fanmail feature like they said they were going to, they just removed the link on each person’s blog that made it possible to send fanmail, but it’s still entirely possible to actually send it if you just go to blogname.tumblr.com/send
the system is still there, they just removed the button for it
it’s like that lady who deleted the internet explorer icon i’m crying
DO NOT KISS A GIRL WHEN SHES MAD i am so tired of media portraying this as a good way to end an argument okie when ur partner is mad and yelling at u do not just kiss them to shut them up and make up okie how about u just fucking listen to your partner when theyre trying to tell u somethign
A guy is taking his girlfriend to prom. He waits in the ticket line for a really long time but gets them. He goes to rent a limo. The rental line is really long but he eventually does it. He goes to buy her flowers. The line at the florist is really long but eventually he gets the flowers. At prom, she asks him to go get punch. He goes to the refreshment table and there’s no punchline.
Reasons not to donate to Salvation Army this holiday season:
They don’t pay their female pastors. (Their wages get added to their husbands’ paychecks.)
They turn away gay people from homeless services and other programs.
They fire people for having mental illnesses.
This sounds sketchy as heck.
The first claim requires their female pastors to be married to another member of the Salvation Army to even be possible, much less true, and none of the claims are sourced.
I’ve done a quick Google search on all three claims and wasn’t able to find anything I’d consider definite proof of any of these claims. Individual instances of the SA fucking up, yeah, but nothing that makes it seem like any of these claims are actual policy for the organization as a whole, and even a few “oh shit oh shit we’re sorry that’s not how we do things” on their part.
For years they had “MARRIAGE IS FOR STRAIGHTS ONLY” horseshit on their official website, but that’s since been taken down. Whether it was an epiphany of conscience or PR, I can’t say. But they’re still getting caught funding anti-gay stuff all of the time. Sometimes legislation restricting gay rights, sometimes conversion therapy organizations.
And like most cults, if you marry outside of the Salvation Army, they kick you out.
Granted, the original post should have cited its’ sources. But it is no secret that these people are demonstrably monstrous. I don’t understand why Google failed to give you any of this information.
The Salvation Army also regularly refuses to release their tax information for purposes of transparency. Religious organizations don’t have to, so they are within their rights by law in the US, but any org that wants me to give them money and then won’t prove where they’re spending it is super suspect.
The US branch still has (or had, six months ago) “gay sex is wrong” sentiments in their bylaws, although they claim they will allow queer people into their shelters and/or organization as long as they remain entirely celibate. In reality that tends to translate to *points up* and also has been read by some Salvation Army officers as an insistence that trans people present as their assigned-at-birth gender in order to be admitted.
There are so many better local and national charities you can give your money to. Don’t be suckered by the kettles.
Whenever I reblog or post information about the Salvation Army I always get a lot of “THEY’RE DOING GOOD LEAVE THEM ALONE” bullshit, so I’ll just pre-emptively respond: Yes, of course they do some good. For very specific people. Under very specific circumstances. I’m not saying you shouldn’t support charities that help people. But why would you support a charity that won’t help all people, including some of the most vulnerable? Why would you support a charity that won’t tell you what it actually does with your money? (I mean, despite their boasts about the frugality of their officers, we know what they do with some of the larger gifts they receive.)
The options aren’t “Salvation Army or nothing”. Just take the money you’d have given to them and give it to an organization that doesn’t turn away those in need from its door and claim that’s God’s will. This isn’t rocket fuckin’ science.
Samus Aran amiibos can open the ticket barriers of Moscow Vyacheslav train station, without needing a ticket.
This is due to an oddly specific RFID in the amiibo that just syncs up correctly enough to the train station’s own reader. But what I like to say the real reason for this is
Samus don’t need no fucking authorisation so FUCK YOU ADAM
FUCK YOU AND YOUR DEAD MILITARY ASS BITCH I DON’T NEED NO AUTHORISATION
I’M FUCKING SAMUS
“Any objections, Putin?”
Can’t believe that Samus’ scan visor does unlock irl stuff.
how did someone even find this out. ‘fuck no ticket, let me in samus’
