Dark Side of the Joon

A tumbl through my brain

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart

stfuconservatives:

A new app allows you to scan a product in the supermarket aisle and learn who exactly is behind that box of cereal. More impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott groups of companies who may have lobbied against a cause you believe in.

I couldn’t scream SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY fast enough at this. And it’s free! Due to all the traffic, the app is down right now - the developer says he’s getting more than 10 new users every second. Download it! Vote with your wallet!

I have this and I loooooove it. It helped me change my baby’s formula from Similac, whose parent company had dropped over $200k to make it so they wouldn’t have to label my baby’s food as having GMO. I don’t know if it does or not, but that’s a bad sign, right? Later assholes. My money is voting on a different candidate now.

(via kristinastewartcolbert)

House Republicans will hold a 37th vote to repeal Obamacare. Because doing something over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and expecting a desired result and being petulant about not getting it is the definition of partisan insanity.

They’re going to look really fucking stupid when the ACA becomes one of the best things to ever happen to the citizens of our country and their only legacy is that they voted 37 times to stop it from ever happening.

(Source: inothernews)

beben-eleben: There once was a young boy with a very bad temper. The boy’s father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence. On the first day of this lesson, the little boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. He was really mad! Over the course of the next few weeks, the little boy began to control his temper, so the number of nails that were hammered into the fence dramatically decreased. It wasn’t long before the little boy discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Then, the day finally came when the little boy didn’t lose his temper even once, and he became so proud of himself, he couldn’t wait to tell his father. Pleased, his father suggested that he now pull out one nail for each day that he could hold his temper. Several weeks went by and the day finally came when the young boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. Very gently, the father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. “You have done very well, my son,” he smiled, “but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.” The little boy listened carefully as his father continued to speak. “When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you’re sorry, the wounds will still be there.”

beben-eleben:

There once was a young boy with a very bad temper. The boy’s father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence.

On the first day of this lesson, the little boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. He was really mad!

Over the course of the next few weeks, the little boy began to control his temper, so the number of nails that were hammered into the fence dramatically decreased.

It wasn’t long before the little boy discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Then, the day finally came when the little boy didn’t lose his temper even once, and he became so proud of himself, he couldn’t wait to tell his father.

Pleased, his father suggested that he now pull out one nail for each day that he could hold his temper.

Several weeks went by and the day finally came when the young boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

Very gently, the father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

“You have done very well, my son,” he smiled, “but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.”

The little boy listened carefully as his father continued to speak.

“When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you’re sorry, the wounds will still be there.”

(via littleblackkittycat)

thumbcramps:

I’ve had enough.

I have a friend named Kaitlan: she’s beautiful and kind and is a great cosplayer, and she’s been getting these slipped under her apartment door for months.

I asked her if I could make this post because I’ve been seeing this happening and I just want something to be done. Whether it’s people supporting her or someone telling her how to get this to stop. How to get these people to get the punishment they deserve.

She has literally done anything that she knows to do. She even went to the police:

They told her to come back if it got more serious. What does that even MEAN? Apparently, someone has to actually kill themselves for this to be serious to the police. 

Apparently, this behavior is acceptable at Indiana University of PA. Apparently, this behavior is acceptable to the Indiana County Police. Apparently, bullying like this is completely acceptable until someone ends up dead.

I’m just absolutely infuriated right now. This should not go unpunished. Absolutely fucking not.

I have to reblog this if only to comment and say that until I read the commentary, I thought based on the pictures that IUP was an *elementary school*. I honestly believed that these were typed by children my daughter’s age. She is 8. I thought, “What vicious little assholes.”

But sadly, these are not vicious little assholes. These are vicious giant assholes with the IQ and verbal skills of 8 year olds. Don’t ever kill yourself over the opinion of college age adults with the IQs of 8 year olds. I mean, don’t kill yourself regardless, but if you seriously waste even a moment of your time hurting because of the words of people whose upbringing and alcohol intake has lowered their developmental capacity to these levels, you are doing yourself a grave injustice.

Oh, and also, giraffes are not ugly they are majestic. Suck on that. 

(via size10plz)

A key part of feeling lonely is feeling rejected, and that, it turns out, is the most damaging part. Psychologists discovered this by, among other things, studying the experience of gay men during the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, when the condition was knocking out their immune systems, and, as it seemed at first, only theirs. The nation ignored the crisis for a while, then panicked. Soon, people all over the country were calling for gay men to be quarantined.

—

Judith Shulevitz / The New Republic

Who knew TNR does science writing? This article is excellent, with a great deal of information about loneliness brought together in accessible language.

(via wateringgoodseeds)

Agreed. Fascinating read.

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

the-absolute-best-posts: infinitylooper: Something to think about: The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years. We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago. In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests. This isn’t sustainable. I’m not a hippie or anything but that shit made my brain explode.

the-absolute-best-posts:

infinitylooper:

Something to think about:

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years.
We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.

This isn’t sustainable.

I’m not a hippie or anything but that shit made my brain explode.

(Source: astroandscience, via littleblackkittycat)