Probably one of the worst ways you could start your adulthood is by completely withdrawing from your education, career, and social life to go run around a lobotomization camp and get degraded by emotionally stunted grown men for 2 years
The reason many Venezuelans like me are taking donations in our own hands it’s bc MANY ONGs here being controlled by the regime and there’s no guarantee that the aids would arrive on time or arrive at all
Be very mindful where you put your money on 🫂
Hi. Nelsonmom here! I popped into the @PetSmart in Victoria, TX (store #1449) on a whim and found this: water so putrid you can’t even see the bettas through the cloud of their own waste. One was floating at the top of their cup, on the edge of death.
Do you know how many DAYS of neglect it takes for water to get like this? In cups this small, water changes should happen once a day, at a minimum.
Every time a fish breathes out, they produce ammonia into this closed system. When they breathe it back in, it burns their gills. It *hurts*. It causes psychological stress and organ damage.
Every. Single. Breath.
Treating fish like this at the start of their journey sets them up for shorter lives, weaker immune systems, and greater susceptibility to illness, even if they’re lucky enough to get a perfect owner and setup (and many of them will not get the perfect owner and setup).
I asked an employee in the fish department when they’re going to chance the bettas’ water — that they’re “rotting in their own waste” — and I received the most disinterested, uncaring “soon” of all time.
Meanwhile there was a cart of freshly-unboxed bettas in their medicated, Methylene blue water nearby. The latest recruits in a chain of corporate cruelty that sees living animals as disposable products.
Betta fish are the most delightful, wonderful creatures with unique personalities. It sickens me to my CORE to see a dozen+ little lives as valuable as my late Apollo’s. He is a betta (from a breeder, not a big box store) that I loved so much, I still cry about him FOUR years after his death.
I know retail associates are underpaid and overworked. But if you stock LIVING, FEELING creatures as products in your stores, your first priority should be their welfare. If you can’t do that, you should not sell animals. Period.
Like, give me a bottle of water conditioner and 30 fucking minutes and I’ll change the water for free myself. Zero excuse for this.
Nelson fans and animal lovers, please let @PetSmart know how you feel about this.
this is very serious and could change the internet as we know it FOREVER. if you don’t want to have to upload your government ID just to use the internet at all, lock in and contact your reps.
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supergirl is for WOMEN
it's so satisfying to see a female character who is interesting and powerful with real internal struggles, a woman helping a girl just because that's what we do
the movie has issues, sure, but so does most acclaimed superhero movies
“dont give money to the homeless person they’re just gonna buy drugs and alcohol” fuck, i’d buy drugs and alcohol if i was homeless too i don’t care what an adult does with their money
begging artists to stop selling $50 tour posters without a way to keep them from getting damaged during the show. if you’re not using poster tubes, at least have plastic sleeves. rubber bands do nothing when you’re all packed together in a stadium 😭
the first massive pizza mukbang was supposed to be the last ever dan and phil collaboration ever. here we are now with the third one being recorded to announce their fourth world tour together, this one celebrating them being collaboratively gay together.
Important note: the number in the tweet is wrong.
It's this: (202) 224-3121
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If you can't do a call, emailing is also an option.
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This Monday at 6:30 pm the House is voting on the KIDS Act, including KOSA.
This entire weekend and leading up to that vote, those phones need to be ringing off the hook. This is our ONE chance at stopping it in the House. Fill up those voicemails, now.
202-224-3121