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Corwin’s Follow Forever! Whether we’re mutuals or not, these are some blogs that I really appreciated this year and loved them showing up on my dash. I’m thankful for all of you equally, and I’m so, SO sorry if I left anyone out by accident. Whether we talk a lot, have never spoken at all, or communicate subtly through likes and reblogs and ask games, I tried to get in everyone that I could. There were actually a lot more of you than I thought! I’m very fortunate to have such a diverse friend group here on hockeyblr, or at least a diverse mutual group, and I know people from all sides. You’re all great, thanks for making 2020 an amazing year for me <3!

Hey all, a little Social Media PSA if you have the Facebook App on your phone. 

With the last update, Facebook began tracking something called ‘off-Facebook Activity’ which keeps up with all apps and browsing you do off of Facebook and collects that information with the purpose of targeting ads… which means they’re selling it to ad agencies. This includes access to any banking apps on your phone and your spending habits. 

 Not only is this a major breech of privacy that Facebook didn’t have to tell us about when they updated the app, it’s, of course, automatically turned on. 

From Facebook, go to the Menu by clicking on the three horizontal lines on the top right of the screen.

Scroll down to the bottom and select the Settings & Privacy drop-down menu.

Then select Settings (the first option under the drop-down).

This will take you to a screen showing multiple headers with lists of links under them

Scroll down to Your Facebook Information and select Off-Facebook Activity.

The next page has a short explanation of Off-Facebook Activity. Click Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity after the What You Can Do header.

This will take you to a screen with an option to Clear History (which I recommend). To actually turn off this feature, you will have to click the three dots at the top right of the screen and select the Manage Future Activity option that pops up.

This will take you to a page explaining in more detail what they’re doing. Select the Manage Future Activity at the bottom of the page.

THEN you can finally select the toggle to turn off Future Off-Facebook Activity. 

Fun fact: I’ve apparently spent so long by myself in quarantine/using my "please take me seriously as a professional” voice at work that I’ve forgotten how normal people speak, so thank you to @bellemareyouserious for reminding me how to be a real person

#1: we just had a one-night stand but a massive storm hit so now we’re snowed in, hello awkward

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. The plan was to go with your best friend to the local bar, pick up a random guy, have some wild, casual sex, and then get back home. The first three steps had gone to plan, but Mother Nature had put a hold on step four by deciding it was a good time for a snowstorm. So now, three hours later, you found yourself awkwardly on the other end of the couch from your hookup, whose name you unfortunately had forgotten approximately five minutes after he told you at the bar.

“Want anything to drink? I have beer, gatorade, and coffee.” He walked into the kitchen, rummaging around in the cupboards, finally triumphantly holding up a box of teabags that looked like they’d been in the cabinet for more than a few years. “And some tea that my mom bought when she visited.”

“Beer's good, thank you.”

PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)

FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)

Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)

They are selling hilarious shirts and all the proceeds go to the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network‼️‼️‼️

i know tumblr doesn’t give a SHIT when things happen in countries outside the “most popular ones” (such as the usa & england). it’s true, don’t lie to me. y’all don’t give A FUCK. not every issue and problem in said countries gets the appropriate exposure but in general shit shows up on the news WORLD FREAKING  WIDE. you set up donations, you help out, your spread the word, you say “pray for x”……

southern europe is burning. 

my country is burning.

people are dying - at home, on the road, trying to run away, in their cars.

yesterday my country had 300 active fires.

people are losing EVERYTHING they own.

i have a friend that is on a train right now passing through places that have been burnt to the ground and she says the smoke is so intense it’s getting inside the train and she can barely breathe.

and yet, even though several people (myself included) have been trying to bring awareness to what has been happening in southern europe… what we get from most of you, those not part of the countries suffering, is silence. we don’t ask for money, we don’t ask for shit other than a reblog to spread awareness… something you can delete in 24/48hrs if you wish. 

i don’t know what to tell you. i’m angry. i’m frustrated. i’m disappointed. i feel like i’m screaming into the void. “a reblog does nothing” - you know that’s a damn lie, you know exposure always helps, you know people start paying attention when posts on social media become popular. my country in particular is a small one, we get ZERO exposure. y’all are only starting to figure out we even fucking exist bc of the shit we’ve been winning lately. 

but hell, if the EU doesn’t give a shit, why should some user on tumblr dot com?

again, i don’t know what to tell you so i’ll let the images speak for themselves: 

An image captured by a Nasa satellite shows a thick plume of smoke blowing southward from the Greek island of Chios over the island of Crete

Torneros de Jamuz, Spain

Duca, Croatia

A helicopter from Italy’s civil protection service drops water on a fire near the railway between Venice and Trieste

Residents take refuge on the beach as a wildfire burns on the mountain next to the village of Lithi, on the Greek island of Chios

Men gather cattle during a forest fire in Vieira de Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal.

Charred trees are seen on the hills above the Cloister of Thivaidas on Mount Athos, a World Heritage Site in Greece

Portugal