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fangorn-forest

her eyes were the sickly green of the sky before a tornado, and to his horror he discovered she could throw cows around just as easily

that-house

to his horror? weak shit. outta my way gayboy im boutta get it

that-house

all of our trobles seem so small from up here

bananonbinary

tony's chocolonely mildly pisses me off every time i eat it. like yeah i get it ur doing a whole symbolism thing about unfairness and whatever, but its actually SO DIFFICULT to eat fucking. gerrymandered chocolate. your symbolism is ruining my chocolate experience.

who approved this.

bananonbinary

like. ur already more expensive. i understand this. i am willing to pay more money to have slave-free delicious chocolate. why must you punish me further by making it a goddamn puzzle to break a piece off.

closet-keys

Tony's Chocolonely does not ensure a living wage for cocoa workers in West Africa (see 2020 report by Voice Network).

Food Empowerment Project maintains an updated list of chocolate brands they recommend based on the following standards:

transparency about the country of origin for cocoa

if sourced from Western Africa, the workers must own the companies/be in charge of the profits from their labor (this standard is because child labor and slavery have been widely documented for decades in this area)

if sourced from Brazil, the workers must own the company and/or be in charge of the profits from their labor, or the company must be going above and beyond to support the workers and their families (this standard is because "child labor and slavery only recently have been documented in cocoa in Brazil" and they are "giving Brazilian companies that are trying to address the issue by supporting the workers and their families the benefit of the doubt.")

this isn't perfect, obviously, but it is much more grounded in the rights of workers than the various certifications (e.g. Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc.) you'll see on product packaging

aloofraven

I think it should be noted that the Food Empowerment Project specifically only lists companies making "at least one vegan chocolate product" and that they only ask about the companies' vegan chocolates specifically. Their list is not an exhaustive resource for every type of chocolate.

[Source: "Understanding Our Chocolate List" from their website]

Before I found that link I was curious as to why I didn't see any Norwegian manufacturers on their list(which makes sense now, as their chocolates are almost exclusively milk chocolate) and looked up where our companies source their chocolate from and found Nidar gets theirs from the Rainforest Alliance and Freia from Cocoa Life, both of which have been under scrutiny for not preventing child labour and not paying farmers a living wage among other things. So it appears Norwegian chocolate is out of the ethical picture.

roninnozlo

I stated this in the comments of the post already, but it’d probably be better to add it as a reblog, so it’s more visible and doesn’t need to be restated by anyone else in the future.

So, Tony’s allied with Barry Callebut to get its cocoa. Barry Callebut is one of the biggest chocolate companies in the world, and it is unethical, obviously. This led to Tony’s revealing in February 2022 that 1701 child laborers were in their supply chain. Barry Callebut had over 21K at the time. Both of those numbers have risen, and Tony’s has outright admitted they don’t give a fuck about child labor laws when asked about it, content to let children to continue farming their cocoa instead of actually doing the activism they claim to do. (business-humanrights.org, feb 6 2022)

About a week ago, Tony’s joined Barry, Nestle and Ferrero in pushing against the reinstatement of important EUDR deforestation legislations. Under that regulation that they pushed against, they would’ve had to be more transparent about their supply chains for their more key ingredients - So Tony’s is lobbying against the exact thing they claim to stand for. (confectioneryproduction.com, mar 18, 2026)

Won’t restate @closet-keys’s addition, of course. That’d just be redundant and maybe annoying since, yknow, it’s already been said.

If you wanna find a better chocolate brand it’s really damn easy. There’s lists on slavefreechocolate.org of both the ethical and unethical companies. Both lists can be found here:

Below is a list of chocolate companies that only use ethically grown cocoa.  Find out how you can tell if the chocolate you are ea

And it doesn’t have the vegan product restriction the other list has, which solves @aloofraven’s issue.

beaft

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

beaft

recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying cheerfully "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."

in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"

okavara

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White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

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snowkissedmonsters

Infinitely grim experience at the weekend. Was helping someone with a presentation and just thinking of ways they could phrase their points off the fly, and they looked at me and said "hmm that sounds too much like chatgpt" GIRL THAT IS MY HUMAN BRAIN TALKING

snowkissedmonsters

Can you imagine seeing someone improvising an essay in real time, and saying that it sounds too much like the plagiarism machine??? Girl you're WATCHING ME WRITE IT IN THIS MOMENT

snowkissedmonsters

Having thought on it for a little while, I've realised what I found so upsetting about this (beyond the obvious insult of being compared to an AI lol). This person came to me for help because I am a professional writer, it's my job to use words well. And when she said I sounded like ChatGPT, she clarified that it was because I 1. Used relatively uncommon adverbs and 2. Structured my sentences with subordination conjunctions (if you've ever had to write an elevator pitch, you'll be bitterly familiar with these). Anyway, it wasn't that she thought I was copying ChatGPT, it was that she feared other people would perceive the sentences as ChatGPT, because they weren't perfectly literal and linear.

Her solution was asking me to "dumb down" the sentences (her words) so that it would be "believable" a human wrote them.

And I think that's what really disturbed me, and that's why I'm still thinking about this. Beyond feeling a little insulted, it was this really stark admission that the AI age is discouraging curiosity and creativity. Don't experiment with your sentence structure, don't play with adverbs, don't include metaphors, because those things belong to the computer now. Dumb it down because we don't think humans write well anymore.

snowkissedmonsters

And here's the dog from the Prev tags

hometoursandotherstuff

disgruntled-lifeform

Stolen from reddit where it wasn't being properly appreciated

leiyahime

"Indigo dyeing silk thread"

In case anyone wonders what the Japanese is saying

torkmatic

I just learned about this recently from a Viking reenactor! Indigo dye isn't blue until it oxidizes, so when you dye with indigo your cloth or thread doesn't come out of the water blue, it comes out and then reacts with the oxygen in the air and seems to spontaneously turn blue in front of your eyes. It's a really cool process to witness.

deadgenerations

in more pleasant news: this year is seeing the biggest humpback migration in Australian history, bigger than it was PRE whaling. That's right, there are more humpbacks migrating off the coast of Australia than there were BEFORE industrial whaling started.

A huge, fat W for environmentalists and Greenies. what an achievement

lumsel

we did it! we saved the fucking whales!!!!

the-tao-of-fandom

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is

Further info for those interested

pnwnativeplants

Environmental activism works!!! If they tell you its hopeless they're lying and/or selling some shit!!!

traegorn

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encounter-in-motion

Hey everyone i think i figured out how to save the game industry, and i know this is gonna sound outlandish but just hear me out on this one okay trust me: what if we do NOT close down all the studios making the games and fire all the people with years of experience? Is that something?

sadies-ac-designs

Haven't even been in town a full 24 hours

faustandfurious

There’s something truly exquisite about stories where the real tragedy is the price you paid to stand on top of the world

faustandfurious

Hollow victories … sacrificing your humanity on the altar of what you perceive to be the greater good … the loneliness of godhood … regret for the person you used to be … the realisation that there is no way back … *chef’s kiss*

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viktor-sbor

Off the coast of Australia Macroctopus caught the shark, wrapped all its tentacles around it and soon released it. Most likely, he scraped all the parasites off her.

alkthash

The octopus

meshugenist

me when i fucking get u

3000s

they hate each other.

barin-mclegg

hey bestie you forgot the poll

3000s

oh sorry

would you kill and eat these animals?

yes

no

Voting ended onOct 3, 2024

barin-mclegg

I was talking to prev, asshole. The fucking critter-creature-beast poll blog? That person? Don't be a fucking dickhead.

3000s

sorry for being silly on my post it wont happen again

3000s

would you kill and eat @barin-mclegg?

yes

no

Voting ended onOct 9, 2024

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creekfiend

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

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