I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
Do not give to the Salvation Army.
Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army
My turn.
I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.
Unsettling update
Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!
Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?
Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.
They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.
And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:
And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that
So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad
The “Fuck Salvation Army” posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder:
Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.
Do not support them in any way, shape, or form.
‘Tis the season to say FUCK the Salvation Army.
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Anonymous asked:
Hello! I hope you dont mind me asking, but how do you draw those amazing black and white comics? (Coffee and The Goddess comics come to mind!) I love the way you do them and would love to know the process you go thru!
this is a pretty broad question and im guessing/hoping you meant “how do you color in black and white in your comics” so have a few random tips about values and paneling and stuff i guess
Don’t leave out any hard of hearing children who come to your door this Halloween, take a minute out of your day to learn a few seasonal asl signs! These are two different variations of “Happy Halloween” Click here for my source.
halloween is for everyone!!!!!!
this is honestly the cutest thing ever 10/10 will do this year💗💗
And here are the British Sign Language versions. (I love the BLS sign for Halloween. It’s so cute.)
Deaf inclusion for every holiday!
Love this! I also posted a video the other day of different signs from about 90+ countries for “Happy Halloween” :)
Two years ago, I had a Deaf girl show up in my drivethru on Halloween. Her mom was kind of sad when I tried to offer the girl candy, and you could tell it’d been a rough night. I asked her to get the girl’s attention, and then signed to her the way I learned from those top gifs. She started laughing and clapping her hands at once, and when I held out the bowl of candy she was DELIGHTED. I think there’s a very serious possibility I was the only person all night who was able to share with her that way.
It matters. Learn.
IT MATTERS. ASL is the THIRD most used language in the US yet most schools don’t offer it as a language course.
If you are at all interested, even in self-study online, check out www.lifeprint.com. It’s free and an absolutely marvelous program.
Lol John Deere executives think they can break the worker’s strike by having Terry from HR build an engine.
Anyone else have the “Shake Hands With Danger” song playing in their heads?
For those unaware of this masterpierce, it’s from a 1980′s industrial safety training video, and it’s main character is named ‘Three Finger Joe.’
I’m just imagining some farmer trying to fix his combine in 2023, saying “I don’t know why it won’t work, it’s only 2 years old,” and then they open up the engine and the dusty hand bones of a middle manager fall out.
Things are going great over there!
It’s day 1 and salary workers are joking about forming their own union, this is great stuff.
not to get political but im begging you guys to stop coming to hawaii. in maui theyre asking to put a ‘pause’ on flights bc we literally do not have enough room or staff to service you. the roads are so full that its causing a major backup when ppl need to get to work.
on top of this, i heard that by September? theyre expecting to get rid of the mask rule (if 70% of ppl are vaccinated/all goes well) but ill be honest w/ you, i know many locals arent getting the vaccine and i know plenty of tourist arent gonna take the necessary precautions.
homeless hawaiians aren’t even allowed to sit or lay on sidewalks to keep up the “paradise” image for tourists
Tourism makes it impossible to keep up with the rising cost of living. It brings in revenue and with that, becomes the fake state’s priority. Tourism pushes native Hawaiians from their land and homes, puts locals at risk for covid19, directly harms the delicate environment and native species here, houseless folk (many whom are native Hawaiian) are being illegally swept to make room for tourists at beaches, and locals are being restricted and fined for using water on east Maui, all while hotels can use up all the resources no problem and our government approves a million dollar home construction for new part-time residents (when locals who have been here for generations are being thrown into poverty, barely staying afloat, losing businesses and even their homes). “Hawai’i has become the Blood Diamond of the Pacific. We are mined for our splendor, and our residents live the every day, complex consequences.”
It’s absolutely VILE what is happening here. I hope yall know that Hawaiʻi was overthrown and occupied by the US military, and isn’t even legally a state! Hawaiʻi is not your vacation spot, so you better tell your family and friends to stay at home.
Nearly depleted funds may cause a group of volunteers providing aid to Navajo and Hopi families during the pandemic to halt care package distribution within “a matter of weeks,“ the organization announced on Monday.
The Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund is still going strong in 2021!
The original organizers (12 Navajo women including Ethel Branch, former Navajo Nation AG) have now co-founded the nonprofit Yee Ha’ólníi Doo (“May Our People Have Fortitude”) to manage the funds, distribute care packages, make masks, maintain a hotline, educate about COVID-19, and invest in their communities to make them “pandemic proof and climate change resilient”. Pictured below is
board member Shandiin Herrera assembling food boxes in March of 2021.
More inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons characters, justifying that proficiency bonus edition:
A sorcerer whose skills were inherited from their supernatural parent along with their magic; they have to carefully avoid thinking about what they’re doing, because it’s all intuitive for them, and if they try to approach it systematically they can’t do it
A sheltered young bard who has practically no real-world experience and is constantly remarking that they “read about something like this once” before attempting some unlikely feat of skill; infuriatingly, it always works
A traditionalist barbarian who bemoans the world’s present degenerate state and champions strict adherence to the Old Ways; some of the activities they’re willing to claim with a straight face are exercises of the Old Ways raise a number of questions
A rogue whose suspiciously convenient talents always seem to stem from having studied something completely unrelated to the challenge at hand; if questioned, they’ll blandly remark that you can never predict which skills will turn out to be transferable
A ranger who’s constantly tasting things. Tracking quarry? Taste the dirt. Discerning a person’s motives? Taste one of their pilfered possessions. Searching a forgotten library for information about the weaknesses of a malevolent demigod? Taste the books.
A cleric whose holy book contains oddly specific verses about how to properly go about nearly any task, many of which are absolutely not appropriate for a priest to be dirtying their hands with; they’re keen on pointing out when others are “doing it wrong”
A monk whose training approaches every activity as a form of combat by employing a series of esoteric (and often somewhat strained) metaphors; occasionally they need to be reminded to curb their enthusiasm and keep the violence metaphorical
A druid who disdains the works of civilisation and claims that everything worthwhile can be learned from the beasts of the land; when it later turns out that they know how to pick locks, they insist a raccoon taught them
A fighter who has no formal combat training, but is proficient with every weapon they encounter – no matter how unusual – because it just happens to resemble some tool or implement they used in their improbably varied pre-adventuring career
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