🇺🇸tony's chocolonely chocolate bar recall due to rocks🇺🇸

literally, due to rocks. they got rocks in them

april 2, 2025

emphasis mine.

this recall only affects some lots of the dark almond sea salt bar and the everything bar, due to the rock problem. they were distributed nationwide in stores and on the internet. I included their pictures at the top.

I am not able to format a table for tumblr, so check that recall link for the specific lot codes and expiration dates.

they found rocks after there were 12 reports that said hey. there are rocks in this. this can easily lead to dental problems if someone tries to bite full force on a rock and breaks a tooth or otherwise injures their mouth. dental infections can eventually become life-threatening even in people who are young and otherwise healthy. so it is a good thing nobody apparently ate the rocks yet. or at least, nobody got injured while potentially eating rocks. yet

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please do not the rocks. thank you

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This breaks the record of Strom Thurmond, segregationist asshole senator from South Carolina, who spoke for over 24 hours in a futile attempt to kill the 1957 Civil Rights Act.

I’m going to admit major ignorance here: why is the president allowed to decide on tariffs without oversight or approval from other bodies?

That seems like something there should be checks and balances against.

Or are there checks and balances for this in place and the fact that the GOP live inside his ass means they are giving approvals for the raising of tariffs?

It seems like he’s just making a demand and it’s being done, but I will admit to not reading in depth about how they are being raised functionally in detail as of yet.

Tariffs originally fell under the authority of Congress, but over time, like with war powers, Congress has ceded some of that authority to the presidency. The president is now permitted to enact tariffs under certain provisions. For example, Trump said there was an emergency regarding fentanyl that was caused by Canada and Mexico and because of that emergency, he was enacting tariffs. A lot of that is BS, from the fake emergency, to the type of "emergency," to the action taken in reaction to the "emergency," and yes, there is legal pushback options. (I have not personally seen any news coverage of American lawsuits on this, although I believe that some foreign powers are pursuing cases with the World Trade Organization, but 1. maybe I missed something or 2. Trump's flip flopping on tariffs since his inauguration is likely causing people to wait to see what's really happening before moving forward.)

And yes, Congress can also say nah, no tariffs actually, but they're still in their fully backing-him-up phase and so far that has been limited. A Republican senator just introduced legislation to require congressional authorization on current tariffs. It's unlikely to pass, but the fact that a Republican did that is significant nonetheless.

Sounds like a great time for people with Republican Reps and Senators to be airing their grievances about these tariffs. Congress can stop this at any time they wanted. Don't be afraid to raise the point about how just about every single special election since November has seen double-digit shifts to the left, even in previously safe blood red districts.

by @ jaymintaylor on tiktok

video description: A cell phone video pointed at the shadows of two people standing on a lawn.

Cameraperson: “Jaymin. Which way did he go?”

The person on the left adjusts their stance and clothing in such a way that their shadow ceases to resemble a human and perfectly forms an upward-pointing arrow. The cameraperson dissolves into laughter.

more acdlock, still messing around with sherlock's look :3

Musk is the biggest government welfare recipient

Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada.

Generations of damage. For Putin.

Not to venerate the halcyon and bygone days of yore, but it used to be that declaring that girls are too fragile and delicate to ever possibly compete with the boys or ever be as good as them at anything was rightly denounced as the kind of raging sexisim that made you sound like the flatly written villain of a teenybopper movie.

i’ll give it to her this ones pretty funny

promise?

anyway it’s cool and powerful that a man of colour is using his position as a senator to spend 24 hours straight criticising an administration that’s made it very clear that it will go to devastating and unconstitutional lengths to make everyone who isn’t a cishet white man sit down and shut up

ON WISCONSIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.

Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that's literally his name.

(No he won't change his name. He's Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)

John is Sherlock's flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he's a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn't Watson.

It's now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.

Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.

His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.

His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.

He doesn't even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.

Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.

Johns last name used to be Morstan before he married Mary Watson

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

The thing literally is made of math and we messed it up-