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manicpixienitemaregirl

Idk who OP is but yeah

wildseerbigwings

We feed the rich to the poor, maybe.

daysleftofsecondterm

WE USE THE RICH’S MONEY TO FEED THE POOR

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thegirlwiththemooglehat

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

carpe-aurore

Got that pussy that tastes like McDonald's sprite

carpe-aurore

which one of you cowards just unfollowed me

spontaneousmusicalnumber

A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

spontaneousmusicalnumber

The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.

spontaneousmusicalnumber

Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”

As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species

lostxanadu

the thing about being bullied for being weird as a kid is that even if you've always embraced being weird your brain is still always looking for the line where it's too much. you can be as proudly and intentionally weird as you want and you can love being weird but your mind is still convinced there's a point where you get too weird and people start treating you like a weird looking bug again. also it feels like you reach that point 500 times a day even if everyone you've spoken to today found you pleasant and likable and even if you're completely alone in your house with nobody looking at you at all.

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gamechangershow

This prompt might be an ALL-TIMER 😭

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Josh, Zac, and Brennan return and make even more noise. Content Warning: Emetophobia (Gagging and animation of vomiting) - [27:57-28:02] Em

girlballs

god it would be awesome if the human brain could just ignore an upsetting thing instead of constantly wandering back to it for no fucking reason

evilscientist3

the two fundamental truths of historical and contemporary mankind:

we were just as smart then as we are now

we are just as stupid now as we were then

enki2

insomniac-arrest

This is your permission to not think about the horrors for a bit. You can put it down now. They’ll be there tomorrow

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demilypyro

I think there can be a lot of pressure to give the right narrative about yourself. "I was always a girl, I always knew it from the bottom of my soul," that kind of thing. I didn't. I was a little boy, I wasn't thinking about that stuff. I was thinking about Legos and making sandcastles. And sure my parents raised their eyebrows when my favorite shows as a kid were Winx Club, Totally Spies and My Life as a Teenage Robot. But that little boy didn't think watching those shows made her a girl. She didn't think struggling to fit in with other boys her age meant she was a girl. And she didn't think being jealous of girls was a strange way to feel. She just thought she was bad at being a boy. Because kids are often kinda dumb. So yeah that little boy eventually became a woman. But she didn't figure the whole gender thing out until she was 20. And until then, she spent a lot of years being a dumbass boy and then a dumbass teenage guy. That's a lot of time to do stupid shit. A lot of things to wake up cringing about. But I think that's fine, y'know. Everybody's cringing at something. What matters is figuring it out... eventually. That boy did her best, that's what counts.

#holy shit #another “boy who grew up into a woman”#I didn't even realize this was an option until I was 22 #and I think some of what made it hard between 18 and 22 was how the few other trans women I knew were so loudly “I was always a girl”-ing #there's nothing wrong with that!#but I Wasn't That #and I didn't know that was okay #I still get funny looks when I say I was a boy that grew up into a woman #but like #gender is So Weird #why *not* this too?

paper-mario-wiki

transitioning is like putting on the They Live glasses and seeing that 90% of people looking at you are either jerking off or furiously sharpening a knife. or both. and i do not mean that in a sexy or fun way, and i dont like clarifying that, but i know there's a 90% chance you are thinking it, because i wrote it while being a trans woman.

paper-mario-wiki

to clarify:

when considering the sexual violence against trans women, it's important to remember that "people only view us sexually" does not mean the same thing as "people only find us attractive". it means "people can only conceptualize of our existence within a sexual light" because that's how the majority of our coverage in media has been tinged in the past century. as a result of the chaste and patriarchal nature of modern capitalism, gender and sexuality are inseparable in much public discourse by virtue of propaganda, and as a result, a trans woman is seen as sexual because efforts towards projecting specifically femininity is only categorized as sexual. and when paired with the uncharitable perception of "man", that propaganda can often evolve how people view us directly into "sexual threat" anywhere, for any reason. i could be in the freezer aisle of costco looking down at the ground while i push my cart and i'd still get dirty looks for wearing a dress (this has happened).

when i say "they're either jerking off or sharpening a knife", i mean we're either viewed sexually, or as sexually threatening, in almost all scenarios.

[NOTE: AS WITH ALL MATTERS OF TRANSMISOGYNY, THIS ISSUE IS 100 TIMES WORSE FOR BLACK GIRLS]

mortallycrispygardener

shiftingbonesofapoltergeist-dea

I'm sorry WHAT

smallerontheoutside

'lazy people don't feel guilty about not doing anything' is insane to me and I have been trying to make my brain believe it for a long time, it shocked me to my core when I first heard it

astropithecus

An important corollary to "if you were faking your mental illness, you could stop whenever you wanted."

oneheadtoanother

curiositysavesthecat

If you could restart your life from age 15 with all the knowledge you possessed now, so that you COULD go back and fix all your regrets/mistakes, would you do it?

Yes

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#I think... no #because fuck going through school again #everything I've done was worth doing #even the things I failed at #especially the things I failed at

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tlirsgender

What is up with lefty types pushing to learn practical skills (sewing/gardening/etc whatever) as like "you'll need to know this after The Revolution:tm:" and not, like, "this is a useful skill to help yourself & others in your communities Right Now". You all sound like doomsday preppers and it's weirding me out. We don't have to prep for communist rapture maybe thee revolution starts with helping your neighbors

tlirsgender

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN LIKE....... it's weird. It's a subtle distinction but it's weird. People wanna be protagonists in post apocalypse movies so bad & when you're like "well that's not going to fucking happen innit" they call you a counterrevolutionary. Like yeah no I'm on board with dismantling the establishment etc etc I'm just saying you're being fucking weird about it. This is an action movie hero fantasy in a gen z aesthetic trenchcoat. You can just repair your clothes and feed people Right Now

imsobadatnicknames2

The thing is. If the goal is "help yourself and your community", a lot of people's material reality makes these types of skills ultimately pretty inefficient ways to achieve that goal when compared to other, less exciting alternatives. Like e.g. if what I want to do is feed people in my community, I'm going to achieve more by taking some overtime hours at my job and donating that money to a food bank or something than I would ever be able to achieve if I spent all my free time gardening.

So the only reason why I'd choose to spend my time gardening in this situation would be for fun, or out of a sense of personal fulfillment. Which to be clear is completely morally neutral. But like. If you're aware of the fact that these skills are a pretty inefficient way to "help your community" which you're choosing over the efficient alternatives due to personal enjoyment, and you were uncomfortable admitting that, I definitely see how it'd be tempting to conceptualize developing these skills as things that are going to be vital to Helping Your Community in a future hypothetical situation.

headspace-hotel

Food banks and meal programs close to me partner up with gardeners and community gardens, so I don't think that's quite right.

Skills like gardening and food preservation and people around who can teach those skills can be a really important part of food security

In particular, access to gardening can really increase the quality of people's diets in areas where fresh vegetables and fruits are not as available.

I was learning in my African American history class about how when Black people in the USA started moving into cities, the cities passed laws and ordinances to restrict gardening because it was an ingrained part of their culture at this point to keep a garden to provide for some of their needs for food

the-habitat-ring

If we want a world where cheap food produced by underpaid/slave labor in ways that damage the environment and are shipped across the planet no longer exists without causing major societal issues then we need to prepare for that now, even if it’s not the most convenient or practical. If a good percentage of the population is growing food for themselves and others, they can better push for regulations, boycott companies, etc.

If we want a world with quality clothing without sweatshops where fast fashion companies aren’t dumping unsold clothes in landfills we need to prepare for that now, even if it’s not the most convenient or practical. If a good percentage of the population can make, tailor, and/or repair clothes, people can use that leverage to fight for an ethical, sustainable fashion industry.

There’s a reason why places like Detroit are hubs of urban farming — because that’s what’s helped people survive after everything collapsed. There are real, actual people around the world who have and are using these skills to help their communities. Hunting and gardening allowed my parents to feed me and my siblings. Preserving food meant that we didn’t starve when ice storms resulted in us losing power for days to weeks at a time because nobody wanted to replace failing infrastructure. My local Master Gardeners donate nearly a thousand pounds of fresh vegetables each year to food banks — better quality and less ecologically damaging than the food bank could ever afford to buy.

Also, people’s mental health matters. Seeing real, tangible evidence that they can *do* something empowers people and gives them the ability to make more changes. And let’s be real, most people’s lives are not going to be improved by even more time at work.

If there’s ever going to be any positive societal change, we’re going to need to work at it from different angles. If working overtime and donating money to causes that are important to you is your way to contribute, then do it. Other people have other ways of contributing, and we need to support each other instead of tearing people down if we want to succeed.