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Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.
So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands. 10/10 post, dude.
Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?
Like, did you read it orrrrr?
Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES
It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.
Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.
1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.
or
2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.
So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.
LOUDER FOR THE VEGANS IN THE BACK: use honey, not agave! Bees need your support and other animals need agave! Using honey means more bees!!
Other animal products that are absolutely fine to use because they produce it in excess:
- Wool. Sheep need to be sheared or their wool will get excessively large, matted and gross. Its legit just a haircut. Calm down and use wool instead of whatever fake acrylic microplastic shit they have in stores now. Wool is super warm, insulating, and guess what! It grows back! Its a renewable resource and all the sheep want in return is some good pasture and protection from predators.
- Eggs. I’m not talking about storebought eggs. Go to your local farmer’s market. Find someone around with chickens/ducks. These birds produce eggs literally every day and will not stop unless they are molting, brooding, or kept in the dark for most of the day. Like I am not joking when I say you can very easily find someone with poultry and they will beg you to take some eggs. Theres so many. Please. Take some duck eggs. I dont want them. I had 8 laying ducks last year. Thats 8 eggs every day. Thats 2 dozen eggs every THREE DAYS. Thats SO MANY EGGS PLEASE TAKE SOME EGGS
Reducing animal cruelty does not mean abolish the use of animal products. Go eat honey. Go use wool. Go find a friend with birds and eat eggs, or get your own. Just because it comes from an animal does not make it cruel.
sorry, professor whats his nuts
you all forgot the most important part
I’m glad we all got closure. This is amazing.
omg so we have 1 seeing dog and 1 blind dog and whenever there's a toy they both want, the seeing dog takes it and just...stands very still. immobile. she KNOWS he will try to wrestle it from her but she has figured out that if she does not squeak it, then he will not find it. leading to this.
"god....grant me the strength to not squeak the squeaky toy"
I was trying to explain to my sister-in-law that I simply cannot turn on my car headlights if anyone is looking at me and she thought I was crazy.
Literally nothing more embarrassing than tying your shoes in public like oh look at me I'm a 5 year old because I couldn't tie my shoes tight enough to last a walk through the kroger
are y’all okay
social anxiety is wild yall
the nightmare of when it’s raining and having to use umbrella but wait oh no, what if u’re just overreacting with the umbrella and ppl will think u’re a lil bitch who can’t handle a small drizzle

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When I realized pre-packaged food was for me, my entire outlook on life changed.
Let me explain.
I remember walking through the grocery store with my mother as a teen and her making a bitter comment about how everything had more packaging now. De-shelled hard boiled eggs in plastic, cut fruit, pre-portioned salads, all of it was "laziness" to her. She insisted people were getting lazier to the point where if my brother ate pizza from the fridge, she would chastise him for not heating it. She would say "you deserve warm pizza" as a way of saying you should do something the "right way" because it's worth doing.
This isn't because my mother had no concept of people with disabilities, she is disabled herself. However, in raising me, she taught me to hide that disability, to try to be on everyone else's level so we aren't seen as weaker. That laziness is worse than being disabled and there's simply no excuse for taking shortcuts. I don't think she intended to teach me this, but her own internalized ableism was so loud.
When I became an adult, I realized I hated cooking. The prep was tedious, I almost always have dishes in the sink, there's cleanup after, my back hurts, my eyes burn, it's too hot and in the beginning, I got overwhelmed to the point of crying. Leftovers were almost never eaten becuase heating them up (the "correct" way to eat them) was an extra step that made me not want to put the effort in. I thought I was lazy and felt ashamed when I wanted something to eat but couldn't bring myself to make it.
At some point, I finally said "I'm tired. I don't care how much packaging it is, I don't care how lazy it is, I'm going to get meal kits."
It was life-changing. Dinner takes 30 minutes to make. Everything is portioned. The directions are clear. I don't hate it anymore. I want salads in bags. I want eggs that don't take three steps to eat. It's not laziness, it's accessible! I don't have to make a meal, I can eat the raw vegetables, have pasta with butter, eat a granola bar! There's no right way to feed myself!
I made things SO HARD on myself because I wasn't acknowledging my disability or my depression and they didn't need to be hard! I didn't need to go around the store saying "is that really necessary?" Because it IS necessary for me! It's brilliant! It's so helpful!
Accessibility takes so many forms and overcoming internalized guilt for not being able-bodied or mentally well enough to handle tasks other handle easily is incredibly freeing. Obviously I'm lucky to be in the position to have this option avaliable to me, but I kept myself from it for far too long.
I do deserve warm pizza. I can have it delivered.
Why do I have to second guess every decision I make. Why don't I know more. I should already know so much more and then I wouldn't have to question my every move.
You'll eventually do this less and less. Down side is that it will take years, but upside is that it won't always be this way.
Ok: you will always second guess yourself. You will get better and better; you'll know more and you'll learn more skills.
And then you get more difficult cases.
So you'll keep feeling like an idiot. "Still confused, but on a higher level."
Fun story: tigerstale a few years back, on call, late at night, suddenly the alarm for an emergency caesarean goes off (I'm a pediatrician). So I run towards the OR thinking "pleeeeaaase let me get one of the experienced nurses, I am too new, I want a buddy". And, relieved, I see one of the experienced, cool, good nurses who visibly relaxes and exclaims "oh thank heavens it's you, I need someone experienced today!"
That's when I realized I had been a doctor for seven full years and maybe couldn't claim to be a newbie anymore. It is still terrifying a lot of the time. Still the best job. It gets better all the time.
Evolutionary biologist here! What they say is 100% true. ‘Survival of the fittest’ only refers to how successful an organism is at enduring their environment long enough to reproduce, and is not at all tied to the idea that those who are the ‘best’ are the only ones that survive. Evolution does not care if you keel over dead the second you give birth to a baby, it only cares if that baby survives long enough to breed again. What is the ‘fittest’ is almost entirely environmentally subjective; that’s how you have creatures like horses that are basically living trainwreaks still roaming about vs something that people think would be better suited to filling their ecological niche. No genology or phenology has inherent worth over the other, all that matters is if they were capable of passing their genes on to the next generation
You know what gives us a huge evolutionary advantage, past our high cognitive ability? Our intense social bonding. Humans are outstandingly social creatures, and that has magnified all of our successes as well as our downfalls. The trait that made us the fittest for our environment wasn’t just sheer dumb luck (though it was certainly partially attributed to that in some cases), it was love. We wouldn’t be where we are if we didn’t care enough about each other to value each life as highly as our own, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a fucking idiot.
Via @gendernewtral
I just want to be a really, really good doctor who helps a lot of people, but I also am pretty sure I am quite stupid most of the time. This is the war raging eternally in my life.

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veterinary medicine textbooks!
hi everyone! this is my first post on this blog! i thought i could share some of my resources because it takes me so long to find textbooks and i hope other people find them useful too!
i have the following vet med textbooks in this google drive link
An Atlas of Interpretative Radiographic Anatomy of the Dog and Cat (Coulson, A. & Lewis, N.)
Color Atlas of Veterinary Histology (3rd Edition) (Bacha, W.J. and Bacha, L.M.)
Dyce, Sack and Wensing’s Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy (5th Edition) (Singh, B)
Essentials of Domestic Animal Embryology (Hyttel, P., Sinowatz, F., and Vejlsted, M.)
Guide to the Dissection of the Dog (8th Edition) (Evans, H.E. & De Lahunta, A.)
Veterinary Embryology (McGeady, T.A., Quinn, P.J., FitzPatrick, E.S., Ryan, M.T., Kilroy, D., Lonergan, P.)
Wheater’s Functional Histology (6th Edition) (Young, B., O’Dowd, G., Woodford, P., Wheater, P.R.)
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“After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.”
— Matthew Walker PhD, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (via themedicalstate)
Jesus christ
Sleep is a super power
That last bit makes a whole lot of sense and it honestly astounds me, that I never once considered it.
But yeah that seems very obvious.
Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.
did y'all know that child-resistant packaging actually has to be tested on children like they literally go to a daycare and ask a bunch of kids to open medication packages and if they can the company has to go back and redo their packaging from scratch
This is actually hilarious though
“they may use their teeth” is somehow the funniest motherfucking part
Same goes for bear-proof containers! The Wolf & Grizzly Discovery Center in West Yellowstone has demonstrations. I wonder if they are also specifically told they can use their teeth
Stop whatever you are doing and spend 2 minutes watching bears who work as professional product testers.
Let’s hear it for all the hard working professional bears
One thing that I've found is very difficult to internalize is the idea that I actually *am* an expert on certain topics. Like, I'm not just some student fucking around; my opinion actually has weight.
From what I’ve gathered, most experts tend to feel this way. Especially professors.
The best way to become an expert is to spend a long time as a student. The main thing that you learn as a student is that you don't know shit.
My feeling is that the amount that an individual can know about any field of human endeavour is always going to be next to nothing compared with the total amount of knowledge that *can* be learned about this field, and the more you know, the more apparent the gaps in your knowledge will be to you. However: it is still possible to understand vastly more about a subject than the overwhelming majority of the human race. "Expertise" is always measured in relative, rather than absolute terms.

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Way to go dad!!