Beckydeeve

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[beckydeeve]

Dear [Council Member],

I am writing to ask that you VOTE FOR BREONNA'S LAW to ban the violent no knock raids that senselessly killed 26 year old Breonna Taylor. She was murdered for no reason by police in your city. It's your duty to stand up and prevent violent injustices like this in the future. Vote to protect your citizens. The world is watching.

[beckydeeve]

my love life?

i don’t really know how to ask myself what it is that i want to know.

i’m going over a few ways to phrase the question in my head, but my poor vocabulary can’t articulate my feelings exactly, or even a little, so i’m just going to write until i feel okay.

earlier today i was thinking about relationships again - not for myself, more generally. ah, yeah! it was because i was on ansel’s instagram, this beauty of a man, and saw all of his posts with his cute girlfriend. i thought to myself, “i’d just want to fuck him... would i care to be with someone like that? do i even still want a relationship with someone?”

ladies and gentleman, i have finally matured in this area *applauds her damn self*. it’s absolutely terrifying growing up with this mindset of falling in love with an idea before fully knowing the extent of what it can become. 

falling in love with an idea is necessary, almost vital for our core existence, but for a human being to go through the same demonic phases and eerily similar situations that are perpetually instilled inside of us over and over and over again and not learn our g’damn lesson is horrific yet so very fucking consistent in our overly populated society. (i should prob’ly not say that, da ‘rona is after us and it’s getting a lot of us). 

and now, i can separate my understood sexual desires from my emotional wanderings... from my own emotional depth. and that’s pretty fucking cool.

[beckydeeve]

i figured that if i started writing down my thoughts, whether it be on my laptop or in my incredibly beat up notepad, that i might finally be able to organize the mess of thinking that feels sludged up inside of my head.

as children, we are and were taught how to organize our days and our thoughts throughout our school years. as adults, lol, if we don’t continue with that same discipline we’ve been conditioned into creating for ourselves and our future, we end up somewhat half assing the rest of our lives... especially as an aspiring dancer... like, fucking, me... it, fucking, me.

i’m not tired all of the time anymore, but i feel a bit more empty than i’d like. i always want to say that i’m tired, but i’m not. my mind is actually pretty open and awake and ready to continue absorbing, but... it doesn’t. i kind of keep my mind from growing. from learning. i’m not sure what it is exactly, but it might have to do with the systematic oppression put in place to really cast out a latina woman born and bred from bRokE aF and clueless parents (that i love). it’s really weird to live in a world knowing that you really don’t matter, and that nothing that you say or do will make an impact at the rate you’re living in.

i could be someone. i’ve definitely had a leg up being a latina woman bred by broke ass parents with my looks, my odd need to constantly rebel or flex unnatural thought patterns that most people find either amusing or impressive.

anyway, this was a good start. i’ll keep it going tomorrow morning. night!

[cakemakethme]

Terry Crews coming in with some wisdom

[sociallyawkwardhufflepuff]

we need terry painting like bob ross on tv everyday 

[midnight-charm]

Lorena Maraschi photographed by Thurstan Redding for Office Magazine Spring/Summer 2018

Stylist: Anders Solvsten Thomsen Hair: Louis Ghewy Makeup: Ciara O'Shea

[emilyoberg]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Superheroes are terrible roles models because they have no respect for personal property, solve most problems with violence, and probably don’t pay any taxes.

[spi-ltmilk]

[itsagifnotagif]

Too much internet today

[ifailateverythingonearth]

Careful not to drop those dildos, Butterfingers.

[3rd-eye-boy]

BUT WHY DID YOU CROP THE WORST PART?

[ladybender]

...Would you fuck a clone of yourself?

[themadcapmathematician]

This is the first time ive seen this meme used and it wasnt only in character but also literally sounds like actual dialogue from the series itd paired with

[sea-sonal]

Outtakes 🌮😍 Let fat girls eat, unbothered, 2kfor-fucking-ever.

[wwwildatheart]

[jodrawings]

chasms

[stemuzz]

[wordsnquotes]

If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe (via wordsnquotes)

[weloveshortvideos]

Me: *drops out of school to join circus.

Ringmaster: what is your talent?

Me:

[zombiebruja]

I’m cryinggfg

[fuckingokay-deactivated20190204]

i literally choked on air 

[pharaohoftheghetto]

😂😂😂

[acti-veg]

People have been eating animals since they were created??? Why should we stop now??? Cause they're are a lot dying everyday? That's not a farm problem that's an over production problem

Created? By who? Are you suggesting that independent, intelligent, sentient beings were created by some deity purely so that we could pack them in factory farms and slit their throats? If your argument rests on that assumption then you’re not going to convince very many people; certainly not me. We’ve been committing incest, infanticide, rape and murder since we were recognisably human as well, that doesn’t mean we should keep doing it today. It’s not an “overproduction problem”, we breed so many animals into existence because people create demand by buying animal products; people like you. 

I’d hope that the fact that animals are suffering horrifically purely for purposes of taste, convenience and tradition would be enough of a reason to stop eating them, but if you really need more reasons to stop eating animals, then here, have a whole bunch:

Cows only produce milk when pregnant and after birthing

Dairy cows restrained and forcibly impregnated

Dairy calves taken from their mothers

Calf seperation causes extreme distress

Dairy calf mother’s exhibit prolonged depressive states

Dairy calves killed after birth

Dairy cows killed when production slows

22.1% of female cows sent to slaughter pregnant

Throat slitting as kill method standard industry practice

Egg hens live 12-18 months

Hens kept in constant bright light to manipulate cycles

Poultry have the end of their beaks seared off

Poultry cannibalising due to overcrowding

Chickens dragged through electrified pools

Male chicks ground up alive

Free range does not mean kept outside

Free range no requirement for number of birds, space per bird, or slaughter method

Most piglets castrated without anasthetic

Most caught fish die from suffocation and stress

Current demand for animal products can only be met by factory farming

Illegal in several states to film conditions inside slaughterhouses

Emerging diseases in managed populations of bees could be a significant cause of wild bee decline

Queen bees artificially inseminated

Queen bees wings clipped

Beekeepers using smoke to panic and disorient bees

Beekeepers burning hives during winter to cut costs

Managed honey bees compete with wild pollinators and lower the effectiveness of their pollination

Meat consumption driving global species extinction

UN urges move to meat and dairy-free diet

UN’s report on environmental impact of animal agriculture

Animal waste causing ocean dead zones

Beef production linked to deforestation

Global meat production and consumption continue to rise

Animal agriculture water use unsustainable

1,000 gallons of water produce 1 gallon of milk

1/3 of planet’s  land surface and 2/3 of available agricultural land used for grazing farmed animals

2.5 acres of land are used per cow

Between 65% and 88% of  the deforestation of the Amazon is due to cattle ranching

Leather production uses harmful acids, salts, fungicides, bactericides, chromium, sulphides and sulphates

100% of water used in tanning discharged as poisonous effluent.

Animal agriculture responsible for 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions

Emissions for agriculture projected to increase 80% by 2050

7 million pounds of excrement  produced by animals raised for food in US per minute

Farm with 2,500 dairy cows produces same amount of waste as city of 411,000 people.

2.7 trillion marine animals pulled from oceans each yeah

For every 1 pound of fish caught up to 5 pounds of unintended marine species caught and discarded as by-kill

2 billion pounds of bycatch pet year

300,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises caught in nets per year

37 pounds of “feeder” fish to produce 1 pound of commercially sold fish

Fishing severely damaging local ecosystems

Wild bees better pollinators than domestic honey bees

Domestic honey bees spreading diseases to wild bees

Domestic honey bees not endangered, many species of wild bees are.

Thousands of seals being shot to keep salmon industry going

Eating vegan could save 8.1 million human lives per year

Animal agriculture severely effecting local communities

Human rights abuses rife in slaughterhouses

Prevlance of PTSD and alcohol abuse in slaughterhouses

Alcohol abuse prevalent in slaughterhouse workers

Slaughterhouse workers have high rates of injury

Many slaughterhouse workers poor immigrants with no other choice

Workers at animal farms exposed to antibiotic resistant bacteria

Many workers in slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants face real risk of losing limbs

Animal agriculture industries delay compensation claims from workers and take reprisals against those who file them

Poultry workers denied breaks, forced to wear diapers

Livestock consume 70% of all grain we produce

Livestock consume 75% of all soy we produce

Livestock accounts for 1/5 of all water use

An acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, or 250 pounds of beef.

Water footprint of any animal product larger than water footprint of a wisely chosen crop product with equivalent nutritional value.

Farmed animals take in more calories than they give out in meat

4 billion people globally live on a primarily plant based diet

Animal agriculture heavily subsidised by taxpayer

Indigenous communities threatened by ranching

Counties with larger nonwhite populations home to more factory farms

Animal agriculture industries structurally are racist

Over-fishing threatens the food security of around 200 million people

Food shortages could force the world to give up meat

American Dietetic Association on vegan diets

National Health Service on vegan diets

Academy of Nutrition and Dietitics on vegan diets

US National Library of Medicine on vegan diets

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on vegan diets

UN report on impact of meat on health

Physician’s Committee on meat consumption and cancer link

Red and processed meats linked to mortality

Eating red meat may shorten lifespan

World Watch Institute health risks of rise in global meat consumption

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in meat

Vegans have significantly lower risk of early death

Vegans have substantially lower death rates than meat-eaters

80% of antibiotics sold in US fed to livestock

Extensive use of antibiotics in intensive livestock production major cause of the increase in antibiotic-resistant diseases in UK

Swine flu pandemic linked to factory farming

Bird flu pandemic linked to factory farming

Gut bacteria on 97% of retail chicken breasts

More e-coli deaths caused by poultry than any other commodity

Considering the only honest reason most meat eaters can give in favour of eating animals is “because they taste good,” that should be plenty.