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More than 60% of the global population that are classified as the Phase 5 famine/catastrophe level of food insecurity and starvation are in the Gaza Strip right now, and that percentage is projected to increase to 95% by Februrary
Some organisations that get food and water into Gaza to consider donating to:
Anera
PCRF
Taawon/Bank of Palestine
World Food Programme
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fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
there is an academic text I've been trying to get my hands on, and I tracked down an ebook copy held by the national library, but due to legal restrictions it's only available for viewing on a library computer on their premises. like the only way I can read this research is to go to the national central library, book a computer desk, and scroll through it on a pc monitor for hours on end.
this digital copyright shit is so stupid, it makes me SO fucking mad. it costs nobody anything to let readers access this shit from home. it's a bunch of bits and bytes, the ebook file already exists. but publishers (and I include universities in this) are so brain rotten and craven that they will block any attempt to make information more accessible just in case there's a chance they'd miss out on one person with a really specific research interest paying them like £17 to look at a word document in a more comfortable chair.
want to get even madder? the library only has 'one copy' of this ebook. we have this infinitely reproducible data resource but only one person is allowed to go and sit in a computer lab and scroll through it at a time!!! if you want to rent access from elsewhere, that'll be £17-30 depending on the gateway site. Want to buy a copy of the book? tough shit idiot. it's a niche academic text that's out of print, it's going to cost you upward of £70.
want to become the joker? it's a book about how the printing press fueled an explosion in accessible literature during the french revolution.
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companies underestimate how much locking their content behind needing an account will just make me go do something else. oh your website wants me to make an account to view this content? oh your website doesn't show media to logged-out users? okay. i didn't actually want to see it that bad. yeah. bye ✌️
tell me why am i only just seeing attractive co-workers at the end of my rotation??? like G-d truly has a sense of humor
anti-vegans: there are studies that say that plants might be able to feel maybe so you shouldn’t eat plants either lol.
anti-vegans: there is not enough evidence that animals suffer when their throats are cut open. i mean yes they bleed, they fight to get away and they scream in agony, but… idk is this enough proof to say that animals actually suffer??
alright everyone you know the drill, like to charge rb to cast
"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.
[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]
okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?
I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, she’d just shrug and be like “Okay, I can quit.”
Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise she’d lose one of her best workers.
Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.
I worked with a lady who’s husband made more than enough to support them both. She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.
There’s a lot of people who’d happily do the same sort of thing. Honestly? A lot of the jobs we consider “shitty” jobs? Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.
If employees weren’t being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!
honey is fine now? oh real shit? because a honey farmer said the honeybees are free to come and go and that they don’t collectively leave the hive after honey is taken??
damn. and here i thought that wasn’t even remotely the reason why vegans abstain from honey! here i thought it was because veganism is a philosophy of harm reduction that seeks to avoid unnecessary exploitation; and the exploitation of managed honeybees is rendered completely unnecessary by the fact that in being such efficient honey collectors they are extremely poor pollinators, simultaneously spreading disease to and outcompeting wild/native pollinators thereby destroying ecosystem biodiversity and resiliency!
man it sure is great that the bees aren’t unionizing and staging a walkout though, because that would really be the only way to tell whether the honey industry is destructive!
honey is fine, trust me, I make my living selling it so you know I have no ulterior motive when I say this 😚🍯🐝 /s
Okay, I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately
Best stone fruit?
Cherry
Apricot
Plum
Nectarine
Mango
Peach
Lychee
Raspberries (I found out they counted seconds ago)
Some mysterious other option
I’m boring and don’t like stone fruits
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Just an FYI for those of you who think ‘catch and release’ is humane. Most fish die later anyway due to shock, not to mention having your face punctured by something that is roughly the thickness of one of your bones and then being suffocated for a few minutes could never be considered “humane.” Animals are not your toys, little children. Leave them the fuck alone and find something else to play with.
Beasts!!
i saw a farmer claim the cows they are raising for beef will never know fear or pain. since when is being killed at a slaughterhouse painless?????
Since around 1958 or so in the US.
Yeah….they’ve specifically designed it to where the cow will feel no pain. You can get in trouble if the cow suffers. Because that’s cruel.
It’s not just for cows either- most animals are killed in a way to ensure they feel the least pain and suffering.
animals suffer all the time in slaughterhouses and during the slaughter process.
captive bolt stunning is not always effective, different studies have found ~10-30% of cattle were stunned inadequately. this can result in them being stunned several times, or being partially or fully conscious while having their throat cut. there is also deliberierte cruelty to cows during the slaughter process.
one common stunning method for pigs is gas chambers. and during that time they show pain, fear and distress signs such as vocalizing, gasping or escape attempts. it can take them up to 60s to lose consciousness. you can find videos of the process. its not pleasant.
because of the speed of operations in slaughterhouses, the USDA estimated in 2013, that 1 million chicken and turkey were boiled alive, because stunning and killing methods had failed. the USDA was forced to publish records of slaughterhouse inspections (poultry slaughter). the humane league formatted them nicely in the addendum of this report. tw for animal cruelty and horrible working conditions. it also includes reports of workers treating the animals cruelly.
none of this is even talking about the transport of animals, handling of animals pre slaughter (electric prods, tail twisting etc.) or the horrible conditions that slaughterhouse workers endure.
and all of these things are becoming more difficult to report, since the usa have ramped up their ag gag laws in recent years, to prevent whisteblowers from releasing information.
You can say literally anything on this platform so long as it’s in support of exploiting and killing animals, huh? 1958? No source, no mention of what you’re even talking about here, but we’re all expected to believe this magical date is the time when cows stopped suffering while having their throats slit.
Since they’ve declined to even tell us what you’re talking about with this date, much less reference it properly, I assume you’re talking about they’re talking about the passing of the Slaughterhouse Act in the UK since that’s the only relevant legislation of that year, which applies to only the UK and was infamously lacking. It did not set any requirement for unannouned inspections, it did not set any enforced welfare requirements whatsoever - it was literally a building licencing act with public health criteria. This is what they think solved the endemic problem of animal abuse in the UK animal agriculture industry? Really?
Every single UK piece of undercover footage any of us have ever seen was taken post-1958, every slaughterhouse worker testimonial, every failed inspection, every animal cruelty leak scandal (which are monthly at this point). Are they all just doctored? Are the workers just lying? The amount of sheer denialism required to believe that cows ‘feel no pain’ because parliament passed an act in 1958, which would set the scene for the popularisation of industrial farming and the rampant, well-documented cruelty in UK factory farms, is frankly astonishing.
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They just all swarm to save him…this is truly so beautiful
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i don’t mean to be political, but what if everyone had basic human rights
I don’t mean to get controversial but what if….animals weren’t excluded from basic rights and stopped suffering under human arrogance?
