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Software engineer living in Mexico. http://pedroivanlopez.com

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Skeletor Is Love un año después

Hace 1 año Skeletor Is Love dejó de publicar. Un breve poema en su honor:

Skeletor es mi pastor Skeletor conmigo, ¿quién contra mí? Un amigo que te ama; su nombre es Skeletor Quien tiene a Skeletor, nada le falta, sólo con él basta

Camina hoy de la mano de Skeletor Creo en ti, oh, señor Skeletor! Hey tú! Si, tú! Skeletor te ama! Skeletor es mi pastor Skeletor Is Love

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When your mom finds out you screwed up real bad. Happy Mother’s Day!

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:/ Dicen los cirqueros que como ya no pueden usar a Tirrecz ahora lo tienen que sacrificar! Ay no! Pobres cirqueros ellos son las víctimas, si son tan buena gente... Amigxs ya no protesten o seguirán matando/abandonando a todos los animalitos! </sarcasmo>

Abandono de animales es una campaña de victimización de los cirqueros

Circenses no pueden matar a los animales

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The homeless read mean tweets. //// Indigentes leen tweets crueles.

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200 days to go! October 21, 2015.

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Sam Simon, 'The Simpsons' Co-Creator, Dead at 59

Sam Simon co-creator of The Simpsons, vegan & animal charity philanthropist, has passed away at age 59.

“I think that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the knowledge that these creatures who feel and think can’t speak for themselves and they’re dependent on us for that”. -- Sam Simon

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Chanting at concerts is fun, and it's usually without deep meaning

Last night Animals As Leaders took the stage at Cafe Iguana in Monterrey, providing a spectacular and solid performance full of energic musicianship. Together with Niple and The Constructor the audience enjoyed an amazing night.

As expected, the audience chanted at several moments during Animals As Leaders performance, generally just cheering up the band and themselves driven by the euphoria of the show. At some point the predominantly mexican audience started chanting toe-see-no during a brief break between the songs. Before this the audience actually chanted Tosin (Tosin is the name of one of the members of Animals As Leaders).

The chant toe-see-no is actually the word tocino, which is spanish for bacon.  I think it's unlikely that the chant was motivated by the actual meaning of the word tocino, but rather just because how similar the words Tosin and tocino sound, and also because of the attractiveness of chanting a 3 syllable word. Although it was an ironic coincidence that the chant happened just before the song CAFO...

Chanting is of course universally popular across the world, specially in sports. I guess it's fair to say that in Mexico chanting is popular in general for crowds too. Personally last night a sore throat prevented me from engaging vocally with the show, instead I clapped extensively :).

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Always keep improving... Happy Future Day 2015! Let's acknowledge our capabilities as society to solve our biggest problems and build the future we really want to live in. ‪ March 1st http://futureday.org/

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Happy Darwin Day ! "The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." // "El amor por todas las criaturas vivientes es el más noble atributo del hombre." - Charles Darwin, 1871 Feb 12, Darwin Day

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A boring drive to work, when suddenly... License plates from Durango, Mexico At Monterrey, Mexico This post/meme is LGBT-friendly!

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Violencia masiva hacia animales

:/ Se vale indignarse por el video del perro que matan con explosivos. NO se vale pretender ignorar que la vida/muerte del cerdo/ave/res que termina en nuestros platos es peor que la del animal del video.

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Va otra vez! Esto es una broma! y pues si, al final a la Rana René no "se le pasó". Mañana último día para renovar! #CredencialParaVotar   #elecciones2015 #elecciones   2015 #INE   CHECA TU CREDENCIAL PORFIS!!!!!

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Obama learns to code, creates robot. Learns to code: http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/08/barack-obama-becomes-the-first-president-to-write-code/ Escalation: http://bigamericannews.com/2014/11/12/obama-unveils-dark-robot-to-destroy-jesus-and-start-new-age-of-liberal-darkness/

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Carl Sagan Day

One of the most inspirational scientists to ever live, Carl Sagan would have been 80 years old today. Sagan & Druyan on animals, exploitation and suffering.

“Philosophers of marauding high-technology civilizations have often argued that humans deserve a category distinct from and above all the other animals. It is not enough that humans have a different assortment of the qualities evident in the other animals – more of some traits, fewer of others. A radical difference in kind, not some fuzzy-edged difference in degree, is needed, longed for, sought…

Almost all of them believed that our distinction arises from something made neither of matter nor of energy that resides within the bodies of humans, but of no one else on Earth. No scientific evidence for such a ‘something’ has ever been produced. Only a few of the great Western philosophers – David Hume, for instance – argued, as Darwin did, that the differences between our species and others were only of degree.

… What can we learn about ourselves from an apparent error so widespread, propagated by so many leading philosophers and scientists, both ancient and modern, and with such assurance and self-satisfaction?

One of several possible answers: A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them – without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. With untroubled consciences, we can render whole species extinct, for our perceived short-term benefit, or even through simple carelessness. Their loss is of little import: Those beings, we tell ourselves, are not like us. An unbridgeable gap has thus a practical role to play beyond the mere stroking of human egos. Darwin’s formulation of this answer was: Animals whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equals.“

… Humans – who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals – have had an understandable penchant for pretending that animals do not feel pain. On whether we should grant some modicum of rights to other animals, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham stressed that the question was not how smart they are, but how much torment they can feel…

From all criteria available to us – the recognizable agony in the cries of wounded animals, for example, including those who usually utter hardly a sound – this question seems moot. The limbic system in the human brain, known to be responsible for much of the richness of our emotional life, is prominent throughout the mammals. The same drugs that alleviate suffering in humans mitigate the cries and other signs of pain in many other animals. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer.”

—Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1992). Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan. Chapter 19, What Is Human?

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2015 and procrastination

In my mind it's 2015 already. And that is NOT good.

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John McCarthy died 3 years ago. In addition to his very influential work in computer science, his rational optimism about progress and the future was/is really inspiring. I try hard to live by his maxim: "Those who refuse to do arithmetic are doomed to talk nonsense"; specially on ethical issues.

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Día del Médico en México

Los robots orgánicos también pueden/podemos ser reparados/mejorados: Feliz Día del Médico! :)