Train on Main

Dearg/Diamhra - 23 - White + Irish - she/her  

[msmarymillspaulos]

Where the Desert meets the Mountains

Walter Ufer (1876-1936)

American Southwest Artist

[zipsunz]

above all else

[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

[brood-mother]

a dark day for scotland

[rayne-night]

@ayeforscotland 🫡

[ayeforscotland]

We will erect another🫡

[victusinveritas]

[littlestpersimmon]

the evening and the morning

[balkanparamo]

Amrita Sher-Gil: Savitha's Dream

[houndmother]

society if “nonsexual nudity” extended to trans women

[houndmother]

society if this button actually did anything

[thejewellerybox]

Chrysanthemum brooch by Rene Lalique

Carved opal, enamel, diamond and baroque pearl.

[80sanime]

[gilgameshhimself]

(Getting swindled by a genie) it’s like talking to a fucking tumblr user with you

[higglety]

the genie: how dare you say I'm fucking a tumblr user

[p0laroid-sx-70]

cupid missed (Jenny Anderson x Lily Gatins)

[aromanticofficial]

official aromantic art

[memewhore]

[weaseltotheface]

Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato

[weaseltotheface]

Actually let's get specific with it

*checks wiki*

Everybody say thank you indigenous people of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia from 7-10,000 years ago for the humble potato

[jca-archive]

William Teason, from Illustrators 26 (1985)

[ayeforscotland]

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[random-brushstrokes]

Gerhard Munthe - From Munthe’s home (Leveld) The front room (ca. 1902)