It’s very hard to find good pet youtubers that both have proper care information, and exhibit responsible pet keeping. If you’re like me and can’t stand a person that will buy 5 snakes every time they go to an expo, you understand the frustration of trying to find good channels to watch. Here are some that I trust.
1. Clint’s Reptiles
Clint is a biologist with degrees in zoology and evolutionary ecology. He makes videos rating reptiles as pets based on five categories: handleability, care, hardiness, availability, and upfront costs. Clint is very enthusiastic in his videos and is a joy to watch. He is also very responsive in the comment section.
2. Emzotic
Em has a great personality and a large collection. She is most well known for her “creature features” where she showcases a species and lists fun facts about them. She also makes care videos. She encourages responsible herping and care, and many of the animals she acquires are rescues.
3. Afroherpkeeper
Daniel is a young herper with an impressive collection. He uses many of his animals for education. His videos include room tours/updates, DIYs, unboxings, and herping vlogs. Some of his animals are invasive species that he caught on herping trips such as Blue, his argentine tegu. He also recently got into birds.
4. SerpaDesign
Tanner has a large animal room with reptiles, amphibians, and fish. He is the DIY king, and he loves getting creative with terrariums. He stresses that he didn’t acquire all of his animals overnight, and the importance of working on projects for pets you already own. He is always upgrading his current animals.
5. goherping
This is a channel I am still relatively new to. His channel has a lot of care guides and how-to’s. He also does informational pieces such as “Do I trust PETA as a source?” and “can reptile enclosures be too BIG?”
Obviously I’m very herp focused, so I am sure there are other reliable animal youtubers out there, feel free to add to the list!
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
I'm sorry we live in a society where the only recourse you have when ur dad attacks you is to call the cops, but that doesn't mean people want you to get harmed when we point out cops shouldn't exist. Abuse is a societal issue that can be systemically solved by creating safe places & giving people the resources (including money) to escape their abusers and by doing actual rehabilitation. All cops do is stop single acts of violence and some of of them hit their own kids, too.
Let me ask you, if cops shouldn’t exist, what should? Because I don’t believe cops are the problem. I believe that the whole us system is. I think we really need to restart the whole system from scratch.
Black people are routinely shot for simply existing on a daily basis. But UwU fink of da poow offiwers. Dey got cofwee dey didwn’t wike!!
Oh you think you’re so funny. You don’t even know where I’m coming from. You think that all I care about is “poow offiwers” I’m tired of misdirected hatred. And you don’t think I haven’t feared for my 6’3” blacks brothers life? You think I don’t worry when he’s walking home from work to help support our family at 1 am? Yeah okay go off because you think I’m happy with our system. I’m far from happy, but I’m grateful I had some one I could call when my dad had a temper fit and I was the target.
1. The media expects us to suck the dicks of cops. Every news outlet will intentionally bias stories in their favour. No one is “brainwashed”, we’ve either done research or seen the corruption first hand. 2. 99% of the time the “bad people” aren’t bad. They’ve had shit circumstances in life that forced them to steal/take drugs or they’re innocent. Prisons turn them from honest people to bullies by virtue of how they function. Rapists and pedos are the real criminals and theyre let free. ACAB
As much as I want to say something I don’t believe you guys have any right to see my life.
White sure. Upper middle class?? I wish. I just have a respect for cops because of what they’ve helped me with. That doesn’t mean I can’t acknowledge and condemn the system for being corrupt. I refuse to sit here and let the hatred you guys have for a system overflow into how I see actual people.
Don’t be a bootlicker. All cops are inherently bad. They oppress people, they are class traitors.
No. Without cops bad people would always get away with being bad. You just let what the media tells you brainwash you into believing a hardworking person protecting their community is represented by a small percentage of bad apples. Maybe learn that labels don’t fit everyone. While you’re at it, learn to not be scared of confronting someone without using anon.
Known as TERFs, trans-exclusionary radical feminist groups are working with conservatives to push their anti-trans agenda.
This article includes a pretty thorough summary of trans exclusionary feminist ties to anti-choice conservatives. Here are some highlights of these connections (emphasis mine), but the article as a whole is worth the read:
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WoLF has made no bones about partnering with misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in order to oppose the livelihoods of trans people to the Supreme Court. […] WoLF’s relationship with ADF extends beyond just filing briefs in key cases. LGBTQNation reported in fiscal year 2017, the most recent year for which the feminist group’s financial records are available, WoLF applied for and accepted a $15,000 grant from the ultraconservative group. The LGBTQNation report additionally revealed in 2017 that WoLF contracted with Imperial Independent Media for help with fundraising, promising a 20 percent commission. At the time, IIM was run by Zachary Freeman, who made a name for himself over a lawsuit to leak abortion clinic employee names to the Center for Medical Progress, an anti-choice group known for propagating heavily doctored videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood profiting off the sale of fetal tissue.
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Though it’s unknown who funds another prominent gender critical group, Hands Across the Aisle, one of its co-founders is Kaeley Triller-Haver, an anti-choice conservative who has reportedly admitted to committing statutory rape of a teenage boy when she was a youth counselor. What’s interesting about Hands Across the Aisle is how many journalists are seemingly involved with the activist group. A web archive from June 2018 suggested that former New Statesman editor Helen Lewis, recently hired as a writer for the Atlantic, as well as ultraconservative outlets the Federalist, the Daily Caller, and the Daily Signal are associated with the group.
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During the Irish referendum on abortion rights in 2018, some British gender critical feminists withheld support for pro-choice campaigners citing the trans supportive attitudes of Irish feminism, going so far as to schedule an anti-trans meeting in Dublin at the height of the campaign season.
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In February, the conservative Heritage Foundation held an event in Washington, DC, featuring prominent British anti-trans feminists Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (also known as “Posie Parker”) and Julia Long, who came together to denounce the trans rights movement at large as well as a medical community that’s increasingly becoming more open to supporting trans children. The next day, the anti-trans feminists, who had allegedly been flown to the US on Heritage’s dime, stormed a Capitol Hill office where Human Rights Campaign national press secretary Sarah McBride had just concluded a meeting between parents of trans children and legislators. They filmed themselves yelling and taunting McBride with their personal gripes with the trans movement, accusing her of not caring about “lesbian girls.” McBride, to her credit, didn’t take the bait, remaining stone-faced and focused on her computer screen while a coworker attempted to de-escalate the situation.
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In the US, Baltimore gender critical feminist Julia Beck has made a name for herself in conservative circles, appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News and testifying before the House against trans inclusions in the Violence Against Women Act and the Equality Act.
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Just this month, gender critical feminists who have been banned from Twitter for extensive transphobic harassment have recently organized under alt-right message board Gab to form “Spinster,” a social media platform for TERFs. It remains to be seen whether British message board Mumsnet will remain the epicenter for gender critical messaging, but the movement’s growing connections with anti-choice and violent misogynist movements should concern both cisgender and transgender women.
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Conservative groups, in turn, have made a conscious decision to use feminist language and framing to oppose trans rights, which is how we ended up with some of the most vehemently anti-woman politicians in the House voting against the Violence Against Women’s Act in the name of “protecting women and girls.”
In case anyone reading my blog is unaware, this is a reference to the Green Day song titled “Wake Me Up When September Ends” a song that Billie Joe Armstrong wrote following the death of his father in September of 1982 when Billie Joe was ten years old. The title of the song references his desire to sleep through September in an effort to get some emotional distance from the death of his father.
He’s since been open about the emotional difficulty of having written the song since many people now message him on October 1st to ‘wake him up’ despite the song being a memorial to his departed father.
It’s generally seen as respectful to not try to wake him up. Let him sleep and let him remember his father in peace.
Reblogging as a reminder to leave Billie Joe Armstrong the fuck alone on October 1st and any day after it if your message is going to contain anything to do with “waking” him up because September will be over.