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[univer-salll]

she was feeling herself here

[chateauofmymind]

have you ever suddenly + involuntarily lost consciousness

yes (fainted)

yes (head trauma)

yes (substance-induced)

yes (lack of oxygen)

yes (blood loss)

yes (multiple)

no

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

[monster1994]

happy june everybody i hope you get fucked and/or sucked this month

[kazokuhouou]

what if we don't wanna be?

[monster1994]

then i hope for peace

[cerastes]

I don’t think we ought to normalize or justify bullying as a means to keep people from being annoying — a sentiment that in and of itself could make for a whole article’s worth of conversation — but I do think we should make a habit of politely but directly telling people “hey I didn’t like that”, “that wasn’t funny”, “you are mistaken”, and the like if it’s called for, and more importantly, you should be able to take a “that wasn’t funny” for instance without taking it personally, because protecting a polite harmony where no one can criticize each other, not even politely, is also really, really bad.

[martmos]

i'm reading the shards alone in my room and i'm getting FREAKED OUT! THIS BOOK IS SCARY AS FUCKKKKK!

[crimecommitter420-deactivated20]

London mutuals what is there to do that’s cheap and not alcohol based?

[cyberracist-deactivated20240805]

bongs at croydon

[nutsacktorturer]

there’s a bloke at clappham common who will suck your dick for £4.50 hell even play with your balls for an extra quid

[crimecommitter420-deactivated20]

I have 0 desire to meet you let alone give you money

[nutsacktorturer]

£3.50?

[santapau]

Remind me later.

[epiphainie]

🚬🚬🚬

[martmos]

am disgostan

[halogen2]

I THINK LOVE IS SOMETHING / THAT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE - Michael Gray Bulla

[jadeblueafterglow]

more leftists should be vegan. veganism and leftism operate on the same beliefs. social justice, no exploitation of labor, autonomy, environmental concern, intersectionality, an equal and just living etc. leftist praxis should include veganism

[moniquill]

Indigenously: no.

Animal welfare and animal rights are different things; it is good and normal for humans to be slightly anthropocentric while acknowledging our role within the greater ecosystem. Factory farming should indeed be dismantled- I want all animals harvested for food/leather/fur/bones/organs to have full and rich lives with as little suffering as possible before they're harvested. But it is not anti-leftist to live as a predator within the ecosystem. It is not more wrong for humans to eat salmon than it is for bears and eagles to do so.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

i used to work in a vegan restaurant and it had basically all the same labor and management problems as the other restaurants i worked at that served meat. obviously. because it was a business in a capitalist system so obviously theres an economic incentive to pay workers the bare minimum and charge customers the maximum you can get away with.

in fact, the restaurant used the vegan identity and environmentalism as fuel for their marketing in quite cynical ways. at the same time they had a deal with Whole Foods (implicated in prison labor allegations btw) to source ingredients, meaning that there were transcontinentally shipped produce lol. for example we used frozen blueberries that were product of Chile. for a restaurant in the pacific northwest region in the united states of america. there are blueberry farms in oregon, washington, etc. But it’s cheaper to exploit south american farms than get local blueberries i guess. (which still by and large exploit the labor of migrant farmworkers from mexico and south and central america, but i digress)

i was vegetarian at the time and i had a lot of deep conversations with my coworkers and manager and the conclusion i came away with is that veganism is merely a cultural practice and is not inherently “leftist” in any way. if you consider human lives equal to animal lives i think that is not compatible with a clear-sighted materialist analysis of the world we live in. its practically a religious belief. which, like, okay, you can be religious, you can have irrational beliefs, but that’s not what “”””leftism”””” is about. that’s not really what any socialist or communist theory is about. it could be syncretized with socialist theory, but it would always merely be an ill-fitting addendum.

[fanfckery]

I was going to put this in tags but no.

Cashews that make vegan cheese are extremely dangerous to harvest due to the fact they mist be harvested by hand and the fruit has corrosive enzymes. Most workers end up with scars from chemical burns.

Almond farms were linked to the declining bee population due to the number of bees needed to pollinate the plants. Most bee keepers were lucky to get half their hives back after farms rented them.

We all know about how much of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed to make way for soy farms.

Agave is a main food source for many bats, but no, harvesting excess honey from bees that over produce it is the problem. If bees regularly have a large surplus of honey they swarm, the hive splits and some leave to start a new hive. Problem is that most bees don't survive this process because it makes them vulnerable to other environmental factors. So encouraging farming and over consumption of agave and stopping the consumption of honey, you're actually harming two different populations of pollinators.

"Vegan leather" is mostly plastic, which breaks down and sheds microplasics. Contributing to the ever growing landfill and contaminated water supply issues we have. Meanwhile cow hide is a natural byproduct from the meat industry, and real leather can last decades if taken care of. A single cow can feed 2 families of 4 for a year, and that leather can go towards making belts, boots, gloves and jackets that last decades.

If you want to actually support ethical food production and animal welfare do your research on where your food comes from. Look into local farms and their practices.

[alterugdalf]

The terracotta army of strawmen.

Cashews that make vegan cheese... Veganism doesn't mean replacing animal products. It means harm reduction. Eating less dairy in order to reduce harm is already vegan. Eating no dairy is even better. Using artificial cheese is not necessary to be vegan.

Almond farms... Vegans don't advocate for monocultures. They advocate for harm reduction. Monocultures predate veganism, because they are easier to manage and more profitable—at the expense of enviroment and biodiversity. They don't exist because vegans want to drink almond milk. They exist because producing almonds in a vast agrarian steppe is more efficient (in the short term) and makes more cash.

We all know about how much of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed to make way for soy farms. Almost 80 percent of global soy production is used to feed livestock. Rainforests aren't destroyed to feed a couple of vegans. They aren't destroyed because vegans and non-vegans eat more soy nowadays. They are destroyed to feed cattle.

Agave is a main food source... Again, veganism doesn't mean replacing each and every animal product. It means harm reduction. Personally, I know not a single vegan who uses agave syrup. Agave syrup's main selling point was being a "natural sweetener", opposed to "artificial sweeteners" like granulated sugar. That's stupid, but it works—on vegans and non-vegans alike.

"Vegan leather"... Calling it vegan leather is a marketing strategy. It's faux leather. It's been developed because it's cheaper to produce than leather. It is bought—most often by non-vegans, as they're more numerous—because it's cheaper than leather. It has nothing at all to do with veganism, it was around before veganism emerged from obscurity, before vegans were a target group. To pretend that faux leather exists solely to appease the small handful of vegans is simply nonsense.

Look into local farms and their practices. True. But there's no local farm that doesn't employ practices I want to abolish. I'd realy like to know where yall live—encircled by wide pastures full of frolicking sheep and cattle, surrounded by sustainable farms that produce enough so that an entire city can have meat on the table every day.

Throwing the problems caused by agriculture in the faces of vegans as a supposed gotcha is just lazy. Intensive agriculture exists independently of veganism. Agricultural workers are exploited indepentently of veganism. Service workers and prisoners are exploited independently of veganism. Veganism is one measure. It's not a panacea that solves all problems of capitalism and the environment. Vegans don't claim that it is. Please stop acting as if they do.

[martmos]

my current struggle is that when i try and make myself confident instead of being silent and non-reactive in social settings, i end up being rude instead. like why did i say to some guy grimacing "what's that face for?" and then laugh at him. that's horrible. i feel horrible. i hope he's not thinking about it. im kms. i guess i'm overcompensating

[tridentandtales]

Roman token in the shape of a crescent moon

Roman Empire (27 BCE - 476 CE)

Louvre S 2700

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[mephistopheles]

"bottom" please consider 🫵 whether the word you are looking for is in fact "submissive" ! because if we decide that taking dick means your personality & character r inherently subservient 😃 we might as well just throw in the towel on the most basic premise of feminism & 🔫 kill ourselves 🎉

[martmos]

once i was happy in happy extremes.. packing my bags for the path of the free.. from pillar to post i am driven it seems... these little tokens are worthless to me!!!!!!!!

[wrath-of-achilleus]

I think my thing about quality adaptions is that I expect the person doing the adapting to have a genuine love for the source material. and I don't just mean an awareness of its quality, or even just an in-depth understanding. imo, if you're adapting something into a novel/tv show/movie, I expect you to be obsessed with it. like, you're creating this adaptation because you're so full of love for this thing that it manifests through creation.

and that is why I think nolan's odyssey isn't going to be a good adaption. I think he is definitely intelligent enough to have understood the odyssey, it's like the foundational text of the western canon after all. so it's not failing because he isn't capable of understanding what's wrong with saying stuff like "not even the gods can stand between me and my home," or dressing the characters up in pants, and inaccurate dull armour. it's going to fail because he does not respect, let alone love, the original text.