Me gustan las piedras bonitas

Sólo un vegano interesado en el espacio y sus maravillas, la naturaleza y su belleza... Y PIEDRAS

[powerfulwizard]

yoda in the originals: hee hee hoo hoo little creature i am. ooooo huuhuhuhu 

yoda in the prequels: backflip i do. responsible for war crimes i am.

[lonelywoodland]

Justin Kauffman, A Morning in Bali. 2014

[nubbsgalore]

photos by samuel jaffe showcasing the diversity of massachusetts’ caterpillars. notes samuel, “my goal is to share all the secrets i have gathered about our local environments and about the value of our backyard ecosystems. i hope to show people that we do not need to look to far away places to find the beauty of nature. nature is all around us, under our feet, and in our daily lives.” 

(click pic for species. note the defensive false eyes in the first, third and fifth photos. related posts: the emerald moth caterpillar and the pink underwing moth caterpillar)

[fatehbaz]

Just the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service being very cool and straightforward about how much they care about local Sahpatin peoples and salmon ecology.

This comes from an overview made by Native Knowledge 360 describing how the construction of US dam infrastructure at the extremely important Celilo Falls and the Dalles sites destroyed salmon habitat and disenfranchised local Indigenous cultural and food systems. (The incredible cultural and ecological importance of the Dalles; disenfranchisement of local peoples for hydroelectric construction; and localized salmon extinction are common knowledge if you live in the Pacific Northwest, but this is still a nice introductory exploration of the issue. Nearby Grand Coulee dam, also on the Columbia - within Sahaptin and near interior Salish lands - is the largest electric-power facility in the US.)

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A couple of maps that might be relevant.

Map depicting importance of the Dalles and Celilo Falls as, probably, the key cultural exchange and trading center of temperate western North America. [Source.]

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The local extinction of the Pacific Northwest’s iconic anadromous salmon species (Oncorhynchus spp. - sockeye; Chinook; Coho; pink; chum; steelhead; and native redband). [Map by Robin Waples.]

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Coincidentally, someone else posted an image of people doing tradish fishing at Celilo Falls just this past week that I responded to with some Yakama-made images of the practice. I’ll repost em in case anyone here would like to see them, too:

Hydroelectric power absolutely has casualties, and a lot of them seem to center around really fucking up Native people’s lifeways.

[acti-veg]

Nobody really warns you when you go vegan that you’ll have to type “veganism is defined as avoiding animal exploitation as far as is POSSIBLE AND PRACTICABLE” twelve times a day every day until you’re dead.

[matialonsorphoto]

explode/the end is near

more on my instagram @matialonsor

[one-thousand-antlers]

A social model of veganism takes justice for animals as integral to and entangled with other movements for justice. It takes animal oppression seriously and deeply entangled with other systems of oppression, but it also sees veganism as something that is situated and that has different implications and different methods depending on where and who you are. That’s a really important point to make because I’m not making a universal argument for veganism. I think we live in a messy world and we are deeply entangled in legacies and current realities of racial violence and of colonial violence. I don’t think it’s helpful to just make a universal argument for veganism, but what I do think is helpful is to frame veganism as a political stance and to be adamant that it is also deeply entangled with our other movements for liberation.

Sanaura Taylor  (via one-thousand-antlers)

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Dream a little

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I could sleep inside the cold of you

[one-thousand-antlers]

[helenakey]

Actually, no. The fire on the Rain Forest was caused by big american companies who want to build farms there and use the Amazon’s rich soil to grow products and sell them worldwide. You don’t need a farm in the amazon to breed cows or other animals. They just fill them with supplements and a bunch of chemicals, and that can be done in literally everywhere as long as you can pay for them. I’m pretty sure that the gold and diamond business also had a hand on the fire. This has nothing to do with eating meat. Please, do not try to use this terrible tragedy to fulfill your personal agendas and don’t spread misinformation. 

[chachamare]

@acti-veg could you maybe say something to this?

[acti-veg]

While I don’t actually agree with the phrasing of the original post, I will say that it’s inaccurate to claim that there is no link between the amazon’s destruction and eating meat. Apologies if I’ve misinterpreted, but that does seem to be what you’re arguing here. The factor you seem to be missing in your “that can be done anywhere” claim is quite how much land is already taken up by animal agriculture, because at present a full 1/3 of the planet’s land surface and 2/3 of available agricultural land is used for farming animals. Beef production in particular has been frequently cited as one of the leading causes of deforestation worldwide, but particularly in the amazon, where a full 91% of formerly forested amazon cleared 1971 has been used for cattle grazing. To claim that this has nothing at all to do with our demand for meat is just obtuse.

[somecutething]

That look of love from a just adopted dog ♥️♥️

[kitbulls]

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[acti-veg]

how do you think transgender people define a “man” or “woman”? Hope that’s ok to ask, I’m just genuinely ignorant on this subject and would like to learn as it’s something I don’t really understand, if gender isn’t defined by chromosomes, genitals, hormones or stereotypes associated with gender, I’m not really sure what defines it. I don’t understand when people say they “feel like the wrong gender” and I’d just like to understand what that means better

I’m not really the right person to ask I’m afraid, I have my own opinions on the topic of course but I’m cisgender so I really can’t speak on behalf of trans people. The best I can do is direct you towards a few resources:

Trans + Gender Identity 101- The Trevor Project

Transgender FAQ- Glaad

Trans Equality FAQ

HRC Trans Resources

Susan’s Place

[sereniv]

Reblogging so followers can give their own experience.

How I see it is how you perceive yourself when you’re not doing anything.

Or if you were thrown in a different genders body. Your mind would be the same but your features and body wouldnt. Mentally, when you weren’t looking at yourself or you forgot you weren’t in your body, you would see yourself as the gender you originally were. then you look in the mirror and its all wrong. You don’t look like you. It just doesn’t fit.

Imagine anything where you weren’t allowed to be yourself. The face you have to put on just doesn’t fit you. Even if other people think that the goth look looks good, or the hair color, or the sailor swearing attitude, or the modest religious act suits you- you wouldn’t feel the same. it just feels wrong. Because it matters how you perceive yourself and how you feel, not how others perceive you or feel about you.

Also science does back up being transgender. More so as in there is no set in stone male and female, only traits that happen to combine the same sometimes. But this doesn’t take in account intersex, those who’s chromosomes are different combinations, androgny of humans (cis women with angular faces/cis men with feminine faces/women with deep voices/tall women short men etc), etc.

Gender is not a fact, it’s a concept. And we should be able to seek out to be who we perceive ourselves to be. What we just know we are.

Try this: Pick a name that is god awful and that you hate and tell people you’re trying out a new name. Have people refer to you as much as possible as that name for say a week or two.

You’ll see how weird it feels. How grossing feels, how it’s not you.

Your given name was given to you, it’s not a fact it’s not science. All you have to go on is you’re used to it- or maybe you like it. But you have had that name grow to you and is part of your identity. It just fits.

Idk how else to explain it so hopefully that makes sense.

Also this is long so if followers want to reblog from original source u can lol

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@Nestlé

[aestum]

(by Hassan Nizam)

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