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A shopping mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine was hit by a russian missile today. There are lots of people still inside
No military infrastructure was nearby. This is a genocide.
https://twitter.com/filmvie/status/1541421698356072449?s=21&t=sjPfCfgGI7FuWUfIwYY8ag
Update: there was more than a thousand civilians inside
They hit the mall at the time when it was most crowded. They deliberately chose this time. Russia is a terrorist state.
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For those who aren't aware of the deeply racist history of anti-abortion movements.
Me: *shows the Incorrect Quote Generator to my crush/lover/idk even anymore*
Him: *proceeds to keep our names*
Me: *internally screaming*
Was Elrond in a gay marriage? We don’t know, because it’s none of our goddamn business. … No matter what Elrond got up to, it didn’t effect his ability to perform his job like a boss. And that is to provide travelers with great directions.
reblog if you would also like to be ruled by a well-appointed bisexual elf wizard
Courts have literally ruled that the police are a gang and not lifesaving heroes. And people still think otherwise.
I actually said that
this is the anti-choice sign for abortion. please do not use it.
it refers to the fetus as a baby being thrown away. this is a triggering and upsetting sign, and it should not be used.
this is the pro-choice + pro-bodily autonomy sign for abortion
[gif sourced from a video by @/glassmenagerie on tiktok. i do not have experience writing image / GIF IDs so if anyone does, please add it and i will edit this post!]
this sign refers to abortion as the removal of pregnancy as a medical procedure.
PLEASE rb this version of this post, as the other one correcting the sign that has been circulating was made by a TERF, and uses trans-exclusionary language intentionally.
burning to death because i can’t remember the secret maneuver that’s different from every other car on earth or because i never read the manual or because it’s a rental or because it’s a rideshare or because i’m in the back seat and the driver is incapacitated (due to the fire currently burning us to death) or i’m a child
Get in loser, we’re going to have rejection sensitive dysphoria
anyone else feel slightly insane that this is the tagline of a multimillion dollar company releasing a bunch of cashgrab miniseries in order to milk a dying franchise even more. or have i just not slept well recently
mark fisher were really fucking in it now
if you don't know the reference, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron, and it's literally about how the revolution is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism and a passive consumerist outlook on political and social change
so yeah, "slightly insane" about sums it up
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Spread these too ✨LAWNS ARE DYING REPOST TO KILL THEM FASTER
Hey, yall with celiacs!
The FDA has allowed companies to not label things with gluten allergens. This means that, once again, the gluten free label can deceptive, and we need to start reading through all of the ingredients again (unless it has the verified label from GFCO). I'm not entirely sure how far this goes, but if looking for treats, do Not believe: cadbury cream eggs, newman o's. They are not gluten free. Stay safe!
Here is an example of the GFCO logo, they verify that advertised gluten free foods actually are:
Either of these logos means that a food has been verified by a third party company that is not the FDA (who has proven we cant trust them). I'm not sure about other verification companies, but I trust this one because they certify gluten free within celiac sensitivity standards. If you know of any other companies, feel free to add!
Once again, stay safe!
Non-celiac people are encouraged to reblog this.
anti-egg vegans are always a hoot. like, she’s not using it. it’s not fertilized. it’s going to rot and attract predators. you want me to just throw it in the trash??
its still animal exploitation, is it not?
do you think a chicken with zero emotional attachment to the egg she popped out feels exploited when that egg leaves the coop?
if that unfertilized egg cracked in the pen there’s not a chicken who would wait 0.002 seconds to slurp that shit down raw and unseasoned but I’m supposed to exploit foreign children farming for slave wages and ship all of their staple crops across the world to me instead. and this feels like the moral high ground to them. alright
Almost as if there was no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Besides, what other people said - the conditions the chickens are kept in industrialized farms are horrendous and they are literally grinding male chicks alive because they can’t lay eggs
this post is written by someone who owns their own chickens. industrial factory conditions do not apply. perhaps if you think domesticated animals only exist in factories, you are uninvolved and uneducated about animal husbandry and your opinions are irrelevant.
It just so happens I grew up picking up eggs from chickens and milking cows so good luck next time trying to make assumptions about people you don’t know luv <3
But sure, if you own chickens then using eggs is better than wasting them. However, this isn’t how an average person would get their eggs. A regular person will go and get their eggs from a story which is what I was referring to.
LMAOOO “if you own chickens then using eggs is better than wasting them”
“obviously this person who owns chickens and is sick of vegans telling them to pointlessly throw their eggs away needs ANOTHER vegan to do the same thing and then immediately acknowledge that OP was right in the first place.”
10/10 did you read the post
K, so I was wrong here. However habibi, please let me borrow your ability to read minds because I left mine in my other pants. I can borrow you some politeness in return
ok, I will attempt to be polite. this will be further criticism but i’m not trying to insult or denigrate you.
it’s not mind reading, it’s reading comprehension and familiarity. OP: “she’s not using it. it’s not fertilized. it’s going to rot and attract predators. you want me to throw it away??”
Those sentences tell me three things
1) they already have the egg
2) there will be more eggs and something will need to be done with them
3) the eggs cannot be left in the coop or it presents a risk to the chickens
through these bits of information, we can infer that there are chickens in the coop producing eggs. OP themself is concerned about predator risk, so we can infer that OP is also the caretaker of the chickens. people who don’t own chickens aren’t really concerned about predator risk from leaving eggs in the coop. they typically don’t even know about it.
The immediate reply to OP who clearly owns chickens is “it’s still animal exploitation” (stupid) to which another person responded that chickens will eat their own eggs which they do not need because we provide their food to them while children working for slave wages halfway across the world would actually very much benefit from the food they are producing. especially examples like quinoa, which indigenous people who have grown and eaten as a staple crop for thousands of years have been priced out of due to western vegan consumption. it’d be like being priced out of bread or rice because rich people halfway across the world can pay more.
then you responded about factory farming conditions, which were never relevant to the discussion because the conversation was always about whether people who own their own chickens are Morally Bad for eating the eggs, which read to me as the classic and very annoying tactic of whataboutism.
I responded with “perhaps if you think domesticated animals only exist in factories, you are uninvolved in and uneducated about animal husbandry and your opinion is irrelevant.” it was mean and i probably should have been nicer, i’ll give you that. i’ll explain the critique thoughtfully now.
our relationships with our domesticated species took 150,000 years to mutually develop. I actually don’t love the term domesticated itself because it implies that humans alone orchestrated the creation of the relationship when we know that that is simply not true. we are symbiotic. chickens and cows and pigs and sheep get just as much from us as we get from them. there is nothing inherently or morally wrong with our relationships with our animals, and I honestly think it is so so so incredibly human that we decided to make friend with and love and care for our food their whole lives before it’s their time to enter the life cycle. additionally, we formed those relationships in specific environmental conditions (winter) where plants do not grow for multiple months of the year and animal products are required to survive.
the capitalist exploitation of animals is no better or worse than the capitalist exploitation of people. our relationships with each other are not inherently cruel and exploitive, the global capitalist system is cruel and exploitive. in the exact same vein, our relationships with animals are not inherently cruel or exploitive, the capitalist system forces that cruelty and exploitation.
veganism is the internalization of that exploitation as the true nature of our relationship, when it is not a fact of our nature. industrial farming is less than 200 years old. these relationships are 150,000 years old. it’s also not even environmentally friendly in the long term, it requires maintaining the capitalist framework of our entire agricultural system, which is just as damaging to the land and the plants as it is to the animals. farmland in the US has about 30 years before it will go entirely fallow due to industrial crop rotations. maintaining any kind of industrial farming practice, including the systems of crop rotation, global exploitation of humans and animals, and transport of staple vegan products, is a commitment to a food system that will destroy us and the land in equal measure. we need a radical systems change, not to deny, erase, or destroy our long-standing symbiotic relationships with animals that now rely on us for their health and safety. as a side note: I hate industrial husbandry and veganism equally for their total abdication of our responsibility towards our companions. imagining a world without them is a greater tragedy than I can form words to describe.
i’m not judging people who limit their consumption of animal products due to industrialized farming conditions. theyre shit and I would never in my life defend them. i want to burn that whole system down. what I do judge is the complete internalization of exploitation as a fact of our nature. the fact of our nature is that we are incredibly adaptable and collaborative omnivores who live in and rely on a living system of which animals are a HUGE part. we need to cultivate our food to suit our environment and its needs rather than imposing Man As Separate From Nature nonsense on our food system. and what i really am trying to make clear is that there is no division between our food system and our life system. when the land is healthy, the people and the plants and the animals are healthy. the most sustainable diet is a diet tied to your specific environment. if you have winter, importing greens from other places requires either an agreement to only take their excess (in which case you’ll need to rely on your own environment in case they have a shortage) or exploitation and force to take it (in which the people who grew the food starve for the sake of veganism). I live in the plains and i’ll be eating buffalo in the winters instead of cattle if I have anything to say about it.
so to finish up, there IS ethical consumption in capitalism and it is consuming food that you yourself have labored to produce. it is a moral Good to deeply engage with your food and food production and ensure that every being involved in the process—from the land to the plants to the animals to the grower to yourself— is treated with respect, compassion, and dignity. OP who cares for their own chickens and eats the eggs is doing more to actually repair our food system than any strain of vegan thought ever could.
animal husbandry is a reality of human life. we live in environments that cannot produce plant life year-round. committing to eating exclusively plant crops ignores the fact that our food is produced by a living system that requires death and decomposition to cycle nutrients and replenish the land AND requires exploiting areas with longer growing seasons to steal their food. we can make it at home if we’d just care about what the land actually needs.
Thank you for explaining that to me. And yes, I agree with you. Consuming the fruit of your own labor is ethical, especially if that reduces the amount of ressources being wasted. Still,, I will stand by my critique of capitalism, though. I should probably clarify, what I mean is the current, late-stage version of it, where large capital (money, land, workforce, animal and other ressources) are concentrated in relatively few hands.
yes, I agree that capitalism is a cancer on our planet. I am greatly concerned that you think I didn’t include “capitalism bad” when i mentioned several times that capitalist exploitation is the root of pretty much all of our food system problems. the staunch critique of capitalism included in my analysis is why I am absolutely positive that a consumer choice within exploitive capitalist systems is not going to cause or aid in the fundamental systems change we need in how we grow and access food.
capitalism is why veganism does not work. you are not buying more ethical food, you’re buying food that exploits someone else in a different way because there is no part of our global agricultural system that is not deeply, brutally exploitive. the same corporation selling you vegan staple foods is the corporation overproducing dairy products to the point of 1.4 billion pounds of cheese in caves in arkansas. ive never in my life seen such a blindly bullheaded movement, “this product from the same corporation is more ethical!!” like. no. it’s not. it’s the same people; they just figured out how to market to you.
what food you feel morally okay about buying is a highly individual and emotional consumer choice, but it’s still just a consumer choice. you can be vegan and be very satisfied with it and I am happy for you if that’s what you feel good eating. veganism itself remains a consumer choice. buying something else isn’t and will never be radical. buying different items will never end capitalism. it will never even alter capitalism because all you’re doing is giving them a new market to exploit. it is a stopgap measure at best.
I think this is because people are incapable of recognizing that the food system is a fully fledged and embedded system. like did you know eating corn products is functionally the same as eating beef or dairy products because the structures of ag subsidies in the US have tied the production processes together so closely? beef ranchers get subsidized for corn crop grown on their property which they feed to the cattle which the cattle can’t properly digest which increases cow farts and every cow’s carbon output. the corn needs to be cycled with soy for nutrient efficiency, and that soy is what the rest of your soy-based vegan staples come from. corn and soy are grown in rotation with each other, because they replenish the exact nutrients the other needs during the off-season. stop growing corn or soy there, and the land is essentially fallow because all other nutrients have been depleted. then you have no corn for cattle feed or ethanol and that industries production will finally go down. this is the nature of what we’re dealing with. we are dealing with an ag system that has attempted to maximize the efficiency of life itself. it is global, it is fragile, it is dangerous, and every part of it is tied to the other. if you want beef production to go down, you need corn byproduct production to go down. if you want corn by-product to go down, you need soy by-product to go down. the global ag system is as interdependent on itself as natural ecosystems, the only difference is how fucking badly it’s designed. you move one crop or field or change the plan, you experience industrial trophic collapse.
I live in a state where 92% of the total land is ag land. of the corn grown on that land, 99% is ‘field corn’ which is used for livestock feed or byproduct production like ethanol. If I stop buying beef, it doesn’t fucking matter. The US government is already subsidizing the prices of dairy, beef, corn, and soybeans to keep the market stable. if the market goes unstable, suddenly you have neither the crop or the capital to carry industrial production of any of these products into the next season.
this is not a “no ethical consumption under capitalism” bit, this is me telling you that the food system is designed not to react at all to consumer choices. it’s designed that way on purpose because if the global ag system were subject to market forces, it would collapse immediately. corporate farms are going to grow what that field is slated to grow, and there is absolutely nothing that consumer choices can do to alter it. the government will buy the shit whether you do or not. you can’t fix capitalism with buying the right shit.
I really can’t tell if vegans don’t understand how deeply fucked the food system is or if they genuinely think that not eating beef would affect beef production, but it does not and it never will. if you want to lower production of one food crop, you have to systemically lower the production of every crop it relies on and every crop that relies on it.
like, i’m doing my best to be polite here but SYSTEMS. SYSTEMS HAVE TO BE CHANGED. THE WHOLE SYSTEM HAS TO BE CHANGED. ALL OF IT. WE CANNOT REFORM INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE, WE CAN ONLY BUILD FULLY ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS. this shit makes me fucking crazy because veganism doesn’t even prioritize the systems change we actually need, it just assumes we’ll be fine if we cut out meat production and beef emissions go down. it assumes that the flaws inherent to vegan food production will just ~go away~ if carbon emissions are low enough. we will not be fine. there is no long-term plan there that values the land, the environment, and the people who live and produce on it beyond icky feelings about eating animals and the assumption that all the food system’s crimes can be connected to that icky feeling.
veganism is not a solution. it is a consumer choice parading itself around like it’s a magic bullet. it’s fundamentally incapable of addressing the problems with our food system, and vegans parading it around as both the only option and the correct option is deeply infuriating to someone who actually does this work.
Holy smokes. That means the situation is even worse than I thought. Thank you for opening my eyes to that. Of course I knew that big corporations and particular industries are by far more to blame than our individual choices, but I had no idea how little we can actually do
maybe i cant take it anymore
anti-egg vegans are always a hoot. like, she’s not using it. it’s not fertilized. it’s going to rot and attract predators. you want me to just throw it in the trash??
its still animal exploitation, is it not?
do you think a chicken with zero emotional attachment to the egg she popped out feels exploited when that egg leaves the coop?
if that unfertilized egg cracked in the pen there’s not a chicken who would wait 0.002 seconds to slurp that shit down raw and unseasoned but I’m supposed to exploit foreign children farming for slave wages and ship all of their staple crops across the world to me instead. and this feels like the moral high ground to them. alright
Almost as if there was no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Besides, what other people said - the conditions the chickens are kept in industrialized farms are horrendous and they are literally grinding male chicks alive because they can’t lay eggs
this post is written by someone who owns their own chickens. industrial factory conditions do not apply. perhaps if you think domesticated animals only exist in factories, you are uninvolved and uneducated about animal husbandry and your opinions are irrelevant.
It just so happens I grew up picking up eggs from chickens and milking cows so good luck next time trying to make assumptions about people you don’t know luv <3
But sure, if you own chickens then using eggs is better than wasting them. However, this isn’t how an average person would get their eggs. A regular person will go and get their eggs from a story which is what I was referring to.
LMAOOO “if you own chickens then using eggs is better than wasting them”
“obviously this person who owns chickens and is sick of vegans telling them to pointlessly throw their eggs away needs ANOTHER vegan to do the same thing and then immediately acknowledge that OP was right in the first place.”
10/10 did you read the post
K, so I was wrong here. However habibi, please let me borrow your ability to read minds because I left mine in my other pants. I can borrow you some politeness in return
ok, I will attempt to be polite. this will be further criticism but i’m not trying to insult or denigrate you.
it’s not mind reading, it’s reading comprehension and familiarity. OP: “she’s not using it. it’s not fertilized. it’s going to rot and attract predators. you want me to throw it away??”
Those sentences tell me three things
1) they already have the egg
2) there will be more eggs and something will need to be done with them
3) the eggs cannot be left in the coop or it presents a risk to the chickens
through these bits of information, we can infer that there are chickens in the coop producing eggs. OP themself is concerned about predator risk, so we can infer that OP is also the caretaker of the chickens. people who don’t own chickens aren’t really concerned about predator risk from leaving eggs in the coop. they typically don’t even know about it.
The immediate reply to OP who clearly owns chickens is “it’s still animal exploitation” (stupid) to which another person responded that chickens will eat their own eggs which they do not need because we provide their food to them while children working for slave wages halfway across the world would actually very much benefit from the food they are producing. especially examples like quinoa, which indigenous people who have grown and eaten as a staple crop for thousands of years have been priced out of due to western vegan consumption. it’d be like being priced out of bread or rice because rich people halfway across the world can pay more.
then you responded about factory farming conditions, which were never relevant to the discussion because the conversation was always about whether people who own their own chickens are Morally Bad for eating the eggs, which read to me as the classic and very annoying tactic of whataboutism.
I responded with “perhaps if you think domesticated animals only exist in factories, you are uninvolved in and uneducated about animal husbandry and your opinion is irrelevant.” it was mean and i probably should have been nicer, i’ll give you that. i’ll explain the critique thoughtfully now.
our relationships with our domesticated species took 150,000 years to mutually develop. I actually don’t love the term domesticated itself because it implies that humans alone orchestrated the creation of the relationship when we know that that is simply not true. we are symbiotic. chickens and cows and pigs and sheep get just as much from us as we get from them. there is nothing inherently or morally wrong with our relationships with our animals, and I honestly think it is so so so incredibly human that we decided to make friend with and love and care for our food their whole lives before it’s their time to enter the life cycle. additionally, we formed those relationships in specific environmental conditions (winter) where plants do not grow for multiple months of the year and animal products are required to survive.
the capitalist exploitation of animals is no better or worse than the capitalist exploitation of people. our relationships with each other are not inherently cruel and exploitive, the global capitalist system is cruel and exploitive. in the exact same vein, our relationships with animals are not inherently cruel or exploitive, the capitalist system forces that cruelty and exploitation.
veganism is the internalization of that exploitation as the true nature of our relationship, when it is not a fact of our nature. industrial farming is less than 200 years old. these relationships are 150,000 years old. it’s also not even environmentally friendly in the long term, it requires maintaining the capitalist framework of our entire agricultural system, which is just as damaging to the land and the plants as it is to the animals. farmland in the US has about 30 years before it will go entirely fallow due to industrial crop rotations. maintaining any kind of industrial farming practice, including the systems of crop rotation, global exploitation of humans and animals, and transport of staple vegan products, is a commitment to a food system that will destroy us and the land in equal measure. we need a radical systems change, not to deny, erase, or destroy our long-standing symbiotic relationships with animals that now rely on us for their health and safety. as a side note: I hate industrial husbandry and veganism equally for their total abdication of our responsibility towards our companions. imagining a world without them is a greater tragedy than I can form words to describe.
i’m not judging people who limit their consumption of animal products due to industrialized farming conditions. theyre shit and I would never in my life defend them. i want to burn that whole system down. what I do judge is the complete internalization of exploitation as a fact of our nature. the fact of our nature is that we are incredibly adaptable and collaborative omnivores who live in and rely on a living system of which animals are a HUGE part. we need to cultivate our food to suit our environment and its needs rather than imposing Man As Separate From Nature nonsense on our food system. and what i really am trying to make clear is that there is no division between our food system and our life system. when the land is healthy, the people and the plants and the animals are healthy. the most sustainable diet is a diet tied to your specific environment. if you have winter, importing greens from other places requires either an agreement to only take their excess (in which case you’ll need to rely on your own environment in case they have a shortage) or exploitation and force to take it (in which the people who grew the food starve for the sake of veganism). I live in the plains and i’ll be eating buffalo in the winters instead of cattle if I have anything to say about it.
so to finish up, there IS ethical consumption in capitalism and it is consuming food that you yourself have labored to produce. it is a moral Good to deeply engage with your food and food production and ensure that every being involved in the process—from the land to the plants to the animals to the grower to yourself— is treated with respect, compassion, and dignity. OP who cares for their own chickens and eats the eggs is doing more to actually repair our food system than any strain of vegan thought ever could.
animal husbandry is a reality of human life. we live in environments that cannot produce plant life year-round. committing to eating exclusively plant crops ignores the fact that our food is produced by a living system that requires death and decomposition to cycle nutrients and replenish the land AND requires exploiting areas with longer growing seasons to steal their food. we can make it at home if we’d just care about what the land actually needs.
Thank you for explaining that to me. And yes, I agree with you. Consuming the fruit of your own labor is ethical, especially if that reduces the amount of ressources being wasted. Still,, I will stand by my critique of capitalism, though. I should probably clarify, what I mean is the current, late-stage version of it, where large capital (money, land, workforce, animal and other ressources) are concentrated in relatively few hands.
Trying to multitask between working, sitting in a lecture and having tiny bit of enjoyment in life
anti-egg vegans are always a hoot. like, she’s not using it. it’s not fertilized. it’s going to rot and attract predators. you want me to just throw it in the trash??
its still animal exploitation, is it not?
do you think a chicken with zero emotional attachment to the egg she popped out feels exploited when that egg leaves the coop?
if that unfertilized egg cracked in the pen there’s not a chicken who would wait 0.002 seconds to slurp that shit down raw and unseasoned but I’m supposed to exploit foreign children farming for slave wages and ship all of their staple crops across the world to me instead. and this feels like the moral high ground to them. alright
Almost as if there was no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Besides, what other people said - the conditions the chickens are kept in industrialized farms are horrendous and they are literally grinding male chicks alive because they can’t lay eggs
this post is written by someone who owns their own chickens. industrial factory conditions do not apply. perhaps if you think domesticated animals only exist in factories, you are uninvolved and uneducated about animal husbandry and your opinions are irrelevant.
It just so happens I grew up picking up eggs from chickens and milking cows so good luck next time trying to make assumptions about people you don’t know luv <3
But sure, if you own chickens then using eggs is better than wasting them. However, this isn’t how an average person would get their eggs. A regular person will go and get their eggs from a story which is what I was referring to.
LMAOOO “if you own chickens then using eggs is better than wasting them”
“obviously this person who owns chickens and is sick of vegans telling them to pointlessly throw their eggs away needs ANOTHER vegan to do the same thing and then immediately acknowledge that OP was right in the first place.”
10/10 did you read the post
K, so I was wrong here. However habibi, please let me borrow your ability to read minds because I left mine in my other pants. I can borrow you some politeness in return
