May the only cocktails we make be Molotovs

|| CA || || Leo|| || 420 || || Nerd || || NSFW || Space Cadet Extraordinaire. Humanitarian Woodsy Gamer Mom. A steady Upwards Spiral. Pro-Vax, clothy, baby wearing, Science loving heathen. No Gods. No Masters.

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

[genesects-deactivated20150712]

[kosmogrl]

[anglaised]

it is so annoying being so self aware about all my issues like okay what now girl

[dogpuppy]

[animentality]

[talesfromtreatment]

hey, out of curiosity as someone who has never had pets and likely won’t for a long while, is raw feeding in general really that bad? like. i see videos alllll the time of folks feeding their pets like. raw liver and chicken hearts and ground fish and chicken feet, especially in like slow feeder videos. is that bad for pets?

Bluntly, yes.

There's the pathogen and parasite risk, to both humans and animals.

There's the foreign body or intestinal perforation risk from consuming bones.

There's the strong potential for malnutrition if not working with a veterinary nutritionist.

And the vitamin/mineral supplement used by many/most raw diets has now been shown to be able to cause a unique type of bladder stone.

There is zero overt benefit that outweighs the risks.

[ms-demeanor]

There are a very limited number of pet foods that have done lifetime feeding trials to ensure that they are nutritionally balanced and unlikely to cause long-term issues (like heart disease or malnutrition) or cumulative issues (like bladder or kidney stones) - as far as I know, no raw or grain-free pet foods have done these kinds of trials and many of these brands haven't existed long enough to do these kinds of trials so we don't *know* what the lifelong impact of raw feeding is (though we can see issues like the bladder stones mentioned above increasing in frequency, and any consumption of uncooked meat is a pathogen risk for pets and humans).

Eukanuba, Royal Canin, Hill's, Iams, and Purina have done lifetime feeding trials for years and are demonstrably proven to provide complete nutrition for your pet without any undue risk. If your pet has specific allergies or sensitivities, those brands also offer options to accommodate those needs.

Your pets rely on you to take care of them. It is totally understandable for you to want what is best for them. That's why it's so frustrating that raw and grain-free pet foods prey on your desire to provide the best for your pet while selling you an expensive product that increases your pet's risk of adverse health effects.

For more information on nutrition for your pets, check out the World Small Animal Veterinary Association, which has a handy FAQ as well as more in-depth information available.

[milanesa42]

Rickrolling you via pigeon next summer

[trashedandwroth]

Getting dressed up to go out with friends again. Reminding myself that I am a whole personality personality and identity is more complex than just being a parent. And that's ok ❤️

[trashedandwroth]

Life has only gotten weirder. I told you we'd be making Molotovs. 😘✊🏼

[trevlan]

[bogleech]

Every time I learn new things about vietnam its like

Americans: “it’s like the vietnamese had some kind of mystery superpower death magic or something”

Vietnamese: “the americans weren’t trained to avoid pointy sticks”

[yourk1nkydad-deactivated2025061]

Date night but its just us smoking blunts and making porn

[nightowlqueen]

best part of KPop Demon Hunters is all the ridiculous faces the girls make

[queeranarchism]

Maybe this is a 'water is wet' statement, but: putting the Holocaust on a pedestal where it can never be compared to anything else doesn't just serve zionism, it serves the individual agendas of a lot of colonialist powers too because it ensures that their history of atrocities is never compared to the Holocaust and remembered in the way that our culture remembers the Holocaust.

The transatlantic slave trade? The deliberate British Great hunger in Ireland? The deliberate British Famines in India? The Holodomor? The multiple acts of ethnic cleansing and mass murders committed by the Netherlands in Indonesia and its other colonies? Leopold II's reign of terror in Congo? And countless others.

All of these exist in the relatively ignored field of 'lesser evils' and aren't remembered and used as national moral anchors in the way the Holocaust is. They're not at the center of our collective memory because this one great horror takes center stage and it is deemed morally unacceptable to place other horrors near it. The only exception I can think of is the US, where thanks to the endless hard work of African Americans, slavery is sort of kinda almost recognized in the collective consciousness as a second great horror. But it's still second fiddle and disputed, and meanwhile in the European countries that engineered the transatlantic slave trade and profited from it, the space it takes in the collective consciousness is tiny.

The Netherlands has over 70 World War 2 museums. It is yet to open its first museum about slavery and has no museums dedicated to it's other colonial atrocities. The budget of the national World War 2 commemoration is 35 times larger than that of the national slavery commemoration. Holocaust education is important, but something is out of whack here. And it's easy to see why colonial powers don't want to change that.

[musubeans]

saw a car dragging a labubu facedown through the street

[demonprincex]

It is not possible to think your way out of an interpersonal conflict or ambiguous social situation. The information that you require in order to move forward dwells inside of another person, and you literally cannot figure that out yourself, no matter how good at perception, pattern matching, fawning, making up scenarios in your head, preparing, or minimizing your feelings you are.