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spoke deeply to me.

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Sunset in grandma's garden 🌸

23 V 2025

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The people who go "well who's going to look after you when you're old?" when you say you're not having kids are breathtakingly naive. Our next-door neighbour, somewhere in her mid-80s, has a son, grandkids, and a grear-granddaughter, and who's the one she calls when she needs help, and checks that she's not spending christmas alone? Me and my boyfriend.

Having kids is irrelevant if the answer to that question is still going to be "the mentally ill faggots next door."

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MILDRED?????

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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While linguists and other researchers study how language shapes us and how it creates or conjures things into reality, the consistent theme when it comes to nonhuman animals, terrestrial or not, is the way in which language erases them. In terms of aquatic animals, the state of affairs is far worse. It is even more crucial, then, to think about, as Carol J. Adams might put it, why the absent referent can’t be identified (1990, The Sexual Politics of Meat) (Adams, 2015). In much of the work done to raise awareness around the cruelty and suffering of nonhuman animals on land, one can generally connect food item to origin animal (pork chop to pig, etc.). When consuming “fish,” very few people can identity or accurately imagine the animal from which the food item came. This is the infrastructure of the absent referent at work. How do you even talk about seafood? Would you ever say that you are very concerned about “landfood?” Seafood, like the term “landfood,” is a wholly inaccurate way to quantify aquatic animals. The term “aquatic animals” encompasses crustaceans, amphibians, reptiles, marine mammals, molluscs, aquatic insects, finfish, aquatic birds, corals, and echinoderms, as they are directly and indirectly “harvested” as a part of the seafood industry. Whether through trawling, dredging, bycatch, illegal fishing, or negligent practices, aquatic animals suffer in a more interwoven way than terrestrial animals do. A single haul can include a multitude of species, the method of death has no welfare considerations and is traumatic and cruel, and the average ratio of “catch” to “discard” is unacceptably high. In 1994, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimated an annual loss of between “17.9 and 39.5 million tons” of discards by fisheries (FAO, 1994). This number has increased by millions of tons and billions of lives. The authors of that study acknowledged that they could not get adequate data to accurately estimate the economic loss to fisheries or the biological, ecological, and “cultural impacts of discards.” They did, however, note that it would be through outside pressures that practices would shift: “it appears most likely that socio-cultural attitudes towards marine resources will guide international discard policies” (FAO, 1994). And here we are, 30 years later, with shifting attitudes and changing societal norms in part due to the threat of climate change and in part due to advances in knowledge about nonhuman animals and their worlds—our shared world. It is a low bar to hope that we can change policies about discarded aquatic animals, but there are signs that human beings are awakening to the short time they might have to be able to thrive on this planet, and what can be done to lengthen that time.

"Animals and Environmental Justice at Sea", Yanoula Athanassakis

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When the government kidnaps people without due process, Trump supporters don't worry that they're going to be kidnapped next.

But when the government taxes billionaires, Trump supporters do worry that they're going to be taxed next.

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the paul mccartney is dead conspiracy theory is the funniest thing in the world because i feel like if he did die and the beatles did replace him like parents replace a gold fish and the new guy managed to look exactly like him and play left handed bass, piano, and vocals in the same style and produce the same quality of music consistently for 30+ years then it'd be honestly rude to mention it at that point. like he's earned it let him have it

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Fuck zoos.

Hate them.

Animals do not consent to being bred into confinement.

They are not ours to use or keep for our own benefit or amusement.

Fuck zoos.

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The racism perpetuates the double standard.

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as a cis guy, when presented with the "99% you get a ton of money, 1% you turn into a girl" it honestly would be dumb to not hit that button until it breaks. like ok now i have 100 bajillion dollars and gender dysphoria. big deal. i have all the money in the world to turn me back into a guy. like with that kind of money i could have obama do me a phalloplasty. he wouldnt be able to do it as he isnt a surgeon but the point still stands