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Some illustrations showing that freedom and self-expression are not privileges of the young.

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In true birthday fashion, I’ve made my own birthday cake for the 7th year in a row. I wouldn’t have it any other way! Being a pastry chef allows me to create exactly what I want.

The cake itself is a vegan vanilla bean cake filled with white chocolate buttercream and coated in a whipped chocolate ganache. Decorated with fondant, drippy blood red icing, & custom Converge sugar pieces. I can’t wait to dig into this later!

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The 18-year-old high school graduate whose amazing handmade prom dress went completely viral got her first red carpet commission!

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Why vegans should use honey instead of agave nectar

Okay, so I might get a lot of hate for this, I might not. I don’t particularly care either way, as long as word gets out about this, because it’s extremely important to me.

As I’m sure most people know by now, bees are disappearing at alarming rates. Simply put, our entire species could not survive without them. This is due to a syndrome called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

Many vegans opt to use agave nectar instead of honey, because agave nectar is plant based. But harvesting of agave nectar is threatening the existence of two other endangered species: Mexican long-nosed bats (who live strictly off of nectars - primarily agave nectar) and the Jaguarundi (a solitary feline who basically looks like a love child between a jungle cat and a ferret.) Approximately 113,126 acres of these animals’ habitat were destroyed from 1991 to 2000, and more has been destroyed since.

On the other hand, beekeepers are essential to increasing bee populations. They monitor the bees’ health and help protect them from dangerous parasites and pesticides that are suspected to cause CCD. In addition, well-kept bees never need to use the amount of honey they produce; Honey is made by the bees to consume only when there is not enough food for them outside the hive. In the care of a good beekeeper, this will only happen during the winter months, and the keeper will leave enough honey for the bees to thrive until it’s spring again.

It’s best to buy local, organic honey if at all possible. Local beekeepers will not use dangerous factory-farming methods, and it helps maintain your local bee population! If you want to help bees in a more active way than buying local honey, you can plant a bee garden or even become a small-scale beekeeper! (I don’t have a link for this, it’s best to check out local resources. Maybe even ask the person selling honey at your farmer’s market!)

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Judge reunites with friend from middle school: Heartbreaking, Sometimes its not our fault the circumstances we’re dealt

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Can we talk about how much more hardcore women’s soccer is than men’s

I mean look

these girls will tear themselves and each other apart

taking risks that most men wouldn’t

and the best part is that they actually get up and keep playing

plus they do fancy shit like this

so don’t tell me women’s soccer is boring or easy

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The art of Rune Christensen

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How satisfying is this 😭

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karlmarxandspencer:

a white man walks into a historic black church shoots and kills 9 people, is quoted saying ‘i have to do it, you people rape our children and are taking over our country’, his facebook profile picture shows him wearing two notorious white supremacist badges. all this and people are trying to argue that it couldn’t be racially motivated because he had black people on his facebook. nope not today satan. the level of white bullshit is too much for me today.

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