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mali-umkin · 22 hours
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Please sign and share this petition if you're in the UK - and please share it if you're not. Thanks!
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The Knight of the Flowers (1894)
— by Georges Rochegrosse
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mali-umkin · 3 days
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Why is honey not vegan it dosent harm the bees and it helps the environment
Honey is not vegan by any reasonable definition of the word. As vegans we avoid animal exploitation, whatever you may think about bees and honey, honey is very definitely the result of exploiting bees. Bees are amazing pollinators and they are vital for plants and natural ecosystems more generally, but that really has nothing to do with buying and eating honey.
Most pollinator bees are solitary bees, pollination in natural eco-systems is performed by these individuals, other insects and birds. They are the ones who are under threat, not the kind of bees we use to make honey. We are talking about managed hives of domesticated bees, most of whom are non-native and compete with natural pollinators for the same food sources. It is even thought they may be spreading disease to wild pollinators, too, who do a far better job of pollination than managed hives do.
Commercially owned hives are shipped in on-mass to pollinate some crops, but this is not sustainable and far from how natural pollination works. It is a symptom of our over-intensive farming system, and certainly not a point to make in favour of buying and eating honey. This just helps make honey production more profitable, it isn’t good for the environment and certainly isn’t good for the bees.
What’s more, honey in many instances does harm bees. As I mentioned bees compete with and sometimes even infect wild pollinators. On top of that, bees being crushed during harvesting is very common as any honest apiarist will tell you, even when using smoking techniques. Wing clipping of queens is also pretty common, as is selling and shipping queens in the post; I can’t imagine how stressful that must be. Keep in mind that even without any of this, we’re taking about taking their life’s work and often replacing it with a sugar syrup substitute. Bees just don’t make honey for us, it’s not ours to take.
The best way to actually support wild pollinators and their ecosystem is to grow local, pollinator-friendly flowers and to provide them with natural habitats and constructed ones like bug boxes, which are widely available to buy and very easy to make. The claim that honey is in some way good for bees or good for the environment is nothing but effective marketing.
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mali-umkin · 3 days
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I’m not vegan but *proceeds to poorly and inaccurately share vegan rhetoric* and in conclusion that’s why I buy all of my meat and dairy from ethically sourced places.
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There he goes...
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Bird vessel, German, Nuremberg, ca. 1580. Rock crystal, with gilded silver and rubies.
Courtesy Alain Truong
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mali-umkin · 6 days
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Detail of that illustration where Holmes and Watson enter Mycroft's magnificent presence and turn into teenage boys because that's how strong his Older Brother Energy is.
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mali-umkin · 7 days
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I've never been so offended in my life
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mali-umkin · 8 days
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Incorruptible pt 17
I interrupt the more serious tone of the comic with a very silly page and homage to all the different ways I've seen and heard Robespierre's name pronounced lol
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mali-umkin · 9 days
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"Workers, do not be deceived: it is the great struggle: parasitism and labor, exploitation and production are at death-grips. If you are sick or vegetating in ignorance and squatting in the muck; if you want your children to be men gaining the reward of their labor, not a sort of animal trained for the workshop and for war, fertilizing with its sweat the fortune of an exploiter, or pouring out its blood for a despot; if you want the daughters whom you cannot bring up and watch over as you would, to be no longer instruments of pleasure in the arms of the aristocracy of wealth; if you want debauch and poverty no longer to drive men to the police and women to prostitution; if, finally, you desire the reign of justice, workers, be intelligent, arise! And let your stout hands fling beneath your feet the foul reaction! ...Long live the Republic! Long live the Commune!"
--Statement of the Central Committee of the National Guard of the Paris commune on April 5, 1871.
The National Guard of the Commune was not the same as the old government's army that defended bourgeois interest; the National Guard of the Commune consisted of the workingmen of Paris. Their officers and Central Committee were democratically elected and subject to recall if they lost the confidence of the people.
The Paris Commune started today, March 18, in 1871. At the time the working people of Paris were driven to poverty and starvation by the war with Prussia. On this day in 1871 the people of Paris--especially women and children--chased out the bourgeois government, who ran away pitifully with their tails between their legs to Versailles, leaving the city to the control of its workers. The workers of Paris established their own government that sought not to merely address urgent and base concerns such as hunger, rent, and unemployment, but also to found a kinder society by radicalizing institutions such as education or the concept of the family. It was the first attempt at a workers' state in history.
The Commune lasted for only 72 days, when the French government violently and ruthlessly crushed it. They brutally massacred the workers in the event that is known as Bloody Week. Historian Donny Gluckstein wrote: "Bloody Week was a graphic example of a capitalist state stripped to its bare essentials--'armed bodies of men'--exterminating a threat to the system of domination and exploitation." Paris suffered a labor shortage after this massacre.
We remember the Paris Commune, its principles, and its battle. Even today we sing the Internationale, a product of that relentless hopeful spirit of the Commune and its people who dared to believe a kinder world was possible--if only we fight for it.
Picture is the Communards Wall at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, where workers of the Commune were killed by bourgeois forces. People still leave flowers every year.
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mali-umkin · 9 days
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I desperately wish that Anglo leftists weren't so keen to fall for neo-pagan horseshit history. Naomh Pádraig did not colonise Ireland. Driving the snakes out is not a metaphor for Druid genocide. Claiming that the actual religious community derived from St. Patrick, the Irish catholic church, was therefore the genocidal coloniser, is in fact kind of fucked up when you consider that that actually existing religious community (not some made up pagan feminist hippies who never existed - by all evidence, pre-Christian Ireland was a horrible caste system) was, you know, actually colonised.
Pagan bullshit makes anything to do with historical justice for Gaelic communities so much more difficult.
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mali-umkin · 11 days
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I figured the Jolene loving site needed to see this
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mali-umkin · 11 days
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Enregistré en 1912, ce tapissier découvre son accent parisien
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Je vous recommande à tous de l'écouter. Une belle découverte !
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mali-umkin · 11 days
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Lá ‘le Pádraig faoi mhaise ☘
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mali-umkin · 12 days
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so fascinated by charlotte robespierre not just in a historical way but in a literary way. like the Themes of it all. wishes she was antigone but is more of an ismene. this is not a garden this is my brother and i need a shovel to love him. the dead pigeon. you get it.
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mali-umkin · 13 days
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