this is my view from my seat in the library today (!!!)

Entire brick wall smoothed out by the ocean 

this is so pure

i’m dying

why would you eat animals when you could just not eat animals

why would you not eat animals when you could just eat animals

1. Because every sentient creature has the right to not be exploited and killed

2. Because of the shitty conditions farm animals go through

3. Because of the terror they feel when they have their throats slit

4. Because it’s a dead fucking body

5. Because the majority of humans do not require any animal products in their life or diet to thrive

6. Because animal agriculture is responsible for deforestation, including up to 85% of the Amazon 

7. Because the UN agrees a global plant-based diet is the best thing we could do to help our planet

8. Because animal agriculture is an enormous waste of land, water, and food

9. In the US, 47% of soy and 60% of corn is used as feed for livestock

10. Because every sentient being has the right to not be exploited and killed

11. Because it’s illegal to hit or kill a dog or cat, but the social norm to eat the corpse of a cow and pig 

12. Because meat is disgusting and unhealthy (but to reiterate, I couldn’t give less of a shit about health)

13. Because animal agriculture forces indigenous people off their land

14. Because meat packers and slaughterhouse workers have one of the most dangerous jobs in the US, with an injury rate of 27/100. They are given almost no breaks, and forced to do the same backbreaking, repetitive motions for hours every day. For next to no pay. Factory farm workers are no better off

15. Because many countries facing famine have enough food, but it’s used as livestock feed for western cattle

16. Because animal agriculture poisons waterways and is the leading cause of man-made climate change

17. Because factory farms are almost always set up in poor areas where the people can’t move away when their water becomes contaminated and the fucking toxins in the air give them lung cancer

18. because the oceans are so polluted and overfished, we could be facing near-lifeless oceans in less than 40 years. 

19. Because there are plant-based foods that look, feel, and taste like meat but nobody had to die for it

20. Because “it tasted good” is a shitty reason for murder

21. Because every sentient being has the right to not be exploited and killed 

22. Because you’re an asshole, get off my post you ignorant twat.

*goes in search of meat cus you easy to piss off*

literally 97% of north america eats meat why do you think i’ll get pissed when you do it

You ain’t special homie 

but have fun running your shit ass nature blog when all your forests are mowed down for that meat and the oceans are a massive dead zone for that meat and your rivers and lakes are polluted with factory farm runoff for that meat 

Just because two people aren’t romantically involved doesn’t mean they can’t be super important to one another.

Just because two people are super important to one another doesn’t mean they have to be romantically involved.

It is okay to love people deeply without wanting to be with them romantically and people should not make your friendship uncomfortable by consistently nagging you to date.

Let’s appreciate and support friendships and stop demanding people to have feelings they don’t have.

I feel this on a spiritual level

I’ve watched this on loop a good 50 times and as a musician I can confirm this to be 10000% true

Okay guys this is kinda important. GQ just came in the mail and for the first time in a long while it had a really important article…

I just sat here for like the last half hour reading this and I’m incredibly appalled at our justice system in regards to the military. The article interviews about 23 men who have all been sexually assaulted in some branch of the military. The PTSD from sexual assault in the military is more prevalent than PTSD from combat…

If you have a chance I suggest reading this article…and the title is a quote that one of the victims Doctor told him…

Hey guys! I’m very impressed and extremely happy to see this post gaining a lot of speed over the last few days! A few people have requested it, so i’ve gone ahead and scanned the pages of the article for those who want to read it, to read. 

So, here it is!

Wow. Very powerful stuff. I’ve had quite a few friends from back home enter the military and this is never something we bring up in discussions. I’m glad it’s garnering more attention. 

Some quotes:

“The moment a man enlists in the United States armed forces, his chances of being sexually assaulted increase by a factor of ten. Women, of course, are much more likely to be victims of military sexual trauma (MST), but far fewer of them enlist. In fact, more military men are assaulted than women— nearly 14,000 in 2012 alone.”

“Military culture is built upon a tenuous balance of aggression and obedience. The potential for sexual violence exists whenever there is too much of either.”

“Trent Smith, Air Force, enlisted 2011: “He was a senior aide— he had a direct line to the top. Being invited voer to his house, I just took it as I should go. Looking back, I as myself, Why didn’t you do anything? It wasn’t like he held me down or tied me up. I didn’t want to cross him. I really didn’t feel like I had any choice. I had just turned 19. It could be my career. I froze and went along with it.”“

“Rsearch suggests that the military brass may have conspired to illegally discharge MST victims by falsely diagnosing them with personality disorders. “The military has a systemic personality disorder discharge problem,” write the authors of a 2012 Yale Law School white paper. Between 2001 and 2010, some 31,000 servicepersons were involuntarily discharged for personality disorders. It is likely that in many cases these were sham diagnoses meant to rid the ranks of MST victims.”

“Jeremy Robinson [name changed], Army, 1970-1972: “I have very little memory of my time in the psychiatric ward, because I was so heavily drugged. I stopped eating. I became suicidal, and I made three attempts. They gave me shock treatments against my will. The diagnosis was paranoid schizophrenia. I bore that label for forty years before the VA finally admitted they had misdiagnosed me.”“

“Above all, MST victins keep quiet because they do not believe their attackers will be punished. And they’re almost certainly right. The conviction rate in MST cases that go to trial is just 7 percent. An estimated 81% of male MST victims never report being attacked. Perhaps it should astonish us that any of them do.”

“Mike Thomson, Marines, 1997-1999: ”I wasn’t “afraid” to report it— I was ashamed and disgusted. Guys aren’t supposed to be raped. I didn’t want to tell anybody about it. I didn’t want to say anything.”“

“Men develop PTSD from sexual assault at nearly twice the rate they do from combat. Yet as multiple research papers have noted, the condition in men is egregiously understudied. This is because so few men tell anyone. Those who do often wait years; many male participants in therapy groups are veterans of Korea and Vietnam. At Bay Pines’ C. W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in Florida, the country’s first residential facility for men suffering from MST, the average patient is over 50 years old at admission.”

So GLAD the word is spreading! 

How to talk about really important issues without derailment

My favorite #CNNBeLike tweets.

#CNN&FoxNewsBeLike.

Honestly??? this is all you need to know about cycling in Amsterdam

play this at my funeral

I’M DEAD INSIDE I HAVEN’t STOPPED LAUGHING SINCE HIS “WELCOME” tagging ALL my dutch friends in this wait @naturespeople @myflatsound @matthewgrayguebler @scarlettleafs @gawdno @luciennedebondt shit i can’t come up with y'alls names

The best thing is that this is how the majority of the Dutch people speak English, it’s not even exaggerated.

FACT OF THE DAY: 

introverts: help shovel neighbors driveways, smile at elderly folks

extroverts:  throw snowball through glass windows, eat the snowman raw

Pictures of Switzerland. The left picture is of Klausenpass while the right is a picture of Stäubenfall. 

napping together is my kind of date

The Clean Speech feat. Out of the Woods

you ever in the mood to get hit by a car and spend like 1 month in the hospital

This is what it should mean to be a police officer. Everyone deserves to feel safe and protected, no matter their skin tone or cultural background.  If the officers currently serving aren’t like this, then something needs to be done now to make that change. 

This is nice to see. There’s so much negativity about police officers and law enforcement lately, which I completely understand given the circumstances. But these guys here, these are real officers. Officers with compassion who actually do protect and serve the community however they can.