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on the announcement that Disney+ is removing a plethora of shows and films from its service, please read these tweets from Willow writer John Bickerstaff. this is not a tax writeoff like Batgirl, because these projects have already been released. this is a move designed to cut off financial support in the form of residuals, and break the spirit of the strike. here is the deadline article that lists the films/shows that will be removed.

as always, donate to the entertainment community fund, vocally support the WGA online and irl, or join a picket in a major US city if you can. let them know they can't keep getting away with things like this.

[LOUD PURRING]

censorship

man triumphs over machine again

carrying all the groceries up so my wife doesnt have to

i bought that for my wife

Bear losing a salmon emoji

Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.

So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands.  10/10 post, dude.

Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?

Like, did you read it orrrrr?

Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES

It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.

Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.

1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.

or

2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.

So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.

LOUDER FOR THE VEGANS IN THE BACK: use honey, not agave! Bees need your support and other animals need agave! Using honey means more bees!!

Other animal products that are absolutely fine to use because they produce it in excess:

- Wool. Sheep need to be sheared or their wool will get excessively large, matted and gross. Its legit just a haircut. Calm down and use wool instead of whatever fake acrylic microplastic shit they have in stores now. Wool is super warm, insulating, and guess what! It grows back! Its a renewable resource and all the sheep want in return is some good pasture and protection from predators.

- Eggs. I’m not talking about storebought eggs. Go to your local farmer’s market. Find someone around with chickens/ducks. These birds produce eggs literally every day and will not stop unless they are molting, brooding, or kept in the dark for most of the day. Like I am not joking when I say you can very easily find someone with poultry and they will beg you to take some eggs. Theres so many. Please. Take some duck eggs. I dont want them. I had 8 laying ducks last year. Thats 8 eggs every day. Thats 2 dozen eggs every THREE DAYS. Thats SO MANY EGGS PLEASE TAKE SOME EGGS

Reducing animal cruelty does not mean abolish the use of animal products. Go eat honey. Go use wool. Go find a friend with birds and eat eggs, or get your own. Just because it comes from an animal does not make it cruel.

More people should keep dairy goats.

For clarification, though, honey bees are not the ones threatened with extinction (although they face similar threats to other bees); it’s other bees like bumble bees, mason bees, mining bees, etc. that are in trouble.

The best things you can do for bee conservation

This bee is called the Perplexing Bumble Bee. Its scientific name is Bombus perplexus. You’re welcome.

@brycevstheworld At the place I work as a farm hand once a week the goats got out while we were fixing their pen. They wandered around for like an hour before they wanted back into the pen. because it’s their house. with soft warm bedding, food and things to climb on.

On the other hand, one of my neighbor’s chickens insisted on laying eggs in our front flower bed last summer, and I think they had to make the chickens a pen so they didn’t get run over by cars.

Fun fact: putting livestock in a fence has surprisingly little to do with restricting their freedom and surprisingly much to do with stopping them from getting hit by trains and so on (happened to my great-great-grandpa’s cow and i only know about it cuz of mom’s ancestry research).

Farmers used to free-roam pigs in the southeastern USA. It’s why we have feral hogs everywhere now.

The decline of bees is a lot to to do with insecticide use (on PLANT crops, as well as residential gardens and lawns etc). And don’t come for me about how plant crops are fed to animals, because 1) this is not the majority of insecticide use and 2) I was reading scientific papers on this 4 days ago, and corn (the main animal feed crop) is barely even visited by bees, meanwhile canola oil production has a much more direct impact upon bees. To give one example. I’m not sure what your intended point was here.

A lot of colony collapse disorder of bees specifically traces to their use as rentable pollinators e.g. for almond orchards, that is, not as a direct result of the honey industry. Bees are brought into orchards in springtime because there are not enough local pollinators to support the massive density of tree flowers. This process of moving hives - which are normally stationary in nature - spreads diseases like varroa mites and foulbrood. one infected colony can infect dozens of others that may have been trucked clear across state lines. it’s like a superspreader event for bees. and those diseases aren’t picky about species - they will easily spread to native pollinators as well.

and again, I will emphasize, this process is vital for the production of almonds. you know your favorite milk substitute? the one made of fucking almonds? that one. in addition to exacerbating droughts, it also kills bees. MUCH more than a dedicated honey farm would. almonds pollinated with rented bees - that is, most of them - are not marked or sold differently from others. they are still organic, they are still “vegan.”

Your big ag isn’t better than non-vegan big ag.

My friend said this but this is a very important point that yall need to understand.

Shel Silverstein wrote and illustrated poetry for children,

drew cartoons for Playboy,

and made the most terrifying album cover of all time.

Don't put artists in a box.

I’m not sure you could make a box that could contain Shel Silverstein.

All five of these were made by Dr. Seuss:

"I CALL THEM THING ONE AND THING TWO"

"THE RATHER ODD MYOPIC WOMAN"

"EVERY GIRL SHOULD HAVE A UNICORN"

"OH, I'D LOVE TO GO TO THE PARTY BUT I'M ABSOLUTELY DEAD"

"CAT DETECTIVE IN THE WRONG PART OF TOWN"

Lol my large and handsome pig didn’t find Anything of interest in your yard

i think i found the most ethical use of chatGPT

captivated yet its face evades me

Gummy Bear Skin Rug

Daily affirmations for tesla owners: your car is ugly as hell and everyone hates you