Wow, the IT ME is strong with this one.

This is an attack

And second homes and air bnb.

Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan 2023 Vanity Fair Oscars after-party

wait americans can just. buy massive bottles of ibuprofen what the fuck

ONE THOUSAND TABLETS. ONE THOUSAND OF THEM??? im jealous we only get like 16

when you’re on here like ‘mmm yummy five ibuprofen make headache go away’ you’re not struggling with little packets you’re just straight chugging that shit what the fuck

i imagine its compensation for not actually having healthcare

Art made by nature

Source

Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it’s insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN’T SHED MICROPLASTICS

Like, there’s literally nothing you can do to a sheep that’s as morally reprehensible as dumping plastic down the gullet of literally every other living thing. You wanna talk about animal welfare? Talk about reducing the amount of microplastics produced by rayon, polyester, and spandex.

You are brave as FUCK for saying this, and it’s 100% true.

Wool farming, if done with an eye on animal welfare*, does absolutely nothing to harm a sheep or alpaca. It’s no different than a haircut. And just like a haircut, it’ll grow right back. If your argument is that sheep may be cut in this process—very occasionally a sheep may be nicked. To be clear, I say NICKED, not cut. Think about shaving your legs or face and hitting a bump, and ow, you bleed a couple drops. That is what may, rarely, happen. But RARELY, because farmers are going to take damn good care of the animals who keep them in funds. Should it happen, it’s as much an accident as you finding that bump while shaving.

Likewise y’all should be promoting ethical beekeeping and honey farming. Bees are unique among livestock in that if they don’t like their keeper, if they think the hive is shitty, they can, and will, just…leave. You can’t put a collar or ear tag on a bee. Bee populations are declining and they’re incredibly important in our biodiversity (as pollinators, yes, but also in other ways). And bees do, indeed, make too much honey for themselves. That’s why they swarm. A nest gets too full of comb, or they outgrow it, and they just dip. Swarming is dangerous because it leaves the bees vulnerable—the queen is mostly unprotected, they have only as much food as they could carry with them so if it’s late in the season they’re dead meat, humans spot swarms and freak out and send exterminators because they don’t realize swarms aren’t dangerous as long as you’re calm….it is, BY FAR, better to have bees in a hive that never overfills, where they can be checked for parasites and diseases that would destroy the colony or even an entire apiary and can receive honey substitute rather than starving to death if winter should be particularly harsh or long, and where an excess of their natural product and instincts can be siphoned off for the benefit of humans with no detriment to the bees.

Honey is less harmful to us and to the planet we live on than agave syrup, stevia, or cane sugar. It does not rely on any kind of slave labor (again: if the bees weren’t happy, they’d leave). It does not upset entire economies. And by its nature there are more independent keepers than there are giant conglomerates, which is better all the way around! (Although the conglomerates are trying to change that, so like. Support your local beekeepers.) Plus, old no-longer-needed honeycomb is made of beeswax, which can be used in all manner of things in lieu of more harmful chemicals like phthalates. There is no downside here!

“Never do anything involving an animal ever” should not be the goal. That completely ignores that we are animals that grew up in a complete ecosystem. “Do the least amount of harm and be good stewards, because this planet doesn’t belong to only us” should be the goal.

Wool and honey. We can argue another time about eggs. For right now let’s agree that sheep, goats, alpacas, and bees make far more of these products than they will ever need, that in some cases an excess can even be detrimental to them, and that it is a GOOD THING to find a way to live in balance rather than poisoning our world with “vegan leather.”

*to wit: animals should have plenty of space, shelter, food, and clean water. I love meat and I fucking hate factory farming.

“Do the least amount of harm and be good stewards, because this planet doesn’t belong to only us”

Cinderella marries the Prince, part 1/2

Part 2/2

This was a short story originally written by @batneko ! You can read the original post here: https://batneko.tumblr.com/post/171036276147/cinderella-marries-the-prince-and-its-fine-the

Thank you for reading ☺️

Victorian kids would straight up eat and kill modern people (and yes I know someone will try to argue that if they're eating someone they're killing them and I would like you to go look up how many Victorian medical "remedies" called for human fat or body parts.

i call to my children on christmas morning and they all snap their legs running down our ribcage stairs

the OSHA inspector takes one look at this and starts strangling the architect with his bare hands

Looking at this broke both of my ankles

Old Tumblr post layout with a lot of reblogs

egg slicer for people

When you absolutely hate your entire family.

I just know someone had to explain things to an angry inspector who dragged them out by their ear

@ new users remember to set your dash to chronological. I think old users will forget to tell you this because tumblr never randomly resets it like twitter does, so afaik literally everybody switched over to chrono as soon as they tried to introduce non-chrono, and then promptly forgot tumblr even has a non-chrono view. on tumblr we really dont do the “all mighty algorithm” thing.

INSTRUCTIONS

Account -> General Settings -> Dashboard Preferences -> Turn "best stuff first" toggle OFF

(And maybe mess with some other settings according to your preferences—I personally nixed "stuff in my orbit" and "based on my likes" because I only want to see bullshit from the people I follow, not the rest of the site's bullshit.)

And if you're on desktop, go download Xkit Rewritten too. It adds (and fixes) some site functionalities, a ton of us rely on it.

This is the Baby Money Yoda, reblog in the next 60 seconds of seeing this to receive a blessing from our green bean prince.

YOU CANNOT BE FEEDING THESE TO PEOPLE OMG 🤦🏽‍♀️

The horror I just came across on my ig 😷

Okay, but even if essential oils were edible, which they are not, companies charge an arm and a leg for tiny bottles of half-synthetic essential oils. Wouldn’t it be cheaper in the end to just buy a bottle of extract if all you’re going to do is use it for flavorings? Because you’re just tossing your health and your stomach lining away if this is what you’re doing with your DoTerra.

*screeches*

Y’all are missing the fact that OP is promoting a pyramid scheme which makes this even more reprehensible

what the hell are you all talking about? peppermint essential oil is edible, and it tastes great in hot chocolate

Umm, it’s super duper not though.

maybe it isn’t that safe, but i only use one to two drops and that goes a long way in flavor. i just don’t understand how this cant be edible as ive never felt sick from eating it.

Because the toxin build up to your internals isn't going to kill you instantly. It's not poison, it's toxic. Yes, toxic. Even a single drop, diluted, is waaaaay too many chemicals for your body to process. So it nopes out and filters them. Putting additional strain on your kidney and liver. And that's of you're lucky enough to skip the chemical burns.

If you like peppermint, buy a fucking plant. Or extract, that is actually meant to be ingested.

Like, do you all hate yourselves so much that you just don't care? I don't get it.

@biologyweeps have you ever heard of people trying to bake with essential oils?

Well I certainly have now....

Please don’t bake with essential oils, these things are not food safe and were never intended to go through food. The processing that food goes through (baking, the chemical interactions inside the food, etc) can influence what the essential oil is doing in there.

There are oils safe for human consumption, which are usually diluted down to safe levels so that you can use them as flavouring. They’re usually not sold as essential oils because they’re not in fact that, as they are strongly diluted. Use those if you want to flavour your things. Not...whatever the hell this is. Please. 

“Meghan and harry are being way too over protective of archie. Why bring him to meet Tutu but not out to interact with the public or even to Meghans engagement later in the day with a bunch of moms and their babies? Its very off putting. It feels very “eeww dont let the commoners touch our baby”” - Submitted by Anonymous

*stares in vaccine ages & the resurgence of serious childhood illnesses* Some of the criticisms I see defy all logic. You know why toddler playdates are a thing? Because toddlers are old enough to have gotten all of their necessary shots. 

A quick reminder for folks in the US: if you haven't seen anything about ACA open enrollment this year, that is by design. Secretary Azar wants to lower enrollment numbers to justify pulling funds from medicare/medicaid. Here are your dates:

And the link.

This isn’t my usual “content”  but for some  reason I decided to go through the Meghan Markle tag and wow,the racism on display from some of you is truly outstanding.Combining the tag and members of the media attacks on her for guest editing British Vogue, I just need to get something off my chest.

 You call her class-less, a dimwitted diva, you say it’s not because she’s a woman of color she’s criticized, and my personal favorite,that it’s racist to say your critique of her is racist, a grand jeté onto that gas-lighting bandwagon. 

 Every little thing she does from opening a door for herself, altering her engagement ring, supporting the LGBTQ community,  to her nail polish color is just wrong,wrong,wrong. She is “uppity”, a word with a rich history of being mostly used to describe anyone (I’ve heard in my own life used mostly to describe black people) from a marginalized community daring to speak out against the atrocities they encounter and experience on a daily basis.

The Duchess of Sussex is not above scrutiny, no one public figure is, but just about 99.9% of  critique on Meghan Markle originates from a place of deep rooted white fragility.There’s an aspect of racism that deals with fear and jealousy but for this one moment,I’m going to focus on the fear and how it pertains to women of color. 

You’re terrified that if Meghan Markle can ascend to a position you’ve thought sacred to only the most superior of white individuals, what else can women of color do? Just close your eyes, take a deep breath, and say it with your chest: you’re racist, and you’re scared of women of color.

Even as crazy as the world seems right now, there are more people who are condemning racism, homophobia,transphobia,and speaking truth to power. One of them just so happens to be a biracial outspoken member of The British Royal Family. Therefore, you must destroy her and all women of color who don’t know their place or face your own extinction.

But here’s the thing.

Trans women of color ( trans women are women just in case you forgot given the backlash Meghan Markle got for including Laverne Cox in the BV issue) ,cis women of color,all women of color have been shaping the world we live in long before Meghan Markle and will continue to do that and more.

You are a fossilized shroud of mediocrity and we see you for what you are.

Afraid.