CW: animal abuse/death I created this comic together with Paul Goodenough (Founder of “Rewriting Extinction”) and World Animal Protection UK to raise awareness of this animal injustice 🐻❤️ Time is ticking for every bear tortured by the senseless cruelty of the Bear Bile industry. There is no need for this abuse: there are cruelty-free synthetic and organic ingredients with the same medicinal properties as bear bile, so how can humans justify this abuse!? Luckily World Animal Protection UK are working to end the cycle of cruelty - it’s up to us to support them and empower them to tackle this head on. If you can afford it, please do consider donating here: https://bit.ly/3l3W94G Every penny Rewriting Extinction raises goes directly to species-saving projects and restorying the planet with our 7 charity partners (Greenpeace, World Land Trust, Re:Wild, The Wildlife Trusts, Born Free, Reserva and Rewilding Europe).
TW: animal death / injury / death For grandma, who loved pigeons, and for grandpa, who did not but wanted her to be happy. Please hear me out <3 WEBTOON
s/o to ppl with intrusive thoughts that aren’t just like “eat sand” or “trample ur neighbor’s garden” but are really fucked up and immoral like u guys aren’t terrible just cuz the thought comes into ur mind doesnt mean u like it or want to do it i hope something good happens to u today
I will never be 100% healthy like other people, but then again I never knew anything like it. I've always been this way. I just wish I didn't have to get this sick for them to find out about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and the extent of the damage it did. It changed me for the better, I think. Now I know that if I feel something wrong again, I will never listen to people saying I'm dramatic, or exaggerating, or that I'm making this up. I learned to stand up for myself, to validate myself.
I've been broken by abuse, depression, anxiety, ptsd, and multiple physical consequences of my EDS, parts of me might never heal. That made me more resilient, but not in a way I would push myself to the point of burnout. It made me learn how to carry on coping with all the pain and validating my experiences.
This is my life, I can choose how to live it. This is my body and I will respect it. I will cherish my personality, my intelligence and I will be proud of myself for who I am. I will keep validating my feelings, experiences, illnesses. I am not yet where I want to be, but I am confident I will get there.
i actually love it when me and my mutuals all reblog the same post from each other so i see it on my dash like 11 times. like yes our taste is excellent our bond is tight and we are savoring this moment together <3
biggest betrayal is when it’s supposed to thunderstorm and it doesn’t
Spending my day getting high as hell while watching ghost adventures
The moment people were like “oh shit water benders”
I really loved this episode though, it was an established theme in the show that firebenders are associated with death and waterbenders are associated with life and healing, and up to this point it all seemed so clear-cut, because fire obviously destroys everything in its path while water can put out fires and heals, as we’ve seen particularly in Katara’s case with her natural healing ability.
Then we meet Hama, who due to years of torture and hatred has found a way to turn the classic gentler waterbending ways into a weapon of destruction and manipulation, and honestly I can’t think of a better way to introduce people to the fact that things are never as clear cut as they seem. We’ve thought of waterbenders as the good guys up until this point, so it’s jarring to find out that no, despite stereotypes and traditions, there are always going to be good and bad people in every culture/group, but that’s the point of the entire show.
It’s revisited later too when Aang and Zuko find the Sun Warriors who teach them firebending is not just about death and destruction, but also about bringing warmth to the earth and making plants grow and both Aang and Zuko needed to hear that they weren’t just instruments of destruction and gain confidence from the idea of using firebending to create life and I love it I love this show so much.
Rolling Hills Asylum | East Bethany, New York.
With more than 1,700 documented deaths and possibly hundreds of others that were not recorded, Rolling Hills Asylum is a widely documented hotbed of paranormal activity
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It is increasingly concerning to me to see more and more “sustainable” and “cruelty free” food alternatives & legislation that aims to ensure that small farmers cannot raise and/or hunt their own food. So many of these alternatives focus on corporate sold/lab made foods and legislation that will ensure only large corporations are the only ones that can afford to keep producing food.
Food is a human right. You should not have to pay a massive corporation to be able to eat. Legislation that makes it harder for poor people to keep and raise their own livestock is harmful. Legislation that excludes indigenous peoples from their native hunting lands & food species is harmful.
“Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen…”
— Alan Watts
what I really liked as a little kid was that an old nice man would visit our neighbourhood every saturday in his little green fiat 126p, park on the edge of our old and ugly playground, and set up his cotton candy machine.
it was a loud and horrible metal thing smelling of fuel and burnt sugar. it was the best cotton candy ever. the small cotton candy cost 50gr and the big one (so big you couldn’t eat it alone!) cost 1zł. he’d always wait as we stood under the balconies, each kid yelling MAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAAJ MI NA WATEEE
if you only had super small change like 20gr he’d still make one for you, just very small. and if you stayed until obiad time when he would start disassembling the whirring miracle machine, he’d let you scrub out the sticky bits of half-cottoned sugar with ice cream sticks.
cheesy songs would play on his little radio and a gaggle of other grandpas and uncles would gather around him if the day was sunny to talk about old times. we’d tease him all the time, monsters that we were, or try to sneak into his ugly-green maluch.
made a lot kids smile, especially if you didn’t really have much money.
hope you’re alright, wherever you are.
and you know, it’s funny – each time that I see a green fiat like his or each time I see cotton candy, I think of this man. he’s probably gone now, none of us even ever knew his name, he was just pan od waty. but even a loose 50gr coin found in a pocket now makes me think, 20 years later:
oh, enough for a small cotton candy on saturday!
Meditation is sometimes described this way: Imagine you’re trying to split a huge piece of wood with a small axe. You hit that piece of wood ninety-nine times and nothing happens. Then you hit it the hundredth time, and it splits open. You might wonder, after that hundredth whack, What did I do differently that time? Did I hold the axe differently; did I stand differently? Why did it work the hundredth time and not the other ninety-nine? But, of course, we needed all those earlier attempts to weaken the fiber of the wood. It doesn’t feel very good when we’re only on hit number thirty-four or thirty-five; it seems as if we aren’t making any progress at all. But we are, and not only because of the mechanical act of banging on the wood and weakening its fiber. What’s really transformative is our willingness to keep going, our openness to possibility, our patience, our effort, our humor, our growing self-knowledge, and the strength that we gain as we keep going. These intangible factors are the most vital to our success. In meditation practice, these elements are growing and deepening even when we’re sleepy, restless, bored, or anxious. They’re the qualities that move us toward transformation over time. They are what split open the wood, and the world.
Sharon Salzberg