Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized
Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees
I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there
Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.
many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don’t like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.
and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.
Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.
(Not to mention that honeybees are an invasive species in most places, competing with native pollinators and spreading disease)
It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you’re using one source from 1859.
I don’t think there’s ever been a funnier vegan response in the history of this hell site. This is actual gold. If you cited an argument like this in a first year undergrad intro to bio module, then your lecturer would be legally entitled to fire you out of a cannon. I think I’m dying
you were a woman yesterday. you’re a woman today. you’re a woman tomorrow. you’re a woman forever.
trans women have existed long before those stuffy bigots sitting in a court room have. trans women will continue to exist long after they’re dead and rotting in the earth.
the secret to life is always having something to look forward to
to anyone saying there’s nothing to look forward to, I’m not saying it has to be anything spectacular or huge. it could just be a song or a book that will release in a few days, a tv show, anything!! no matter how small it seems it can keep us going
Quick! Put in the tags what you’re looking forward to right now!
I’ll go first: Im gonna go out to try a new restaurant this week with a friend!!
DOGE just froze funding to vital Federal and Indigenous conservation programs devoted to supporting the very delicate and tenuous existence of the black-footed ferret.
I fell in love with these animals as a kid traveling to our National Parks. Their rarity and ferocity made me sharply aware, even as a child, of just how much of a responsibility we have toward our environment. I can’t bear the thought of them being a fucking casualty of Trump and Musk.
Look at them! They do war dances.
Okay I don’t want to end this on doom and gloom, so I’m also going to add that the Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance was one of the indigenous-lead organizations who were supposed to receive a $1.1 million dollar grant that has since been frozen. But they do have a website and they do accept donations.
They are currently doing an emergency fundraiser!! Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance (BNGA) is raising $50,000 in emergency funds to support Tribal efforts to recover black-footed ferrets
Funny how Trump supporters are mad Jasmine Crockett called a disabled man “Gov Hot Wheels” and aren’t buying her explanation that it has nothing to do with him being in a wheelchair, but yet they instantly bought the line that Trump wasn’t mocking a disabled reporter when he ran for president the first time 🤔
To be clear: this is not me defending Crockett. I still haven’t forgotten how she used the term “Butch body” as an insult.
But my problem with the people who attack Crockett for these things is their utter and complete hypocrisy. Like I had people pretending to be defending me against Crockett’s homophobia by saying Butch is a slur which????
First off, Butch is not a slur, you only think it is because you see women like me as being broken and disgusting. Trust me, I see the look on the faces of cishet people when I refer to myself as Butch.
Second, these same people are actively making my life worse because I am gay. Do not fucking act like you’re protecting me. I don’t love what Crockett said, but she is infinitely more on my side than the people admonishing her.
Like I don’t know enough about this situation to say Crockett for sure was referring to his disability, I will say I am skeptical for sure, but ultimately Jasmine Crockett is like… The least of the problem with modern American politics. She’s more for the American people than most politicians today (but of course that’s a very low bar)
But the hypocrisy is clear, it is rank, and it is misogynoir, plain and simple.
Like I don’t understand how you could criticize someone for comments that are admittedly in poor taste while actively harming the people you’re pretending to defend from someone who is working to make their life better and also forgiving a man for similar behavior when he is enacting policies that will in some cases kill the people you’re supposedly defending
Hmm hmm hmm. oxiclean loves her for who she is but turmeric cannot help but change her
Oxiclean is forcing her into the rigid standards of who she is “supposed” to be, set by others. Tumeric-kun is respectful of her boundaries (“I can leave…”) but allowing her to choose to change, and supporting her in that transition.
Once upon a time there was a girl whose wicked stepmother forced her to clean the entire house for Pesach all by herself. So while her stepmother and stepsisters left early for the grand seder at the Prince’s palace, the girl spent the afternoon sweeping and dusting and washing and polishing. As she finally burned the last crumbs of chametz in the fireplace, she saw the sun setting and knew she would never make it to the Prince’s seder on time, so she began to prepare her own meager dinner: a little Passover pizza. But miraculously, her fairy godmother appeared and transformed the pizza into a flying carpet to take her to the palace, and the cheese into a beautiful dress for her to wear. And to commemorate this story, to this very day, that cheese is named after that girl: they called her Matzah-rella.
This blog will mostly be about Homestuck, James Cameron's Avatar, cosplay, RWBY, and whatever else. In light of the last few months of 2014, you are also going to see a lot of social justice reblogs. Demisexual heteroromantic ♦️.
