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Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 3d

A system built on the supremacist notion that living beings are property and their bodies a resource to exploit is irredeemably unjust and can't be reformed. Rooting it out is the only solution.

A group of cows with numbered ear tags, crowded together in an industrial farm are looking directly at the camera.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 13h

Reminder: The dairy industry is also the beef industry 🥛🩸🧀

Photo of a dairy cow strung up by one hind leg in a slaughterhouse

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Paul 🌱 @mtb9.bsky.social · 15h

It is easy to be vegan, especially these days. What is really hard is to be an innocent animal born into slavery, just a commodity destined never to know love or kindness. Look inside your heart and ask yourself if you can justify supporting this ❤️

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MarcPieterse @marcpieterse.bsky.social · 16h

DEATH CAMPS 👺

Your bacon and pork comes from suffering and pain

Watch how compassionately social these animal friends are

#FriendsNotFood

#LiveVegan listen to your heart not to advertisements ✌️

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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 22h

If we can’t tell children what happens to farm animals. Maybe what we’re doing to the animals is wrong.

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Paul 🌱 @mtb9.bsky.social · 16h

Wales is part of Britain

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Mini Motley Sanctuary @minisanctuary.bsky.social · 21h

🎊Our Etsy shop is back OPEN!🎊

We are a mother daughter team running our animal sanctuary

Every sale helps — you’ll find whimsical, handmade gifts & decorations, plus our calendar, cards, books & more!

Please take a look: minimotleysanctuary.etsy.com

#rescueanimals #etsyshop #whimsical #handmade

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VGEsoterica @videogameesoterica.bsky.social · 16h

Two incredibly rare games found and preserved by the Keitai Archive team! #bomberman and a CAVE shmup only sold for one day! and you can #emulate them youtu.be/2JU2heMWSeg #gaming #gamingnews

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Paul 🌱 @mtb9.bsky.social · 17h

Same here, lots of posts with that tag but not yours. Very strange 🧐

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party is polling higher than ever before. Our membership is growing rapidly.
And every single day we are surging.

Where Labour have failed, the Left must be ready to take on Reform.

news.sky.com/story/bring-...

'Bring it on': Left-wing activists gather for fight back against the right - and Labour

Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will headline a left-wing festival in Manchester this weekend - as progressive voters look for an alternative to Labour.

news.sky.com

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Kim Rathbone @kimrathbone.bsky.social · 22h

Pigoneer Pig Of The Day Jo-Ra!
Jo-Ra meaning Autumn rain.
We may be in full swing of Autumn heading towards winter but Jo-Ra and her friends are nice & cosy in the piggy barn.
Join the Pigoneers & help support Jo-Ra and her pals £2.50/$3.50 a month⬇️ globalvegancrowdfunder.org/pigoneer-200...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone needs to get behind #UBI

It is so frustrating watching local governments trying to cope w the ever increasing #homelessness crisis whilst a proven solution stares us in the face. It’s time for the ultra rich to pay their fair share in taxes & fund UBI⚖️ @cbsnews.com
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Dec 5

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

Source: scottsantens

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 1d

OK BlueSky network, can we do the six degrees of Kevin Bacon thing? Does anyone know Ian Livingstone or someone in similar tech/tabletop gaming/boardgame area? I've got a tech demo that I'd love to take further, or at least show to people who might 'get it'.

Reposts appreciated.

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Pup C @pupcraw.bsky.social · 2d

I love me a vegan advent calendar ^_~*🎄

These are all available in the UK 🇬🇧

www.veganfoodandliving.com/products/bes...

22 best vegan advent calendars for 2025: Reviewed and rated

From vegan chocolate calendars to sweets and popcorn calendars, countdown to Christmas with the best vegan advent calendars for 2025.

www.veganfoodandliving.com

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SpaceLord64 Ⓥ @spacelord64.bsky.social · 2d

Hasan Piker, like most of you, is a carnist. This is an assumed default antithetical stance to veganism (and yes, just because you’ve never heard of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t apply) that allows for the use of animals’ bodies and labor. Most carnists are not absolute;

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Patty Shenker @pattys06.bsky.social · 3d

Meat and dairy industry are the criminals!
They abuse the animals and the environment!
Bravo to those who go into these ghastly places and expose their dirty deadly deeds ! If there’s nothing bad going on in these places,
why don’t they let us see them??!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Paul 🌱 @mtb9.bsky.social · 2d

The hidden cruelty of dairy is unimaginable. Please try to reduce or stop buying it completely, it's never been easier ❤️

Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 3d

The #fear of this little calf who has been forever separated from their now grieving mother is palpable 😔

Please, if you haven’t already, ditch dairy. No human being needs the sustenance made for precious little calves like the one below.

Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 4d

Because you want the dead flesh of our murdered bodies or other end products of our violent abuse, & because such gratuitous cruelty is normalised in your society, on that shitty basis alone you decide it’s okay. You ignore the only significant perspective- ours.

We are #OneBillionScreams

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 3d

The #fear of this little calf who has been forever separated from their now grieving mother is palpable 😔

Please, if you haven’t already, ditch dairy. No human being needs the sustenance made for precious little calves like the one below.

Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 4d

Because you want the dead flesh of our murdered bodies or other end products of our violent abuse, & because such gratuitous cruelty is normalised in your society, on that shitty basis alone you decide it’s okay. You ignore the only significant perspective- ours.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young male calf who has been separated from his mother and denied her love, protection and sustenance, looks through the metal bars of the tiny prison where he is incarcerated on a dairy farm.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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VegAvengers @vegavengers.com · 3d

Can someone please explain the difference?
They both play, grieve, have friends, feel pain, and want to live.
Why is it OK to brutalize pigs, but not dogs?

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Vegan Horizon @veganhorizon.substack.com · 2d

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Paul 🌱 @mtb9.bsky.social · 2d

A thread full of good people concerned about the welfare of an animal. But most people only care when it requires no changes to their own lives. Please go vegan, stop hurting all animals. They all feel the same fear and pain that dogs and cats do 💔

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 3d

You prefer to see yourselves as doing nothing evil, nothing out of the ordinary, just behaving innocuously like everyone else. Yet simultaneously you subject us to gratuitous violence, mutilation & brutal massacres. You are perpetrators of atrocities.

We are #OneBillionScreams

Several one week old male calves hang upside down from their back legs on a conveyor in an Australian slaughterhouse, bleeding out after having had their throats slashed. The tiled walls are spattered with spilled infant blood.

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