Derek Lucks
@dereklucks.bsky.social
Acro Enthusiast | Blindfolded Gamer | Game Dev | IT Specialist | Transhumanist Vegan
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Research from the University of Sydney shows cows have unique voices and change their pitch based on how they’re feeling 🐮
Cows talk to each about how they feel, study finds
Academic dubs research similar to ‘Google translate’ for cattle
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Research from the University of Sydney shows cows have unique voices and change their pitch based on how they’re feeling 🐮
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Companion animals need us to stop letting them be born into filth, starvation, and isolation under the guise of “love.” If a hoarder has 20 cats, spaying them will do more than a moral lecture ever could.
Hoarding Isn’t Just About Humans. It’s About their Animals.
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Companion animals need us to stop letting them be born into filth, starvation, and isolation under the guise of “love.” If a hoarder has 20 cats, spaying them will do more than a moral lecture ever could.
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The old "I didn't kill them personally so it doesn't matter that I paid for it to happen" argument...
Obi Juan (@obi_juan_the_padawan) on Threads
Weird comment but okay. Everyone hates pushy people who blame others for actions they do not do! It’s very different when you see something and someone says “look what is being done to this dog” versu...
www.threads.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The old "I didn't kill them personally so it doesn't matter that I paid for it to happen" argument...
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I'll be the judge of that!
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I'll be the judge of that!
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Ducks are born to glide on water, but on factory farms, they endure a life devoid of it. Instead, they face broken bones and immense suffering 🦆
🎥 Animals Australia
🎥 Animals Australia
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Ducks are born to glide on water, but on factory farms, they endure a life devoid of it. Instead, they face broken bones and immense suffering 🦆
🎥 Animals Australia
🎥 Animals Australia
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ALL families deserve to be together!
🎨 earthlingillo
🎨 earthlingillo
October 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
ALL families deserve to be together!
🎨 earthlingillo
🎨 earthlingillo
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🚨 MARYLAND: Your local leaders must hear from you ASAP. The only way Trump’s redistricting coup works is if blue states sit back and do nothing. Demand that your elected officials move forward to unrig the midterm maps and level the playing field before it’s too late: indivisible.org/resource/red...
Maryland’s Democratic Senate president blocks anti-Trump redistricting fight
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, two of the state’s top Democrats, want a special session to redistrict. Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson said no.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🚨 MARYLAND: Your local leaders must hear from you ASAP. The only way Trump’s redistricting coup works is if blue states sit back and do nothing. Demand that your elected officials move forward to unrig the midterm maps and level the playing field before it’s too late: indivisible.org/resource/red...
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🟢In a wide-ranging interview on Al Jazeera Arabic’s Al-Muqabla (“The Interview”), Hamas’s chief negotiator Dr. Khalil...
Below, Drop Site highlights nine defining moments from the conversation. Each clip is auto-translated but paired with a full cleaned English transcript for non-Arabic speakers. 👇
Below, Drop Site highlights nine defining moments from the conversation. Each clip is auto-translated but paired with a full cleaned English transcript for non-Arabic speakers. 👇
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
🟢In a wide-ranging interview on Al Jazeera Arabic’s Al-Muqabla (“The Interview”), Hamas’s chief negotiator Dr. Khalil...
Below, Drop Site highlights nine defining moments from the conversation. Each clip is auto-translated but paired with a full cleaned English transcript for non-Arabic speakers. 👇
Below, Drop Site highlights nine defining moments from the conversation. Each clip is auto-translated but paired with a full cleaned English transcript for non-Arabic speakers. 👇
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He doesn't want to be killed for your meal 🐷
🎨 Just Comics
🎨 Just Comics
October 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
He doesn't want to be killed for your meal 🐷
🎨 Just Comics
🎨 Just Comics
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Monsters in movies are fake - the monsters that harm animals are real.
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Monsters in movies are fake - the monsters that harm animals are real.
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Reality doesn’t care about our crisply defined concepts, our perfect dividing lines or our strict binary divisions.
Concepts are still useful ‘tho.
Concepts are still useful ‘tho.
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Reality doesn’t care about our crisply defined concepts, our perfect dividing lines or our strict binary divisions.
Concepts are still useful ‘tho.
Concepts are still useful ‘tho.
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Meat eaters will argue that plants feel pain while deforesting entire continents to grow crops to feed animals that definitely feel pain.
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Meat eaters will argue that plants feel pain while deforesting entire continents to grow crops to feed animals that definitely feel pain.
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Human beings matter because they’re sentient beings.
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Human beings matter because they’re sentient beings.
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You say you ‘care about animals,’ but does your fridge says otherwise?
October 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
You say you ‘care about animals,’ but does your fridge says otherwise?
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We're not defending someone that has a Nazi tattoo, even if he's claiming to be left wing, right? Cause holy f*ck no. We don't excuse Republican nazis, we definitely don't excuse left wing ones. 🧐
October 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
We're not defending someone that has a Nazi tattoo, even if he's claiming to be left wing, right? Cause holy f*ck no. We don't excuse Republican nazis, we definitely don't excuse left wing ones. 🧐
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Don’t fuck up Mamdani’s campaign by lumping him in with Platner
October 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Don’t fuck up Mamdani’s campaign by lumping him in with Platner
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Please do not lump Platner in with Mamdani
October 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Please do not lump Platner in with Mamdani
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Platner is not worth lumping in with Mamdani.
October 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Platner is not worth lumping in with Mamdani.
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Your tongue isn’t an ethical argument for using someone else’s body as you see fit.
Their body isn’t yours to enjoy
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Your tongue isn’t an ethical argument for using someone else’s body as you see fit.
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When you've been burned too many times...
October 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
When you've been burned too many times...
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Milk, egg, gelatin --> the horrible 3
Always, always check
Always, always check
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Milk, egg, gelatin --> the horrible 3
Always, always check
Always, always check
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"Young 'conservatives' have no conception of conservatism outside of the MAGA movement... They are utterly untethered to reasonable discourse...in a perpetual, hateful adolescence."
- Peter Rothpletz, with his first 'First Draft' newsletter for Zeteo:
- Peter Rothpletz, with his first 'First Draft' newsletter for Zeteo:
🐢 Teenage Mutant Nazi Turtles
Peter Rothpletz on the GOP's latest racist group chat scandal, Trump demolishing the White House, Fox comparing Portland to Gaza, and the latest in Sudan.
zeteo.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Young 'conservatives' have no conception of conservatism outside of the MAGA movement... They are utterly untethered to reasonable discourse...in a perpetual, hateful adolescence."
- Peter Rothpletz, with his first 'First Draft' newsletter for Zeteo:
- Peter Rothpletz, with his first 'First Draft' newsletter for Zeteo:
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"MurderBot, Non-violent Protest & Microbial Minds"
#Scifi author & microbiology Professor Joan Slonczewski 🤩 from Kenyon College joins me on #Sentientism worldview episode 238 on YouTube & Podcast. Find our full conversation there. Here's a clip! Please do share both around.
@kenyonwcc.bsky.social
#Scifi author & microbiology Professor Joan Slonczewski 🤩 from Kenyon College joins me on #Sentientism worldview episode 238 on YouTube & Podcast. Find our full conversation there. Here's a clip! Please do share both around.
@kenyonwcc.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"MurderBot, Non-violent Protest & Microbial Minds"
#Scifi author & microbiology Professor Joan Slonczewski 🤩 from Kenyon College joins me on #Sentientism worldview episode 238 on YouTube & Podcast. Find our full conversation there. Here's a clip! Please do share both around.
@kenyonwcc.bsky.social
#Scifi author & microbiology Professor Joan Slonczewski 🤩 from Kenyon College joins me on #Sentientism worldview episode 238 on YouTube & Podcast. Find our full conversation there. Here's a clip! Please do share both around.
@kenyonwcc.bsky.social