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Just for transparency sake there is now a brigade occurring

that was egged on by CJ, the person who was out there calling themselves a “kind v gan”

So temporarily, the list IS on BLOCK - they cannot access me for the next 2 days while they actively brigade and say “nobgoblin”, then “who, us??? 🥺”
Sherry with a Why says “I agree some Vs can be abrasive, but no more abrasive than this ridiculous slanderous list” Sherry with a why then asks everyone to report this list “this is unadulterated hate towards v gans and is as baseless as it is biased” Gigafox calls people “what a petty nobgoblin” and sherry thanks that comment with “thank you G. That list is so clearly biased towards anyone who speaks up for the victims, no matter how cordially. Gigafox responds “that’s essentially what I reported, a biased personal grievance instrumentalized as an attack against innocent individuals of a maligned ethical minority”
January 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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This one, by a licensed pharmacist, was using and weaponing mental health language to send someone to a psychiatrist, for eating a meal.

“There aren’t health reasons” would have been sufficient (belief), and not hate. But telling strangers to go to a psychiatrist for that?

The ableism jumps out.
“Long cool woman in a white coat” writes This is bizarre. You did not start eating dead animals "for health reasons," there aren't any. I would recommend a good psychiatrist, maybe they can figure out this sudden obsession with violence against animals.
January 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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You liked this post, which aims to override and dictate the (past) identity of other people, whom you do not know.

What would you like me to do to remedy this - if someone eats a meal, should they be told they were never formerly a vegan, and “it’s okay to rape, torture, and murder”?
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social • 1mo I was vegan quite literally my entire life until last summer when I started eating chicken and fish for health reasons. I had my first drumstick a week ago and now all I can think of is drumsticks and how badly I want to eat 100 of them. It's 1am and I'm up thinking abt chicken drumsticks SOnOfgib @sOnOfgib.bsky.social Then you were never vegan. Veganism is a moral standpoint. Not a diet. You don't learn to respect animals and then just randomly decide it's ok to start paying for their rate, torture, and murder all over again. December 18, 2024 at 2:42 PM Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.osky.social Veganism is not only a diet but it is understood as a diet by most of the public and that's why I refer to it that way. With all due respect I have been vegan my entire life and
January 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Niall Photo of the Day
Niall Horan wearing a Nirvana sweatshirt while sitting on a couch in a living room with a blue and wood kitchen behind him. His eyes are visibly blue and his lips are shining pink like he used lip balm on them to give them gloss but stay his natural color. He has his mouth closed and he has light moustache and beard visible. He has his two small gold hoop earrings in his ears
January 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Louis Photo of the Day
Louis Tomlinson standing around outside with Harry and Liam in the background. He wears medium dark blue blue jeans and a a mostly blue and red and white sweater. He holds a grey beanie in his hand. Circa 2012. His sweater is pulled to three quarter length sleeves showing bare forearms with no visible tattoos. His hair is in a hedgehog windswept formation. He has no facial hair. His mouth slightly open. Louis Tomlinson in solo era with his hair in a Beatles cut, with assymetrically swept fringe that goes to his eyebrows. He has a stubble of moustache and beard. He wears an oversized navy blue sweatshirt that says Homme - a London New York Tokyo Los Angeles. He stands with his hands visible, one tucked over the other, the E tattoo visible and the 28 tattoo faintly seen.
January 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Niall Photo of the Day
Niall Horan in his judge’s chair, with a green and blue hoodie to give to his team members who join his judging team. He’s in a white undershirt and an off-white or cream overshirt type jacket that is not buttoned. His hair is styled upward in a bit of a quiff, and his eyes are blue. His smile is big.
January 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Louis Photo of the Day
Louis Tomlinson in Italy, September 6 2022, posing with fans Louis Tomlinson in Italy on September 6, 2022, in a green polo shirt Louis looking directly at the camera. Fluffy bowl of hair. Moustache and light beard. Smirking to the side, while in an Italian radio interview, in a green polo shirt.
January 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Louis Photos of the Day

also, pin the One Direction 🦋 feed to your feed!
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Louis Tomlinson in the judge Louis era in a white t-shirt and a burburry patterned tan hat. He looks at the camera with a slightly confused look on his face. His eyes are scrunched a bit in confusion, and his mouth looks like a question, slightly open. His bicep shows and the stag tattoo peeks from the bottom of the shirt sleeve. He is holding a program booklet for the outdoor event. Louis looks directly to camera, in the same outfit, looking a bit in the know. His lips are closed and his eyes are communicating he sees what’s going on. Louis is in a full faced laugh. His eyes are crinkled and nearly closed, with giant laugh lines. His teeth are all visible in a laughing grin. His tongue is twisted to the side and touching a molar. His beard stubble and moustache frame the laugh. It’s a smile from ear-to-ear.
January 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Louis Photo of the Day

and join the One Direction 🦋 feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Louis Tomlinson, smiling in an orange V designed polo holding a fan’s phone, at the All of These Voices film red carpet in California. His 28 tattoo, spade, skull and crossbones and dagger tattoo are visible in the pic. His skin is golden. Photo from May 2023
January 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Niall photo of the day

also check out the 1D feed and pin it to your feeds bsky.app/profile/did:...
Niall in Australia does the local custom of drinking out of his show, a three striped Sambra or some similar design. He wears a bit oversized blue t shirt with blue and magenta on the print, in a white larger rectangle that says Rosenthal Art Slides.
January 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Louis Photo of the Day is back!

Also, join the One Direction 🦋 feed, pin it to your feeds!
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Louis Tomlinson in July 2023 wears a blue and white vertical stripe design polo shirt with the V of the polo collar wide open to show the word What in it is what it is tattooed on his chest. He looks to his left, out right, with mouth closed, contemplative, showing off a distinctive slender and long nose and cheekbones covered in light stubble beard. His hair is dark brown. He has an in-ear monitor hanging down his neck on one side. The blue polo shirt is short sleeve so the dagger is visible on his left arm, and an array of doodle tattoos like the tea cup and the paper plane are visible on his right arm.
January 8, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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continued

The best vegan advocates I encountered, the ones who removed years of dairy product purchasing from my diet, weren’t the ones doing name calling
They were the ones helping me find a solution to the speed bumps I had in switching over, and being helpful and bright ☀️ 😎 about it. Persuasive!
Vegans love to police the reasons that other people adopt vegan diets (the “was it health? or environmental? that’s not true veganism”) BUT if the ultimate goal is do no harm to animals, it doesn’t matter why someone has picked to forego harming animals in their acting praxis. The measure is in the amount of harm done, not on what’s going on in someone’s head as they do no harm. Why are you bullying others who are 90% to where we need to be (like vegetarians, or vegan/vegetarian flex combos), and why are you not working on educating the larger cohort of carnists, to get quick and massive gains from the people who haven’t started the process yet? People whose thought process is very different than yours, and so they won’t be persuaded by the same arguments you are persuaded by: Figure out what arguments persuade them. Make them feel good about their changes. Directional shifts are important, and have more effect than an all-or-nothing stance that can’t be met because of its moral purity. Let people move toward veganism or plant based no-animal products diet for whatever reason fits them. Also - aren’t ALL the reasons also valid because veganism is the right choice ethically and environmentally? A diet that does no harm is also healthy, and it also is good for the environment? Let people move toward veganism or plant based no-animal products diet for whatever reason fits them. Also - aren’t ALL the reasons also valid because veganism is the right choice ethically and environmentally? A diet that does no harm is also healthy, and it also is good for the environment? Why the need to split hairs, like there’s going to be an award given to the best vegan (and YET you’re not measuring your veganism on your ability to do friendly, helpful, non-abusive outreach that’s effective at lowering other people’s meat consumption and lowering their dependence on animal products? because that’s going to do more overall good than what you alone can avoid in your own life, as an already vegan adherent) Also some people were saying about their veganism that there will be an award given out, a ranking, that happens in the afterlife. That pretty clearly suggests that their veganism is religious, to them. They can hold themselves in that religion (religion is personal!), the shame spirals for the sin of having touched honey, or stepping on an ant by accident, but other people are simply not bound to hold the same thinking, or carry a perpetual sense of guilt/shame, as they just try to move through the world in moderation and without exactitude of trying to earn a vegan “high score.”
December 20, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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Here’s some thoughts.

Again, this isn’t about one’s own thinking, in a closed loop with oneself (you’re free to think entirely what you wish about your own diet and choices)

but it’s about how vegan advocates interface with people who aren’t yet vegan

and how they often do it quite ineffectively
Veganism Persuasion Thoughts Educate on alternatives (vegan chili tastes as good as meat chili, easy switch. Plant burgers. Cashew 'ice cream'. Oat milk.) Provide food education (how to supplement nuts and seeds and oils in) so that people can do habit replacement. Be okay with half measures, because the WHOLE world making a half-measure step makes more impact than one person going 100%. Recommend flexitarian options like: "try to order the vegetarian / vegan option when out at restaurants" - so the person gets into habit building. Or convince them to switch from beef - which is the biggest deforester of the Amazon rainforest. As they switch from beefy, discuss mammal meat, and then work down. To repeat - you can control your own actions, but you do not control the actions of others. Telling them they must adopt veganism hasn't worked out for you. Sharing things they will adopt, that creates more results in the shorter term, which helps in the longer term because as patterns disrupt (switching to not eating beef, switching to not ordering meat when out and not buying it but accepting if others cook it, those habit disruptions make them ready for the next and the next habit Promote vegetarian and vegan friendly infrastructure because it has more of an impact than person-to-person. Imagine if every fast food Imagine if every fast food restaurant switched from burgers to something else? Think about how McDonalds India serves no beef products, and how that's because of cultural differences, and also those differences lead to the feedback loop of anybody who goes in to eat won't come out with a cow burger. How can you push (via friendly means) more restaurants to have prominent vegetarian options? To deprioritize their meat options? What incentives work for these companies? Their incentives are not your incentives (did they know it's CHEAPER to offer delicious plant based meals than burgers?) - so highlight COST/ PRICE as one way for them to deplatform meat off their base restaurant menu. Environmental Reasons there's an argument used about "what about harmful plant practices, too?!" - you should be aware of almond farming and the problems with it (it's the most environmentally-draining plant food product.) While almond farming may be less bad ethically than chicken farms and livestock raising, you CAN say "yes, almond farming depletes water resources in drought areas, so using cashews or oats are more environmentally healthy options. Also, environmentally, no cows, no pigs, no chicken products and no fisheries are also important wins, and run ahead of almonds on environmental impact" Health Reasons so many people are anemic (on all diets), it's good to be pro-ending anemia, as it's a common concern with a vegan diet. Discuss iron supplementation, and push iron-rich foods like spinach broccoli beans and cashews. Help people's health! Be respectful of people's food allergies - disabilities that are commonly insulted in talks about moving to veganism. Wheat allergy - seitan; soy allergy - tofu + some burgers. Show that there's bean burgers! Pea based burgers! Allergen free options. Showing that dairy dessert (vegan 'ice cream' was allergen free was what allowed a quick switchover) Another reason why people break from veganism is because their macronutrients are off - suggest oils, fats, frozen dessert, bean burgers - it's often fat that they're missing as a food craving, and as a part of building health. A reason they crave bacon (which is 50% fat) + cheese (20% fat) is they need fat. Suggest peanut butter, olive oil, a bag of nuts (provided they're not allergic) and they'll probably not dream of cheese so much. Recommend iron supplement for addressing anemia. Zoonotic diseases: the spread of H5N1 in milk and uncooked meat and eggs is a compelling reason for consumers to switch their dietary preferences away from their once-used animal products. Even if you can cook out the H5N1 at the end, you expose the farm workers for the sake of some milk and cheese. Vegans Common Abusive Language "you were never a vegan" - this is like "you're not a Christian" language used by religious zealots, where they tell Christian pastors they're not a Christian because... Does it even begin to make sense? No. "Cow rapist!" a child eating a chicken nugget is not a cow rapist. Put the language "rapist" and "killer" away - if you must apply it to the food industry but not to the people who are eating the food and never saw a cow to begin with. If you insist on using that inflammatory language, which if you noticed is also the same language as anti-abortion rhetoric "baby killer" (used on MISCARRIAGES), you might want to use a specific practice name and then equate it to "rape" and "killing". For example: "Cow insemination is cow rape. Eating chicken is contributing to chicken murders. Egg eating is _ idk, you pick words)." Label both the current common name for a practice, and the inflammatory name - without both, nobody knows what you're talking about. Ableism, veganism shouldn't be ableists, yet you'll easily find ableist vegans in the comment sections. People mocking food allergies, people mocking anemia, vegans saying these are excuses. Recognize there are challenges making a switch more difficult, but then provide SUPPORT to make it still possible to switch over. It takes more meal plan brainstorming, not more mocking of people with disabling food allergies related to immune disorders.
December 20, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Louis Photo of the Day
Louis Tomlinson holding his phone as he walks with a bookbag on. He is wearing a green olive army color overshirt that is entirely unbuttoned, and a white tank top underneath it that shows the “what” of his it is what it is chest tattoo. His one hand holds the phone with his thumb raised. The other hand is in a bit of a t-Rex arm pose, and almost like he’s holding his backpack strap, but it’s free )3 is smiling, and has on Ray Bam sunglasses that are dark with gold rims. He has windswept asymmetrical fringe hedgehog hair.
December 18, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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Louis Photo of the Day
Louis Tomlinson is at the 2023 All of Those Voices premiere in a suit, with a crowd behind him on the red carpet, and he’s got crinkle eyes and a strong golden tan, and is winking with one eye. His smile is big, so all his top teeth are visible, dimples are forming around his laugh lines of his cheeks, and his hair is light tannish brown, with no visible greys or silvers in this photograph.
December 18, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Louis Photo of the Day
Louis Tomlinson is wearing a navy blue hoodie with his hands sticking out of the sweater paws. He holds a fan’s pink iPhone, as he goes to take a picture. The blue hoodie has yellow and orange and green concentric flowers drawn on it. His eyes are very blue, his mouth closed, he has a light beard and moustache stubble, and his fringe is asymmetrical on his face, his hair windswept forward from the back
December 17, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Niall photo of the day
Photo from Niall Horan’s early solo artist era, maybe heartbreak weather. He’s wearing a black shirt with herons or cranes, a black belt, his hand tucked into his black pants pocket. His short shirt sleeve is rolled up to show a peak of his bicep. He looks sideways turned to the camera with his light beard and moustache stubble. His hair is wavy and mostly in a quiff, with the one strand falling down and pulling a Zayn hair strand. The backdrop is pink
December 17, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Niall photo of the day
Niall Horan’s long wavy hair, stubble on his chin and moustache, wearing brown multitoned rectangular sunglasses with a slight cateye point on the glasses. His mouth is open in a laugh showing all his top teeth, his two gold hoop earrings are visible. He is wearing a polo shirt, and the green background and the reflection in his sunglasses all point to this being taken on a golf course
December 16, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Louis Photo of the Day
approximately 2012 era Louis Tomlinson is in a green knit sweater and a black and white beanie cap with a pom pom on it, his fringe fully sticking out of the cap. He is looking to the side, his profile in view. Nose looking defined, mouth slightly opened. He is holding a wire telephone in an office setting, and is possibly dialing 9. There’s scattered coffee cups and aluminum drink cans around and a laptop screen open. Someone’s arm in a short sleeve shirt is also in the picture, next to Louis.
December 16, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Louis Photo of the Day
Asymmetrical fringe, not a peaky blinders haircut, but it’s short on the sides and fringing in the front. Louis Tomlinson wears a football kit jersey in red and black vertical stripes for a BBC Radio 2 photograph. The jersey is oversized. His hands are on his chest, resting on top of each other in a ball of hands. The 28 tattoo is visible with his left hand over his right hand. His facial expression is mean mugging the camera, but in a relaxed way, like he’s bored taking the picture. Mouth is closed in a slight downturned frown or relaxed facial expression.
December 16, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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Louis photo of the day
Louis Tomlinson with a long-for-him mop of wavy hair, that covers his ears and is fluffy on his forehead. He is making a wide mouth face like “Hey!” as he stares in the camera, his top four teeth are visible and his tongue can be seen inside his mouth. He has a paper red cup in his hand, about the size of a coffee cup. It is red with yellow highlights, and the website on the cup leads to something in the UK. Black sunglasses with gold frames are tucked into the neck of his grey sweatshirt, that has a small Nike swish logo on the chest. The rope tattoo and the arrow tattoo are visible from inside the sweatshirt arm.
December 14, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Louis photo of the day
Louis Tomlinson in a quiff, his stag and tic tac toe and Pac-Man and Bus 1 tattoos showing, in a black t-shirt with white graphic print that includes a sunburst in somewhat of a cross pattern and the word Life, holds the microphone and mic stand as the blue lights on stage are behind him. At an iHeart radio performance
December 13, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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Louis says hi
Louis Tomlinson holds up his middle finger and pointer finger, doing the backwards peace sign. He’s holding up his non-28 hand, in a tattoo less hand. Asymmetrical fringe, beard and moustache. Wearing a coat and a grey sweatshirt. Selfie of Louis Tomlinson wearing a red hoodie with the hood up. Does the backwards peace sign, also called the V sign, and is doing the sign with his 28 tattooed left hand, where 8 is on the middle finger and 2 is on the ring finger. The positioning of the hand is very giving the middle finger. Posing with fans, in hair that looks like he performed that day, Louis smiles a kitten smile of closed mouth, holding up his 28 hand in a backwards peace sign. It’s sideways and looks like picture posing hands. Louis wears a black cap and a festive bright red jacket over a white t-shirt. He has his tongue sticking through his teeth, tongue pointed toward the front and a bit off to the side, and his hand is making the V sign or backwards peace sign. He is using his right hand and there are no visible tattoos.
December 12, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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Louis Photo of the Day
Louis in shadow looks golden as he stares to his side looking down. Mouth slightly open, stubble on his chin and upper lip. He is in a brown mesh polo shirt, with the W and H of his “it is what it is” tattoo sticking out from the polo shirt.
December 11, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Louis Photo of the Day
Louis Tomlinson in his Back To You haircut era, hair styled up and tall off his forehead, as he is looking to the camera while leaning on a brick wall. Louis wears a blue jumper with a V pattern on the front in black yellow and orange stripes to make the V. His eyes stare at the camera. His mouth is closed, his expression almost severe or brooding, but mostly just focused on the camera. He has a stubble of beard and moustache
December 10, 2024 at 4:43 PM