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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 2d

"Animals are not instruments for human use, but sentient beings whose lives matter to themselves." - Peter Singer

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that chickens can recognize up to 100 faces, experience empathy, and form strong social bonds?

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 3d

“As long as we live under capitalism, making art should be considered labor and as such be fairly compensated.”

Artists Shouldn’t Need to Become Content Creators to Get Fair Pay - Electric Literature

Under capitalism, those of us who want a career in the arts feel pressured to sell ourselves. But making art and marketing it are very different skills

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Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 5d

Early screen exposure reshapes our brains, alters our ability to form interpersonal bonds, and disrupts emotional growth. Blending #neuroscience and #psychology and backed by research, @danielnemo.bsky.social reveals disturbing insights into what it means to grow up with screens. A must-read:

The Swift Bird of Digital Detachment

Neurodevelopmental Impacts of Screens on the Developing Brain

open.substack.com

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 7d

"The great lesson of the animal world is that life is manifold in its expressions, and no one form may claim superiority over another." - Henry Salt

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Do you think humans alone are capable of thinking? Do you believe there is only one kind of thinking?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #writingcommunity

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 10d

"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal, ‘What good is it?’" - Aldo Leopold

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Can ethical treatment really exist in a system that ends in the killing of the subject after a life of suffering?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 13d

"It’s not enough, anymore, to say of course / I would’ve liked to know / how it ended."

A poem by 𝗔𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗶𝗿𝗲 in the Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/birthday-poem-by-aaron-magloire.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

Once the rain let up I was sure
the East River’d have a new tributary
to show for it. Instead, more of the same,

and a new subspecies of kingfisher
last night; I dreamt it, but couldn’t
make out its eyes. It dripped dark green

from a black marsh tree, and it was large, looked
large, even in its large tree. That’s how
you can tell. It might’ve flown

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 13d

Read "Dante", a poem by Marin Sorescu in my translation.

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/dante

#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #writing

A poem by Marin Sorescu translated from Romanian by Daniel Carden Nemo

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 13d

"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human." - Loren Eiseley

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Do you think the concept of personhood has been defined at the expense of other forms of life?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 19d

Look into the animal's eyes and ask yourself: What is it you have forgotten that they still remember? (variation on an Olive Schreiner quote)

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

What do the possibilities of human nature hold if they fail to take into account those of the non-human world?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 20d

Slaughtering animals for meat isn’t a collective need—it’s an individual choice. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Are you aware that cultural norms, rather than objective reasoning, shape much of what we view as “acceptable” when it comes to eating animals?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 21d

"The animal is not beneath us, but beside us; its path through time runs parallel to ours, only differing in the music by which it moves." - Eliseo Reclus

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know scientific studies show animals demonstrate behaviors associated with consciousness, planning, and emotional response?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 23d

"She’s not just limp / but thin from hunger, from / scavenging among the ruins, / not a flutter in her delicate / cage of ribs, neither the oath / nor allegiance of oxygen."

Four poems by 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝘀 in Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/four-by-gary-geddes.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

How can there be laughter,
how can there be pleasure, when
the whole world is burning?

I found these words in a book
called Buddha’s Teachings,
translated from the Pali by

Juan Mascaró. It startled me,
at first, by its contemporary
relevance, Gaza in flames

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 24d

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston).

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know science now shows the lives of other organisms are far more complex and sentient than we thought?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 25d

Read an exclusive interview with Jorge Luis Borges on Substack

cardennemo.substack.com/p/borges-a-character-by-borges

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 25d

All living beings possess their own truth and are made from the same stuff as us. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that nurturance, social communion, (vocal) communication, and play are rooted in limbic territory?

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Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 25d

Veganism in America is dead. Long live veganism!

Vegan burgers are losing the US culture war over meat: ‘It’s not our moment’

Once seen as a climate fix, vegan burgers now languish at 1% of the US market amid rising meat culture

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 29d

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston).

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know the gradual metamorphic act of life we are part of also includes animals?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · Sep 7

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston).

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know the midbrain of honeybees pulls on memory and perception to support behavioral choice?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Sep 1

"When did news become advice / Bury invitations, plant ancestral / Relics in plain blight / You don't need to tell anyone"

A few poems by 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲 in Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/selected-poems-by-laynie-browne.html

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When every part of me does not want to go

What I knew I didn't

The mind's ceaseless games to avoid the actual

Counting days, reasons not to detach

Was it the day of my perpetual headache—you went

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · Sep 1

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston).

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know animals have highly developed neural systems for processing specific informational needs?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · Aug 26

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston).

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know the limbic brain found in mammals is not only the seat of dreams and value judgements, but also the center of emotionality?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Aug 25

Read "Sweetest Perfection: Depeche Mode's Hyperreal Pop" by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼, only in Amsterdam Review.

www.amsterdamreview.org/sweetest-perfection.html

#DepecheMode #music #popculture #philosophy #essays

Depeche Mode emerged in the 1980s as unlikely philosophers of the postmodern age. What might at first resemble catchy new wave tunes conceals a profound reaction to Postmodernism and its discontents.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · Aug 19

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston).

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know animals not only influence the living environments of the planet but also lead complex lives that involve feelings and mental control?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Aug 19

"How easily it happens. You would walk home / along the canal with your arms folded / across yourself"

A poem by 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗕𝘆𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗲 in the Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/concrete.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

So you take some symbol, like
the overcoat the pockets
an obscure tangle of thread & air
so any weight dropped there went right
to the lining:
that strange mix
of discretion & batwing billow – no buttons
either, or maybe there once were
one or two
across the front, the whole thing
angles, panels. This is overexplaining.

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