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filmnathan @filmnathan.bsky.social · 3d

While being arrested for holding a placard, one protester recites a poem by 9-year-old Fatema Saidam who was killed, along with her entire family, by an Israeli airstrike on October 17, 2023.

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Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 1d

Yup 😞 We habitually buy little [plastic wrapped packages of horror], whilst giving no consideration whatsoever to the life that was stolen within, or the corrupt, violent death industry that is profiting off of said horror.

Please, take the blinders off & start learning to live vegan Veganuary.com

Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 1d

The ultimate triumph of the industries of death is making us willing participants in their plastic-wrapped horror.

A group of laying hens packed closely together inside a crates with metal bars.

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Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 1d

The ultimate triumph of the industries of death is making us willing participants in their plastic-wrapped horror.

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

😕 Every day I too am blocked by several ‘justice warriors’ who dismiss animals & the leading drivers of ecological collapse. It’s equally sad & frustrating, as it’s one change that is directly in the hands of the people, yet most are using those hands to cover their eyes & ears 🙉🙈 WatchDominion.com

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

Spot on 🎯

#Resisters who deny the science surrounding all things vegan (not a diet) and associated ecological consequences of livestock farming are just as willfully ignorant as MAGA when it comes to denying information that doesn’t suit their wants & beliefs 🙈🙉🙊

Ngiculela @ezwind.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty astounding watching “resistors” behave just like Maga when it comes to animal rights. Especially an Alt gov account.

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 2d

Daily, several people block me on this platform. It seems that a huge percentage of people are unwilling, too cowardly & too hypocritical to acknowledge or face the indefensible violence & egregious cruelty that they cause. I guess we can’t expect better from those who prey upon the vulnerable.

A young male cow individual is being strung upside down by a back leg as a slaughterhouse worker slashes his throat with a knife.

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

Greta walks the walk on all interlinked justice movements.
#Vegan ⚖️ #GretaThunberg

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

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

#Violence #INJUSTICE #Oppression #dehumanization

Ⓥ is not a diet, it is a movement aimed at fundamental justice for all. It is a necessary moral correction in a morally bankrupt 🌎 Whether we are talking about animals, climate, health or #HumanRights, veganism is an imperative baseline. Please act ⚖️

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

All violence, all injustice, all oppression is interlinked. How we treat nonhuman animals sets the lower boundary for how we treat each other. The more cruelly we treat non-humans, the more terrible a weapon dehumanization is.

A monkey individual with their wrists bound and their arms tied behind their back and a rope around their neck.

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

Ultimately, we’re all capable of evil. We may never consciously wish to be, yet practically all of us willingly participate in the evil done to fellow animals. We pretend it is normal or natural, when in truth it’s a choice to be violently cruel, hence to be evil.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young sheep individual who has been forced into the stunning chamber in an Australian slaughterhouse closes their eyes as a worker grabs their ear to hold them still whilst he wields a device to electronically stun them.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 6d

#JaneGoodall 💚⚖️Ⓥ For the animals, for everything 🙏🏻

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 5d

Unless you define humanity as base, merciless brutality, if you consider anything that happens to us in a slaughterhouse as “humane”, all you prove is your own ignorance and base inhumanity.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A still conscious young sheep individual on the blood stained kill table in an Australian slaughterhouse has just had their throat slashed. Ahead of them two other individuals are being hoisted upside down to bleed out. Behind them another individual is reaching the end of the conveyor of the stunning chamber and will have their throat cut.

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

Your life is built upon the abject suffering, pain & murder of us sentient individuals. Rivers of blood flow from your petty desires, corpses pile high in your wake, & still you consider yourself civilised, upstanding & decent.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A still conscious, week old male calf on the kill table in an Australian slaughterhouse is being gripped around his head by the gloved hands of a worker who is about to slash his throat. The floor below is a pool of congealing, spilled, infant blood.

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

Given that you’ve already succumbed to the vile, selfish notion that it’s okay to confine, violently exploit & kill me, you just invent excuses to reason from that specious conviction, rather than use dialectic & ethical reasoning to reach an informed conclusion.

We are #OneBillionScreams

An infant male calf with a plastic number tag pierced into his ear who has been separated from his mother, pokes his head through the metal bars of the tiny cage where he is incarcerated in a darkened farm building.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 5d

Vegans will NOT stay silent 📢 🦾💚

#ForTheAnimals #ClimateCrisis #JaneGoodall #LiveVegan ⚖️

Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 6d

“Who will plead for them if we are silent?“

Seeing all the tributes to #JaneGoodall and the near complete omission of her #vegan stance is truly disheartening…
-Animal advocacy w/o veganism is toothless.
-Environmental advocacy w/o veganism, disastrous.

If you admire Jane, be like Jane. Be vegan ⚖️

A photo of Jane Goodall with a quote by Dr. Jane Goodall on the left-hand side that says:
“Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined. They are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect & our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent?”

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 6d

“Who will plead for them if we are silent?“

Seeing all the tributes to #JaneGoodall and the near complete omission of her #vegan stance is truly disheartening…
-Animal advocacy w/o veganism is toothless.
-Environmental advocacy w/o veganism, disastrous.

If you admire Jane, be like Jane. Be vegan ⚖️

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 7d

If you buy into the socially constructed hierarchy, at best, you’ll only regard me with hand wringing pity, at worst with callous contempt. If you reject the specious hierarchy, you’ll have empathy & exercise compassion in your choices

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A young pig individual looks out from the tiny cage where he is cruelly imprisoned in a darkened farm building, chewing on the metal bars. Beside him are countless other incarcerated individuals.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 6d

Reject ALL forms of oppression,
ALL unfair hierarchies,
ALL injustice. #LiveVegan ⚖️

Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 7d

If you buy into the socially constructed hierarchy, at best, you’ll only regard me with hand wringing pity, at worst with callous contempt. If you reject the specious hierarchy, you’ll have empathy & exercise compassion in your choices

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 6d

“What I want for you, is what you want for me” is only a controversial statement if you are determined to continue to consume the end products of my violent exploitation, abject suffering & impending brutal death.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photograph of the face of a young pig individual behind the bars of his prison in a darkened farm building.

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Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine living in a world where the existence of a mass extermination machine for the innocent is considered a natural, unchangeable fact while opposing it is viewed as an extremist position.

Interior of a large industrial farm, showing rows of turkeys densely packed inside.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 7d

#JaneGoodall 💔 #Vegan

As always, the MSM is doing the world a great disservice by omitting her veganism, her stance against all animal exploitation & associated ecological destruction. Her voice and tireless dedication to all animals will be greatly missed. #RIP Jane 🐒

www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies age 91 - follow live

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

God bless the Sumud Flotilla and their devotion to the Palestinian people.

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Comrade Em ☭🩵🌱🍉🎮 @comradeem.bsky.social · 7d

*The leftism leaving people's bodies when someone mentions veganism*

Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · Sep 5

Your politics are just performance if you continue to ignore the systemic oppression of non-human animals and your daily choices still involve the consumption of products and labor violently extracted from the bodies of beings commodified by the capitalist structures you claim to oppose.

Close-up photo of a cow connected to an automatic milking machine in a tiled milking parlor with milking clusters attached to their udder.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 7d

Are your politics performative or are you vegan? 🤔

Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · Sep 5

Your politics are just performance if you continue to ignore the systemic oppression of non-human animals and your daily choices still involve the consumption of products and labor violently extracted from the bodies of beings commodified by the capitalist structures you claim to oppose.

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Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 7d

At its core the animal exploitation industry is a colonial project that wages war on entire ecosystems and destroys the land to occupy it and clear space to feed and imprison the victims of human supremacy.

Black-and-white photo of cows standing side by side in a barn with their heads poking through metal railings and identification tags visible on their ears.

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