as we see reprisals of Y2K skinny culture (as part of fascism) people are making a lot of posts like ‘if you’re too young to remember, it was so toxic. people shamed [skinny woman] for being fat!’ and perhaps it’s useful to bring up someone like kate winslet circa 1999 being fatshamed to express how truly dire the situation was/is but i find it increasingly frustrating that the response seems by and large to be ‘wow that’s awful! she wasn’t even fat!’ [so clearly that was wrong!] and not the real point: ‘so imagine how horrible it was for actual fat people, who also don’t deserve the far worse treatment they got/get.’
If you ever find yourself thinking “oh it’s only ██:00, I still have plenty of time before this turns into sleep deprivation” that is the devil speaking. Go to bed NOW before it’s too late
This is something very important to me. If any of you live in Wisconsin, please contact your representatives and tell them to oppose opening a Sandhill crane hunting season. There will be a senate hearing on the issue on November 19th, and I encourage you to attend if you can.
This post from the International Crane Foundation has a lot of information on why opening a hunting season on cranes would be detrimental, as well as information on how to find and contact your representatives.
The main reason they want to open a hunting season is because of claims of crane-caused damage on crops. There is no evidence that a hunting season will reduce these damages, but there are plenty of ways to deter cranes from crops without killing them.
We are still in a bad place with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Thousands of Sandhill cranes have died this year in the US, with up to 2%-3% of the Eastern population lost.
We’ve saved Sandhill cranes from the brink of extinction. We don’t want to undo that work.
Of course…I had no idea this was even being proposed. I’d love to see the state take real steps to help farmers instead of encouraging needless killing of these cranes, which is ineffective anyway.
vampires are so full of shit. “oh the human race is beneath us, you’re just livestock to us” I don’t think you know what livestock is. do you feed us? care for us? protect us from predators? no. you just slink around dark alleys and ambush people. that’s not what a higher being does. that’s a bottom feeder. a parasite. karate punches your head off
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