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#WaterIsLife 🆘

Reminder: the leading driver of water depletion and pollution is LIVESTOCK farming. If you care, act like it - and start learning to live vegan.

hounding or nagging, reasons why it is the right thing to do. Show them videos, give them books, anything to emphasize how animal torture & brutalization is (& has always been) carefully hidden from us all. #vegan #vegetarian #animals

I've come to realize it's not enough to simply live my life as a vegan(since 1983) by example, since not a single friend, family member or acquaintance has ever done the same as a result of my example. What's necessary is to go beyond living by example, and advocate.To give others,without hectoring,

Sure, if you're in almost any other country on the planet.

It's also harder for those question/answer pairs to be compromised by an attacker.

I answer these questions with a long random alphanumeric string, and keep notes in my password manager entry for that account of the exact question and its exact answer. Most folks tho won't do that, but that's my solution to all these dumb security questions.

This!

Sunday reading:
 
“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”
 
A reflection on the anatomy of the resistance and the regime’s response - on “neighborism,” cross-racial solidarity, and the responsibility we bear for what happens in our community.
 
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Cat, sleeping very sleeping.

Cats have a lot to teach humans about relaxation. Fightclub Penny takes an unceremonious Saturday morning snooze.

#ICE #FASCISM #TYRANNY

Veganism is essentially a peace movement aimed at ending ALL avoidable violence & harm. So please, if you are truly committed to ending oppression & creating a more just world, join the *only* movement that addresses the root cause of human indifference & violent extremism ⚖️

Earth's Greatest Enemy A documentary exposé of the world's biggest (and most unaccountable) polluter: the US military. Learn the environmental cost of history's biggest empire with Abby Martin.

Saw this heroic film by Abbey Martin last night in its Chicago debut - a must see film as a primer for radical politics - human being the new radical .

earthsgreatestenemy.com

I've found your essays and discussions to have more depth and carefully considered nuance than almost any one else who writes about these issues (and yeah, I'm a subscriber). Thanks.

So, they're opposites, even tho people say things like, "Odds are, Billy is gonna win this fight."

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

I'm no longer confused by the inverse relationship between bond prices and bond "yields," but that took almost a lifetime. It seems "the odds" (regardless of the term's original meaning) is generally used synonymously with "the chances."

"Part of saving the world is to make people angry..." — Terence McKenna

4 panel cartoon meme First panel: large grey figure/person says ‘vegans are annoying’ 2nd panel: smaller white figure says ‘because they point out your actions?’ 3rd panel: grey person says nothing 4th panel: grey person looks annoyed

Vegan activism disrupts a comfortable status quo for many, hence people tend to attack the messenger(s) vs examining uncomfortable truths

Four panel black-and-white cartoon via vegan sidekick First panel shows a person whose neck is extending through second panel and into third panel into a building labelled ‘all about veganism’ Fourth panel: the head extends into a room where a person is sitting in a chair, the person with extended neck says “ Stop, forcing your views on me“

This tracks

The True Hallucinations Tapes with Rusty Hoover Playlists & archives

5/5 . . . and you can see the list of shows here:
wfmu.org/playlists/HL

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4/5 . . . and enjoy here (with the 'FMU AccuPlayer):
wfmu.org/archiveplaye...

Or here (mp3 download):
wfmu.org/listen.m3u?s...

See the playlist here:

wfmu.org/playlists/sh... . . .

#music #rocknroll #WFMU #psychedelic #radio #freeform #listenersupported #webcast

3/5 . . . Allen Ginsberg and a nice little band called the Rolling Stones.

Oh, and I let it all hang out with a primal scream at the end of the show.

Favorite tracks? Let me know. Have a comment? Leave one below or in the comment box under the playlist.

You can listen and . . .

2/5 . . . the first Lollapalooza tour; we'll hear a Lollapalooza music set get eaten by the cassette player;

we'll hear music from Weird Paul, Ultimate Spinach, Electric Orange, Angry Samoans, Akasha, Mudhoney, the Pretty Things, Twink, the Byrds, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tetragon, Kikagaku Moyo, . . .

Graphic with "THE TRUE HALLUCINATIONS TAPES" in a psychedelic mint-green font, and a drawing of a cassette with tangled tape looping everywhere including around an Eye of Horus. At bottom right in yellow caps is "wfmu.org/playlists/HL". Below that, "a watchpocket production"

1/5 Brothers and sisters, it is time for the latest installment of THE TRUE HALLUCINATIONS TAPES, the archival webcast broadcast on-demand when-you-want-it-cast, where your notions of past and future are just an illusion.

In this episode we'll hear a report from . . .

Don’t be fooled by #AnimalAbusers who make ‘cute’ clickbait/content

This precious little baby will face a nightmarish ending after a mere 6 months of life.
They will not experience love,
nobody cares about them in this business,
they are simply a profitable means to a cruel & unnecessary end 🩸🤑

YouTube video by Producing The Beatles The Beatles - Hello Goodbye take 1 (new stereo remix)

At certain points here, it sounds like everyone else is just accompanying Ringo. youtu.be/iy-TGRiQ4QQ

Tired of governments trying to censor the internet?

Support organisations like

✊ Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
✊ Digital Rights Watch (@drwaus.bsky.social)
✊ Fight For The Future (@fightforthefuture.org)

who are standing up for your right to a free, open and secure internet.

My cat Penny looking out a window at something she doesn't usually see: snow.

Fightclub Penny "reads the newspaper" on an unusually snowy day.

Overhead photo of a cow standing in the kill box, about to be bolt gunned in the head

The wicked injustices we inflict on vulnerable animals will only end when enough of us say no

Nutritional Guidelines: Vegans Outperform Carnists Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi

Yet another study confirms what we've been saying all along: plant-based diets aren't just viable, they're superior 💪

Photo of a black & white lamb being pulled out of a trailer by their front legs

Photo showing a bloodied pig in a transport trailer

Our nonVegan world instills indifference towards the suffering of ‘others’ 💔