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Did you know birds were the first creatures to have dreams?

"The animal reminds us that life precedes thought, and that thought is only one way of being alive." - Hannah Arendt

To be alive is already to be in relation with the world.

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Do you believe a sentient being can be a product? Are you a product?

We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity.

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Manifold A poem by Daniel Carden Nemo

Read my poem "Manifold", first published in Amsterdam Review.

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Few admit it (it's a truth devoid of poetry), but the mere fact of falling in love is not very interesting. Circumstances vary, of course: but the moment before the shipwreck—the fleeting instant when you get to face something entirely different—is pretty much the same for anyone. The same goes for breaking up: we all tell stories about our loves, we share our feelings in order to know that we are not alone in being happy or suffering; and yet what does that accomplish? Each love is similar as is each abandonment, but no amount of facts can prepare us; and we will always think that our pain and pleasure are nobler, deeper, better: we recount our experiences, but deep down we tell each other that no one can ever understand this.

"Here lives the ultimate wound: not exclusion but indifference, not anger but a shrug, the absence even of remembrance"

#nonfiction by 𝗚𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗼 𝗙𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗮 in the Fall issue

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GS with lines from Alejandra Pizarnik's Paths of the Mirror and a Distant Autumn Something from the blood the way Y Or X shapes and shifts as if above The body is a cartography for all Who is not other. Who will be the one to Turn away or be the one to look And bear witness for the body on The ground, torn apart—​inocencia

"If / I were there I too would be nothing / But inside my body is a bearing were / One to arise."

A poem by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue

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Did you know around 75% of the world’s soy is grown to feed livestock, not people, whereas a plant-based diet uses fewer resources and causes less deforestation?

We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live.

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Did you know that empathy is measurable in many species, not just in behavior, but in neurological patterns mirroring human compassion?

"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll

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Did you know that animals dream, and birds, dogs, cats, and rats all exhibit REM sleep patterns associated with imagined experience?

"It is a curious thing, that in observing animals closely, one sometimes feels as if they are attending to us with an intelligence parallel to our own, though built on different lines." - Charles Darwin

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There Is Earth - A poem by Marin Sorescu translated from Romanian by Daniel Carden Nemo

Read "There Is Earth", a poem by Marin Sorescu in my translation.

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​​They say a dimple made its way from town to town across the world it saw as from behind a jammed window that won’t open—it passed as light through small apertures. But everybody was so busy with themselves they couldn’t see it. No one needed saving anymore.

"Creation is a meeting point, / without it there is nothing— / For meaning is a quest in time."

A poem by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼​ @danielnemo.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue

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Did you know animals are sentient beings like ourselves?

"If animals feel, as surely they do, then the universe is already wider and deeper than any human philosophy has allowed." - William James (Pragmatism, 1907)

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Did you know that migratory animals use magnetic fields, polarized light, scent, and even the stars to navigate continents and oceans?

"The animal reminds us that life precedes thought, and that thought is only one way of being alive." - Hannah Arendt

To be alive is already to be in relation with the world.

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Pala Najana (@palanajana) Good question 🤔

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Did you know that, given their sharp senses and unique sensitivities, some farmed animals may be capable of suffering even more intensely than humans?

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

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I don’t know how to write this; another month in his quicksand palm, where I lie freely, or would if I could. I think of summer’s end, of my grandmother teaching my mother to dry figs in the sun, and me sitting by the window wishing literature would die or kill me or both. I didn’t understand then that pistols aren’t loaded with words. It doesn’t matter. The sand exfoliates my pores and crystalizes on my eyelashes.

"Perhaps in the distance waves sweep across the sand, or someone walks barefoot on the floor above. "

A poem by 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗭𝘂́𝗻̃𝗶𝗴𝗮​ (transl. 𝗠𝗲𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿) in the Fall 2025 issue

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Did you know that dolphins have individual names—whistle signatures used to call to one another across vast distances?

"Animals are not mere machines; they are fellow voyagers in the stream of time, feeling the same currents we do, though in other ways." - George Santayana

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Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

At dusk, the dusk holds the days apart. I am also other than I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness, Simone Weil wrote at the onset of WWII. Still, this almost-hour. Its snows. All that I still have to lose. What grain, what glacier, what child, what plain did I hand my emptiness that I would feel full? Still, I don’t understand why

"Belief gave way / to grief, its purgatories. Who will look out for you / after you are grief enough / to believe in?"

A poem by 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗻 @chelsdingman.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue

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Did you know that compassion and cooperation appear in wolves, bonobos, and elephants, who console the distressed with touch and gesture?

"If animals feel, as surely they do, then the universe is already wider and deeper than any human philosophy has allowed." - William James (Pragmatism, 1907)

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Stem vóór de dieren. Partij voor de Dieren.

There’s Not a Single Person on Earth Who Can’t Be Vegan — Here’s Why You Might Be Surprised What Veganism Really Means

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My wife emailed how it was going; we are separated but not legally separated, because I wrecked her car and kept getting wrecked at home and then wrecked our marriage by getting wrecked at 11:09 a.m. on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, walking away from the house then all stoic after weepy to replace the empty bottles of beer she got me to drink at home so I wouldn't have to go out to get blitzed on my own, then buying the new booze, pushing all that luck away by walking into some afternoon bar like I needed a break from a terrible day, sitting down alone at first, but then next to some blue dress girl: red hair, hot freckle face, asking me what my story was, talking to me as I drank more, buying me a drink now, offering me a ride home even though I say I can walk

A man reckons with the wreckage of his life—his marriage, his father’s illness, and his own lack of sense of purpose—in stream-of-consciousness prose that unfolds with lucidity and chaos.

#flashfiction by 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀 in the Fall 2025 issue

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Did you know that the immune and nervous systems of mammals are so interlinked that chronic emotional pain can weaken physical health?

Treating living beings as consumables shows lack of respect for life itself. Let them live.

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Did you know that octopuses can use tools, solve puzzles, and express moods through rapid color changes of their skin?

"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll

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Did you know that communication in many species like bees and ants relies on multi-sensory codes we have only begun to decipher?

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).

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From Mirror Stage to Creative Identity​ ​An interview by Katherine G. Bergman and Daniel Carden Nemo

Read an interview with writer 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴

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Did you know that prairie dogs have a language so detailed they can describe the color, size, and speed of approaching predators?

"Man is not the center of things. The animals too are envoys of the divine, voices of the universal mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Did you know that parrots not only mimic words but understand abstract relationships like “same” and “different”?

"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

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Wij zijn er voor alles wat leeft. Van Gaza tot Congo, en van Oekraïne tot Servië. We beschermen de queer gemeenschap en handhaven alle mensenrechtenverdragen. Weg met femicide en discriminatie.

Rechtvaardigheid geldt voor iedereen.

Whoever wants wisdom can have it, said the barn owl, who did not have wisdom, but who’d heard it spoken by the woodworm that infested the barn rafters. From the peak of the barn’s hip roof, the woodworm claimed not to have wisdom but to have seen it recently whilst watching the rain fall upon the ocean in the sunlight, driving shoals of mackerel to flood the nearby harbour where there had been no fish for months.

"To the barn they followed the rain and claimed it as home, thick / in the middle of trees and streams."

A poem by 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗵𝘂 in the Fall 2025 issue

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