jellal @jellal@anarchism.space

So, turns out I'm not a singlet. I've known for almost exactly 3 years now. Never had the language for it until reading some of y'all's experiences here on the fediverse. We hadn't all agreed on whether or not to talk about it, though, so we've mentioned it very little. The time feels right now, so here goes.

(side note: we'll probably switch between "I" and "we" depending on whichever feels most appropriate, but it'll likely seem completely arbitrary at times.)

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The final nail in the coffin, as a vegan of 7 years, that convinced me veganism is not a universal good, was watching white vegans on the blue hellsite shout at Inuit folks for eating seal.

Not only is it incredibly difficult and ecologically damaging to ship fresh vegetables to the Arctic, but what right does your colonizer ass have to tell someone whose culture has lived in harmony with the land for more than 20 thousand years how they are supposed to eat ethically. And lord help me should I hear another person say that the Inuit should not inhabit their ancestral lands because you feel bad about them eating those adorable sacks of blubber.

Veganism presupposes a flattened concept of food production and relationship to place. It presumes that everyone can and should eat the same way. It lacks any concept of the ecological, of the contingent, of the contextual.

Ecological food cultures must be adapted to place and time, and sometimes that means eating meat.

CAT POWERS UP HIS ATTACK

@jellal
handguns are the most common class of firearm used in mass shootings: https://reason.com/2018/02/15/an-assault-weapon-ban-wont-stop-mass-sho

when looking at single countries before and after gun control laws, homicide rates can go up: https://crimeresearch.org/2016/04/murder-and-homicide-rates-before-and-after-gun-bans/

also beware people citing *gun* death statistics, bc that doesn't tell us if fewer people die overall.

also beau of the fifth column just put out a solid video on gun control: https://youtu.be/NovuyaBMkBc

anime is exactly like climate change. the damage is done and there's basically no way to stop it at this point because people spent too long pretending it's not a threat.

Hey all! I just wrote an article, called "A feminist defense of 'not all men'". I totally tried to piss people off with that title, yeah. But I swear it's good.

https://medium.com/@MauritsNeelis/a-feminist-defense-of-not-all-men-fb0813873f27?sk=78742b19fd8d81b824584ee712e108f7