In the beginning everything I wrote was beautiful. I was joyous.
I woke one day to see what I'd been hiding from myself. I saw nothing was beautiful, everything was corrupt. But the words were still there.
And they held my hand while I slowly learned to write the entire truth.
Here he is😑 today he led me a dance..I gave Howard Kevin a flea tablet this morning . I thought he was having a reaction…hyperactive, panting, crying. Rushed him to the vets. He kissed the lady vet’s hair & her wrist. She hugged him and said there was nothing wrong with him 😑
Activist: "You keep them pregnant all year round. It's forced."
Farmer: "Nine months carrying, same as you. Then a couple of months clear before she's back in calf. There's a gap built in."
Activist: "But you make her. Every year."
Farmer: "Put a bull in that field and clear off for ten years. Every cow hands you a calf a year, same as the wild herds nobody farms. Annual isn't something I invented."
Activist: "It's the insemination that's forced."
Farmer: "A cow only stands to be mounted when she's in heat. That's what 'standing heat' means. The other twenty days of her cycle you'll not move her an inch. It's timed to the one window she's saying yes."
Activist: "She's got no say."
Farmer: "She's got the say her body's always had. A cow you never breed doesn't stand about relieved. She comes into heat every three weeks, roaring at the gate, hunting the exact thing you've come to save her from."
Activist: "..."
Farmer: "You've come to rescue her from being a cow. She's over there being one anyway. Ask her which of you understands it better."
Olga Kost
Russian born / Polish artist
Until 1991 she was an architect then decided art was her main calling.
A few different styles here but I like the buildings
In another college class, I turned in the first writing assignment of the semester. Instead of discussing my paper, the professor asked me to meet with her. When I arrived, the dean was there, too.
I was accused of cheating. The professor told me she had taught deaf students before, and because they "couldn't write that well," my paper had to be someone else's work.
The dean handed me a sheet of paper and asked me to write a brief passage on the spot. I did. After reading it, he was satisfied that I had written the original assignment myself.
I later filed a discrimination complaint.
Kaoru Yamada.
What a stressful time it’s been here. Everyone knows my life and the other day it took a turn for the worse ….
I started another site. I was half hacked but I’ve been terrified.
I knew I’d start again but hopefully things might be ok soon
The fox came for the lamb at dusk on Sunday, which is what foxes do to lambs at dusk, and met Eduardo, which is not what the fox had planned for.
The lamb should not have been out there at all. Its mother died lambing weeks ago, and by every rule of the season a motherless day-old is a fox's certain supper. The farmer had meant to bring it in. He tried something first, because Eduardo was in the field, and Eduardo is what he is.
Eduardo is a Huacaya alpaca, and alpacas guard. It is bred into a creature that spent thousands of years as a sentinel on Andean hillsides, the instinct to put itself between the herd and the threat and stare the threat down until the threat does the arithmetic and leaves. The farmer had wondered whether that instinct would stretch to a lamb of the wrong species. It stretched. Eduardo adopted the orphan on day one and has not left its side since, and the lamb, studying the wrong tutor with total devotion, has taken to grazing head-up and scanning the horizon like a small confused alpaca.
8:40pm. The light going, the field grey. The fox came in low along the bottom hedge, on the line foxes always take, reading the lamb and not, at first, reading the tall thing standing over it.
Eduardo saw it at forty metres. He did not panic and he did not run, because guarding is the opposite of both. He turned to face the hedge, put himself square between the fox and the lamb, lifted his head to its full considerable height, laid his ears flat, and began to move at the fox in the flowing, deliberate, deeply unsettling way a committed alpaca moves at a thing it has decided is leaving.
The fox did the arithmetic. A fox is a mathematician above all else, and the sum of one small lamb against one large animal that has clearly done this before and is not remotely afraid came out heavily on the side of going home hungry. It broke off and slid back through the hedge and was gone.
Eduardo watched the hedge for a while longer, because a job is not finished when the threat leaves, only when it stays gone. Then he went back to the lamb, did the long careful camelid inspection, hummed once, and resumed grazing head-up, on watch, the way he has grazed every night since the ewe died.
The lamb is alive this morning, which a lamb in its position frequently is not. It thinks it is an alpaca. Eduardo is not going to be the one to tell it otherwise, and last night, for the second time, he earned the right not to.
@fem_mb I would not want one of my children on display. A picture here would suffice and treating a body with reverence would be more appropriate. I think of this the way I do any "other culture" artifact that is a body. We wouldn't do it to ours, but somehow, we can with theirs.
82 years ago today, my great-grandmother, Lily Ebert, arrived at the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Within hours, her mother, youngest brother and youngest sister had been murdered in the gas chambers. More than 100 members of her extended family were murdered that day. They have no graves. No final resting place. Their ashes were scattered across the fields of Auschwitz.
She survived the unimaginable.
For the next 80 years, she dedicated her life to ensuring the world would never forget what happened there.
Although she passed away in October 2024, her legacy continues to grow.
This morning, our family welcomed her second great-great-grandchild into the world. Lily only had the chance to meet her first.
Hitler lost. The Nazis failed. Lily won.
And the Jewish people are still here.
Edward Jenner
His genius pioneering smallpox vaccine paved the way for vaccinations which went on to save millions of lives
A hero of science and medicine
Whistleblowers in the NHS and at gender clinics have been trying to raise the alarm for a decade. There is no excuse for continuing to pretend that extremely vulnerable children haven't been irreparably harmed.
Jamey Carney, a 43 year old American living in Ireland, converted to Islam at the request of her partner, Ahmad Al-Saqr, a Jordanian man she met in Ireland through her contacts in the pro-Palestinian movement.
Yesterday, her brutally beaten body was discovered in her home by her 13 year old daughter. Al-Saqr is in the wind. Irish authorities are actively searching for him, and it is suspected that he is responsible for Carney’s death.
This should be a wake up call to all those stupid women on the Left who think that Islam is a religion of peace, and that they can play at conversion without losing anything. Well, Jamey Carney lost her life, and it’s not a day goes by that we don’t hear about some Western woman who converted to Islam and is now trapped in some misogynistic Islamic hellhole like Saudi Arabia, where women have about as many rights as cattle, begging strangers online for money to get home — as if her husband won’t just take it, and with the government’s blessing, too.
Get this through your heads: Islam hates you. Muslim men hate you because you are a woman. They believe that we are less human than they are, that we are worth less than they are, and that we were created by Allah to be owned and controlled by them. They don’t see Western women as human beings and potential partners — they see us as unclaimed property, free for the taking, and there isn’t even an iota of respect involved.
Women should not date men who see us as being worth less than they are simply because we are women.
Don’t be the next Jamey Carney.
@fem_mb They weren't ever really pro women or children. It would have required living in the truth that men are violent to women and how pervasive that violence and the underlying dislike of women actually is. G-d forbid they should face the facts and have to act.
@sappholives83 Watched a tv round table featuring men in dresses in the 70's and the same language was present, including saying bluntly, they are obviously better than real women.
You could replace Netanyahu with a cyborg that fuses the brains of Ghandi, Mother Theresa and the Care Bears - there still wouldn’t be peace in the Middle East for as long as Israel is surrounded by Islamic fundamentalist extremists and the world doesn’t take THAT to task