Gandy

Building @SierraPlatform Frmr @fermatcommerce @Liveramp, CS @Cal. Interested in AI, SaaS, birding, and watches. Cover: Art Club 2000

[raw روان✨ @raweezzyy]

Lindsey Graham got on national television and said “we’re killing the right kind of people” after 168 Iranian school girls were bombed. May my heart continue to stay despicably cruel, heartless and abusive to those who celebrate the deaths of children 🙏🏼

[Gandy @austinmichaelg]

@ACsportsish It’s all we have left😭

[Andrew Guttenberg @guttenbirder22]

World Cup kits as birds
Round of 16

MOROCCO (home)
COLLARED LORY

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📷 Charley Hesse

[octopus/caveman @octopuscaveman]

The smartphone really revolutionized the waiting room. Oh I get 20 minutes to look at my phone? Don’t mind if I do. The only problem is sometimes when I’m looking at my phone at home my home starts to feel like a waiting room and I realize it is and I’m just waiting to die

[$ @rayyegotti]

me when African teams lose

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

horrifying weaponization of the criminal legal system – nobody died, all guns owned legally & only 1 of the 9 defendants fired a weapon, 3 weren't involved in planning & left when guards told them to. One didn't even attend, got 30 years for moving zines.
https://t.co/SFV3Hfip3m

[ein @stylishdawg]

one thing they don’t tell you in software engineer school is that you’re gonna fumble generational wealth like 10 times and you just gotta learn to thug it out

[Abi Olvera @Abi0lvera]

I have been vegan for years. With one phone call, you can do more for animals than I have in all that time.

Tucked inside a large Farm Bill is a provision that would undo decades of work to ban the worst cruelties in the meat industry.

The cruelties that some states banned: a mother pig kept in a crate the size of her body for her entire pregnancy. (That is months with no room to turn around.) Calves raised in crates too small to move. Hens packed so tightly they cannot spread their wings.

A few states banned these practices for any meat sold inside their borders, no matter where the animal was raised. Many bans passed by wide margins. In Massachusetts, the vote was 78 percent.

The new provision strips that power away. A state could no longer set standards for how the meat it sells was produced. It effectively repeals all past similar animal cruelty laws AND blocks states from passing new ones. The main tool advocates have would be gone.

The meat industry tried to pass this on its own. It failed. They’ve now slipped it into a bill that is going to pass anyway.

The House already passed that bill. The Senate is next.

I live in DC. I have no senator to call.

You do. Calling yours is one of the largest things you can do for millions of animals. The “Save our Bacon” Act must be removed from the farm bill.

[Gandy @austinmichaelg]

@dwarkesh_sp @JeremiahDJohns Thank you for speaking up on this

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

[Bentham's Bulldog🔸 @Benthamsbulldog]

https://t.co/HNNGVSDNs3

[Gandy @austinmichaelg]

@LoganLevkoff Agreed — imagine refusing to endorse the democratic nominee

[Gandy @austinmichaelg]

@Captain_C2 @alisha_hg I have a car and always just walk to the store

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

Incredible scoop from @EricM_Katz

https://t.co/ZiuwwYKgge

[Hannah Groch-Begley @grochbegley]

It's truly so easy (and affordable!) to be a vegetarian, even just like 90% of the time if "no meat again ever" is too scary to you

[Gandy @austinmichaelg]

@GovKathyHochul Yesterday’s parade was a celebration of the state of Israel — Smotrich couldn’t be a more apt attendee. I’m glad it shines a light on how abhorrent it is that you attended

[Gandy @austinmichaelg]

@KathyHochul Kathy wtf is this I thought you were locking in. Now I see you marching with war criminals??