bigdilski

My views are my own but they should be yours too 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[kenni ✨ @NekieNek__]

Why would you donate land to the government?

[Samantha Asumadu @SamanthaAsumadu]

Another nurse in Northern Ireland was chased and died during the race riots in 2024

[Sa’eed Jiddan @mish_aderr]

I had no idea your soldier are working class, please proceed with ethnically cleansing my village

[🏳️‍⚧️ romeo @saintro9]

If 80% of disabled people live in the Global South, why are conversations about disability so often limited to congenital conditions and individual diagnoses? Rarely do ppl talk about disabilities produced by war, incarceration, gender-based violence, etc.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

That photo costs about $17. The premium version, where the tiger’s head rests in your lap, goes for around $140. Selling these poses made Thailand’s Tiger Temple roughly $3 million a year, until police raided it in 2016 and pulled 40 dead tiger cubs out of a freezer.

Thailand has about 1,960 tigers locked in cages right now. Almost all of them are at places that sell tourist photos. The most recent Thai government count of wild tigers came back at 179 to 223. There are eight to ten times more tigers in the photo business than tigers out there hunting deer in the forest.

Police forced their way into the Tiger Temple in May 2016 and walked out with 137 live tigers. They also found 40 frozen cubs in a kitchen freezer. Twenty more cubs were floating in jars of preserving fluid. Authorities stopped a temple staff member trying to drive off the property with two whole tiger pelts, ten tiger fangs, and around 1,500 small good-luck charms made from tiger skin.

Speed breeding is what keeps the supply going. Mothers get their cubs taken at two to three weeks old. The females come back into heat much sooner and pop out another litter long before nature would let them. World Animal Protection investigators walked through Thai tiger parks and found half the cats they saw in cages smaller than a one-car garage. A wild tiger covers 10 to 20 miles in a single night.

Cubs work the photo line for a few months. They get passed from tourist to tourist hundreds of times a day. Most are declawed, which is exactly what it sounds like: amputating part of each toe so they cannot scratch a paying customer. Once a cub grows too big or starts pushing back, it is finished with the photo business and too expensive to feed.

The same animals start a second life as product. In 2007, Thailand signed an international treaty banning the sale of tiger parts. Other tiger countries signed too. Authorities still seized 641 tigers, dead or alive, in smuggling busts across Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2011. DNA tests traced 275 of those straight back to the same kind of farms that sell tourist photos. China and Vietnam are the destination, where the parts are sold as tiger bone wine, tiger skin rugs, and traditional medicine.

After the 2016 raid, the government took custody of all 147 rescued tigers. Eighty-six died within three years. Decades of speed breeding had inbred their bloodlines so badly that their immune systems were already gone by the time anyone tried to save them.

[nico 🏁 @bombdiggy__]

This is how they’re treating public spaces in the country they’re marching to defend because people are damaging their country

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Me being very silent on Sudan in a Sudanese refugee camp 🤫

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Mamdani closed a $12B deficit in 132 days, fixed 100K+ potholes, secured millions for gig workers, fined corrupt landlords millions, raised snow workers to $30/hr, and violent crime hit historic lows.
THIS IS WHAT A LEADER DOES!!

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

an all timer

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A 32-year old David Attenborough with the then 10-year old future King Charles III (1958).

Today, he turned 100.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Meanwhile the richest men are creating islands to rape kids, fund wars, and fund the entire sex industry.

[미흑흑점상어/silky shark @ejrtn1477]

이미 멸종한거 말고 멸종하기 직전인 이런애들좀 신경써줘요..

[Containeristan @guldaar]

Here is what The Strokes did and how it should go down in history as one of the most important protests by a musical band of our times:

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

Most people don’t appreciate at all how beautiful the world is.

[j | free palestine.🇵🇸 @drbutchmckay]

this is how i watched artemis 2 launch and splashdown

[Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto]

I found out none of my photos won wildlife photo of the year, but it was fun to participate! The 3rd photo of the Brown Bear Cubs riding their moms back did receive an honorable mention in the “water as an element” category of the Pangolin photo challenge though 😃

[bigdilski @d33l4r]

what fucking cunts man

[Explorer Of Moments @ExplorerMoment]

The local chief of the Mandan tribes, Arkara and Hidatsa in North Dakota, weeps, forced to sign a treaty transferring the fertile lands on the Missouri River plain, the homeland of these tribes, under threat of the destruction of his entire people.

United States, 1948.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Look how deeply rooted they really are in that land.