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Attempting to demystify our genuine love for animals, support paraphiles, provide education on animal ethology, and activism for animal rights and welfare.

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My side from a conversation where somebody reached out a little disconcerted by their wandering thoughts.

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@Sierrathefurry @JackalZooGirl Imagine degrading animals and thinking you have the high ground.

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@MrPitbull07 Animals need proper recognition and protections under law. They are individuals with thoughts, feelings and opinions. The sooner society recognises this, the sooner legislature will be forced to act.

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Check this out, zoos:

[Tarro ζ @hereforthezoo]

Heya friends! Someone is writing an article about race and the zoo community, and is looking for people to fill out a quick survey just to get some data points. If you have a sec to fill this out, I'd very much appreciate it! Link in the first reply!

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@Narugit

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Intrusive thoughts. 💢

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Border Collie in China with 1.5 million followers stolen, sold for $27 to a restaurant, and then eaten.

The dog's owner, a Chinese travel blogger named 'Guo,' documents his travels with his dog.

While he was away on an overseas trip, the dog disappeared while in the care of Guo's dad. Surveillance footage showed two people stealing the animal.

Guo was able to track down the thief and offered $1500 for the return of his dog, but was told the dog had been sold for $27 and eaten.

The thief says he thought the dog was a stray.

"The dog is dead, so stop making a fuss. I did not break the law," the man allegedly said.

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@LeafDoodle @CoffeeDraggyZoo @hereforthezoo That's untrue. You can see their language of consent in courtship rituals. Industry propaganda wants society to believe animals are dumb, biological robots, so they can continue to abuse them without their consent. That's where the myth comes from.

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@LeafDoodle @bradonyote2 @hereforthezoo At least I have an opinion that's rational. Maybe that's why you try to come up with a reason to reject it.

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There was no analogy there.

And many murders are spontaneous, actually.

The better question is: how many people fantasize, but do not commit murder?

Probably 99+% of violent thoughts don't actually result in murder. Because that's how healthy people operate; keeping thoughts and actions separate.

And this is the worst analogy, btw. Imagine thinking that fantasizing about getting humped by a dog is comparable to murderous thoughts. Entirely different patterns of thought, for most people. Stop projecting violence=horny; we don't think like you.

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@namikawaz @hereforthezoo Imagine getting a permanent, lifelong ban from Twitter because you didn't have the self control to scroll past someone you are told to dislike without breaking the law. You are a puppet, but with full liability for what comes from your mouth.

And people say we have problems. 🤷

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@namikawaz @hereforthezoo Sorry I'm not that into Pokemon

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@SuperMeatBoy Thanks guys, we really appreciate the inclusion this year.

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I know that communities have generated an exponential load on moderation, but I'd love to give my final thoughts.

Without communities, there is no collective way for a group of users to moderate their audience. Individuals can hide comments and block people to prevent them from interacting, but outside of using third party applications to import a blocklist (dangerous), there is no way to offer that decision to other users. Community administration and moderation filled that gap, and will have reduced reports from legitimate communities, because exposure was easily controlled.

I find it hard to believe that there isn't a solution here that lowers the load on X systems and employees, by allowing people to collectively revoke access for bad actors, rather than simply reporting them when they inevitably interact.

Communities as a network might be troublesome, but it would be effective to retain the mechanism of posting to a community, perhaps as a tag on the post, more like hashtags (maybe even an upgrade to the way hashtags work), with registration and effective ownership over certain tags; giving the ability for moderators to remove their tag from unapproved posts, making those posts no longer appear when searching for the tag.

People could still pin these tags in the same way communities are pinned to their home screen, generating custom feeds for different topics. Yes, it would be very similar to communities, but without a member list for harmful networking; all posts would remain on an account's personal timeline. I don't know if this is where the problem with communities came from, but I suspect it was.

For me personally, we run a group focusing on mental health, but the tags associated with our community are coopted by scam bots and porn accounts, which we have managed to restrict from participating in the community space. As soon as we go back to using only hashtags, you will be receiving far more post and account reports, because five and a half thousand of us are about to become exposed to that shit again.

Obviously limiting communities to paid accounts did not solve the problem; perhaps if communities did have a chance of continuing to exist, they could do so being created and managed only by users with verified identities? As a genuine user, I did not hesitate to ID verify my account, but I'd wager spammers, scammers and bad actors would be more reluctant, potentially solving the issues you guys have with the feature being abused in the first place.

Food for thought.

Thank you for the feature and the time we had with it, in any case. It was great. I look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future.

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"it goes against everything we were ever taught about alligators"

Because the people teaching don't allow room for the possibility that humans don't know everything.

Get out there and learn something that isn't taught. Then teach others.
https://t.co/jVEa7cLhbN

[Voyageurs Wolf Project @VoyaWolfProject]

What does the “science” actually say about wolves and wolf management? Scroll through the internet and you will find endless content by both pro- and anti-wolf advocacy groups about “wolf science” and how the science always supports their perspectives on wolves and wolf management.

For instance, somehow the ‘science' simultaneously says we can never hunt wolves (per some wolf advocacy groups) and we should hunt/trap wolves (per some pro-wolf management groups).

Which naturally leads to the question: what does the science say and who can you trust to provide scientific information straight up without spin and an agenda?

Our goal is to be that source—a source of sound and reliable scientific information on wolves that people, regardless of their perspective, can trust.

Many pro- and anti-wolf groups have value-based agendas, and often such groups claim the “science" supports their values/agenda—which simply isn't the case.

Science simply tells us how the natural world works and how our actions may impact the natural world. Put differently, science cannot tell us how we should act—that is where values come in.

Our project is focused on science, not values. We aren’t trying to push an agenda, a set of values, or convince you to change your thoughts on wolf management.

Of course, sometimes scientific findings, including our own, are not consistent with the narratives that pro- or anti-wolf groups are pushing.

And as a result, we take the heat from both sides. However, we have not and will not let that influence the information we share or how we approach our work, no matter how much people try to pressure us to do so.

We are simply trying to do rigorous research and to share that research along with insights from the most up-to-date scientific information with everyone.

If you value this approach, please help us keep it going by donating at the link below. Your generosity enables us do rigorous research and share what the science actually says—not what we want it to say.

Support the project here: https://t.co/kZq9wddP8h

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Oh, that bit perfectly captures my internal dialogue, right before I respond to 90% of the stuff I see online;

"uhhh this is not a good way to respond to this, we should definitely be more constructive. And I was like, really? And they were like, yes lmao, please" xD

Also uff wuff, thank you for your work Alissa!

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I have seen enough dogs - placed into wheelchairs or simply carried to places to smell the breeze - to know that we do not have the right to project such certainty upon them. A dog who has given up is unmistakable, and anything prior to that is a dog who still wants to live, imo.

[Das Landei @Flausenlandei]

@La_erke Weil er sich quält? Ein Hund der nicht laufen kann quält sich.
Viele kranke Menschen würden gerne sterben, dürfen aber nicht. Unseren Tieren dürfen wir das Leiden ersparen, bevor sie einen qualvollen Tod sterben müssen

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@hereforthezoo You could get more just saying "woof?"

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For anyone not wanting to join another platform, we do have a small chat room on telegram; https://t.co/apq0jDdMru (note: sfw only)

You'll get a better 'community' vibe from ZDPM, tho - more people, channels and topics; even voice chat! (see above post)

Better yet, join both!

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If you're looking for somewhere to connect with people who love and protect animals, check out ZDP; https://t.co/8oL8F4fm4C

This is a relatively new, SFW space, zoo-owned from the ground up, so no chance of getting deplatformed by some corporate AI moderator. (*cough* discord.)