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        someoneintheshadow456:

nautica-the-savant:

marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand “v-dog” which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because you’re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

i’m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

it’s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DON’T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gather ‘round. Let’s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells. We cannot produce this vitamin ourselves–no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaea–some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute.  Cyanocobalamin is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. We’re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that it’s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sources–primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements. In nature, cats don’t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivores–meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin D–D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception here–some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not vegan–Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism. The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog. 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They don’t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (“my dog is a vegetarian and hasn’t died!”), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go. 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldn’t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


Always reblog. 

Dear Vegans,
If you’re not willing to at least feed your dogs and cats commercial food, get a rabbit or a parrot.
: Meg
 OVeganMegane
 Vegans who feed their pets meat:
 u guys have gotta see the bigger
 picture. We shouldn't support
 animal exploitation w/ our money
 That's it.
 7/13/16, 10:50 PM

 aer
 @thelilmermade
 @VeganMegane yes um so how
 would I feed my cat?
 7/13/16, 11:02 PM
 lI VIEW TWEET ACTIVITY
 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade is your cat male or
 7m
 female? :) check out this website for
 more info: vegancats.com/
 veganfaq.php

 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade I know you want to
 best for your companion, and I
 won't deny that there are risks, but
 you can minimise those risks!
 5m
someoneintheshadow456:

nautica-the-savant:

marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand “v-dog” which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because you’re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

i’m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

it’s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DON’T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gather ‘round. Let’s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells. We cannot produce this vitamin ourselves–no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaea–some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute.  Cyanocobalamin is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. We’re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that it’s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sources–primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements. In nature, cats don’t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivores–meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin D–D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception here–some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not vegan–Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism. The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog. 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They don’t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (“my dog is a vegetarian and hasn’t died!”), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go. 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldn’t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


Always reblog. 

Dear Vegans,
If you’re not willing to at least feed your dogs and cats commercial food, get a rabbit or a parrot.

        

            
            

                
                
                    someoneintheshadow456:

nautica-the-savant:

marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand “v-dog” which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because you’re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

i’m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

it’s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DON’T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gather ‘round. Let’s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells. We cannot produce this vitamin ourselves–no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaea–some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute.  Cyanocobalamin is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. We’re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that it’s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sources–primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements. In nature, cats don’t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivores–meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin D–D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception here–some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not vegan–Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism. The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog. 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They don’t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (“my dog is a vegetarian and hasn’t died!”), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go. 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldn’t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


Always reblog. 

Dear Vegans,
If you’re not willing to at least feed your dogs and cats commercial food, get a rabbit or a parrot.
: Meg
 OVeganMegane
 Vegans who feed their pets meat:
 u guys have gotta see the bigger
 picture. We shouldn't support
 animal exploitation w/ our money
 That's it.
 7/13/16, 10:50 PM

 aer
 @thelilmermade
 @VeganMegane yes um so how
 would I feed my cat?
 7/13/16, 11:02 PM
 lI VIEW TWEET ACTIVITY
 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade is your cat male or
 7m
 female? :) check out this website for
 more info: vegancats.com/
 veganfaq.php

 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade I know you want to
 best for your companion, and I
 won't deny that there are risks, but
 you can minimise those risks!
 5m
someoneintheshadow456:

nautica-the-savant:

marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand “v-dog” which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because you’re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

i’m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

it’s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DON’T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gather ‘round. Let’s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells. We cannot produce this vitamin ourselves–no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaea–some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute.  Cyanocobalamin is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. We’re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that it’s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sources–primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements. In nature, cats don’t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivores–meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin D–D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception here–some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not vegan–Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism. The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog. 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They don’t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (“my dog is a vegetarian and hasn’t died!”), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go. 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldn’t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


Always reblog. 

Dear Vegans,
If you’re not willing to at least feed your dogs and cats commercial food, get a rabbit or a parrot.

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        joshualunacreations:

From
 an early age, Asian artists are taught to erase ourselves and other 
people of color. But self-love puts us back in the picture. 
It’s easy to beat ourselves up for centering/privileging whiteness—which
 I’ve done in my previous works. But it’s not mutually exclusive to be 
proud of those works, and still recognize our failings and limitations that we need to work on. 
 It’s not wholly incumbent on creators of color to dismantle racist 
institutions on our own (the responsibility lies primarily with the 
white people who built them), but we can and should do our best to push 
back on these systems whenever possible.

(Please don’t repost or edit my work. Reblogs are always appreciated)

: ART AFTER LEARNING
 LEARNING
 THE MASTERS
 DEAD WHITE
 GUYS
 COMICS
 WHITE WHIT
 WHITE WH
 WHITE
 WHIT
 HOW TO DRAW
 HE MARVEL WAY
 ART AFTER
 NLEARNING
 WHAT
 ABOUT
 ME?
 oS
 LU
joshualunacreations:

From
 an early age, Asian artists are taught to erase ourselves and other 
people of color. But self-love puts us back in the picture. 
It’s easy to beat ourselves up for centering/privileging whiteness—which
 I’ve done in my previous works. But it’s not mutually exclusive to be 
proud of those works, and still recognize our failings and limitations that we need to work on. 
 It’s not wholly incumbent on creators of color to dismantle racist 
institutions on our own (the responsibility lies primarily with the 
white people who built them), but we can and should do our best to push 
back on these systems whenever possible.

(Please don’t repost or edit my work. Reblogs are always appreciated)


        

            
            

                
                
                    joshualunacreations:

From
 an early age, Asian artists are taught to erase ourselves and other 
people of color. But self-love puts us back in the picture. 
It’s easy to beat ourselves up for centering/privileging whiteness—which
 I’ve done in my previous works. But it’s not mutually exclusive to be 
proud of those works, and still recognize our failings and limitations that we need to work on. 
 It’s not wholly incumbent on creators of color to dismantle racist 
institutions on our own (the responsibility lies primarily with the 
white people who built them), but we can and should do our best to push 
back on these systems whenever possible.

(Please don’t repost or edit my work. Reblogs are always appreciated)

: ART AFTER LEARNING
 LEARNING
 THE MASTERS
 DEAD WHITE
 GUYS
 COMICS
 WHITE WHIT
 WHITE WH
 WHITE
 WHIT
 HOW TO DRAW
 HE MARVEL WAY
 ART AFTER
 NLEARNING
 WHAT
 ABOUT
 ME?
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joshualunacreations:

From
 an early age, Asian artists are taught to erase ourselves and other 
people of color. But self-love puts us back in the picture. 
It’s easy to beat ourselves up for centering/privileging whiteness—which
 I’ve done in my previous works. But it’s not mutually exclusive to be 
proud of those works, and still recognize our failings and limitations that we need to work on. 
 It’s not wholly incumbent on creators of color to dismantle racist 
institutions on our own (the responsibility lies primarily with the 
white people who built them), but we can and should do our best to push 
back on these systems whenever possible.

(Please don’t repost or edit my work. Reblogs are always appreciated)


                    
                
            

            
                
                
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        Swofehuper He Man Male Manson: HE
 WO MAN
 FE MALE
 HU MAN
 PER SON
 visual-poetry
 »swofehuperx by richard tipping (+)
 [vial
 mitosisisyourtosis
 men fabricated the idea that they are the default sex to compensate for their
 biological inferiority and general superfluousness
 this is not just the natural order this is the language of a patriarchal culture
 rhysiare
 Omg no, you are wrong on so many levels and as a linguist this makes me
 ache something terrible. In my linguistics dass in undergrad, we actually made
 fun of people who think like you along these lines and for good reason,
 because you are wholly ignorant and are choosing to spin narratives about
 things and fields which you know completely nothing about yet pretend you do.
 1 She: This word evolved naturally from Old English from seo/heo which
 were just words to refer to feminine-female people evolving from Proto-
 Germanic words meaning that/there. He as a word evolved from the
 same ideas but Proto-Germanic words for thishere, Your idea of
 patriarchal language further falls apart when you compare this part of
 English to other Germanic languages, of which English is related, the
 words in German for he and she are 'er and sie", completely unrelated
 So it is by clear happenstance, not some patriarchal conspiracy that the
 words he and "she in English have similar form.
 2. Woman: Oh god this one always gets my goat when people go for this
 one. Man did not used to mean "male", man used to
 mean humanity/human being, the old words in Old English for male
 adult person and female adult person were werman and wifman
 respectively, we can see this relation in words like werewolf and wife as
 being the remnants of the base "wer- and the base wif-. Woman
 evolved phonologically from the word wifman by natural processes
 where the 'f sound dropped and the became lax. Man dropped
 its wer stem for reasons mostly unknown but I can guarantee have
 nothing to do with patriarchy because phonological change has no
 basis in that.
 3. Female: Male and Female actually come etymologically from two
 completely different words. Male comes from Old French masle which
 meant masculine, while Female came from Old French as well femella
 which meant young woman. This is another case, just like he and she
 where the words coincidentally ended up looking similar without having
 any direct correlation in historical linguistic processes to make them as
 such
 4 Hman: This word etymologically derives from Proto-Indo-
 European "ghomon which means earthly being as opposed to heavenly
 being which would refer to gods. You have some small glimmer of hope
 here in that the word does eventually branch off into the word for man
 in some languages but this is still too small of a precedent to base any
 conspiratorial thinking like you are doing off of
 5. Person: This one offends me the most, simply because I love the fuck
 out of Etruscan language and your continued ignorance just irks me at
 this point. Person derives from persona from Latin which meant the
 same meaning, which ultimately derived from phersu Etruscan
 for mask as Etruscans would often have theatre performers use masks
 to give identity to the performers. So never once did "person have any
 meaning to do with son So yes, this IS the natural order or language.
 Please never proselytise your faulty ideology and misandrist thinking within
 speaking about word origins and morphology again, as unless you actually do
 fact checking I will school the everloving hell out of you, stay in vour lane.
Swofehuper He Man Male Manson
        

            
            

                
                
                    Swofehuper He Man Male Manson: HE
 WO MAN
 FE MALE
 HU MAN
 PER SON
 visual-poetry
 »swofehuperx by richard tipping (+)
 [vial
 mitosisisyourtosis
 men fabricated the idea that they are the default sex to compensate for their
 biological inferiority and general superfluousness
 this is not just the natural order this is the language of a patriarchal culture
 rhysiare
 Omg no, you are wrong on so many levels and as a linguist this makes me
 ache something terrible. In my linguistics dass in undergrad, we actually made
 fun of people who think like you along these lines and for good reason,
 because you are wholly ignorant and are choosing to spin narratives about
 things and fields which you know completely nothing about yet pretend you do.
 1 She: This word evolved naturally from Old English from seo/heo which
 were just words to refer to feminine-female people evolving from Proto-
 Germanic words meaning that/there. He as a word evolved from the
 same ideas but Proto-Germanic words for thishere, Your idea of
 patriarchal language further falls apart when you compare this part of
 English to other Germanic languages, of which English is related, the
 words in German for he and she are 'er and sie", completely unrelated
 So it is by clear happenstance, not some patriarchal conspiracy that the
 words he and "she in English have similar form.
 2. Woman: Oh god this one always gets my goat when people go for this
 one. Man did not used to mean "male", man used to
 mean humanity/human being, the old words in Old English for male
 adult person and female adult person were werman and wifman
 respectively, we can see this relation in words like werewolf and wife as
 being the remnants of the base "wer- and the base wif-. Woman
 evolved phonologically from the word wifman by natural processes
 where the 'f sound dropped and the became lax. Man dropped
 its wer stem for reasons mostly unknown but I can guarantee have
 nothing to do with patriarchy because phonological change has no
 basis in that.
 3. Female: Male and Female actually come etymologically from two
 completely different words. Male comes from Old French masle which
 meant masculine, while Female came from Old French as well femella
 which meant young woman. This is another case, just like he and she
 where the words coincidentally ended up looking similar without having
 any direct correlation in historical linguistic processes to make them as
 such
 4 Hman: This word etymologically derives from Proto-Indo-
 European "ghomon which means earthly being as opposed to heavenly
 being which would refer to gods. You have some small glimmer of hope
 here in that the word does eventually branch off into the word for man
 in some languages but this is still too small of a precedent to base any
 conspiratorial thinking like you are doing off of
 5. Person: This one offends me the most, simply because I love the fuck
 out of Etruscan language and your continued ignorance just irks me at
 this point. Person derives from persona from Latin which meant the
 same meaning, which ultimately derived from phersu Etruscan
 for mask as Etruscans would often have theatre performers use masks
 to give identity to the performers. So never once did "person have any
 meaning to do with son So yes, this IS the natural order or language.
 Please never proselytise your faulty ideology and misandrist thinking within
 speaking about word origins and morphology again, as unless you actually do
 fact checking I will school the everloving hell out of you, stay in vour lane.
Swofehuper He Man Male Manson
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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 This is exactly the problem IMO - the problem I find
 with a lot of people who call themselves
 progressives" online is that they seem to think the
 only strategy worth doing is to "ostracise people
 people whose values are antithetical to their own"
 rather than discuss it with them or accept that some
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 "different views." White nationalism is not "different
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adobsonartworks:
As someone who’s reported alt-right harassment and rhetoric on various 
social media sites and been told “there’s nothing here that violates our
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                    adobsonartworks:
As someone who’s reported alt-right harassment and rhetoric on various 
social media sites and been told “there’s nothing here that violates our
 TOS,” seeing what RPGnet is doing is a welcome breath of fresh air. 
Please, more social media sites need to do this.
: Search l
 6790
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 Today 09:39 AM
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 not be the subject of further debate. We have fully
 considered the downsides and ultimately decided we
 have to stay true to our values. We will not pretend that
 evil isn't evil, or that it becomes a legitimate difference
 of political opinion if you put a suit and tie on it.
 We are banning support of Donald Trump or his
 administration on the RPGnet forums. This is because
 his public comments, policies, and the makeup of his
 administration are so wholly incompatible with our
 values that formal political neutrality is not tenable. We
 can be welcoming to (for example) persons of every
 ethnicity who want to talk about games, or we can allow
 support for open white supremacy. Not both. Below will
 be an outline of the policy and a very incomplete set of
 citations
 We have a community here that we've built carefully
 over time, and support for elected hate groups aren't
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 protect and care for the small patch that is this board
 Policy outline:
 1. We are banning support of the administration of
 President Trump. You can still post on RPG.net even if

 8:52
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 a https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.ph囮
 Originally Posted by Codename: Omega
 This is exactly the problem IMO - the problem I find
 with a lot of people who call themselves
 progressives" online is that they seem to think the
 only strategy worth doing is to "ostracise people
 people whose values are antithetical to their own"
 rather than discuss it with them or accept that some
 people just have different views. Sure, in some
 cases there's not much hope for changing anyone's
 minds, but to default at "ostracise, humiliate, shun
 and berate" is not a good approach IMO.
 Moderator Text:
 No. You know what? Fuck that noise. Ethnic
 cleansing is not "different views." Racism is not
 "different views." White nationalism is not "different
 views." Dogwhistling that attacks against your
 political enemies will continue if the media doesn't
 stop saying things you don't like is not "different
 views." Putting children in cages is not "different
 views
 This is not an argument over tax rates or the proper
 role of government in education. This is an
 argument about who will be allowed to exist in
 America
 Get the fuck out of this thread. Don't post here again.
 RPG.net moderator | Please do not reply to moderator
 admonitions via post or PM. Please direct appeals to the admins
 You can read the RPG.net rules and guidelines here and a handy
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 Eisenhower got elected President for overseeing a war that was
 ALL ABOUT killing Nazis. We should return to those days.
 Cessna
adobsonartworks:
As someone who’s reported alt-right harassment and rhetoric on various 
social media sites and been told “there’s nothing here that violates our
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        toadscools:

perfectlygenericblog:

toadscools:
i dont know how to explain this but. this might be me. i had a brown hoodie exactly like that. the phone on the table? i had a black and white case like that when i was like 12. my middle school’s classrooms looked like that. this literally might be a picture of me in 7th grade, shoveling pasta directly from a ziploc bag into my mouth like some sort of goblin, reblogged by twelve thousand people on the worst website known to mankind. and i dont know how to deal with this
What’s interesting here is that there’s only a possibility that this is them in the picture.
This means one of two things:
1) They remember doing this, but believe it to be so commonplace that it could be literally anyone in that photo. Like if you saw a picture of someone reading a book, you wouldn’t be like “Hey, I read a book once! That must be me in that picture!” because lots of people have read books.
In this case, I bet their belief is based on personal experience. Perhaps there’s a town out there where people regularly eat pasta from a bag in class. Or even a secret society of such people living all over the globe.
2) They don’t remember doing this, but they’ve done so many bizarre (yet still extremely relatable) things that this could very well be one of them. This wasn’t the most noteworthy thing that happened to them that week. There were so many other, stranger, bigger things going on that they did remember, and this event simply wasn’t important enough to commit to memory.
In this case, they’re just out there living their life. Society told them “don’t eat pasta from a ziploc bag in class”, but did they let that stop them? No. They have bigger fish to fry.

i’ve never been fucking obliterated like this before. i dont know what to do. how do i go on when @perfectlygenericblog produced a fucking literary analysis of my life, wholly accurate, from one picture and my reaction to it. i’m getting this tattooed on my forearm
: toadscools:

perfectlygenericblog:

toadscools:
i dont know how to explain this but. this might be me. i had a brown hoodie exactly like that. the phone on the table? i had a black and white case like that when i was like 12. my middle school’s classrooms looked like that. this literally might be a picture of me in 7th grade, shoveling pasta directly from a ziploc bag into my mouth like some sort of goblin, reblogged by twelve thousand people on the worst website known to mankind. and i dont know how to deal with this
What’s interesting here is that there’s only a possibility that this is them in the picture.
This means one of two things:
1) They remember doing this, but believe it to be so commonplace that it could be literally anyone in that photo. Like if you saw a picture of someone reading a book, you wouldn’t be like “Hey, I read a book once! That must be me in that picture!” because lots of people have read books.
In this case, I bet their belief is based on personal experience. Perhaps there’s a town out there where people regularly eat pasta from a bag in class. Or even a secret society of such people living all over the globe.
2) They don’t remember doing this, but they’ve done so many bizarre (yet still extremely relatable) things that this could very well be one of them. This wasn’t the most noteworthy thing that happened to them that week. There were so many other, stranger, bigger things going on that they did remember, and this event simply wasn’t important enough to commit to memory.
In this case, they’re just out there living their life. Society told them “don’t eat pasta from a ziploc bag in class”, but did they let that stop them? No. They have bigger fish to fry.

i’ve never been fucking obliterated like this before. i dont know what to do. how do i go on when @perfectlygenericblog produced a fucking literary analysis of my life, wholly accurate, from one picture and my reaction to it. i’m getting this tattooed on my forearm

        

            
            

                
                
                    toadscools:

perfectlygenericblog:

toadscools:
i dont know how to explain this but. this might be me. i had a brown hoodie exactly like that. the phone on the table? i had a black and white case like that when i was like 12. my middle school’s classrooms looked like that. this literally might be a picture of me in 7th grade, shoveling pasta directly from a ziploc bag into my mouth like some sort of goblin, reblogged by twelve thousand people on the worst website known to mankind. and i dont know how to deal with this
What’s interesting here is that there’s only a possibility that this is them in the picture.
This means one of two things:
1) They remember doing this, but believe it to be so commonplace that it could be literally anyone in that photo. Like if you saw a picture of someone reading a book, you wouldn’t be like “Hey, I read a book once! That must be me in that picture!” because lots of people have read books.
In this case, I bet their belief is based on personal experience. Perhaps there’s a town out there where people regularly eat pasta from a bag in class. Or even a secret society of such people living all over the globe.
2) They don’t remember doing this, but they’ve done so many bizarre (yet still extremely relatable) things that this could very well be one of them. This wasn’t the most noteworthy thing that happened to them that week. There were so many other, stranger, bigger things going on that they did remember, and this event simply wasn’t important enough to commit to memory.
In this case, they’re just out there living their life. Society told them “don’t eat pasta from a ziploc bag in class”, but did they let that stop them? No. They have bigger fish to fry.

i’ve never been fucking obliterated like this before. i dont know what to do. how do i go on when @perfectlygenericblog produced a fucking literary analysis of my life, wholly accurate, from one picture and my reaction to it. i’m getting this tattooed on my forearm
: toadscools:

perfectlygenericblog:

toadscools:
i dont know how to explain this but. this might be me. i had a brown hoodie exactly like that. the phone on the table? i had a black and white case like that when i was like 12. my middle school’s classrooms looked like that. this literally might be a picture of me in 7th grade, shoveling pasta directly from a ziploc bag into my mouth like some sort of goblin, reblogged by twelve thousand people on the worst website known to mankind. and i dont know how to deal with this
What’s interesting here is that there’s only a possibility that this is them in the picture.
This means one of two things:
1) They remember doing this, but believe it to be so commonplace that it could be literally anyone in that photo. Like if you saw a picture of someone reading a book, you wouldn’t be like “Hey, I read a book once! That must be me in that picture!” because lots of people have read books.
In this case, I bet their belief is based on personal experience. Perhaps there’s a town out there where people regularly eat pasta from a bag in class. Or even a secret society of such people living all over the globe.
2) They don’t remember doing this, but they’ve done so many bizarre (yet still extremely relatable) things that this could very well be one of them. This wasn’t the most noteworthy thing that happened to them that week. There were so many other, stranger, bigger things going on that they did remember, and this event simply wasn’t important enough to commit to memory.
In this case, they’re just out there living their life. Society told them “don’t eat pasta from a ziploc bag in class”, but did they let that stop them? No. They have bigger fish to fry.

i’ve never been fucking obliterated like this before. i dont know what to do. how do i go on when @perfectlygenericblog produced a fucking literary analysis of my life, wholly accurate, from one picture and my reaction to it. i’m getting this tattooed on my forearm

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        now ur switching my words: yeezyslides
 i dont understand why vegans keep eating salmon
 like thats a gateway food to salmonella
 colormipretty
 Vegans can eat salmon? I thought they couldn't eat
 meat or food from animals
 yeezyslides
 well salmon isnt rlly an animal, its a fish
 cinnamonvenus
 So fish aren't animals?
 yeezyslides
 theyre not animals, theyre fish
 cinnamonvenus
 How do you define the word animal, sis?
 cinnamonrollwithit
 i'm sorry, can we take like, three steps back and look
 at the fact that op thinks that eating salmon is the
 direct cause of salmonella?
 tired-beans
 IT'S CALLED PESCETARIAN, NOT VEGAN, NOT
 VEGETARIAN. PESCETARIA N. FISH ARE
 ANIMALS, THEY EAT, THEY BREATHE, THEY SHIT,
 THEY REPRODUCE AHSHFJAKDJ
 yeezyslides
 1st of all bring down ur tone 2th of all it isnt
 pescatarian bc fish arent part of the animal kingdom
 their FISH.. and u ppl call me stupid imagine being
 this ignornant and typing in all caps... nobody said
 fish dont reproduce or shit but they dont breathe bc
 theyre in water wtf u cant breahe underwater ur so
 dumb
 artistsregret
 fish
 IS
 NOUN
 fishes (olural noun)
 a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water
 the sea is thick with sh
 the flesh of fish as food
 hot crab appetcers stuffed with fish
 the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces
 used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, eg., cuttlefish, shelfish, jellyfish.
 So you mean to tell me. They're not animals?
 yeezyslides
 now ur switching my words. i never said that fish
 arent animal
 artistsregret
 "So fish arent animals?"
 They're not animals, they're
 fish"
 Fish are in fact animals, I'm sorry to say.
 yeezyslides
 i dont recall
 sereniv
 this is a fucking train wreck
now ur switching my words
        

            
            

                
                
                    now ur switching my words: yeezyslides
 i dont understand why vegans keep eating salmon
 like thats a gateway food to salmonella
 colormipretty
 Vegans can eat salmon? I thought they couldn't eat
 meat or food from animals
 yeezyslides
 well salmon isnt rlly an animal, its a fish
 cinnamonvenus
 So fish aren't animals?
 yeezyslides
 theyre not animals, theyre fish
 cinnamonvenus
 How do you define the word animal, sis?
 cinnamonrollwithit
 i'm sorry, can we take like, three steps back and look
 at the fact that op thinks that eating salmon is the
 direct cause of salmonella?
 tired-beans
 IT'S CALLED PESCETARIAN, NOT VEGAN, NOT
 VEGETARIAN. PESCETARIA N. FISH ARE
 ANIMALS, THEY EAT, THEY BREATHE, THEY SHIT,
 THEY REPRODUCE AHSHFJAKDJ
 yeezyslides
 1st of all bring down ur tone 2th of all it isnt
 pescatarian bc fish arent part of the animal kingdom
 their FISH.. and u ppl call me stupid imagine being
 this ignornant and typing in all caps... nobody said
 fish dont reproduce or shit but they dont breathe bc
 theyre in water wtf u cant breahe underwater ur so
 dumb
 artistsregret
 fish
 IS
 NOUN
 fishes (olural noun)
 a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water
 the sea is thick with sh
 the flesh of fish as food
 hot crab appetcers stuffed with fish
 the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces
 used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, eg., cuttlefish, shelfish, jellyfish.
 So you mean to tell me. They're not animals?
 yeezyslides
 now ur switching my words. i never said that fish
 arent animal
 artistsregret
 "So fish arent animals?"
 They're not animals, they're
 fish"
 Fish are in fact animals, I'm sorry to say.
 yeezyslides
 i dont recall
 sereniv
 this is a fucking train wreck
now ur switching my words
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        hazeldomain:
theclockworkzombie:

toastoat:

newwavenova:

secretlesbians:

Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil,1866.
Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?

They called the police on this lesbian painting.


The best part is, the lesbian embrace isn’t even the biggest thing that made the painting so controversial, it was the art style. People in the artistic community at the time were wholly familiar with sapphic relationships being portrayed in art, but were used to these scenes being portrayed in the ‘academic art’ style, which consisted of smooth, simplistic, idealised versions of the nude female form. This often went hand in hand with the depiction of Roman  Greek allegories to illustrate certain ideals (think Cabanel’s Birth of Venus). Courbet’s journey into realism was met by heavy critique from the academic movement, as the women he painted were, well, more realistic. Leaving in details such as the rolls of fat around the ribs acted as a blunt reminder to the audience that these were not euphoric goddesses caressing in ecstasy, but ordinary women having a nap together after making love. Other realist paintings suffered the same controversy, Manet’s Olympia is a perfect example, where the problem was not that the painting depicted a nude woman in an erotic pose, but the fact that she was just an ordinary courtesan, given an identity  portrayed in a place of power  control. Realism humanized the female form in art,  removed it from its previous role as a representation of the ideal.
So what disgusted people about the painting wasn’t so much that Le Sommeil depicted two women, but rather that it depicted two ‘real’ women.

Artist: So I painted a couple of lesbians in bed. 
Men: Niiiiiiiiiice
Artist: They have cellulite
Men: I AM CALLING THE POLICE
: hazeldomain:
theclockworkzombie:

toastoat:

newwavenova:

secretlesbians:

Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil,1866.
Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?

They called the police on this lesbian painting.


The best part is, the lesbian embrace isn’t even the biggest thing that made the painting so controversial, it was the art style. People in the artistic community at the time were wholly familiar with sapphic relationships being portrayed in art, but were used to these scenes being portrayed in the ‘academic art’ style, which consisted of smooth, simplistic, idealised versions of the nude female form. This often went hand in hand with the depiction of Roman  Greek allegories to illustrate certain ideals (think Cabanel’s Birth of Venus). Courbet’s journey into realism was met by heavy critique from the academic movement, as the women he painted were, well, more realistic. Leaving in details such as the rolls of fat around the ribs acted as a blunt reminder to the audience that these were not euphoric goddesses caressing in ecstasy, but ordinary women having a nap together after making love. Other realist paintings suffered the same controversy, Manet’s Olympia is a perfect example, where the problem was not that the painting depicted a nude woman in an erotic pose, but the fact that she was just an ordinary courtesan, given an identity  portrayed in a place of power  control. Realism humanized the female form in art,  removed it from its previous role as a representation of the ideal.
So what disgusted people about the painting wasn’t so much that Le Sommeil depicted two women, but rather that it depicted two ‘real’ women.

Artist: So I painted a couple of lesbians in bed. 
Men: Niiiiiiiiiice
Artist: They have cellulite
Men: I AM CALLING THE POLICE

        

            
            

                
                
                    hazeldomain:
theclockworkzombie:

toastoat:

newwavenova:

secretlesbians:

Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil,1866.
Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?

They called the police on this lesbian painting.


The best part is, the lesbian embrace isn’t even the biggest thing that made the painting so controversial, it was the art style. People in the artistic community at the time were wholly familiar with sapphic relationships being portrayed in art, but were used to these scenes being portrayed in the ‘academic art’ style, which consisted of smooth, simplistic, idealised versions of the nude female form. This often went hand in hand with the depiction of Roman  Greek allegories to illustrate certain ideals (think Cabanel’s Birth of Venus). Courbet’s journey into realism was met by heavy critique from the academic movement, as the women he painted were, well, more realistic. Leaving in details such as the rolls of fat around the ribs acted as a blunt reminder to the audience that these were not euphoric goddesses caressing in ecstasy, but ordinary women having a nap together after making love. Other realist paintings suffered the same controversy, Manet’s Olympia is a perfect example, where the problem was not that the painting depicted a nude woman in an erotic pose, but the fact that she was just an ordinary courtesan, given an identity  portrayed in a place of power  control. Realism humanized the female form in art,  removed it from its previous role as a representation of the ideal.
So what disgusted people about the painting wasn’t so much that Le Sommeil depicted two women, but rather that it depicted two ‘real’ women.

Artist: So I painted a couple of lesbians in bed. 
Men: Niiiiiiiiiice
Artist: They have cellulite
Men: I AM CALLING THE POLICE
: hazeldomain:
theclockworkzombie:

toastoat:

newwavenova:

secretlesbians:

Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil,1866.
Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?

They called the police on this lesbian painting.


The best part is, the lesbian embrace isn’t even the biggest thing that made the painting so controversial, it was the art style. People in the artistic community at the time were wholly familiar with sapphic relationships being portrayed in art, but were used to these scenes being portrayed in the ‘academic art’ style, which consisted of smooth, simplistic, idealised versions of the nude female form. This often went hand in hand with the depiction of Roman  Greek allegories to illustrate certain ideals (think Cabanel’s Birth of Venus). Courbet’s journey into realism was met by heavy critique from the academic movement, as the women he painted were, well, more realistic. Leaving in details such as the rolls of fat around the ribs acted as a blunt reminder to the audience that these were not euphoric goddesses caressing in ecstasy, but ordinary women having a nap together after making love. Other realist paintings suffered the same controversy, Manet’s Olympia is a perfect example, where the problem was not that the painting depicted a nude woman in an erotic pose, but the fact that she was just an ordinary courtesan, given an identity  portrayed in a place of power  control. Realism humanized the female form in art,  removed it from its previous role as a representation of the ideal.
So what disgusted people about the painting wasn’t so much that Le Sommeil depicted two women, but rather that it depicted two ‘real’ women.

Artist: So I painted a couple of lesbians in bed. 
Men: Niiiiiiiiiice
Artist: They have cellulite
Men: I AM CALLING THE POLICE

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        nautica-the-savant:
marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand “v-dog” which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because you’re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

i’m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

it’s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DON’T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gather ‘round. Let’s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells. We cannot produce this vitamin ourselves–no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaea–some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute.  Cyanocobalamin is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. We’re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that it’s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sources–primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements. In nature, cats don’t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivores–meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin D–D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception here–some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not vegan–Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism. The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog. 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They don’t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (“my dog is a vegetarian and hasn’t died!”), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go. 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldn’t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


Always reblog. 
: Meg
 OVeganMegane
 Vegans who feed their pets meat:
 u guys have gotta see the bigger
 picture. We shouldn't support
 animal exploitation w/ our money
 That's it.
 7/13/16, 10:50 PM

 aer
 @thelilmermade
 @VeganMegane yes um so how
 would I feed my cat?
 7/13/16, 11:02 PM
 lI VIEW TWEET ACTIVITY
 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade is your cat male or
 7m
 female? :) check out this website for
 more info: vegancats.com/
 veganfaq.php

 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade I know you want to
 best for your companion, and I
 won't deny that there are risks, but
 you can minimise those risks!
 5m
nautica-the-savant:
marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand “v-dog” which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because you’re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

i’m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

it’s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DON’T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gather ‘round. Let’s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells. We cannot produce this vitamin ourselves–no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaea–some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute.  Cyanocobalamin is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. We’re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that it’s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sources–primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements. In nature, cats don’t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivores–meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin D–D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception here–some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not vegan–Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism. The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog. 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They don’t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (“my dog is a vegetarian and hasn’t died!”), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go. 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldn’t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


Always reblog. 

        

            
            

                
                
                    nautica-the-savant:
marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand “v-dog” which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because you’re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

i’m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

it’s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DON’T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gather ‘round. Let’s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells. We cannot produce this vitamin ourselves–no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaea–some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute.  Cyanocobalamin is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. We’re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that it’s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sources–primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements. In nature, cats don’t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivores–meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin D–D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception here–some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not vegan–Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism. The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog. 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They don’t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (“my dog is a vegetarian and hasn’t died!”), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go. 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldn’t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


Always reblog. 
: Meg
 OVeganMegane
 Vegans who feed their pets meat:
 u guys have gotta see the bigger
 picture. We shouldn't support
 animal exploitation w/ our money
 That's it.
 7/13/16, 10:50 PM

 aer
 @thelilmermade
 @VeganMegane yes um so how
 would I feed my cat?
 7/13/16, 11:02 PM
 lI VIEW TWEET ACTIVITY
 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade is your cat male or
 7m
 female? :) check out this website for
 more info: vegancats.com/
 veganfaq.php

 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade I know you want to
 best for your companion, and I
 won't deny that there are risks, but
 you can minimise those risks!
 5m
nautica-the-savant:
marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand “v-dog” which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because you’re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

i’m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

it’s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DON’T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gather ‘round. Let’s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells. We cannot produce this vitamin ourselves–no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaea–some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute.  Cyanocobalamin is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. We’re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that it’s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sources–primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements. In nature, cats don’t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivores–meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin D–D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception here–some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not vegan–Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism. The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog. 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They don’t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (“my dog is a vegetarian and hasn’t died!”), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go. 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldn’t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


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        regardstosoulandromance:
twitter user @ likewatercress speaks the truth: ti You Retweeted
 mel
 @likewatercress
 han solo has loved one woman his
 entire life and further his womaniser
 reputation is a fabrication by his
 fanboys when there's barely any
 textual evidence to suggest it beyond
 harrison ford being charming as hell
 12/27/17, 1:14 PM from Saltdean, England

 mel @likewatercress 2d
 Replying to @likewatercress
 he meets leia in the first movie, from
 then exhibits clear frustration when she
 refuses to acknowledge there's real
 feelings between them. when she does,
 he's nothing but wholly devoted to her,
 wavering only when he thinks she loves
 luke and not him WHICH HE ACCEPTS
 RESPECTFULLY
 1 t151 909 E
 mel @likewatercress 2d
 DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE
 "I KNOW" IN EMPIRE. fanboys have
 twisted it to be like Imao what a lad,
 when really its clear message is: "I
 know despite all our fighting, that what
 we had was real to both of us. but I'm
 going to die now, and I want you to
 move on and be happy."
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 mel @likewatercress 2d
 HARRISON FORD HIMSELF: "the point
 is, l'm not thinking about myself
 anymore. I'm thinking about her."
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 mel @likewatercress 2d
 you: han solo is a ladies' man
 han himself, an intellectual: um...
 excuse me I have a girlfriend she's the
 love of my life and also the most
 powerful woman in the galaxy so JOT
 THAT DOWN
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                    regardstosoulandromance:
twitter user @ likewatercress speaks the truth: ti You Retweeted
 mel
 @likewatercress
 han solo has loved one woman his
 entire life and further his womaniser
 reputation is a fabrication by his
 fanboys when there's barely any
 textual evidence to suggest it beyond
 harrison ford being charming as hell
 12/27/17, 1:14 PM from Saltdean, England

 mel @likewatercress 2d
 Replying to @likewatercress
 he meets leia in the first movie, from
 then exhibits clear frustration when she
 refuses to acknowledge there's real
 feelings between them. when she does,
 he's nothing but wholly devoted to her,
 wavering only when he thinks she loves
 luke and not him WHICH HE ACCEPTS
 RESPECTFULLY
 1 t151 909 E
 mel @likewatercress 2d
 DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE
 "I KNOW" IN EMPIRE. fanboys have
 twisted it to be like Imao what a lad,
 when really its clear message is: "I
 know despite all our fighting, that what
 we had was real to both of us. but I'm
 going to die now, and I want you to
 move on and be happy."
 4
 920

 mel @likewatercress 2d
 HARRISON FORD HIMSELF: "the point
 is, l'm not thinking about myself
 anymore. I'm thinking about her."
 91 115
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 mel @likewatercress 2d
 you: han solo is a ladies' man
 han himself, an intellectual: um...
 excuse me I have a girlfriend she's the
 love of my life and also the most
 powerful woman in the galaxy so JOT
 THAT DOWN
 t1470 1,622
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        iammissanna:
tzikeh:

the-fault-in-our-wifi:

oh my fucking god

Everyone go home. The internet is over.

Okay, you know what? I just reblogged this but I wanna get geeky over it. ‘Cause this is some high-class humor right here, and if you don’t get that you need to be educated so here I am about to do the thing you’re not supposed to do and explain the joke, because I’m just really impressed by this joke’s construction, okay?
So back in Paris in the 1920s, the surrealist movement in art was just starting to take off. The surrealist movement was born from the dadaist movement, which was a response to strict societal ideas of what was “art” and what wasn’t. The dadaists made a lot of works to try and challenge society’s ideas of what art even was in the first place, and this continued on into the more sophisticated abstract works of surrealism.
One such artist, Rene Magritte (also known for his paintings of people with invisible heads, or with fruit for heads), painted a work called “The Treachery of Images,” depicting a pipe, and underneath the words (in french) “This is Not a Pipe.” The words were meant to refer to the fact that the painted pipe was literally not a real physical pipe that a viewer could smoke out of, it was just a painting of a pipe.
The painting was extremely meta, and really challenged the habit of allowing oneself to get so immersed in a work of art that one forgets it is a created representation of life, and not actual life. Understanding that alone takes a good deal of abstract thinking ability. And really appreciating and enjoying it requires a certain amount of one’s own frustration with society’s habit of trying to put limits on the definition of art; and being unable to think outside the box and really see something from all possible perspectives, including the perspective of being completely outside the thing.
Now what’s even more fascinating to me is that modern art movements (and I don’t mean “modern art,” I mean actual contemporary art movements that are being led by our peers) are kinda doing the same thing the dadaist movement was doing, but in reaction to the art that came out of the dadaist movement. Things have circled back around again, and abstract surrealist art is now what society has decided “art” is. And our generation doesn’t accept that. Comics, video games, TV shows and movies, graffiti art, web series, even flash mobs, all of these are our generation’s way of saying, “no, society, you don’t get to define art as strictly as ‘if it doesn’t make sense to me it must be brilliant.’ Art can be simple to understand, art can be accessible to all people, art can make you beg to find out what happens next!” And that’s really interesting to me.
Flash forwards to 2006, when rapper Gucci Mane writes a song called “Pillz” in which the phrase “bitch I might be” was coined and used several times. In the song, it’s used as a sarcastic, somewhat indignant but not wholly angry way to say “it’s none of your business,” in response to a beautiful woman in a club accusing the rapper of being high. The phrase became a meme in 2013, following Gucci Mane’s indictment for assaulting a soldier, when a redditor photoshopped a screencap of news coverage of the trial to reference the song. The photoshopped image changed the previous on-screen text to read “Rapper Gucci Mane responds with ‘bitch I might be’ when asked if guilty”. Again, the usage of the phrase is a sarcastic and indignant “none of your business.” The phrase then quickly gained popularity and was added to numerous other photoshopped images.
Now, memes are really cool as a concept anyways, when you think about them hard enough (I mean, the speed at which an entire world full of young people are able to latch onto something as simple as a phrase that they all mutually find funny, and within a matter of days explore every possible usage and implication of that phrase, including how it might relate to other complex systems of knowledge and understanding such as the rich character and plot developments of stories that generate fandoms), but lets put that aside for now and talk about sarcasm, instead.
Because sarcasm is a very sophisticated, complex, and subtle form of wit. It’s a difficult thing to be able to understand, through tone of voice alone, that what someone says, and what they mean, are two different things. And to be able to discern the actual meaning when the words were not said. As wikipedia says, “different parts of the brain must work together to understand sarcasm.“ It’s even harder when those words are typed and not spoken audibly, as the reader must imagine the tone in the first place. That’s a lot of brain work involved in even understanding the true meaning behind that simple little phrase.
And sarcasm is popular right now. More than popular, it’s a hallmark of our generation. People have been writing lengthy articles and psychological, sociological, and anthropological studies and musings on why we’re so sarcastic. As this article suggests, it’s because we’re so angry. We’re a generation that was promised a lot and the world didn’t deliver. We’re disenchanted, and jaded, and mad. And we vent that through sarcastic humor. We laugh at things older generations don’t think are funny. We have come to expect so much disappointment, that we no longer afford “serious” things the respect we’re told they deserve. Because we no longer believe they deserve it. As the article states, “We are a generation that believes nothing is sacred. And if nothing is sacred everything becomes profane.”
One could even go so far as to make the argument that the popularity of the statement on the above image is due partially to the attitude amongst today’s youth (especially on tumblr) that one’s own life and choices are one’s own, and not the business of anybody else. This attitude can be seen in everything as simple as the “be yourself” and “follow your dreams” statements many of us were raised on, to the more serious issues we deal with today of discrimination against the LGBTGA+ community, fat shaming, slut shaming, prejudice against muslim people, etc., to political issues like free speech and government invasion of privacy, and even into more subtle ideas present in social media of privacy settings, controlling who gets to see what posts, block and ignore features, and even the philosophy of “nobody can tell you what to post in your own space. If somebody doesn’t like it, they can unfollow.”
None of this would be happening consciously, of course, but we can’t help but be influenced by the world around us. And a phrase whose meaning is essentially “it’s none of your business” is very likely to resonate strongly with a group of people whose fundamental philosophies of polite interpersonal conduct revolve roughly around the same concept.
Taking all this into consideration, this joke is taking a lot of pre-knowledge and putting it all together to kind of say, in a funny way, “stop acting like you have it all figured out, because you don’t. And some things are just not for you to figure out anyway.”
So to sum up, to understand the above image, you must:
have a descent grasp on art history to recognize the original painting.
have good abstract and/or creative thinking skills to understand and appreciate the original painting.
have a good grasp on modern pop culture, internet culture, and current slang and memes (basically, be an active participant in the wider world).
have the complex emotional and interpersonal understanding necessary to understand the subtleties of sarcasm.
understand enough of what’s going on in the world around you that you are disenchanted enough to appreciate sarcastic humor.
participate in our generation’s general philosophy of life and how to interact with other human beings in the world at large.
So basically, if you laughed, you’re smart. :3
: Bítch 1 míaht be.
 magritte
iammissanna:
tzikeh:

the-fault-in-our-wifi:

oh my fucking god

Everyone go home. The internet is over.

Okay, you know what? I just reblogged this but I wanna get geeky over it. ‘Cause this is some high-class humor right here, and if you don’t get that you need to be educated so here I am about to do the thing you’re not supposed to do and explain the joke, because I’m just really impressed by this joke’s construction, okay?
So back in Paris in the 1920s, the surrealist movement in art was just starting to take off. The surrealist movement was born from the dadaist movement, which was a response to strict societal ideas of what was “art” and what wasn’t. The dadaists made a lot of works to try and challenge society’s ideas of what art even was in the first place, and this continued on into the more sophisticated abstract works of surrealism.
One such artist, Rene Magritte (also known for his paintings of people with invisible heads, or with fruit for heads), painted a work called “The Treachery of Images,” depicting a pipe, and underneath the words (in french) “This is Not a Pipe.” The words were meant to refer to the fact that the painted pipe was literally not a real physical pipe that a viewer could smoke out of, it was just a painting of a pipe.
The painting was extremely meta, and really challenged the habit of allowing oneself to get so immersed in a work of art that one forgets it is a created representation of life, and not actual life. Understanding that alone takes a good deal of abstract thinking ability. And really appreciating and enjoying it requires a certain amount of one’s own frustration with society’s habit of trying to put limits on the definition of art; and being unable to think outside the box and really see something from all possible perspectives, including the perspective of being completely outside the thing.
Now what’s even more fascinating to me is that modern art movements (and I don’t mean “modern art,” I mean actual contemporary art movements that are being led by our peers) are kinda doing the same thing the dadaist movement was doing, but in reaction to the art that came out of the dadaist movement. Things have circled back around again, and abstract surrealist art is now what society has decided “art” is. And our generation doesn’t accept that. Comics, video games, TV shows and movies, graffiti art, web series, even flash mobs, all of these are our generation’s way of saying, “no, society, you don’t get to define art as strictly as ‘if it doesn’t make sense to me it must be brilliant.’ Art can be simple to understand, art can be accessible to all people, art can make you beg to find out what happens next!” And that’s really interesting to me.
Flash forwards to 2006, when rapper Gucci Mane writes a song called “Pillz” in which the phrase “bitch I might be” was coined and used several times. In the song, it’s used as a sarcastic, somewhat indignant but not wholly angry way to say “it’s none of your business,” in response to a beautiful woman in a club accusing the rapper of being high. The phrase became a meme in 2013, following Gucci Mane’s indictment for assaulting a soldier, when a redditor photoshopped a screencap of news coverage of the trial to reference the song. The photoshopped image changed the previous on-screen text to read “Rapper Gucci Mane responds with ‘bitch I might be’ when asked if guilty”. Again, the usage of the phrase is a sarcastic and indignant “none of your business.” The phrase then quickly gained popularity and was added to numerous other photoshopped images.
Now, memes are really cool as a concept anyways, when you think about them hard enough (I mean, the speed at which an entire world full of young people are able to latch onto something as simple as a phrase that they all mutually find funny, and within a matter of days explore every possible usage and implication of that phrase, including how it might relate to other complex systems of knowledge and understanding such as the rich character and plot developments of stories that generate fandoms), but lets put that aside for now and talk about sarcasm, instead.
Because sarcasm is a very sophisticated, complex, and subtle form of wit. It’s a difficult thing to be able to understand, through tone of voice alone, that what someone says, and what they mean, are two different things. And to be able to discern the actual meaning when the words were not said. As wikipedia says, “different parts of the brain must work together to understand sarcasm.“ It’s even harder when those words are typed and not spoken audibly, as the reader must imagine the tone in the first place. That’s a lot of brain work involved in even understanding the true meaning behind that simple little phrase.
And sarcasm is popular right now. More than popular, it’s a hallmark of our generation. People have been writing lengthy articles and psychological, sociological, and anthropological studies and musings on why we’re so sarcastic. As this article suggests, it’s because we’re so angry. We’re a generation that was promised a lot and the world didn’t deliver. We’re disenchanted, and jaded, and mad. And we vent that through sarcastic humor. We laugh at things older generations don’t think are funny. We have come to expect so much disappointment, that we no longer afford “serious” things the respect we’re told they deserve. Because we no longer believe they deserve it. As the article states, “We are a generation that believes nothing is sacred. And if nothing is sacred everything becomes profane.”
One could even go so far as to make the argument that the popularity of the statement on the above image is due partially to the attitude amongst today’s youth (especially on tumblr) that one’s own life and choices are one’s own, and not the business of anybody else. This attitude can be seen in everything as simple as the “be yourself” and “follow your dreams” statements many of us were raised on, to the more serious issues we deal with today of discrimination against the LGBTGA+ community, fat shaming, slut shaming, prejudice against muslim people, etc., to political issues like free speech and government invasion of privacy, and even into more subtle ideas present in social media of privacy settings, controlling who gets to see what posts, block and ignore features, and even the philosophy of “nobody can tell you what to post in your own space. If somebody doesn’t like it, they can unfollow.”
None of this would be happening consciously, of course, but we can’t help but be influenced by the world around us. And a phrase whose meaning is essentially “it’s none of your business” is very likely to resonate strongly with a group of people whose fundamental philosophies of polite interpersonal conduct revolve roughly around the same concept.
Taking all this into consideration, this joke is taking a lot of pre-knowledge and putting it all together to kind of say, in a funny way, “stop acting like you have it all figured out, because you don’t. And some things are just not for you to figure out anyway.”
So to sum up, to understand the above image, you must:
have a descent grasp on art history to recognize the original painting.
have good abstract and/or creative thinking skills to understand and appreciate the original painting.
have a good grasp on modern pop culture, internet culture, and current slang and memes (basically, be an active participant in the wider world).
have the complex emotional and interpersonal understanding necessary to understand the subtleties of sarcasm.
understand enough of what’s going on in the world around you that you are disenchanted enough to appreciate sarcastic humor.
participate in our generation’s general philosophy of life and how to interact with other human beings in the world at large.
So basically, if you laughed, you’re smart. :3

        

            
            

                
                
                    iammissanna:
tzikeh:

the-fault-in-our-wifi:

oh my fucking god

Everyone go home. The internet is over.

Okay, you know what? I just reblogged this but I wanna get geeky over it. ‘Cause this is some high-class humor right here, and if you don’t get that you need to be educated so here I am about to do the thing you’re not supposed to do and explain the joke, because I’m just really impressed by this joke’s construction, okay?
So back in Paris in the 1920s, the surrealist movement in art was just starting to take off. The surrealist movement was born from the dadaist movement, which was a response to strict societal ideas of what was “art” and what wasn’t. The dadaists made a lot of works to try and challenge society’s ideas of what art even was in the first place, and this continued on into the more sophisticated abstract works of surrealism.
One such artist, Rene Magritte (also known for his paintings of people with invisible heads, or with fruit for heads), painted a work called “The Treachery of Images,” depicting a pipe, and underneath the words (in french) “This is Not a Pipe.” The words were meant to refer to the fact that the painted pipe was literally not a real physical pipe that a viewer could smoke out of, it was just a painting of a pipe.
The painting was extremely meta, and really challenged the habit of allowing oneself to get so immersed in a work of art that one forgets it is a created representation of life, and not actual life. Understanding that alone takes a good deal of abstract thinking ability. And really appreciating and enjoying it requires a certain amount of one’s own frustration with society’s habit of trying to put limits on the definition of art; and being unable to think outside the box and really see something from all possible perspectives, including the perspective of being completely outside the thing.
Now what’s even more fascinating to me is that modern art movements (and I don’t mean “modern art,” I mean actual contemporary art movements that are being led by our peers) are kinda doing the same thing the dadaist movement was doing, but in reaction to the art that came out of the dadaist movement. Things have circled back around again, and abstract surrealist art is now what society has decided “art” is. And our generation doesn’t accept that. Comics, video games, TV shows and movies, graffiti art, web series, even flash mobs, all of these are our generation’s way of saying, “no, society, you don’t get to define art as strictly as ‘if it doesn’t make sense to me it must be brilliant.’ Art can be simple to understand, art can be accessible to all people, art can make you beg to find out what happens next!” And that’s really interesting to me.
Flash forwards to 2006, when rapper Gucci Mane writes a song called “Pillz” in which the phrase “bitch I might be” was coined and used several times. In the song, it’s used as a sarcastic, somewhat indignant but not wholly angry way to say “it’s none of your business,” in response to a beautiful woman in a club accusing the rapper of being high. The phrase became a meme in 2013, following Gucci Mane’s indictment for assaulting a soldier, when a redditor photoshopped a screencap of news coverage of the trial to reference the song. The photoshopped image changed the previous on-screen text to read “Rapper Gucci Mane responds with ‘bitch I might be’ when asked if guilty”. Again, the usage of the phrase is a sarcastic and indignant “none of your business.” The phrase then quickly gained popularity and was added to numerous other photoshopped images.
Now, memes are really cool as a concept anyways, when you think about them hard enough (I mean, the speed at which an entire world full of young people are able to latch onto something as simple as a phrase that they all mutually find funny, and within a matter of days explore every possible usage and implication of that phrase, including how it might relate to other complex systems of knowledge and understanding such as the rich character and plot developments of stories that generate fandoms), but lets put that aside for now and talk about sarcasm, instead.
Because sarcasm is a very sophisticated, complex, and subtle form of wit. It’s a difficult thing to be able to understand, through tone of voice alone, that what someone says, and what they mean, are two different things. And to be able to discern the actual meaning when the words were not said. As wikipedia says, “different parts of the brain must work together to understand sarcasm.“ It’s even harder when those words are typed and not spoken audibly, as the reader must imagine the tone in the first place. That’s a lot of brain work involved in even understanding the true meaning behind that simple little phrase.
And sarcasm is popular right now. More than popular, it’s a hallmark of our generation. People have been writing lengthy articles and psychological, sociological, and anthropological studies and musings on why we’re so sarcastic. As this article suggests, it’s because we’re so angry. We’re a generation that was promised a lot and the world didn’t deliver. We’re disenchanted, and jaded, and mad. And we vent that through sarcastic humor. We laugh at things older generations don’t think are funny. We have come to expect so much disappointment, that we no longer afford “serious” things the respect we’re told they deserve. Because we no longer believe they deserve it. As the article states, “We are a generation that believes nothing is sacred. And if nothing is sacred everything becomes profane.”
One could even go so far as to make the argument that the popularity of the statement on the above image is due partially to the attitude amongst today’s youth (especially on tumblr) that one’s own life and choices are one’s own, and not the business of anybody else. This attitude can be seen in everything as simple as the “be yourself” and “follow your dreams” statements many of us were raised on, to the more serious issues we deal with today of discrimination against the LGBTGA+ community, fat shaming, slut shaming, prejudice against muslim people, etc., to political issues like free speech and government invasion of privacy, and even into more subtle ideas present in social media of privacy settings, controlling who gets to see what posts, block and ignore features, and even the philosophy of “nobody can tell you what to post in your own space. If somebody doesn’t like it, they can unfollow.”
None of this would be happening consciously, of course, but we can’t help but be influenced by the world around us. And a phrase whose meaning is essentially “it’s none of your business” is very likely to resonate strongly with a group of people whose fundamental philosophies of polite interpersonal conduct revolve roughly around the same concept.
Taking all this into consideration, this joke is taking a lot of pre-knowledge and putting it all together to kind of say, in a funny way, “stop acting like you have it all figured out, because you don’t. And some things are just not for you to figure out anyway.”
So to sum up, to understand the above image, you must:
have a descent grasp on art history to recognize the original painting.
have good abstract and/or creative thinking skills to understand and appreciate the original painting.
have a good grasp on modern pop culture, internet culture, and current slang and memes (basically, be an active participant in the wider world).
have the complex emotional and interpersonal understanding necessary to understand the subtleties of sarcasm.
understand enough of what’s going on in the world around you that you are disenchanted enough to appreciate sarcastic humor.
participate in our generation’s general philosophy of life and how to interact with other human beings in the world at large.
So basically, if you laughed, you’re smart. :3
: Bítch 1 míaht be.
 magritte
iammissanna:
tzikeh:

the-fault-in-our-wifi:

oh my fucking god

Everyone go home. The internet is over.

Okay, you know what? I just reblogged this but I wanna get geeky over it. ‘Cause this is some high-class humor right here, and if you don’t get that you need to be educated so here I am about to do the thing you’re not supposed to do and explain the joke, because I’m just really impressed by this joke’s construction, okay?
So back in Paris in the 1920s, the surrealist movement in art was just starting to take off. The surrealist movement was born from the dadaist movement, which was a response to strict societal ideas of what was “art” and what wasn’t. The dadaists made a lot of works to try and challenge society’s ideas of what art even was in the first place, and this continued on into the more sophisticated abstract works of surrealism.
One such artist, Rene Magritte (also known for his paintings of people with invisible heads, or with fruit for heads), painted a work called “The Treachery of Images,” depicting a pipe, and underneath the words (in french) “This is Not a Pipe.” The words were meant to refer to the fact that the painted pipe was literally not a real physical pipe that a viewer could smoke out of, it was just a painting of a pipe.
The painting was extremely meta, and really challenged the habit of allowing oneself to get so immersed in a work of art that one forgets it is a created representation of life, and not actual life. Understanding that alone takes a good deal of abstract thinking ability. And really appreciating and enjoying it requires a certain amount of one’s own frustration with society’s habit of trying to put limits on the definition of art; and being unable to think outside the box and really see something from all possible perspectives, including the perspective of being completely outside the thing.
Now what’s even more fascinating to me is that modern art movements (and I don’t mean “modern art,” I mean actual contemporary art movements that are being led by our peers) are kinda doing the same thing the dadaist movement was doing, but in reaction to the art that came out of the dadaist movement. Things have circled back around again, and abstract surrealist art is now what society has decided “art” is. And our generation doesn’t accept that. Comics, video games, TV shows and movies, graffiti art, web series, even flash mobs, all of these are our generation’s way of saying, “no, society, you don’t get to define art as strictly as ‘if it doesn’t make sense to me it must be brilliant.’ Art can be simple to understand, art can be accessible to all people, art can make you beg to find out what happens next!” And that’s really interesting to me.
Flash forwards to 2006, when rapper Gucci Mane writes a song called “Pillz” in which the phrase “bitch I might be” was coined and used several times. In the song, it’s used as a sarcastic, somewhat indignant but not wholly angry way to say “it’s none of your business,” in response to a beautiful woman in a club accusing the rapper of being high. The phrase became a meme in 2013, following Gucci Mane’s indictment for assaulting a soldier, when a redditor photoshopped a screencap of news coverage of the trial to reference the song. The photoshopped image changed the previous on-screen text to read “Rapper Gucci Mane responds with ‘bitch I might be’ when asked if guilty”. Again, the usage of the phrase is a sarcastic and indignant “none of your business.” The phrase then quickly gained popularity and was added to numerous other photoshopped images.
Now, memes are really cool as a concept anyways, when you think about them hard enough (I mean, the speed at which an entire world full of young people are able to latch onto something as simple as a phrase that they all mutually find funny, and within a matter of days explore every possible usage and implication of that phrase, including how it might relate to other complex systems of knowledge and understanding such as the rich character and plot developments of stories that generate fandoms), but lets put that aside for now and talk about sarcasm, instead.
Because sarcasm is a very sophisticated, complex, and subtle form of wit. It’s a difficult thing to be able to understand, through tone of voice alone, that what someone says, and what they mean, are two different things. And to be able to discern the actual meaning when the words were not said. As wikipedia says, “different parts of the brain must work together to understand sarcasm.“ It’s even harder when those words are typed and not spoken audibly, as the reader must imagine the tone in the first place. That’s a lot of brain work involved in even understanding the true meaning behind that simple little phrase.
And sarcasm is popular right now. More than popular, it’s a hallmark of our generation. People have been writing lengthy articles and psychological, sociological, and anthropological studies and musings on why we’re so sarcastic. As this article suggests, it’s because we’re so angry. We’re a generation that was promised a lot and the world didn’t deliver. We’re disenchanted, and jaded, and mad. And we vent that through sarcastic humor. We laugh at things older generations don’t think are funny. We have come to expect so much disappointment, that we no longer afford “serious” things the respect we’re told they deserve. Because we no longer believe they deserve it. As the article states, “We are a generation that believes nothing is sacred. And if nothing is sacred everything becomes profane.”
One could even go so far as to make the argument that the popularity of the statement on the above image is due partially to the attitude amongst today’s youth (especially on tumblr) that one’s own life and choices are one’s own, and not the business of anybody else. This attitude can be seen in everything as simple as the “be yourself” and “follow your dreams” statements many of us were raised on, to the more serious issues we deal with today of discrimination against the LGBTGA+ community, fat shaming, slut shaming, prejudice against muslim people, etc., to political issues like free speech and government invasion of privacy, and even into more subtle ideas present in social media of privacy settings, controlling who gets to see what posts, block and ignore features, and even the philosophy of “nobody can tell you what to post in your own space. If somebody doesn’t like it, they can unfollow.”
None of this would be happening consciously, of course, but we can’t help but be influenced by the world around us. And a phrase whose meaning is essentially “it’s none of your business” is very likely to resonate strongly with a group of people whose fundamental philosophies of polite interpersonal conduct revolve roughly around the same concept.
Taking all this into consideration, this joke is taking a lot of pre-knowledge and putting it all together to kind of say, in a funny way, “stop acting like you have it all figured out, because you don’t. And some things are just not for you to figure out anyway.”
So to sum up, to understand the above image, you must:
have a descent grasp on art history to recognize the original painting.
have good abstract and/or creative thinking skills to understand and appreciate the original painting.
have a good grasp on modern pop culture, internet culture, and current slang and memes (basically, be an active participant in the wider world).
have the complex emotional and interpersonal understanding necessary to understand the subtleties of sarcasm.
understand enough of what’s going on in the world around you that you are disenchanted enough to appreciate sarcastic humor.
participate in our generation’s general philosophy of life and how to interact with other human beings in the world at large.
So basically, if you laughed, you’re smart. :3

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://minseokwrites.tumblr.com/post/134615752739">minseokwrites</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p></p>
<ul><li><small>“You don’t get to tell me who’s overreacting. You’re under-reacting!“ </small></li>
<li><small>“All murder is illegal. Also, attempted murder.“ </small></li>
<li><small>“Well, that’s just mean. And kind of weird.&ldquo; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;We cannot tell you. We’re not allowed.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Murder wasn’t my intent.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I meant nothing by it.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;We have forgotten so many things.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I guess I was wrong earlier—I don’t know. Weird, right?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I have conflicted feelings here.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It is not a feeling I wish to experience again.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;So, let’s not waste any more time.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I don’t remember what I was just saying.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;That is—ugh. I’ll have to think about what that is.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You need to run.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;This day started bad, and it does not appear to be getting better any time soon.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You can guess what happened, I think.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know that there is more coming, as always. This is what I know.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Don’t look. You will not at all like what you see.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s all a shame, whatever it is. Such a damn shame everything is.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You are weak. You are nothing.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know I am safe. Sadly though, I am not okay.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I don’t know. But I’m trying to find out, okay?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know what is what.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You know, it would upset me if it weren’t just who you are.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I could do so many things to you without you feeling it. Remember that if you remember nothing else.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You seem kind of— I mean, lately. Lately you’ve been—&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s awful when you can see the reason for someone’s feeling toward you while knowing wholly that they’re wrong.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I do my best with what I have. I don’t have much.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I’ve been working on something I’d like to show you.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Denying that you are guilty is a major sign of guilt.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Ask me what?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I mean, I know. I know everything.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I wish I did not know.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You know, I don’t want to talk about it just yet.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s a shame anything had to change. I sure do dislike change.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Not saying that it is a long time—uh, who knows what a long time is even? Not me! But it just seems that way, that’s all.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Here I am, as I thought I might never be.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;These days, the world seems to never be ending for some and not others.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;The world is a worse place now than it ever was before, but far better than it ever will be again.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;The past is always better than the present. And the future is the worst of all.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I extend my deepest sympathies. Not that my sympathies will do you any good.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Have you ever remembered a life you did not lead?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It was a better day earlier. Back when I hadn’t heard that story.&quot; </small></li>
<li>
<small>&quot;This present, this now, is no good. No good at all!”</small><br/></li>
</ul></blockquote>: ASKBOX MEME XIV
 WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE EDITION, PT. V
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://minseokwrites.tumblr.com/post/134615752739">minseokwrites</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p></p>
<ul><li><small>“You don’t get to tell me who’s overreacting. You’re under-reacting!“ </small></li>
<li><small>“All murder is illegal. Also, attempted murder.“ </small></li>
<li><small>“Well, that’s just mean. And kind of weird.&ldquo; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;We cannot tell you. We’re not allowed.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Murder wasn’t my intent.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I meant nothing by it.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;We have forgotten so many things.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I guess I was wrong earlier—I don’t know. Weird, right?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I have conflicted feelings here.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It is not a feeling I wish to experience again.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;So, let’s not waste any more time.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I don’t remember what I was just saying.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;That is—ugh. I’ll have to think about what that is.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You need to run.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;This day started bad, and it does not appear to be getting better any time soon.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You can guess what happened, I think.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know that there is more coming, as always. This is what I know.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Don’t look. You will not at all like what you see.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s all a shame, whatever it is. Such a damn shame everything is.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You are weak. You are nothing.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know I am safe. Sadly though, I am not okay.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I don’t know. But I’m trying to find out, okay?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know what is what.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You know, it would upset me if it weren’t just who you are.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I could do so many things to you without you feeling it. Remember that if you remember nothing else.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You seem kind of— I mean, lately. Lately you’ve been—&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s awful when you can see the reason for someone’s feeling toward you while knowing wholly that they’re wrong.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I do my best with what I have. I don’t have much.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I’ve been working on something I’d like to show you.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Denying that you are guilty is a major sign of guilt.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Ask me what?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I mean, I know. I know everything.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I wish I did not know.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You know, I don’t want to talk about it just yet.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s a shame anything had to change. I sure do dislike change.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Not saying that it is a long time—uh, who knows what a long time is even? Not me! But it just seems that way, that’s all.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Here I am, as I thought I might never be.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;These days, the world seems to never be ending for some and not others.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;The world is a worse place now than it ever was before, but far better than it ever will be again.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;The past is always better than the present. And the future is the worst of all.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I extend my deepest sympathies. Not that my sympathies will do you any good.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Have you ever remembered a life you did not lead?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It was a better day earlier. Back when I hadn’t heard that story.&quot; </small></li>
<li>
<small>&quot;This present, this now, is no good. No good at all!”</small><br/></li>
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                    <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://minseokwrites.tumblr.com/post/134615752739">minseokwrites</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p></p>
<ul><li><small>“You don’t get to tell me who’s overreacting. You’re under-reacting!“ </small></li>
<li><small>“All murder is illegal. Also, attempted murder.“ </small></li>
<li><small>“Well, that’s just mean. And kind of weird.&ldquo; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;We cannot tell you. We’re not allowed.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Murder wasn’t my intent.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I meant nothing by it.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;We have forgotten so many things.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I guess I was wrong earlier—I don’t know. Weird, right?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I have conflicted feelings here.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It is not a feeling I wish to experience again.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;So, let’s not waste any more time.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I don’t remember what I was just saying.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;That is—ugh. I’ll have to think about what that is.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You need to run.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;This day started bad, and it does not appear to be getting better any time soon.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You can guess what happened, I think.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know that there is more coming, as always. This is what I know.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Don’t look. You will not at all like what you see.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s all a shame, whatever it is. Such a damn shame everything is.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You are weak. You are nothing.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know I am safe. Sadly though, I am not okay.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I don’t know. But I’m trying to find out, okay?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know what is what.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You know, it would upset me if it weren’t just who you are.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I could do so many things to you without you feeling it. Remember that if you remember nothing else.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You seem kind of— I mean, lately. Lately you’ve been—&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s awful when you can see the reason for someone’s feeling toward you while knowing wholly that they’re wrong.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I do my best with what I have. I don’t have much.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I’ve been working on something I’d like to show you.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Denying that you are guilty is a major sign of guilt.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Ask me what?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I mean, I know. I know everything.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I wish I did not know.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You know, I don’t want to talk about it just yet.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s a shame anything had to change. I sure do dislike change.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Not saying that it is a long time—uh, who knows what a long time is even? Not me! But it just seems that way, that’s all.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Here I am, as I thought I might never be.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;These days, the world seems to never be ending for some and not others.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;The world is a worse place now than it ever was before, but far better than it ever will be again.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;The past is always better than the present. And the future is the worst of all.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I extend my deepest sympathies. Not that my sympathies will do you any good.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Have you ever remembered a life you did not lead?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It was a better day earlier. Back when I hadn’t heard that story.&quot; </small></li>
<li>
<small>&quot;This present, this now, is no good. No good at all!”</small><br/></li>
</ul></blockquote>: ASKBOX MEME XIV
 WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE EDITION, PT. V
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://minseokwrites.tumblr.com/post/134615752739">minseokwrites</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p></p>
<ul><li><small>“You don’t get to tell me who’s overreacting. You’re under-reacting!“ </small></li>
<li><small>“All murder is illegal. Also, attempted murder.“ </small></li>
<li><small>“Well, that’s just mean. And kind of weird.&ldquo; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;We cannot tell you. We’re not allowed.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Murder wasn’t my intent.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I meant nothing by it.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;We have forgotten so many things.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I guess I was wrong earlier—I don’t know. Weird, right?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I have conflicted feelings here.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It is not a feeling I wish to experience again.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;So, let’s not waste any more time.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I don’t remember what I was just saying.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;That is—ugh. I’ll have to think about what that is.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You need to run.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;This day started bad, and it does not appear to be getting better any time soon.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You can guess what happened, I think.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know that there is more coming, as always. This is what I know.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Don’t look. You will not at all like what you see.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s all a shame, whatever it is. Such a damn shame everything is.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You are weak. You are nothing.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know I am safe. Sadly though, I am not okay.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I don’t know. But I’m trying to find out, okay?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I know what is what.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You know, it would upset me if it weren’t just who you are.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I could do so many things to you without you feeling it. Remember that if you remember nothing else.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You seem kind of— I mean, lately. Lately you’ve been—&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s awful when you can see the reason for someone’s feeling toward you while knowing wholly that they’re wrong.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I do my best with what I have. I don’t have much.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I’ve been working on something I’d like to show you.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Denying that you are guilty is a major sign of guilt.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Ask me what?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I mean, I know. I know everything.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I wish I did not know.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;You know, I don’t want to talk about it just yet.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It’s a shame anything had to change. I sure do dislike change.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Not saying that it is a long time—uh, who knows what a long time is even? Not me! But it just seems that way, that’s all.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Here I am, as I thought I might never be.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;These days, the world seems to never be ending for some and not others.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;The world is a worse place now than it ever was before, but far better than it ever will be again.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;The past is always better than the present. And the future is the worst of all.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;I extend my deepest sympathies. Not that my sympathies will do you any good.&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;Have you ever remembered a life you did not lead?&quot; </small></li>
<li><small>&quot;It was a better day earlier. Back when I hadn’t heard that story.&quot; </small></li>
<li>
<small>&quot;This present, this now, is no good. No good at all!”</small><br/></li>
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        <p>Quotes That Will Probably Give You Chills</p>: 31 Quotes That Will
 GIVE YOU CHILLS
 Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75
 -Benjamin Franklin
 Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses
 opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation.
 - Oscar Wilde
 Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are
 not. Both are equally terrifying.
 -Arthur C. Clark
 Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from
 mediocre minds
 -Albert Einstein
 Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have
 been.
 -John Greenleaf Whittier
 I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the
 man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.
 Bruce Lee
 And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze
 back into you.
 -Friedrich Nietzsche
 Don't let schooling interfere with your education
 -Mark Twain
 A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
 It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
 society
 -Jiddu Krisnamurti
 Every man dies, but not every man truly lives.
 William Wallace
 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
 Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
 Oscar Wilde
 Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my
 To love is to recognize yourself in another
 - Eckhart Tolle
 Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument: not being founded in
 reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
 - Tryon Edwards
 If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood,
 divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yean for the
 vast and endless sea.
 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
 n Franklin
 Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned
 and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money
 And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the
 winds long to play with your hair
 Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and
 when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and
 angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
 When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness
 was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I
 wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy'. They told meI
 didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't
 understand life
 -John Lennon
 Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
 tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
 Albert Einstein
 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to
 remake the world-that is the myth of the atomic age- as in being
 able to remake ourselves.
 Mahatma Gandhi
 The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take
 risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice.
 Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often
 wounded, sometimes destroyed.
 In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting
 caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity
 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
 signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
 fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
 Dwight D. Eisenhower
 Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things
 while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a
 single step.
 zu
 Dalai Llama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity
 said: "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money
 Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so
 anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result
 being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if
 he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived
 I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire
 generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars
 Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so
 we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history
 man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great
 Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression
 is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one
 day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we
 won't. And we're slowly leaning that fact. And we're very, very pissed
 off
 -Chuck Palahniuk
 The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able
 to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing
 superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the
 conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane
 and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if
 he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among
 those who are.
 HL Mencken
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                    <p>Quotes That Will Probably Give You Chills</p>: 31 Quotes That Will
 GIVE YOU CHILLS
 Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75
 -Benjamin Franklin
 Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses
 opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation.
 - Oscar Wilde
 Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are
 not. Both are equally terrifying.
 -Arthur C. Clark
 Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from
 mediocre minds
 -Albert Einstein
 Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have
 been.
 -John Greenleaf Whittier
 I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the
 man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.
 Bruce Lee
 And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze
 back into you.
 -Friedrich Nietzsche
 Don't let schooling interfere with your education
 -Mark Twain
 A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
 It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
 society
 -Jiddu Krisnamurti
 Every man dies, but not every man truly lives.
 William Wallace
 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
 Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
 Oscar Wilde
 Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my
 To love is to recognize yourself in another
 - Eckhart Tolle
 Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument: not being founded in
 reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
 - Tryon Edwards
 If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood,
 divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yean for the
 vast and endless sea.
 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
 n Franklin
 Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned
 and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money
 And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the
 winds long to play with your hair
 Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and
 when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and
 angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
 When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness
 was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I
 wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy'. They told meI
 didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't
 understand life
 -John Lennon
 Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
 tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
 Albert Einstein
 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to
 remake the world-that is the myth of the atomic age- as in being
 able to remake ourselves.
 Mahatma Gandhi
 The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take
 risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice.
 Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often
 wounded, sometimes destroyed.
 In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting
 caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity
 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
 signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
 fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
 Dwight D. Eisenhower
 Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things
 while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a
 single step.
 zu
 Dalai Llama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity
 said: "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money
 Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so
 anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result
 being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if
 he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived
 I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire
 generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars
 Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so
 we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history
 man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great
 Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression
 is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one
 day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we
 won't. And we're slowly leaning that fact. And we're very, very pissed
 off
 -Chuck Palahniuk
 The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able
 to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing
 superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the
 conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane
 and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if
 he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among
 those who are.
 HL Mencken
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