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Helen H@Bluesomeh

@helenh.bsky.social

Passionate environmentalist, climate change believer and animal lover. Europhile, hate Brexit. Interested in books, nature, woke politics, the law. Here for the jokes too.

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Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · last wk.

Could do with a stronger narrative-shift on immigration too. More clarity against the ‘legitimate concerns’ bullshit and more positivity about immigration generally would be a real help…

Humanists UK@humanists.uk · last wk.

Hey, Suella, leave them kids alone. A school's job is educate children, not force them into religious worship. Keep Christian Nationalism OUT of assemblies, classrooms, and the curriculum. Agree? Sign our petition today 👇 humanists.uk/action/keep-...

Keep Christian Nationalism out of our schools

Reform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has unvei...

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Ehk@l-ehk.bsky.social · 2w ago

COME ON, now. If you eat meat, just PLEASE look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you're not being a hypocrite for feeling happy that they were saved whilst also being what they were saved from. #vegan #veganism

Vegan FTA@veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 2w ago

All bacon, pork and pig products all come from individuals like Michelle and Amber. 🐷💔 But they are not products - they are sentient beings with their own lives and personalities. 🥺 Follow Michelle and Amber’s story at kandafarmsanctuary on Instagram ❤️ #cutepigs #rescuepigs #animalsanctuary

Zoognosis with Joy!@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

The vegan land conservation argument—that animal agriculture is an inefficient use of fertile cropland—is literally over two thousand years old (and arguably more true now than it was then!).

This was a longstanding vegetarian issue and its first traces appear in Plato’s Republic when Socrates tells Glaucon that meat production necessitates large amounts of pasture. Resultingly, it will require cutting “off a slice of our neighbours’ territory; and if they too are not content with necessaries, but give themselves up to getting unlimited wealth, they will want a slice of ours.” Thus Socrates pronounces, “So the next thing will be, Glaucon, that we shall be at war.”27 In 1785, William Paley’s Th e Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy raised the economic and agricultural issues associated with meat eating: “A piece of ground capable of supplying animal food sufficient for the subsistence of ten persons would sustain, at least, the double of that number with grain, roots and milk.”28 Richard Phillips’s 1811 vegetarian article argues: “The forty-seven millions of acres in England and Wales would maintain in abundance as many human inhabitants if they lived wholly on grain, fruits and vegetables; but they sustain only twelve millions scantily while animal food is made the basis of human subsistence.”29 Percy Shelley’s essay culminates this position: claiming that with vegetarianism “the monopolizing eater of animal flesh would no longer destroy his constitution by devouring an acre at a meal. . . . The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation.”30
Zoognosis with Joy!@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · last mo.

Leading a reading group on October 7th for The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams. I am excited about this one, seems like it will line up with my interest in Vegan and Feminist politics nicely. You can sign up for it here: mimbres.org/reading-grou...

Cover for the book: "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" by Carol J. Adams. Features a cute naked girl with a cowboy hat saying "What's your cut?" with carcass diagram labels.
Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

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Helen H@Bluesomeh@helenh.bsky.social · 2w ago

Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big Chicken. I've signed the petition to stop it 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers

Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big ...

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Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2w ago

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

Helen H@Bluesomeh@helenh.bsky.social · 2w ago

Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big Chicken. I've signed the petition to stop it 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers

Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Reece Dinsdale@reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...

Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre

Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...

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Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4w ago

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3w ago

Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective.

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