Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees

I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there

Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don't like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.

(Not to mention that honeybees are an invasive species in most places, competing with native pollinators and spreading disease)

It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you're using one source from 1859.

I don't think there's ever been a funnier vegan response in the history of this hell site. This is actual gold. If you cited an argument like this in a first year undergrad intro to bio module, then your lecturer would be legally entitled to fire you out of a cannon. I think I'm dying

cant find a working stream rn killing myself

i don't like you.

I have gripes with booktok for publishing industry reasons but I could give a shit what women are cranking it to. I've seen what dudes jerk off to. May a thousand flowers goon, as far as I'm concerned.

ursula k le guin: if confronted directly with the knowledge that society requires suffering to be maintained, would you be capable or willing to abandon the structure and safety for uncertainty, strife, deprivation?

strange and inscrutable people who claim to know how to read: i would simply solve the problem

I don’t know you personally but I feel the need to inform you that you’re the one who’s wrong here and that “deep-seated” is literally the proper spelling according to Merriam-Webster, Cambridge Dictionary, and Washington State University professor Paul Brians (author of the book Common Errors in English Usage) . I don’t care abt language errors either but I have this deep seated desire to bother ppl.. you know how it is

loss of third spaces like opium dens and brothels

imagine someone winning a Grammy off of a diss track about you

not just one Grammy. FIVE of them. as many Grammy awards as you've won in your entire career, he won in one night off of a diss track about you.

i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds

“Get his ass” Is so unreasonably funny to me. A huge win for the English language. Today’s version of “seize him” imo

i believe "nothingburger" is the cowardly enemy of the humble and kind everything bagel

the unremarkable milquetoast sits somewhere in between

well can i.

you're nor tired sad or unmotivated, your brain is simply begging to have a hole drilled into it. go to my tiktok shop buy one trepanning drill this will change.your.life.

i was jumanji’d too when i was a kid but no one cared

i was also zathura’d. i got both jumanji’d and zathura’d. Statistical impossibility but sad and true

Can we not victim blame