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There is a local urban farming message board that is filled – filled – with people trying to give away their three year old chicken to a “good home.”  Are you kidding me? You own the chicken. Your home is a good home. And once it’s not, your soup pot is a good soup pot. I once joked to a good friend that I could stock my freezer for the entire year off no-longer-laying hens being given away free “to a good home.”

This pisses me off, as you can probably tell. There is absolutely nothing ethically superior – and quite a bit that is ethically dubious, if you ask me – about enjoying the benefits of a young laying hen and then turning over the care or slaughter of that hen to someone else once it stops laying.

That is not how animal husbandry works and it’s not how pet ownership works, and those are your two choices. I don’t care which path you take with your chickens, but pick one. Playing Little Suzy Farm Girl until it’s time to get the axe and then deciding you aren’t up for chicken ownership just doesn’t fly with me.

“You absolutely should not get backyard chickens,” by Erica on Northwest Edible Life (via voidcarcharocles)

Holy wells and votive trees are so intrinsically connected that, in the British Isles, where there is a sacred tree, a sacred well will invariably be nearby. As a result of the passing of time, there are … many holy wells without their counterpart holy trees, but it is rarely the reverse.

Ceri Houlbrook, “The wishing-tree of Isle Maree: The evolution of a Scottish folkloric practice” in The Materiality of Magic: An Artifactual Investigation Into Ritual Practices and Popular Beliefs edited by Ceri Houlbrook and Natalie Armitage (2015)

susiethemoderator:

brightblackbird:

queeranarchism:

pipistrellus:

pipistrellus:

pipistrellus:

Btw I’m terrified and we are all gonna die and if I hear one more person say “our species destroyed the environment” I’m gonna lose it harder than I already am which is, for the record, Very Hard Indeed

Our SPECIES didn’t destroy the environment it was like 3 guys

Like it was more than 3 guys but in the grand scheme of things when you step back and really look at it it was like 0.00000000000000000001% of humans and that’s actually a much larger number than reality in reality it was like one 1000th of a guy. But like. For the purposes of envisioning every human alive today vs. people responsible for this. It was like 3 guys.

Saying humans destroyed the environment is only very slightly more accurate than saying mammals destroyed the environment

The “our species destroyed the environment” club is the same club that only ever talks about this as something that is tragic because of all the beauty destroyed, all the cute animals that go extinct, etc. 

Never mind the billions of humans whose lives it endangers. 

They don’t register on their notion of how tragic the destroyed environment is because they ‘deserve it’ for ‘destroying the environment’.

The concept of collective guilt serves to 

  • get the guilty of the hook 
  • justify not putting any effort in saving people from the deadly consequences of climate change 

  This is EXACTLY the point made in this article on why we shouldn’t call the new era the Anthropocene (climate caused by man) but instead the Capitalocene (climate caused by drive for wealth/capital)

I’m going to read more into this

demonladytakkuri:

Why do people hate turkey vultures I mean look at them

They’re super curious and clever and have that sense of innocent mischief you’d expect from a puppy. 

They’re pretty much solar powered and they assume The Stance while recharging

CUTE FLOOFY NECK FEATHERS THAT MAKE THEM LOOK LIKE THEY’RE WEARING A TURTLE NECK!!

Since they lack the hooked talons of their raptor cousins, these lil dudes really can only use their beak to investigate stuff, so they just softly nibble things (until they decide that what they’re nibbling feels super fun to take apart and play with).

Plus their scientific name means Golden Purifier because of their golden brown feathers and the fact that they clean up all the nastiest bits of corpses.

They’re just.

Such Good Birds.

The Devil is protean, he changes as we change, our closest companion from cave to the starry heavens. This is why we cannot leapfrog him to engage with a horned god of our supposed Celtic forebears. Witchcraft is meaningless if we use it to retreat to an imagined past and play at being the very different people who inhabited it. The injunction of the mysteries to know thyself precludes this kind of escapism. The gods of the past came from the soil, the social conditions, and ours must too, none more so than the Devil. He paws his way out of the farrowed fields unsettling even the crows.

Peter Grey, Apocalyptic Witchcraft (via astranemus)

donnysplace:

woolandcoffee:

systlin:

odinsblog:

So the oldest white man in Britain … was really a brutha? This pleases me greatly.

This is a little something to shut up all those white people who lose their mind and cry about “historical accuracy” whenever a fictional character isn’t portrayed as a blonde haired, blue eyed white person.

Somehow, for all this time archeologists have thought (assumed?) that Cheddar Man was white with dark eyes? LOL. I bet he was probably even darker skinned, with type 4C hair.

Cheddar Man, we salute you.

I mean, we didn’t lose skin pigmentation until long-term exposure to dark Northern winters, so yeah. This makes perfect sense. 

This is super cool and I love it but someone needs to explain to me why this guy is called Cheddar Man, this isn’t the last episode of season 4 of Buffy.

He’s from Cheddar, Somerset. 🙂 Which may be better or worse, depending on your point of view haha 

No no, that’s good. I thought this folks just up and named him cheddar because honestly who doesn’t enjoy a good block of cheese.

systlin:

odinsblog:

So the oldest white man in Britain … was really a brutha? This pleases me greatly.

This is a little something to shut up all those white people who lose their mind and cry about “historical accuracy” whenever a fictional character isn’t portrayed as a blonde haired, blue eyed white person.

Somehow, for all this time archeologists have thought (assumed?) that Cheddar Man was white with dark eyes? LOL. I bet he was probably even darker skinned, with type 4C hair.

Cheddar Man, we salute you.

I mean, we didn’t lose skin pigmentation until long-term exposure to dark Northern winters, so yeah. This makes perfect sense. 

This is super cool and I love it but someone needs to explain to me why this guy is called Cheddar Man, this isn’t the last episode of season 4 of Buffy.