josie

This isn't vegan related but was wondering if anyone here has read "A History of Modern Iran" by Ervand Abrahamian and could share some thoughts on it? Saw this book get recommended over on Lemmygrad a while ago and have read the first couple of chapters so far.

I had an account on .world a long while ago now and pissing off the anti-vegan trolls was something I occasionally loved to indulge in.

I considered it an "everyone wins" situation: I get to have a laugh, the trolls get to interact with another person (unlike the real world) and a lot of the bystanders get to see just how pathetic they are.

That said I understand how it gets old fairly quickly when you have to constantly deal with that shit as a mod on a vegan community. I'm genuinely grateful to hamid, Potato, and the other mods/admins here for not only setting this place up but taking care of it, and it genuinely sucks that there's a loud group of people who really can't take ten seconds to read the sideboard so they don't constantly break rules, or are just flat out here to troll.

This is a completely arbitrary point and makes no sense.

Going to a vegan "meetup" irl and everyone there eats honey, uses second hand leather, or has cheat days and look at me like I have two heads when I say I don't do any of this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm a leftist but I think insert fascist opinion here

The BBC are a terrible "news" organisation. They pushed propaganda so that the public would be okay with supporting the invasion of Iraq, forbade black staff members from attending BLM events, doxxed the father of a sick child for criticising the prime minister, removed boos from a Boris Johnson speech and replaced them with applause, and have pedalled right wing propaganda by uncritically platforming antimaskers and transphobes.

Vegan btw

My style is typically painting and mixed media, sometimes I like to make small sculptures to get my point across. Honestly really just depends how I feel and what I'm in the mood to create lol.

And wow, that show looked like it was amazing. I've never seen a Kahlo exhibition or show in person but it's definitely on my to-do list.

I've been thinking of making some animal rights related artwork lately. My main influences as an artist are Francisco de Goya and Frida Kahlo and my style of artwork is very much political related and the kind where I want my audience to really think about the world. I'm trying to come up with some ideas as to how I could make it work.

Grenfell was one of the very first things that began to radicalise me. Absolutely evil that dozens of innocent people had to die so that landlords could save pennies.

I can see that attempts to push the democrats left were clearly successful

I agree with their stance. I also have to take non-vegan medicine where there is no vegan alternative. This is out of my scope and practice and don't think it lessens my opinions against animal testing and abuse. I hope one day, preferably sooner than later, the medical industries stop relying on animal abuse for medicine testing.