Gadaver Rat

Your fucking brain is a nerve centre, do you understand what a NERVE IS? It's meant to sense, feel. It's connected to more nerves. So, u can't exist without feeling. You can't just always ignore, let it slide. It's not a muscle! It doesn't get stronger with suffering. It's damage

@5thRing @VividVivka It's not emotional to take stock. It's pure cold math. AI does it too. It's inefficient, a waste, so even a computer will not use it in future problem solving, yet even a computer can detect the shortage or non existence of a means to an end

@GhostRat2 @VividVivka What you said is correct, but it's also irrelevant to my point. They could drop standards or decide to stop providing the product in any form entirely. They don't dictate your mind or your emotions.

I don’t know about you, but I’m so fucking sick of Enshitification. Having to rebuy cause it breaks as soon as it’s out of warranty, every new version being worse than the last, everything is buggy, everything is hacked every month, subscription services forever, all of our data is sold, everything is made cheap with plastic but still cost $100… The whole system is a series of micro-transactions so the 5 dudes at the top can get richer. So much money and time wasted to keep things functioning, meanwhile landfills are full of plastic trash. Not to be old on main, but remember when companies got customers via their quality? Remember when you bought something and you actually got what you paid for? Remember when shit actually worked?

This bird has flown through the ✨️aether✨️ and seen some shit..

In the middle of a forest on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, a geyser recently suddenly erupted sending warm water from an underground hot spring about 30-40 metres into the air

@elonmusk Suicidal empathy is compassion without wisdom, boundaries, or reciprocity, pitying the criminal more than the victim, or the outsider more than your own citizens. That path doesn’t build societies, it dismantles them.

When I was young April Fools Day was seen as a fun way to play jokes on your friends before governments and corporations turned every day into a joke.

The worst part of a society manipulated by politics is to see the poor defending the rich who are responsible for their poverty. ~ Paulo Coelho

what the fuck kinda medication has a no talking rule

If you're new here, let me introduce Gerald. Gerald is a Hereford cross in Herefordshire. He eats grass. He does a pat. He lies down at noon every Friday in exactly the same spot, which the farmer has stopped finding remarkable and started finding quietly reassuring. He arrived in September 2022 at five months old, rode the trailer without complaint, assessed his forty acres for ninety seconds, and walked directly to the south corner. He has never reconsidered the south corner. The south corner now has seven wildflower species, six bumblebee species, a dung beetle population, and a lapwing pair that have nested on the east hedgerow every spring since Gerald decided it was the right corner. He has grazed through fog so thick the farmer couldn't see him from the gate, three consecutive days of horizontal November rain, a hailstorm that sounded like "the field was being used for target practice," and a minus-six overnight with the water trough iced solid. Gerald's response to all of it: grazed. The vet visited. Cortisol normal. "Most contented animal I've seen, or he's transcended caring either way." The man who walks past at 7:15 paused last Tuesday for the first time in four years. He told his wife it made him feel like something was just getting on with it. Without drama. Without complaint. Gerald doesn't know about the man. Gerald doesn't need to. Gerald is reliable for the field. The field is the audience. A documentary crew came. Gerald ignored them. A parliamentary footnote is being prepared. Gerald doesn't know about the parliamentary footnote. Dennis is arriving from Ross-on-Wye. Gerald will graze. The south corner is fine.

"Imagine your sister" No.... Develop empathy without imagining her to be your sister or mom.... Develop basic humanity.....

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

Yo, @Porsche! This driver split one of your cars in two tonight in Dunwoody, Georgia. The driver wasn’t seriously hurt!

If only our liquorice actually still WAS TRUE liquorice coming from the medicinal plant. Like marshmallows that also used to be delicious MEDICINE

This is Ocho. Ocho lives in my bathroom and hangs out on my orchid plant. Every day I soak a Q-Tip in water and put it down for him wherever he is (on the plant or behind the toilet or on the vanity) and he comes running over and gets a drink. Was my first reaction to smash him? Nope. To flush him down the toilet? Nope. To “burn it to the ground”? Nope. He’s literally a fraction of my size. I could easily kill him, but I choose to be kind. He deserves to be on this earth as much as I do. In fact, he contributes way more to the natural order of life on earth than I do. It’s so easy to choose kindness. I encourage everyone to take a moment and make sure the language you use when it comes to spiders, insects, rodents, etc. is kind and not fearful or disgusted. None of these beings are "pests" or threatening. They are here to provide a value to the ecosystem. Let them be. Help them if you can. Be kind. It’s so simple.

@5thRing @VividVivka A sense of entitlement has absolutely nothing to do with dropping of standards. A thing was thought of, designed, manufactured for a specific function. It worked. It's called TAMPERING or SABOTAGE when its design/material is replaced with something that doesn't work. It's faulty

@VividVivka @GhostRat2 Entitlement mentality can make you miserable when you don't get what you believe you're owed, even though no one actually owes you anything.

It's a freak accident, with no intent of harm from us, it could just as easily happen in the wild, but our minds feel we have failed the animal because it was under our care, in our space and we should know and do better.

These feelings...I should've...they hit hard...

@msiziworld You're in deep shit Bee careful

Does anyone know what this bee is doing? I thought it was honey, so I tasted it, but it had a very strange flavor 😖

JUST IN: Three thousand ships are anchored in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Twenty thousand seafarers are aboard them. Fresh food ran out two weeks ago. Perishables are rotting in refrigerated holds whose generators are burning through the last reserves of diesel. Water is rationed. Mental health is deteriorating. No mass evacuation plan exists. No humanitarian corridor has been negotiated. No international body has the authority or the means to move twenty thousand people off three thousand ships through a five-nautical-mile channel controlled by the IRGC. These are the people who move the global economy. Every barrel of oil that reaches a refinery was carried by a seafarer. Every container of goods that stocks a shelf was loaded by one. Every tonne of fertiliser that feeds a field was shipped by one. The war has trapped the invisible workforce that makes globalisation function, and the world has not noticed because the world never notices seafarers until the shelves are empty. The ships themselves are worth tens of billions. The cargo aboard them is worth more. Crude oil, liquefied natural gas, urea, ammonia, consumer electronics, automotive parts, and 200 cryogenic containers of helium that are boiling off at a rate that no engineer can reverse. The stranded fleet is a floating warehouse of every molecule the global economy needs, and the molecules are degrading while the crews ration drinking water. The cargo is valued higher than the people guarding it, and neither can move. The IRGC’s Larak corridor clearance system does not only control entry. It controls exit. A vessel that wants to leave the anchorage zone must obtain the same clearance code, submit the same documentation, and receive the same pilot escort as a vessel seeking to transit. The customs border works in both directions. These crews are not stranded by geography alone. They are stranded by bureaucracy, the same bureaucracy Iran wrapped in the language of sovereign maritime governance when the parliamentary committee approved the Hormuz Management Plan. The toll booth charges for passage through. It also charges for passage out. No centralised evacuation exists because evacuation at this scale would require IRGC approval, and requesting approval would legitimise the system the United States refuses to recognise. So the crews wait. The International Transport Workers Federation issues statements. P&I clubs cover individual medical evacuations by helicopter. Flag states, predominantly Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands, register ships but do not operate navies. The system that made global shipping cheap by divorcing flag from nationality has left twenty thousand people without a government willing to retrieve them. The seafarers are from the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia. Countries whose workers crew the world’s merchant fleet because the monthly pay of $1,500 to $3,000 exceeds anything available at home. They signed contracts to deliver cargo across oceans. They did not sign contracts to become indefinite residents of a war zone, rationing water on a ship whose cargo of ammonia could feed a million people if it could reach a port that is 40 nautical miles and one IRGC clearance code away. The helium boils off. The fertiliser waits. The crude oil sits. And the people who carry it all drink less water today than yesterday. The supply chain has a human body at the very bottom of it. The body is thirsty. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…