It was kept in captivity by you though, which is not it’s natural habitat so any choices it made were, arguably, under duress.

If you lived by a creek and regularly recognised a fish swimming by, and one day this fish killed itself in front of you- you still shouldn’t eat it as fish contain a lot of parasites and there’s very likely also something toxic in the water causing the fish to harm itself this way.

But yeah, sure, hypothetically: if for a year or so you knew a wild fish that lived in an unpolluted and ecologically healthy body of water, and one day this fish chose to kill itself in front of you. You could, if you really wanted to eat a suicidal fish, eat the fish and say it was vegan because the only harm that came to the fish was through the un-coerced choices of said suicidal fish.

Thank you!

Oh wow, that is gorgeous. It’s like a whole level up from how sexy spreadsheets can be.

What app is that? I need to get in on this.

I really like seeing other people’s lists.

I’m looking forward to Jesse’s Tea House opening their UK warehouse, thank you for the inadvertent reminder to add that to my list of stuff I’m waiting for.

Stuff to watch.

The decision paralysis I was getting from opening a streaming site and seeing a bazillion thumbnails to scroll through to decide if something looks good enough, was stressful to the point where I just stopped watching stuff for a few years.

Now I have a couple of lists in my notes app with films and shows that I’ve seen recommended on discussions of other stuff I’ve liked, and I just have pick a title from a list.

My success rate for actually managing to sit down and relax while watching something has improved massively, and I’m actually enjoying watching most of the stuff in my lists too.

If the human you’re fucking consented, then consuming their fluids is vegan. Hell if they consent, eating them would be vegan too.

Animals do not consent to having fluids extracted or their lives taken and flesh consumed. Animal agriculture keeps animals in filthy, torturous conditions too, which no animal would ever consent to either.

This assumption that young women are so silly and impressionable that they can’t be allowed to see thin women modelling clothes because they might be inspired to become dangerously underweight, is really starting to annoy me.

Yes having only very thin women modelling in adverts is bad, but this isn’t bad because ‘fashion obsessed girls are so dumb they’re gonna stop eating if they see this’, it’s bad because not all women are thin, and advertising only with the thinnest narrows the market you appeal to.

And if eating disorders in young women were really such a big worry for the government, surely they would instead fund nhs mental health services properly to make getting help for disordered eating and the issues which cause it (here’s a hint, it’s not fashion), much easier and safer to access?

But no, this is not what is being done, they’re banning adverts with thin models instead.

Starmer really doesn’t like women it seems. Too thin and you’re stupid and impressionable and promote mental illness by existing, too many children and you’re a scrounger who doesn’t deserve government support, lacking an extra X chromosome and you’re banned from public loos and refused healthcare.

Normalising obesity makes it seem like less of a problem. It should not be normal to be so unhealthy that one is obese, let alone nearly half the country.

But I know that absolutely nothing will be done to improve the quality of life for people by our current government, and quality of life is a big factor in obesity as food is an easy comfort. So even if obese people were no longer shown in adverts etc, it would only mean that obese models and actors would get fewer roles.

I braise a whole bag of onions and use it the base for a big pot of Turkish-ish red lentil soup. This then gets portioned into 10 or so meals and frozen so it lasts till i have money again.

Add a road nearby so I can get stuff delivered, and I would never leave.