What do you think is the most important idea?
Maybe a simple worldview called #Sentientism:
1⃣ What should we believe? Use evidence + reason
2⃣ What should we care about? Have compassion for any being that can suffer (sentient)
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Protesting to try to end bad things is good.
Any questions?
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The protests at Timberwolves games have done more to generate media coverage of factory farming than any amount of policy reports or academic papers in recent memory.
“… protests tend to be wrong until they’re right.”
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"USSR 1945: overcame fascism. Russia 2022: overcome by fascism"
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How bravery looks today in Russia
Human rights activists from Memorial arrested for Red Square protest ahead of Victory Day:
‘USSR 1945: overcame fascism. Russia 2022: overcome by fascism’
‘Stop killing people. Peace in #Ukraine’ twitter.com/ovdinfo/status…
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This isn't "the world" or even "humanity".
It's animal agriculture.
Boycott it 🌱
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The world is on track to destroy or degrade an area of land the size of South America by 2050, says a new report from @UNCCD. That has huge implications for the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.
bit.ly/3kkDfGx
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This week in the Commons, the government is passing legislation to silence protests, limit the legal scrutiny of ministers and allow No.10 to control the Electoral Commission. This administration is more akin to a banana republic than a modern democracy.
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Nice new paper by David DeGrazia, arguing (in the context of robots) that sentience is necessary and sufficient for granting moral status, and exploring the duties this might confer
muse.jhu.edu/article/850518
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Hey 🙋 I’m disappointed you supported the Elections Bill. Removing the independence of the Electoral Commission reduces trust in our elections. How will you reassure voters England won't end up like Russia? #HeyMP
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What are your favorite social justice movements that advanced their cause by exclusively keeping it to themselves?
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Allowing the government's own Brexit deal to be fully implemented "would have been an act of self harm," says Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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Loved talking to neuropsychologist, psychoanalyst & author of "The Hidden Spring" for #Sentientism YouTube & podcast.
We answered all the easy questions 🙂:
➡️ What's real?
➡️ What & who matters?
➡️ What is sentience?
➡️ How can we make a better world?
Thanks Mark!
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That's three quarters of a Twitter!
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Gosh, would never have imagined this. Biden Administration calls for $33billion in military support for Ukraine. That’s almost 10 times the annual military support for Israel. This opens up a range of support options. politico.com/news/2022/04/2
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Anti-semitism seems to lurk in the dark at the base of almost every unfounded conspiracy theory vortex.
People start at the top of a vortex with what might seem to be broadly reasonable concerns. Then they get inexorably dragged down into the horror.
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Anti-Semitism in worldwide surge, Israeli report says bbc.in/3EUMWVF
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1/7 Let's break down the Kremlin propaganda piece published today by . It's authored by an ex-PR advisor to the Kremlin, Angus Roxburgh. And it's quite indicative of how the "export" variant of Russian propaganda works.
A🧵incoming.
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"Ukrainians assert their nation’s existence through simple acts of solidarity."
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Must read.
newyorker.com/news/essay/the
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Really important research showing deforestation loss — where and why: “It’s not toilet paper or hardwood floors or even palm oil. It’s beef.” vox.com/23032486/defor via
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(Yes, I can link almost any topic to how we treat non-human animals. It's the perfect, horrific example of what can happen when our epistemology and/or our compassion fail. Arguably those failures are the two roots of every human caused problem).
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You might ask "How can 33% still support the Tories?"
It's hard to condemn something that you're complicit in & that has become part of your identity. Denial, dissonance & fabrication are often psychologically easier paths.
(This is also why more people aren't #vegan🌱 Yet.)
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'Ukraine is a slaughterhouse': Amal Clooney describes war crimes in speech to UN - video
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I keep saying it, but juxtapose the measures it is taking to deal with the cost of living crisis (an MOT every 2 years, less childcare regulation); with the measures it is taking to cement executive power. It is all too obvious where its priorities are.
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It will get almost no publicity, but the government just won a vote to take control of the Electoral Commission. That’s right: Johnson will now wield ultimate power over another of the bodies designed to hold executive power in check. This is not a functioning democracy.
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Far-left and far-right come together to defend Putin's oligarchs.
Shameful.
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The 8 lawmakers who voted against a bill urging the U.S. to seize the frozen assets of Russian oligarchs and use the proceeds to help Ukraine:
Cawthorn R-NC
Greene R-GA
Massie R-KY
Roy R-TX
Bush D-MO
Ocasio-Cortez D-NY
Omar D-MN
Tlaib D-MI
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This is a point worth examining. We have lots of stress on what if Russia goes for societal mobilization now (normally by the way by those who argued that Russia would conquer Ukraine quickly). However, societal mobilization is not easy under the best of conditions.
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I keep on feeling underwhelmed by commentary which puts great stress on fear and on escalation risks without clarity on concrete scenarios and concrete alternatives. It's simple: if Russia attacks NATO, the Alliance goes to war against Russia.
There is no dilemma. twitter.com/MMazarr/status…
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Do you know many people who publicly support Putin, who continue to praise and love him even now? Who stay loyal to Putin even after the massacres in Bucha and Irpin, after mass civilian killings and rapes? It's incomprehensible, right?
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I shot myself in the foot and the bullet went through "remarkably smoothly".
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"Generally it is remarkable how smoothly the total reordering of this country's economic relations has gone." @DavidGHFrost tells @Policy_Exchange
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Let's get involved with how our food is made 💚
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Bring her by for one of our DIY harvest events! These are important tools to have. We have one this weekend. fb.me/e/698sgxfQT
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If this was happening anywhere else in the world, we'd be the first country condemning it. Or we used to be.
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How the hunter became the hunted in #Syria. A story of online sleuthing, a virtual seduction & a dogged pursuit of justice that reeled in the perpetrator of one of the war's worst massacres. With a fantastic podcast by & 1/2
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"Encouraging the Ukrainians to continue..." Tell me you haven't talked to a Ukrainian recently without telling me you haven't talked to a Ukrainian recently. twitter.com/shashj/status/…
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"Encouraging the Ukrainians to continue..." Tell me you haven't talked to a Ukrainian recently without telling me you haven't talked to a Ukrainian recently.
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February called, and it wants its op-eds back. “Russia’s progress may be slowed, but it’s highly unlikely to be stopped…Encouraging the Ukrainians to continue, however just their cause, is merely making their country uninhabitable.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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Do you eat meat or other animal products?
Should you?
Last month, I defended my PhD thesis about perceptions of vegetarians and vegans (short: veg*ns) in promoting #plantbased diets.
Why did I pursue this topic and what did I discover?
Find out in this #ThesisThread.
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My letter to residents in Walton
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Arguably having compassion for all sentient beings is already normalised.
Now we just need to normalise acting on it 🌱
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NEW: Brexit has caused a 6% rise in food prices, according to a study out today.
inews.co.uk/opinion/commen
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I think I’ve detected a coherent strategic theme that has run through 12 years of Conservative government policy: Pretending real problems don’t exist and responding only to problems that don’t.
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999 YouTube subscribers! 💚
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