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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Once we had language, / we said, / we had been sent, / gone forth... " Four poems by 𝐑𝐚𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/four-by-rae-armantrout.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
H(over)
Gray July day,
humming-bird hovers
 
beak-deep in a hank
of late-blooming wisteria.
 
Is it—are they— 
ever aware of failing,
 
of being awkward, inept?
Never.
 
They’re nothing if not
perfect.
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our Fall 2026 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring #interviews with Mircea Cărtărescu and Diane Sahms, as well as works by Iain Britton, Angela Townsend, Marcia Yudkin, Kevin Grauke, Carla Schwartz, Jane Lockwood, and many more. Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #amsterdam 🇳🇱
Amsterdam Review Fall 2026

Mircea Cartarescu, Katrina Naomi, Marion Rost, M. Anne Avera, Alina Stefanescu, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, Daniel Carden Nemo, Gabriela Denise Frank, and many more...
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SM is a great tool for social justice advocates - *if the messaging is effectively shared 📢🔁 On this platform saturated w all things trump, please consider amplifying those who speak up for the very real victims of our ingrained indifference and gross disregard #StandUp #SpeakUp #RESIST #Vegan #FTA
Photo of a cows eye pressed up against a hole in a transport trailer
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can we only “live life to the fullest” by killing and putting these amazing creatures in a bucket, KFC? More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that chickens demonstrate self-control, delaying gratification to obtain better rewards?
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"​​​I am stuck / between one / and zero / cropping for myself / a place in nature: / the answer to form / is the formless." Three poems by 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐨 @danielnemo.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review amsterdamreview.org/three-by-daniel-carden-nemo1.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
Will I Be Still the Hero
Lately I see things
fade to a dark shade
till they wear through
their own orbit.
 
What strikes my eye
is an altercation of fluency.
 
Part concomitance
of form. Part vacuum
that sucks me in.
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sure. We can continue blaming corporations & rigged policies for our current nosedive into an unmitigated extinction event But make no mistake - OUR INDIVIDUAL CHOICES MATTER & the only way to move the needle is a baseline population willing to support politicians looking to make necessary changes
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Photo of George Moote in a jean jacket and grey scarf standing in a fall setting 

"ALL TYPES OF ANIMAL FARMING NEEDS TO STOP.
UNLESS WE DO THAT,
WE HAVE VERY LITTLE CHANCE
INDEED OF PREVENTING THIS DOMINO EFFECT OF SYSTEMS COLLAPSE, WHICH BASICALLY MAKES THE
PLANET UNINHABITABLE."
George Monbiot -
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reducing a sentient being to a commodity is the exact same cognitive toolkit used to justify human atrocities, racism, violence, and exploitation. See it for what it is. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that pigs show empathy-related behaviors, responding emotionally to the distress of other pigs?
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"It is a curious thing, that in observing animals closely, one sometimes feels as if they are attending to us with an intelligence parallel to our own, though built on different lines." - Charles Darwin More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know the limbic activity of mammals draws their emotions into immediate congruence?
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We sacrifice everything that’s real, the natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate, to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. But MEAT is a linguistic shield. We eat DEAD BODIES. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that empathy is measurable in many species, not just in behavior, but in neurological patterns mirroring human compassion?
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I respect most people as individuals, but please don’t confuse that with respecting animal & planet harming choices. #Vegan #FTA #ForEverything
I'm not impressed by money, social status or job titles, I'm impressed by the way someone treats other (human Is crossed out) beings.
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Now that / the symbol is / neither a doorway / nor a door, the / door / opens..." Two poems by 𝐀𝐦𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐨 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-amy-catanzano.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
The Politics of Abstraction
​​In the   green room     of the poem 
​an artificial       intelligence   flexes 
its wings. Protesting,  the surrealist 
logs out forever. There is     always 
at least one    memoirist         at the 
space station without     the proper 
joker card.    The   nonconformists 
stop all the clocks      to gain access 
to        restricted areas.    You keep 
preparing      for the    superfiction
party. Each      page     of the party
is a    quanta    of      data,  a thing-
in-itself.   The afterparty        is for 
reading science    and fiction    and 
science fiction.    On the      moon, 
a       phone number        is written
in dust. Maybe it is    your number.
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Return all the soft-bodied animals /to their homes: sea pansies, anemones /boars, bears / even pet guinea pigs not distracted from being by / footsteps across the floor" 5 poems by 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢 𝐒𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐬 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/five-by-eleni-sikelianos.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
Real World Feeds
All you who feed
   on the food of earth
 
             frog 
   like a piece of dry leather creaking     in the field
                                                                          snapping up flies

             hunter
   licking the pot                                                            of tiger bone stew


             tire 
   a black tongue lapping
                                                                          a black cold road


Get this ghost mama off a me
                                                             What is it?
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston). More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Do you think humans alone are capable of thinking? Do you believe there is only one kind of thinking?
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive." - Jakob von Uexküll Animals aren’t just a part of nature, they 𝒂𝒓𝒆 nature. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that social mammals, when deprived of contact, exhibit brain patterns indistinguishable from those of human loneliness?
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SonakshiS @sonakshis11.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In a week from now, I will be doing what I love doing the best - close-reading, and discussing my friend and fellow writer, Subi Taba's work. Join us online! This promises to be a fascinating session where we'll discuss eco-colonialism, patriarchy, magic, and more! @southasiaspeaks.bsky.social
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"​​​Give it new life, I thought, / the wrecked house, the apple orchard. / Camped on the edge of the property, / I’d wrapped myself in a wool blanket." 3 poems by 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐦 𝐀𝐲𝐫𝐞𝐬 @kellamayres.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-kellam-ayres.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
Final Day
Even in August, a chill.
Boxes stacked on the painted pine floor.
Sheets pulled over the wingbacks, the sofa.
The door closed after letting in the last
of the room’s good air.  
 
Years ago I burned here.
Brought him into the near dark.
Held his hands while he breathed in my hair,
passed it between his lips.
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Slaughtering animals for profit - the sole remaining purpose of meat - isn’t a collective need but an individual choice. See it for what it is. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics
Are you aware terms like livestock, etc., are used to desensitize consumers by referring to sentient beings as products?
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“All you who feed on the food of earth… Return all the soft-bodied animals / to their homes: sea pansies, anemones, boars, bears, even pet guinea pigs not distracted from being by footsteps across the floor” - Eleni Sikelianos More at bit.ly/world-revisited #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
What do the possibilities of human nature hold if they fail to take into account those of the non-human world?
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Krasnov 🍃 @greennomad61.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#Indonesia Borneo island - the province hardest-hit by raging forest fires - An #orangutan was found writhing on the ground ‌in a weak state on a #palmoil plantation near the fire site...suffering from hypoxia. She is being treated ❤️‍🩹 What are we doing 😔 www.reuters.com/business/env...
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Orangutan rescued from fire zone in Indonesia's Borneo, battles respiratory illness
On Sunday morning, Jais, a farmer in Ketapang, West Kalimantan on Borneo island - the province hardest-hit by raging forest fires - was en ​route to his farm when he found an orangutan writhing on the...
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"The night’s been hollowed out into silence, a quiet deep enough for Virgil to feel / what’s left of the earth / humming underneath his feet." Two poems by 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐤𝐢 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-rebecca-macijeski.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
Rapture, or When It Happens
- April 14, 1935, Black Sunday
Virgil waits for the black blizzard to pass.
No one tells him what to see or how long to wait.
There’s just Virgil and the fiddle
and the elbow where two roads meet
along an empty horizon purpled out
into darkness.
 
First it’s a vague distance, a collection,
the earth roiling out of itself.
Then the devil is in the dust
carrying what we’ve cast off—seeds, bits of skin,
what would have been wheat
in the land’s broken promise
lifting like a cloud.
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
💔😔 #H5N1 ‘….100 little dead penguins’ A dead dolphin… Mass mortality events predicted…. And a population filled w increasingly at risk humans turning a blind eye to the animal-agriculture-driven-causes they continue to support Please, act while you can & learn to live vegan challenge22.com
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"My need for solitude was vast / Yet my wish for nothing plagued me / I tried to want what I did not need" Selected poems by 𝐋𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/selected-poems-by-laynie-browne.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
from Antediluvian Sonnets
​All worked up to purchase nothingness 
What you don't know but now inhabit 
Detached from your name 
Detail the diagram, labeling the biology 
Of loss in everlasting diaristic acrobatics 
Comb, pillow, dust 
Read flourishing trace 
The hand in your pocket 
When did news become advice 
Bury invitations, plant ancestral 
Relics in plain blight 
You don't need to tell anyone 
Take the language from your body 
Revelry
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What if we started being honest and called meat what it is: 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔? We have choices, animals don't. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Are you aware language helps distance us from the reality of what we're eating—using words like “beef” or “pork” instead of cow or pig or deer?
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Could this be how / death arrives too, an intimate self / half-recognized" Two poems by 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-linda-anderson.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
​​First, they were ducks
nestling into the long grass.
Then they were branches
stuck upright in a circle.
 
A shake of the head
and they were a conclave
of deer, conversing privately
in the way deer do.
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
They can dream, sing, fly, see by sound, they are just like superheroes—only not made up. Imagine if we found inspiration in our fellow creatures instead of gimmicks. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that communication in many species like bees and ants relies on multi-sensory codes we have only begun to decipher?
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On the news today they were voicing farmers’ concerns about the outbreak of Bluetongue, wishing their sheep and cattle were happy and healthy, in the same breath as agonizing over having to go without their roasts. Who are we kidding? More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that most farm animals are slaughtered at a fraction of their natural lifespan, often before reaching social or cognitive maturity?
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Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Amsterdam Review liked my photos enough to nominate them for Best of the Net. Thanks @danielnemo.bsky.social & @phebel.bsky.social 🌈 Congrats to the other nominees -- may the force be with you. Here's a link to the photos: www.amsterdamreview.org/monochrome-c... #photography #amsterdam #photo
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston). More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that migratory animals use magnetic fields, polarized light, scent, and even the stars to navigate continents and oceans?
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Tell me, mare of the white star, / tail like the quill / with which God wrote His book into being, / is He still writing it now" Three poems by 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐯 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-jacqueline-kolosov.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
In death they float, and so became known
as the “right” whales. Escalating now, their vanishing. By day
the remaining few brave ships, nets. Ahab said the eyes

define the face of man. What of a whale’s eyes?
Theirs capture the light, too.
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Can we "believe in chicken" in a way other than slaughter? Treating living beings as consumables shows lack of respect for life itself. Let them live. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics
Are you aware that chickens possess over 20 distinct vocalizations, including specific alarm calls for different types of threats?
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
⚖️ Veganism is literally the opposite of #MightMakesRight #Fascism #Tyranny Vegans respect, protect & defend the most innocent and criminally voiceless segment of 🌍’s population. Think before denigrating the vegan community and what it stands for and start paying attention to the inconvenient facts.
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Read 𝐹𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠, an #essay by 𝐑𝐚𝐮́𝐥 𝐙𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚 (transl. 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @kebishop.bsky.social) in the Spring issue. Zurita is widely regarded as one of the most significant contemporary writers from South America. bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #nonfiction #poetry #writingcommunity
Funeral Rites
by Raúl Zurita

translated from Spanish and with a foreword by Karen Elizabeth Bishop

Translating Zurita in this stereophonic form is like handling one hundred thousand stars that each announce themselves and their distance at once. I’m up close, inside, and then it’s gone before I even realize where I’m at and I’m on to the next one. Only in stepping back does the whole picture, the whole night sky, come into view. What becomes clear before us is that Zurita’s interventions in prose rival his poetic voice. And that Zurita sees our shared human future very clearly.
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"The animal is not beneath us, but beside us; its path through time runs parallel to ours, only differing in the music by which it moves." - Eliseo Reclus More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that animals dream, and birds, dogs, cats, and rats all exhibit REM sleep patterns associated with imagined experience?
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Hold if you want: / when look at child holding, feel your hand cup / how you think" Three poems by 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐀𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐡 in Amsterdam Review bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity
There is no wrong way
get into, just press it. Back of keyboard becomes
dirt ground, press to
become a foot and see the dirt disturbed come up
on outer edge of sneaker foot,
you have to picture it to feel:

it also work through screen. Three children Henry, 
Elinor, and August they are holding
just-hatched chicks bought for my cousin’s business
taking pictures
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Would an animal lover really slaughter one animal to feed another they keep as a pet? More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that pigs outperform dogs and even young children in certain tests of spatial memory and problem-solving?
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
‘while the vast majority of humankind never questioned the cognitive dissonance of caring for one creature while exploiting another, many others did….’ #Vegan #Veganism #NotADiet #MightDoesntMakeRight #History #Philosophy #AnimalRights medium.com/@o.theakston...
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Famous Vegans of History
‘My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.’
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Let see what's going to run out first: the words to describe the loss of world or the world. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that humans have a disproportionately negative effect on the Earth and most of its organisms?
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"We coo and bear awe in cold, / brave trace glimpses of cosmos / outside an apartment / standing still and smoking / like leaves burning in autumn" A poem by 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐥 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity
By
             the glow of the

                                     little comet’s tail,
             we rapture. We wake

                                                                         our neighbors, who lean out their railing
                                                 to see an echo of the galaxy.
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
All our problems start with humans hurting animals, which, to paraphrase @herbivoreclub.bsky.social, has come to be considered so natural that refusing to hurt them is seen as anti-human. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Can ethical treatment really exist in a system that ends in the killing of the subject after a life of suffering?
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Animals are not instruments for human use, but sentient beings whose lives matter to themselves." - Peter Singer More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that proximity to the mother is an inborn need for all mammals?
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Egg-Truth @egg-truth.com · 22/07/2026
She was called "spent." Her name is Blossom. She arrived nearly featherless. Here's why 👉️ www.egg-truth.com/life-of-a-hen
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
#Ducks, one of the most abused animal on Earth, 2nd only to chickens #Down #FoieGras ‘People take children to feed them. They watch ducklings follow their mothers across the water. They treat them as part of the landscape. Then duck appears on a restaurant menu and the #connection disappears’ 🍽️❔😟😞
Photo of a young girl crouched down on the edge of a walkway feeding two ducks in water
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that prairie dogs have a language so detailed they can describe the color, size, and speed of approaching predators?
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Consumed by dark I found myself / wondering how I made it so / many miles to this place" A poem by 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 𝐒. 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity
there’s a fish head staring at me
his one eye russet like potatoes back home
but these are golden

earlier today I saw a sea turtle breach
by the bow of the boat before diving down a
million meters and I couldn’t see him anymore
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SonakshiS @sonakshis11.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
One where I consider the overlap between Italo Calvino’s Il barone rampante and Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard—exploring themes such as capitalism, colonialism, and what eco-consciousness might look like in our contemporary times: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/07...
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(In)habiting Arboreal Cosmos: Where Calvino meets Desai - Asymptote Blog
. . . the Italian Cosimo and the Indian Sampath portray, in varying valences, what eco-consciousness may look like in our contemporary times.
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 15/07/2026
We like to imagine ourselves as rational creatures, guided by reason, evidence, and clear-sighted goals. | bit.ly/4iEZ80V But psychologist Paul Bloom challenges the simple dichotomy of rationality as good and irrationality as bad, urging us to think more carefully about the messy middle.
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Perversity and the limits of the rational, with Paul Bloom
We like to imagine ourselves as rational creatures, guided by reason, evidence, and clear-sighted goals. But psychologist Paul Bloom argues that some of the most puzzling and “perverse” things humans ...
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Read 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑦, an #essay by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞-𝐄𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐫 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #nonfiction #writingcommunity
I’m too scared to open my eyes. So I resolve to use my hands as a guide. Surprisingly I’m doing well despite my self-imposed handicap. I feel for the big coins just like I had been advised. I put as many as I can in my little hands, trying not to drop any in the process. It’s a difficult task that requires patience and agility. My body is moving slowly and awkwardly, my arms flapping up and down in slow motion. The water is creating resistance on my movements, but I am persisting. Once both my hands are full, I clasp them tightly and make my way to the top.
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Read my new translation of 𝐼𝑧𝑚𝑖𝑟, 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑂'𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, from his book 𝐻𝑒𝑚𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎̊ 𝑣𝑎̈𝑔𝑒𝑛 (𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑦). hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/izmir-three-oclock #poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer
Izmir, Three O’Clock

Just ahead on the nearly empty street
two beggars, one of them with no legs,
carried on the other's back.
They stood—as an animal stands
on a midnight road, frozen in the headlights—
for a moment, then went on
crossing the street like schoolboys at play
while the myriad clocks
of the midday heat ticked in space.
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics
Are you aware that industries promoting meat and dairy products have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, even if it's at odds with scientific, environmental, or ethical insights?
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"I am steady at its thick edge like an olympic diver." A poem by 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐣𝐚𝐦 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐡 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity
I am steady at its thick edge like an olympic diver.
As I bow into the water I think of a poem I read in school 
                        about the pool like a womb.     I do not think it is.
I am silver through its fly-dotted facetry like a cutlassfish.
I am steady in the smallness and mess of my life.
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