He’s 1 now ‼️‼️

Biden better plant some votes if he wants that election bc I don’t see it for that hoe at all….. he better go to them Illuminati meetings and pop some pussy otherwise it’s curtains for grandpa

Sooo weird how when people interpret me as a gay trans man they think I’m a perverted women with a fetish trying to rape gay men but if I’m interpreted as a straight trans man they think I’m a poor butch lesbian who was indoctrinated by the trans agenda….

Like what if I’m just some guy. Why do I have to be a pervert or victim. Why can’t I just be a person.

You know I find it very weird when people make fun of trans men’s names and then it’s just …. Popular names.

Like woah a trans man named himself Oliver ?? Crazy. It’s almost as if it’s been in the top 100 popular boys names for the past 4 years or something.

Dawg how are you 22 with a wife and kids you should be outside playing

If I have to go to the community college back home I might not make it to be so real. Like objectively it's a smarter decision financially and it'd make learning to drive easier. But god I do not wanna move back home these motherfuckers are so dysfunctional and my hometown is... beloved by me out of spite, but depressing and objectively boring.

why should i care about taylor swift when the killer remains at large

the dogs had major fleas (idk when it started cos i haven't been back home for like a month) and apparently they caused cassie to have two little wounds on her back? i thought she had just scraped herself on something outside like tried to go under a fence cos they were parallel on her haunches. but the vet said it was from the fleas. odd.

Why does he do this...

magnolia the shrewd little beast has figured out how laser pointers work. i point the laser pointer near her and she looks witheringly at the dot walks up to me and tries to smack it out of my hand. too smart for her own good.

ik that not all grain free foods are amazing, or even good, but what's going on with them and petco? i'm sort of out of the loop. ik they did their whole taking 'unhealthy' foods off of shelves, but that's all i know

Petco is taking all foods off their shelves that use artificial preservatives. The artificial preservatives found in dog food have never been proven harmful to animals, which is saying something considering that the main companies that use them (Purina, Hills, Iams/Eukanuba, and Royal Canin) all perform constant lifetime feeding trials on all their diets and employ veterinary nutritionists (i.e., those with ACVN certifiation or a PhD in animal nutrition) as opposed to literally every other food company that does not. More on that later. But essentially the only food companies left after removing those big 4 are boutique companies producing grain-free diets.

Basically it’s a huge marketing scam. People are afraid of big words they can’t pronounce and anything that’s “artificial” and not “all-natural.”

The problem is not with grain-free foods, exactly. While there are some examples of animals that truly need a grain free diet, they are few and far between. The only dogs that have ever been confirmed to have Celiac Disease is a very specific line of spaniels, and even they don’t need to be grain-free, just wheat-free. In some animals, being grain-free might help with IBD, but at any rate, the reasons for going grain-free with a pet are all scientific, rather than a non-scientific view that dogs and cats, as carnivores, should not be eating corn or other grains. But that non-scientific view is why the grain-free market has become so large and prevalent.

The issue is that no company other than those 4 mentioned above (Purina, Hills, Royal Canin, and Iams/Eukanuba) perform feeding trials. The foods made by other companies are formulated to meet AAFCO standards (the national scientific board that keeps standards of what nutrients pet need and how much), so technically they do include everything the pet would need, but they never test this out. Not every nutrient contained in an ingredient is going to make it into the animal’s body in a useful form, so just saying that you have a certain amount of blueberries in your food and this provides a certain amount of XYZ nutrient, doesn’t mean that the animal is going to get every bit of that nutrient. You can’t know how much nutrient is going to be derived from that ingredient until you perform feeding trials. Combine this with the fact that many of the rest of the food companies out there do not employ veterinary nutritionists. As a result of both these items, your pet is their guinea pig.

This horrible realization is currently rocking the pet world in the form of dilated cardiomyopathy - this means that the heart becomes large and weak and unable to pump blood well. Eventually it is fatal. Some breeds of dogs are naturally prone to this disease, but vets and veterinary cardiologists started noticing that breeds which are not predisposed were starting to have issues more often than what you would consider random chance. It turns out that they were all on B.E.G. diets - Boutique (a small company, often recently formed), Exotic (exotic proteins such as kangaroo, rabbit, alligator, etc), and Grain-free - and this includes commercial raw diets and homemade diets. The FDA has launched an investigation into it and are taking reports from any vet who has a case. They are currently in the beginning stages of performing clinical trials with BEG diets to see what exactly it is that allows for this condition, but the current thinking is that even if the diet contains enough taurine, it is not bioavailable enough (see above: “just saying that you have a certain amount of blueberries in your food and this provides a certain amount of XYZ nutrient, doesn’t mean that the animal is going to get every bit of that nutrient”) or that the presence or absence of another ingredient in the diet prevents the animal from using the taurine in the food, which is shown by the fact that adding taurine to the BEG diet of a dog that has the issue will often not solve the issue.

Right now the main recommendation to avoid this issue is to only use foods that fit the World Small Animal Veterinary Association guidelines - and these companies include? You guessed it: Royal Canin, Hills, Purina, and Iams/Eukanuba. These are the only 4 companies in America that run feeding trials *and* employ veterinary nutritionists. There exist other food companies that do employ veterinary nutritionists (although they are few) but none of them run feeding trials, so they still don’t fit the guidelines. If your dog does need a grain-free diet (or you really insist on the non-scientific reasons for feeding it), both Hills and Purina produce a grain-free diet that has not been shown to cause any issues. If your dog needs a hypoallergenic diet (as many people choose one of the BEG diets to have a novel protein - one that won’t cause allergy issues) there are novel protein and prescription hypoallergenic diets with these companies as well.

That Petco is getting rid of the only known safe diets and promoting pseudoscience is why I will not shop there anymore and will recommend my clients go anywhere but there, at least for pet food needs but ideally for everything. The BEG diet manufacturers are remaining mysteriously silent on this as well, pretending that it’s not an issue and instructing their reps to tell vets and consumers that the whole thing is a scam by the 4 mentioned companies to try to drive smaller companies out of the market (because FDA involvement and epidemiologic studies are totally scams and not evidence…)

My question is, what do BEG diet manufacturers have to lose by running feeding trials and employing experts? They can prevent hundreds if not thousands of health issues with their customers’ furbabies - but perhaps they would get results telling them that their “all natural” grain-free diets are actually unhealthy for pets.

If you’re interested in learning more, including records of which foods have recorded instances of nutritionally-deficient DCM, I recommend joining this group, which has an incredible amount of knowledge and information and is moderated by veterinarians who constantly answer questions and update the records. For my vetblr followers, if you indicate that you’re a vet student or other veterinary professional when you answer the group’s admission questions, they will invite you to the veterinary professionals version of the group too, which has discussion above layman’s terms.

the "irreversible damage" book cover is still perhaps the most succinct demonstration of how the laserfocus the detranxiety movement has on muh poor little girls is fundamentally an outgrowth of the general terror about declining (white) birth rates and white woman fertility as a dwindling resource. like, what's actually wrong with the kitschy smiling little girl in that picture? she looks pretty content for someone "mutilated." is she missing her head, brain, heart, limbs or what? anything that would obstruct her in living out her 8 decades on this earth? hell no, it's much worse than that. it's something that actually matters. she's missing her ability to produce White Babies. you're telling me we've spent decades working to overturn roe or at least make it as difficult as possible and now that we succeeded they've found a way to weasel out of being a reproductive resource anyway? that just won't do.

James Baldwin, 1979.

Thank you to @sleepnoises for making the original poll & for giving us the idea to to this :)

Sorry if we couldn’t get your favorite on here, we were limited to only 12 options (11 if you don’t include the “other” option).

they should replace grades in schools with a point system that has zero bearing on anything, but school points can be redeemed in the cash shop for unique cosmetics for your school avatar (things like hair color and outfits) and skins for your pencils and notebooks and so on. this would be purely visual of course for balance purposes. and universities could have unique university specific cosmetics to encourage people to apply to them