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A tin woodsman bunny, with spoon ears, is frozen in place, brandishing an axe to split some wood on a stump A smaller bunny brings an oil can to free him. It is unclear how long the woodsman has been in the forest.

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I was curious about why honey is considered non-vegan and found this post. If any of this information is outdated then I’m happy to hear more about this

Ok, beekeeper, non-vegan here. I've got no horse in the vegan race, but I do know my bees and here is the sad truth: beekeeping is responsible for the decline of world-wide bee population for the last (roughly) 150 years, and for the precipitous decline since 1947.

Beekeeping as it has been done since the widespread adoption of the Langstroth hive has been bad for bees. This is mostly because the hive design has movable frames and opens from the top. These innovations led to highly interventionist beekeeping, and copious fucking with the bees.

The movable frame allows the beekeeper to easily remove, inspect, replace, and swap comb, and led to migratory beekeeping. Bees are now trucked by the tens of thousands of hives across the country with the seasons for the pollination business (which is a bigger than the honey business). The results is that diseases and bee pests move too. The biggest colony killer in the US right now is the Varroa mite, introduced from Asia by humans in 1988, and spread by humans to hives across the country.

The opening from the top destroys the bees' carefully maintained nestduftwarmebingdung, the nest atmosphere. Bees maintain an anti-microbial sauna inside the hive, at a contant tempurature with a complex scent. They can go into fever-mode, raising the temp to kill off infection. The scent helps maintain communication and defenses. Opening the hive destroys the atmosphere. It takes the bees days to reestablish, and is a costly expense of energy they need for foraging, building, and preparing for winter. This weakens the bees, compromising their immune system and leaving them susceptible to infection and invaders.

Then there's honey. Bees spend all season making honey stores so that they can survive the winter. The beekeeper comes along and takes it, then feeds the bees sugar syrup in the winter. This also weakens the bees. Honey is a complex, nutritious bee food. Sugar water is a simple, inadequate food. This is something like you farming all season and stocking up for the winter. You've canned and preserved your veg, and filled your freezer with meat, ready for the hard, unproductive winter. Then someone comes along, takes all your food, and replaces it with Twinkies. You'll survive the winter on Twinkies, but you'll be in pretty bad health come spring. (Although, like the bees with sugar, you'll happily eat the Twinkies, because, yum.)

In the pursuit of larger honey harvest, beekeepers have been artificially increasing the size if the bee's comb cell for about 100 years, by using comb foundation. Bigger cells is thought to mean more honey. So the bees you see today (with some exceptions) are "large-cell" bees, bigger than nature made them. Bigger cells means the workers are too big and the drones are too small (bees left on their own will make different sized cells for each type of bee). This weakens the bees. Some bees bred generations on foundation have lost their ability to create comb on their own.

These weak, immuno-compromised bees are then protected by the beekeepers with pesticides and anti-biotics placed in the hive to deal with the disease and pests that the bees can no longer fight off. This poisons the honey (yum!) and the bees, and breeds resistant pests.

Beekeeping is also dominated by artificial breeding of queens, which eliminates the Darwinian battle of the queens which nature uses to find the strongest queen. This weakens the genetics of the bees, for thousands of generations.

Most, in fact almost all, beekeeping is industrial farming, equivalent to factory farming chickens or cattle. And it has devastated the bees.

There are exceptions: look into vertical top bar hives (which open from the bottom except once a year); chemical-free beekeeping; and spring-harvest honey (taken from the surplus after winter is over).

A note about honey: most of the honey you buy at the grocery store is not. It is heated and filtered and pollen-free, removing the extraordinary health benefits of honey, cut eith corn syrup, beet syrup or other sweeteners, and laced with pesticides and anti-biotics. If you want honey, buy unfiltered, unheated honey, from a beekeeper you know. If you want honey and are concerned about the bees, buy from a beekeeper using Warré topbar hives, doing a surplus harvest.

A note about Colony Collapse Disorder: CCD is not a mystery, as is often reported. CCD is caused by industrial farming pesticides, which destroy bees' navigational abilities, and they can't find their way back to the hive. The whole "it's mysterious" thing is a lie promoted by the chemical companies, primarily Bayer. But in the context of bees weakened by generations of industrial beekeeping, trying to forage on thousands of acres of monoculture crops, having been trucked thousands of miles from their home territory, it is an easy lie to sell.^___^

Network Rail has unblocked a number of nesting sites for swifts along a railway viaduct in Derbyshire after pressure from campaigners.

Protect the Wild had accused the body that owns, operates, maintains and develops Britain's railways of having "deliberately sealed" the nesting sites during the £7.5m refurbishment of the 160-year-old twin viaducts at Chapel Milton, near Chapel-en-le-Frith.

Work to reopen the holes was completed over the weekend after High Peak Borough Council confirmed it did not need special permission to carry it out.

Cross posted from https://slrpnk.net/post/37151514

This effectively means no new fossil fuel equipment within a few years

Now there are a number of warning lights flashing on the world economic dashboard that have some wondering whether we are in the foothills of another financial crisis.

In 2007, investments in risky US mortgages went sour as homeowners struggled to pay. Funds run by Bear Stearns, BNP Paribas and other banks either had to freeze the ability of investors to take out their money, or liquidate the funds completely.

These problems were the canaries in what proved to be a very deep financial coal mine. As nervousness spread, even banks eventually stopped lending to each other for fear of not getting their money back, creating a so-called "credit crunch". That caused a global financial crisis.

Fast forward to today.

Several funds which lend money have declared losses or restricted investors' ability to take out their money. BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo and Blue Owl have all faced demands for billions of withdrawals from private credit funds - institutions that provide an alternative to traditional banks.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/8625238

Radio-Canada reporters, in conjunction with the fifth estate, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, spoke with a former Chinese spy tasked with monitoring a dissident to learn how the Chinese Communist Party uses its secret police force to suppress dissent by silencing critics abroad.

Hua Yong, a Chinese artist and prominent critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), died while kayaking in the coast of Northern B.C. back in November 2022. Despite it being over three years since Yong’s body was recovered, a coroner’s investigation into his cause of death remains ongoing.

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Poland’s foreign ministry and public broadcaster, TVP, have teamed up to launch a news service in the Georgian language that aims to “combat Russian disinformation” targeting Georgia and offer a “European perspective”.

The initiative adds to a growing number of services launched by Poland in recent years aimed at countries in its eastern neighbourhood, including most recently Moldova and Armenia, in addition to longer-established Russian and Belarusian channels.

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“We are creating services whose mission is to support democratic processes in the South Caucasus countries, strengthen stability in the region, and combat Russian disinformation,” said Jerzy Sałodki, who is editorial director of Vot Tak, a Russian-language channel run by TVP.

“We do not take sides in the political disputes of the countries to which our programs are directed,” added Sałodki. “In this complex situation, reliability, freedom of information, and objectivity are paramount.”

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Georgia, around 20% of whose territory has been occupied by Russia since 2008, is seen as a particular target for Russian disinformation and political interference. The elections of 2024, won by the Georgian Dream party, pushed the country closer to Moscow and further from potential EU accession.

Poland joined France and Germany in jointly expressing concern over the conduct of those elections. Warsaw later sanctioned eight Georgian officials deemed responsible for violence against protesters in the wake of the elections.

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Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 29.04.26 (орієнтовно)

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With missiles and bombs raining down, Pentagon accounts began using strange turns of phrase to describe the AI-guided violence unleashed against child and soldier alike. The destruction was described as “lethalitymaxxing”. Its perpetrators were said to be “locked in” with “low cortisol”.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/49567801

In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project in the form of a Patron-level membership. This enables the Blender team to keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.

Francesco Siddi, CEO at Blender

https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackWolfFeed/comments/1sxu1yx/20260427_episode_1031_holding_out_for_a_hero_feat/

They probably won't link files for Patreon episodes anymore, since Chris Wade previously threatened to have the subreddit banned if they didn't stop doing that and make himself and "other members of [their] team" mods.

r/ClassWarAndPuppies posts Chapo episodes (without Patreon links) too, but historically r/BlackWolfFeed has been for episode discussion only

The winner (Person who sends best image for my private sticker printing) WILL RECEIVE a shoutout ("hey you have won!") (Also every participant receives access to my luanti server !!!!)

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/8625125

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Canadian drone company Sentinel is in talks with a Ukrainian company to manufacture drones for the country to use in its war with Russia.

According to two sources with knowledge of the talks, Hamilton-headquartered Sentinel R&D Inc. is working with the Department of National Defence’s Directorate of Military Assistance Coordination (DMAC) to form a joint venture with a Ukrainian company, which would also be supported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.

The Globe is not identifying the sources because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the potential partnership.

If successful, the joint venture would be the first of its kind for DMAC, which was tasked with co-ordinating such partnerships after Canada signed a letter of intent with Ukraine in August.

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