#culling

[biboocat]

I finally went through my shelves and culled a few dozen books that I didn’t enjoy and books that had left no impression: books of genres that I never liked, unsuccessful second and third books by an author whose debut work I loved, debut works that attracted me with glowing reviews or endorsements but failed to meet expectations. At first it was a bit painful to admit that I spent time and money on these, but I understand that it was part of the journey of discovery. Now I don’t miss them at all, and my library more accurately reflects who I am. I am now more judicious about my book purchases having a better understanding of the kinds of books that I enjoy and more skepticism reviews and endorsements. I now favor the classics and recommendations of like minded readers.

#reading life #reading #home library #culling

[homeofhousechickens]

genq, how do you not get attached to the chickens you're culling? i love animals including chicken as well and i don't know how i'd be able to part with them personally so i'm genuinely interested. does it hurt at all, emotionally? do you have bonds with every chicken you breed? what got you into chicken breeding? and do you do other small animals as well or plan for it, like rabbits for example? sorry if this comes off weird!

I do have bonds with every chicken I breed. Unlike some people I name every bird and I get to know them personally. It doesn't really bother me because I know I gave them the best care and this is just another part of the cycle of life. I'm just not as removed from my food as a lot of people, to me I feel the same kind of sadness and satisfaction as I do when harvesting vegetables. It's like I helped grow this, and now it's gone and it's going to be used to feed me and my family now.

The only time I am genuinely upset when culling is when I have to do it because the chicken is suffering but then I feel relieved because they are now no longer suffering.

I got into chicken breeding because I have always been interested in animal breeding. It kind of runs in my family my grandmother bred horses for example.

Right now I'm not interested in any other animals besides chickens. Maybe if I move to a more rural location I'll think about other animals but I see way to many people get way to many different kinds of animals without mastering the first animals they got and started breeding.

#animal death #culling

[nekropsii]

I always figured that culling was similar to what Munchausen by proxy is

Um… Nope. That is a very specific medical condition that real people suffer with, and Beforan Culling quite frankly does not fit the terms of it. There is a reason why Munchausen by Proxy is also referred to as Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another- it’s a highly specific form of abuse and manipulation.

That would imply that the Cullee is falsely imposing onto the Culled what they’re culling them over- like they’re manipulating them over a long period of time to believe that… They’re actually a Lowblood, or actually Disabled, or actually a woman, et cetera, when they factually are not. That just isn’t true, the Cullee isn’t inherently making anything up, they’re following their society’s rules by responding that way to what is in front of them. The Cullee isn’t making anything up, their society just genuinely sees the Cullable as lesser, wholly incompetent subhumans. This is not inherently a problem with the Cullee, the Cullee isn’t manipulating the Culled into believing something that isn’t true, it is a genuine social issue.

Beforan Culling, like Alternian Culling, is not a clear cut metaphor. Hemoloyalty is also not a clear cut metaphor. It’s very, very individualized, and you can take any angle you want with it. It can be an allegory for racism, for classism, for misogyny, et cetera. But I personally find Beforan Culling tends to lean in the direction of being an ableism metaphor.

The coddling aspect of it reminds me, personally, of overbearing parents viewing their disabled (late teen/adult) child as what is essentially a toddler. It doesn’t help that disability is a specific thing that’s focused on quite a bit during the conversation of Culling on Beforus. Cullees feel not unlike the stereotypical Autism Mom… to the point where I genuinely wonder if that was intentional.

#homestuck #homestuck meta #homestuck analysis #beforus #beforan culling #culling #alpha trolls #beforan trolls #dancestors #cw ableism #beforus.pdf #nekro.pdf #nekro.sms

[acti-veg]

have you heard about this 'cat-killing' machine in Australia? :(

I have, it's obviously a cruel and cynical program, and people are rightly up in arms about it. It probably won't even work either, if previous culling programs are anything to go by. That said, feral cat populations do decimate wildlife, and it's a problem created by unsterilised, free-roaming and abandoned cats. Even when they're not sterilised they do enormous damage to eco-systems.

Trying to convince people to just keep their cats indoors or supervise them outside as a bare minimum is like talking to a brick wall, even here. People have this bizarre delusion that cats, alone among all companion animals, have some inherent right to roam around decimating wildlife completely unsupervised, and that they can't possibly be happy without doing so.

What we really need is regulation and licencing for the pet trade, particularly breeders. There is no reason anyone needs to be breeding cats, or buying kittens, while pet overpopulation is such a massive problem just about everywhere. Those feral populations that already exist need medical care, sterilisation and proper socialisation, they don't need to be killed. Of course, all this is far more expensive than just killing feral cats.

#ask #feral cats #culling

[wuh2k]

I’ve taught my daughter to love pigeons. That one’s easyish…they’re fluffy and dorky in a cutesy way.

But I’ve also taught her to love gulls (seagulls aren’t real), but naturally there won’t be any videos of her feeding them out of her hands.

And if you ask her at 6yrs old, she’ll tell you that the reason we need to love them the most is because people hate them the most.

And I don’t know why.

I know the reasons people give…

They’re noisy.

They make a mess (poop & torn open garbage bags)

They steal people’s food.

And I’m like…is that it? Minor inconveniences also caused by your average drunk crowd on a Friday night? That’s it? You’re calling for culling because of slight annoyances?

We destroyed their nesting sites so they adapted and moved to the artificial cliffs of the coastal cities.

We stole all their fish, so they root through our garbage and occasionally steal someone’s chips.

And for that you want to cull them?

I love watching them on stormy days, killing it as they ride, dipping and diving, on the drafts. It makes me smile watching them wing their way home to bed at sunset, calling out to their kin and friends to join them.

Just fucking let them be. We’ve stolen enough.

#birds #gulls #seagull #sea gulls #ornithology #urban wildlife #herring gull #black backed gull #black headed gull #habitat destruction #culling #wildlife culling #wildlife

[chimericaldomicile]

feVow beforan cuVee here...WHAT'RE YOU IN FOR???

* it's a long story! i had to go back and ask my dad for the beginning. *

* basically, he wanted to try and raise a grub like a lusus would and was talking to the jadebloods about it...then he saw a tiny little rustblood grub that could barely move and looked half dead. that was yours truly! *

* apparently they wouldn't let him take a healthy grub, but he was able to sign up and become a culler to take me in! *

* ever since then, i've had really bad fatigue. some nights i can hardly get out of my recuperacoon! but dad takes really good care of me. i really lucked out on the culler situation. <3 *

#* what about you guys? :o * #* any other cullees here? * #grumblr #homestuck roleplay #homestuck rp #beforus #culling #beforus culling #unreality

[xluciifer]

✏️ late but ,,, looks !!

Send in ✏️ and I’ll use this (improved) incorrect quote generator featuring both our muses! / Always accepting!

#culling #I'M CRYING TBH #sinner questions.

[spidersins]

@culling

❛ what the actual FUCK smiles. ❜ a knife is held in one hand, rolling pin in other. a third moved to grip at his chest, rising and falling sporadically. of course the fucking radio demon would be up at 3 o'clock in the fucking morning when all he wanted was to make himself food. ( granted he was still pretty hopped up on whatever val had given him which left him noisily bustling around the kitchen in a desperate attempt to make his nonna's cacciatore from scratch but still. )

bleary eyes blinked at the deer demon before finally shaking his head, lowering his cooking weapons. ❛ ya know, you could ease up on the whole 'sneakin' up on people thing'. ❜

#culling #. . ˚ . VERSE ╰ FILLIN' UP MY GLASS BUT IT'S ALWAYS HOLLOW. #hope this is ok sweet! #drug mention tw #drug mention cw

[hemopunk-witch]

THAT POST MADE ME THINK ABOUT BEFORUS CULLING ❌ I'D HONESTLY FUCKING CULL MYSELF IF I HAD TO LIVE LIKE THAT. SURE MAYBE I RUN THE RISK OF GETTING VAPORIZED 💥 WHENEVER I GO OUTSIDE BUT AT LEAST I CAN LIVE FOR MYSELF 💯

#grumblr #beforus culling #culling #culling discourse

[alternian-cringe-collector]

⎈ Misconceptions about culling ⎈

⎈ So, now that I've settled back in, I see that (Beforus) culling is once again a hot-button topic around here. ⎈

⎈ As I've seen some less than savory claims from non-cullers - and some rather despicable displays of incompetence from certain cullers as well - I'll be attempting to debunk some common misconceptions about culling. ⎈

Your cullee would survive on their own just fine!

⎈ Incorrect. While not all trolls in the system require constant supervision, attention, assistance, and resources, the culling system is built to assist cullees like mine. Disabilities come in all shapes and sizes, from being physically maimed, mentally ill, or emotionally unstable. A cullee may have a disorder such as schizophrenia, which cannot exactly be 'timed' to match a mediculller visit, or 'cured' through any means. In such a situation, a culler will be the best option for them. They can rely on someone being there to help ground them, take care of them, and clean up after their episodes. Without a culler, they would be completely on their own and possibly could hurt themself. ⎈

2. Culling is just keeping a pet!

⎈ Wrong and disturbing. Genuinely rather gross to imply. Cullees are not pets. First of all, they are capable of speech, which pets are not. Cullees are able to negotiate, vocalize, and communicate, and furthermore, they have considerably more rights than a pet does. If you consider culling to be in any way similar to keeping a pet, not only do I strongly suggest you never even consider speaking to a cullee, but also consider not keeping a pet. ⎈

3. Cullers just keep cullees to get into quadrants with!

⎈ Sigh. While the act of culling may dredge up many pale feelings for a culler and cullee duo, they are not mandatory, nor would any good culler go into that system in order to get a quadrant ticked off. What a repulsive notion! In other words, no. A culler and cullee may end up leaning more towards pale, due to the amount of care and affection which goes into culling, but that does not mean all are, nor does it mean anyone goes into this sort of situation with that kind of expectation. It would be ridiculous to assume that, and further ridiculous to apply a label of quadrants to any culler and cullee unless otherwise stated. It isn't uncommon, though, for an ablebodied troll to cull their disabled quadrantmate as a means of protecting them. Perhaps you're thinking of pre-established relationships as newly established ones. In my three sweeps of being a culler, I have only met two cullers who were in a quadrant with their cullee, both starting before the culling itself took place. ⎈

4. Cullees are all being abused!

⎈ While I don't doubt that there are some cullers who are less than savory, and perhaps treating their cullees rather horrifically, that does not shame the entire system. In fact, I have helped a cullee file to be removed from a culler before, so I'm well aware that this is an instance where the system typically fails to properly address concerns. There are several reasons for a cullee to take issue with their culler - perhaps due to neglect, verbal abuse, overly strict rules, etc. - and none apply to all cullers. As a caretaker, of course it is possible for a culler to leverage an unfair and toxic power dynamic, but that is possible in any interpersonal relationship. ⎈

5. Cullers only take on a cullee to avoid being culled themselves!

⎈ I have genuinely no idea why this strange idea exists. Nobody I know of has ever done this, and moreover, no record of someone doing this has ever been brought to my personal attention. But that isn't how it works, regardless. ⎈

⎈ In short, while there are many fair criticisms one can take up with culling, these five in particular are nothing more than nasty rumors, spread based off of misinformation, if I had to guess. Of course there are many qualms one can take with the system, but not all are applicable to every culler and their cullee, and to assume they are is rather ridiculous at best and vile attempts to poison the well at worst. I hope this clears some things up. ⎈

#mod anchor #not cringe #culling discourse #beforus culling #beforian culling #culling #i am open to good faith conversations but i believe this will clear up some misinformation

[blackcrowing]

Calling on people who maintain livestock and/or anthropologists with a focus on husbandry practices

Can someone give me like... a break down of historical breeding and culling practices for livestock (primarily cows, sheep and pigs but I'm happy to learn about others).

most of the information I find is for industrial farming and I don't know enough about the subject to discern what would be considered historically practiced behaviors (think pre-industral farming, small scale farming, maybe 1700s and back?)

What kind of seasonal patterns would one expect for breeding? Do livestock only breed once a year? is it always about the same time? when it comes to culling, I assume extra males are the first to go? are older females normally culled, too? does culling occur at the same time of year? are the males and females culled at the same time? is there a normal ratio of male:female to keep through the winter? in harsh conditions, how many would you expect to lose in the winter season?

#husbandry #animal care #livestock #sustainable living #world building #historical anthropology #anthropology #culling #farming #farm #ranching #sheep #cow #pig #pigs #cows

[acti-veg]

have you spoken on the culling of feral cats in australia? i’m torn. as a cat lover i obviously don’t like it, but as someone that cares about native species i know that cats are extremely dangerous to native animals and that tnr is unfortunately not very effective in groups of this size. what do you think?

The thing is that culling is also not very effective in groups of any size - prevention and sterilisation is really the only thing that has any significant impact. We know from culling of other species that all that generally happens is that litter size and frequency among survivors increases in response to increased availability of food. You’d need to cull 95% or above to have any significant impact and even that is temporary, since they’ll be replaced by new births and humans abandoning more cats.

If we’re not going to ban the sale of live animals, what we need is to at least implement rigorous licensing, breeding restrictions, movement controls and compulsory registration and micro chipping for companion animals. Nothing else will prevent abandonment and the emergence of feral populations, beyond not treating animals as commodities to be bred, bought, sold and abandoned as if they were fashion accessories. At this point you should just not easily be able to obtain animals that haven’t already been sterilised, microchipped and vaccinated.

#ask #vegan #cats #culling

[controversialcoven]

Now I realize we’ve been at this for some time already, but at the risk of derailing the dialogue you initiated, and may I just say how thrilled I am that you did, Karkat, I would just like qualify my entire analysis of your “Alternian culture” by saying that in contrast with life on Beforus, while your people may have been engaged in violent, lethal class struggle for millions of sweeps, by no means does this imply that the Beforan way of life was entirely without problematic elements, perhaps even more disturbing and insidious for their lack of acknowledgement and open discussion, particularly as a consequence of what in my view were widely and dismayingly unexamined systemic social injustices resulting from the entrenched power dynamics in play, dynamics strikingly similar to those of your planet’s markedly more bellicose iteration, which has only served to fully vindicate my hypothesis that such a hierarchy is really predicated on intrinsic dysfunction, and failure to shift all the usual narratives and undiagnosed problems into an open, judgment-free discourse through which problematic issues are constructively channeled into more intelligently problematized avenues of discussion.

Now before I continue, it is only decent of me to warn you about certain triggers that are surely ahead in this essay. I mean conversation. Triggers include but likely will not be limited to class oppression, culling culture and violence against grubs, lusus abuse, complementary and analogous hate speech, pail filling, slurries and other concupiscent fluids, lifespan shaming, ableist slurs, prolix dissertation… Actually, maybe it would be easier for you to list your triggers, and I’ll do my best to avoid those topics, or navigate them more delicately, if at all possible?

#TW #opression #culling #grub violence #lusus abuse #hemophobia #pails #slurries

[jtem]

We told you this was permanent

Luckily the conservatives overturned Roe v Wade so the right to privacy no longer applies to anyone’s body... Vaccine mandates for everyone!

#Hysteria #Panic #Fear #Crisis #Disease #The Great Reset #Control #Obey #Culling #screen shot #this is news #This is propaganda