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It's so fucking crazy to me how people see animals as "having a purpose" instead of just being living things that deserve to exist whether or not they benefit humans. While it is true that almost every single species contributes to global ecosystems in some way (about 30 seconds of research makes that obvious), boiling a species down to their ecological role is reductive and, frankly, silly. I think it reflects something deeply wrong with our culture that we reduce nature to its "purpose" and believe it only deserves to exist if it has a job. This deranged "eco-essentialism" (just like every form of essentialism) commodifies living creatures and can be used to justify any amount of destruction and cruelty. Nature doesn't exist purely for the sake of humanity.

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Damn bro those iron hands over there are getting ripped up but thank god the iron warriors are coming to help us end Horus’s rebellion

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in the club freakin it in a sensitive style

Husband said something silly tonight and if I didn’t draw it I was going to pass out

The Republicans have decided we no longer need bees and are defunding the USGS Bee Lab. Please tell your friends, your representatives, local beekeepers, crafting clubs, your classmates, and everyone who has ever seen a bee that this is happening and that the Republicans are behind it. Scream about this. We in the professional bug world make fun of the bee people for having some of the only consistent funding and support in the whole field, but now even that is going away. Write it on your car. Tell someone at the store. Email your professor. Make a tiktok. Draw it on the sidewalk. Do NOT let them sneak this by.

Government Executive

Thousands of layoffs to hit Interior, National Parks imminently

Employees fear diminished capacity after RIFs are tacked on to existing mass exodus.