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Blonde Piet
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Adventurer | Explorer | Court Jester. Patron to the arts and for hungry artists I can cook.
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#veganism #animalethics
Did you know urges and preferences are almost always culturally conditioned?
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Read my new translation of 𝑷𝙧𝒆𝙡𝒖𝙙𝒆 by Tomas Tranströmer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 𝑷𝙧𝒆𝙡𝒖𝙙𝒆 is the opening poem of his first book, 17 𝑷𝙤𝒆𝙢𝒔 (1954).

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/prelude

#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Swedish #Transtromer
Waking is a parachute jump from a dream. Free of the suffocating whirl, the traveler dives toward the green zone of the morning. Things flare up. From the soaring skylark’s perch, he makes out the mighty tree root system’s subterranean, swaying lamps. But above ground, the greenery stands in a tropical current with raised arms, listening to the rhythm of an invisible pump. And he sinks toward summer, lowered into its bright crater
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know animals are sentient beings like yourself?
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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"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

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know the limbic activity of mammals draws their emotions into immediate congruence?
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Treating living beings as consumables shows lack of respect for life itself. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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​Are you aware terms like livestock, etc., are used to desensitize consumers by referring to sentient beings as products?
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know the animal industry is the leading cause of deforestation worldwide?
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Read an interview with Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti:

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-beat-generation

#writingcommunity #interviews #AllenGinsberg #LawrenceFerlinghetti #MarinSorescu
Thoughts on the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in conversation with Marin Sorescu
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know the meat and dairy industries use scare tactics, lobbying, and deceptive ad campaigns to prevent change and maximize profit?
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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"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

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Did you know the limbic brain found in mammals is not only the seat of dreams and value judgements, but also the center of emotionality?
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"is there a place in Dante's hell for the / algae that eat light / and beget this world one bone marrow / at a time"

A poem by 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮 𝗶𝗿𝘂 in the Fall 2025 issue

bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#poetry #poetrycommunity
for your adoration, a woolly mammoth, intact with its last meal— all that unprocessed sugar, tucked in the ​cold wok of its belly, like your rage inside me, waiting as though waiting is a form of listening.
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"The animal reminds us that life precedes thought, and that thought is only one way of being alive." - Hannah Arendt

To be alive is already to be in relation with the world.

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#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know birds were the first creatures to have dreams?
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Do you believe a sentient being can be a product? Are you a product?
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Read my poem "Manifold", first published in Amsterdam Review.

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/manifold

#poetry #poetrycommunity
Manifold
A poem by Daniel Carden Nemo
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November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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"Here lives the ultimate wound: not exclusion but indifference, not anger but a shrug, the absence even of remembrance"

#nonfiction by 𝗚𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗼 𝗙𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗮 in the Fall issue

bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#essays #philosophy #writingcommunity
Few admit it (it's a truth devoid of poetry), but the mere fact of falling in love is not very interesting. Circumstances vary, of course: but the moment before the shipwreck—the fleeting instant when you get to face something entirely different—is pretty much the same for anyone. The same goes for breaking up: we all tell stories about our loves, we share our feelings in order to know that we are not alone in being happy or suffering; and yet what does that accomplish? Each love is similar as is each abandonment, but no amount of facts can prepare us; and we will always think that our pain and pleasure are nobler, deeper, better: we recount our experiences, but deep down we tell each other that no one can ever understand this.
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"If / I were there I too would be nothing / But inside my body is a bearing were / One to arise."

A poem by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue

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#poetry #poetrycommunity
GS with lines from Alejandra Pizarnik's Paths of the Mirror and a Distant Autumn Something from the blood the way Y Or X shapes and shifts as if above The body is a cartography for all Who is not other. Who will be the one to Turn away or be the one to look And bear witness for the body on The ground, torn apart—​inocencia
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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danielnemo.bsky.social
We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know around 75% of the world’s soy is grown to feed livestock, not people, whereas a plant-based diet uses fewer resources and causes less deforestation?
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"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

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Did you know that empathy is measurable in many species, not just in behavior, but in neurological patterns mirroring human compassion?
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"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

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#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?
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Read "There Is Earth", a poem by Marin Sorescu in my translation.

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/there-is-earth

#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #writing
There Is Earth - A poem by Marin Sorescu translated from Romanian by Daniel Carden Nemo
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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"Creation is a meeting point, / without it there is nothing— / For meaning is a quest in time."

A poem by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼​ @danielnemo.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue

bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

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​​They say a dimple made its way from town to town across the world it saw as from behind a jammed window that won’t open—it passed as light through small apertures. But everybody was so busy with themselves they couldn’t see it. No one needed saving anymore.
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"If animals feel, as surely they do, then the universe is already wider and deeper than any human philosophy has allowed." - William James (Pragmatism, 1907)

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know animals are sentient beings like ourselves?
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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danielnemo.bsky.social
"The animal reminds us that life precedes thought, and that thought is only one way of being alive." - Hannah Arendt

To be alive is already to be in relation with the world.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know that migratory animals use magnetic fields, polarized light, scent, and even the stars to navigate continents and oceans?
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Good question 🤔
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November 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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All living beings possess their own truth and are made from the same stuff we are. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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Did you know that, given their sharp senses and unique sensitivities, some farmed animals may be capable of suffering even more intensely than humans?
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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"Perhaps in the distance waves sweep across the sand, or someone walks barefoot on the floor above. "

A poem by 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗭𝘂́𝗻̃𝗶𝗴𝗮​ (transl. 𝗠𝗲𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿) in the Fall 2025 issue

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#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation
I don’t know how to write this; another month in his quicksand palm, where I lie freely, or would if I could. I think of summer’s end, of my grandmother teaching my mother to dry figs in the sun, and me sitting by the window wishing literature would die or kill me or both. I didn’t understand then that pistols aren’t loaded with words. It doesn’t matter. The sand exfoliates my pores and crystalizes on my eyelashes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM