Vic Asouzu
@vicasouzu.bsky.social
Each day I ask: what does it mean to be free, and to succeed, without breaking our bond with life or our reverence for it?
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Vic Asouzu
@vicasouzu.bsky.social
· Dec 18
The world doesn’t need more indifference. It needs changemakers.🌱 Those brave enough to live their values and act with compassion.
If you’ve felt you don’t belong, maybe it’s because you’re here to help create a world where you do. Authenticity isn’t easy, but it’s where change begins.
Let’s rise.
If you’ve felt you don’t belong, maybe it’s because you’re here to help create a world where you do. Authenticity isn’t easy, but it’s where change begins.
Let’s rise.
How to know you’re not a lion.
You scroll past a story about animals being harmed.
You don’t want to engage.
But you notice.
There’s a flicker.
A tightening.
A quiet urge to justify yourself to no one.
Lions don’t need to justify themselves.
Humans do.
You scroll past a story about animals being harmed.
You don’t want to engage.
But you notice.
There’s a flicker.
A tightening.
A quiet urge to justify yourself to no one.
Lions don’t need to justify themselves.
Humans do.
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
How to know you’re not a lion.
You scroll past a story about animals being harmed.
You don’t want to engage.
But you notice.
There’s a flicker.
A tightening.
A quiet urge to justify yourself to no one.
Lions don’t need to justify themselves.
Humans do.
You scroll past a story about animals being harmed.
You don’t want to engage.
But you notice.
There’s a flicker.
A tightening.
A quiet urge to justify yourself to no one.
Lions don’t need to justify themselves.
Humans do.
There’s a moment you recognize something has shifted at a deep level.
For me, it wasn’t when I changed what I ate,
but when I realized I could never go back
to not knowing what I now feel...
For me, it wasn’t when I changed what I ate,
but when I realized I could never go back
to not knowing what I now feel...
February 5, 2026 at 6:36 PM
There’s a moment you recognize something has shifted at a deep level.
For me, it wasn’t when I changed what I ate,
but when I realized I could never go back
to not knowing what I now feel...
For me, it wasn’t when I changed what I ate,
but when I realized I could never go back
to not knowing what I now feel...
Most resistance to veganism collapses into one thing: pleasure.
Strip away all the performative outrage and deflections, and that’s what’s left...
Strip away all the performative outrage and deflections, and that’s what’s left...
February 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Most resistance to veganism collapses into one thing: pleasure.
Strip away all the performative outrage and deflections, and that’s what’s left...
Strip away all the performative outrage and deflections, and that’s what’s left...
Vegan ethics don’t require perfection.
They require honesty.
And the honesty is uncomfortable:
don’t cause harm when you don’t have to.
Most of the debate that follows
exists to make that line easier to ignore.
They require honesty.
And the honesty is uncomfortable:
don’t cause harm when you don’t have to.
Most of the debate that follows
exists to make that line easier to ignore.
February 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Vegan ethics don’t require perfection.
They require honesty.
And the honesty is uncomfortable:
don’t cause harm when you don’t have to.
Most of the debate that follows
exists to make that line easier to ignore.
They require honesty.
And the honesty is uncomfortable:
don’t cause harm when you don’t have to.
Most of the debate that follows
exists to make that line easier to ignore.
People keep arguing about veganism using nutrients, evolution, and farming techniques.
That misses the point.
The real question isn’t
“Can humans survive without exploiting animals?”....
That misses the point.
The real question isn’t
“Can humans survive without exploiting animals?”....
February 4, 2026 at 8:40 AM
People keep arguing about veganism using nutrients, evolution, and farming techniques.
That misses the point.
The real question isn’t
“Can humans survive without exploiting animals?”....
That misses the point.
The real question isn’t
“Can humans survive without exploiting animals?”....
If you were truly at peace with killing and eating animals,
you wouldn’t feel the urge to defend it.
People don’t get defensive about what feels settled.
They react when something inside them still feels wrong.
you wouldn’t feel the urge to defend it.
People don’t get defensive about what feels settled.
They react when something inside them still feels wrong.
February 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
If you were truly at peace with killing and eating animals,
you wouldn’t feel the urge to defend it.
People don’t get defensive about what feels settled.
They react when something inside them still feels wrong.
you wouldn’t feel the urge to defend it.
People don’t get defensive about what feels settled.
They react when something inside them still feels wrong.
Some people hear “vegan”
and think it’s about food.
Others feel exposed, defensive, or irritated without knowing why.
That reaction usually reveals more
than any argument ever could.
and think it’s about food.
Others feel exposed, defensive, or irritated without knowing why.
That reaction usually reveals more
than any argument ever could.
February 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Some people hear “vegan”
and think it’s about food.
Others feel exposed, defensive, or irritated without knowing why.
That reaction usually reveals more
than any argument ever could.
and think it’s about food.
Others feel exposed, defensive, or irritated without knowing why.
That reaction usually reveals more
than any argument ever could.
Ask yourself this honestly:
If animals had the same legal protections humans do,
which parts of “normal life” would stop overnight?
That question alone tells you
how much of “normal” only works
because someone else absorbs the cost.
If animals had the same legal protections humans do,
which parts of “normal life” would stop overnight?
That question alone tells you
how much of “normal” only works
because someone else absorbs the cost.
February 2, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Ask yourself this honestly:
If animals had the same legal protections humans do,
which parts of “normal life” would stop overnight?
That question alone tells you
how much of “normal” only works
because someone else absorbs the cost.
If animals had the same legal protections humans do,
which parts of “normal life” would stop overnight?
That question alone tells you
how much of “normal” only works
because someone else absorbs the cost.
If eating animals were truly necessary,
life would fall apart without it.
It doesn’t.
Millions of people live full, healthy, ordinary lives every day
without it...
life would fall apart without it.
It doesn’t.
Millions of people live full, healthy, ordinary lives every day
without it...
February 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
If eating animals were truly necessary,
life would fall apart without it.
It doesn’t.
Millions of people live full, healthy, ordinary lives every day
without it...
life would fall apart without it.
It doesn’t.
Millions of people live full, healthy, ordinary lives every day
without it...
Everyone’s reacting to the latest Epstein file release.
Outraged. Confused. Digging for names.
Outraged. Confused. Digging for names.
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Everyone’s reacting to the latest Epstein file release.
Outraged. Confused. Digging for names.
Outraged. Confused. Digging for names.
Most harm survives because it blends into ordinary life.
It looks like routines.
Habits.
Jobs.
Traditions.
Harm doesn’t always start with hatred.
It lasts when people go numb enough
to keep participating.
It looks like routines.
Habits.
Jobs.
Traditions.
Harm doesn’t always start with hatred.
It lasts when people go numb enough
to keep participating.
January 29, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Most harm survives because it blends into ordinary life.
It looks like routines.
Habits.
Jobs.
Traditions.
Harm doesn’t always start with hatred.
It lasts when people go numb enough
to keep participating.
It looks like routines.
Habits.
Jobs.
Traditions.
Harm doesn’t always start with hatred.
It lasts when people go numb enough
to keep participating.
We’re very comfortable blaming systems.
Less comfortable noticing how easily we keep them alive.
Systems don’t persist on their own.
They persist because ordinary people wake up, follow the script,
and call it normal.
Every day.
Less comfortable noticing how easily we keep them alive.
Systems don’t persist on their own.
They persist because ordinary people wake up, follow the script,
and call it normal.
Every day.
January 29, 2026 at 2:27 PM
We’re very comfortable blaming systems.
Less comfortable noticing how easily we keep them alive.
Systems don’t persist on their own.
They persist because ordinary people wake up, follow the script,
and call it normal.
Every day.
Less comfortable noticing how easily we keep them alive.
Systems don’t persist on their own.
They persist because ordinary people wake up, follow the script,
and call it normal.
Every day.
Most people don’t live in peace with the world. They stay comfortable by not feeling what their comfort is built on.
A system built on harm doesn’t need monsters. It works best with decent people who stay busy, distracted, and numb enough to function....
A system built on harm doesn’t need monsters. It works best with decent people who stay busy, distracted, and numb enough to function....
January 26, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Most people don’t live in peace with the world. They stay comfortable by not feeling what their comfort is built on.
A system built on harm doesn’t need monsters. It works best with decent people who stay busy, distracted, and numb enough to function....
A system built on harm doesn’t need monsters. It works best with decent people who stay busy, distracted, and numb enough to function....
“I don’t mind animals eating me when I die,” someone told me.
Fair.
But the animals you eat never get that choice.
That’s the part I can’t look away from.
Fair.
But the animals you eat never get that choice.
That’s the part I can’t look away from.
January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
“I don’t mind animals eating me when I die,” someone told me.
Fair.
But the animals you eat never get that choice.
That’s the part I can’t look away from.
Fair.
But the animals you eat never get that choice.
That’s the part I can’t look away from.
When migration becomes a “crisis,” it’s worth asking who benefited from the systems that made staying impossible.
Human movement is older than any border now being defended. People don’t abandon home lightly....
Human movement is older than any border now being defended. People don’t abandon home lightly....
January 25, 2026 at 11:43 AM
When migration becomes a “crisis,” it’s worth asking who benefited from the systems that made staying impossible.
Human movement is older than any border now being defended. People don’t abandon home lightly....
Human movement is older than any border now being defended. People don’t abandon home lightly....
People say veganism isn’t “harm-free.”
Correct. No human life is.
But that argument hides a convenient blur: there’s a moral difference between harm you can’t avoid and harm you choose, organize, industrialize, and defend after alternatives exist...
Correct. No human life is.
But that argument hides a convenient blur: there’s a moral difference between harm you can’t avoid and harm you choose, organize, industrialize, and defend after alternatives exist...
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
People say veganism isn’t “harm-free.”
Correct. No human life is.
But that argument hides a convenient blur: there’s a moral difference between harm you can’t avoid and harm you choose, organize, industrialize, and defend after alternatives exist...
Correct. No human life is.
But that argument hides a convenient blur: there’s a moral difference between harm you can’t avoid and harm you choose, organize, industrialize, and defend after alternatives exist...
When you strip away the arguments, tribes, and posturing,
you find that most people want the same thing.
Not power or dominance,
just whatever feels like it might bring relief...
you find that most people want the same thing.
Not power or dominance,
just whatever feels like it might bring relief...
January 23, 2026 at 10:23 AM
When you strip away the arguments, tribes, and posturing,
you find that most people want the same thing.
Not power or dominance,
just whatever feels like it might bring relief...
you find that most people want the same thing.
Not power or dominance,
just whatever feels like it might bring relief...
Most systems are built around one quiet question:
How much can we take before something breaks?
Non-harm starts somewhere else:
How do we meet our needs
without breaking what keeps us alive?
That shift changes everything.
Food.
Cities.
Work.
Relationships...
How much can we take before something breaks?
Non-harm starts somewhere else:
How do we meet our needs
without breaking what keeps us alive?
That shift changes everything.
Food.
Cities.
Work.
Relationships...
January 22, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Most systems are built around one quiet question:
How much can we take before something breaks?
Non-harm starts somewhere else:
How do we meet our needs
without breaking what keeps us alive?
That shift changes everything.
Food.
Cities.
Work.
Relationships...
How much can we take before something breaks?
Non-harm starts somewhere else:
How do we meet our needs
without breaking what keeps us alive?
That shift changes everything.
Food.
Cities.
Work.
Relationships...
If you refuse animal cruelty
because animals are sentient, feeling beings,
something becomes unavoidable...
because animals are sentient, feeling beings,
something becomes unavoidable...
January 19, 2026 at 12:03 PM
If you refuse animal cruelty
because animals are sentient, feeling beings,
something becomes unavoidable...
because animals are sentient, feeling beings,
something becomes unavoidable...
Humans have always sensed that things could be better.
A golden age. A paradise. A world finally at peace.
Today, we have the tools to make life better
for everyone who shares this planet...
A golden age. A paradise. A world finally at peace.
Today, we have the tools to make life better
for everyone who shares this planet...
January 17, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Humans have always sensed that things could be better.
A golden age. A paradise. A world finally at peace.
Today, we have the tools to make life better
for everyone who shares this planet...
A golden age. A paradise. A world finally at peace.
Today, we have the tools to make life better
for everyone who shares this planet...
Capitalism and socialism argue over value while taking life itself for granted.
Veganism starts earlier,
by refusing to turn sentient, feeling beings into resources.
Veganism starts earlier,
by refusing to turn sentient, feeling beings into resources.
January 17, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Capitalism and socialism argue over value while taking life itself for granted.
Veganism starts earlier,
by refusing to turn sentient, feeling beings into resources.
Veganism starts earlier,
by refusing to turn sentient, feeling beings into resources.
Every generation believes it’s more humane than others before it.
And every generation is blind to all the unnecessary harm
it has learned to live with.
That blindness isn’t ignorance.
It’s adaptation...
And every generation is blind to all the unnecessary harm
it has learned to live with.
That blindness isn’t ignorance.
It’s adaptation...
January 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Every generation believes it’s more humane than others before it.
And every generation is blind to all the unnecessary harm
it has learned to live with.
That blindness isn’t ignorance.
It’s adaptation...
And every generation is blind to all the unnecessary harm
it has learned to live with.
That blindness isn’t ignorance.
It’s adaptation...
One day, people will look back at our time
and wonder how, with abundance and alternatives everywhere,
we chose to build ordinary lives
on the routine suffering of animals
and still called ourselves decent...
and wonder how, with abundance and alternatives everywhere,
we chose to build ordinary lives
on the routine suffering of animals
and still called ourselves decent...
January 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM
One day, people will look back at our time
and wonder how, with abundance and alternatives everywhere,
we chose to build ordinary lives
on the routine suffering of animals
and still called ourselves decent...
and wonder how, with abundance and alternatives everywhere,
we chose to build ordinary lives
on the routine suffering of animals
and still called ourselves decent...
You stop negotiating with yourself
in your everyday choices.
That kind of inner stability is rare.
And once you feel that steadiness,
it’s hard to ignore when it’s gone.
in your everyday choices.
That kind of inner stability is rare.
And once you feel that steadiness,
it’s hard to ignore when it’s gone.
January 14, 2026 at 12:11 PM
You stop negotiating with yourself
in your everyday choices.
That kind of inner stability is rare.
And once you feel that steadiness,
it’s hard to ignore when it’s gone.
in your everyday choices.
That kind of inner stability is rare.
And once you feel that steadiness,
it’s hard to ignore when it’s gone.
A lot of modern anxiety comes from trying to be “a good person”
in a world that keeps moving the line.
Life gets simpler
when your choices stop arguing with your conscience...
in a world that keeps moving the line.
Life gets simpler
when your choices stop arguing with your conscience...
January 14, 2026 at 12:11 PM
A lot of modern anxiety comes from trying to be “a good person”
in a world that keeps moving the line.
Life gets simpler
when your choices stop arguing with your conscience...
in a world that keeps moving the line.
Life gets simpler
when your choices stop arguing with your conscience...