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Titanic: Project 401 allows you explore a jaw-droppingly authentic recreation of the RMS Titanic, from first class all the way down to the engine rooms.

All they know about gay panic is the “Oh my gosh! I talked to a pretty girl/boy and I’m a girl/boy hehe so flustered” that at some point replaced the actual meaning of gay panic. Do you know how dangerous this is, that they don’t know of the dangers of trans and gay panic? It’s lethal.

Historical Figures:

Leslie Feinberg’s writing, which can be found on Archive.org!

Oscar Wilde and his trials

Alan Turing, mathematician and philosopher who shortened WWII by years and saved millions of lives by cracking the nazi’s enigma code.

Michael Field, a lesbian couple that wrote under one male pseudonym

The Diaries of Anne Lister

R. M. Vaughan, Gay poet

Christine Jorgensen, first trans woman to get gender affirming surgery in the United States

Rachilde, a french author who cross-dressed and wrote genderqueer and queer erotica

Leelah Alcorn (TW for suicide)

Events:

Canada legalizing gay marriage in 2005

California’s Proposition 8

Don’t ask don’t tell

India legalizes gay sex in 2018 after it was outlawed in 2013 (Yes ik the link shows up as red on shinigami eyes it’s the BBC)

Vietnam bans conversion therapy

The Netherlands legalizing same-sex relations in 1811

Transgender day of remembrance

Extra:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbt-equality-key-moments-timeline

https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-key-moments-fight-gay-rights/story?id=85315913

animal crossing voice when ur typing “0” in the game: ᶻᵉᵈᵒ

Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.

That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flintstones

Cats (Felix catus) are a domesticated variety of the African Wildcat (Felis lybica). This process occurred c. 10,000 years ago. The cats which reside in our homes are different from their wild ancestors on a genetic level which effects their temperament. They also have decreased cranial volume.

All this to say that domestic cats are, in fact, not a part of nature, in fact they are classified among the top 100 worst invasive species by the Global Invasive Species Database. This is why their presence, and predation, in the environment is so devastating.

As of 2016 cats were implicated in the extinction of 63 species, this is 26% of total distinctions attributed to invasive mammalian predators. That's 40 species of bird, 21 species of mammals, and 2 species of reptiles. They are considered a threat to the continued existence of 420 species.

I don't even know how to begin to describe the impact domestic cats have on the environment so here's a huge list of various studies across the globe.

Do you believe that dogs should be allowed to free-range, to come and go as they please wherever they please? What about ferrets? Rabbits? If you've answered "No" to any of these, then why are cats exempt from the basic rules of courtesy other domesticated species are held to?

The idea that "cats want to be free" is an example of anthropomorphizing, or ascribing human emotions to animals. Cats do not have a concept of "freedom," they do not yearn for something they don't understand.

If you've always had indoor-outdoor cats because that's what you grew up with, because that's what you thought was best for them, or because that's what's considered normal to do, you're not being called a bad person or an animal abuser or any of those terrible things. Here, I am setting you free from the guilt. We were doing our best, we always have been, and that's okay, and what matters right now is that our best can be better today than it was yesterday.

With that said, here's a short list of things that happened to my childhood cats:

euthanized after being run over by a car

run over and immediately killed by a car

euthanized after being found under a bush with her guts hanging out of her

mauled to death by free-roaming dogs

died after contracting a botfly

and those are just the ones we found. So many of them just disappeared one day and never returned, and only one or two lived past 7. They got fleas, ticks, roundworms, tapeworms, botflies, and God knows what else. They got in nasty, bloody fights with other cats. They would come home limping from unexplained injuries. And they would just...stop coming home.

There's a virus called Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, or FIV, that is basically what it sounds like: the cat equivalent of HIV. Right now (June 2023) there's reports of bird flu being found in cats in Poland, and bird flu is very much deadly to cats.

If your neighbor or anyone in your area uses rat poison, a rodent can eat it and then kill your cat when your cat eats the rodent. If anyone in your area uses pesticides, those can poison your cat. Cypermethrin, a common insecticide, is HIGHLY toxic to cats.

Keeping a cat inside isn't cruel, what's cruel is letting a cat die an awful, painful death at 1/4 its natural lifespan.

The environments humans have created are not "the wild," they are incredibly dangerous for animals, full of cars and toxic poisons, and cats aren't as adapted to deal with "natural" hazards either anymore. Feral and outdoor cats exist at much higher population densities than a wild predator would and this means their impact on the wildlife is nothing like a wild predator, and also means their diseases and parasites spread like crazy.