Gettin' Crabby

Forcing schools to out students six weeks after learning about their sexual orientation puts LGBTQ+ youth in danger. Florida schools should be a place where kids feel supported, not scared. 

This bill already required schools to inform families that their children identify as LGBTQ+ upon coming out. Outing students was not a requirement when believed that doing so might lead to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. With this amendment, there is no longer a way around it.

This bill will force children to hide who they are in fear of being outed. Our youth will be at an even greater risk of abuse, neglect, and even homelessness. This bill is dangerous for LGBTQ+ students and harmful to education.

Florida’s Don’t Say Gay amendment is not okay. Do better, Ron DeSantis. 

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Enrichment makes your animals more interesting to observe and care for. It makes keeping them more fun. And when you're more actively engaged with your pets and you enjoy keeping them they're gonna receive better care.

Especially as someone with ADHD, making sure my animals are interesting for me mentally, and also prominent and accessible is really important.

Example: I LOVE watermelons. But I put one in the bottom drawer of my fridge and basically it became nonexistent. I was so excited to finish eating it but because it wasn't visually accessible I forgot about it until it had gone bad and I only remembered it when I was looking for something else.

The repercussions of this happening to a living creature that's quiet and can't demand your attention like a cat or dog is obviously much worse.

I, like many reptile keepers, have dreamed of having a dedicated reptile room one day. But as I've come to better understand the way my brain processes and engages with things I've kind of realized that my snakes will probably always need to be in my living room or bedroom so that I pass by them everyday. So that I don't forget about them. Which sounds terrible but is a reality that I have to work with. By that same token I will never keep my snakes in racks. I need to be able to see them at a glance. Decorating their enclosures to be visually interesting to me also helps.

They have been hit EXTREMELY hard and I have seen no posts going around talking about it. It is one of the hardest hit places in ARIZONA, a state that already has horribly high case numbers.

They have a Covid relief gofundme. Please donate if you can and spread this if you can't.

HEAVEN!

I’m not going to link to said post because I don’t want to have any part of how much traffic it gets, and I’m not sure I could find it again anyways since I just unfollow on sight anytime someone I follow reblogs it, but here’s a screenshot I took the first time around:

Someone takes a tiny little cage that looks like it might fall apart at the slightest jostle, stuffs two budgerigars in it, ties it to the back of their cat, and then lets the cat outside. It’s pretty clear from their body language that the budgies are stressed to hell, and that doesn’t even begin to cover how atrociously dangerous this is.