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#Kitty Block
solitarelee · 1 year
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East Asian fanartists are starting to migrate back to Tumblr because Twitter is insane, toxic, and dying, and what we're NOT going to do is let the fucking exclusionists get them, do you hear me? We are not going to let a bunch of feral idiots try to apply the most myopic version of puritanism to foreign artists we're not we're not we're not. Form an armed brigade if you have to, do you hear me. We're not going to bully the artists who may or may not even speak English because we have our precious standards of moral purity. If we see art that makes us uncomfy we're going to block the artist and tumblr savior their name so we don't have to see them again AND WE'RE GONNA MOVE THE FUCK ON.
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catfindr · 3 months
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I hope everyone has been having a wonderful Last Wish release day 🥰
Take a meme for the road
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g3m5t0zebu113t · 1 year
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egberts · 5 months
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louis 9 weeks old vs 12 weeks old with the ball tower
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cat-cosplay · 1 year
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It's a block button type of day.
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lesbianturrets · 5 months
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POV: You’re Lanyon
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przeorysza · 27 days
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Uhtred + text posts
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catswarmth · 1 year
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This cute kitty is just stuck 😄🥰🐱
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fridaypls · 24 days
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Writer-brain shut off two weeks ago and HNNNNNG I would very much like it to turn back on now. In the meantime, please have some AU Astarion because I have to scratch the must create stuff itch somehow.
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Featuring Sol (Solariel; Little Sunbeam) from the Ashes to Embers fic, but all grown up now. Just a rogue and his rescue ♡
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Iceland cancels commercial whaling this season on animal welfare grounds, hailed as ‘a major milestone in compassionate whale conservation’ by HSI / Europe
Minister Svavarsdóttir ends decades of senseless whale killing and begins a new chapter in Iceland’s relationship with whales
Humane Society International / Europe
20 June 2023
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BRUSSELS ― As news breaks that Iceland has cancelled this season’s commercial whaling on animal welfare grounds, global animal protection charity Humane Society International says it is thrilled and relieved at the announcement that will spare hundreds of whales from agonising deaths.
It urges the Icelandic government to make it a permanent ban.
Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Svandís Svavarsdóttir announced that Iceland’s whaling vessels will not kill any whales this season due to the conclusion that “the fishing method used when hunting large whales does not comply with the law on animal welfare.”
The suspension lasts until August 31st, which effectively cancels this season’s whale killing.
The minister’s statement continues:
“It is necessary to postpone the start of the whaling season so that there is room to investigate whether it is possible to ensure that the hunting is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Animal Welfare Act.”
Ruud Tombrock, HSI / Europe’s executive director, said:
“This is a major milestone in compassionate whale conservation.
Humane Society International is thrilled at this news and praises Minister Svavarsdóttir for ending the senseless whale killing, which will spare hundreds of minke and imperilled fin whales from agonising and protracted deaths.
There is no humane way to kill a whale at sea and so we urge the minister to make this a permanent ban.
Whales already face so many serious threats in the oceans from pollution, climate change, entanglement in fish nets and ship strikes, that ending cruel commercial whaling is the only ethical conclusion.”
The announcement follows the Minister’s op-ed last year in which she said she saw little reason to permit whaling after 2023.
Publication last month of an independent report by the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority ― commissioned by the Minister ― revealed some whales killed in Icelandic hunts had taken up to two hours to die, with 41% of whales suffering immensely before dying for an average of 11.5 minutes.
Kitty Block, CEO of Humane Society International, said:
“For those of us who have been campaigning for many years to end commercial whaling, to see the day that Iceland decides to stop killing whales and retire its harpoons for good, is truly historic.
Economic factors have certainly played a significant role in the demise of this cruel industry - with little demand for whale meat at home and exports to the Japanese market dwindling - but it is the overriding moral argument against whaling that has sealed its fate.
Harpooning these magnificent giants not only causes unjustifiable suffering to those whales who are killed but also unimaginable distress to the rest of their pod who witness their family members being chased and slaughtered.
Iceland is already one of the best places in the world to go whale watching, and the country stands to attract even more ecotourists now that it has abandoned whaling forever.
The world now looks at Japan and Norway as the only two countries in the world to still mercilessly kill whales for profit.”
FAST FACTS:
The International Whaling Commission agreed to enact a global moratorium on all commercial whaling in 1986.
Iceland left the IWC in 1992 but returned in 2002 with an exception to the moratorium, despite objections from multiple nations. 
Since re-joining the IWC, Iceland had killed more than 1,500 whales, including fin whales.
Iceland suspended hunting fin whales in 2016 due to a declining market for whale meat in Japan.
Hunting resumed for the 2018 season when 146 fin whales were killed, including a pregnant female and a rare fin-blue hybrid whale, plus six minke whales.
A single minke whale was killed from 2019-2021, and 148 fin whales in 2022.
Fin whales are classified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as globally vulnerable to extinction despite decades of recovery since the commercial whaling moratorium.
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lonestarflight · 3 months
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"Recovery swimmer attaching the flotation collar around the Apollo 14 capsule (CM-110), with the still-attached parachute lines still visible."
Date: February 9, 1971
NASA ID: 71HC-245
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catfindr · 7 months
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maywillows · 2 months
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Strawberry kitty
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mrokat-art · 6 months
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Two-Headed Cat
Original linocut, available here
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stonecoldaries · 7 days
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pov: you need to find a moth priest to help stop your evil father but the dragonborn instead drug you across solsteim and then chopped wood for like 4 hours straight
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