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bearotonin-international · 2 months

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Kiska’s loves when people support 🍉🇵🇸🍉

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briarborealisart · 6 months

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every time i see a character who used to be/is very violent but has hobbies like gardening, or bonsai, or anything like that i lose my fucking shit dude. like oh these hands drenched in blood have the capacity to raise life from the soil? to touch the tender heart of earth and draw forth something beautiful from it? they have the patience and the kindness to bring something good into the world rather than taking from it? it doesn't come naturally to them because they are made to be rough and not gentle but they take the time to learn anyway? to nurture? to care? haha thats so funny dude thats so cool. hope this thematically doesnt make me explode into a million little pieces if i think about it too long

#briarborealisart #tropes #writing #characters #fanfic #ughhjh idk if anyone knows about that one silverwing15 fic #about the watermelons #and its a modern foster au and tommy grows watermelons and its an extended metaphor for healing from trauma #CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME #this is also the impetus behind me making #kiska #a farmer in addition to a holy warrior #dsmp #this is also how i feel about any ctechno fic that talks about the farming hyperfixation in this light #EAT ROCKS

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sugargrim3 · 6 days

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Kiska, always in my heart and she is dearly missed

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fateofthemegful · 2 months

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The fact they announced Royal Albert Hall this morning makes me sick.

#ive been having dreams about seeing them again #i genuinely thought id have to wait until next year #greta van fleet #gvf #starcatcher #kiska #wagner

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ceramicdolphin · 1 year

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rest in peace, pretty girl. 🤍 you’re not alone anymore.

#kiska #orca #killer whale #marineland canada

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lonestarbattleship · 9 months

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USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) bombarding Kiska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, during Operation Cottage on August 15, 1943.

Note: the launch and recovery of Vought OS2U Kingfishers.

"Operation Cottage was a tactical maneuver which completed the Aleutian Islands campaign. The Japanese, however, had secretly abandoned the island two weeks earlier, and so the Allied landings were unopposed. Allied forces suffered over 313 casualties in total during the operation, due to stray Japanese landmines and booby traps, friendly fire incidents, and vehicle accidents."

NARA: 78850

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orcinus-veterinarius · 11 months

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i live about an hour or so away from marineland (which is basically canada's seaworld) and

they lost their last orca, kiska, in march.

for a bit of background info, kiska was from the same icelandic aquarium as keiko, from the free willy movies. she and keiko were sold to marineland at some point, and while he got resold a few times after, kiska stayed at marineland.

they were looking to rehome her to a sanctuary when she died.

and the whole thing kinda pisses me off, because it was directly thanks to the efforts of 'animal rights organizations' that kiska died alone.

orcas are social creatures, we know this.

and reports from her last years note that kiska seemed incredibly lonely (there were quite a few videos of her either floating relatively motionless in her tank or full on bashing herself against the walls.)

it breaks my heart that people who supposedly care about animals would rather see them die in the wild than live in facilities who could give them much better lives.

many orcas in captivity can't be released. we know this, and yet.

it's more cruel to me that kiska died alone because they legally could not bring in a companion for her. despite the animal welfare concerns about her being alone, it would have been against the law for them to alleviate her loneliness.

it makes me angry. this animal spent her last days without any kind of companionship from her own kind.

sorry, i just needed to vent about this.

It really is terrible. Marineland Canada is far from my favorite facility, but I know people who work there and they're incredibly dedicated to their animals. Like you said, Kiska didn't die alone because that's what anyone at Marineland wanted for her, but because Canada's incredibly misguided anti-captivity law kept them from doing anything about it. She couldn't be sent away (which would've been inadvisable), and no companions could be sent to her.

The law is also keeping Marineland's 35+ belugas trapped there, as we witnessed when animal rights groups fought tooth and nail to keep them from transferring a handful to the far superior Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut (it went through, thank goodness, but I doubt it will happen again any time soon). The Marineland animals are basically trapped in limbo, and nothing meaningful can be done now.

#marineland canada #kiska #zoos #aquariums #animal welfare #answered asks #anonymous #language

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endkillerwhalecaptivity · 1 year

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#Kiska #captivity #marineland canada #orca #killer whale #animal death

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 8 months

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"MINIATURE SUBMARINES, a Shinto Shrine, chopsticks and Jap characters and wrecked Zeroes were all left behind by the hastily departing enemy on Kiska. American bombs that preceded our troop landings accounted for much of the damage to Jap installations. Sgt. Edmond Birdsell of San Francisco tries out the chopsticks on a bowl of Jap rice, stores of which were found by U.S. forces." - from the Kingston Whig-Standard. September 9, 1943. Page 2.

#kiska #aleutian islands campaign #アリューシャン方面の戦い #midget submarine #type A Ko-hyoteki #japanese occupation of kiska #pacific war #world war ii #united states army #imperial japanese navy

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briflowers · 1 year

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