If you live in the US, reblog this with the biggest pro and the biggest con of living in your state. I’ll go first! The biggest pro of living in Montana is that you can brag about getting to eat huckleberries! Yum! The con is that you live in Montana.
Under normal circumstances, visitor revenue makes much of what we do possible, including our exceptional day-to-day care of over 80,000 animals and plants, our rescue and rehabilitation of stranded sea otters, and our work to tackle the greatest threats to the health of our ocean planet. But our ability to continue this vital work is uncertain due to the unprecedented loss of revenue during our closure.
I’ve shared posts like this before, but I’m sharing it again. AZA zoos and aquariums are hurting right now, with a massive loss of revenue and animals that still require round the clock care, specialty food, veterinary care, and expensive life support systems.
Zoos are maintaining their high animal care standards even through this tragedy, often cutting the pay of higher ups so that money can be funneled into paying for animal care and animal care staff, but they can’t keep it up forever.
Please tell your representatives to include AZA zoos and aquariums in COVID-19 relief legislature. The link above will take you to a page where all you have to do is type in your information and it will auto generate letters to all your representatives.
[image is a drawing of sable, mabel and labelle as human women. mabel is standing between her sisters and holding them with each arm, grinning excitedly. sable is hunching her shoulders shyly, while labelle poses confidently with a jaunty wave.]
I was reading the newspaper today and i started HISSING LIKE A SNAKE bc i read that white house staff are being tested DAILY… meanwhile my sweet gfs mother had tested positive and they wouldn’t test anyone else who lives in her house unless they started showing symptoms. That’s two asthmatic women and a 60 year old man!! One of whom has to return to work full time three weeks later without ever being tested!!!!
Title: Am I the asshole for trying to help people appreciate their lives more?
Body paragraph: Ok so a little background, I got a cancer diagnosis a few years ago and I started realizing how little people appreciate their lives and the years ahead of them. So I started kidnapping them and putting them in specially engineered torture chambers designed to make them realize how far they’d go to keep themselves alive, and now I’m getting called the “jigsaw killer” even though I don’t actually kill them. But the ones who have gotten out seem really grateful and have a new lease on life and no one talks about it! AITA here?
TL;DR AITA for using torture chambers to teach people to enjoy their lives?
Edit: Yes they’re all escapeable I don’t make traps you can’t get out of that defeats the whole point! And thank you to everyone in the comments who gets what I’m doing I really appreciate knowing not everyone is so quick to judge
