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Cake day: October 12th, 2026

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  • What now?

    I don’t know. I have taken some time of work and have been in tears a few times. I am currently trying my best to support some of the other volunteers, but I’m obviously not doing great myself. A museum being seized and destroyed is unquantifiably unthinkable. Even the thought of destroying a single artefact would tear the average historian apart, let alone thousands of them. The precedent this sets for museums in NSW is terrifying.

    I have written a letter to the NSW Minister for Heritage, similar to this blog post, and I hope to hear back from them soon.

    If you want to help then please read and share the charity board’s statement requesting a re-evaluation of the rationale for the seizure and the plans to destroy the ship. It refutes several things the NSW government has publicly stated.

    Seizing a museum, including all its collections on loan from other groups, and then stating they wish to destroy it… is this really who the NSW government is? Is this what they want to do from now on?

    https://seaheritagefoundation.org.au/blog/media-release-regarding-the-nsw-state-seizure-of-mv-cape-don

    It doesn’t look bad at all (referring to other comment). That US warship that returned from 200 days in deployment looks just as bad. Metal rusts in the ocean.

    I hope you get the answers you need.








  • SarcasticBrownnose@lemmy.zipOPtocats@lemmy.world•Fosters #2
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    13 days ago

    This is just in the past. You’ll be happy to know that everything worked out ok.

    Mum was hyper friendly to the detriment to her feeding children, was desexed, and found a home quite quickly. She disappears from photos on my phone quicker than I remembered. Her first and only litter, she was a young Mum.



  • There is plenty more photos I will drip post.

    I can spoil the end, everyone was adopted (the mum, Zoe, was desexed and adopted first). We held on to kitties until 10-12 weeks because the runt got ringworm from her Mum (outside feral) and couldn’t be desexed while infected. 2 bathings per week and pills which they did not enjoy. Besides that, they got snapped up from the local RSPCA when they were ready.