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My parents moved my sister and I to Australia (Hobart) from the US (Mid-Michigan) for a brief but impactful period of time when we were 8 and 13 years old.

The most surprising takeaway from this experience years later is our completely fucked up and un-American relationship with the word cunt.

#australia #auscore #usa to aus #gornwen's childhood #i dont think that is how they use that word here #we learned to swear in australia to the horror of our american neighbors #tas #Hobart

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It pisses me the fuck off that yoga is actually ancient and really good for you. Part of me still feels like it was invented to extract wealth from white socal moms.

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Oh, the deep loneliness of being a Sox fan when all your friends are Cubbies.

#life in chicago #chicago #let me tell you my deep hatred of cubs fan from the northerner burbs driving into chicago and taking the free parking on my block #chicagocore #chicago summer #chicago-core

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it is once again... binturong appreciation hour

#binturong #one of my favorite animals

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

#some good news #bcpoli

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the smallest artist i listen to? probably the bird outside my window

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this guy suuuucksss he can't catch anythingggg

#pallas cat #kitteh

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#art

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and if you feel comfortable sharing what song(s), let us know in the tags!

#it is one of the defining songs of its era #and now playing in my head #thanks for that earworm

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April on the Lakefront.

One day I'll be normal about where I live. Not today, though. The sky is blue, the water even more so, and the whole world is coming alive.

#life in chicago #lake michigan #great lakes #violets #spring #april

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website

#useful things

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When I say "you need to read the article" or ask "did you read the article," I mean literally nothing but "you should read the article."

Screenshots are not sources. Headlines are not the full story.

That's all I mean.

(Now if you wanna hear me out and then go "it's behind a paywall, asshole," that's completely legitimate, and I do have answers to that but I don't have the spoons rn to talk about tips and tricks for getting around pay walls).

#useful advice

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#pure Michigan #we're doing just fine

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i need people do do me a favor and be absolutely normal about it

#this is the most wholesome stuff I've ever seen #tumblr love #music

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That's like the one time I saw a girl at Comiskey Park during an Astros v White Sox game holding a sign reading "Never Forget" and all I could think was "baby girl, you're wearing Sox gear, you're the last person who should be holding that sign," but so so so much worse.

No fucking way LMFAO

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Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

#references #reference #jstor #history is full of people

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The millennial litmus test for sexuality was 100% Pirates of the Caribbean. I was 13 when the first movie came out. Literally everyone walked into that movie having been lured there by the attractiveness of Orlando Bloom in LOTR. The truly straight girls had been drawn in by his entry-level attractiveness and walked out lusting over the significantly older and manlier Jack Sparrow. The others had been unconsciously drawn in by Legolas's femininity and walked out with their eyes opened and lusting over Keira Knightley.

#this reblog is so accurate that i had to delete my own comments and reblog the one true truth #but i still really want a boat #pirates of the caribbean