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Optimal number of boops.

#boop #69 dude

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Omg it just switched over to Aerosmith. Is this enough to date someone?

Fat Bottomed Girls just swapped over to ACDC's Thunder and all I can think is, "shit my car pool buddy is Dean coded."

#spn #dean coded #acdc #im cas coded

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Fat Bottomed Girls just swapped over to ACDC's Thunder and all I can think is, "shit my car pool buddy is Dean coded."

#spn #dean coded #acdc

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You cannot convince me that this isn't dta

AYE, BOY, WHAT THE F**K YOU THINK YOU DOING HERE?

THIS IS HELL, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU WERE COMING HERE?

I'VE BEEN PLAYING WITH YOUR DEMONS ALL DAY (x)

today's prompt || A PERFECT DISASTER

#endverse #spn #dta #you cannot convince that this isn't a dta post #down to agincourt #is what i mean #you heard me #destiel to the very end #bravo naughtystiel

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People that never read captions miss so much...

i have GOT to smoke weed with this bitch! [ID in alt text]

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I am sorry to say that I didn't until I was in college indigenous studies with an indigenous professor (who was amazing and gave me a book written about MY obscure little tribe. My tribe! There was a book about us and our treaty struggles, and I didn't know that either!), and they brought it up in class and we specifically studied the changes to the land on the east coast. I later went and talked to some east coast tribal historians about this for my fellowship. It's startling and heartbreaking and I dont think most people realize about the changes. A couple of years ago I saw an article about the struggles of local farmers and ranchers in my area in keeping back the juniper forests that were "invading their land". And for fuckssake, the local extension offices and the state agricultural agency were helping them! It was a war-they were using flamethrowers. And, I'm reading this, just blown away because Im thinking...what?...what the fuck do you all THINK was here before your damn cattle stripped the land?!!! Ridiculous!

I've also had discussions with other natives about what things might look like infrastructurally if the colonists hadn't invaded. Like, the idea that we are cave men trapped in time was a colonial strategy to justify taking our land away. We would be "modern," but I do think it would look differently. I think, there would be less roads and cars. I don't think we would have gotten as swept up in the oil industry and the oil culture. I'm not just going all chief Seattle here. A lot of that evolved from colonial interests and deal-making else where. Post WWII wheeling and dealing, Reagan's OPEC deals. I just dont think we'd be as invested in all of that. But I do think we would have been more aware and invested in the health of the land and more cautious of repercussions, because there is a historical precedent for that, while the historical cultural drives to oppress and use up the land weren't part of our cultures. I saw during COVID that the tribes were way more adept at quickly implementing and adapting remote forms of communication into everyday life. Heck, it was already there. We have been forced into remote and isolated parts of the country in the past and thats where our reservations and reserves - with our tribal governments have remained. Of course we had to have already been pivoting on some modern equivelants of "smoke signals," to remain functional and thrive. It goes back to my cousins and I having school over radio when we were kids. We were just quiety going about it in the background, because if the colonists find out we got a good thing going, they usually try to ruin it. But anyways, where I was going with that, is that I think that consideration toward how we steward the lands would have caused up to pursue things like better remote communication over extensive roads services. Maybe we would have figured things like remote drone delivery sooner. That kind of thing.

We also thought that there would be less, but bigger buildings for housing. I drive through cities, and I see all these tiny, single family homes, and I think naaaw. There would have been more communal multi-generational housing, I think. NAYA in Portland, Oregon has built several such housing structures in recent years, and they've been really popular. If we had less, larger buildings, I think we would have grown upwards, rather out into a sprawl, and we would have cities that were more compact, leaving more countryside intact. Closer in food supply too, which would have have lessened the need for all those roads and the envirnmental impact of food transportation to cities. I could write a whole book on what farming would look like. A couple of years ago I read an article by some white people about how they "discovered" food forests in the Pacific Northwest, and were surprised and delighted to discover some of them were still "mysteriously" in existance. I remember very well going out and maintaining those with my mom and aunties when we went out to get huckleberries growing up and I know damn well the tribal members still in those areas still do every huckleberry seson. "Mysterious," my ass.

There has been a quiet movement (and not so quiet, Im lookong at you, Nez Perce) for tribes and individual indigenous people, to buy back land with the aim to restore it. Every little bit counts. I only got 2 acres, but it has thriving bees (the local farms killed them all off for miles around. Stupid, I know. I mean, theyre still trying to figure out why their harvests keep decreasing while they use more and more land.) AND I pirated in some "invasive" junipers. I know someone from my tribe who has over 100 baby trees growing in her cuty apartment. She don't got anywhere to plant them, but she gives them out for free to anyone who does. I think the idea that individuals can't make big changes, so why bother trying, is a colonial attitude, and I think a lot about what the land would look like if the majority of its people kicked that idea to the curb. And that's all I got to say about that right now.

Not to be That Indigenous™️, but are you ever driving or hiking or literally anywhere and you get hit with wondering what the land might be like if settlers never came? What hills and forests could have been? And then you just ache inside and out for your ancestors?

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If I was still working in social media, and worked for tumblr, I'd be planning a Dean Winchester birthday/tumblr live funeral party. Just sayin.

#sound advice

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To give people an idea of the "wider gait" with canes: I just started at a new workplace that has the passageways between cubicles set at the minimum ADA recommendation, and it's only been a week but I have seen the deer-in-headlights whites of their eyes of all my coworkers now as they meet me coming down a corrider and realize that we CANNOT PASS because the minimum width is only for one person with an aid going on direction, not enough for anyone trying to pass another direction. Then they whip their heads around and franically dive into the next cube gap they can find because they don't want to be rude, and half the time land on some poor unsuspecting coworker, and in conclusion, I think we will be meeting with mechanicals to reconfigure our office floorplan soon.

hey if you're not a mobility aid user, and you want a simple way to make public spaces more accessible to those of us who are, i have a tip for you:

push in your chairs when you get up from tables.

when people don't push in their chairs, people with bulky aids like wheelchairs and rollators can't get through. also a lot of people who use canes have wider gaits than able bodied people, and having a chair in the middle of their walking path is a real obstruction. while some of us are able to push chairs out of our way, a lot of us are not, and wind up boxed in/out because somebody didn't push in their chair.

so if you want to do something simple that can make a big difference in terms of like. navigating an outdoor food court or a cafe or what have you. push in your chairs.

#ada #but not really

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Yakutat, Alaska

Taken August 2023

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Historic barn

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I'm just saying. My chickens have Castiel feathers. Actually, they also act kinda... shit. My chickens are Cas-coded.

Dude! Personal space!

I think we all know which angel this one is.

#supernatural #but with chickens #castiel chicken of the lord #we think Gabriel is a rooster but they actusl identify as non-binary #like we havent seen them lay an egg yet but i expect it any day out of sheer willpower #chickens #you know

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#I did. #they starting using the bus stop across the street from my house #all my friends and I started watching her everyday at lunch time #we'd just arrive one by one order pizza and then duck down under the front windows to spy on them like crazy people #finally one day we all jumped in a car and followed the bus #they got off the bus at a mall where they worked in a department store and we all snuck into the store and watched my doppelganger from #behind clothes racks and their boss just walked up behind us and said “Erin I thot you were working today” #my friends kept spying on them at work and found out that their name was the same pseudonym I published under #one day they werent at the bus stop and we couldnt find them at the mall and we never saw them again

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all emotions are valid. etc. you don’t have to specify which country. just curious.

#this confused me #i had dual citizenship before #now im technically a prisoner of war thats been granted citizenship in a different country #like this question assumes that everyone has only one citizenship status thats never been affected by outside forces #i think this question might be??? #internalized colonialism? #institutionalized colonialism #fuck i got no idea

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I mean. Didn't even mention the UFOs...

The Shadow Of Mount Rainier Causing A Gap In The Sunset.

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My momma still crosses the street if we have to pass a church.

December 25, 1926 Catholic Church interior with Paiute Congregation.

#mission school #native american #indigenous #settler trauma

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"Dude! Look at this giant pinecone! Let's put it on the tree!"

*Elficide occurs*

The cones of the Coulter pine are also known as "widow makers." Because they kill people when they fall on them. Not only are they big and heavy, these fuckers are sharp. Stanford University describes them as "covered with long, wicked, incurving claws." They are 10 to 16 inches long and weigh up to ten pounds. I did find a few articles confirming people being badly maimed by these things, though no confirmed kills. Remind me to tell you about the exploding pine cones someday.

#elf on the shelf #elfacide #coulter pine #widow maker #widowmaker #nature kills #these fuckers will cut ya #christmas tragedy #christmas tree #happy holidays #creepmas

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At this point, I'm starting to feel like someone should just put it out of its misery.

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The goat is looking fucking ROUGH at this point