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THEY LITERALLY HANG THEM UP TO DRY IN CRYING OH MY GOD
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Albertans who want to continue to protect themselves from the COVID-19 virus will have to pay out of pocket for it, the province announced late Friday afternoon.
Since December 2020, the federal government had been looking after procuring and buying the vaccines, which the Public Health Agency of Canada said was unique to the COVID-19 pandemic compared to other routine immunization programs — which are paid for by provinces and territories.
This year, the COVID-19 vaccine procurement process shifted from a federal role to provincial and territorial procurement process ahead of the fall 2025 respiratory virus season, to align it with other how other immunizations are delivered for diseases that are endemic around the world, such as the flu.
As a result of the federal change, the Alberta government is passing the cost onto most Albertans who want to be immunized.
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decentralize and clean up your life!!!
use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
get rid of bloatware
use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
use storygraph instead of goodreads.
use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
burn your music onto cds
use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
remove bloatware on samsung X
use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
last updated: march 18th 2025
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#the dream is to go there and bike around a bit#though classmates from there couldnt get away from it fast enough#i still very much want to visit
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What's on the menu!
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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.
But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.
our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.
anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.
#this is what im saying#i work in queer history currently#and comparing everything to stonewall is very frustrating#calling our raids Our Stonewall is so annoying to me#we still celebrate pride in june because in my context the states WAS where things happened#and the community history im documenting ends up being affluent gay men who could afford to vacation in san francisco#and that becomes painfully obvious the more you look at it#but even just between cities pride is celebrated at vastly different times of year across the country#its somewhat relevant to understand that stonewall was well known and celebrated in the community here#but it also tends to erase or minimize the local contexts#and then people assume that if queer history happens its only in big cities#and people are always shocked when i tell them actually we have more info from rural sources in the early 20th century sometimes#its complicated and i have feelings
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Happy #makeaterriblecomicday2025! Please make a comic! It’s mandatory that you create some piece of sequential art — what it is and how you make it is up to you! Have fun! You might as well!
If you make a comic (again, it’s mandatory) and you want to share it, post it on the tag #makeaterriblecomicday2025! Or don’t, I’m not a cop.
Remember, the goal is to make something terrible! So if you can’t draw or have never made a comic, or if it’s been ages since you made something just for fun — that’s perfect! You’re all set! If you fuck up and make something that’s NOT terrible… well, some might say there’s joy in that too.
Ok stop reading this and go make something!!!
#it's WHAT#ourghgh normally im not plagued by deadlines#ironically im trying to make a good comic for work#but i can make a terrible one if i can set aside the time...#make a terrible comic day
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#my wife is on the SOR for being gay #no joke #she hit on a girl in a straight bar once #in 1997 #and while the girl was into it #the off duty cop sitting nearby was not #and so he arrested her for ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ #which in our state was still a felony #in 1997 (and would remain so until Lawrence v Texas in 2003) #and since ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ was a felony and a sex crime #she got put on The List #she is still on there to this day #because it costs MONEY to ask a judge to take you off #and she has tried four times#since 2003 #to get taken off the SOR #but every time the judge has said something like ‘no you pled guilty to the crime i can’t possibly take you off the sex offender registry’ #with no acknowledgement of what the actual crime was #(the crime of being a butch lesbian hitting on a cute girl who was into it) #(in 1997)
Reposting these tags with consent from the person that wrote them. The post about the Sex Offenders Registry is locked, but these tags are too important to go unnoticed.
Younger queer people need to realize that the SOR being used against queer people simply for being queer isn’t some ancient history thing. It still impacts queer people today. And it can quite easily be used that way again.
#not a uniquely us thing#i can only speak from a canadian perspective but our anti sodomy laws came straight from british imperialism#so you can bet these kinds of laws were on the books across the commonwealth#anyway for canadian context everett klippert was the last canadian to be arrested tried and imprisoned for homosexuality#he was arrested 1965 and not released until 1971#even though homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969#it grinds my gears when people assume things Only Happen in the US because This Country is Uniquely Bad#the countries like canada and the netherlands hailed as queer meccas#are only on that pedestal because people lost their lives or livelihoods for it
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#HAHAHA guess what season it is right now#IT's JUNEUARY#big scary thunderstorm last night and like 14 today#wooo unrestrained summer fun#i mean yes hellow mutual prev come over :3c#mid canada she says when she means based canada right...
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what was your almost name? mine was sofia
#was almost victoria who lived in victoria#thankfully parents chose neither#also recently learned mum wanted to name me tabatha after bewitched
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ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on
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For example, if you have a meal consisting of carrots, potatoes, broccoli, and chicken, would you eat all the carrots, then all the chicken, etc? Or would you eat some carrots, then some chicken, then some more carrots?
"Particular rules for combos" means, for example, that you would put carrots and broccoli in the same bite but not carrots and chicken. Don't count things that explicitly go together, like a sauce that is specifically intended for the chicken.
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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.
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reminder that "allies welcome" was once secret code for "those not out yet can still participate without putting themselves at risk", and for those who aren't out yet to comfortably exist in these spaces you have to let allies exist in those spaces too.
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Mon Mothma Outfits
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Mon Mothma Outfits
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