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STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

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US based archaeologists, indigenous people, and heritage professionals:

Are you interested in zoom session to plan how to protect cultural heritage? This is a planning session for that, as Trump begins stream rolling Section 106 & firing the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation.

It’s on Friday and registration is free.

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Kinda disheartening tbh when you search for people talking about something on tumblr and you find only a single post with like 10 notes. Anyway, I learned about this from Facebook just today and decided I'm going to abuse my follower count to spread the word.

You'll have a hard time finding this in the news because it's being covered up, but from February 4-present the RCMP have been conducting raids on multiple Mi'kmaw reserves part of Acadia First Nation. Their excuse is that they are searching for illegal cannabis.

During the raids, so far they:

Stole a number of truck houses

Stole money from an 8-yo boy's piggy-bank that he had been saving for two years

Invaded homes and destroyed personal property, including basketwork and carvings

Broke the door down of a bathroom occupied by a 14-yo boy as he was using it - the boy has been traumatized by this

Assaulted a man for questioning why they were searching his property without providing a warrant, pinning him into the snow

Cut power of security cameras to hide these actions

I cannot stress enough that the RCMP coming down this hard on our people over motherfucking cannabis is nothing but a racist excuse. There are countless, countless, countless white-owned massive grow-ops making big money without cops lifting a single finger.

There is an informal petition you can sign here. EDIT: I've informed the petition owner that there is a field error - hopefully it'll be fixed soon

If you live in or near Halifax: There will be a public protest on the Angus MacDonald Bridge at noon on March 10, 2025.

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I wish we had been born into a kinder time.

But we weren't. So we're going to have to build one.

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As a kid learning about the holocaust, I never understood how people could let Nazis rise to power. But now I’m watching it happen in real time.

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Calling all Brits on this hellsite.

We all saw Elon Musk do the nazi salute at the Trump inauguration. We know that he is influencing and fanning the flames of right wing political parties.

And that very well may include ours.

Because Elon Musk has pledged to donate $100 million to the Reform party. He has since mentioned that it might be hard to give such a large sum now.

But I don’t think we should take our chances. And I think we can agree that letting billionaires influence our countries politics is a terrible idea.

If you also agree here’s a link to a Parliament petition.

It calls for the government to remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies).

As it is a parliament petition the government are required to debate it in parliament. But for that to happen it needs to reach 100,000 signatures.

Non British folk I’m afraid you guys can’t sign but I encourage you guys to reblog so that more people can see this.

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At first glance, I thought it was two sailing ships who'd gained sentience and decided to duke it out with their nearest kin.

we could be so fucking wet and loud

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Today, we are discussing an AI app called the Living Museum that allows you to talk to artifacts from the British Museum, and it's an ethical nightmare!

Please give it a watch and a like!

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ghazal for nol collective, december 2023 elisa chavez

When I want to be a new woman, I try new clothes. They're a charm against sorrow. A passport, new clothes,

they're a sealskin that lets me slip out of a man's grasp, or a nation's. I wish, and my browser brews clothes.

Women long ago learned to hide stories in cloth. Think the tignon. Think occupied Paris. A used thobe,

in the right artist's hands, can smuggle history over borders. A miracle, like a few loaves.

Facing arrest, I slipped into my grandmother's  jacket. I sang to the cops. No gun–I drew clothes.

The recipe calls for herbs I can't find. "Mulled wine: Gather star anise, orange zest, and whole stewed cloves."

In the aisle, I see the olive grove I googled– a woman's face, sobbing. She's frozen in new throes

of grief, embracing one ragged trunk like a child. Like a girl dragged on back of a bike to–who knows?

When speaking burns your fingers, you learn to forget. You blanch. That's how my family lost our true clothes.

Threads imply hands not so different than mine. I hold the seashell to my ear: Who are you, clothes?

After the village, its image persists in thread. It symbols, it banners. What can we do? Sow.

"Elisa, when the bombs fell, you bought new clothes?" I heart-garden. I carry. My blood warms new clothes.

Want to support Gaza weavers in their fight to preserve traditional textile techniques? You can do that at Nol Collective's GoFundMe for a workshop in Cairo. If you can't contribute, please consider signal-boosting.

About Nol Collective: Nol Collective is a conscious fashion collective that produces clothes, goods, and accessories rooted in traditional Palestinian crafts. "the hope is that our garments read like visual manuscripts, humanizing and narrating the collective labor of love behind a garment and the triumph of creativity and heritage in the face of struggle."

Shop at nolcollective.com/ 

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this is your thanksgiving reminder that the chinook tribe is still fighting for federal recognition, which means they are unable to access programs and resources. please take some time today to sign their petition and donate if you’re able to. and if you live in washington or oregon please write to your elected officials.

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I HAVE A LONG-LOST TWIN. I HAD NO IDEA.

my friends held an intervention for me to "stop asking intimidately specific questions". i tried to explain that i am just a good listener but there is apparently "a line between follow-up questions during small talk and interrogation tactics that gets crossed sometimes". turns out my curious nature is "scaring the hoes"

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Read as many times as needed

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As a shark, I approve this message. All y'all are now toothy friends or magnificent fish. Go forth and be majestic and fabulous!

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Nestled amidst the lush greenery of Central Park, Cleopatra's Needle stands as the oldest outdoor monument in New York City. How then did this ancient Egyptian obelisk find itself in such an unlikely location?

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Wangmu Niangniang 王母娘娘