jadafitch · 4 months ago
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More Maine lighthouses coming soon...ish.
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todaysdocument · 8 months ago
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An Act Giving the President of the United States Additional Powers for the Defense of the United States
Record Group 11: General Records of the United States GovernmentSeries: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress
[handwritten pencil "1176"] Twenty Fifth [handwritten pencil "89" and right corner "Pub "82"] Congress of the United States at the Third Session Begun and held at the City of Washington in the District of Columbia on Monday the third day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. AN ACT giving to the President of the United States additional powers for the defence of the United States, in certain cases, against invasion, and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to resist any attempt on the part of Great Britain, [strikeout text] to enforce, by arms, her claim to exclusive jurisdiction over that part of the States of Maine which is in dispute between the United States and Great Britain; and, for that purpose to employ the naval and military forces of the United States and such portion of the militia as he may deem it advisable to call into service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the militia when called into service of the United States by virtue of this act or of the act entitled "An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union suppress insurrections repel invasions and to repeal the act now in force for these purposes," may, if in the opinion of the President of the United States the public interest regime it, be compelled to serve for a term not exceeding six months after the arrival at the place of rendezvous, in any one year unless sooner discharged. The "And be it further enacted, that in the event of actual invasion of the territory of the United States by any foreign power, or if imminent danger of such invasion discovered, in his opinion, to exist before Congress can be convened to act upon the subject the President be, and he is hereby, authorized if he deem the same expedient to accept the services of any number of volunteers not exceeding fifty thousand, in the manner provided for by an act entitled "an act authorizing the President of the United States to accept the service of volunteers and to raise an additional regiment of dragoons or mounted riflemen, approved May Twenty third Eighteen hundred and thirty six". Sec 4. And be it further enacted , that in the event of either of the contingencies provided for in, [strikeout text] this act the President of the United States shall be authorized to complete the public armed vessels now authorized by law, and to equip, [full transportation at link]
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basementofthebizarre · 6 months ago
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The Witch Grave: Uncovering the Mysteries of Old Burying Yard in York, Maine
Nestled amidst the serene beauty of York, Maine, lies a historical treasure shrouded in mystery and intrigue – the Witch Grave in Old Burying Yard. This ancient cemetery, dating back to the 17th century, holds within its grounds a grave that has captured the imagination of locals and visitors alike for generations. Old Burying Yard, also known as First Parish Cemetery, is one of the oldest…
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thebunnylord · 9 months ago
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We got both skis on the gas Lombard today and took it for a spin on the new Lombard road! What do you guys think of our sweet new road?
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Marguerite Blanche Thibodeau (aka Tante-Blanche)
had it not been for her, the Acadian colony in Northernmost Maine...would have become another Roanoke!
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hinamie · 7 months ago
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surprise it's yuri!!!in 2024
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doesnotloveyou · 1 year ago
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i'm actually very okay with "there was no other way this could end" endings. if they gotta die, let them die. if they gotta break up or go the wrong way or lose something important, let'em. so long as it completes the story. only thing i dislike more than a forced happy ending is a forced bad ending
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trans-axolotl · 3 months ago
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one of the reasons it's really hard for a lot of intersex people when intersex topics are on the news cycle is because the public's reaction reveals how little anyone knows or cares about intersex people, including people who call themselves our allies. almost every time intersex topics are trending, the discourse surrounding them is filled with misinformation. people who only learned today what the word intersex means jump into conversations and act like an authority. endosex/dyadic/perisex people get tripped up over things that are basically intersex 101, with tons of endosex people incorrectly arguing about the definition of intersex, who "counts," DSD terminology, and so much more. i've seen multiple endosex people say today that they've been "warning intersex people" and that we should have known that transphobia would catch up with us eventually, which is an absolutely absurd thing to say given the fact that consistently over the past ten years, it has often been intersex people sounding the alarm on sex-testing policies and also the fact that many, many intersex people are also trans, and already are facing the impacts of transphobia. there is an absolute failure from the general public to take intersex identity seriously; people seem not even able to fathom that intersex people have a community, history, and our own political resources. instead, endosex people somehow seem to think they're helping by bringing up half-remembered information from their high school biology class which usually isn't even relevant at all.
and this frustrates me so fucking much. not because i want to deny the impacts of transphobic oppression--i'm a trans intersex person, trust me when i say i am intimately aware of transphobia. this frustrates me because there is no way we can achieve collective liberation if our "allies" fail to even engage with basic intersex topics and are seemingly unaware of the many forms of intersex oppression that we are already facing every fucking day. if you are not aware of compulsory dyadism, if you are not aware of interphobia, if you are not aware of the many different ways that intersex people are directly and often violently targeted--how the fuck do you think we're going to dismantle all of these systems of oppression?
if you were truly an intersex ally, you would already KNOW that this is not new, and would not be surprised--interphobia in sports has been going on for decades. you would know that we do have a community, an identity, a history--you would have already read/listened/watched to intersex resources that give you the background information you need for allyship. you would know that although there is a really distinct lack of resources and political education, that intersex people ARE developing a political understanding of ourselves and our oppression--Cripping Intersex by Celeste Orr and their framework of compulsory dyadism is one example of how we're theorizing our oppression. It's absolutely fucking wild to me how few people I've seen actually use words like "interphobia" "intersexism" "compulsory dyadism" or "intersex oppression"--endosex people are seemingly incapable of recognizing that there is already an entrenched system of oppression towards intersex people that violently reshapes our bodies, restricts our autonomy, and attempts to eradicate intersex through a variety of medical and legal means.
you cannot treat intersex people like an afterthought. not just because we're meaningful parts of your community and deserving of solidarity, but also because intersex oppression impacts everyone!!! especially trans community--trans people will not be free until intersex people are free, so much of transphobia is shaped by compulsory dyadism, the mythical sex binary, all these ideas of enforced "biological sex" that are just as fake as the gender binary.
it makes me absolutely fucking livid every time this shit happens because it becomes so abundantly clear to me how little the average endosex person knows about intersex issues and also how little the average endosex person cares about changing that. i don't know what to say to get you to care, to get you to change that, but we fucking need it to happen and i, personally, am tired of constantly being grateful when i meet an endosex person who knows the bare minimum. i think we have a right to expect better and to demand that if you're going to call yourself our ally, you actually fucking listen to us when we tell you what that means.
okay for endosex people to reblog.
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dungeonrabbits · 5 months ago
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"chilchucks a real hater"-wrong! chilchucks a lover!!
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trans-androgyne · 2 months ago
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Yes, trans men and mascs have historically been subjected to less public violence and ridicule than trans women and fems. Is having privilege really the only reason you can think of for that? Have you considered that they had less ability to be publicly visible in the first place? Please remember that the lack of autonomy women have historically been granted also applies to transmascs. They would have been considered the property of men. Spousal rape wasn't illegal everywhere in my country until 1993. How easy do you think it would be for forcibly impregnated transmascs to transition? For abused transmascs in general? Do you think they were all even allowed out of the house often without a man? There are so many stories of transmascs being forcibly institutionalized for being trans. Is that situation and otherwise being quietly abused and erased really so much better than hypervisibility?
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lurukifennecfox · 2 months ago
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i want a ghost courting fanfic Dead on Main
i want it to be intentional from Danny's side and Red Hood/Jason to be confused™
i want it to be where Danny moved to gotham for reasons (it's pre reveal for danny or reveal gone right) and he's met that really cute guy and ohmygod what does he do?? Ember, Kitty, Johny, Skulker? how do you court someone? what should he do???
so Danny gets Ghost Courting advice and oh.. the cute dead guy is the freaking Red Hood who Danny may or may not have had a crush on even before meeting in civvies ok that's fine he'll just proceed with the plan a leave a gift in his haunt with a little hint as to who that might be from as is only proper (thanks for advice Ember!)
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ltwilliammowett · 4 months ago
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Caulking the Main Deck of HMS Trincomalee by jones_shipwrights
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chaoticmiserablelover · 2 months ago
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Richard was really giving y/n energy when he almost died from hypothermia and needed to be saved by a big smart man with dark hair.
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thebunnylord · 9 months ago
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THE GREEN MACHINE LIVES!!!
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bethanydelleman · 4 months ago
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Edit: Turning off reblogs on this post since I've been told it contains misinformation. Also, someone reblogged it with a huge rant and blocked me (as far as I can tell), leaving me unable to reply and with only partial notes and that freaks me out.
So I was telling someone about my boy, Sejong the Great of Joeson, who deserves that title "great" since he was so concerned about illiteracy that he created the easy-to-learn Korean alphabet (Hangul) by himself, but then the nobility got mad about all these reading peasants and tried to ban it. And my friend says, "Oh, I thought illiterate poor people in the past were just lazy."
And I was like, "No, no, you don't want your indentured servants and peasants reading and figuring out how much you are screwing them over. The adapted Chinese characters that Korea had been using took years to learn so it was a natural gatekeeper of knowledge."
And then, because one must be fair, I went on to explain how Europeans locked up their knowledge behind Latin, especially the Bible, and how it was so important that Martin Luther translated it into everyday German, because once you can read the Bible yourself, you can challenge the almost absolute power of the church. Only the rich could afford to learn Latin, so only the rich could read the book that their entire society was allegedly based around.
I do think things are much better today, but why are most scientific papers paywalled and scientists sometimes act as if they should be treated like infallible priests...
Edit: I wanted to end this post on a happy note, but then I started thinking about paywalls and it made me a bit depressed. We still do make our best knowledge less accessible to the average person and I hope we can do more to change that.
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livesunique · 8 months ago
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Chateau du Plessis-Bourré, Écuillé, Maine-et-Loire, France,
@daftintin_drone
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