#Ministers Island

[yoshida-midoriko]

[tuttle-did-it]

FUCK. THE. TORIES.

They have refused to increase wages whilst forcing the cost of living to skyrocket so high that nearly all of us are counting pennies to pay bills. If we can pay them.

They intentionally and gleefully forced us into a horrible economic (and cultural) depression through Brexit, and not one of them had a single consequence for the constant lies they told to get it passed. This will only get worse.

They have intentionally dismantled the NHS by underfunding it to the point where the NHS staff are all burnt out (having nervous breakdowns, leaving the country for far- better paying jobs or just leaving the field completely) just so they could sell it off to privatised companies worth billions just so they can fill their own pockets. Oh, and the incredible capable staff (medical or support) who were all from Europe have been told they are no longer welcome here and they have returned home because Britain is a cesspool of bigotry and hate

They are dismantling the social care systems for the disabled and elderly, to try to force us back to work even though we are physically and/or mentally incapable of work by stripping away our incomes.

They're doing everything they can to keep us from living by making sure we cannot afford food, housing, utilities, water, and tax.

They are living on taxpayers whilst having millions, even billions in the bank for themselves.

The corrupt politicians fill their bank accounts and buy third and fourth houses across all Europe, another boat— whatever— and they have scandal after scandal with absolutely no consequence, and we can do absolutely nothing.

Their handling of COVID was criminal, and aside from wasting an incredible amount of money, they are responsible for many deaths by not acting fast enough and by forcing people back into the workplace when they knew it was not safe because they wanted to improve the economy they collapsed.

Oh, and don't forget all those lovely parties they had during COVID lockdowns when we were all in our houses and not allowed to see family members who were dying-- or even go to their funerals because of COVID restrictions.

They are intentionally fuelling the hate at queer people-- specifically trans people. This, I assure you, will get so much worse.

They keep sending money from taxpayers over to fund wars in other places-- including genocide-- with no way for us to fight back.

They keep making law after law making it more and more difficult for us to protest against everything they are doing.

Now the Tories expect you to do 12-18 months (+4 reserve years) of mandatory conscripted service in the military so you can go help countries commit war atrocities and genocide. And if you refuse, you are sanctioned. And they are making more and more laws restricting protest and free speech, so if we fight back, we're punished-- criminalised.

Do you understand what is happening right now?

Anyone who can still vote for the Tories after all of this, I have only a deep seeded concern for their sanity, and revulsion at their lack of morals.

FUCK EVERYONE WHO WILL OR HAS EVER VOTED FOR THESE MONSTERS.

FUCK.

THE.

TORIES.

FUCK.

THEM.

ALL.

[thequiver]

what if i flew to england and fought someone to get access to the primary sources i need to write this lesson plan

[hauntingblue]

Every time I think about who the 10th strawhat is going to be I end up in an endless cycle bc vivi could be it but cobra is dead and if we know anything about her is that she is dutiful and would no doubt stay in arabasta and reign (she literally has made that decision before) but then we get to yamato and it's the same thing because yes he wants to explore the seas like oden but his fruit is literally the animal protector of wano and odens biggest mistake was leaving wano.... so what now....

[papasmistakeria]

AU where everything is the same except when Father Paul was telling Riley about his sister named Alice, he's actually lying and his sister is still alive and well and named Christine

[cute-chamomile]

Funniest thing happened on Greek twitter: some account was like "let's create a fake island i.e. Psimithos, and let's all say how much fun we had on our vacation there" and people committed to the bit, with fake pictures of the beach or complaints about how expensive the ship tickets were to get there... It got so convoluted that a doctor said he's quitting being the Psimithos doctor, with follow-up posts from people saying that now the entire island doesn't have a doctor... And it got famous enough that the minister of health had to come out and say "y'all this is a fake island, not a symptom of our health system failing" even though this same thing is happening in real islands i mean what

[reniadeb]

🥗 @reniadeb 🥗

[thepastisalreadywritten]

New coral reef discovered in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands

Reuters | 18 April 2023

Fish gather at an ancient and pristine coral reef discovered by a scientific expedition in the depths of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on 17 April 2023.

📷: UBristol / WHOI / UEssex / UBoise / NERC / NSF / National Park Galapagos / Handout via REUTERS

A scientific expedition has discovered a previously unknown coral reef with abundant marine life off Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, the country's environment ministry said on Monday.

"A deepwater scientific expedition has found the first totally pristine coral reef, approximately two kilometers (1.2 miles) long, at 400 meters (deep), on the summit of a submarine mountain," Environment Minister Jose Davalos said on Twitter. "Galapagos surprises us again!"

Scientists had believed that the only Galapagos reef to survive El Nino weather in 1982 and 1983 was one called the Wellington reef, along the coast of Darwin Island, but the new discovery shows other coral has persisted, the ministry said in a statement.

The reef has more than 50% living coral.

"This is very important at a global level because many deepwater systems are degraded," said Stuart Banks, senior marine researcher at the Charles Darwin Foundation, who participated in the expedition.

"The coral is several thousand years old at least," he added.

The South American country last year expanded the Galapagos marine reserve by 60,000 square km (23,166 square miles), an extension of the 138,000 square km already in place, to protect endangered migratory species between the Galapagos and the Cocos Island in Costa Rica.

The Galapagos, which inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, are also home to giant tortoises, albatrosses, cormorants and other species, some of which are endangered.

The research submarine Alvin is pictured in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 11 November 2021.

📷: UBristol / WHOI / UEssex / UBoise / NERC / NSF / National Park Galapagos / Handout via REUTERS

The scientific ship Atlantis is anchored in the Academia Bay in Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 29 March 2023.

📷: Carlos Espinosa / National Park Galapagos / Handout via REUTERS

[firespirited]

They suspended her for saying the truth, and that is that once someone from your same minority in group is in a position of power, they are no longer your ally. Class ALWAYS trumps race, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, religion. Kwarteng would sell every black person in this country for one cornchip if it meant Tory donors and their buddies got to bleed us dry for one more day, and we shouldn't be afraid to say that.

Black people in American say "skinfolk ain't kinfolk" and it's damn right.

Yep. Here's a spicy take from someone who isn't american: JayZ is far richer than his wife because he built an exploitative business that allows his to reap the rewards of other black artists' work, he's still going to get treated like dirt compared to a white man with his wealth and status. There are layers here.

My current town is home to a Moroccan and Algerian community, they don't like each other much because countries that are neighbours tend to have long-standing rivalries (see england vs france) but both would rather unite over religion and will not associate with the Moroccan or Algerian Berber who are considered a different ethnicity and generally tend towards their own christianity. This creates some very interesting intersections: you have skin tone & proximity to white beauty standards, religion and this third factor that's invisible to white french people but obvious to north africans: being more culturally african than arab.

Kwasi Kwarteng's father worked for the commonwealth, he went to Eton as a teen (which is an elite school where most of our leaders come from) then to Cambridge and Harvard, he is an investment banker on the side making money off the current pound crash. This is not your average british-ghanaian, he is hurting the vast majority of british-ghanians and if black britons feel betrayed, maybe us white folk need to sit back and ask ourselves if there's more to this than melanin and maybe not buy in to the "black on black racism" manufactured outrage.

I mean their side only just got rid of Mr "watermelon smiles & p*ckn*nnys" 3 weeks ago and we're probably weeks away from finding Liz Truss' thesis on why race based eugenics is good actually.

[goingplacesfarandnear]

New Brunswick Roadtrip Begins in St. Andrews

St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com By Karen Rubin, with Dave E. Leiberman, Laini Miranda & Eric Leiberman Travel Features Syndicate, http://www.goingplacesfarandnear.com Perhaps the most defining feature of New Brunswick, Canada is that it has the highest tides in the world. But unless you see it, stand in it, walk on the ocean floor one hour and kayak…

[byzantine-suggestions]

if i had a solidus for every time Theodora won or was nominated for some weird 21st century pop culture beauty contest, I'd have two solidi. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[frmulcahy]

Fuck the Franklin Expedition I want a show about the Goodsir family these siblings were doing So Much

[sapphia]

USA please listen to me: the price of “teaching them a lesson” is too high. take it from New Zealand, who voted our Labour government out in the last election because they weren’t doing exactly what we wanted and got facism instead.

Trans rights are being attacked, public transport has been defunded, tax cuts issued for the wealthy, they've mass-defunded public services, cut and attacked the disability funding model, cut benefits, diverted transport funding to roads, cut all recent public transport subsidies, cancelled massive important infrastructure projects like damns and ferries (we are three ISLANDS), fast tracked mining, oil, and other massive environmentally detrimental projects and gave the power the to approve these projects singularly to three ministers who have been wined and dined by lobbyists of the companies that have put the bids in to approve them while one of the main minister infers he will not prioritise the protection of endangered species like the archeys frog over mining projects that do massive environmental harm. They have attacked indigenous rights in an attempt to negate the Treaty of Waitangi by “redefining it”; as a backup, they are also trying to remove all mentions of the treaty from legislation starting with our Child Protection laws no longer requiring social workers to consider the importance of Maori children’s culture when placing those children; when the Waitangi Tribunal who oversees indigenous matters sought to enquire about this, the Minister for Children blocked their enquiry in a breach of comity that was condemned in a ruling — too late to do anything — by our Supreme Court. They have repealed labour protections around pay and 90 day trials, reversed our smoking ban, cancelled our EV subsidy, cancelled our water infrastructure scheme that would have given Maori iwi a say in water asset management, cancelled our biggest city’s fuel tax, made our treasury and inland revenue departments less accountable, dispensed of our Productivity Commission, begun work on charter schools and military boot camps in an obvious push towards privatisation, cancelled grants for first home buyers, reduced access to emergency housing, allowed no cause evictions, cancelled our Maori health system that would have given Maori control over their own public medical care and funding, cut funding of services like budgeting advice and food banks, cancelled the consumer advocacy council, cancelled our medicine regulations, repealed free prescriptions, deferred multiple hospital builds, failed to deliver on pre-election medical promises, reversed a gun ban created in response to the mosque shootings, brought back three strikes = life sentence policy, increased minimum wage by half the recommended amount, cancelled fair pay for disabled workers, reduced wheelchair services, reversed our oil and gas exploration ban, cancelled our climate emergency fund, cut science research funding including climate research, removed limits on killing sea lions, cut funding for the climate change commission, weakened our methane targets, cancelled Significant National Areas protections, have begun reversing our ban on live exports. Much of this was passed under urgency.

It’s been six months.

[reasonsforhope]

"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