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“My children, it is you. You are not what we wanted, not what we planned for, but you are my experiment, and you are a success.”

So I just finished Adrian Tchaikovksy's "Children of Time" and it's easily my favorite book of the last decade. I am so emotional over these sentient jumping spiders <3

Alternate version under the cut:

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The reality of being Indigenous in so called Canada

• Indigenous women and girls make up 50% of human trafficking victims, while only making up about 2% of the population.¹

•If the territory of Nunavut was an independent country it would have the highest suicide rate in the world (135 per 100,000, which is 10x the canadian average)²

•Despite Calgary having a fairly low crime rate the Calgary Police kill more people than any other police force in Canada. In 2018 CPS killed more people than the police forces of Winnipeg, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto and Edmonton combined. ASIRT, the provincial police watchdog, has never charged an officer for these murders. If you control for population, the rate of civilians killed in Calgary by police is 8 times higher than in New York City. ³

•Between August 30th and December 14th 2024, 15 Indigenous people were killed by police in Canada. 15 people in under 4 months. Because Canada does not collect data on victims of police violence it's difficult to know exact numbers, but it's estimated that Indigenous people make up 16% of police killings, while only making up 4.1% of the population. Indigenous people are killed by police at a rate 10x higher than white canadians.⁴

•28% of people federally incarcerated are Indigenous. This number is as high as 40% in women's prisons. Indigenous women are incarcerated at a rate 12.5x higher than non Indigenous women. ⁵

•29 reserves in Canada are under drinking water advisories. Some of these advisories have been in place for more than 25 years. ⁶

•53.8% of kids in the foster care system are Indigenous. In the province I live in (Alberta) that number is more than 70%. ⁷

• 7% of non Indigenous Canadian children live in poverty. 38% of Indigenous children in Canada live in poverty. ⁷

Canada is not America-lite. Canada is not America's polite northern neighbour. Canada has its own brutal colonial history, and sits on forcibly occupied Indigenous land.

Sources:

¹ https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/f75a4af6-cb87-4796-afa7-02c15c861241/resource/c21f2213-09d4-4fab-b55a-9e91f1bb44f5/download/jsg-reading-stone-survivors-lens-human-trafficking-2022-06.pdf

² https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4501584/

³ https://www.projectcalgary.org/d2f_track_record

https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/episodes/above-the-law

⁴

https://www.aptnnews.ca/investigates/deadly-force-an-inside-look-at-the-police-involved-deaths-of-2024/

https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/police-involved-deaths-canada-rise/

⁵

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/oip-cjs/p3.html

⁶

https://canadians.org/fn-water/

⁷

https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1541187352297/1541187392851

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Dang! It's literally so over. It may never have been more over. The curse will never be broken. I would say better luck next year but come on, do you really think they can do it? I sure don't. In fact I don't believe any Canadian team can do it, possibly ever again.

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WAS NO ONE GOING TO TELL ME THERES A NEW STURGEON GENUS ?????

I’m like. Losing my shit

Sometime this year (2025) a scientific consensus seems to have been reached that the previously-obsolete genus of Sinosturio be used as legitimate classification once again. 

Reclassifications from Wikipedia:

The reclassification of kaluga (previously Huso dauricus) surprised me most of all as it leaves beluga (Huso huso) as the only member of genus Huso. I wonder if beluga will eventually be reclassed with Acipenser and genus Huso will become obsolete.

This must be what it feels like for gamers when a new dlc drops

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i hide down in my corner because i like my corner #mycorner

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i literally have to romanticize almost everything or else i get sad

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I think about this chart all the time

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Murderbot's state of the art anti-eye contact technology

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they should invent a me that isn't sick

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I wish I could be shattered and ground into sand then remolded into a new shape made of all the same parts

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Of course you have a bite attack and two claw attacks and two wing attacks and a tail slap and a breath weapon. And pronouns. 🙄

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remembering the scene in arrival when our linguist protagonist talks about how language is what separates humans from animals. and then a scientist she's talking to says hmm personally I think it's science that separates humans from animals. and I really wanted that scene to just keep going with experts from more fields weighing in on how their field of study is the most fundamental thing about humanity. just showing all their perspectives

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love the word aforementioned. like i already said that

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if i was a bit would you commit to me 🥺

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from our limited perspective it seems to be a harrowing moment for the young beetlegirl comedian when her finest jokes are met with the sound of crickets, until the camera pans to reveal that the audience is full of cricketgirls as amused and chipper as can be