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I can’t wait till this is on my dash again on December 24th tbh.
Negotiating (with) the Dead eBook: A Nixon: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
Oh my goodness, guys!!!! I did a thing!
HI! So this is on a few amazons (CA, US, UK, AU, & others) and in book form in Toronto, Canada. At the moment it’s available at the St Clair BookCity location and I’m working on getting it into the others.
It’s pretty dang exciting, I’m not gonna lie!! Oh, it’s also listed on goodreads!
The proper book description is as follows:
“Someone should speak to the dead… The dead will know who killed them.”
When the bodies started showing up along the River of the Dead, everyone had a theory. Everyone except Alasdair Johnson.
Since he was young, Alasdair could sense with the supernatural, whether or not he wanted to. As an adult, he’d much rather be left alone by both the dead and the living. He definitely isn’t keen to get involved in this whole “dead bodies” thing.
But as a former-child medium and a potent magnet for the dearly and nearly departed, Alasdair has a feeling that he’s going to get dragged into it. Because he always does.
(And he’s got the scars to prove it.)
“Negotiating (with) the Dead” is A. Nixon’s debut novel. It chronicles the misadventures of a reluctant medium in a world where ghosts, necromancers, and the cops that investigate them are just a part of any regular Monday.
This still exists! Most of them are currently in a box in my apartment but it still exists and it can be yours for a modest price. Message me for details and get your own copy of the reluctant medium’s adventures.
Indigenous Canada. Free course. Available online. From Native Studies department at the University of Alberta (where Kim TallBear teaches).
From Indian Residential School Survivors Society, social media, 1 June 2021: “Grateful for the reminder that [University of Alberta] hosts a free course called “Indigenous Canada.” It is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course from [University of Alberta Native Studies] that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada, from an Indigenous perspective.”
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Course available here.
10/10 recommend this course! I found it very accessible in terms of the language used, and Coursera has captions for all the videos so it’s accessible in that way too
so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough
“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”
Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.
I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.
Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
They were CHILDREN.
They were murdered in cold blood.
happy juneteenth🤍!!! here's a list of black gfms that have yet to meet their goals! (black ppl feel free to link your or others donation posts in a reblog! reblogs from nonblack ppl appreciated!)
help teej's sister get a breast reduction.
help audi, a closeted black lesbian, move out of a toxic household.
help shay, a black nonbinary, with their moving expenses.
help gaia afford a house for her father suffering with homelessness and stage 3 colon cancer.
help a autistic transmasc lesbian move out of an ableist and abusive household.
help sapphire, a black transwoman, get out of an abusive household.
help sol, a black transwoman, with her transition and other necessities.
help melanie with her gender affirming surgery.
help a disabled incoming freshman pay for college.
help micah, a black queer transmasc person move.
help silver, a gnc black lesbian get a new camera and laptop.
help zora, a nonbinary transfem, move and transition.
help noelle, a black transwoman afford surgery and other basic necessities.
also, here are a few organizations led by trans black people that help with crowdfunding and give support to other black trans people in need!
black trans connection.
for the GWORLS.
black trans travel fund.
black trans defense fund LA.
and here's another batch of black gfms that haven't met their goals.
help tiana start her transition.
help a black nonbinary teen leave an abusive household.
help river leave a toxic environment and provide for themself and their cats.
help a black, disabled, queer couple move.
help a black trans activist afford top surgery.
help rashida transition.
help a black nonbinary trans male save for transitioning and help their mental health.
survival funds for a black trans femme.
help a trans nonbinary femme survive.
help a black enby secure funds to furnish their home.
elena's transition fund.
a south africa woman's transition fund.
housing and mental health aid for james.
help cathy defeat cancer.
#repost @oncanadaproject from Instagram
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➡️Our history in Canada is horrifying, & until we acknowledge that & recognize the truth, we will continue upholding systems built on a foundation of racism, violence & harm without question.
215 Indigenous children were found buried at a Kamloops residential school site, some as young as THREE years old.
That residential school only closed in 1978. The last residential school closed in 1996. This isn't some distant history that we are talking about.
And Indigenous people continue to be oppressed in this country, the effects are very much felt in present day.
We should be collectively grieving this atrocity as a country.
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Please share any accounts or resources we should follow here or link on www.OnCanadaProject.ca/SettlersTakeAction
Click the title slide for accounts you should follow to learn more.
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Support is available for anyone affected by the lingering effects of residential schools, and those who are triggered by the latest reports. The Indian Residential School Survivours Society (IRSSS) can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-721-0066.
#oncanadaproject
Self Care Tips From Tumblr: When you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. When you feel like you hate everyone, eat. When you feel like you hate yourself, shower. Someone out there feels better because you exist.
instagram / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my book / redbubble
That last part is something I want to remind myself.
itch.io is doing another massive bundle, this time for palestinian aid and you can and you can buy 1020 items for just 5 dollars HERE
[quoted from the page]
This is a grassroots bundle by indie devs who want to help Palestinians.
All profit from this bundle will be donated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The UNRWA has provided food assistance for over one million Palestinians, and continues to do so in the territories with heavy destruction. They also provide emergency mental and physical health protection for those in the region. https://www.unrwa.org/gaza-emergency
Indie games are unique in that they can tell stories not seen in AAA or other games. We pour our life experiences into our games and share a piece of ourselves with the world. Palestinian game developers are no different in this aspect, but have the added challenges of limited access to basic services, like clean water, electricity, medical care, and food security. They live under Israeli authority that discriminates and subjugates Palestinians to the point of persecution and apartheid, simply for being Palestinian. Furthermore, they develop games without all the resources that come with being in a western hub for game development.
Palestinian game developer Rasheed Abueideh did exactly that when he made Liyla and the Shadows of War, which tells a story of a little girl who lives in Gaza during the 2014 war, in which 30% of civilian casualties were children. Liyla and the Shadows of War was showcased at IndieCade and A MAZE and earned numerous award nominations, including a win in Excellence in Storytelling at the International Mobile Gaming Awards Middle East/North Africa.
This bundle is pay-what-you-want (above $5 U.S. dollars) for Liyla and the Shadows of War, and you will receive hundreds of additional games, assets, and soundtracks graciously donated by game developers and media creators around the world for free. The bundle will run through Friday, June 11th. Together, we can raise funds for UNRWA for food and medical assistance for Palestinians AND highlight a game developer who is directly affected by the cause we are rallying behind.
here’s the link again: https://itch.io/b/902/indie-bundle-for-palestinian-aid
you can get games like: pikuniku, minit, longstory, a good snowman is hard to build, gnog, smile for me, cook serve delicious 2, and way more, along with countless ttrpgs, soundtracks, and programing resources. check it out if you have the time
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Take the time to watch this, it’s MAGIC
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Welp, this is the coolest thing I’ve seen all week.
One of the most important things I learned in my Language and the Law class is that law enforcement will intentionally misinterpret every type of statement asking for a lawyer as not asking for a lawyer. Even directly saying it like this “I will not speak to you without a lawyer” can be taken as a simple statement of fact rather than a request for a lawyer. You literally have to state “I am now invoking my right to a lawyer” and every time they try to proceed with an interrogation you have to answer every question with “I am invoking my right to have a lawyer present”. You can’t just tell them you won’t talk without a lawyer or that you want a lawyer. You have to state that you are invoking your rights. Otherwise they could just say “well they just said they wouldn’t speak without a lawyer present. That’s not invoking their rights to a lawyer. It’s just stating a fact.” even just stating your right to a lawyer doesn’t count!
PLEASE share this addition. I am a lawyer who works in criminal defense, and this is one of the most avoidable things that people consistently get wrong about the Miranda rights.
Here are some more “ambiguous” phrases which courts have found DO NOT invoke your right to a lawyer:
“Maybe I should speak to my lawyer first.”
“I might like a lawyer.”
“I think I should have a lawyer present for this.”
“Could I speak to my lawyer first?”
“How long until my lawyer gets here?”
And perhaps most egregiously – “Get me a lawyer, dawg – ‘cause this is not what’s up.”
Here are the magic phrases which you need to know if you want to invoke your Miranda rights:
1) “Am I free to leave?”
It’s worth asking this even if the answer is obvious. Even if the officer does not let you leave, by forcing them to admit that you are not free to leave, you are creating a record which your attorney can use to prove that you were in custody. Miranda rights only apply if the interrogation is custodial, meaning that police officers will frequently claim that their suspects were “not in custody” to get around their Miranda rights.
2) “I am invoking my right to remain silent.”
Simply staying silent will not invoke your right to remain silent. As absurd as this is, you must explicitly say that you are invoking your right to remain silent in order to invoke that right.
3) “I am invoking my right to an attorney.”
As stated above, you must be not only clear and unambiguous, but clear and legally unambiguous. Don’t get cute. Don’t get sassy. And on the flip side, don’t get intimidated and use verbal ticks to minimize your request. Say the line with those words exactly – say it clearly, and say it once, and then say nothing else.
Because even after you’ve done all this, the police can still try to get you to talk. They’re not supposed to interrogate you, but they’re allowed to make casual conversation, and if that conversation just happens to circle back around to the thing they wanted to question you about, well, that’s really your fault for talking after you said you wouldn’t, isn’t it? Can’t possibly fault the poor officers when you initiated – if you really wanted to have your rights respected, you wouldn’t have talked to them in the first place.
The police know this, and they will mercilessly exploit this loophole. So, once you’ve successfully invoked your Miranda rights, any and all conversation you have with police officers will put those rights back into jeopardy.
Putting it all together:
Ask: “Am I free to leave?”
If they say no, say: “I am invoking my right to remain silent and I am invoking my right to an attorney.”
And then shut up and do not say a single thing to them for any reason whatsoever until you have actually spoken to an attorney. Yes, even if it takes hours. Yes, even if they start talking to you about something else.
Finally, a very important disclaimer:
I may be a lawyer, but I’m not your lawyer, and I cannot guarantee that what I’ve just laid out here will always work for every situation. We didn’t get to this bizarre and absurd place overnight – we built this ridiculous system piecemeal, by deciding on a case-by-case basis that certain phrases were “too ambiguous” or certain types of questioning weren’t actually questioning at all. The law is still in flux, and is still fundamentally out to get you, and willing to bend plain meaning beyond all recognition to do it. Even if you invoke your rights perfectly, exactly as I have specified above, there’s a chance that your invocation of rights will be disqualified on some new technicality that no one’s even thought of yet – and that’s precisely the problem.
Watch this video: “Don’t Talk To The Police”
I am begging my followers to please watch this video from start to finish. I know it’s long, but it is incredibly valuable information that everyone needs to know, especially if you’re involved in any form of activism.
Every single cop lies. Every single cop lies and manipulates and twists the situation around to get a confession. Even when they know that the person is innocent, even when they know that what they have isn’t enough to convict someone, even when they know that that confession has been made under duress or manipulation. All they care about is getting anything to put someone behind bars.
It doesn’t matter how eloquent or innocent or experienced you are. Do not talk to cops.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
You also have a right to legal advice, for free, in a police interview in the UK. The Crown Prosecution Service (or the Procurator Fiscal in Scotland) must provide one for you. Minors also have the right to an appropriate adult (parent, carer, social worker etc): if arrested A MINOR CANNOT LEGALLY BE INTERVIEWED IF AN APPROPRIATE ADULT IS NOT PRESENT. (A cop does not count as an appropriate adult because they are not there to advocate for you. They’re there to advocate for themselves.)
Chik-fil-le sandwich
INGREDIENTS:
4 hamburger buns, split
1 head green leaf lettuce, leaves separated
1 beefsteak tomato, sliced
20 dill pickle slices
FOR THE CHICKEN
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 cup dill pickle juice
1 ½ cups milk, divided
1 cup peanut oil
1 large egg
½ cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
DIRECTIONS:
Place a chicken breast on a cutting board. With your hand flat on top of it, carefully slice the chicken in half horizontally. Trim excess fat as needed.
In a large shallow baking dish, combine chicken, pickle juice and ½ cup milk; marinate for at least 30 minutes. Drain well.
Heat peanut oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
In another large shallow baking dish, whisk together remaining 1 cup milk and egg. Stir in chicken to coat and drain excess milk mixture.
In a gallon size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine chicken, flour and confectioners’ sugar; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Working in batches, add chicken to the skillet and cook until evenly golden and crispy, about 4-5 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.
Serve chicken immediately on burger buns with green leaf lettuce, tomato and pickles.
Also if y’all are interested, I have the copycat recipes for the Frosted Lemonade and the Chicken Nuggets
https://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/copycat-chick-fil-a-nuggets/2b483ee0-a13e-4a3f-bf0b-9b26099c6e24
https://cincyshopper.com/copycat-chick-fil-a-frosted-lemonade/
If you like their food, this post will help you not fund them anymore.
Dont @ me but if ur a white content creator u should probably examine your brown characters (especially the darker skinned ones) and see if u aren’t following a certain trend of making them all aggressive, violent, surly or otherwise outwardly angry
white content creators: this was not an opportunity for you to prove how totally woke you are just reblog and go
full offense but if you saw this post or similar ones and immediately thought “let me prove I’m not racist”
then you have severely misunderstood the point and no one cares about your oc of color
reminder to:
straighten your back
go pee goddAMN IT STOP HOLDING IT
go take your meds if you need to
drink some water
go get a snack if you havent eaten in a while
maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)
reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about
maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?
I just would like to thank everyone who ever reblogs this so that it somehow ends up back on my dash because I usually need the reminder (especially the drinking water one)
A reminder.
I made a Fic Writer’s Pocket Pantry! For everyone who wants to cook up their next batch of fanfics on the go~
Inspired by this post by @deboracabral 💜
I love this, it’s so cute!
Here’s a link:
https://4ocean.com/pages/octopus
There’s different colors representing different sea creatures ❤️🌊
Just a little reminder that the US Military is the world’s biggest polluter. The fight against ecological disaster must include fighting the war machine!
Buy Poseidon devotional jewelry from here to help save the oceans boom
guys it gets even better! not only are they cleaning up our oceans, which in and of itself would be AMAZING, but they’re using their project to better the world in other ways too, including:
employing local women in Bali for 80% of their workforce
offering a Closed-Loop program for customers to return broken/worn out products (they have stuff other than bracelets too!) to be recycled again
donating $25,000 to Monterey Bay Aquarium for sea otter conservation, another $25,000 to Global Penguin Society, $10,000 to Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project, $25,000 to Captains For Clean Water to support Everglades restoration, $25,000 to The Marine Mammal Center in Hawaii for the care of critically endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals, $20,000 to BirdLife International for seabird conservation, $24,528 to Earth Day network to support the Canopy Project - a global campaign to plant 7.8 billion trees by 2020, and more
additionally, “donated $21,325 in 2018 and will donate another $10,000 in 2019 to support the production of powerful media and art that drive crucial conservation wins while giving people hope and inspiring them to act”
if you can’t afford $20 for their fundraising bracelets, they do have other recycled products available, and at the very least please reblog this to boost awareness! here’s the link to their site again:
https://4ocean.com/
littlebusinesslibrary.com
THIS IS SO COOL💗💗💗
I try to buy from small and local business in my own community as much as possible, but this makes it so you can find and shop other small businesses in other locations, as well. With a lot of small businesses being hit so hard by coronavirus lockdowns and/or restrictions, this can literally save a business from having to close. Also, if you have a business, you can contact them and get listed on the site.
I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.
dude.
$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.