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US Helplines:

Depression Hotline: 1-630-482-9696

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LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255

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Samaritans (for any problem): 08457909090 e-mail [email protected]

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uie-deactivated20230402

ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.

kitten--aesthetics-blog

I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so

Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123

thescientificviolist

last time i reblogged this, i got this ask:

so please, please reblog. this could actually save a life.

scum-vullage

keep yourselves safe!

Hello! I saw on another blog that you mentioned training to be a priestess of Asherah. Do you mind me asking, where are you doing your training? I have been looking for a program but haven't been able to find one... have just been doing my own study currently.

I study and work on my own. No program here.

modernwitchesdaily

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fatehbaz

A remarkable new study on how whales behaved when attacked by humans in the 19th century has implications for the way they react to changes wreaked by humans in the 21st century. The paper, published by the Royal Society on Wednesday [17 March 2021], is authored by Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell, pre-eminent scientists working with cetaceans, and Tim D Smith, a data scientist, and their research addresses an age-old question: if whales are so smart, why did they hang around to be killed? The answer? They didn’t. Using newly digitised logbooks detailing the hunting of sperm whales in the north Pacific, the authors discovered that within just a few years, the strike rate of the whalers’ harpoons fell by 58%. […] Before humans, orca were their only predators […]. It was a frighteningly rapid killing, and it accompanied other threats to the ironically named Pacific. From whaling and sealing stations to missionary bases, western culture was imported to an ocean that had remained largely untouched […].

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Headline and text published by: Philip Hoare. “Sperm whales in the 19th century shared ship attack information.” The Guardian. 17 March 2021.

Catching a sperm whale during the 19th century was much harder than even Moby Dick showed it to be. That’s because sperm whales weren’t just capable of learning the best ways to evade the whalers’ ships, they could quickly share this information with other whales, too, according to a study of whale-hunting records. […]

“At first, the whales reacted to the new threat of human hunters in exactly the same way as they would to the killer whale, which was their only predator at this time,” study lead author Hal Whitehead, a professor of biology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, told Live Science. “[The sperm whales] all gathered together on the surface, put the baby in the middle, and tried to defend by biting or slapping their tails down. But when it comes to fending off Captain Ahab that’s the very worst thing they could do, they made themselves a very large target.”

The whales seem to have learned from their mistakes, and the ones that survived quickly adapted — instead of resorting to old tactics, the whalers wrote in their logbooks, the sperm whales instead chose new ones, swimming fast upwind away from the whalers’ wind-powered vessels. […]

The whales communicated with and learned from each other rapidly, and the lessons were soon integrated into their wider culture across the region, according to the researchers’ interpretation of the data.

“Each whale group that you meet at sea typically comprises two or three family units, and the units quite often split off and form other groups,” Whitehead said. “So, what we think happened is that one or two of the units that make up the group could have had encounters with humans before, and the ones who didn’t copied closely from their pals who had.“

Sperm whales are excellent intel sharers: Their highly observant, communicative nature, and the fact that each family unit only stays in larger groups for a few days at a time, means they can transmit information fast.

As studies show, that information could be news on new threats, new ways to hunt or new songs to sing.

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One example of whales’ extraordinary information sharing abilities involves lobtail feeding, in which a humpback whale slaps its tail hard against the water’s surface, submerges to blow disorienting bubbles around its prey, and then scoops the prey up in its mouth. Researchers first observed this tactic being used by a single whale in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1980, before it spread throughout the regional population in just 10 years.

Whale culture also extends far deeper than innovative ways to feed. "Sperm whales are divided into acoustic cultural climates,” Whitehead said. “They split themselves into large clans, each with distinctive patterns of sonar clicks, like a dialect, and they only form groups with members of the same clan.”

Different whale clans each have different ways of singing, moving, hunting and looking after their calves. These differences are profound enough to even give some clans a survival advantage during El Nino events, according to Whitehead. […]

In the 20th century, whales, especially the 13 species belonging to the category of ‘great whales’ — such as blue whales, sperm whales and humpback whales — found themselves pursued by steamships and grenade harpoons that they could not escape. These whales’ numbers plummeted and they soon faced extinction. […] [T]hey still face the growing destabilization of their habitats brought about by industrial fishing, noise pollution and climate change.

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Headline, image, caption, and text published by: Ben Turner. “Sperm whales outwitted 19th-century whalers by sharing evasive tactics.” Live Science. 19 March 2021.

fatehbaz

In November 2020, Greg G!anforte was elected governor of Montana; he was inaugurated in January 2021. On 15 February 2021, the governor broke Montana state regulations when he trapped, shot, and killed a collared grey wolf about ten miles north of Yellowstone National Park’s boundaries. Montana regulations require that anyone trapping a wolf must take a mandatory wolf-trapping training certification course, which G!anforte has not taken. However, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks merely issued the governor a “written warning” and allowed him to keep the skull and hide of the wolf.

The governor trapped and killed the wolf while hanging out at the private ranch of Robert E. Smith, who has contributed thousands to G!anforte’s campaigns. Robert E. Smith has been a Director of Sinclair Broadcasting Group since his father founded the company in 1986; Robert E. Smith served as Vice President of Sinclair for a decade and as of 2021 remains in a Director position.

You might recognize Sinclair as the infamous media company which buys up rural and local news stations across the US, and films/produces conservative, fear-mongering, hard-right-wing media scripts, segments, and stories which Sinclair then requires those small local news stations to read or broadcast. (Reminiscent of, like, “native advertising” schemes which obscure the actual origin/author of the content.) Among the segments which Sinclair requires local news stations to air: alarmist and hyper-racist “Terror!sm Alerts”.

Sinclair owns the largest number of stations affiliated with ABC and Fox, and Sinclair news stations cover 40% of US households.

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From Boise State Public Radio:

From KATU:

From Media Matters:

From Deadsp!n:

Other things Montana’s governor is famous for:

– He’s a multi-millionaire tech-company entrepreneur (originally from out-of-state) who has had business dealings with 0racle; he worked as the head of McAfee’s North American sales division.

– In 2009, he tried to protect his “private property” and filed a lawsuit against Montana Fish , Wildlife and Parks in order to prevent people from hiking and accessing a free, public stream-access point and trailhead on the East Gallatin River near his mansion.

– During a very high-profile special election in 2017 with major out-of-state donor/financing and media attention, while running to be Montana’s single Representative in federal US Congress, during the very same week as the election, while being recorded, he physically assaulted and “body-slammed” a reporter from The Guardian; the reporter’s glasses were broken, while the incident was recorded on tape and corroborated by other journalists in the room. (The US president later said at a rally: “Greg is smart … by the way, never wrestle him … Any guy that can do a body slam … he’s my guy.”)

– In 2015, when he first ran for governor, he argued against social welfare and retirement funds by saying this:

“There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement … The example I think of is Noah. How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn’t like, cashing Social Security checks, he wasn’t hanging out, he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.”

fatehbaz

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awenravena

What is going on with the world??

dinodaddy-deactivated20221014

Jesus…

In a move that has sparked outcry from archaeologists, historians and locals, the Peruvian government has approved a multi-billion international airport near the famed site of Machu Picchu, Peru’s single most important tourist destination. Bulldozers have begun to clear millions of tons of earth for the project, which will be located in Chinchero, a picturesque Inca town.

Building the airport in this location will destroy an ancient landscape, one shaped by the Incan people with terraces and routes.

Critics also suggest that planes flying low over the nearby village of Ollantaytambo and its archaeological park filled with ruins and a massive Inca fortress with large stone terraces, would cause incalculable damage to fragile Inca ruins there and destroy the peace and beauty of the area.

The new airport will make access to the site much easier, and thus encourage greater numbers than ever before to visit.

But Machu Picchu is already overwhelmed by almost double the limit of tourists as recommended by UNESCO. [see also India’s Taj Mahal - an incredible site simply reeling under a relentless, ineffectively managed tourist, both domestic and international, onslaught]

It’s the constant battle between protecting the past and profiteering from it.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/15/archaeologists-outraged-over-plans-for-machu-picchu-airport-chinchero

whitebear-ofthe-watertribe

What the actual fuck

onesinnerzerostandards

how about NO

strangelingincarnate

Opinions are divided in the agrarian town of Chinchero, where the airport is slated to open in 2025

fericide

PLEASE REBLOG!

hey! peruvian here

to be completely honest, there is probably nothing anyone can do about this at this point because it has been in the works since the 90’s. as you can most likely tell, our government is a fucking joke. still, this needs international attention. a lot of it. this is my country’s history, culture and one of the most beautiful things we have to offer at risk.

our best bet is at the very least causing somewhat global outrage to spread awareness and perhaps make this into something bigger amongst the middle and upper class people in the central cities as sadly the lower class and indigenous citizens (the majority of the country’s population) go widely ignored by the government and the former (middle and upper class) tend to also ignore shit unless they perceive it as affecting them directly

pinkfemmeprincess

Alaska just opened up covid vaccine eligibility to EVERYONE 16 and older

pinkfemmeprincess

My friend Blake made this and I’m fucking losing it

pinkfemmeprincess

ironysgrace

THIS IS COMPLETELY THANKS TO THE ALASKAN NATIVE COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER AND PUT ALL OUR RESOURCES INTO FIGHTING COVID-19 FROM ALL FRONTS AND ITS NOT BEING TALKED ABOUT

We sent as many people home as we could while keeping our healthcare and essential community resources open, and by essential I mean essential (like detox facilities), we had mediatory policy changes happening before Trump even recognized Covid as a thing, our counselors and doctors and everyone we could feasibly get to do so has been working remotely from home or by themselves in office for anything non-emergency related

When shut down first started even being talked about we were all sent home an hour early(still paid for the hour) to make sure our company provided laptops worked and we could use them without hitch

When the vaccines came out we immediately set to work getting not just Native people but anyone who worked for us and their families/household members vaccinated, no cost

No one else in this state worked as hard or took Covid as seriously as the Alaskan Native community and their health centers

Do NOT let Dunleavy and his other bitch ass counterparts take credit for this!

benji1776

Its not hard, there is like 12 people in the entire state...

pinkfemmeprincess

fuck off no there isn’t. the native health corporations have been instrumental in getting the vaccines to numerous isolated communities outside of anchorage and then opened up eligibility to non-natives before the state government opened it up.

news-queue

A battery recycling plant blanketed Latino communities with chemicals – and thousands of properties remain toxic

For years, Terry Gonzalez-Cano encouraged her children to get outside and play in the dirt. “I grew up doing everything outside, and I encouraged my kids to do the same thing. We played in the backyard, we gardened,” she said. “I thought I was being a good mother by forcing them to spend time outside.”

Gonzalez-Cano, 48, didn’t know that, for decades, the Exide lead battery recycling plant in the neighboring Los Angeles-area city of Vernon had blanketed blue-collar Latino communities with layer after layer of lead and cancer-causing arsenic.

In June 2015, the soil on her property in the LA neighborhood of Boyle Heights was tested for lead by the California department of toxic substances control. Gonzalez-Cano said the results had come back in April 2016, 10 months after her property had been tested: her home had more than double the 80 parts per million (ppm) that California deems acceptable. At her father’s home a block away, where she and her brother spent countless hours playing in the backyard when they were children, the number averaged over 800ppm. One neighbor’s soil tested so high that it surpassed the 1,000ppm required to qualify as toxic waste.

“When I found out, I couldn’t breathe,” said Gonzalez-Cano. “I felt like I was the worst mother in the world. I felt that I had killed my children.”

Sitting next to her on the couch at her home recently, her brother Jose Gonzalez emptied a plastic bag full of bracelets from his dozens of trips to the hospital for sinus cancer on to the floor. “Here’s Exide’s legacy,” he said. “I thought I was staying fit when I used to play football in the mud. I didn’t know it, but I was poisoning myself.”

Six years after their property was tested, the siblings say that the state has not given them even a prospective timeline for when their property will be cleaned up. They worry about the damage that has already been done, and the health problems they and their families may have that will only manifest with time.

The evidence of the plant’s contamination is not just in the soil of local homes, but in the teeth of the children who inhabit them. A 2019 study found high levels of lead in the teeth of local children, indicating long-term exposure that was passed along to many while they were still in their mother’s wombs. “Mothers in these communities are exposed, and they pass that exposure on to their children before they’re even born,” said Jill Johnston, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California who authored the study.

Despite its nearly 100-year presence, many in the community had never heard of Exide until less than a decade ago, although community organizers had been protesting against the plant and demanding action for many years. The company could not be reached for comment.

archaeologicalnews

An archaeology society hosted a talk against returning Indigenous remains. Some want a new society

The Society for American Archaeology’s (SAA’s) virtual annual meeting erupted in controversy last week after members realized the organization had allowed a talk arguing against a key U.S. law giving Native Americans rights to the human remains and cultural artifacts of their ancestors. Although the presentation was made by an SAA member and anthropologist, many archaeologists say they were shocked their professional organization gave a platform to what they consider anti-Indigenous views; they say SAA has not adequately addressed the harm caused by the talk. Some archaeologists are considering leaving and starting a new society.

“There’s a sense [that SAA] is protecting the organization over the people who are involved,” says Kisha Supernant, an archaeologist at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and a member of Canada’s historic Indigenous Métis. A number of archaeologists note that this incident comes after a sexual harassment scandal at the organization’s 2019 conference, which left many SAA members feeling unsupported. Read more.

quasi-normalcy

Canadian politics are an existential threat to human civilisation. This sounds like a shitpost, but it’s not.

sighinastorm

splain

quasi-normalcy

Canada sits on enough oil to bring about catastrophic global warming if it were ever burnt. The two largest parties in Parliament are both basically committed to ripping that oil out of the ground and selling it as fuel as quickly as possible. There’s very little in the way of mass public resistance to this goal (First Nations land protectors honourably excepted) because apathy and misplaced politeness reign supreme in Canadian culture. The media is dominated by right-wing conglomerates who portray any opposition to oil development as loony, unhinged and probably foreign-sponsored. The main left-wing party still thinks that star-power and nostrums about hope are how one goes about building a mass movement.

mister-christmas

“The media is dominated by right-wing conglomerates” you either don’t live here or are delusional. The majority of our media supports the left.

quasi-normalcy

Oh yeah?

(x)

Now get the fuck off of my blog, you’re making it dirty.

catgirlforeskin

Conservatives will see something use the thinnest veneer of respectability to pretend it doesn’t hate marginalized people and think it’s far-left

fatehbaz

An Edmonton non-profit has created a new wallet-sized card to help Indigenous people know their rights if stopped by police in Alberta.

The statement to police card created by the Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA) provides a list of people’s rights and a paragraph that can be read to police. It also lists the organization’s contact information. […]

The NCSA offered a slightly different version of the card previously, and the new iteration of the free card was started shortly after the provincial government banned the practice of carding by police last November and imposed new rules on street checks.

“This is an NCSA-specific project so it is focused on Indigenous communities themselves but with Black Lives Matter and the conviction yesterday for George Floyd’s murder, this information is paramount to all people, all Canadians. Everyone has the right to know what their legal rights are,” said Crosby. […]

Carding is “disproportionately targeting Indigenous and Black communities in Alberta,” NCSA said in a news release.

“NCSA recognizes that the solutions to systemic racism go well beyond this card. However, this is one small step in the right direction.”

Carding refers to arbitrary stops by police and asking members of the public for their personal information, even if there is no suspicion of wrongdoing. […]

A 2017 CBC News investigation found that in 2016, Indigenous women were nearly 10 times as likely to be street checked as white women.

The same year, Indigenous people were six times more likely than white people to be stopped by Edmonton police. Black people were almost five times as likely as white people to be stopped, data showed.

Carding was banned by the provincial government last year but street checks, when police say there is a specific reason to stop and question a member of the public, continue.

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Headline, images, captions, and text published by: Stephanie Dubois. “New ‘statement to police’ card for Indigenous people released in Alberta.” CBC News. 21 April 2021.

From Native Counselling Services of Alberta site:

closet-keys

They are sentient beings with rich emotional lives, yet we subject them to experimental cruelty without conscience. Why?

It all began with a study in which the rats refused to press a lever to obtain food when that lever also delivered a shock to a fellow rat in an adjacent cage. The rats would rather starve than witness a rat suffering. Follow-up studies found that rats would press a lever to lower a rat who was suspended from a harness; that they would refuse to walk down a path in a maze if it resulted in a shock delivered to another rat; and that rats who had been shocked themselves were less likely to allow other rats to be shocked, having been through the discomfort themselves. Rats care for one another.

But the discovery of rat empathy was also met with incredulity. How could a rat be empathic? Surely, there must have been something wrong with the experimental procedures. So the rat empathy research programme languished for some 50 years.

[…]

The results of these studies are compelling, but they don’t show us much more than what we already suspected from the work done in the 1950s and ’60s – that rats are empathic; meanwhile, the studies have inflicted, and continue to inflict, significant fear and distress on the rats.

[…]

Scientists are now tinkering with rats’ empathy in order to find ways of treating human psychopathologies. In some cases, rats are given treatments that temporarily disable their empathic capabilities, such as anxiolytics, paracetamol, heroin or electric shocks. In other cases, the harm is permanent. Rats are separated from their mothers at birth and raised in social isolation. In some studies, their amygdalae (the brain area responsible for emotion and affiliation) are permanently damaged. The explicit goal of this research is to create populations of mentally ill, traumatised, emotionally suffering rats.

[…]

The logic behind these studies is paradoxical: rats are close enough to us to serve as models for human psychopathologies, but far enough to be outside of ethical concern.

solarpunkwitchcraft

The farmland purchase reclaims an ancestral village site known as “the place of boulders,” or Am’sáaxpa, in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph more than a century after the Nez Perce Tribe was pushed out the area.

Chief Joseph held council on the ridge above, before a sweeping view of the Wallowa Mountains. Hundreds of tribal members would camp there at the peak of the fishing season and catch sockeye salmon along the Wallowa River.

“There’s a lot of excitement buzzing around,” Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee Chairman Shannon Wheeler said. “We feel fortunate to be at this juncture in time to be able to say that we are on our way home. We feel the landscape misses us, and we miss the landscape.”

brightblackbird

Finding suggests humans have added value to forests in lasting ways

law-iz-in-the-air

IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT DONATING ANYTHING TO INDIANS REGARDING THE COVID SITUATION, DO NOT DONATE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES OR GOVERNMENT FUNDING. PLZ. look for direct donation links on social media sites!

apricops

People have cranked it to divine figures since forever. It has to be true, doesn’t it? We as a species are, generally, incorrigibly horny. Throughout history someone must have cranked it to Devi, Freyja, Nuwa, Izanami-no-Mikoto, and Cihuacoatl. Idk why but that thought/realization is messing with me right now.