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this image made me so sad I had to clean him and give him a hot cocoa
I love indigenous place names in north america so much because, unlike most european place names that are named after some asshole who claimed it, or like, something in Christendom, our place names are meant to help people easily identify them with major landmarks and water features (most people would be arriving via lake or river). but then you look at the name of a place and it’s like “this is where I saw a lot of wolverines” or “the curved lake at the end of the bend up north” and it’s like. fuck yeah it sure is. and then you look at settler place names and you’re supposed to know the difference between two different St. Johns that are both in the maritimes and it’s like come the Fuck On man
it’s also often an act of quiet diplomacy between communities that have tension or are otherwise feuding to name a place after what you Do there or what you can expect to find. like “this is a good place to harvest salmon. I may not like you very much right now but I also don’t want you to starve”
Settles down on your dashboard gingerly and with a big heaving sigh
Trots onto your dash with youthful curiosity and zest for life
"While those working at private companies can at least earn a little money, they face possible punishment if they refuse, from being denied family visits to being sent to higher-security prisons, which are so dangerous that the federal government filed a lawsuit four years ago that remains pending [note: article is from 2024], calling the treatment of prisoners unconstitutional.
Though they make at least $7.25 an hour, the state siphons 40% off the top of all wages and also levies fees, including $5 a day for rides to their jobs and $15 a month for laundry.
Turning down work can jeopardize chances of early release in a state that last year granted parole to only 8% of eligible prisoners — an all-time low, and among the worst rates nationwide — though that number more than doubled this year after public outcry."
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.
there are way too many countries in south and central america. it should all be like brazil and mexico: big diverse countries instead of small homogenous ones. imagining one central american country south of mexico and MAYBE 4 in south america. everybody into your get along shirt! we need gran colombia irredentists
I imagine that, and I imagine nothing but blood and fire. Better idea would be to split up the US and Canada into more countries instead, give dem lands back
Anyway some ndn shit I've been wanting to tell the people of tumblr. For your shipping purposes. If one of them has some Cultural Significance going on with their hair & the other Doesn't there's a lot of potential for yearning/miscommunication? bullshit re: hair customs. Like letting them touch it at all. Combing/washing/braiding it like "do they know this is wife behavior" (they probably don't) (unless they do but they don't know they know) you see the vision
Primarily for any Indigenous blorbos you may have but this can also be done with like. Elves. If we believe in ourselves
There's already such crazy intimacy with hair stuff but it really adds some sauce if it's literally like. Traditionally this is some shit you'd have Your Wife doing
This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.
I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!
Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well
My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.
wait wait i gotta try this, i don’t think i’ve had Actual Silence since i was like 5
HOW THE FUCK
Reblogging to save a life, and also because, even if you don’t have tinnitus, this is totally worth trying if you like new sensory experiences.
"Russia has many indigenous groups!"
"And how does Russia treat them?"
"Don't worry about it :)"
The complete ahistoricity of this has pissed me off so much that I am reblogging this with ADDED INFORMATION even though the poster of the original tweet will never see it.
A good place to start to actually learn a bit about at least one of Russia's many Indigenous cultures is Piers Vitebsky’s incredible book ‘Reindeer People’ [which you can read in full, for free, on the internet archive here] about the indigenous Eveny reindeer herding culture of Siberia.
What really happened when Russia began to encroach on the herders' lands?
[p.34]
Vitebsky then tells us about how the Soviets imposed their policy of collectivization on the herders - the opposite of letting them 'keep their lands and lifestyles' as the guy on twitter says:
[pp.35-6] As we see, these are the same policies of land exploitation, forcible 'civilising', and imprisoning or killing those who resisted.
The Soviets essentially abolished the nomadism and deep-rooted relationship to the land that the Eveny had nurtured for thousands of years [p43]:
But hey, at least the Soviets didn't implement the boarding schools for native kids that were infamous in North America - surely the apparently Indigenous-rights-loving nation of Russia would never have stolen indigenous kids from their parents to raise them away from their parents and cultures, right? Uh...
[p190]
On the very next page: "There were stories of native children all across the North who had escaped from their boarding schools, sometimes dying of exposure while trying to rejoin their parents. Most of these incidents happened in the spring, when the sun was up but the temperature was still far below freezing. Though the boarding schools had taught native children to read and count, it had left them unfit to survive on the land."
'But... but... the USSR championed women's rights and feminism! Surely it empowered Native women!' Here's what actually happened to Eveny women as a consequence of Sovietisation:
Traditionally, Eveny herded reindeer as families. Not only were children removed from this through boarding schools, but women, too, were forced out [p45]:
The boarding schools were only closed when "the de-nomadization of women was complete". With their mothers no longer partaking in traditional herding culture, the Soviets knew their children could now be raised at home without learning their traditional ways [p192]:
To go back to the original tweet: apparently, Indigenous peoples in Russia kept their "lands and lifestyles" for centuries. Shamanism was a huge part of these lifestyles for many Siberian cultures. What happened to the shamans?
And what about language?
Most Eveny today speak Sakha, the lingua franca of what is known as the Sakha Republic, or Yakutia, because the Sakha are the biggest Indigenous group there. Smaller languages like Yukaghir, Chukchi, Eveny and Evenki are struggling to survive.
The author writes about sitting in on a local meeting in the village of Sebyan. The complaints the villagers raise - of dwindling language use, land exploitation leading to widespread health issues - will sound familiar with the issues faced by Indigenous peoples in North America.
While the book is largely about the Eveny people, they are not the only reindeer-herding culture whose livelihoods have been near destroyed by Russian colonialism [p379-80]:
Obviously this is just one book, and just a handful of examples from it. But anyone can use it at least as a start from which to do further research.
But you might say, "these are issues that happened over the Soviet period. What about today?"
Today, Indigenous Siberians are being drafted by Russia to a much greater extent proportionate to their population than European Russians, especially those from the cities. Consequently, there are significant anti-war and even independence movements among some Indigenous groups there, like the Free Yakutia and Free Buryatia movements, which Russia has designated as terrorist organisations.
If Russia's Indigenous peoples were truly being left to live their traditional lifestyles in peace in their own lands, perhaps Putin's government would not be so quick to use them as cannon fodder for his imperialist war in Ukraine.
That Indigenous peoples in Russia have continued to nurture their culture as best as was possible given the exploitation, cultural oppression, and land theft that they have suffered throughout their history is a testament to their resilience.
Comments I get every time I post critically about christianity:
"But what about all the people they colonized? How can you hate christians when (they colonized so many people) so many are colonized people"
"Yeah! Religion-- [Antisemitism]"
Something Even Racister
"But you haaaaave to admit jesus was a Cool Guy though", No True Scotsman-ing the last 2000 years of christian behavior i.e. "this isn't Real christianity", the protestant urge to call everyone other than your personal micro denomination a heretic, "what about quakers?"
knowing when not to open the comments is a skill
internet soft skills
not opening the comments
letting people be wrong
letting people be wrong about YOU
letting people have a bad impression of you (see above)
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blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them
"why'd they block me? we've never talked" bro if i see you being nasty to the bartender i'm not gonna chat you up
that post about how sports should be desegregated is ruffling some serious feathers & every response arguing against me is like “but testosterone literally makes you stronger you naive moron” like yeah man. but how many sports are strictly based on raw strength and nothing else. like sure men would likely generally dominate weightlifting but women would still dominate gymnastics. it’s almost like genetics have always played a part in performance of sports and the sex binary is just one genetic factor that people can’t seem to let go of. michael phelps isn’t put in his own category of “people shaped like a torpedo” even though he has an unfair genetic advantage. like i don’t get why raw strength is seen as the end all be all when most sports don’t rely on that alone for performance
new atheists deride religion as “primitive superstition” but when you hear their take on what religion is it’s clear they have the shallowest concept of it
Y'all are the ones with holy books about talking snakes and blood sacrifices, but go off I guess
see what i mean
I will start believing the day you introduce me personally to your god(s).
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What exactly is there deeper to understand that y'all worship a genocidal maniac and that you only read one book???
see what i mean
Religion is useless. We will all die eventually and your phony gods cannot help you
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