Someone help me

[indigenousfawn]

I just want to remind everyone how affordable buying food from indigenous tribes is. I live in a major city and I was able to purchase and ship (15) pounds of fish from back home to myself for cheaper than I could buy it from a grocery store here in the city. Yeah, shipping has its own environmental factors but I was able to support an indigenous owned business while also getting my groceries at a lesser cost. (Buying in bulk is always a good idea if you’re planning on having something shipped to you)

Some tribal owned grocers that ship:

Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)

Native Harvest (White Earth)

Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)

Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)

Ramona Farms (Gila River)

Tanka Bars (Oglala)

Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)

Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)

Ute Bison (Ute)

Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)

She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)

Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)

Honor the Earth (? Anishinaabe)

Nett Lake Wild Rice (Boise Forte Anishinaabe)

Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)

BONUS: coffee :)

Yeego Coffee (Navajo)

Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)

Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)

Thunder Island Coffee (Shinnecock)

[xiexiecaptain]

Small correction:

Honor the Earth is an organization founded by Winona Duke of the White Earth Nation (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe) with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers (LGBTQ musical duo Indigo Girls and long-time political activists.) You can buy Honor The Earth merch online to support the environmental work they do, specifically to help protest Enbridge Oil’s Line 3 Pipeline routed through tribal lands that endangers wild rice beds which are both a staple crop and sacred to Anishinaabeg.

However, Winona also heads up a hemp farm called Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm located on and run primarily by members of the White Earth Nation. It seeks to general local wealth for the tribe by encouraging the production of hemp as a fast-growing renewable and regenerative crop resource to be used for everything from non-plastic textiles/clothing, housing construction and insulation, food products, and CBD products! (They also grow other crops there such as heirloom varieties of corn, beans, squash, Jerusalem artichokes, potatoes, and ceremonial tobacco in an effort to help re-establish and increase tribal food sovereignty!)

They have both a brick-and-mortar shop called The Hemp Market Store and Coffee Shop in Osage MN where they sell their products and others by Indigenous-owned & -run companies! (They also sell those seasonal tribal heirloom crops there including Lakota squash and Ojibwe purple potatoes.)

But you can also buy many of their products online including hemp-fiber clothing, hemp tea, and hemp pasta. They also partnered with an experienced tribal herbalist to formulate CBD medicinal products like balms and oils (haven’t used it myself, but I the CBD balm for my mom for Christmas a few years back and she said it helped her chronic hip pain a lot.)

[mynnthia]

compiling some additional info from other reblogs + fixing some broken links

it looks like some shops’ products are seasonal and arent avaliable at this time of year (november 2023), but it may be at a different season

new or fixed links in green with ✳️ emoji inactive/closed website in red with ⛔️ emoji

Grocers: from salamanderinspace’s reblog of product list

Bow and Arrow –> Cornmeal, Polenta

Native Harvest –> Maple Syrup, Plum Syrup, Coffees, Jewelry

✳️Red Lake Fishery –> fish (Walleye, Perch, Crappie, Northern, Whitefish, Smoked Fish)

✳️Nawapo (formerly Red Lake Nation Foods) –> Mixes & Batters, Teas & Coffee, Fruit spreads, Wild Rice, Personal care, Handcrafted gifts

Wozupi –> seasonal produce [no online ordering right now]

Ramona Farms –> Beans, Wheat Berries, Whole Wheat Flour, Corn Meal Products, Grits, Pinole, Chickpeas/Garbanzo beans

Tanka –> Buffalo-cranberry snacks [no online ordering right now]

✳️Indian Pueblo Store –> Housewares, Apparel, Mugs, Jewelry, Decor, Baked goods mix, etc

Twisted Cedar Wine –> Wine

Ute Bison –> Bison jerky sticks, skulls, and robes

Seka Hills –> Olive Oil, Wine, Vinegar, Nuts, Beef jerky, Honey, Body Care / Soaps, Pickled Asparagus

⛔️She Nah Nam –> [website is closed]

Sakari Farms –> Hotsauce, Tea, Seasonings, Lotions, Medicinal herbs & oils, Squash Candy

Honor the Earth –> [see the reblog above]

✳️Nett Lake Wild Rice –> Wild rice (website features recipes)

✳️Passamaquoddy maple –> Maple products (syrup, sugar, candies), Pancake and muffin mix, Seasoning

✳️Ioway Bee Farm (Iowa, recommended by watcherscrown) –> Honey, Lotions, Lip balm, Beeswax, Candles, CBD products, Honey sticks

Online retailer: partnered with some of the grocers in the list above, so you can order several grocers’ products from 1 place

✳️Tocabe (Osage, recommended by killmecoward) –> Pantry food staples

✳️Indigenous First (recommended by pingnova) –> Handmade crafts/art, Foods & Teas, Personal care, Decor, Seeds, Books, Jewelry supplies

✳️SweetGrass Trading Company (Winnebago, recommended by watcherscrown) –> Handmade crafts/art, Foods (of note: Salmon), Coffee & teas, Personal care, Books (website features recipes)

Coffee/Tea:

Yeego Coffee

✳️Spirit Mountain Roasting

Birchbark Coffee

Thunder Island Coffee

✳️Owl Lightning Coffee (Ute (?), recommended by c4-magic)

✳️Wild Canadian Tea (Algonquin/Anishnaabe, recommended by bellarad)

[lee-romee]

Recipe sources:

Bow & Arrow Brand, Ute Mountain Tribe

Native Harvest, White Earth Band (wild rice recipes)

Ramona Farms, Gila River (bean/corn-based recipes)

Sweetgrass Trading Co., Winnebago Tribe

Nett Lake Wild Rice, Bois Forte Anishinaabe (wild-rice-based)

[pink-onyx-au]

Master Post for Finding Episodes

Pages release (usually) daily at 7am EST when Nyx is awake.

As they are released this will be updated. Click below to jump to the episode hub!

The Nyx-Nap FAQ - curious about what is going on?

Re-read it on Tapas!

Season 1

Antipathy - Steven struggles with some regrets, and decides to find answers in a familiar place.

Finding A Rhythm - Steven tries to learn how Jasper dances.

Carried Away - Steven and Jasper train for the night, but Jasper goes a bit overboard with her new powers.

Life, Death, Love, Birth - Onyx learns to appreciate nature after destroying it.

Close Call - Steven forgets his nightly call with Connie. Onyx tries to figure out how a phone works.

Breaking Fast - Steven teaches Jasper the importance of a well-balanced meal and a good night’s sleep.

Stuck With You - Onyx doesn’t feel like taking a nap today.

Stability - Steven and Jasper finally find their harmony.

Steven For a Day - Steven forgets his phone at home. Onyx says they’ll be happy to get it.

Together Brunch - The Crystal Gems share their concerns over some changes they’ve noticed about Steven.

Coming soon:

11. One Bad Day - Steven wants to start over.

12. One Sleepless Night - Jasper has a bad dream for the first time.

13. Self-Hatred - Steven and Jasper realize what they have in common.

14. The ParA̶̡̛͖̲͕̝̠̥̯̘̳͎͉̹̜͗̈́͗̍̒̍͌̈͜͠ͅDoX - Onyx now knows who they are.

Season 2

15. Loyalty - Jasper and Steven talk about life on Earth and Homeworld.

16. Found - Connie figures out why Steven's sleep schedule is so off.

17. Group Talk

18. Kinder-gardening

19. Waiting

20. Imposter

21. Battle Buddies

22. Analogue

[many more in progress, stay tuned!]

Minisodes:

[The Celestial Ukulele]

[Carried Away - Where are the Crystal Gems!?]

[How was breakfast, Steven?]

[Garnet Takes a Glance at the Path Ahead]

[spicymochi]

he is sitting and pondering

[spicymochi]

tiny sitting and pondering

[floofnfriends]

She sip the purple.

[table-fable]

Had such a great time talking with you at Trotcon! Thanks for hanging out with us at our table, it was a blast! Hope to see you again soon!

[snapscube]

Why do we as a society keep coming back to sex jokes?

Penis blast hilarious

[frambicallyscrantling]

penis blast nefarious

[gh0stquartz]

diverse types of penis blast call the penis blast various

[oceanstarzfalling]

penis blast electrical

[snapscube]

penis blast delectable

[starlightcataclysm]

penis blast campaigning call the penis blast electable

[snapscube]

Visit Original Link

sorry

[mastertortilla27mod]

She made that card herself

[iamnotlanuk]

I dunno maybe the horrors would be less daunting if we were holding hands

[animatedamerican]

with each other or with the horrors?

[brinnanza]

I've got two hands

[libraford]

Me: oh yeah, if you think school photography is hard now, try imagining doing this with film.

The new girl: what's film?

Me: ... film. Like... film that goes in a film camera.

New girl: what's that mean?

Me: ... before cameras were digital.

New girl: how did you do it before digital?

Me:... with film? I haven't had enough coffee for this conversation

[libraford]

New girl: I need you to show me how to format the usb.

Me: format?

New girl: yeah what do I do?

Me: you... put the usb in. Then you make a new folder on it and rename it with (name, date, location)

New girl: but how do I do that?

Me: ... they dont... teach you this anymore, do they?

[traegorn]

The lack of computer skills is becoming a problem. Like there was a period of time where the older workers in office jobs had to be brought up to speed on computers, but now a lot of the newer workers have the issue too.

There's a lot of assumed technical literacy because we had a whole generation brought up on desktop computers, but now it's one that was brought up on phones, tablets, and chromebooks. Phones are easier to use, but that means the users have never had to work around the daily problems presented by most desktop environments.

But our systems are still set up assuming the kids are "digital natives" who just already know this stuff. So no one teaches them. So a new employee walks into the office... and they just don't.

[particularj]

30-something here. And this is frightening for a few reasons.

Much of the back-end architecture will soon be more difficult to maintain, as those with the expertise retire or when the one guy volunteering to update a niche corner of some minute software function that holds up 1/4 of the computer world dies.

While products are made to be “easier to use” now, which has made them more accessible, they aren’t made to last, contributing to tech pollution / e-waste. Many consumers don’t know how to upgrade or repair their own tech…if they are upgradeable.

Which brings me to my next point.

I bought a new low end laptop recently. Not chrome book, but actual Windows PC laptop. I haven’t had a personal computer for a while and with a lot of expectation to “return to the office” because COVID’s over, right? *heavy eye roll*, I wanted something cheap and portable. I found a deal because a lot of low end laptops are being discounted because school children aren’t remote now. I was actually looking for refurbished but found what I wanted cheaper new, sadly.

Finding one that I knew would run the software I needed or that wouldn’t be bogged down just with Windows? A challenge. You’ve got to know what RAM, HDD vs eMMC vs SSD, cores, age of processors, and all those specs mean.

Finding one that wasn’t Windows in “S mode,” a bullshit mode that locks you into the Windows app / store for ALL software (where they take a cut of each purchase)? Even more challenging.

When I booted it up…I imagine most people just click yes through things because why not, just want to get right to it, right?

The amount of privileges I had to decline because of targeted data collection, for ad preferences and other nefarious reasons; the number of easy-to-miss “no thanks” options to decline enrollment in bloatware; the number of things that wanted me to launch the free trial, where they could automatically enroll me into a monthly PAID subscription and could report failure to add a credit card to pay for it to credit agencies (!); many of these presented as the “recommended” or default option… ASTOUNDING.

And then I still had to go into system settings and turn off additional data tracking that they didn’t even present during set-up, along with bloatware bullshit programs they wanted to always run at start-up. Because I knew where to go and find that stuff. Don’t even get me starting on fucking Cortana.

Technology has gotten bad. Even 10 years ago, it was a couple simple agreements not to pirate, using software at your own risk, etc. and that was it.

Now? Waiving rights, arbitration, hidden terms that could leave you owing money if you don’t uninstall it, data collection to link accounts and literally track every move / your exact location / your usage, attempts to personalize ads through your specific searches, inability to block cookies unless you download a Google app!?, four pop ups for every website, as the default?

It is scary how much tech that was designed to increase productivity and make life easier has become yet another way for corporations to track us, sell to us, and sell their data on us, even potentially incriminating us.

Oh, and heaven forbid you know what you’re doing and try to upgrade or repair your equipment yourself. Warranty voiding? Should be illegal, may be illegal in some areas, but they still tell you it’ll void your warranty. Good luck finding the parts. Using non-OEM parts will void the warranty too…by design.

I did not survive Windows Vista era to deal with this bullshit.

[the-haiku-bot]

I did not survive

Windows Vista era to

deal with this bullshit.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[aquadraco20]

Anyone have any resources for technology literacy for beginners?

[rabbitindisguise]

Yes! @aquadraco20

General basic safety

How to avoid ransomware, malware, hacks, and how to maintain good data privacy.

https://www.getsafeonline.org/

^ this has intermediate information (as well as beginner info) that I think people who grew up on the internet benefit most from (so it won't tell you what a phone is, or how to press the power button to turn on a computer). I recommend all sections the personal section under the top drop down (except the one aimed at children).

https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/internetsafety/

Same deal as above, with quizzes and additional topics.

https://www.digitalliteracyassessment.org/

^ this one is mostly video and audio which some people might helpful

HTML

https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

W3schools is a well known free resource for coding. I recommend HTML because it gives basic website building capabilities, so you can create a neocities website for example or even edit your Tumblr theme. You can also learn CSS (used with HTML to make prettier websites) and Python (used to make programs).

Touch typing

Touch typing is using the home row on keyboards. It allows people to type faster than pressing individual keys one at a time, like on a smart phone.

https://www.typingclub.com/

This site has lessons, and honestly looks much nicer than the program I learned to use touch typing with.

https://www.how-to-type.com/touch-typing-lessons/how-to-type-home-keys/

This site has lessons and practice tests and speed tests to measure progress. In middle school I was taking a practice test about three times a week and a speed test once a week for about fifteen minutes each time, if that helps.

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These three areas are the main things people were taught in computer literacy courses.

I also recommend checking your local library or other educational resources (like local colleges, your current college/highschool/middle school etc, the college you graduated from). These can have in person instructors which can be super helpful. Feel free to send me any questions and stuff, if I don't already know I'll try to find out and share where I found it!

Helpful things I've done with my windows computer to make it safer/more efficient:

Installing Malwarebytes/enabling windows defender

Creating a backup of my computer on a hard drive

Setting permissions for apps to start on startup

Getting a password manager

Installing a web browser that isn't chrome

Changing old passwords into better, more secure passwords- especially websites that have debit card info

I hope this helps :D

[table-fable]

I took some cans to the metal yard today and learned that, if I were made of pure aluminum, I would be worth $72.

[mastertortilla27mod]

Brand New Animal was a fun anime

[table-fable]

Still my favorite thing to come out of Phineas and Ferb.

[table-fable]

Ezra Companion Recruitment Dialogue Sample

Recorded using this script: https://couriers-mile.tumblr.com/post/169682639778/ocs-as-companions-ezra-walker-fallout-new Picture found here: https://couriers...

I like @couriers-mile‘s character Ezra so much that I convinced @mastertortilla27 to help me record the lines from his companion script. Here is a short audio sample, because I couldn’t wait to publish the completed thing.

[table-fable]

This is my audition for the Foxglove Triplets, Kozlov’s Angels. For Nilla I used Peridot from Steven Universe as an inspiration. For Cherry, I tried a Jersey Shore thing. For Angel I used Daria, the main character of Daria as an influence.

[table-fable]

Oh god Marty went and had ‘fun’ with Vidalia. She’s named after a kind of onion! Sour Cream looks just like Marty! Holy crap!

I bet Marty is gonna show back up.

(Source: http://www.funnyjunk.com/channel/stevenuniverse/Steven+universe+comp+22/NyMaLAl/)

[mastertortilla27]

In honor of the sweetest child in existence, I present to you a Steven Universe themed satchel! I’ve been wanting to make a set of Crystal Gem themed bags for quite a while now, so finally got everything together I needed and made this up overnight. My favorite part to work on was the setup for the satchel flap, so you can see the colors of his gem when you lift it up, like his shirt. The bag is all canvas or duck cloth with a felt yellow star.

[table-fable]

Holy crap this bag is gorgeous!

[nightcreepx]

OC sketch for http://mastertortilla27.tumblr.com/

[table-fable]

Well, this is me...

[mastertortilla27]

I MEAN HELLO

1. First impression: Huh neato, this girls seems to like Star Wars comic books too….

2. Truth is: Laura! My dear dearest Laura, oh how I love you so, I’d not trade my own life or any kind of wealth for you no matter how grand, I am so so incredibly lucky to have you. ^^

3. How old do you look: 19

4. Have you ever made me laugh: Pretty much every day

5. Have you ever made me mad: Don’t believe so, no

6. Best feature: So very creative and kind and intelligent

7. Have I ever had a crush on you: More than a little

8. You’re my: Dearest of dears

9. Name in my phone: Laura

[table-fable]

Hahaha, I don't even remember my first impression of you.... I forgot we had even met. I'm so VERY glad I reintroduced myself to you. And that that reintroduction stuck.

You are wonderful. ^^

[mastertortilla27]

I had, tonight, one of the most surprising and delightful events of my entire Bronycon experience so far. Going out to a small dinner only to walk in to find a room full of people gathered to see me and greet me. To all those present this evening, I am not the best with words, but I would simply...

[table-fable]

I WILL REPLICATE THIS OR DIE TRYING