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[quantim]

It is with horrific and unbearable sadness that I am posting to let longtime followers know that my dog, Clive, has passed away.

Please give a dog or pet in your life a hug from me. Our pets are so precious and they are only here for as long as we have them and not a single second more.

[spelledcoffee]

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Hear the families’ calls for justice, 30 years and 474 black deaths in custody since the Royal Commission - Roxanne Moore - IndigenousX

Today is the 30 year anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Yet the last month has been devastating for our communities, with the horrific news that five of our people have died in custody since March. Thousands of people marched the streets this weekend in outrage and calling for change. It is heart-wrenching. These were siblings, aunties, uncles, parents, children, cousins, Elders.

The 474 deaths include four fatal police shootings of our people in 2019, with two murder trials underway for the deaths of Kumanjayi Walker and Joyce Clarke. Over the past 30 years, these violent and mass-scale deaths have occurred under the duty of care of governments and yet there has been little government action or accountability. Not a single police, medical or prisons officer has been held criminally responsible.

A deeply flawed and widely critiqued Deloitte report commissioned by Minister Scullion (which did not include any community consultation, only a desktop review and government information) states that most of the Royal Commission’s recommendations are implemented. But the uncomfortable truth of it is if Black Lives Mattered in this country, governments would have stopped this injustice long ago. Successive government leaders have deliberately chosen not to make it a priority. During this time, some families have lost multiple loved ones, like the family of Cherdeena Wynne and her father Wayne Cooper, who both died in custody 20 years apart. The Guardian’s Deaths Inside project documented that most Indigenous people who died in custody were on remand, that one or more police/prison procedures had not been followed, or they had not received adequate medical care. Racism in the intersections between the health and justice systems is rife and well proven.

[kryptonians]

Pour one out

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[withinadream27]

My grandma died this morning.

I woke up with a text from my mom to call her, and I laughed off my initial thought that someone had died, but, well.

My mom and I were on the phone last night, and she got a call from her sister that she declined because her sister is Always Fucking Calling Her, but it turns out that call was to tell her that my grandma/their mom had a massive stroke.

We weren’t close, but I expected her to have many more years. (That was probably stupid - she was an alcoholic with all the problems that come with that, and wasn’t compliant with a lot of her healthcare stuff.)

I just keep thinking about how much WORK my mom is going to have to do now. Her siblings that live in the state are a dysfunctional mess (third sibling is in Mexico so fat lot of help he’ll be), and she’s going to have to plan the funeral, and clean out my grandma’s dump of a house. They already made her drive 4 hours to handle all the medical care when my grandma broke her hip. Her basement is a literal landfill, my mom already broke in to clean it when my grandma was in the hospital last year and could barely make a dent. I wish I lived closer so I could help.

[diylycanthropy]

i just want it to be known that at any and every moment of any and every day i would lay down my life for kenjirou minami in a milisecond and i would murder anyone who sexualizes him at any moment of any day because he is my child 

[sebumis]

Work Work Work: Dahm Yi/So Yi (Tree With Deep Roots)

I decided to go a little differently with this category. What I loved about Dahm and her character arc in TWDR is that she was so integral to the success of Hangul.  While it was Sejong’s idea, Dahm is the willpower that gets the job done. She works tirelessly the entire drama to see the success of a common written language. Seeing her how difficult it was for her to communicate with others throughout the drama as she was unable to speak truly made clear the necessity of Hangul. Dahm struggled and worked her ass off to see her dream achieved. She could have lived a simple life with Ddol Bak but she wasn’t willing to see her dream pass. She was willing to sacrifice everything to see her goal come to fruition.

Dahm dies but her words carry on. And isn’t that a wonderful legacy?