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You can take the apartheid out of South Africa but you can never take it out of a white South African

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

#good news

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I am told that the headlines really undersell how rad my tattoo is. I agree.

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seems they do remember me and are happy to see me despite me not having talked to them in 12 years.

decided to look up past internet friends, see what they are up to, found a discord server they are all in. idk if theyll be happy to see me. i feel like i was such a tool back in the day

#life of frey

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decided to look up past internet friends, see what they are up to, found a discord server they are all in. idk if theyll be happy to see me. i feel like i was such a tool back in the day

#maybe theyll just be happy to see me #the worst they can do is block me

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#unreality #morley grove #slenderman

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Undoubtedly, April 24th has become a day to remain vigilant and stay safe. However, for 109 years now, it has been much more than that.

April 24th is Armenian Genocide remembrance day. 

This year marks 109 years since it began. 109 years of denial, 109 years of hearing, "It didn't happen, but they deserved it." 

The only crime of the Armenian people is existing. 

Today, we honor and remember the victims of this terrorism that is still widely unrecognized and denied. Can you imagine if this is how the Holocaust was treated?

It is a day for us to also stay vigilant as the amount of hate crimes rise this day, as sickening as that is, because Turkish and Azeri hate knowns no end. Because they teach their young that we're subhuman and gleefully laugh at any harm that befalls us, especially from their own hands. Even to this day, they believe we're better off dead.

Simply look at happened to Anush Apetyan, though be wary because it was horrifying. That should make clear the difference between the Armenian people and these genocidal Turkic nations.

Even in media, on any video regarding anything about Armenia, even if it's simply sharing an Armenian recipe, Turks and Azeris invade the space, calling on Armenian suffering, death, and bragging about their successful attempts of genocide and colonizing.

Two nations full of hate, fueled by rewritten history, propaganda, and nationalism. So much so that they literally spam Armenian spaces. Everywhere. All the time. 

Kind of crazy from people who "didn't do it", hm? 

If you stand for and are very vocal about Palestinians, you can be just as loud for Armenians.

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Slenderman Copyright

As I said previously the rights to slenderman are like vague, theyve always been vague but after Knudsen sold the rights to James Vanderbilt's company Mythology Entertainment in 2016 its even vaguer as that company no longer exists. I suppose Vanderbilt owns Slenderman? it's unclear.

However, let's be totally real here. The concept of a tall man kidnapping children and being all eldritch is hardly copyrightable due to its vagueness. The name Slenderman may be?

But some of the most popular creations didn't even call him that. Marble Hornets called him the Operator for instance. So idk, like the copyright of Slenderman feels sort of like this.

Also even if it was super enforcable, the SCP, SCP-582 is basically slenderman in all but name.

SCP's are under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which means you can remix and adapt them, even commercially as long as you give proper credit. More info here.

I know I made a point to mark Slenderman as copyrightable in the past and he is, but like the workarounds are oh so simple that it frankly I feel like he might as well not be.

#copyright #slenderman #scp fouindation

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Hatsune Miku ; Vocaloid ☆ Taito

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

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people who know me know when i say "my sexuality is _____" its probably followed by asterisks.

im 99% sure im aromantic, sexuality eh bisexual?? some mishmash of bisexual and asexual? some vague fog in that general direction

gender...femme-ish? bigender?

idk as useful as labels and community can be i think human experience more often than not cant easily be classified 100% into neat boxes

i know ive made like several posts like this over the years but sometimes i ponder

#gender #life of frey

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adding a "Sad!" at the end of sentences will never not be funny now, trumps tweets were like a Cambrian explosion of linguistics

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