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Vaguely, very vaguely, considering remaking this blog tbh. A lot of the posts on it are broken for some reason, especially old asks where my answers are just gone, but I've also changed so much since I started it that it's actually pretty embarrassing seeing my old posts in my notes.

A lot of my older posts contribute to this idea of a settler/indigenous dichotomy that I absolutely do not subscribe to anymore and that I would really like to leave behind entirely if I'm being frank, and it would be nice to make a space where I can just be a reconnecting Native person and not have the pressure of 8,000 people watching me all the time.

My main issue at this point though is the fact that I know I'm blocked by a lot of people on this blog and that's fine. I am 100% pro-blocking anyone for whatever reason and I'm never going to bother anyone for blocking me or whatever. But I'm worried that if I remake, especially if I keep this username and theme, I'll get accused of block evading or something along those lines. Hmm.

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just catching the end of lesbian visibility week but !!! ndn lesbian love <3

REALLY in love w this design, i had it sitting in wip for ages bc i wanted to get it done just right. tip me or cop this on my bonfire and inprnt !

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Hello my fellow peeps deep in the throes of depression, a really fast and simple thing that does actually help you feel slightly less miserable is to open your windows on nice days, especially when it's windy enough to create a breeze. It doesn't cure your depression by any means, but the combination of fresh air (especially if you can't clean often) and the ambient noise of a world existing can do wonders for your mental health even when you can't get out of bed for anything else.

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Māori child, Aotearoa/New Zealand, by Maania Tealei

#i love the diversity in these portraits #a really great example of how there's no one way of 'looking' indigenoud #*indigenous #māori

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The thing no one ever tells you about growing your own herbs is that sometimes, when you just let them do their thing, the tiny plant you bought from the produce section of Walmart on impulse can grow to be the size of a small child.

#does anyone need some basil?

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A surprisingly helpful bit of social maneuvering I've figured out from trial and error: Throughout your life, you are going to need things from people. Often, it's going to be on a deadline. And when that deadline passes, you generally want to know what's going on. So, you need to ask them.

There are two kinds of people, broadly, in this situation. The Shameless will tell you what the holdup is, with absolutely no regard for if the reason is "good enough". This is actually very helpful, because you get the real reason immediately, and can start working on a solution.

The Ashamed is trickier. People who are Ashamed are people who were often told they were giving excuses when they were trying to explain, and they'll often avoid you until they solve the problem on their own. This causes them and you a lot of stress, and often takes a lot longer to solve.

Long term, the strategy for dealing with people who are Ashamed is to provide a supportive environment where they're comfortable sharing any problems they're having with getting things done. But, there's a way to at least partially short-circuit that:

Provide an explanation for them.

One example might be "Hey Susan, I noticed that I don't have your report yet. Are you busy with other projects?" The readymade explanation signals that you're willing to accept an explanation, which is the big anxiety point.

Sometimes, you still won't get an honest answer- especially if the honest answer isn't "good enough" by the standards of the person who traumatized them. But, I've found that it often at least gets you a lie that lets you give them some slack or work around the problem.

Let's say that Susan has actually completely forgotten that she needed to do the report. She's horrified at herself, and completely unwilling to admit the real problem. But, she can now safely reply with "Sorry Jennifer, I've been swamped, and it got lost in the mix. I can have it to you in two days. Does that work?"

From there, so long as Susan gave an estimate for when she can actually do it, she and Jennifer can hash out a solution.

It's not a perfect solution, but it works astonishingly well for how small of a change it is.

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Also I think tumblr should have timestamps on by default because someone once accused me of block evading and harassment because I had reblogged a post from them. . . . . . several years before. Which is fucking wild tbh.

#literally the post was reblogged in like 2019? #and they freaked out at me last year over it???????

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"CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING?!?!?! EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS!!!!!!" That post is from 2015 and it's a screenshot of a tweet making a false claim about something that Snopes has since debunked multiple times, please turn on timestamps and stop falling for conspiracy theories and fear mongering.

Turn on your timestamps though because I think I will legitimately lose my mind if I see one more news post from 2017 getting shared like it's recent or another fundraiser post from 2014 made by a deactivated blog. Seriously. Please. I'm so tired. And stop starting discourse with people on posts over comments they made 3+ years ago.

#is this post about all those 'sex trafficking danger psa' posts? maybe #no one is putting zip ties on your car to mark you to kidnap #those signs on the side of the road are for shitty exploitative jobs not for sex trafficking #people have vans with locks on the doors because they have expensive equipment they don't want stolen #that random number texting you weird shit is trying to steal your social security number not somehow magically kidnap you via text

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Turn on your timestamps though because I think I will legitimately lose my mind if I see one more news post from 2017 getting shared like it's recent or another fundraiser post from 2014 made by a deactivated blog. Seriously. Please. I'm so tired. And stop starting discourse with people on posts over comments they made 3+ years ago.

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“if you’re working a full time job you should be able to afford to live on your own and have access to food and transportation” gonna be real with you brother. everyone deserves this. Not just people working 40 hrs a week

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Posting due to an emergency- please share widely if you're local to Chicagoland.

If anyone in the Chicagoland area sees this, a friend's service dog prospect is in need of immediate boarding from tomorrow until May 6. Winnie is about 40 pounds and is not dog-reactive at all, but the person caring for her was hospitalized and so my buddy is looking for a short term emergency foster!

I'm available to help with any transportation (you wouldn't need to drive her anywhere!) and compensation+coverage for food/medical/etc. would be involved. You wouldn't need to pay for her stuff, just make sure she has a place to stay and walk her and call me if she needs to go to the vet.

If this is something you or someone you know could help with, please let me know. It's an emergency situation, so for the first time in... well over a year, I am opening my inbox in case this is something you can help with. Please DM me if you or anyone you know can help.

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Gotta love the rise of food costs along with the rise of recalls from lack of food regulations and protections. Nothing like paying $8 for a bag of wilted salad mix that will probably give you salmonella.

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made some affirmations for my fellow grocery shoppers out there

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I am being 100% serious btw, BP coined the term "carbon footprint" and the shift from corporations to individuals as the cause of climate change was backed by fossil fuel companies. This is not a conspiracy theory, it's a well recorded fact that you can easily confirm with a quick google search.

"Carbon footprints" are corporate propaganda. Taking shorter showers and planting flowers will not save our planet as long as these companies are allowed to mow down forests, turn grasslands into monoculture farms, turn wetlands into dust bowl housing developments, fill our oceans with oil and trash, and dump their toxic shit wherever they want.

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Plant native plants, learn how to turn your yard into a safe haven for animals facing the loss of their habitats, work with other people and organizations to revitalize local ecosystems. All of that is useful, all of it is good. Small steps are still important to someone and to something; the milkweed you plant in your garden isn't going to save your world, but it will save the worlds of the monarchs who pass by and have a safe place to lay their eggs.

But always remember that anything that shifts the blame of climate change onto you, as an individual living your life the best you can, is propaganda spread by companies tearing our planet apart for their own profit. "Carbon footprint" as a term was made by BP, the same company infamous for its devastating oil spills, to distract from their own crimes. Your "footprint" is a literal speck compared to what these companies do every single day.

"Calculate your carbon footprint and use your yard to undo the damage you do ^_^" the term carbon footprint was invented by fossil fuel companies to shift the blame of climate change and environmental destruction from them onto people just trying to survive, stop falling for their propaganda

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"Calculate your carbon footprint and use your yard to undo the damage you do ^_^" the term carbon footprint was invented by fossil fuel companies to shift the blame of climate change and environmental destruction from them onto people just trying to survive, stop falling for their propaganda

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Bro, you ok? Bro, humans aren’t separate from the ecosystems around us. We’re a part of them, bro. Bro, we’re never going to have absolutely zero effect on ecosystems, because we live here, bro. Bro, I never said it had to be a bad effect. We don’t have to immediately be perfect either, bro, sometimes doing what you can is what you can, and its way better than nothing. Bro what do you mean humans are a plague. You’re starting to sound a bit like an ecofascist, bro… Bro?