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[bilgisticallykosher]

These people are disgusting. It feels like I've fallen to conspiracy theories when I say that you can't trust Wikipedia on these issues, but you can't trust Wikipedia on these issues.

Here is a brief summary of what is happening in Wikipedia right now:

In the last few years (3-4 years) the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, which was originally created to improve the quality and coverage of native issues and native articles on wikipedia, has been hijacked by a small number of users with an extremist agenda. They have been working diligently over the last few years to change the definition of both what it means to be an Indigenous American and even what it means to be state and federally recognized.

The four or five key players (Mainly Editor Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, ARoseWolf, (now retired editor CorbieVreccan, Netherzone and Oncamera) who are part of the “Native American Articles Improvement Project” started implementing these changes slowly, but they started pursuing their goals aggressively after November 2023, when state-recognized tribes retained their voting rights in NCAI. Essentially, after the movement to delegitimize state-recognized tribes failed officially, the key players doubled down on altering and controlling the flow of information about Native Americans through Wikipedia.

The talk page of Lily Gladstone’s article has a relevant discussion here. Initially, the leaders of the WikiProject removed any reference to her being a “Native American Actress” and instead had her as “Self-identifying as Blackfoot” and “Self-identifying as Nez Perce” because her blood quantum was too low to be enrolled in either tribe.

You can see some of the discussion here:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lily_Gladstone

Eventually they relented and changed her category to being “Of Nez Perce Descent” but you can see in the discussion that they are referring to an article that these editors (Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, and CorbieVreccan) themselves appeared to have mostly written and revised:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_identity_in_the_United_States

This statement is very much at odds with even the government’s description, as seen below;

The DOJ Office of Tribal Justice Office on their webpage “Frequently Asked Questions About Native American”, question “Who is an American Indian or Alaskan Native” states:

“As a general principle, an Indian is a person who is of some degree Indian blood and is recognized as an Indian by a Tribe and/or the United States. No single federal or tribal criterion establishes a person's identity as an Indian. Government agencies use differing criteria to determine eligibility for programs and services. Tribes also have varying eligibility criteria for membership.”

In addition, “List” pages have been created on Wikipedia for federally and state recognized tribes. The Wikipedia “List” page for state-recognized tribes is inaccurate in its interpretation of state recognition and not supported by expert reliable sources--(1) Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law 2012 edition, (2) NCSL.org current stand on state recognition (not the archived list from 2017 which NCSL no longer supports), (3) Koenig & Stein’s paper “Federalism and the State Recognition of Native American Tribes: a survey of state-recognized tribes and state recognition processes across the United States” (both 2008 & updated 2013 in book “ Recognition, sovereignty struggles, and indigenous rights in the United States: A sourcebook”)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-recognized_tribes_in_the_United_States

State-recognized tribes who have received recognition through less formal but acceptable means have been moved from the Wikipedia list page on state-recognized tribes to the Wikipedia list page of unrecognized or self-identifying organizations.

The Wiki page "List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes", in particular, is being used to purposely defame legitimate Native American individuals who are members of the tribes/Native communities that are on this list. 

By the parameters set up on Wikipedia, only the colonizer’s governments can acknowledge who is Native American through either federal recognition or state recognition. If an individual is not a member of a federally or state-recognized tribe, then it is determined that they cannot be Native American and are, instead, considered “self-identifying” or only “a descendant of ...” (example Lily Gladstone). As a result, Native individuals are currently being tagged as “self-identifying” and their names are put on “list” pages that strongly imply they are “pretend” Indians.

These editors have indicated that they would like “self-identification” to be the default setting for any people who they deem do not fit within the parameters that they themselves created within Wikipedia.

Moreof, these editors are admin and senior editors within the Wikiproject Indigenous Peoples of North America, and are being called in specifically to weigh on Native Identity, and any project involving any Indigenous Group.

Any attempt to correct misinformation, add information, or change any of these articles is often met with being blocked, reported for various offenses, or reported for having a Conflict of Interest, whether or not that is actually applicable. They have use this strategically in many different pages for many different individuals and groups within the scope of their Wikiprojects.

While changing things in Wikipedia does not change the truth, it is a way to control how most people take in information, and thus they hope to manipulate the narrative to better suit their goals.

This is quick and messy but:

Here is a link to the google document with the other state recognized tribes (Including yours) that were edited by these editors. This is an incomplete list so far that only goes back to September 2023 but I am going to add to it. If you can add to your own part of this list, and send your complaints and information to the arbitrator committee (the email is below) with the involved editors, this will help our case.

The  more tribes who complain, and the more Wikipedia editors complain, the better our case will be. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNDEjLTrrZ_mMIRCVxtvt69FwCYpJWKs71lBhWa5a9M/edit?usp=sharing

The place to make complaints on Wikipedia is oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org , and

arbcom-enwikimedia.org . It is most helpful to have an editing account on Wikipedia, because Yuchitown and the others will try to defend themselves using Wikipedia methodology and make anyone who confronts them look like the aggressor (see the other tribes who tried to fight back on Wikipedia I found).

The more people and tribes make complaints the more likely it is that this will work and we can rid ourselves of these monsters.

Some of the tribes I have spoken to are taking legal action against these editors. Any groups affected by their policies should also reach out to the news to make knowledge of this more widespread.

Thank you

- quoted with permission from an email sent by an associate of my tribe. Message me for their email address if you'd like to reach out to them.

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Meeee.

begging people to be normal about frum jews who are either queer or queer affirming

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CRYING First of all how dare you.

Apparently, observant (however you define it) goth Jews are a thing, and I’m glad.

‘Cuz, like, there’s quite a bit of goth sensibility to how I conceptualize God (a radiant darkness) and Torah (which puts us way outside the mainstream).

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what's your favorite holiday that you Don't celebrate?

This is a great question! I want to say a Jewish one that I don't celebrate, but that's like. Fasts that I'm not obligated to do.

I'm gonna be boring and say Halloween. Fun aesthetic and also candy sales.

Second answer would be Holi, the Hindu festival of Colors.

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Beautiful. It's nice to have good news. He is a hero.

And if you're reading this and don't know what's going on, look up the Amsterdam pogrom.

Melhem Asad is one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

When the Dutch police were standing idly by -- or worse, aiding and abetting terrorists -- and allowing Jews to be violently pogrommed, Melhem was RISKING HIS LIFE to protect Jews.

The Amsterdam police colluded with these terrorists to allow this pogrom to happen on the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The Netherlands allowed a pogrom against Jews to take place in Amsterdam, the same city where the Dutch sent over 100,000 Jews, including Anne Frank, to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps.

Melhem helped protect our people from that attempted massacre and hostage taking.

Mr. Rogers once told us, "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping'."

Melhem is a helper. He shielded our people and helped rescue them from kidnapping and murder. He is a hero.

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Was recently at a walk-in clinic to get an xray of my back (because I'm in owies), and there was an old man and his aide in the waiting room with me and my mom. There was no chitchat. All of a sudden, he starts singing Hinei ma tov u'manayim. "Oh! We recognize that song!" We talk a little, but then he left.

I'm in a fairly Jewish community, but it was still nice. :)

So I’m a senior in college and I’m writing my honors thesis on Jewish characters in theater written by Jews and non-Jews which is all well and good until you remember that most theater about Jews is saaaaad.

I read the two different versions of the diary and Frank play last week… oof not fun

Anyway, I could use some Jewish joy so if you got any send it my way

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שנה טובה ומתוקה!

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Freshly peeled scream boy.

@bilgisticallykosher submitted: Picture I got last month, I'm really pleased with it. :) (No ID needed: Cicada and its discarded clothes.)

Somewhat freshly peeled...10/10

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It sure can! If all the holders along its little hot dog body are at the same height, it's even kosher! And adorable!

Out of season, but you can see some of my Chanu-kats here. Top right (blue circle) is kosher, because while all the cats are different heights, the holders are the same (minus the shamash (the tall "helper" candle)). The one on the left (red circle) is NOT because all the holders are in the various kitties which are not the same height.

But still cute.

There's a blue one in the first picture that's also kosher, but it's a weird angle. You can also see a cat dreidle in the bottom right on the Jewish star plate!

I did not know that a menorah can also be a weenie dog.

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Jewish Miku!!! It says something that I wasn't ever in yeshiva and still recognized the uniform instantly. I love the pose and the flow of her clothing! So dynamic, so good. Her little clips are adorable, too.

I couldn't resist giving this trend a go, so here's Jewish Miku, featuring that one godawful uniform that every Bais Yaakov on the eastern seaboard seems to use.

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I still feel as though I haven't processed this yet. These are my brothers and sisters. For no reason. As we enter Elul, I'm so aware of Tishrei coming, of Simchat Torah, of the anniversary. I will blow the shofar every day in Elul with extra feeling. Pray the extra tehillim, with hope that everything, anything, will help prevent another death of a hostage.

I was so ecstatic when the Bedouin man was rescued the other day, and now I'm numb. There's an American hostage that's from my town, and I'm scared. I'm scared for October 7th this year. I pray everyone is safe.

All of Israel mourns the loss of these six beautiful souls.

May Hashem bring comfort to their families, may their memories be for a blessing, and may Hashem avenge them.

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LMAOOOOO

We've bean bad.

It isn't time to apologize, though. I can not. (Because. There's not cans.)

Updated the name of my blog and now my wife @ironwoman359 is being hilariously tormented by her friend group with pictures of things filled with beans that should not be.

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WOAAAAH LOOK AT THE LINES AND MOVEMENT! And his pose and his form! And look at how you designed his hair and Roman's! >:3 Love.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER RIGHT- Have a Remus that has been eating my mind for 2 days 🤣 HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAT BOY

@thatsthat24

Coloured without shading and extra doodles I made along this under the cut ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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REMUS BIRTHDAY ART TIME! AW YEAH!

So, I know Thomas said his voice was based on Prince Ahmed from Twisted, but when he was introduced I associated him with another Starkid character who shares a name with him...

Kinda learned to draw better on some of these! The last one is my favorite. @thatsthat24

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This is great detail and very important to know tbh.

so i’m watching avps and the subtitles are everything

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CRYING, this is SO funny. Your art is really good and expressive, this is amazing.

these tags made me laugh

[ID: A simplistic multi-panel comic of the characters from Sanders Sides, told through screenshots of a Tumblr post.

Panel 1: Janus, dressed in a suit, sits at the prosecution desk from Selfishness vs. Selflessness. The screenshot, a post from @/crustaceousfaggot reads "Is lying ever ethically correct" Panel 2: Extremely simple renditions of Roman, Thomas, and Virgil in their courtroom attire sit on one side of a desk, while Patton, looking worried, sits on the other side. The screenshot is of Tumblr poll results, reading "Yes - 97.6% / No - 2.4%". Panel 3: Logan, sitting in a chair, squints at the scene from a distance. Panel 4: Logan sits in the back of audience seating, surrounded by chairs as well as text reading [chairs]. He speaks with a speech bubble with Tumblr tags in it, reading "#who voted no? immanuel kant isnt going to fuck you" Panel 5: Patton sits in a folding chair leaning forward to hold his head in his hands, in the pose of the Shinji chair meme.

End ID]

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OKAY finally reading this, I got impatient waiting for the end of Little Kestral with not knowing what a multrum really was and holy shit holy shit. Everything is. Holy shit. I don't recognize any of those names, except Patton obviously. But Logan's POV is insane, and yeah, I didn't think of how Logan's promise to lead Roman to the prince would be seen by outsiders. Roman thinking he's a coward makes so much sense.

ALSO. I KNOW BLOOD OATHS WERE MENTIONED IN LITTLE KESTREL. BUT. HOLY SHIT. How horrifying. You wrote that so well. And oh my god. Janus is perfect lmao I love him. Roman seems to allow him more liberties than perhaps others from (listen I will never ever get these two names right so) M-kingdom have, according to Virgil. But it's kind of hard to tell at this point. I'm intrigued. And love that Logan doesn't get the sarcasm. And that Janus is super not telling him that Logan lied, re: it's upside down. I laughed out loud. UGH this is so good already.

Kill Dear (Arc 1: A Deal Etched in Blood)[Chapter 1: A Deal is Struck]

Fandom: Sanders Sides

Relationships: Logan/Roman, Background Virgil/Patton, Implied Remus/Janus

Characters:

Main: Roman, Logan, Janus

Appear: Virgil, Remus, Patton, Thomas

Summary:

Roman of the Northern Tribes, 3rd in line for a seat at the table and decorated war general in the Mocnejsi Kingdom’s army stumbles upon a traveling group whose carriage has a painted over emblem of the enemy kingdom on its side. In exchange for the lives and freedom of his other party members, Logan strikes a blood bonded deal with the general to deliver the crowned prince of Prijaznia into his custody. Logan becomes his prisoner and with an ancient secret code book belonging to the prince, he guides Roman and his troupes through dangerous magical locations, perilous tasks, and puzzling riddles. Logan knows, of course, that he signed his own death warrant when he struck such a deal, whether or not they ever make it to the destination at the end of his book, but he is determined to go down kicking, screaming and spitting in Roman’s face all the way to the guillotine. He’s a dead man, but he’ll achieve as much as he can before Roman inevitably kills him. Because here’s the trick; Logan’s the prince.

Notes: Knives, violence, swords, sexual assault/coercion mentioned, fantasy racism, cursing, implied torture, injuries, magical coercion, character who is not suicidal but has little value for his own life, forced feeding, images of dead major characters because of magic, hallucinogenic magical flowers, fear of death and torture, assassinations mentioned, sexual innuendo, heavy making out, semi-explicit discussions of sexual relationships

This whole fic is already published, but I’m going to break it up and publish it chapter by chapter for ease of reading. If you want to read it all, see the Kill Dear Big Bang 2020 Master Post. Also, for art work of this fic done by @snekky-boi, see this link. (Warning there are some spoilers in the art for later chapters.)

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