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Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

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Really this is the best if you wound up with a weird ass last name (at least once a month I heave a long suffering sigh and explain no, I don't like it either, yes I would like to change it, no there's no l in that, no no r either, yes it feels weird in your mouth when you have a medial ng sound, for the love of all that is unholy you've known me 8 years and still can't pronounce it please stop)

just overheard my wife spelling something on the phone and i shit you not saying the words “E as in Eeyore” i am on my hands and knees wailing screaming crying pleading and begging people to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet

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Tomatoes & Tomorrows

by viridianatnight

Ginny Weasley x Draco Malfoy | M

as part of the Audaciously Austen Fest (on discord)

Joint Best World-building Runner Up

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read more here by @60coyote

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Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.

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At the end of the day, some people are correct and believe the purpose of literature is to observe, reflect, and analyze life and the human experience, and some people are incorrect and believe the purpose of all literature is unilaterally to impart good moral lessons to small children, and we're never going to agree with each other

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The creature who fell in love with the light

[Watercolor and gouache, based on ‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury]

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My favourite question to ask (mostly suburban) people when commenting about XYZ thing that they claim makes the city unsafe is "Is it making you unsafe or is it making you uncomfortable?"

Is the safe injection site making you unsafe or does see it make you uncomfortable?

Is the encampment making you unsafe or does seeing unhoused people make you uncomfortable?

Is the person asking for change on the corner making you unsafe or are they making you uncomfortable?

Is the person talking to themself at the bus stop making you unsafe or are they making you uncomfortable?

Is the queer couple kissing making you unsafe or are they making you uncomfortable.

People existing in a way that you don't approve of isn't unsafe. People need to get better at understanding the difference between those two feelings because when you feel uncomfortable and claim you feel unsafe you often make the people making you uncomfortable actually unsafe.

Calling the cops on the person talking to themself may well result in them being harmed. Pitching a fit about safe injection sites and petitioning your local government to close them will result in people dying.

Being uncomfortable isn't a bad thing. Often times you simply need to learn to live with it or you need to direct your discomfort toward the system problems that lead to your discomfort.

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....for later

Free Online Classes about Goat Farming

My friend Lee from Moxie Ridge Farm is hosting some free online courses about goat farming! If you have any interest in agriculture, homesteading, or are an author trying to get that goat farm AU off the ground, check them out!

Goat Care Basics

This is a course for those who have never worked with goats before. Perfect for those looking to start working with goats in their job and those looking to incorporate goats into their homestead or farm. By the end of this class, students will be ready to own and care for goats. 

Behavioral Herdsmanship for Goats

When people ask me what my secret is with goats, I can now answer with this course. It is an intro to Behavioral Herdsmanship for goats and covers getting to know behavior on 3 levels as well as herding skills, moving goats, and more.  This course is appropriate for those who have never worked with goats and those wishing to deepen their trust-based working relationship with goats.

Goat Kidding Basics

Kidding can be an important part of goat ownership for those who want milk or baby goats. This course teaches the basics of kidding and prepares students to attend their first goat birth. 

Bottle Raising Baby Goats

Raising bottle babies can be both challenging and incredibly rewarding. This course walks students through post-birth care, selecting and using a bottle system, and how to play in order to raise safe and friendly goats. Appropriate for those wishing to learn to raise a single baby to several dozen for home or work. 

These courses have been made possible by the Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center and are a training series targeted at people who want to start working with goats either as owners or as a part of their jobs.

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....now I'm wondering about Boomers and lead (is that the real reason they like TFG?)

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Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Gretel After Hansel," (edited)

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This and "you can't save them all"

But you bet your ass I can save this one. And probably that one too. And maybe I can't save them always, but I can get them through the next five minutes, or hour, or day.

So why not try?

"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

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Tomatoes & Tomorrows

by viridianatnight

Ginny Weasley x Draco Malfoy | M

as part of the Audaciously Austen Fest (on discord)

Joint Best World-building Runner Up

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Help two AFAB queer autistics leave the Deep South! Emergency Commissions!

Me and my roommate are absolutely terrified in Alabama and want to be able to escape to a blue state before all our rights are stripped from us.

Profile Pic/bust portrait- $65

Character Sheet, one body reference and one outfit reference- $200

Each additional outfit +$75, Complicated armor +$50, Anthro character +$50, complicated tattoos +$50

I won’t do gore or complicated Sci-fi designs. Please feel free to DM for a consultation! If you want something I didn’t post an example of just let me know and we can probably work something out.

I will have 4 slots open at a time, with a timeframe of 2-8 weeks to complete each piece since I am also working a 40 hr job currently.

Please reblog if you can <3

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i’d follow him to hell and back but i wish he’d just stop going there