roxaro:

The town of Hay River and the Kátł'odeeche First Nation (KFN) in Canada’s Northwest Territories are under evacuation due to an out-of-control wildfire that began on Sunday (May 14, 2023) and has already destroyed homes.

Visit NWT Fire Info for up-to-date information.

Image ID: A photo taken from across a river of the Kátł'odeeche First Nation (not visible) which is on fire. End ID.ALT
Image ID: A nighttime photo of a bright explosion of fire in a line of trees. End ID.ALT
Image ID: A photo of dark, billowing smoke obscuring the sky and blocking out light in downtown Hay River.  End ID.ALT

Images retrieved through Cabin Radio.

How to help:

  1. Spread awareness about the fire! The more people know and the more media coverage there is, the more resources are likely to become available.
  2. Live (or know someone who lives) in surrounding communities? Consider hosting evacuees! You can use this Google form if you live in Yellowknife.
  3. Donate to United Way NWT to aid in emergency relief efforts!

tooies:

hey dude come over here ive got an unmarked flashdrive with your name on it! well actually it doesnt have any name on it but i want you to put it into your computer

capricorn-0mnikorn:

selfmeetssociety-blog:

“ILLINOIS is 1st STATE to BAN BOOK BANS! Per HB 2789, state funding ($62 millions) will not be awarded to public or school libraries that remove books from circulation and do not “adopt the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights.”



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So far, the bill is the only one of its kind in existence. Since being passed in the Illinois Senate, it is now being sent to Governor J.B. Pritzker to be signed. It’s expected to go into effect, as the democratic governor has already voiced his support for the measure.

mollyjames:

There was a group of angels at the bar tonight. Super intense vibe, but they kept to themselves and didn’t disturb the other patrons, except for one point when they all suddenly burst into cheers and ordered a round for the bar. I asked what they were celebrating. They told me that for a split second all of the air molecules bounced petfectly into one corner of the room. It’s like their version of the dvd screensaver.

pvt-tristan-bongo:

Let me put this in a way you’ll understand. Your son, Bakugou Ramirez, got hit by a car and has been “Isekai’d” to the ICU.

red-dead-revival:

lierdumoa:

gaylienz:

gaylienz:

happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful

Please remember that “land back” does not mean “indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don’t belong in big cities,” nor does it mean “non-indigenous people can’t be farmers.”

What it DOES mean is that “non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from.”

It means, “there’s a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn’t caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem.”

It means, “non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem.”

It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.

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