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

Goes insanely hard

To provide further context from what I understand the bill wanted to take the rights guaranteed to the Maori in said treaty and expand them to all New Zealand citizens. The issue with that is that it sort of defeats the point of the protections of the treaty.

The Treaty of Waitangi is not even that good of a treaty. But it is better than any treaty the Crown signed with indigenous peoples

And it absolutely was not meant to be

The treaty as written screws over Māori, and was written in Te Reo Māori and English with deliberately misleading translations to Te Reo Māori. I'm not an expert by any means, but basically the Te Reo Māori version has clauses that promise much more independence and sovereignty, while the English version does not

However

The English version promises them rights as Citizens

From what I remember from University 10+ years ago, this clause, this sentence, was added last minute by the writer of the treaty. Like, right before the big signing at Waitangi.

And the Crown was PISSED

Because now they had a legally binding document that promised, in their own language, to treat Māori with the same rights as they would English. Which was absolutely not the goal. The goal was to trick Māori into signing away their lands and that honestly still did happen. The treaty was not a good faith proposal by the Engliah.

But its still better than anyone else got, and it's better than no treaty. And because nowadays we can't just ignore the Te Reo Māori side of the treaty, the government's of the past few decades have been honouring Māori sovereignty, honouring their stewardship of the land, and undoing a lot of the bad faith "sales" or straight up stolen land.

Except our current fuck nuggets, who want to make Te Reo Māori an endangered language again, and steal back that land because they want to mine on it and sell it and they hate that Māori stewardship is so environmentally focused and not profit driven.

So, in a way, the current government is more true to the intentions of the Crown who initially came up with the treaty.

But since those guys were colonising bastards, I don't see "honouring" them as anything good.

Even with criticism of the treaty, without it, Māori would lose a lot of protections to their lands, their culture, their language, and as a country we would go backwards to a time when they were even more discriminated against

Toitū te tiriti

Uphold the treaty

Sharing this because I had NO IDEA that this is how they worked… 

I did but it is still super cool to see it close up in such great detail.

There’s something of the obscene about this.

Gentle reminder that the human eye is naturally drawn by noise and movement, so the next time you walk into a crowd or a bit late into a lecture or something like that, they’re not staring at you or judging; it’s just an instinctive reaction that has nothing to do with you doing anything wrong.

This really helps my anxiety.

oh.

It’s literally a threat assessment/food gathering instinct. The steps your brain is doing, subconsciously. 

-Check to see if movement is lion in grass.

-Also check to see if possible game animal and edible. 

-No it’s just Dave getting into lecture hall a few minutes late. 

-That’s boring. 

-Lose interest. 

I like to believe that for a brief second, everyone looks at me thinking I might be a snack

I am a snack. Obviously.

DEVASTATING! one half of the themes in a song you like fits a character perfectly however the rest of it does not at all

tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

The burning question about "homesteading tradwive influencer vs. actual medieval farmwife" wouldn't be about who would win, but what would be the final straw that would make Kathrynn - who got married at 21, doesn't know what a chemical is, and who would have sent her children to school if she had had the chance - finally decide to beat the ever-loving shit out of Kathrynn, who got married at 21, doesn't understand what a chemical is and can't spell for shit, but still thinks she can homeschool her kids.

It wouldn't be over feminist issues. Medieval Kathrynn has no concept of "women's right to vote" - it's not like her husband has the right to vote in government matters either. It would probably be about religion. Medieval Kathrynn has no idea what "catholism" is, but she heard Modern Kathrynn talk shit about the saints and decides to toss aside the goat she was castrating and go "that's it, I'm beating your ass."

I'm pretty sure it would be vaccination, actually. Medieval Kathrynn would find out that there's an easy, safe way to keep the babies from dying of measles/mumps/smallpox and that Modern Kathrynn is CHOOSING TO NOT DO IT and would use the grave marker of her third child who passed from the pox as a bludgeon.

Vaccination and Antibiotics.

Fun fact: Prior to the 1900's, the mortality rate of children under 15 was between 45-55%, in every country in the world.

INFANT mortality rate was often much higher - closer to 60-80%. There are many cultures who didn't name children until they were 1 year old, and didn't count babies among their children, because most babies died before 1 year.

This kind of ultra-high death rate has persisted in historical sites all the way back to hunter-gatherer remains from prehistoric humans. What we see as minor infections, sniffles from the flu - prior to modern antibiotics and vaccines, those were fucking fatal.

So, if you gave birth to 12 babies, 3 or 4 may learn to talk, but you'll be damn lucky if 2 of them make it to age 16.

This is why many historic stories have mothers popping out 7, even 10 and 13 children. They really, really didn't expect those kids to survive to adulthood.

In the early 1900's, child mortality rates started to drop like a fucking rock.

By 1950, it was down to 25%. one-in-four would die, instead of one-in-two By 2020, the global mortality rate was 4.3%.

Today, most of the western world has a child mortality rate under 1%. Some countries even have it below 0.3%.

So, what happened between 1900 and 2020? 120 years, vs 40,000 years of human history?

In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered modern day penicillin. The first systemically active antibacterial drug was developed in 1933 by a German research team led by Gerhard Domagk.

From 1921 to 2000, we found vaccines for tuberculosis, scarlet fever, diptheria, yellow fever, typhus, influenza, polio, measles, and much more.

Over the course of 100 years, humankind went from a universal truth that 'half of all children die to infectious diseases' to 'most of your children will definitely survive.'

We started naming babies the day they were born.

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Medieval Kathrynn would slit Modern Kathrynn's throat, adopt all her children, and immediately get them all vaccinated the moment she learned it was possible.

And then she would pray to the Blessed Mary, divine saint of Mothers, and sob her fucking lungs out in gratitude and grief at this incredible mercy, this divine, impossible blessing that humans had been given.

To live in a world where the death of a child was unusual and strange.

I am in love with Clara 😭

Transcript:

Clara trusts me enough to show me different parts of her body like her belly. show me her mouth and allow me to touch all of those teeth. —right? can you turn and show them all of your teeth? good job!— So we work really hard on being able to look over their entire bodies, and progress those behaviors to things like voluntary blood draws, ultrasounds, teeth brushing, and radiographing. —right? yeah!— But the biggest thing is we find what they find reenforcing and they show us that. and that includes hugs. —right?— And Clara has shown us that she really seems to enjoy tactile, so I give her this hand signal and she will show me what part of her body she wants rubbed. So, right now she wants a big noogie —right? good.— and sometimes what I will do is I’ll make her head a little pancake. or then I’ll rub her side and then she snuggles right in. —huh? huh! good girl thats very nice, good.— And then like I said, she would climb right on my lap and allow me to continue giving her tactile.

I was offered sex today by a 26 year old man. in exchange of that I was supposed to advertise some kind of bathroom cleaner on my tumblr. of course i declined because of my morals and strong will power. which is just as strong as ajox. the super strong bathroom cleaner. now avaliable scented with lemon or vanilla.

idek what this says i just pressed post immediately after seeing the word 'blessica'

me reading this post

You know how Degas did studies of ballerinas? This is… kind of like that!

(On Twitter / Instagram ayyyyy)

You Are Not Immune To fanart of characters who die in canon that has them alive and well, with scars from the wound that originally killed them

NO 😂

I’m George RR Martin 

growing up in maine us writers were of course always comparing ourselves to stephen king.  TURNS OUT HE’S FUCKING WRITER GEORG

“average writer writes 3 books a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person writes 1 book per year. Steven King, who lives in cave & writes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

My favourite quote from Steven King was something like “I am a salami writer. I try to make good salami, but salami is salami.”

Rhianna Pratchett tweeted about her father Sir Terry:

When Dad was part-time he wrote 400 words a day. Full time it was 1000 words no matter what. If he was having a v good day it could be anything up to 6k. But the Oblivion playing time, the tortoise polishing, the bubblegum for the brain was as important as the words on the page. (Source)

By the way, tortoise polishing means literally polishing the shells of his pet tortoises. They seem to like it.

I don’t know what font size or line spacing Stephen King uses to compare their word count, but iirc Pratchett recommended that people trying seriously to write aim for 400 a day, even if they ended up discarding or changing a lot of that later on. Because you can’t edit what you haven’t written.

It actually kills me how easy it is to become someone murderbot cares about

Like it gets its first job that it chose and like within hours is invested enough to let someone lay down with it, its upset that it relaxed when there was still someone who needed protection despite the job basically being over anyway

It just watched the preservation team for most of their survey and decided it like them based on things like Mensah driving safely before it was ever ready to accept direct kindness

Its capacity for love is massive when shown even the slightest basic compassion and sometimes even when it can just sympathize with your position despite you hurting it

and it still walks around like "I stepped through the door and I bet everyone flinched because I'm a Terrifying murderbot, which is my name btw, the one I chose for myself"

Peer reviewed tags courtesy of @stolenoc:

#Step 1: Be in a dangerous situation with Murderbot.

#Step 2: Don't *be* the dangerous situation Murderbot is in.

#Step 3: (This one is startlingly optional) Don't be mean to Murderbot.

#Congratulations!!! Murderbot has made you one of its humans and you have fantastic odds of surviving this book.

#the murderbot diaries

TIL anyone who's going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that's not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that's about to burst when you're on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.

No, by the way, we absolutely did not think of this ahead of time. A dude named Leonid Rogozov got appendicitis in Antarctica. Fortunately, the expedition's doctor diagnosed him quickly and knew how to remove an appendix. Unfortunately, our man Leo was the expedition's doctor.

What did he do? Well, he set up a mirror, gave his belly a shot of novocaine, presumably told a colleague, "hold my vodka," and he removed his own fucking appendix. He survived.

this picture has such "i lived bitch" energy

yknow what im just leaving this whole tag thread out here