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My favorite thing about this is that 3 year olds are similar enough to cats that you can describe their behavior and not know which is which 😂😂 “Piper knocked over the milk and it went everywhere and then she tried to drink it off the FLOOR and then she fell ASLEEP under the TABLE and then she climbed up the FENCE post but Miss Teacher stopped her and then she STOLE my SOCK but we’re still friends it’s okay.” Who can tell 🤷🏼♀️
Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English
this is one of a [series] and they're all fantastic
joseph ford is the photographer and the knitter who made the pieces is nina dodd (ninadoddknits.com)
Venus Flytrap or the Little Shop of Horrors?
I don't know what brand of black paint they're using but I think I'm experiencing feelings I've only read about in fanfiction
Svetlana Berdnik, 1967-
Kittens. Carefree childhood, 2010
If you're trans and you don't have a passport, get one. right now. not in a month, not in a week, get started on it today.
This is the one thing that I would definitely do regardless of state. For those not in the know, a passport is the way to get an easy name or gender marker change onto your ID without a court battle, and that is highly dependent on the Federal administration.
hi hello I did not know this at all; could you please elaborate?
At present, gender marker doesn't have to be related to your birth identification documents' gender marker at all.
For name change, you can follow these requirements to change your name without a court order.
The requirements are likely to change after the inauguration, so get your submission postmarked ASAP if you plan to update your documents.
shopping bag cats
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
the black dog in the black night
tongue in cheek art about weird bodies and waiting for a diagnosis
Also: while we’re doing checkpoints, make sure you’re on WiFi and not data
And unclench your jaw
Please get that drink of water and remember your meds
If you can’t remember the last time you showered/brushed your teeth here’s your sign to try and do those today
Set an alarm for tomorrow if you need to!
don’t forget the laundry in your drier
This was very helpful, I took my meds and had a shower.
If you haven’t yet slain thine enemies, take a quick break and do that
shrimp check!
A little girl who knows her stuff..
tuck her in thursday
he’s too small for the strawberry hat
Our job now, our entire fucking job, is to STAY THE FUCK ALIVE. Despair is an ally of fascism. Do not do their work for them.
When people want you dead, every day you live is pissing in their coffee. Do it. Stay alive out of spite if for no other reason.
Our second job? Take care of each other. That's each other here, our other friends and family, our communities, and also random strangers.
Our third job is to resist. This will take many forms. Please remember that any group needs Tanks, DPS, Healers, and Support. Find the role you can play and put your efforts where they are most suitable.
What we do not need is martyrs. See item 1, above. But if you are, for whatever reason, going to die, then, well:
... make it count.
