Mrs. Argent's Air-Conditioned Nightmare

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I randomly saw this old newspaper at work yesterday, and it sent me on a slight depressive spiral. It's some young person protesting the war, wanting peace and for all the hungry to be fed. It's just like the protesters on the campuses right now! And this newspaper is so old it cost ONE SHILLING. The UK hadn't even decimalized their currency yet!

We've really been protesting "the war" for a barely interrupted half century? Just every decade or so they switch up which war it is we have to protest.

The full page, if Tumblr will upload it in high enough resolution to read. It's from March of 1969.

"Non, non, rien n'a change..."

"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

Press release by the Haida Nation about the vote

Two really great things about this:

1- they didn't have to go to court. Cases like this usually take years or decades and are incredibly expensive for First Nations, even if they win.

2- to quote the press release: "In the agreement, British Columbia recognizes and affirms that the Haida Nation has Aboriginal title to the lands of Haida Gwaii. This recognition does not create title – Haida Title is inherent." That's a big deal!! The difference between Canada granting title versus recognising Aboriginal title is incredibly important in matters of sovereignty. Haida sovereignty and Aboriginal title is inherent; it does not need to be "given" by the Canadian government.

Even Biden supporters want this motherfucker gone like what are we doing here?

look at my gouger, boy.

Rez (Sega - PS2 - 2001)

Virtual-On wallpapers from Hitmaker’s old website. Converted from BMP to PNG.

Covers the games Oratorio Tangram, Force, and Marz.

(and yes, they distributed these through .exe files, which unpack a bitmap when ran)

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go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish

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Mount Grefell National Park in Australia

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BRASIL ☝️☝️☝️🏆🏆🇧🇷

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Katangsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia -- Google shows buildings with an SUV parked outside, Open Street Map implies this is inside some sort of large forest preserve -- I might be okay if I can find people?

I know about four words of Russian, but I can probably get by with "yes", "no", "please", "thank you" and gesturing long enough to get to a smartphone/computer and then kludge my way to ticket home with machine translation.

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Siberia, Russia

I'll probably get eaten by some wild animal or freeze to death

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Ocean (but relatively near an island east of Australia (Grande-terre)... I'm a strong swimmer, if no sharks eat me maybe I could make it to shore!)

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Antarctica

on the border of Mali and Algeria - literally the middle of the Sahara Desert

Middle of a forest somewhere in Colorado

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Best of five:

-Pacific ocean, between Vanatu and Viti

-The Antarctic, South-Southwest of Heard Island and the McDonald's

-Pacific Ocean, roughly between Hawaii and the Baja Peninsula

-Pacific Ocean, Somewhere near Ogasawara

-Pacific Ocean, Northeast of Auckland, Aotearoa

Only one of these involves dry land, and it leaves me at significant exposure risk. Hmm.

Audio cue: Those rat bastards from the facebook aunt memes bust through your doors, windows, plumbing, and ventilation simultaneously and they're all packing