it's wonderful to be alive!

amy fox, trans butch, from persistence: all ways butch and femme.

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Consider. Skywishes and Star Catcher as Cadance's parents

OP last updated: July 15th

Fires have been suppressed in our boreal forests by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources for decades, despite traditional practices by the Anishinaabeg. The benefits of controlled burns in a disturbance-based ecosystem regime like the boreal cannot be understated, but it's too late. By the time the Ministry understood the truth behind what Indigenous peoples have been telling us, decades of fire suppression has built up absurd amounts of dead brush just waiting to light. And of course those Indigenous communities are feeling the brunt of the consequences. The sky has been red, sickly yellow, or filled with smoke here where I live, and it is likely to continue this way as the Ministry fights fires that are long overdue.

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

This is going to be especially bad with prediction markets and sports gambling, and it's already really fucking bad. But it also goes for loot boxes, blind box collectables, trading card games, and ESPECIALLY gacha games.

time to post my favorite far side comic of all time