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[image text, slides taken from @kānakaautonomy on IG: "Want to know the REAL reason gas and power prices are CRUSHING Hawai‘i families, being told we should 'plan our budget', or be better at 'reducing our total energy costs' despite consuming the lowest amount of energy in the nation, all while paying the highest prices? (verbatim from email sent by Joe Viola, Senior Vice President, Hawaiian Electric) If you guessed THE MILITARY+TOURISM, you are right. Jet fuel accounts for nearly three-fifths of the petroleum products consumed in the state. Because of significant demand from military installations and commercial airlines, jet fuel makes up a larger share of total petroleum consumption in Hawai‘i than in any other state. Residents, who consume just 1/10th of total energy in Hawai‘i (the lowest in the entire 'nation'), are PERSONALLY PAYING EVERY SINGLE DAY OF OUR LIVES, often choosing between basic necessities&paying the power bill or putting gas, FOR YOUR MILITARY AND YOUR VACATION. The same jet fuel they use to poison our waters, they use to steal our hard-earned dollars. WHEN WILL THE WAR CRIMES END? Demilitarize Hawai‘i. Hawai‘i is closed." /ID]

a reminder that, at a time of massive evictions across the country due to eviction moratoriums ending, getting your power shut off often also usually means eviction and subsequent homelessness, &being unable to fill your tank on an island with some of the worst traffic in the country thanks to constant overcrowding usually means losing your job.

getting extremely tired of seeing hot takes centered around the idea that not being happy about gas price hikes is somehow a moral failing or inability to focus on other, bigger problems.

& stay the fuck out of Hawai‘i.

A recent royal tour intensified a spotlight on Britain's colonial history, renewing questions about how much longer a double-digit list of Commonwealth countries — including Canada — will have a monarch as their head of state.

The week-long tour, which wrapped up last weekend, saw Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, visit Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas in a bid to shore up ties between Britain and those countries.

Instead, the trip drew protests and public demands for reparations for slavery, and saw unexpected news from Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness that his country intends to become fully independent.

In doing so, Jamaica would become the second Caribbean country to cut ties with Queen Elizabeth in recent years — following the lead of Barbados, which did so in 2021.

But more countries in the region seem to be considering the possibility.

[...]

A recent poll by the Vancouver-based Research Co. suggests a lot of Canadians would agree.

Slightly less than half of those surveyed said they wanted the country to have an elected head of state, according to the online poll of 1,000 adults that was taken over a three-day period in February.

Mario Canseco, the president of Research Co., said that figure — now  "a whisker away from 50 per cent" — has been climbing in polls he's conducted in recent years.

"It's the highest we've ever had," said Canseco, referring to his prior polls.

A further 18 per cent of those surveyed said they did not have a preference as to whether Canada remained a constitutional monarchy or not. Just 21 per cent of those surveyed said they preferred for Canada to remain a monarchy.

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I got a tumblr, it really was quite great

I blog about a lot of things, but mostly what I ate.

I thought it was a sweet gig, it really was quite cushy.

I signed up on tumblr, I didn’t know what to expect.

I thought I could just post and not worry about being fact checked

But once my posts went viral, no one saw my genius

I’m a YA book author, I have a tumblr too

I post a lot of info, for my tumblypoos

But then one day my time was up, I read it on the clock

i made a tumblr, and it didnt go great

whenever i make a post, all i get is hate

arguing with strangers, it really is a slog

One day I made a Tumblr, now I’ve been here ten years,

I’ve stayed through every update that left the userbase in tears,

And I don’t regret a second, for here’s the truth, you see: