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We’ve really got to get to the heart of the matter, which is that people are self-soothing, self-medicating, coping in whatever ways they can find with intolerable circumstances. We’re not bad bc we feel we need caffeine, or a hit, or a drink!! Ever, at all! Let’s ask: in what ways are our basic needs not being met? For sleep, for food, for safety, for connection? Why do we need substances for energy, motivation, or relaxation? To function or to escape?

This has included:

“In response to Mi’kmaq fishers setting up 150 out of their 350 allowed traps, non-Indigenous fishers gathered at the wharf in Digby to protest.”

“One of the ways Nova Scotian fishers have found it appropriate to protest Mi’kmaq harvesting practices has been to chase down boats and fire flares directly at them. There have also been attempts to ram small boats with much larger vessels.”

Two people being arrested and charged with assault.

“Lobster traps in St. Mary’s Bay were vandalized, their lines were cut, and the traps were left on the shore.”

“Some fishers have posted calls on social media to reimplement the Canadian residential school system, and for other harsh treatment of Indigenous peoples and their children.” 

A lobster boat belonging to a Mi’kmaq fisher has been destroyed by a suspicious fire at a wharf in southwestern Nova Scotia.

These people have the right to sustainably fish on their own land and support their livelihoods. Megan Bailey, professor at Dalhousie University’s Marine Affairs program, an expert, has said that there is no conservation concern as has otherwise been claimed. “The scale of the livelihood fishery as it exists right now with 350 traps is not a conservation concern.”

Ways you can support the Mi’kmaq people (both on this front + other issues):

Treaty Truckhouse Legal Fund - Grassroots Grandmothers, Mi'kmaw Rights Holders and others continue to stand united as water protectors of the Shubenacadie River in the Sipekne'katik District of Mi'kma'ki, where Alton Gas intends to dump salt brine equivalent to 3000 tonnes of hard salt every day.

Another donation link is here, or e-transfers can be sent to [email protected] 

Support for our Eskasoni Mi’kmaq Fishers - Supplying resources for the fishers to continue the battle to have access to moderate livelihood fishery.

Mi’kmaq Fishers: To show support you can donate funds via e-transfer to the following emails with the message “donation”:

[email protected]

[email protected]

Greek mythology was passed down through oral tradition, up until Hesiod put together the Theogony. It's normal, therefore, for a myth to have many different forms as time goes on.

The problem here is that the original significance of the myth is what matters the most. The rape of Persephone was always told through Greek tradition as a tragic tale about the pain of motherhood. It meant to signify how men don't need the permission of neither the mother of the bride nor the bride herself to marry a woman.

You ALL be regretting writing, or attempting to write, that book or script about the serial killer.

Prosecutor: “The defendant googled ‘How does a murderer clean up the scene?’ is that not highly suspicious?!”

As with most privacy concerns these days, the issue isn’t so much what it will do to any one specific person, but how it empowers law enforcement to enact wider authoritarian controls on populations using such enformation. More invasive methods of monitoring become more widespread and ubiquitous reprisals.

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install the TrackMeNot extension, which provides a constant stream of fake input to pollute data to the point of making it unusable.

Terror is knowing that it’s for landlords to control their units remotely, while being to see and hear everything in the rented space.

“What is a Faraday cage?” you might ask. “How will it help me defeat Big Sister Alexa?”

Easy answer: a Faraday cage blocks EM waves. WiFi, the thing Alexa needs to do anything of use at all? That’s a type of EM wave.

I know, I know, “Faraday cage” sounds like it’ll take 47727372 hours with a welder, right? Wrong!

A simple Faraday cage that anyone can make is as easy as a cardboard box with as many layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil as you can stand to coat the box with. I usually do about 5 layers because that number is easy to remember, but if you’re paranoid or simply need more layers you are more than welcome to add as many layers as necessary to keep Alexa at bay. I think the average is about 4-6 layers.

Hilariously, I actually learned this technique from those crazy prepper types. Which, ironically, is why I know it works. (Not to mention I tested it myself by wrapping my phone in foil and seeing if my roommate could call or message me.)

If your landlord notices, they will not receive any warning or notification that you tampered with Alexa- because you didn’t. All they will notice is that they can’t communicate with that particular Alexa device (because it will be “offline”, aka not sending or receiving signals).

A box is also easily hideable in case of surprise visits from the landlord or anyone else who might report you to your landlord, accidentally or on purpose. Just pop the bitch out, restart it (or don’t, this just clears any other hitches from the system) and it should behave normally.

Additionally, most landlords have the general tech expertise of an orangutan with a headset, so technical hitches are relatively easy to handwave with a good ol’ “Fire is scary and Edison and Tesla were witches”. Basically, if they question you about why Alexa suddenly is or isn’t working, shrug and say that it must have suddenly either just gone out or come back (depending on the situation), but that you didn’t do anything to it because you don’t know anything about that sort of tech and that you didn’t want to mess with it out of fear you would break it.

There is no “reaching the transphobic stage of being a terf”. That’s their entire ideological basis. Aro/ace exclusion is not a terf thing, biphobes who criticize bi women for getting with men is not a terf thing, general transphobia is not a terf thing. Terfs explicitly base their ideology on excluding trans women from feminism, from women’s spaces, and from the LGBT community. Terfs often also intersect with positions of biphobia, general transphobia, and so on, but those qualities are not why they are terfs or are called terfs or have chosen to identify with the term terf. It’s because they hate trans women. That’s it.

On Friday (09/25) the city of Philadelphia ceded to (some of) Philadelphia Housing Action’s demands and relinquished 50 vacant homes to unhoused activists, which will be formed into a community land trust