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At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Gilbert Baker added a 9th stripe shortly before his death, with the new stripe representing diversity. He added this stripe in reaction to the 2016 US election. It’s unfortunately not as well known as the 8 and 6 striped versions.

Here’s an image of him sewing together the 9 striped rainbow flag.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

because it means you live in a world where sexuality and gender are assumed go have a norm, and those who reinforce that norm will harm people outside it. if we are being placed Outside, we need an Inside to shelter us from that wrath

Unite Cox (male, 1752-1816, Malden, Massachusetts)

Pleasant Cock (male, dates unclear; mentioned in a diary from 1777 of the writer's travels through Virginia)

Submit Cox (female, 1702-c. 1735, Dorchester, Massachusetts. later married and became Submit Maudsley)

Preserved Fish (male, 1766-1846, New York)

Experiance A. Quakenbush (1825-1908, Manalapan, New Jersey)

Bonus photos of the cool cemetery/church yard:

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

Our neighborhood is near a field that happens to be home to at least one coyote. I have seen that coyote wander down the road and people have even spotted it in fenced backyards before. I'm sure one reason it dares to wander into backyards is because it knows there are cats wandering freely around here.

The red tailed hawks in the area may not be large enough to carry off most full grown cats, but that doesn't mean they won't try.

Raccoons aren't exactly nice to cats either.

And i can easily point out several houses, including my own, with flowering plants out front that could absolutely make a cat sick or worse. Lilies, for example.

Even before tackling the problems of cars, malicious people, poison from pest control, or the ecological damage cats themselves cause, just the fact that other people will decorate their own yards with plants that can poison a cat should be enough of a reason to keep them inside!

The usage of "hushpukena" is even more specific and important because it calls back to the mutually positive relationship between Irish and Choctaw people specifically. During the Great Hunger in Ireland, the Choctaw Nation donated $170, which is more than $5,000 in today’s money, to aid the Irish. Out of all American aid given to Ireland during the famine, the donation from the Choctaw Nation was the largest donation given.

In 1990, leaders from the Choctaw Nation visited County Mayo in Ireland to participate in the first annual Famine Walk. In 1992, Irish people visited the Choctaw Nation and participated in a trek to commemorate the Trail of Tears. Also in 1992, a plaque commemorating the Choctaw's aid was installed in the house of the mayor of Dublin. In 1995, the Irish President Mary Robinson visited the tribal headquarters of the Choctaw Nation to thank the Choctaw people for their aid. In 2017, a sculpture named "Kindred Spirits" was built in Cork, Ireland to commemorate the Choctaw's aid and to continue friendship between the two communities. In 2018, the Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland visited Choctaw tribal headquarters and stated,"A few years ago, on a visit to Ireland, a representative of the Choctaw Nation called your support for us ‘a sacred memory’. It is that and more. It is a sacred bond, which has joined our peoples together for all time". In 2020, more than $1.8 million was raised by Irish people as aid for Native American people (specifically the Navajo and Hopi) during the pandemic, to help provide food, clean water, and health supplies.

I can’t do that without negative consequences

I can’t do that unless I have support for it

I can’t do that

and sometimes the implied 2.5 is: because I can't do that, "support" means doing it for me.

The Greys, with their extremes, White & Black, are symmetrical mixtures of the 3 wavelengths we can perceive. I phrase it this way to highlight that Brown is the color space for all of the asymmetrical mixtures of all three colors.

Indoorsy folks and the artistically disinclined can tend to think Brown is boring, because their principle experience with Brown is chromatically homogenous brown liquids, like coffee, tea, brown-painted surfaces, etc.

Outdoorsy types, and Artists with a good Eye, on the other hand, often find that natural Browns are rich in detail and often quite beautiful, once the internal structure of their mix is revealed:

Green means Chlorophyll, which means Plant Life That's Living And Transforming Light Into Itself Right Now;

Brown means Any Of Myriad Organic Compounds And Probably Lots Of Them. Brown means So Much Life Processes Happened Here. Brown means Life Was Here And Transformed This;

Green and Brown mean You Can Live Here.

✨Bolaire✨