My adventures as a night shift psych tech

The federal government is heading toward trial on a class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the devastation residential schools inflicted on First Nation cultures, languages and communities.

The claim for reparations was originally part of a broader lawsuit filed in 2012 by the Tk'emlups te’ Secwepemc and shíshálh Nation in B.C. — along with residential school survivors known as day scholars — who were forced to attend Kamloops Indian Residential School and Sechelt Indian Residential School.

Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc announced last Thursday that preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops institution uncovered an unmarked burial site with the remains of children.

So far, 105 First Nations have signed onto the lawsuit.  

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The federal government, in court filings, denies any legal responsibility.

It says the loss of language and culture was an “unavoidable implication” of “children being educated in English or taught the Christian doctrine,” according to Ottawa’s amended statement of defence, filed in 2019.

It admits the schools were meant to “assimilate” Indigenous people, but denies the federal governments of that era “sought to destroy the ability … to speak their Indigenous language or to lose the customs or traditions of their culture.”

Those languages and cultures were also eroded by “historical, personal and society circumstances” and by interactions between “Indigenous communities and the dominant culture,” along with urbanization, the federal government argued.

“While the federal government may have contributed to those losses in various ways, such losses were not as a result of any unlawful acts or omissions of Canada or its employees or agents with respect to the operation of residential schools.”

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Jason Ravnsborg, State Attorney General for South Dakota, the ‘top cop’ in all the state... killed a pedestrian in a late night hit & run accident. Instead of stopping to render aid, he drove home and hid his car. 

The next day he drove back to the scene of the accident and ‘discovered’ the body of the man he’d killed laying in a ditch. He then called 911.

His explanation: he said he thought he’d hit a deer.

Okay, so even if that were true, most people would stop anyway. You know, to check the vehicle for damage? Find the dead deer? But anyway.

Then last week the official accident investigation report was released, revealing such gems as:

- at the time of the accident, cell tower records show Ravnsborg was scrolling a white supremacist website on his phone so clearly not paying attention to the fucking road;

- the dead man’s eyeglasses were found inside Ravnsborg’s car, implying his FACE HAD COME THRU THE WINDSHIELD WHAT THE FUUUUUU

And of course, faced with such incriminating evidence Ravnsborg pleaded guilty, resigned, and threw himself--

Nah, just kidding. 

He got a friendly judge to issue a gag order so that any future reports about the incident are suppressed. Because, y’know, he’s STILL the Attorney General and theoretically all the SD DOJ judges work for him.

Some other kid: Oh yeah I’ve heard of this. It’s a dank meme from the 21st century

First kid: What does it mean?

‘Of course I’ve read it, said Ridcully. ‘Why d'yer think I want it opened?’

‘Er… why?’ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.

‘To see why they wanted it shut, of course.’*

*This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

it currently has less than half the signatures it needs to for the government to respond, and though the deadline to get them is in october, i don't know if we can leave things to chance.

please, please sign it if you are a uk resident. this is personally important to me and im sure to many other non-binary individuals here. if you don't live in the uk, reblogs to spread this are so appreciated.

The Very Large And Dedicated Community Of Sauronfuckers In The Tolkien Fandom, collectively:

-where there’s flyers, there’s racists 

-your writing doesn’t have to be as stupid as you are 

-your assignment for tonight is to write. Horrible and demeaning, I know.

-im pulling up things and talking at the same time and it’s too early for that 

-okay so all of you are just looking in your computer’s general direction and that doesn’t make me feel very good 

*everyone immediately turns back to the screen* 

*professor grins* aww, you guys are all so fake! 

-okay first of all, hella same,, 

-i don’t even like the sound of my voice, so you imagine how recording lectures is 

-i have this line in my face that I didn’t realize I had until I started doing zoom so if you see that I’m not mad I’m just really tired