Friends in low places

Folks want a quote from a Black or Indigenous person for their blog, but they don't wanna change their environments or GOD FORBID their consumer habits, even as the oceans rise to your door and the wildfires and logging bring down every old-growth forest.

(the history you cut out and paste into your cutesy little Revolutionary Scrapbook is still happening and still being made, btw. Your actions are part of it.)

anyway. I'm sitting here under a pungent yellow sky and aching for my people and the forests of Ontario. The Namaygoosisagagun First Nation (Collins First Nation, for the colonizers) fled on boats while the trees next to their houses burned. Thunder Bay is full of displaced Indigenous peoples trying to breathe with air full of ash. Gayaashki-zaagiing Anishinaabeg (Gull Bay First Nation, again, for You Folks) peoples were ordered to evacuate in the middle of the night and were just told there are no accommodations for them, now that they've escaped. Thousands of people scrambling for protection and safety, while a bunch of white colonizers complain about the smell of smoke.

None of this is new. It's all a very old song.

Snail crossing

coming back to an rpg after less than a week and a half:

In 2000, they released a self-titled concept album set in the year 3030, about a former mech soldier and hacking master named Deltron Zero, who plans to use his skills to create a virus to shut down the corporate overlords suppressing hip-hop culture and human rights, all while he takes part in rap battles to become Galactic Rhyme Federation Champion.

Whole album is dope, and it's down below. A masterpiece in the scene of underground hip-hop.