Happy as a Zebra Clam

Accounts from Rohingya Boat People

Rohingya and other survivors of dangerous boat voyages from Burma and Bangladesh describe horrific treatment by unscrupulous smugglers and traffickers in Burma, and abuse and neglect aboard ships.  A regional meeting scheduled on May 29, 2015, in Bangkok must find solutions to the so-called boat people exodus.

irish people: just fuck us up!

government:

You know what I love about this statement? The fire inside of it, the rage directed at a racist action from a school administrator. There is no professional glossing about this, no usage of “we do not condone this behavior”. This was not done to make those reading it feel comfortable, it is a direct shaming of behavior that these young men knew better than to demonstrate.

This is the LEADER of a institution of higher learning firing back and telling a group of students that they are a disgrace to the school name. 

I love President Boren’s overall attitude of, “You knew the rules when you showed up, here are the consequences, because in 2015, you all knew far better.” He even acknowledges it was “freedom of speech”, but addresses they abused that, resulting in consequences.

And that’s a wrap. This is probably the last Alpha Sapphire update, and I wanted to end it with a personal experience, and at the very, very beginning.

My old Sapphire team is long gone - the cartridge battery died and the repair shop erased the save file ages ago - but I don’t think you ever forget the first team you trained, or your old secret base. 

There comes a point in every person’s life when you revisit a place of your childhood… only to find that it changed, and so have you. Life has a habit of changing all around us; these can be unpredictable, even painful, at times; but if it teaches us anything, it’s to keep our memories close to our hearts - and we’ll never lose them that way. 

So to all of you life has battered or thrown into a sharp curve… keep what makes you happy with you, keep it safe, and I promise you that you’ll be ready for whatever adventures life deigns to send you on.