hardly-an-escape:

pluckyyoungdonna:

pluckyyoungdonna:

pluckyyoungdonna:

pluckyyoungdonna:

Writers Need Room to Write!, a project from Ms. Michael

Help me give my students clean, organized, well-equipped tables so we can focus on learning! Materials like table covers, real dictionaries,

DonorsChoose

If people could reblog this post so I can get real dictionaries for my students (and fix the holes in the classroom tables), I’d be extremely grateful.

PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE, reblog this post! If the project doesn’t get completely funded, it expires and my students get nothing.

PLEASE, help me get my students real, physical dictionaries, so they stop googling words and going with the first (wrong) answer that pops up in the stupid AI summary.

Thanks to everyone who’s been reblogging and donating!! Getting closer!!

10 donors! Thank you!

$641 left before the project is funded (more like $500 if you skip the optional donation to DonorsChoose itself). If we don’t reach that goal by January 24th, my students get nothing. PLEASE share the link!

come on people! let’s get this funded!

thepromiscuousfinger:

cintasvel:

i’m always so excited to meet star wars fans whose favourite characters are like, either minor characters or characters who just don’t get the same hype as say, the main three or five in all the movies or tv shows.

like cool, i’m glad you like obi-wan, so cool that you like luthen. oh of course you like ahsoka.

anyway, which of you fuckers are crying, screaming and throwing up about depa bilaba? or brasso? hell, anyone have big feelings about vail tormin? any breha organa fans in the house tonight?

tell me in the tags who your favourite star wars character is but ONLY if they’re not considered a main character

goldensunset:

the nearest depiction of an animal or other sentient fantasy creature to you at this moment comes to life right where it is (i.e. cat photograph, shark plushie, dragon painting, etc)

what happens to you

i am so dead

i need to go to the hospital

maybe a few things to be looked at but i’m fine in the end

i’m totally fine

i’m totally fine and i’m happy

my situation is really really really specific lemme tell you about it

n/a

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assume it doesn’t know you (unless it’s actually a specific animal you’ve met) and that it’s normal for its species and would do whatever was natural for it. including being too giant for and destroying the room it’s in. as well as dying immediately if its environment can’t support its life

augmentedpolls:

What was the cause of the worst (physical) pain you’ve ever experienced?

chronic pain/chronic illness

break/sprain

kidney stone

labor

period cramp

an actual weapon

getting hit in the balls

something else

results

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specialagentartemis:

wafflelovingbatgirl:

specialagentartemis:

2025 in Land Back

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians purchased back 2,000 acres of deeply historically significant land in Oregon in January.

A Wabanaki food sovereignty group secured a no-strings-attached land deal to buy 245 acres of farm and forest in Maine in January.

1,327 acres were acquired by the The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians in Maine in February.

680 acres were returned by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to the Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota in February.

Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area (approx. 1500 acres) was returned to the management of Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Illinois in March.

The Fort Wayne Burial Mound (a half-acre site) in Michigan was returned to the control of Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi in April.

312 hectares (770 acres) of Vancouver Island were returned to joint ownership of the Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes in May, though I think this is the land title transfer ruling that is facing legal challenges from non-Indigenous Metro Vancouver area property owners.

47,000 acres of the Blue Creek watershed of the Klamath River in California was reclaimed by the Yurok Tribe in June.

351 acres of Monument Mountain in Massachusetts were reclaimed by the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation in August.

50 acres were purchased by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band to be put into their Land Trust in California in September.

17,030 acres were reclaimed by the Tule River Indian Tribe in California in October.

53 hectares (130 acres) were purchased back by Ngāti Toa Rangatira Māori on the North Island of Aotearoa in October.

80 hectares (194 acres) were returned to the Snuneymuxw First Nation by the Canadian government due to a ruling on treaty obligations in October.

900,000 hectares (2,223,000 acres) of land and sea were formally given over to Wuthathi, Guugu Yimidhirr, and Yiithuwarra traditional owner groups in Far North Queensland in Australia in October.

900 acres were returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation in California in December.

New Zealand courts and Crown government agreed that 3068 hectares (7581 acres) of land should be returned to the control of the descendants of the original Māori owners, as well as a $420 million compensation payment, in Aotearoa in December.

The Penobscot Nation is working with the Trust for Public Land in an ongoing process to reclaim 30,000 acres of land in Maine. I am not sure if this is part of the same process that involved the Appalachian Mountain Club transferring 1,700 acres of land into Penobscot Nation control in September, but that happened too. First Light is a cool and fascinating organization coordinating and fundraising for Land Back projects in Wabanaki lands.

Added up, it doesn’t come to a lot, really. But it’s a reminder that it’s happening, that it keeps happening, and that organizations exist that are fighting for land return and environmental justice. Even if the federal governments are antagonistic, even though a lot of bad things are happening, state, local, and private actions are more powerful than they seem. And if you make regular donations to environmental protection groups, I encourage you to choose ones mentioned here that work with tribes and support land back policies!

There’s more too! Here’s another one I know about because I did my field school with a project partnering with this tribe:

With their largest land acquisition, the Rappahannock Indian Tribe is returning to its river

Over the past weekend, the Rappahannock Indian Tribe gathered with the community of donors, volunteers, federal agencies, conservationists a

WVTF

That’s fantastic! I tried to keep track through the year but it’s awesome to learn of more I hadn’t known about!

Just a note: the Vancouver Island lands returned to indigenous stewardship aren’t the same as the metro Vancouver ones at the heart of that legal challenge. They might be being separately legally challenged, idk, but the linked legal challenge is for lands on the mainland. (The City of Vancouver isn’t on Vancouver Island; Tl'uqtinus, the area in question, is in Richmond, part of the greater Vancouver metro area.)

terrierthing:

“my dog listens to me because he respects my authority as a leader” ok. my dog listens to me because she likes me ☺️

screamyvegetables:

gallusrostromegalus:

mysral:

Find a set of random coordinates here.* You are promptly teleported to that location, with nothing more than the clothes and other objects on your person. How bad a time are you having?

*: Reroll open ocean results. Let’s assume the teleporter has the decency to at least deposit you on solid ground.

Teleporting results:

Mortal peril - Exposure to the elements

Mortal peril - Dangerous wildlife

Mortal peril - Dangerous humans

I’ll have a rough time, but I’ll live

Mostly okay, though still a weird experience

Hell yeah, impromptu vacation~!

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…dropped me to within walking distance of a mutual’s house???