The beatles and phone

Can we raise $50CAD by this Wednesday, the 26th? I have a very important appointment with my surgical oncologist to see if my tumor is back, on Wednesday. I'm on ODSP and don't get paid until after the appointment, and I gotta pay to get to my appointment in Toronto!

*eating a ploughmans lunch* so, how long until it kicks in?

These pickled onions ain't shit

Me 5 minutes later:

Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989

also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:

It baffles me how this sort of “large dam project funded by some foreign entity, backed by tone-deaf government officials, opposed by indigenous peoples” seems to keep happening all over, and governments around the world don’t ever seem to learn anything from it.

In the Philippines we had Apo Macli-ing Dulag, who was one of the most prominent indigenous leaders opposing the construction of the Chico River Dam in the 1970s, under the dictatorial regime of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

He was eventually assassinated in his home by military forces in 1980.

As for his words (from the Martial Law Museum website):

In the aftermath of his death, the dam project was abandoned.

Also, the son of the dictator who had Macli-ing Dulag killed has recently maneuvered his way into getting elected president, which means stories like this are at risk of being erased and forgotten. The Marcoses aren’t strangers to historical revisionism, which they employ time and time again with their methods ranging from casual and consistent denial of their various crimes to large-scale use of propaganda machines and social media troll farms.

I worry sometimes that stories of indigenous resistance like that of Macli-ing Dulag will be erased in the process of whitewashing history for political gain, but then I see stories like that of Tuira Kayapó above floating around the internet.

It’s a nice reminder that- even if these stories don’t make it to the history books for whatever reason- there will always be another story out there that will resonate, where someone can see Kayapó and think “Hey, that reminds me of Dulag”, or maybe the water-protectors of Standing Rock, or whoever else might come to mind who stood up to protect indigenous land from encroachment.

If at some point we end up with nothing else, we will still have that unified, collective, resonant memory to remind us of the kinds of victories these powerful people would rather we strike from our history books. Through that, in one way among a multitude of defiances, we will never forget.

dude this is ricky dick (new way of saying ridiculous)

Rubik's Cube youtuber solves the Hellraiser puzzle box so fast that Pinhead comes out with only half of his makeup done yelling at them to slow down

also as a 22yr old who has been on tumblr basically daily for the last six years or so

i’m thinking it’s time to start weaning myself off of this goddamn shitstorm of a website

how’s that going bestie

I'm so scared. can people please, please help. I'm sorry I keep begging. I wish I didn't have to. but I don't want to be kicked out with my family on the streets because we couldn't pay for the motel. please. please. I cannot convey any more how serious this is

10/70

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hey, can I have help paying for the motel again tomorrow? thank y'all so much for spreading and helping already, and I feel bad constantly asking for help at this time of the month. I appreciate you all literally keeping me and my family alive

i'm soooooo drunk @s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s

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