literally, menstrual cramps are one of the few kinds of pain where you exactly know beforehand how bad it’s gonna get. just take the damn painkillers, there’s no fucking use in suffering.
Yes, America contains many medieval and premedieval archeological sites from native Americans for hundreds of thousands of years, but unlike in Europe there is no continuity between the ancient and the new settlements. The indigenous peoples of America have either been genocided or forcibly removed from their ancestral land, and the settler majority have constructed their settlements in new places suited to them, or if not they have utterly annihilated the material culture of the indigenous peoples that were there before. This means that unlike in Europe, there is no mix, no co-existence of the historic and the contemporary.
In my village I would walk through modern housing, to a medieval Church with early medieval runestones marking the entrance, past iron age graves, stopping by a 17th century farmhouse that's still lived in on the way. In the city where I went to school the cathedral from 1246 dominates the skyline; it's your reference point for where you are everywhere in the city. This kind of co-existence with history cannot happen in America because it's a settler colony. Sarcastically reblogging indigenous archeological sites as an own completely ignores that these sites in fact belong to cultures that have been suppressed or eliminated by the dominant culture and what this means.
Every city in America is Croy, or Livingston. It's a miserable place.
This too erases communities of indigenous people who have survived, sometimes despite total erasure from the state of their status as indigenous peoples, in their homelands and have made a hard fought point of staying connected to land and history.
Take the Maidu community in California. They have maintained access to their historic land through agreements with protected reserves and even - more recently - actual land back victories. When I grew up on their land, there was ALWAYS conversation about the links between old and new iterations of their community across time and how to cultivate those connections despite ongoing acts of cultural genocide.
To claim that never exists or doesn't matter in our conversation of how far back US history's presence can go is just as much an act of erasure as it would be to claim the Maidu themselves don't exist anymore, something the federal government tried to do for years.
And that erasure is WHY we NEED to be talking about these things MORE, not LESS.
Going from being an introverted lurker on reddit to trying to post my own stuff here is so wild. I keep typing out a post, deleting it, then retyping because I think it's not good enough but then I look at other posts and why am I so worried?
It's like I'm at a fancy Italian restaurant and keep glancing around the room to see which hand people use to pick up the forks. But then I realize that everyone is shoveling spaghetti into their mouths using their bare hands and I'm like ah okay so I'm clearly overthinking this
In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”
If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.
This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:
If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I'm not hearing about that, so... Tree law!
He mentions later in the thread that not only do they not trim the trees annually, they’re trimmed at best once every 18 years. Supposed to be every five, and only in dormancy, which even my layman’s ass knows about tree trimming.
And yes, Universal can probably eat the fine. But it’s gonna be a whopper even if the trees survive (which is as mentioned kinda unlikely), California is a triple damage state for tree law, and it may increase dramatically if there were nesting birds in the trees.
All this to be a Captain Planet filler villain to some writers. And yes, it’s currently just the writers officially picketing there; SAG-AFTRA recommended against it for petty bullshit like this and the suddenly necessary sidewalk construction.
old post was getting long and cluttered, so I'm making a new one.
hi, I'm Seth. I am disabled, poor, and kinda starving. have been waiting on disability to be approved for four whole ass years at this point, and I don't know that it's going to change anytime soon.
I had to spend a third of my normal food budget (I get SNAP benefits) on nutritional supplement drinks because I recently had oral surgery to remove the remainder of my teeth, and this has basically set me on soft foods until my dentist will make the appointment for me to get dentures in October. my doctor was concerned I would struggle to get enough vitamins and whatnot, so she prescribed the supplements, but my insurance was like 'hm, nah, I don't think so. not covering that.'
I'm out of, like. everything. no milk, bread, cheese, eggs, pasta, cans of soup, butter, just...I got nothing I can eat. so I'm doing the thing I love doing so much [sarcasm!] and asking online for help. if you can spare a couple bucks, I would super appreciate the assistance.
my paypal has my deadname on it, so uh. y'know. pretend it's different. cover your eyes or something, I dunno.
so, cool news. someone sent me $20, which meant I got to get some stuff, which I appreciate! loads, actually. was able to get butter, bread, and a couple small things. my mom brought me pasta, which I appreciated.
would super appreciate any more help anyone can send my way, that all is...not gonna go super far, frustratingly. just the butter was fuckin $4. I couldn't get a gallon of milk with the rest of what I got. couldn't afford eggs either. or cheese. why is everything so EXPENSIVE.
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