Every So Often Im Reminded Of This Post And I Lose My Mind All Over Again

every so often I’m reminded of this post and I lose my mind all over again

Scariest thing that’s ever happened to me?

Walking sleepily into my friend’s kitchen at three in the morning one sleepover to find him hunched over a bowl of peanut butter-covered noodles muttering ominously “but I must find the Russian man” I asked no questions and I don’t think he even comprehended I was there.

Pending character creation changes for Dungeons & Dragons 6th Edition:

The game’s default setting no longer has native humans. Human player characters are presumed to be interdimensional travellers from Earth.  

Dwarves are now magnetic. They don’t have magnetism powers as such, metal objects just stick to them.  

Orcs are secretly robots. Only orcs know this.  

Drow are replaced with low elves, who are exactly like high elves, except they build their towers down instead of up. They regard surface-dwelling peoples as very silly for building in the wrong direction.  

All non-human species now have “half” variants, rather than just elves and orcs, but instead of being half human, they’re half the size. Nobody is completely sure what halflings are half of.  

Gnomes can fly.

The Miꞌkmaq people are facing hostility and threats in Eastern Canada over the right to fish to sustain themselves. 

This has included:

“In response to Mi’kmaq fishers setting up 150 out of their 350 allowed traps, non-Indigenous fishers gathered at the wharf in Digby to protest.”

“One of the ways Nova Scotian fishers have found it appropriate to protest Mi’kmaq harvesting practices has been to chase down boats and fire flares directly at them. There have also been attempts to ram small boats with much larger vessels.”

Two people being arrested and charged with assault.

“Lobster traps in St. Mary’s Bay were vandalized, their lines were cut, and the traps were left on the shore.”

“Some fishers have posted calls on social media to reimplement the Canadian residential school system, and for other harsh treatment of Indigenous peoples and their children.” 

A lobster boat belonging to a Mi’kmaq fisher has been destroyed by a suspicious fire at a wharf in southwestern Nova Scotia.

These people have the right to sustainably fish on their own land and support their livelihoods. Megan Bailey, professor at Dalhousie University’s Marine Affairs program, an expert, has said that there is no conservation concern as has otherwise been claimed. “The scale of the livelihood fishery as it exists right now with 350 traps is not a conservation concern.”

Ways you can support the Mi’kmaq people (both on this front + other issues):

Treaty Truckhouse Legal Fund - Grassroots Grandmothers, Mi'kmaw Rights Holders and others continue to stand united as water protectors of the Shubenacadie River in the Sipekne'katik District of Mi'kma'ki, where Alton Gas intends to dump salt brine equivalent to 3000 tonnes of hard salt every day.

Another donation link is here, or e-transfers can be sent to treatytruckhousefund@gmail.com 

Support for our Eskasoni Mi’kmaq Fishers - Supplying resources for the fishers to continue the battle to have access to moderate livelihood fishery.

Mi’kmaq Fishers: To show support you can donate funds via e-transfer to the following emails with the message “donation”:

wasawek39@hotmail.ca

ravenchanelleaugustine@gmail.com

If you have any useful additions, please let me know, and I will add anything that I find. Also please spread this around, awareness is also important so that these issues do not fly under the radar and get a pass.

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