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Toastie

@Toastie@journa.host

Indigenous affairs reporter, High Country News
They/them | Chahta Okla ⚫ ⚪ 🟡 🔴
Chinook lands, U.S. Pacific Northwest

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sarahc, to worldwithoutus
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Over the past decade or so, researchers have found genetic evidence for contact between people in eastern Polynesia and those in coastal Peru and Colombia. Now archeologists studying the oldest settlement on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have found physical evidence that islanders traveled to South America at least once and returned with food crops not known in Polynesia.

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-material-obsidian-blades-rapa-nui.html

Toastie,
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@sarahc I love thinking of someone on Rapa Nui chopping ginger with their obsidian knife. Happy, back from their adventure at sea, cooking some good food with kin. 🥰

Toastie, to random
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ME: [is late for meeting]

ZOOM: Hi. Would you like to log in to go to this meeting? You have to log in.

ZOOM: I don’t have your password. Don’t YOU have your password?

ZOOM: I’ll be honest, I forget how to log you in.

GOOGLE: Hi.

ME: Oh jesus.

GOOGLE: I can help log you in. C’mon over here.

GOOGLE: Oops, looks like you’re logged out here too.

ME: But I was just using Gdocs in another tab—

GOOGLE: I said you’re logged out now.

🧵 1/3

Toastie,
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GOOGLE: So. Who are you again? You’re Deadname, right? We always lead with the deadname account.

GOOGLE: No? Different account? Okay. Give me a minute. Gotta think this over.

GOOGLE: Okay! Then you’ll just need

GOOGLE: The Password

BITWARDEN: Hi.

ME: [silently crying]

BITWARDEN: Nah, welp, yeah we have the google pass, but only for your deadname account. Looks like you have to log into that one to recover the other one. I can get you started on that.

🧵 2/3

Toastie,
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GOOGLE: By the way, we have a new sign in page! Allow me to give you a quick tour.

ME: Opt out.

GOOGLE: Of your new experience.

ME: No! Opt out please!!

GOOGLE: There is no opting out. Here is the grand foyer.

ME: [disappears into darkness, wondering what is happening at the meeting, and if anyone will come looking for me]

FIN

🧵 3/3

Toastie,
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Director's cut ending:

[later, at the meeting]

BOSS: Hi, welcome!

ME: [in cold sweats, pretending I haven't just borne witness to a godless, lightless place of ultimate human cynicism] Hi.

Toastie,
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@D_J_Nathanson HOW DOES IT KNOW

Toastie,
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@tezoatlipoca I'm glad it's not just me, honestly.

Toastie,
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@stevegis_ssg Can we close Pandora's box?

Or like put it in a basement somewhere in a fleshbound tome for future teens to dust off at their peril?

kzodasnowman, to random
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Passive voice suckkkkkkks. Good thread on good faith!

From: @Toastie
https://journa.host/@Toastie/112134665335686706

Toastie,
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@kzodasnowman In fairness (and to my chagrin) my correction was in PV too 😅

Toastie,
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@kzodasnowman Active voice would be "Americans took 90% of the Yurok Tribe's territory..." but that makes Americans the subject instead of the Yurok Tribe.

Toastie,
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@kzodasnowman I think "The Yurok Tribe, 90% of whose land Americans stole during the gold rush..." would be the solution that's active voice and names the perp AND keeps the Yurok Tribe as the subject.

Kinda cumbersome tho? 🥴 Or maybe less cumbersome than my correction. 🤔

Toastie, to california
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Good news, everyone! The Yurok Tribe will now co-manage 125 acres of Redwood forest, a gateway to the state/national park, along with the National Park Service.

The tribal nation signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with Redwood national and state parks and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League.

#Indigenous #California #Conservation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/20/yurok-tribe-land-gold-rush-redwoods-national-park-service

Toastie,
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Now let's talk about WRITING TROPES.

This is a good article. I don't know who wrote it, but my criticism is offered in the spirit of constructive collaboration, not dunking.

This clause:

"For the tribe, redwoods are considered living beings..."

ARE REDWOODS NOT LITERALLY SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TO BE LIVING BEINGS? DO WE NOT ALL AGREE ON THIS?

Why the mystic Indian bullshit? 🙃 🙃 🙃

Toastie,
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This subhed:

"Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken during the gold rush, will get 125 acres returned after it was stolen in the mid-1800s"

This grammar puts the onus on the Yurok Tribe, who 'had' their territory taken or stolen. Like it was their fault.

Try:

"The Yurok Tribe, 90% of whose land was STOLEN BY AMERICANS during the gold rush..."

Less comfortable, maybe, but it doesn't obscure and protect the perps. 🍵

Toastie,
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These "traditional" "mystical" "beliefs" (like orcas being human relatives, or redwoods being living beings) are actually the result of generations of sophisticated science.

But to present it that way would mean that (GASP) Indigenous people arrived at these scientific conclusions long before Europeans and European Americans did.

This would severely challenge assumptions underlying white supremacy. Therefore, Indigenous scientific knowledge must be presented as TRADITIONAL MYSTICAL BELIEFS.

Toastie,
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@toolbear Thank you!

Toastie, to random
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I'm shocked --- shocked --- that western science is financially in bed with settler-colonial ag industry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/08/livestock-industry-cows-climate-impact/

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SHOCKED ABOUT THIS TOO my goodness

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/20/oil-industry-climate-fossil-fuels/

Toastie,
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When ppl say they don't trust western science, it's not because we doubt the western scientific method. It's because of how western science is deployed (like this! 👆👆👆)

Toastie, to random
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💡🤔 "To solve the housing crisis,

👷 🏗️ most experts agree that

🏘️ 😄 we’ll need more houses."

https://www.hcn.org/articles/could-building-on-public-land-address-the-housing-crisis/

znetwork, to random
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, following a US-backed coup in 2009, saw its descent into a narco-state under Hernández's rule, who was recently convicted of drug trafficking

remains without a stable government amidst armed group opposition to the US-backed Prime Minister installed after the 2021 president's assassination.

Mainstream coverage often ignores this intervention's role in driving asylum seekers to the US, hindering efforts to address the immigration crisis


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/haiti-honduras-and-us-hegemony/

Toastie,
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@znetwork

"Democracy Now! traveled to C.A.R. in 2004 covering a delegation led by Transafrica founder Randall Robinson and U.S. Congressmember Maxine Waters who defied US policy and escorted the Aristides back to the Western Hemisphere. Aristide confirmed to Democracy Now! then that he had been ousted in a coup d’état backed by the United States. Aristide then went to live in exile in South Africa for the next seven years."

👀 👆

Toastie, to Arizona
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The world's 3rd largest copper deposit is in . It's essential to projects. Resolution Copper wants to extract it. But the copper is beneath Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, AKA Oak Flat.

“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us,” says Wendsler Nosie (San Carlos Apache) of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area.

✍️ @siisiikostagner

https://grist.org/indigenous/the-massive-copper-mine-that-could-test-the-limits-of-religious-freedom/

Toastie,
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@parsingphase
Good point. These resources could end up anywhere, not just in renewable energy projects --- weapons manufacturing leaps to mind.

100% with you that this is high-impact extraction greenwashed. And I'd add that it's casual cultural genocide too.

Toastie,
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@phil_stevens That does often seem to be the case, doesn't it?

Toastie,
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@jcriecke We'll see! If I were a betting girl, I wouldn't bet against that. But I do hope for better.

babadookspinoza, to random
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If something is rare, you don’t have to account for it in your theory. For instance, 98% of baryonic matter in the visible universe is hydrogen or helium. Therefore we can say that there are only two elements, and that “carbon-based lifeforms” are simply confused.

Toastie,
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@babadookspinoza This is the same logic racist liberals use to dismiss people.

Racist liberals. Transphobes.
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