qmoodo.bsky.social
Indigenous writer/artist, and Two-Spirit (whichever pronouns tbh) Ho-Chunk citizen.
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Thanks. He was a long time fighter as he was a lifelong survivor of agent orange from his service in Korea & Vietnam, so the fact he was kicking into his 70s was more than many could ask for!
RIP Bob
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I remember hearing a story from my relatives that my grandfather also took a good luck flag (Japanese flags w/homecoming wishes) as a war trophy (perhaps the sword and the patch came from the same place), but I’m not sure if that was given to my uncle’s VFW/Legion Post or if my aunt still has it.
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Lastly, a belt buckle confirming my grandfather served on the USS Tangier in Manila!
Kinda wild list!
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-a gas mask (manufactured in Pittsburgh but issued for the South Pacific camping WWII)
-a souvenir stamp of the war featuring Hitler and Moussilini (one of my cookaxete’s was an embassy guard in London and the Nuremberg trials)
-a patch we suspect is from the Manila PoW camp or something similar
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-A Japanese Officer’s Type 19 Gunto Parade Sword from the Early Showa period (likely manufactured by an arsenal that equipped the Japanese Navy in WWII)
-A combat knife
-my cookaxete’s US Army Air Corp (what the Air Force before 1947)/Signal Corp helmet
-my great-grandfather’s WWI helmet
-a bugle
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and “join up or shut up” ends up being the culmination of the old adage “scratch a liberal, and out bleeds a fascist”.
We are not the right wing. You will never gain solidarity if you can not respect the plurality.
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two decades, despite the left-wing wave of populism they could’ve built around (Bernie’s message, if not the man himself) was pushed aside.
and “Vote Blue No Matter Who” left us with a bunch of false progressives.
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they fumbled the coalition. They let Biden stick around too long which hurt Harris’s run. Harris had a good start to campaign but then bucked the left in trying to appeal to centrists/center right wing voters.
The Democratic Party has not bothered to appeal to the “fringe” left in well over
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“Leftist” (a reductive catch-all term anyways) groups, whether it be from remaining silent on Gaza or trying to push trans rights off the platform, or perpetually keeping racial minorities at arm’s length, or even failing to achieve their goals of protecting women’s liberties& reproductive freedoms.
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“It was leftists—“
Yeah, famously leftists are more ideologically focused and are inclined to be responsive to policy makers. As leftists, they’re also more pro-democracy and pluralism, and demand greater effort be made towards forming coalitions.
The liberal establishment has bucked numerous
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Shakespearean Queen Mab*
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Wait isn’t Gnostic Sophia similar to Mary Queen-in-Heaven theologies (Nyx, Mad/Maeve, Morgan Le Fey/Morrigan?)
Also, Sophia being both Holy Spirit and Genderbent Jesus— are those things mutually exclusive or is it more about the hegemon of church?
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done more to develop spell affinities and storylines that fit each racial faction differently, the longevity of spirituality would have ended up in a healthier place. Also why Shadowlands’ theology falls flat.
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I also think it has to do with the poor class fantasy planning for long-term development and how faith is developed. They’re afraid to have things like human shamans, orc druids, undead paladins, and the priest racial abilities were removed.
If they had refocused class design absent of race, and
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We also set on donating most of it to our tribal library that she helped to open this past year, and so far have donated like 20 bankers boxes full
So, so many children’s books, education, remedies, crafting, gardening, cooking, history, communications, social justice, and genocide studies books!
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You're a fucking coward if you're in the queer community and you are staying silent.
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This is all I could think of
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Honestly there’s an unspoken tension happening inside the party that they are not voicing effectively, even for supporters who engage with their direct channels. They need to get messy with their internal affairs, get it in the open and make it the party’s deal.
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Thok the Bloodthirsty in SoO. Is t a successful raid night unless your melee get cheesed by a giant hungry dinosaur 😂
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5/ Please alert your Congressional rep to this threat against our national records. The NARA admin to contact seems to be Chris Naylor, Executive for Research Services in NARA, [email protected]. /end
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4/ This move to kill NARA's Cartographic Section, as with so many actions by the Trump regime, seems to be to prevent public access to significant information about the past in order to control the future.
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3/ unique aerial photo collections, which continue to help European researchers find unexploded WWII bombs;
and, speaking of WWII, the original maps used in the Normandy invasion.
No doubt the justification will be “efficiency.” Of course that is nonsense, given the crucial expertise of the staff.
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2/ possible locations of Native graveyards at Federal boarding schools;
routes and events along the Trail of Tears;
shifts in our coastlines from the colonial period to the present;
maps and other critical records of scientific surveys and research all over the world;
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reproduction, tends to result in a more diversified outlook informed by contrasts in thought. I’d argue less diversified learning leads to greater bad-faith ideology, actions and insecurity.
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Ideology is informed by sociocultural identifiers, and the circle of wealth, caste— and in a different branch, academia/“credibility”— circumscribes how it diversifies and engages with the wider public spaces.
Of course, diversification of knowledge, while more holistic and requiring of more social
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engages with hegemonic social order— as someone else points out, however, it’s a largely petty and gauche behavior born out of class anxiety and prejudice. Collegiate diversification is meant to challenge this construct, but too often that public forum is washed by the “marketplace of ideas”, where
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So the elite define themselves by connections and exclusivity, so culturally you are expected to abide by cultural faux pas’s and not indulge in what is viewed as cheap or broadly accessible things (e.g., fashion, where you eat, what entertainment/activities you enjoy, etc.)
And it’s how class
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*looks at the Krokuul*
*looks at Ethereals*
*looks at Nerubians*
Writing team: Ah, trolls must be uncomplicated Heart of Darkness-coded chaotic evil villains *slaps a WoD [the password is SAVAGE] sticker on the cover*
*Khadgar gives distant thumbs up*
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It’s been very interesting talking with my mom about this history and getting some more acute details on his service, and I just thought I’d share because I found the technical aspects to be kinda neat!
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and ACORNs were the minor equivalent. My grandfather was assigned to work on ACORN 7 - Emirau and ACORN 45 - Sangley Point, Cevite outside of Manila (near where the Bataan Death March took place.)
During his time he also saw Guadacanal, Corregidor, and New Caledonia, and he helped bury the bodies.
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cataloguing system with allowance lists for ranking members, and assignments to establish different types of bases. The first kind were LIONs, which were major naval bases comparable to the size of Pearl Harbor. CUBs were minor naval bases 1/4 the size of LIONs.
OAKs were Navy’s major aircraft bases
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He was considered a merchant marine helping the Construction Battalion (“Seabees”), whose jobs were to follow the initial invasion and construct military bases for the long-term expansion of U.S. military occupation. Naval Operations organized the loadouts of military bases by having a mail-order