memengwaa (butterfly in Ojibwe)

07/30/18

Trademark Fight over the Word Aloha

A Chicago-based company is getting push back from some Native Hawaiians for suing other shops from using Aloha in its name.
Aloha Poke Holdings LLC has accused other poke shops of infringing on its name.

“Aloha Poke Co is a Midwest based restaurant that has aggressively threatened Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) families with legal action for the use of the word ‘Aloha’ in their business or social media,” the petition reads. “Not only are they capitalizing on an Indigenous traditional dish that they have no rights to, but they also have the gall to try and bar our own people from using a word in our language that has deep cultural meaning and symbolism. A language that up until 1987 was illegal in schools in Hawaii.”

Source: diaryofanangryasianguy

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speakingofnature:

There was a surprisingly large number of Eastern Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) butterflies moving about in the Yellow River State Forest. At one point there were five crossing a small stream together. This swallowtail fed at a small patch of Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) for over thirty minutes.

Source: speakingofnature

nightingem:

relatablepicturesofpatrickgill:

I’m physically restraining him from eating my donut

Source: relatablepicturesofpatrickgill

lmaonade:

me: *walking*

my cat: i am going to run in front of you. i am going to sprint in front of you so fast mid step and you are going to punt me into the sun

me: okay sir yes sir

bustnuttington:

salocinogul:

Growing up in an abusive house you either learn how to fight back or how to give up

or a confusing place inbetween where you have unnecessary outbursts/fights but also let people walk all over you when you should be fighting back

cattgirl:

I’ve never seen anything this funny in my goddamned life

Source: wonderytho

It was actually extremely weird to me, that one time my partner got laid off after the company he was working for got bought out, and was out of work for almost a year.

After too much experience with one or both of my parents* repeatedly getting laid off (and my mom in and out of work for years because disability), I was automatically and immediately off into panic mode. Especially with me unable to work even then, and feeling more like crap about it. But, there was not nearly as much call for panic? Even with neither of us having family anywhere near.

Yeah, that was pretty stressful, and we needed to watch expenses carefully. But, it was a totally different thing, without all the scrambling and screaming. No utilities got shut off at any point, and we weren’t on a steady diet of beans plus whatever I could dig up from the reduced section.

Also a pretty good personal demonstration of the difference between having an actually middle-class safety cushion in place, and the much more precarious situation most people are stuck in.

Getting laid off isn’t nearly as devastating when you are able to build some savings, and set up things like decent mortgage insurance just in case. Who’da thunk it? 😩 I knew that, but didn’t fully appreciate it until I saw it in action.

* It was also more fun whenever my dad got laid off, with the state seizing 25% of his unemployment over medical debt to MCV. Because Virginia is just awesome that way. Even with the full $800/month or whatever–as long as it lasted, at least–that still wouldn’t have been great.