baapi-makwa:

baapi-makwa:

Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin who has recently relocated to northern Minnesota to be closer to my children and have better access to healthcare. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and I am still having to help cover the utility bills back home on the reservation for my father who is also disabled.

I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.

Did not plan on returning to the reservation until after the holiday season is over but my father went to the tribe’s event and ended up getting presents for my roomies little ones and for my own little ones, so now now I am gonna have to go down sometime during this week and gas money will be needed. I will also have the opportunity to pick up a turkey from the tribe which is much needed for my household.

gallusrostromegalus:

gallusrostromegalus:

gallusrostromegalus:

threeunrelateddescriptors:

gallusrostromegalus:

gallusrostromegalus:

I have.  A new recliner chair.
It’s very comfy.
but I am worried.

Mochi.
Has decided that the best place to sleep is between my feet on the footrest.
and when I have my laptop open I tend to.
forget
that he’s there.

I am going
to dump him onto the floor.

Maybe not tonight, maybe not tomorrow night
but Eventually
He will end up rudely dumped onto the floor, 
like so much salad.

Pictured: a cat unaware of the fate probably rapidly approaching him, despite me telling him three times now. He is too comfy to care.

Question: You dump your salads on the floor? Why?

Comorbid ADHD and carpal tunnel have lead to a disorder that I like to call “clumsy bitch syndrome” wherin if I get distracted or grab something wrong I will just… Drop whatever I’m holding? For some reason my favorite salad bowl is a regular victim. Also happens to piles of laundry, the TV remote, and sometimes knives.

I have a strict policy of never holding babies.

G U E S S   W H A T   I   D I D

Mochi is either very forgiving or very bad at cause and effect.

for-the-outliers:

the-awkward-turt:

breadeddragons:

HEEEEERE’S JOHNNY!

For those who are wondering, this is not Photoshopped. It is not all that unusual for adult sulcatas to walk/burrow through drywall. Not necessarily for any particular reason, just because they feel like digging and can’t be bothered by the frivolity of human structures.

As someone who both owns a sulcata and has worked with them for several years at The phoenix zoo. I can confirm. these guys are destructive as all hell. dry wall, wood, chain link, clay/rocky soil, cinder block barricades, ect. if they want to go burrow some place they are going to.oddly enough though when it comes to keeping them in a pen they might tear through chain-link, but if they can’t see past it they assume it’s solid. a piece of plywood will hold them but chain link or mesh won’t. however on one hand since they know how to do a grand total of 2 things to solve their problems it makes it pretty easy to tell if your husbandry is off. too hot? DIG, too cold? DIG, too dry? you guessed it DIG. option number two try eating the thing. not enough calcium or minerals (not always sometimes it’s just instinctual) EAT ROCK, not enough fiber EAT WOOD HIDE, hungry EAT (literally any POSSIBLE food item)

REVEALED: There Were Two CIA Torture Programs – Jeffrey Kaye – Medium

inferentialdistance:

argumate:

antoine-roquentin:

long and complex article, but basically we now have confirmation that there were actually two separate programs of torture run by two different cia departments, rather than a monolithic program. the first, run by the cia’s counterterrorism center, was a loose array of black sites around the world for interrogating the tens of thousands of prisoners taken under the auspices of the war on terror, which was poorly documented and produced deaths like that of gul rahman at the salt pit in afghanistan. the second was the more famous “rendition group”, run by the cia’s office of technical services and office of medical services, of MKULTRA fame. this was initially to compartmentalize the interrogation of high level al qaeda operatives from the more ground level work interrogating those associated with active combat in nations like iraq, somalia, and afghanistan, but quickly became a program of human medical experimentation in the hopes of producing the perfect torture system. it was hoped that co-operation with the federal bureau of prisons would insulate the cia from any criminal charges over conduct, given that human experimentation of this kind is technically illegal. both programs shared many personnel, especially at the higher levels, but were still separate.

League of Extraordinary Renditioners

The CIA: actually twice as evil as previously thought.

REVEALED: There Were Two CIA Torture Programs – Jeffrey Kaye – Medium