"As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be. That is how I learned that if I didn't define myself for myself I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
-Audre Lorde
Hey everyone, I'm Nick! I'm a council communist who's also a corvid. I have a BA in linguistics; my mother tongue is English, and I've studied French, German, Russian, Japanese, Irish, Old Irish, and Welsh formally; language diversity and decolonization are important to me. I am a white settler living on Nishnaabeg territory in central Ontario, Canada; I hope to study Nishnaabemwin (Ojibwe) formally after the pandemic. Feel free to chat with me; I hope we get along well!
Turns out that Russia and China didn’t ‘weaponize’ QAnon. A new report about QAnon makes a bombshell claim that data scientists say doesn't hold up. U.S. really needs to start doing some introspection instead of constantly looking for others to blame for their problems.
Ever Given crew fears getting stranded on their ship
So sailors getting stranded on their ships while the ship's owners negotiate with authorities (or just wait until the ship goes away) is a thing and the Ever Given crew is worried they'll not be able to leave the ship while the owners are in talks with the Egyptian government.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/19/ever-given-crew-fear-joining-ranks-of-seafarers-stranded-on-ships-for-years
"According to the International Maritime Organisation, there were at least 31 cases of abandonment between January and August 2020, concerning 470 seafarers. The IMO has recorded 438 cases affecting 5,767 seafarers since 2004.
Even Mohammed Aisha’s longstanding case isn’t unique to the Gulf of Suez: a Turkish captain, Vehbi Kara, was abandoned onboard the MV Kenan Mete in June last year, left on a ship infested with mice and without food or water."
@Colophonscrawl forensic analysis whips, it's literally just a guy with three degrees making shit up like a penny arcade fortune teller
Call me Nick. 31. White settler on Mississauga Ojibwe territory. Bi/pan, nonbinary. They/them crownouns. Polyglot. Can have little a horny as a treat.