b0u:

shinya’s wrench

allpretend:

You jelly?

Down to ride til the bloody end, just me and my girlfriend 

Boy trip with @jaysonsavage and #pop #arizona #travel #bikers #bikes #motorcycle #arizona #desert (Taken with Instagram at Greasewood Flats)

lesparapluiesrouges:

Someone is attacking women from behind in the Whyte Avenue area, from 75th Street to 117th Street, as far out as 64th Ave, from 10pm to 4:30am. They only have vague descriptions of the guy so far — “between five-foot-four and six-feet tall, and about 150 pounds, with a slim build. He was wearing blue jeans and might be wearing a white, black or grey hoodie” — because it’s dark and they all happened in poorly lit areas, which is most of those neighbourhoods considering all the trees and whatnot.

At least they’re not victim blaming, which has happened with EPS before. 

“It’s a heinous crime. None of these women are doing anything wrong. They should be able to walk home alone but unfortunately there are people out there who do these things and we’d like to catch them,” Det. Rob Chan, with the southeast division criminal investigation unit, said Tuesday.

THANK YOU. (though it is completely ridiculous that I have to praise a police department for not victim blaming, because what the hell even is that.)

On the other hand, it makes me absolutely livid that I just had to ask my boyfriend to come meet me if it’s after dark and I’m walking to his place, because there are trees and alleys and I won’t feel safe otherwise.

Livid that these attacks are being labelled by police as “opportunistic”, because yeah, it’s dark and women are alone — god forbid a woman would ever want to walk alone, in her own neighbourhood, after grocery shopping or the bar or whatever — and this motherfucker knows he can get away with it.

Livid that they’re getting more violent, and who knows how much worse they’ll get or how many more will occur until they catch this asshole (or he gets bored, but do these fuckers ever get bored?)

Livid that some people will probably think this isn’t a huge deal, and blame the victims for walking alone and therefore asking it.

Livid that I even have to think about taking precautions.

Just. Fuck everything, sometimes.

Be safe, friends.

maybeedmonton:

A interesting new Edmonton Tumblr!

“Indigenize #YEG attempts to re-present urban spaces in Edmonton from a Native Studies research and analysis perspective, and my own ways of knowing.

Intentions: for people to think critically about the construction of urban spaces, the existing official histories of Edmonton, and how Edmonton has always been an Indigenous space.”

foundmonton:

Foundmonton Election Special

Where Do I Vote

Are You Registered To Vote?

Required ID for Registering At The Polling Station

Information On Candidates (daveberta.ca)

This is a reminder for everyone who hasn’t thought of voting or planning on not voting.

Dissent Without Action Is Consent.

fakemeet:

girlslikethis:

heartdashbeats:

how can i be grumpy when my morning started with puppy cuddles and a sunny bike ride to work? oh yeah, the internet.

while i am moving, i vow never to take that tone with alberta. the one where i look down at how horribly conservative it is and ask its residents what they are doing about it….

also the comments towards AB government politics like “…remembering why I left” and shit like that. you left cuz you’re a brat with money (most of the time). your choice, but shuttup about it. oh, and NO WHERE in Canada are politics progressive (BC I’m looking at you). every single fucking province is putting poor people in jail and exercising violent colonialist power over Indigenous people and lands, and so on. Let’s just get that straight.

I needed this today. Yes, Alberta is struggling with our nutty electoral politics, but there are so many beautiful things happening here simply because of the people who are here and commit to taking care of each other, while fucking up the shit too.

Yes - Thank all of you. I’ve been really depressed and dealing with this foreboding sense of fear, in what I am certain is coming our way on Monday. That being said, I’ve never felt better about the city I live in, and its because people have chosen to stay here, to make a difference. Whether it’s political or apolitical, the way that my friends have fought to eke out something meaningful in our community has only endeared me more to Edmonton.   It’s not easy all the time, but it shouldn’t be. 

fakemeet:

tedkerr:

They want you to doubt global warning because they want you to forget about the rest of the world.

They insist that white is right because if you are a person of color they want you to leave.

They want you to fear the Lake of Fire because they want you to give up and give into the heat of their hate.

But they underestimate you. You are a phoenix who has already risen. Alberta is the lake of fire; you have survived the flames licking at your heels for decades. You have cried as it pushed friends to jump into the river, and driven more still to cooler climates. But you have survived, and in many cases thrived. And they hate you for it. They want you gone. They want the province for themselves.

Don’t give it to them. Claim the lake of fire as yours; commandeer the heat to unleash a wave of progress they will drown in.

Repeat not their vitriolic rhetoric. Instead link, forward, speak of possibility. Talk of the Alberta Party, Laurie Blakeman, or what an NDP majority could look like. Remind each other that out of the fire each of you has risen, not to mention, Vriend v. The Alberta Government.

Good Luck Alberta

Thank you, Ted.

Can’t wait to get this sweet lady home this summer

Teeth Maker

(Source: bugwork)

felicityfaun:

anarkit:

[Image: A young person of colour holding a white sign that reads, “Déni de justice // INJUSTICE”]

A Laval family is facing what appears to be imminent deportation to Guinea Sunday after public pleas for reconsideration have failed to result in a last minute reprieve. Kankou Keita and her five children were ordered deported back to their native Guinea after their refugee claim was refused.

I’ve never known stress like this before,” 17-year-old Zenab Keita said during Saturday’s protest. She said going back to Guinea would be a nightmare. She worries that she and her older sister will be forced into arranged marriages and made to undergo genital mutilation.

If a stay isn’t granted, the family will be required to report to Montreal’s Trudeau airport to leave the country Sunday.

:((((((((

getonyourbike:

ALI AHMAD SALAMA IN FRONT OF HIS BICYCLE SHOP BICYCLES FOR PEACE by Government Press Office on Flickr.

ALI AHMAD SALAMA IN FRONT OF HIS BICYCLE SHOP BICYCLES FOR PEACE IN GAZA (16/08/1971)

“עלי אחמד סלאמה מול חנות האופניים שלו “אופנים השלום

God help the beast in me 

mamitah:

msamberhazard:

msamberhazard:

tal9000:

transawareness:

The above article is an update.  Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost.  She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender.  She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.

Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined.  Lets get on the ball and spread the word.

Sign It.

I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.

Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.

DIE CIS SCUM!

Seriously people…

WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??

I am doing, once daily! Keep it rolling and sign, it takes you a second and can make a difference!

My house in 8-bit, courtesy of Google