#ancestors — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ancestors, aggregated by home.social.
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25 fascinating #artifacts that reveal how different life was back then: https://zorz.it/oyOlN
#SaumyaRatan #HistoricalArtifacts #AncientGadgets #history #OldObjects #UniqueArtifacts #ancestors
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Seen & Unseen
6-link #Rengay
(C) Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter & Nara Moore @NaraMoore#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #thingstowriteabout #bread #MastoPrompt #vssdaily #Celebration #Haiga #俳画 #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真 #Wedding #Ancestors #Food
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A quotation from Josh Billings
The reputashun that a man gits from hiz ansesstors often wants az mutch altering to fit him, az their old clothes would.
[The reputation that a man gets from his ancestors often wants as much altering to fit him, as their old clothes would.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 “Blossoms” (1877 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85419/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #ancestors #family #familytree #forefathers #heritage #legacy #reputation
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AI Could Never Feel Its Ancestor’s Tears
May 14, 2026
Things That AI Cannot Do – #11 in a series
It’s another rainy and cold day in May. It’s been that kind of Spring. I’m thankful that the lilacs are taking their time to open into full bloom. They are the surest sign that spring is in full swing, and I want to savor every precious moment. The sight of a lilac bush in bloom can cheer the saddest heart and that intoxicating smell is like heaven. The longer that the lilac hangs on the bush, the happier we are.
Moody weather can sometimes be an incubator for curious thoughts. This morning has me thinking about my ancestors. So many of them left old France for the new one in Canada. My grandfather’s family settled on a small island off the coast of Quebec where they farmed the land. It is an idyllic spot of fertile land sitting there in the middle of the Saint Lawrence River and perfect for growing so many things. The land parcel did not include the possibility of land ownership, and I am sure life for the settlers brought its share of hardships with the remote location and the long harsh winters.
Always looming in the background for so many was that dream of America, that place where life could only be better. My grandfather came to America to work in any job that would have him. He started as a logger in Maine and then found work at the Westport Factory. There he met my grandmother who also heralded from Quebec and together they saved enough to buy some land and start a dairy farm in Dartmouth. It was the life of a farmer come full circle but this time with the privilege of owning their own piece of land.
What a legacy they left for their many children and grandchildren with their heritage of hard work and sacrifice. Still, I wonder if they ever missed their dear old Canada. I wonder if they ever looked back on their decision with a sense of regret. I wonder, from their viewpoint in the great beyond, what they think of their America now. This morning, I felt a sense of sadness that is unexplainable. Life goes on as we make our way through the day of life’s responsibilities, but something feels different. The hopes and dreams and beliefs of our ancestors seem further and further from the reality of our today.
The billionaires are having their day in China rubbing elbows with a hoard of like-minded others. All are hoping to walk away with the best deal for their corporations and for themselves. This world has never seen such a set of rich and greedy humans all existing at one time and in one place. This place is our earth and it belongs to all of us, but our destinies are being decided by those who have the power and those who choose to cozy up next to it.
The earth has only a finite source of riches, and its wealth is meant to span the eons. Somehow, without our choosing, the pie is being divided for us, and we can see that we’ve been allotted the smallest sliver. Our country was founded by those that gave their heart and soul for the following generations to have a better life. Will that continue to be possible for our children and grandchildren? Today, the raindrops feel like tears falling, and I can sense my ancestor’s sadness in my bones. I can feel their calling to not give up on the America that they helped to build.
Their message is one that we know to be true: Be strong America. We’ve got a hell of a lot of work ahead of us, but we’ve done hard things before.
#ancestors #artificalIntelligence #family #genealogy #history #lilacs #nature #writing -
Forgotten Keepers of the #RioGrandeDelta
An industrial buildout on the southern tip of Texas is erasing the last traces of an ancient world that still hasn’t died.
by Dylan Baddour
May 13, 2024"This society has been trying to get rid of #Mancias’ people for 500 years. It couldn’t kill them all, so it’s destroying the evidence that they ever existed. That’s what Mancias sees as 100-ton bulldozers flatten the hills his #ancestors camped on, churn up their bones, and casually crush them into rubble, removing these last traces of their world.
" 'They almost annihilated us, and that #genocide continues,' Mancias said. 'To destroy the #environment you have to destroy the people who protect it.'
"He faces a formidable foe here at the last frontier for oil and gas on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Every other major inlet from the Mississippi River west through Port Arthur, Houston, Freeport, Lavaca Bay, and Corpus Christi is already ringed with #refineries, #ChemicalPlants, and terminals.
"But at the farthest tip of #Texas, the #RioGrande meets the Gulf between #WildlifeRefuges, a #StatePark, and a majestic #wilderness that still shelters endangered and little-known #wildlife.
"This is where Houston-based developer #NextDecade has begun constructing an $18 billion #MegaProject, which it called the 'largest greenfield energy project [financed] in U.S. history' when it announced in 2023 that it had secured investors to proceed.
"Named #RioGrandeLNG, the 750-acre facility will eventually pipe in up to 27 million tons per year of gas from #fracked wells in the #PermianBasin, supercool it to negative 260 degrees fahrenheit, and load it onto #TankerShips for sale overseas as liquefied natural gas (#LNG). It’s part of an explosion of lookalike projects that quickly made the United States the world’s top exporter of liquefied gas and drove soaring gas production at home.
"On an adjacent tract, another project called Texas LNG intends to build atop a site called #GarciaPasture—an ancient village ground where people lived seasonally for almost 800 years. The World Monument Fund calls it 'one of America’s premier #archaeological sites.' That project has its permits and awaits investor commitments before breaking ground.
"And about 5 miles away, #SpaceX continues to expand its #Starbase complex, where it manufactures and launches the most powerful #rockets in the world (which occasionally explode and fall to earth).
"Mancias fears this is just the beginning.
" 'All of this will be gone,' he said, driving his pickup truck down a highway through the marshes. 'They’re going to destroy all of this.' "
Read more:
https://www.texasobserver.org/forgotten-keepers-of-the-rio-grande-delta/#DefendingTheSacred #SacredSites
#TexasObserver #InsideClimateNews #BigOilAndGas #CulturalGenocide #CorporateColonialism #ElonSucks #MegaProjects #Pollution #Fracking #SpaceIndustry #DefendTheSacred #EndangeredSpecies -
✨ Энергия Любви: Как Стать Источником Света & Привлечь Гармонию в Жизнь!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMUjqGo97Ac
#СлавянскаяМудрость #ЛюбовьВСердце #ДуховноеРазвитие #ЭнергияРода #Предки #Велес #Сварог #ДревниеБоги #Самопознание #Медитация #ВнутренняяСила #Душа #ИсточникЛюбви #SlavicWisdom #LoveInYourHeart #SpiritualGrowth #RodEnergy #Ancestors #Veles #Svarog #AncientGods #SelfKnowledge #Meditation
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Что делать во время эмоционального срыва? 🤔 Советы Предков!
🌿🔥 Эмоциональные бури в жизни – это нормально, но важно знать, как их остановить!
#эмоциональныесрывы #гнев #стресс #успокоение #медитация #Род #Предки #духовность #саморазвитие #психология #энергия #защита #гармония #закон72часов #emotionalbreakdowns #angerManagement #stressRelief #meditation #ancestors #spirituality
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Continued thread of interests 🧵
#Ancestors #Death #Dying #Grief #DeathDoula #DeathAdvocacy #Apophatic #RadicalCompassion #Compassion #Bodhisattva #Atisha #Lojong #LojongSlogans #Interbeing #Meditation #PlumVillage #EngagedBuddhism #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #SocialWork #EnvironmentalJustice #DisabilityRights #HealthEquityI'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread.
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#BraveWords
Today In Metal History 🤘 August 24th, 2024🤘
SEPULTURA, ARMORED SAINT, JUDAS PRIEST, ANNIHILATOR, GRAVE DIGGER#Sepultura #ArmoredSaint #JudasPriest #Anihilator #GraveDigger #MollyHatchet #UriahHeep #JamesGang #Heart #Anthrax #Caliban #MunicipalWaste #MalevolentCreation #TheSword #Helmet #ShadowsFalls #TheShowdown #Apostasy #TarjaTurunen #Trollfest #AliceInChains #TheAmityAffliction #Ancestors #LairOfTheMinotaur #Mantar #MobRules
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How to #decolonize your #Thanksgiving dinner in observance of #NationalDayofMourning
Meredith Clark
Wed, November 22, 2023"Thanksgiving is almost upon us, a time when many #Americans gather together to eat turkey and talk about what they’re most thankful for. Growing up in the #UnitedStates, almost everyone can recall the 'First Thanksgiving' story they were told in elementary school: how the local #Wampanoag #NativeAmericans sat down with the #pilgrims of #Plymouth Colony in 1621, in what is now present-day #Massachusetts, for a celebratory feast.
"However, this story is far from the truth - which is why many people opt out of celebrating the controversial holiday.
"For many #Indigenous communities throughout the US, Thanksgiving remains a National Day of Mourning - a reminder of the devastating #genocide and #displacement that occurred at the hands of European #colonisers following their arrival in the Americas.
"Every year since 1970, #IndigenousPeople and their allies have even gathered near #PlymouthRock to commemorate a National #DayOfMourning on the day of Thanksgiving. 'Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the erasure of Native cultures,' states the official website for the United American Indians of New England. 'Participants in National Day of Mourning honour Indigenous #ancestors and Native resilience. It is a day of #remembrance and #spiritual connection, as well as a #protest against the #racism and #oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience #worldwide.'
"This year, the 54th annual National Day of Mourning takes place on 23 November - the same day as Thanksgiving. While not everyone can support the event in person, there are still many ways people can raise awareness toward issues affecting Indigenous communities from wherever they are - by '#decolonising' their Thanksgiving dinner.
"#Decolonisation can be defined as the active resistance against #settlerColonialism and a shifting of power towards Indigenous sovereignty. Of course, it’s difficult to define decolonisation without putting it into practice, writes Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang in their essay, #Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor. Rather, one of the most radical and necessary moves toward decolonisation requires imagining and enacting a future for Indigenous peoples - a future based on terms of their own making.
"Matt Hooley is an assistant professor in the department of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College, where he teaches about US colonial powers and Indigenous cultural production. 'Decolonisation is a beautiful and difficult political horizon that should guide our actions everyday, including during holidays like Thanksgiving,' he tells The Independent. 'Of course, Thanksgiving is a particularly relevant holiday to think about decolonisation because the way many people celebrate it involves connecting ‘the family’ to a colonial myth in which colonialism is inaccurately imagined as a peaceful event in the past.'
"By decolonising our Thanksgiving, we can celebrate the holiday with new traditions that honour a future in which Indigenous people are celebrated. This year, we can start by understanding the real history behind Thanksgiving as told by actual Indigenous communities.
"While Americans mainly dedicate one day a year to give thanks, Indigenous communities express gratitude every day with the #Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address - often called: 'The words that come before all else.' The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address is the central prayer and invocation for the #HaudenosauneeConfederacy, which comprises the #SixNations - #Mohawk, #Oneida, #Onondaga, #Cayuga, #Seneca, and #Tuscarora. When one recites the Thanksgiving Address, they’re giving thanks for all life and the natural world around them.
"According to Hooley, one of the most straightforward actions people can take to decolonise their Thanksgiving includes supporting Indigenous land acknowledgments and land back movements. #LandBack is an ongoing Indigenous-led movement which seeks to return ancestral lands to Indigenous people and the recognition of Indigenous #sovereignty. While the movement is nowhere near new, it received international attention in 2016 during protests against the #DakotaAccesSPipeline - which continues to disrupt land and #water sources belonging to the #StandingRockSioux Tribe.
"This year, sit down with family and friends to discuss an action plan and highlight the concrete steps you plan on taking to support Indigenous communities. 'Another, even simpler way would be to begin participating in what’s called a ‘Voluntary Land Tax,’ whereby non-Indigenous people contribute a recurring tax to the tribal communities whose land you occupy,' said Hooley.
"Food is perhaps the most important part of the Thanksgiving holiday, with turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes taking center stage. However, there are many ways we can make sure our dinner tables honour Indigenous futurisms too. Donald A Grinde, Jr is a professor emeritus in the department of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo. Grinde - who is a member of the #YamasseeNation - tells The Independent that crops such as #corn, #beans, #squash, #tomatoes, and #potatoes are central to #IndigenousHistory and future.
"'A good thing is to be thankful for the abundance in the fall and note that Native people created over 60 percent of modern #agricultural #crops,' he said. 'People can be thankful for the crops that Native people created, #medicines created, and traditions about #democracy, #WomensRights and #environmental rights.'
"Rather than buying food from major corporations this year, Hooly also recommended people consciously source their Thanksgiving dinner from Indigenous producers. 'Industrial agriculture is one of the most devastating contributors to the destruction of land and water everywhere, including on Indigenous land,' he said. 'Instead of buying food grown or made by colonial corporations, people could buy their food from Indigenous producers, or even simply make a greater effort to buy locally grown food or not to buy meat harvested from industrial farms.'
"Thanksgiving is just a day away. While it’s important that we’re actively working toward highlighting Indigenous communities on this special holiday, decolonisation efforts are something that should be done year-round.
"'People can also learn about political priorities of the Indigenous communities near them and support those priorities by speaking to their representatives, participating in a protest, or by making sure that their local school and library boards are including Indigenous texts in local community education,' Hooley said."
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/decolonize-thanksgiving-dinner-observance-national-213225020.html
#Decolonization #CorporateColonialism #LandTheft #CulturalGenocide #CulturalPreservation
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Motherday was Moms Day (20/52/2023):
I had a great idea for a #Motherday post: Why not work on #Wikitree profile with my ancestors mother of the most kids? Then it was Moms Days - and I failed to figure it out which of my female #Ancestors has the most kids. I tried with #WikiTree+ . In the end I ended up with a #G2G post - waiting for someone smarter to crack the data. Not that you cannot spend a lot of time looking at ancestors profiles in WikiTree and beautifying them. -
Dozens of #bison from a mountain park outside #Denver were transferred Wednesday to several #tribes from across the #GreatPlains , in the latest example of #NativeAmericans #reclaiming #stewardship over #animals their #ancestors lived alongside for millennia.
Following #ceremonial drumming and singing and an #acknowledgement of the tribes that once occupied the surrounding landscape, the bison were loaded onto trucks for #relocation to #TribalLands .
