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Megan Nov 30, 2022

Something about me that's not covered in my bio: I love to learn languages. So far, I've studied 8: French, German, Spanish, Urdu, Japanese, Norwegian, Mandarin and Ojibwe.

French is my most fluent. The others I only studied about 2 years each.

Except Ojibwe: <1 year. Lessons interrupted by pandemic. And it fascinates me. I like that it is truly of THIS place. And it's verb based, which affects one's worldview. I hope to return to it in person one day.

#Hobbies #Languages #bio

Megan Nov 30, 2022

Mr. Pataphor, Dadaist Dad Nov 29, 2022

#Biskane — which is the Anishinaabe word used to describe the act of lighting a fire — has been developed by three #Ontario creators who were inspired to bring exposure to other #Indigenousartists and entrepreneurs. It's #Indigenous-owned-run-inspired, authentic #Indigenousart

FounderCEO Chad Solomon, a member of the #Anishinaabe community of #HenveyInlet #FirstNation, Ont.is an #author, #storyteller, #puppeteer & #graphicnovelist.
#Ojibwe
https://www.biskane.com/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/biskane-indigenous-online-shopping-platform-1.6667053

Megan Nov 30, 2022

Haplogroup News

Nov 29, 2022

New map restores Native names to northern Minnesota | Dan Kraker

"The names of many lakes, rivers and cities across northern Minnesota have roots in the Ojibwe language — Bemidji, for example, is derived from the word bemijigamaag meaning "Lake with crossing waters" — a reference to how the Mississippi River flows across Lake Bemidji.

But the names of many more places have been lost to history.

Now, a partnership between the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, the nonprofit Ely Folk School, and several volunteer artists is seeking to change that. This week they’re unveiling a map that features more than 100 Ojibwe place names from across the Band’s territory, including names uncovered in diaries stored in the Smithsonian dating back to the 1800s...https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/11/27/new-map-restores-native-names-to-northern-minnesota

#Ojibwe #Minnesota #Maps #Genealogy #History

New map restores Native names to northern Minnesota

The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa and the Ely Folk School have teamed up on a new map that restores more than 100 Ojibwe names to lakes, rivers and other significant places in northern Minnesota.

MPR News

Megan Nov 30, 2022

nige Nov 30, 2022

arugula sounds like an old timey car horn

Megan Nov 30, 2022

David Amador Nov 30, 2022

I want to make a test on the % reach a post can have in terms of people in other servers. Are you seeing this post on mastodon.gamedev.place or another server? (Appreciate if you can boost this).

I'm on Gamedev

4.9%

On another server

95.1%

Poll ended at Dec 1, 2022 at 4:04pm.

Megan Nov 30, 2022

The Masked School Library Tech Nov 30, 2022

My kid makes me smile. We needed a ruler to draw some straight lines. He went upstairs to look for one. He came down with his own #Lego created ruler as he couldn’t find any “proper” ones.

Megan Nov 30, 2022

LeonardiBot

Nov 30, 2022

User @gainofdystopia, I do like that. 😆

Megan Nov 30, 2022

LaurieShannon🇨🇦Nov 21, 2022

Pro Tip: A good way to get out of a conversation is to take off one of your socks and hand it to the person talking.

RT @DJDynamicNC
No better place than Twitter to talk about Musk's projects crashing and burning, so: I've just launched a petition calling on #Toronto to end Tesla's unsafe beta test of "full self-driving" in city limits:

https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/toronto-end-tesla-s-nonconsensual-test-trials

Toronto: End Tesla's nonconsensual test trials

On November 24th, Tesla expanded it's beta test of "full self-driving" software to everyone in North America. [1] Just hours later, a six-car pileup on the Bay Bridge was caused by a Tesla suddenly stopping; two people were hospitalized. [2] Tesla's misleadingly named "full self-driving" feature - which is not full self-driving at all, but rather requires human override at all times - is still in beta testing, meaning it is *not* market ready. In fact, the US Department of Justice is...

Leadnow.ca

Megan Nov 30, 2022