Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: December 1st, 2025
  • Ininewcrow@piefed.catoFoxes@lemmy.world•Magical winter foxEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I’m Ojibway / Cree from northern Ontario and in our language we distinguish foxes according to colour

    Mahkehshoo … the word for ‘red’ - mookoowak - is derived from the word for blood ‘mookoo’ … and adding the ‘shoo’ at the end notes that it is in reference to an individual or being … so you get ‘Mahkehshoo’ - ‘the red one’

    Mahkahtehshoo … the word for black or darkness is ‘mah-kah-teh-oo’ and again, adding the ‘shoo’ at the end is in reference to it being applied to a individual or being … so you get ‘Mahkahtehshoo’ - ‘the black one’

    Wahpahkehshoo … the word for white is ‘wahpack’ and like the others, adding ‘shoo’ means you are talking about an individual or being … so you get ‘wahpahkehshoo’ - ‘the white one’

  • Ininewcrow@piefed.catoNiceMemes@sopuli.xyz•What's your turtle?English
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    4 hours ago

    I have a bunch of family and friends from Six Nations in southern Ontario … a Mohawk community. Most of the people I know there are part of the turtle clan and all their houses are filled with turtle memorabilia … at one friends house, I literally trip on turtles because he has several large heavy door stoppers in the shape of turtles.

  • Ininewcrow@piefed.catoBats@lemmy.world•Smiley batEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Cute … but I’m deathly afraid of bats now

    About 7-8 years ago I woke up in my cottage in the wilderness in the dark to find a bat inside the house. I turned on the lights and got it out a window. Later I discovered that they were nesting in our wood stove that we hadn’t been using all that summer.

    A couple years later, I read a news story of how someone got infected by rabies from a bat bite they didn’t know they got in their sleep. … and this was in Canada where rabies is rare!

    Then I read up on what rabies was, infection rates, incubation time, etc

    I’ve been worried ever since that some day, I’ll start developing the late stages of a rabies infection

  • Ininewcrow@piefed.catoWholesome@reddthat.com•Weekly chat thread... what are some good things going on this week?English
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    4 hours ago

    The longer I spend on the Fediverse, the more I learn about an entirely new corner of the wider open internet. I’ve drifted over in multiple accounts over the years from Lemmy, Mbin, Kbin, Mastodon … I’ve even tried Bluesky (although I know it’s not fully accepted as part of the open fediverse) … and recently have been learning about and diving into Piefed.

    And in learning about all of them, I keep discovering that there are dozens more projects that are growing everywhere in the fediverse … Pixelfed, Matrix, Friendica, Peertube, Misskey … and many more!

    It’s a hopeful learning experience because I often feel like any one of these platforms feels small and not that many users … but when you add them all up, they number to about 12 - 13 million accounts with billions of status updates … and because it is the fediverse, all of them are able to connect to each other! … it might not seem like much compared to corporate social media but this is what the start of the early social media internet looked like and felt like 20 years ago.

    I’m looking forward to what the fediverse will look like in the years to come

  • Ininewcrow@piefed.catoNiceMemes@sopuli.xyz•I really doEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I just had this talk with my wife … we were talking about a bunch of other things but a highlight that came out of it was this nugget

    ‘The world is mostly full of good people … it’s only a minority of loud, ugly stupid idiots that make it seem terrible’

  • Ininewcrow@piefed.catoNonCredibleDefense@piefed.social•INDISCRIMINATE SENTRY GUNS ARE THE FUTUREEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    A counter to this would be send in endless decoys until the gun either runs out of ammo, jams or just fails.

    A landmine is a hidden device that no one knows the location of … you can guess but that landmine could be anywhere so the enemy has to give it lots of area to be cautious of in order to avoid the danger.

    A sentry gun is obvious and you can immediately determine the area it effects so you know where and how to avoid it.

    A sentry gun is also a target, you know exactly where it is to try to take it out. Conversely, you don’t know where landmines are so you don’t know how to take them out and if you do want to find them, it will take you a lot of time and effort.