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@anishmoonka Is Karifuna etymologically linked to Garifuna at all?

Fifteen Kalinago chiefs walked into a meeting with the British and French empires in 1660 and walked out with both sides agreeing the island was theirs. Their descendants still live there today. You just watched some of them dance. The Kalinago are the only native group in the Eastern Caribbean still around from before Columbus. Almost every other native group in the region was wiped out by European disease, slavery, displacement, or war. The Kalinago survived because they made Dominica too expensive to conquer. They had the land on their side. Dominica is mountainous and wild, full of dense rainforest. Kalinago warriors raided European ships and ambushed anyone who tried to land on the coast. After nearly two centuries of failed invasions, both empires finally gave up. They signed a treaty making Dominica officially Kalinago land. That deal lasted more than a hundred years. When Britain finally took the island in 1763, the Kalinago kept the rough east coast. They are still there. In 1903, Britain officially marked out the 3,700-acre territory, roughly six square miles. About 3,000 Kalinago live there today in eight small villages. The whole area runs by Kalinago rules. The land is shared and can only be sold to someone of Kalinago descent. Every five years, the Kalinago vote for their own chief and a six-member council to run the territory. Police based in Salybia keep order. They send their own representative to Dominica's parliament. Two Kalinago women lead Dominica today. Sylvanie Burton became the country's first female and first Kalinago president in October 2023. A year later, Anette Sanford was sworn in as the first female Kalinago chief in almost 400 years. The Kalinago's main traditional dance group is called Karifuna. The traditions they keep alive survived Spanish ships, French plantations, British soldiers, and Hurricane Maria, the 2017 storm that ripped the roof off almost every house in the territory.

@VenusFlyRat @zen_thee_god @ClassicAdvertz Yeah in the UK they sell them in pharmacies as well as standard shops

@zen_thee_god @ClassicAdvertz In Jamaica we drink it when we’re sick sometimes

Lucozade Low Calorie, 1997

@EdgarPoop1 I'll have a universal basic income thank you

And for the lady? Perhaps a living wage?

@FEMALEGOATZ @tylastyger @PopBase lol no deep dive needed it was on my fyp. its kinda tragic this kid has to see himself at a low point everywhere

@Oli333 @tylastyger @PopBase how are people supposed to know that? not everyone does a deep dive on shit like this

A music video for ‘THIQUE’ by Beyoncé was filmed but presumptively scrapped, Barbie Ferreira reveals. The video featured Ferreira herself, Megan Thee Stallion, Carmen Electra, Shygirl and more. (youtu.be/oxkUz-YhCvY?si…)

@deoueroa @tylastyger @PopBase nah, I'm good

@Oli333 @tylastyger @PopBase not everyone knows this be calm

Sunset and nature vibe

@tylastyger @PopBase now why would u continue using this when u know the child is autistic and experiencing distress??

@PopBase SHE BEEN GATEKEEPING THE VISUALS 😭

It's actually 3 counts, guys. But the other victim is Muslim so he doesn't count!

This feels incredibly dodgy just one week before the local elections

@de_la_boue @sharghzadeh No, it's simply poetic that's all

@sharghzadeh To be fair, the sentence is bizarre and badly written.

A large percentage of young people are functionally illiterate because schools abandoned phonics in favor of sight reading

@simsimmaaz And women willingly procreate with these men.. 🫠🫠 Wheww couldn't be me!

I can't even explain the rage I would feel....

@_benjvmins_ He still alive? Must be a miracle 🙄

NO THINK PIECES ABOUT RAY J AND HIS 12000 BODIES?

@Variety Ew

Julianna Margulies says she and George Clooney “would distract from what #ThePitt is” if they joined their former #ER co-star Noah Wyle on the show: “But if he asked, he knows we would be there in a second.” variety.com/2026/scene/new…

@ItsLovelyLaveau wasn't he sposed to be dead by now

But dating 11 men in 10 years has yall dry heaving on here. Please

I'm not even getting on at Jack, the guy clearly has an issue but the media? Ohmydays the double standards are CRAZY

@fatfabfeminist ENSHITTIFICATION

also this

@QWEENxKAii @smoke_nd_pearlz plus the food moving hella unnaturally. no-one else seems to have noticed we are so cooked 😭

@Oli333 @smoke_nd_pearlz lol the ones aggressively squeezing the guys food in response all have the same weird stare as they do it

This is why you have to STRIKE fear into them early so they won’t even think about doing shit like this.

@slackkejakke Swear I saw one on brolly a while back

British words/phrases that Americans will eventually discover and have viral threads about: 1. Wheelie bin 2. Streaky bacon 3. Choccy 4. Wonky 5. Roly-poly

@spiderhog78 @Still_NotJ_ Coloured??

@Still_NotJ_ Them man will be the most racist twats towards coloured people and yet they will still use words that coloured people made 🫩

This is how the average white teenager in London speaks