a loony running the asylum

Call me Beef :3 | British | 27 | they/them, it/its | nonbinary | biromantic | asexual | Used to be natstheminion | horror-themed sideblog: moonpie-wolf | aesthetic sideblog: aesthetic-beef | Memento Mori | I post just a load of random stuff on here along with stuff to do with fandom bullshit | Current Obsession: saw the West End run of The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals so we’re on a Starkid kick

[lakevida]

complimented a womans clear raincoat this morning and she said Well i feel like a sandwich

[quaintpanic]

I WAS BORN YESTERDAY. I JUST BLEW IN FROM STUPID TOWN. THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH ME.

[irishshauna]

[marmotini-of-the-world-unite]

Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.

[fighterkimburgess]

I know most of those following me know this, but just to make it super clear. An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger/the Great Famine) was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people. There was enough food grown in Ireland to make sure everyone was alive and healthy and survived. Instead it was exported, sent to England and elsewhere for profit while men, women, and children starved in the streets. While the English landlords fucked off and evicted starving families who couldn’t afford rent. While babies were too weak to cry and died at the side of the road.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.

Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. It’s led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and we’ll help back.

The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. We’re still a million less on this island than pre famine. And it’s not that long ago. My grandmother’s grandparents lived through it. We’ve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but it’s because there’s that cultural memory of not being able to.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. We will not let them take our lives, we will not let them take our language. We lost so much, but we will not lose it all.

[saltedweather]

This is why I get so angry when people say “it was the potato famine, it was because of monoculture/microbes.”

Nope. The potatoes were the only thing Irish people were allowed to fucking eat, because as pointed out, the rest of the crops they were growing were for their landlords to ship to England. So when the one “worthless” crop they were allowed to eat rotted in the field, the English crown, empire, landlords, all shrugged and carried on. People starved to death lying next to productive fields.

[catchymemes]

[catchymemes]

[velvetys]

A long day of not doing anything really and not being helpful at work

[memewhore]

[spleenyz]

[fallout-lou-begas]

[kermittingacrime]

ask and you shall receive.

[gayvampyr]

[tall]

[semba-b]

As an autistic person I do not identify with the “autism creature” meme. I am an autism monstrosity, I am an autism beast, I am even an autism horror.

[heatheniousmaterials]

These are not mutually exclusive

[semba-b]

I know

[sensualclowns]

[lostinhistory]

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

[strawberry-crocodile]

every now and then i remember that my country is like, run by an apocalypse cult

[strawberry-crocodile]

"large swathes of the populace believe that they are the chosen people of a doomsday cult and that sometime soon in their lifetime the world will end and everyone they hate will be tortured while they get paradise" like okay. i'm living in a bad fantasy novel. like i just want these people to step back and realize that they're acting like villains in a shitty conan wannabe.

[dogpuppy]

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

im actually cleft in twain right now can i call you back

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

[melonisopod]

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Roman children shoes - Palmyra (Syria) [657x698]

[butchflirt]

For Sale

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

alice these look pretty worn….

[rainbowgazes-archive]

[starridge]

an unmatched feeling actually

[rimonoroni2]

what people don’t understand about how adhd is disabling is that it’s not just getting temporarily distracted from, like, school work or hobbies. it’s getting distracted/being unable to motivate yourself to go to the doctor, eat regularly, do hygiene tasks, etc. it’s not knowing when or how long it will take you to do something, ANYTHING, and in many cases that thing is taking a shower or keeping your house from turning into a biohazard. it’s about being fundamentally incapable of controlling your attention and focus on anything, even and especially things you need to do to survive.