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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
NASA
cherry valley forever
Today's Document
Origami Around
trying on a metaphor
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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#extradirty
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the fact the new series of hypothetical isn’t allowed to talk about the pandemic just in case people forget it happened is genuinely the funniest thing i’ve ever heard
Watch me scheduling this to be re-reblogged in two years for obvious reasons that I might forget in that time.
Thoughts
The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)
I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help
It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.
The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.
This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.
Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.
This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.
In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.
Then in 2020:
Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’
Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:
A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun
AUDIO ON IM NOT KIDDING
mlem Mlem mlem mlem mlem
CAT HERITAGE POST
Favourite Designs: Frieda Lepold "A Knights Dress" Haute Couture Gown
This would fix me
Why are the dial hands underneath the metal pin?
"I'm a security guard and I am tasked with doing rounds of mechanical rooms. I've been asked to look at these specific water pressure dials and examine whether the hands are stable and to inform the administration of the building if they are not. I noticed that two of the hands are underneath the metal pin on which they should rest if they were at zero. I'm very ignorant in plumbing, but is it supposed to be like this? Why is it like that? Doesn't it make the hand impossible to rise above 0 since it's blocked by that pin?"
I... I don't think the patient's weight got entered correctly. Just a hunch
please, my dog, he is sick
Every single note and comment is comedy gold and I'm wheezing from laughing so hard
Insider says Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg will be on platform with Trump's Cabinet nominees
The people in the top three spots on Forbes' billionaire list—Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg—will have prime seats at President-elect Trump's inauguration next week. NBC News, citing "an official involved with the planning of the event," reports that the three tech billionaires will be sitting together on the platform with other high-profile guests, including Trump's Cabinet nominees. Bezos and Zuckerberg's companies, Amazon and Meta, have each donated $1 million to the inauguration, while Musk spent more than $250 million to help Trump win the election, reports Reuters.
Oligarchy, only now out in the open lol
A falling meteor has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.
Like for meteor, reblog for spontaneous sink hole
I heard the second amendment existed for some kind of reason, but I can't remember. Can someone remind me?
The same artist made these two 35 years apart:
1750s Henry Robert Morland (British artist, 1716-1797) A Girl Ironing Shirt Sleeves
1785 Henry Robert Morland (British artist, 1716-1797) Laundry Maid Ironing
WHICH IS SO COOL and also shows the change of fashion.
18th century Draw This Again challenge
bonnets got bigger, tops got lacier, artist got better at faces, interest in boobs undiminished.
and the laundry still needs doing.
I love how hard Steve is laughing.
Assigned Daquan at the Stand up comedy club
oh my GOD what is her name i wanna watch more
That is Christopher Caldwell aka Bob the Drag queen and he is iconic
I’ve seen this clip countless time (and still fucking funny 😂🤣) but I was today years old when I learned Bob’s government name, which honestly makes this joke even funnier
I'm sorry Chris chose the name Bob and is complaining about Steve?
Hate Hate Hate stories that reward characters for refusing to do triage. 'I refuse to choose only one to survive even if it means both die' [plot contrives for this to be the only way both survive] is so weak. Making difficult decisions with no good outcome is not a moral failing
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life."
Best Picard quote
The beast has claimed him
military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps
enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it
whale fall side of tumblr you understand me
I spent a solid five minutes wondering how else marine could be pronounced and why I had never heard that there was a pronunciation difference between marine meaning ocean and marine meaning soldier before realizing it was a joke about corps and corpse because these sea animals feed on dead bodies
starting a collection. please add on
having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing
oh one source of bad information by robert bly we're really in it now
[Transcript:
One Source of Bad Information
There's a boy in you about three years old who hasn't learned a thing for thirty Thousand years. Sometime it's a girl.
This child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like: "Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk."
You live with this child, but you don't know it. You're in the office, yes, but live with this boy At night. He's uninformed, but he does want
To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy You survived a lot. He's got six big ideas. Five don't work. Right now he's repeating them to you.
]
