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Random Animal Generator - Perchance

lorinwasadiver

jackal!

burrowmeister

Turtle! Hell fucking yeah

birlinterrupted

paftdunk

ghibli-collector

Hayap Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli New Years Illustration - 2022 Year of the Tiger

makingdonalddrumpfagain

no-chill-at-all

traceloops

tr3velyan

only 90′s kids will remember

chickenissiriat

what the fuck is e.

eurydixe

I am horrified that I recognise all of this how long have I been on this hell site

burrowmeister

the old blue!!

unexplained-events

An underwater graveyard in Llyn Celyn, Wales. The village it was located in was flooded in the 60’s to supply water to Liverpool.

chrysalicefiasco

Mum just told me that’s where we get our water from….

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

History time! because it’s worse than you think.

Llyn Celyn is the name of the reservoir - the village was Capel Celyn, which is in the Tryweryn Valley. So in 1956, Liverpool County Council wanted more water; but, naturally, they didn’t want to flood an English valley. Problem was, there was no way to apply for drowning Tryweryn and getting it approved by literally any Welsh authority at all, ‘cause you know, fuck that.

So, they sponsored a private bill and pushed that through parliament. This allowed them to just do exactly as they pleased without Welsh consent. Capel Celyn was also, in a time of huge legislative and social oppression of the Welsh language, one of the last Welsh-only communities we had.

Needless to say, 35 of the 36 Welsh MPs voted against it (the last abstained), and the villagers fought the flooding for 8 years. So did the rest of Wales. Huge numbers of Welsh people marched to London to protest. It was one of the biggest unifying protests we’d had in centuries. There was an English reporter from the BBC who went there to cover all the “fuss”, and he asked a local man (who was clearly the only guy who could speak English) why he cared about the village, since it wasn’t the most important or the most beautiful village in Wales.

“Listen,” the Welshman hissed. “My wife may not be the most important woman in Wales, nor the most beautiful. But I love her! And I certainly wouldn’t drown her.”

In 1965, they drowned it anyway.

In all, there were in fact two chapels and graveyards drowned, one being Quaker; also a school, post office, multiple farms, and the village itself.

You now see a lot of these on abandoned walls in mid and north Wales:

It means “Remember Tryweryn.” Tryweryn became a galvanising force in Welsh devolution, which began its steady march in 1957, since England had pretty effectively just proven to us that they were literally never going to listen to us, even with the “representation” they’d given us.

Anyway, in 2005 Liverpool City Council formally apologised for drowning Tryweryn. While I’m glad they did - Birmingham still has yet to apologise for the Elan and Claerwen Valleys - it’s the emptiest fucking gesture on the planet. But, it’s a rare admission of guilt from an English institution towards Wales, so you know. Baby steps.

HOWEVER.

Here’s what’s interesting about the graveyard picture above:

We were told that they would cover over the cemetery. Families could have the bodies relocated, and 8 were disinterred, but the rest were to have their headstones removed, a layer of gravel put over, and then the whole lot encased in concrete.

Seems not, eh?

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[Image description: mural on the way to Aberystwyth, Wales. Red with white lettering. Upper line reads COFIWCH DRYWERYN, “remember Tryweryn”, lower line reads COFIWCH ABERFAN “remember Aberfan” (a village where a whole generation of children were killed by industrial negligence when an heap of mine waste collapsed onto a primary school).

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im going to post old cat images now

ceiling cat

monorail cat

long cat

the OG can i haz cheezburger cat

the lesser known graphix cat

invisible bike cat

my planet needs me cat

cat with the gat

brunhiddensmusings

tzikeh

Good lord we need MOAR of the original LOLCATS (or cat macros, as they were originally known)

newkiidsonmycock

stinkykatie

tamamita

I love that when war criminals die we celebrate it like some national holiday

carnival-phantasm

catkola

Bitches wanna buy their boyfriends the latest consoles but when was the last time he CONSOLED you? ps 5 years ago

godlessondheimite

junietuesday

aprillikesthings

Before I argued with a shit ton of landlords and wannabe landlords: I think we should strengthen tenant’s rights and enforce our existing tenant protection laws better, and increase our housing benefits.

After spending too much time arguing with landlords and wannabe landlords: Fuck it. It should be illegal to own homes you don’t live in. If you won’t sell to the people renting from you, people should forcibly take your property. All landlords are parasites.

aprillikesthings

"iF yOu DoN't LiKe ReNtInG jUsT bUy A hOuSe"

Houses in my city go for, like, $500k. I can't. Housing prices in the US have skyrocketed while wages have stagnated. That is in fact the problem--most people cannot afford to buy a house, and many people pay more than half their income in rent. Ever saved up for a down payment on a house while doing that?

"mOvE iF yOu DoN't LiKe YoUr LaNdLoRd"

Moving is expensive and stressful. There's no guarantee of finding another place within reasonable distance of where we work, where we buy groceries, etc.

"bUt If LaNdLoRdS dOn'T rEnT oUt HoUsInG wHeRe WiLl PeOpLe LiVe?!"

If landlords/property companies all were forced to sell every place they owned except housing they specifically lived in, the market would have such a glut of housing that prices would nosedive in nearly every city in the US, possibly to the point where normal, average working people could buy one. Houses and apartments do not blink out of existence because a landlord stops renting them out. Why do I see this dumbass line of logic so fucking often.

People literally cannot wrap their minds around the fact that landlords (and I include property companies--the kind that own multiple apartment complexes--as landlords) don't create or do anything of value. "But when I need the water heater fixed, the landlord fixes it." Except for some mom'n'pop landlord operations that insist on DIY'ing everything, your landlord is not the one who is fixing it. The person who physically comes to your unit and fixes it is the person who fixes it, and your landlord is just an expensive gatekeeper who decides for you whether you actually need your water heater fixed. If you owned the place you could have insurance against that kind of thing, you could put money in a co-op that pays for that kind of thing (like condo associations do), or you could just pay out of pocket for it if you have the money. If you did take on the risk of repairing it yourself, the only person who would suffer is you. But you wouldn't be at the mercy of some dipshit who tries desperately not to get your water heater fixed (even though that's illegal), or who hires the cheapest person they could find (who might suck ass and make it worse), or insists on doing it themselves (whether they know what they're doing or not).

HUMANS REQUIRE SHELTER TO SURVIVE. The modern standard for housing includes things like locking doors, ceilings and windows that don't leak, walls that aren't covered in mold, and working electricity, plumbing, and hot water at a bare minimum. On top of that, we need shelter that's near enough to our place of employment and places to buy food, etc.

Landlords do not provide housing. They hold it ransom for as much money as they think they can get, because they know we need housing to survive. They buy up as much housing as they can (reducing the supply of available houses for sale) and then rent them out at a profit (which means more than they're paying on the mortgage, if they have one). They are hoarding housing, creating a false scarcity, and then profiting off of it.

Landlords are parasites.