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"Ugh! Stupid sci fi movies that are like 'what if you had to pay to be alive?'. Um that's just being disabled! Selling literal minutes of your life as currency? That's just living under capitalism, idiot!"

My love. My dear. My precious baby bird. I am kissing you so gently on the forehead. Please listen to my words.

That is the point.

For the love of god, everyone, please learn the meaning of allegory, I'm dying here.

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Dystopia does not predict the future, it criticizes the present

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Is it possible to stop loving everything? The owl. The hawk. Every person I meet. To see everyone as my mother. To have a heart like this is to be made of midnight. There are always too many questions to ask and not enough time. To love so much is to live within birds. I have been waiting for this heart to fade or at least to kneel.

— Victoria Chang, from “Marfa, Texas,” in The Trees Witness Everything

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Cat and Mouse

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Stapleton Kearns - Quiet Night, 2018

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“Labyrinth” by Taylor Swift

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𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘩 / 𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘵

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“Surely you must know it was all for you.”

—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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Everyone look at my cat after we put up the tree

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Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.

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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.

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Other nations tried to send aid. The Ottoman sultan sent ten ships loaded with grain to be distributed as disaster relief. The Royal Navy turned eight of them back. On the orders of the Crown.