Living is Keeping the Absurd Alive

Kiara television & food enthusiast

[crabs-but-better]

fun fact! did you know that you can gain extra ‘forbidden time’ by staying up late in the night? but Watch Out

[amiru-shrubfeast]

Shit this is great! You can get so much done if you don't sleep!

[amiru-shrubfeast]

THE CONSEQUENCES

[manfrommars2049]

Hot take that needs to be said via antiwork

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

booktok women are like "fictional men set the standard too high" and the fictional men in question are domestic abusers

[darthmelyanna]

Happy May Day, y’all.

[kosmogrl]

[desolationlesbian]

Making a new rule for straight creators along the lines of "don't kill off your lesbian couple it's homophobic" but this time it's "if you're going to put a lesbian in your show you can't make her a cop"

[leninisms]

[frightfullytreeish]

[scavengedluxury]

Wishing all my followers who celebrate a very happy Feast of the Ass.

[starlightomatic]

do fish ever get to repent? or are they doomed to swim around forever bearing the sins we have tossed to them to consume over the many years?

[starlightomatic]

[noir-renard]

[starlightomatic]

[justcrafting]

this drawing i did years ago makes sense now

[whitepeopletwitter]

[iamnotlanuk]

My old person trait is that I think a website should work in a web browser and not try to open an app

[mommy-mortis]

My old person trait is I think video games should work without needing access to the Internet

[thepariahcontinuum]

My old person trait is that I think when I purchase a product, that it should be complete and functional and also that I should actually own it.

[dailyhistorymemes]

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

[paula-of-christ]

[im-the-princess-now]

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

[dresshistorynerd]

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.

[trickstertime]

Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

[casketfreak]

a little beverage from the store doesn’t count as spending it’s just a little drinky drink

[effemimaniac]

hey. don't cry. I went to Mad At You island and none of your friends were there :)

[bakugou-kacchan]

why were you at mad at me island

[zuzuyams]

Eugene gets me

[beautifulterriblequeen]

HAPPY LIMINAL SPACEMAS, COUCHES

[dudelookitsalesbian]

"The Temptations of Saint Anthony" by Robert Auer (1917)

[fipindustries]

you gotta love how whoever painted this clearly was into it. ive seen other depictions of temptation and they are always debauched and demonic and sinister but the painter was like "im going to make it look actually fun for real!"

[transgirl-link]

"whoever painted this" gamer his name is right there

[mountainsboyhowdy]

they were too distracted by the titties to read