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Me watching the game

dogpuppy

midwestroadrules

#returning to our natural state

myaoctopus

Update on my one piece ship series!!

thekimonogallery

Old town of Tsumago, Japan in the rain. Photography by Bernard Languillier on Flickr

loveridden1999

which ao3 tag are you?

midwestroadrules

Thank you ADHD

#ao3 #ao3 tags #archive of our own #writing

shinonart

What if abilities changed the appearance of a Pokemon?

Bringing you more earworms. Salazzle is such a cool Pokémon and it deserves more love. Even if it doesn't realize it.

Other Ability Forms posts!

Find me and my art elsewhere!

anxeious

ratiyaan

Hard to swallow pill, but it is absolutely okay.

Some crochet projects I’ve been working on.

#crocheters of tumblr #crocheting #my projects #my wips

dreaminginthedeepsouth

Photographed by Martin Schoeller for The New Yorker in 2002:

"I was hired by the New Yorker in 2002 to photograph Robin Williams, and after doing my research what stood out most for me was that he was a very physical comedian. I came up with this idea to photograph him swinging from a chandelier in a grand hotel room. Most publicists shoot down these kinds of wild ideas, so I didn’t tell anyone what I was up to, but rigged up a chandelier at the Waldorf Astoria hotel for him to swing from. When Robin got there and saw what was happening, he lifted up his shirt and showed me this enormous scar on his shoulder. He’d just had surgery and couldn’t so much as lift his arm. He was so disappointed! He really felt bad about not being able to do it, because he loved the idea and really wanted to help me accomplish my vision.

Unlike most Hollywood stars, he was unfazed by his success and position. He talked to everyone from stylists to the crew, to the hotel staff. We ended up asking a maid at the hotel to swing from the chandelier instead, and I asked him to just sit there and read a newspaper, which I think in the end was an even funnier, more unexpected picture.

[Follies Of God]

vintrage

motherless, friendless, and damned

midwestroadrules

Knows nothing

infectiouspiss

when god closes a door you reach your little paws under it and go mrrwwaaaooow mmreeaaow

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intheupside

@BR_openice: 87 turns 37 today 🥳

🚨 592 goals 🍎 1004 assists 🏆 3x Stanley Cup Champ 🥅 10th all-time in points 💛 2x Hart trophy winner 🥇 2x Olympic gold medalist

Happy Birthday, Goat 🐐

and from danny shirrey

dailyhistorymemes

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

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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.