samoannaomas

just a girl, trying to find a place in this world

[memewhore]

[blue-ice-veins]

you think it can’t get better, but it does. sound on.

[discowitchparty]

ITS SPOOPY SEASON BABEEEEEEEEEYY

[robotsandfrippary]

IT’S BACK!!! YAAAAAY!!!

[catchymemes]

[left-reminders]

[qubelord]

Amphibiuary day 11 Painted

List

[the-hawks-rye]

ID: a traditional drawing in black and white with marker outlines. A somewhat anthropomorophic frog sitting on a stool recreates the "girl with a pearl earing" painting with a frog as the girl.

[vergak]

[shadow-posession-jutsu]

for those interested in cowboy hat pet pics

[cripp-tid]

I hate you "click now to sync contacts". I hate you "sign in with Facebook". I hate you "connect with your Twitter". I hate you targeted ads. I hate you social media algorithms. I hate you brands and mascots with accounts. I hate you "upgrade to premium". I hate you free trials that require credit card info. I hate you pop up ads that take up half the screen. I hate you ads with sound. I hate you unskippable commercials. I hate you anti-piracy firewalls. I hate you late stage capitalism.

[tayloralison]

I just wanna stay in that lavender haze 💜💜

[jaho-12]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[kopitori]

messy arven i drew recently to get it out of my system while playing lmao

[rylandsgrace]

Shrek 2 (2004) trivia 

[tomshiddles]

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) She-Hulk: Attorney at Law S01E08 (2022)

[devinellekurtz]

An unexpected visitor on Christmas morning…

[truejekart]

Pokemon Legends Arceus

[themandaloriandaily]

careful fingers

[thedustyleaves]

Warming up with a ghostly doodle 👀

[mudkipsdaily]

mudkips are like baby cats to me (very cute)

[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’