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cute-catts

#cat #hilarious #video #love it

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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.

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Then in 2020:

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

apparently-artless

hibino & ichikawa being a chaotic duo ( ˙▿˙ )

#kaiju no. 8 #kaiju no 8

thoodleoo

pliny voice it's very simple. a porpoise is like a dolphin but sadder and with a sort of hateful aura to it

capacity2

Help

theblackparadeisdead

Kid today (probably like 6 years) came up to me and was like "teacher teacher what's your name" and i was like "asha :) also im not a teacher" and he was like "okay asha asha asha I need help" and i was like "okay buddy what's wrong" and he showed me this chunk of metal he'd found sitting in the sun that he was just carrying around and it was super sharp and super hot from the sun and he was like "my hand hurts :(" and i was like "ok. put that down. does it still hurt?" And he did and was like "no." and then he picked it up again and immediately went "my hand hurts :(" again and then I was like "kid. put that down and stop touching it" and he was like "ok but when I touch it my hand hurts :(" and i was like "Please Just Stop Touching That. If you dont touch it your hand won't hurt" and this went on for like another 2 minutes before i got him to realize that if he stopped touching the metal it would not hurt. Kids are so fucking weird man

theblackparadeisdead

Comments that make me realize this kid is probably what I sounded like to my therapist when complaining about the consequences of all my bad habits

#hilarious #children #true

lady-raziel

This is why we can never let local news die. Commitment to the bit as an art form must survive

#local news #hilarious #video #ficus tree

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reluctantbroodingdads

So as an Antarctic expert I need to add to this that we had not in fact been to Antarctica when it was named. The ancient Greeks decided that because there was an Arctic at the top of the world, with bears, there had to be an opposite at the other end, without bears. Which is kind of ridiculous except that the fuckers were dead on

alarajrogers

The Greeks hadn't been to the Arctic either. "Bears" referred to the constellations of the Ursa Major and the Ursa Minor, aka "Big Bear" and "Little Bear". It is an ironic coincidence that the presence of constellations that people who'd never been to the Arctic thought looked like bears, corresponded to the actual presence of bears, and an even bigger coincidence that the place named "no bears" because there were no constellations that looked like bears in fact had no bears in it.

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To be fair there is probably is a connection between 'places with bears' and 'places where people think the stars look like bears'

#hilarious #stars #bears #arctic #Antarctic

crokitheloki

everyone say thank you ao3 volunteers you're the best ao3 volunteers ily ao3 volunteers

Oh so you really gonna make my cry like this… I love it. @mgenvy7 cry with me now

crasybirdlady

OMG this is the best!

redstonedust

crazy how quickly dust accumulates. i should be allowed to put my trinkets on a shelf and not touch them and they remain in perfect condition forever. dont even get me STARTED on the inside of a computer. why do i have to brush your teeth. youre technology.

#same