today’s the only day you can reblog this

Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.

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.

This is why I get so angry when people say “it was the potato famine, it was because of monoculture/microbes.”

Nope. The potatoes were the only thing Irish people were allowed to fucking eat, because as pointed out, the rest of the crops they were growing were for their landlords to ship to England. So when the one “worthless” crop they were allowed to eat rotted in the field, the English crown, empire, landlords, all shrugged and carried on. People starved to death lying next to productive fields.

creepy and wet major alignment chart

edit: added a few more majors

I feel obligated to mention that my friend and I figured out that this car

Is a 1989 Mercedes

blondie has become unhinged

OMG 😳 really @chaosbutmakeitgay ? What a mindfuck @taylorswift always doing with us 🤯😻

I'm serious she's unhinged

Look it's litteraly the same car

I taught my kid that swear words (important note: this does not include derogatory names for groups of people) are just words that can carry a social consequence. When you are a child, this consequence isn’t on you, as much as it is on your parents, who are responsible for you. As such, parents usually just ask their kids not to swear. Instead of that, I told him to ask me before he swore so I could explain the potential social consequences and we could make the decision together. So far, he’s asked a handful of times if he could swear at Trump while we watched the news. I found this perfectly acceptable, so he got to say “Ｆｕｃｋ trump”. Once when he dislocated his knee, he asked to swear - I said yea, he yelled “HOLY SHIT OUCH” and I asked if it made him feel better, he said it did. Once in traffic someone almost hit us and he asked to swear, I said yes - he said “That guy is an ASSHOLE” and I was like, yeah. 100% he was. He’s never asked to swear at a time that I felt was inappropriate. I have 0 regrets about this parenting decision.

(From Mama’s Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes)

the really beautiful thing about 10 minute All Too Well (or literally any song that long that she could have given us) is that it really is for US. radio stations can’t play it. casual fans and non-fan observers will probably listen to it a total of once out of curiosity only. nobody who doesn’t have significant mental real estate owned by Taylor Swift is ever going to have the patience or desire or stamina to listen to put a ten minute song in their music rotation, let alone to listen to it enough to commit it to memory. 

the sole purpose is giving us something we wanted. and maybe dragging jake gyllenhaal to hell for fun. but. mostly to give us something nice. 

Hot take but

The people that get really excited over the smallest things are the happiest people

And: the people who make fun of people for being "overly" excited are the worst people

If you see this

You were visited by the magic kitten of rest. Reblog to have a good night’s sleep.

banana

REBLOG to get the banana

IGNORE for potassium defeciency

I fucking hate bananas

and yet you reblogged

Well yeah I don't want a potassium deficiency

Well that's what you're going to have unless you stop discriminating against bananas

Jokes on you spinach and potatoes contain potassium too and I do like those things so... gotcha..?

Touché

banana

REBLOG to get the banana

IGNORE for potassium defeciency

I fucking hate bananas

and yet you reblogged

Well yeah I don't want a potassium deficiency

Well that's what you're going to have unless you stop discriminating against bananas

banana

REBLOG to get the banana

IGNORE for potassium defeciency

ah, the extended edition

Never pass the chance to reblog this.