Hello! It's me, Catmaniac8x from Youtube and Deviantart! I usually reblog lots of things, but occasionally I post my own stuff! She/Her or They/Them, probably Aro/Ace.

 

callmebliss:

siawrites:

cheese-sample-official:

wageronvoluntaryism:

wageronvoluntaryism:

ancaporado:

anarchomikeism:

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Never forget what they took from us.

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For those asking how it compares today

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And no the food hasn’t changed a damned bit.

Shoutout to everyone using receipts as bookmarks you’re providing valuable information to future scholars

starsunderfog:

fighterkimburgess:

hamster-anarchy:

irishshauna:

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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.

jesterbots:

genuinely one of the saddest parts of this new era of the internet is how hard it is to rick roll someone now. with people’s attention spans shortening so much, they wouldn’t even get through the first few bait seconds before clicking off the video. like i saw a comment that ended with “btw i made all of this up” and the replies kept treating it so seriously because none of them finished the entire 4 sentence comment. and We’re no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of You wouldn’t get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

coolxatu:

coolxatu:

coolxatu:

government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program

hell fucking world

if you want to help us convince congress to do something that actually benefits society, please check out the link below. we only have roughly 45 days of affordable internet service remaining from the time this post has been written

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say that shit

weshallbekind:

weshallbekind:

puppygirl-hornyposting2:

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I posted a comment as a joke response to a friend years ago, definitely before COVID, I wanna say like 2018, saying that you can hold a raw potato to the “vaccine wound” and someone thought I was being serious, screenshot it, and spread it everywhere. So if you ever hear that people believe a potato will remove a vaccine, you now know who to blame for that.


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This was 100% made up by me. I posted this. I personally am responsible for a small conspiracy theory.

https://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/sector/large-molecule/news/11302667/anti-vaxxers-turn-to-potatoes

An article someone wrote about it, apparently it was early 2019.

This is exactly how easily misinformation gets spread around btw. Like there are multiple articles about this half-assed shitpost. I absolutely 100% invented it out of thin air. Zero basis. Just was going through my “potatoes are funny” phase.

ardri-na-bpiteog:

Also increasingly aware that a LOT of people “manage” getting through the 40+ hour work week by sleeping less than is healthy and relying on stimulants like coffee and energy drinks to keep them going.

For people who are unwilling or unable to do this…work really does just dominate your life. Like we really should not have to rely on unhealthy practices just to have a social life or keep on top of housework or whatever.

I know I post about this a lot but I’m so TIRED all the time and it’s just so depressing that this is how we’re expected to spend the one life we have.

zohbugg:

robertreich:

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Jeff Bezos’s Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are both fighting in court to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional. Starbuck’s and Trader Joe’s joined them in separate lawsuits.

All of these companies have a disgraceful history of worker abuse and union busting. All of them have been charged by the NLRB with hundreds of violations of workers’ organizing rights

The NLRB is standing up to their union busting. That’s why they’re trying to destroy the NLRB.

I’m going to do my best to keep you all informed about this case as it snakes its way through the courts. The future of unions may depend on the final verdict. http://dlvr.it/T49LM1

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plaguedocboi:

Literally nothing will make me more evil than just being sort of overwhelmed by Noises