March 19, 2019 ♥️

OH MY GOD. I wasn’t expecting that notif to be the real deal. And on their anniversary too!!! I AM SO HAPPY FOR THEM ❤❤❤

@vinylbabyz

Friendly reminder: Someone holding you accountable is not the same as someone “attacking” you

*inserts hard pill to swallow meme*

good takes on tumblr are the best because everyone’s URL on this site is terrible.

thank you for the life lessons, booty scientist and creamy nut

hey i saw that man harass and yell racist slurs at you and I came over as fast as I could *bites lip* just wanted to say that I hate racism

bro: call the cops i’ve been stabbed and robbed

me (handsome): wtf bro im not gay

Me: She could get it.

It: A relationship built on trust, mutual respect, and love.

In his closing remarks, Taoiseach Varadkar stunned and elated those present with the announcement that Ireland is starting a scholarship program for young Choctaws to study in Ireland.

“It will begin in the fall of 2019,” he said. 

woah this rules

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-did-choctaw-donate-ireland

“….  in early November 1845, many American papers reported that “a failure of the Irish potato crop”—on which around a third of the country relied—was “now too painfully certain,” with “a famine among the Irish people … apprehended.” Later that year, the Southern Patriot reported, “There is now no part of the country that is not visited by the blight” and “the loss is tremendous….But when Major William Armstrong, an American “Choctaw agent” who represented their interests while implementing U.S. policy, approached them for money in 1847, writes the historian Turtle Bunbury, “he must have experienced mixed emotions.” These were people with very little to give, who had been pressured to cede 11 million acres of their land. Many would still have been grieving the family members they had lost along the Trail of Tears: Though the treaty had been signed 17 years earlier, Choctaw people were still making their way to Oklahoma, arriving at their final destination disheveled, filthy, and exhausted.

“Many would have been destitute or ill,” writes historian Anelise Hanson Shrout in the Journal of the Early Republic. “Most would have experienced enormous financial, emotional, and demographic damage as a result of removal. It is difficult to imagine a people less well-positioned to act philanthropically.” Still, Armstrong took out a circular, produced by the “Memphis committee” for Irish relief, and read it aloud to a crowd of some white settlers—“agents, missionaries, traders”—and a large number of Choctaw Native Americans.

Exactly what happened in that meeting is lost to time. But the assembled group managed to put together $170—well over $5,000 in today’s money. Most of this sum came from the Choctaw people. “It was an amazing gesture,” Judy Allen, then-editor of the Choctaw newspaper Bishinik, told the American-Statesman Capitol on the 150th anniversary of the gift. “By today’s standards, it might be a million dollars ($1M US).” Bunbury explains it thus: “It is assumed that the Choctaw contributed because they felt immense empathy for the Irish situation, having experienced such similar pain during the Trail of Tears a little over a decade earlier.”

[….] Over the last 170 years, the Irish have remembered this sudden gesture of generosity from distant strangers. Just before St. Patrick’s Day 2018, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced an Irish scholarship program for Choctaw youth. As the BBC reported, Varadkar addressed the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma. “A few years ago, on a visit to Ireland, a representative of the Choctaw Nation called your support for us ‘a sacred memory’,” he said. “It is that and more. It is a sacred bond, which has joined our peoples together for all time. Your act of kindness has never been, and never will be, forgotten in Ireland.”

Generations ago, a group of people who had little to give gave what they could in hopes of saving others.

Today, the generations they helped save give not only their thanks, but a hope for new generations.

These peoples are a show of what humanity is at its finest and we should be humbled by both the Choctaw Nation’s display of compassion and Ireland’s show of gratitude. We would all be better humans if we follow their examples.

self care is playing out your hypothetical queer eye episode in your head at 3 am after having a mental breakdown

……..sometimes you just gotta….open the windows in your house…….let some fresh air in…..change your bedsheets….make sure your surroundings are clean and tidy…..

This is actually pretty exciting. They’ve found a way to turn plastic into food.

Mushrooms are such amazing things. Most are decomposers, meaning they break stuff down into its original components. Some break down dead wood, or animals, others can break down toxic waste, and apparently this one can break down plastic. How cool is that?