the-home-kvetch: “commie-cosmo: “ trickstertime: “ tenebristpunk: “wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of...
@tenebristpunk

wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….

@trickstertime

“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”

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This was in place till 1973.

@commie-cosmo

Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy

@the-home-kvetch

The stereotype of “the Irish are drunks” is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. It’s bullshit.

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@chase-prairie

a publisher reached out to me about doing a foraging book and I just like

no one wants that book i'd write, it would just be an entire book about all the different land use histories of urban spaces and why they're full of heavy metals. the plants I *want* to write and draw about would practically be a footnote compared to the worried-auntie-warnings

Before 1978, many hourse paints contained lead Leaded gasoline was phased out starting in the 1970s Lead can stay in soil for thousands of years You can be exposed to lead working in contaminated soils Lead can accurate in roots and on the surface of leaves Test for lead if gardening near a house older than 1978, or near a road that was busy before around 1980. You can request a lead test as part of your soil testALT

i insisted on including lead in the gardening book because I gotta

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