isu
@isu-art.bsky.social
(she/her) Comic artist in Chicago. Currently into bg3 & working on some original comics! :)
he CARES about something other than vice and hedonism. He's a real punk!
February 6, 2026 at 4:45 AM
he CARES about something other than vice and hedonism. He's a real punk!
the Irish language, a common technique of the conquerers.
why is it that language, that Hozier uses to write these songs, is so commonly suppressed as a method of cultural genocide? Japan did so with Korea, and colonizers did with Indigenous Americans.
why is it that language, that Hozier uses to write these songs, is so commonly suppressed as a method of cultural genocide? Japan did so with Korea, and colonizers did with Indigenous Americans.
February 6, 2026 at 4:41 AM
the Irish language, a common technique of the conquerers.
why is it that language, that Hozier uses to write these songs, is so commonly suppressed as a method of cultural genocide? Japan did so with Korea, and colonizers did with Indigenous Americans.
why is it that language, that Hozier uses to write these songs, is so commonly suppressed as a method of cultural genocide? Japan did so with Korea, and colonizers did with Indigenous Americans.
and his own people's oppression, and the strange blessing of being able to explore the world & seeing all these markers of pain, and the "butchered" Anglofied spelling of Irish place names, and the inability of many to know the original because of the suppression of [..]
February 6, 2026 at 4:41 AM
and his own people's oppression, and the strange blessing of being able to explore the world & seeing all these markers of pain, and the "butchered" Anglofied spelling of Irish place names, and the inability of many to know the original because of the suppression of [..]
Until this song, I didn't realize that Irish rebels were historically scalped / pitch-capped, and it took me down a rabbit hole of reading about Irish oppression... damn....
Hozier – Butchered Tongue
In “Butchered Tongue”, Hozier tackles the 7th Circle of Hell Canto XII to XVII, known as the ‘Circle of Violence or Hell of the Violent and Bestial’ which is one of the lower
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February 6, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Until this song, I didn't realize that Irish rebels were historically scalped / pitch-capped, and it took me down a rabbit hole of reading about Irish oppression... damn....
Referenced: www.geograph.ie/photo/1384820, a photo of a field in Wexford, Ireland, fairly close to the sites of multiple battles in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. I'm not sure if a battle happened on this specific field, but there were definitely battles 20 minutes to either end of here.
Field near Furziestown, Co. Wexford © Dylan Moore cc-by-sa/2.0
T0706 :: Field near Furziestown, Co. Wexford, 3 km from Lady's Island, Co Wexford, Ireland by Dylan Moore
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February 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Referenced: www.geograph.ie/photo/1384820, a photo of a field in Wexford, Ireland, fairly close to the sites of multiple battles in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. I'm not sure if a battle happened on this specific field, but there were definitely battles 20 minutes to either end of here.
Incidentally also reading "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe, about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. There are so many commonalities among the experience of the oppressed -- so many echoes to the oppression of Koreans, for example.
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Incidentally also reading "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe, about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. There are so many commonalities among the experience of the oppressed -- so many echoes to the oppression of Koreans, for example.