zorciarkrildrush:

zorciarkrildrush:

I think the essence of what drives me crazy about current Enlightened Online Leftist Discourse Regarding My Life Personally And Whether This Time Killing Me Is Morally Correct (as in, commentary about the latest episode in i/p violence) is this:

I want a free Palestine.

I don’t personally know a lot of people that don’t! They might bristle at the tagline, because it’s co-opted by people who do in fact want them dead, but as soon as I lay out why it’s in literally everyone’s best interest, how a non-free Palestine is horrific both to the people of Israel and to the people of Palestine, how pragmatically ridiculous the occupation of the west bank and the siege upon Gaza are (and I am a very pragmatic person), they get it. And I don’t mean I debate people online about it - this, too, is a ridiculous concept - I mean having, time and time again, the deradicalization conversation with my friends, and colleagues, and my family. Obviously not only now - I’ve always been a very principled and argumentative Jew, ever since I became an adult - and I’ve been alive for, I don’t know, a dozen flashpoints and operations and wars at this point, and I don’t stop being argumentative and loud in peacetime either, but especially now.

But that’s not what “from the river to the sea” means.

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@bithcy I’m so glad you understand I mean well, bless your heart.

I’m telling you this is a slogan that calls for my death. Mine, personally. It calls for the death of my family. It calls for the death of my brothers and sisters and cousins of any ethnicity you like, so long as we happen to live here (and remember, most of the time just from making the crazy mistake of being born here). It is chanted by a terrorist organization that would have no qualms over shooting me dead or worse, and have tried to do so on numerous occasions since I was born. An experience you, and you will allow me this assumption, did not have. I would be a trophy to them, a cause for celebration (with chanting of the same slogan, of course!). It is chanted by people abroad, of any political affiliation you like, who make light of my death, and of Jewish suffering, since they were told it’s fine and that Jews are hysterical and it’s just the filthy Zionists who should be worried.

If Jews, Israeli and in the diaspora, telling you that this is a call to kill them and their families, cushioned as it might be - I don’t know what to tell you further. It tells me for certain you would ignore other dogwhistles, and ignore the people they actually threaten, so long as you feel safe enough doing it.

And I hope you question it, I really really do, but I think right now it feels safe to not question it. I think it feels fine and righteous to ignore me. I’m sure you feel fine with that.

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homunculus-argument:

homunculus-argument:

There was a lot of stuff I was supposed to do today, but instead I’ve made this:

I figured out how to give it a sub-pattern so this one has a tile pool floor.

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elamarth-calmagol:

schmergo:

Confession: The letter “t” key on my laptop has been broken since 2024. From what my research tells me, they can’t fix individual keys on that model, and my laptop is no longer under a warranty, but it seems foolish to fork out over $900 for a new computer, so instead I’ve trained my brain to hit ctrl+v every time I want to hit “t.”

But sometimes I have to copy-paste something else besides “t,” which means I need a readily available place to copy the “t” from.

My first thought was to search “tiger” on Google, but if you can’t type the letter “t,” you just get search results about Bob Iger.

I realized words that end with “t” are easier for Google to autocomplete, so the first one I thought of was “crypt.” But wouldn’t you know, googling “cryp” takes to you to cryptocurrency results, and I REALLY don’t want my algorithm thinking I google that multiple times per week.

Then I remembered a cool place I went in London, called Cafe in the Crypt. It’s exactly what it sounds like and located below St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church. When I type in “Cafe in Cryp,” Google does indeed autocomplete it effectively! So I either keep that search result open in a tab or Google it every day.

So, that being said, if anyone works for St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church’s marketing department and has been utterly flummoxed by an IP address from Virginia that has googled their cafe hundreds of times over the past 6 months… that wasn’t a bot, that was me.

I am the Spiders Georg of Cafe in the Crypt.

Anyway, it’s a pretty cool place to check out if you’re ever in London. Just maybe not cool enough to Google it on a daily basis for months straight.

OK but how do you live this way

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rambrandt-the-painter:

biscuittactician:

rambrandt-the-painter:

“australian wildlife is so scary!”

Say fucking sorry to him right now or I’ll fucking lose it

and him

AND HIM

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weezord-leezords:

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I’ve posted about a bearded dragon that had to be rescued by fire fighters—here’s one that just fights fires 👍

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warningsine:

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kurapikawithagun:

lgbtunis:

kurapikawithagun:

lgbtunis:

lgbtunis:

lgbtunis:

people that want to learn hebrew sweeties i am SO sorry

hebrew is like theres erev ( עֶרֶב ) which means evening but erev ( עֵרֶב ) means mixture and also arev ( עָרֵב ) which means pleasing, msotly a pleasing voice also theres arav ( עָרַב ) which means [he] guaranteed but don’t confuse that with arav ( עֲרָב ) which means arabia so obviously the language is aravit ( עֲרָבִית ), but the evening prayer in judaism is called arvit ( עַרְבִית ) and also no one uses nikkud you know those little fucking dots that show you how to read the words so you might as well just die!!!

all i’m saying that instead of translating “arabian nights” into ‘leylot arav’ (לילות ערב - arabian nights) it couldve easily been translated into ‘aravim aravim’ (ערבים ערבים - arab evenings) which in my honest opinion would’ve been much better.

ok no joke, that’s brilliant. it mirrors the musicality and repetition of the arabic title, alf layla wa layla

oooh!! the most common hebrew translation IS ‘elef layla ve-layla’ !! which means the same!

semitic languages handshake meme!!!

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digitaldiscipline:

kittydesade:

thevagueambition:

recently came across some plates and bowls that would be perfect for a children’s hospital

ONE

SINGLE

JOKE

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goldensunset:

you! tumblr user!

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goldensunset:

can you reblog a two-part post in the correct order?

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alex51324:

alex51324:

blignick:

Oh mym gosh.

I thought it was a pubby in a little hat on the beach.

but it is even more surprising than that.

Just so you know, if you turn the sound on, at the beginning there are little plappy sounds from the kitty’s paws.

evilhorseshoecrab:

thequeervampiric:

love saying “question mark?” out loud when I’m talking about something i’m unsure of

that one bitch from project hail mary

istadris:

Early HMD Laurence is hilarious. Dude has joined the Aerial Corps for ten minutes and he’s already almost gotten in a fight with half of them. Everyone expected him to be a prudish snob and instead they got a raging dragon SJW with a short fuse. Everyone remembers Rankin’s infamous manhandling but goodness, we were robbed of Laurence getting into a shouting match with an admiral three days into his new service. I’m sure he would have gotten into a fistfight with Maximus if he has insulted Temeraire.

stupot:

stupot:

Yesterday a kid said to me “excuse me? Your hair looks like beautiful anime hair” which is already amazing and then she said “watch me on your camera when I go down the slide I’m going to do the Peter Griffin death pose when I come out” and she sure did.

Illustration of events

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