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We need jungle, I’m afraid

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Houston, we have a second season! 🚀🧑‍🚀🍔☀️

Gastronauts is BACK for season 2, premiering August 15th only on Dropout - with host Jordan Myrick, dozens of professional chefs, and some very not-professional judges to give them the most unhinged cooking challenges imaginable 🧑‍🍳

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in conclusion "American" is a coherent ethnic identity that belongs to everyone that lives here

im sorry but "ethnonationalism" is what people call nationalism when they want it to sound extra scary

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a little more seriously the "nation" in "nationalism" meant, in the 19th century when nationalism was the hot new thing, "a people with a shared language, history, and land"

and the fundamental principle of nationalism is that nations should be self-governing "nation-states", rather than split up amongst various trans-national empires

but now, due to semantic drift, "nation" just means "state", "nation-state" is redundant, and "nationalism" is synonymous with "patriotism" so we need "ethnonationalism" to express the idea that ethnicities (prev. nations) should have their own nations (prev. states)

but also the valence has shifted -- in the 19th century nationalism was a progressive ideology, while now forming states around individual ethnicities is understood to be reactionary

(except when it's not shhhh)

so now we have nationalism (neutral) and enthonationalism (bad)

im sorry but "ethnonationalism" is what people call nationalism when they want it to sound extra scary

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im sorry but "ethnonationalism" is what people call nationalism when they want it to sound extra scary

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There is Gelphie content for all who have eyes to see

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the urge to write never leaves but the motivation to do so is a lover lost at war

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Neat little prototype of some moving linkages. Prototype for what? No idea yet. But it's a cool type of motion so hopefully I can find a use for it.

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ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

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alpha"RAIL me" 😳 of susur seCUNTi 😜 only character who ever said "FUCK" 🤯 in magic story plus he cant stop talking about his damn HOLE 🕳️🥵 somebody get this man under control 🙄

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לצרתי אני עדיין מאמינה ב״עם ישראל בארץ ישראל על פי תורת ישראל״

המתיישבים, הכ״חיסטים, בעלי הטרור ושנאה, הם הם לא מאמינים בתורת ה׳ וישראל

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Dont stop talk about palestine 📣📣🇵🇸

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HEAVEN WILL BE MINE IS OUT NOW

Heaven Will Be Mine is a queer science fiction visual novel from the creators of queer cult horror visual novel We Know The Devil, about joyriding mecha, kissing your enemies, and fighting for a new future. A send-up of 1980s giant robot anime and 70s queer science fiction, Heaven Will Be Mine puts players in the cockpits of three women fighting on opposite sides of an interstellar war to decide who they’ll get to furiously make out with the very fate of humanity in space! A game about messy twentysomething lesbian dating and dying science fiction dreams that players will explore from three unique perspectives in missions across the solar system, leading to three different endings.

Features:

•Multiple Playable Protagonists: Watch the narrative unfold from the perspective of one of the three main characters.

•A Battle For The Fate Of Space: Your choices determine which of three factions will emerge victorious and determine the fate of space, as well as the messy arguments, makeouts, and love stories of three lesbian mecha pilots.

•A Rich World To Explore: Look through chat logs and emails to understand the rise and fall of an alternate universe’s 1980s space program, and the end of its dream for humanity’s future.

Available now on Steam and Itch.io, with the soundtrack on Steam and Bandcamp!

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Megan Miles at Juun.J, Fall 2023 Menswear

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A friend of mine from around here who is Very Christian and has never had a Jewish friend before was asking me some stuff about antisemitism today, and it made me realize that the ways people talk about various types of bigotry and racism are so designed to stump people about the nature and purpose of systems of oppression. "Why do people hate the jews so much?" is such a common refrain and while there have been many books and articles written pulling apart all the important contextual and historical things that can help people understand antisemitism SPECIFICALLY, what I ended up saying to my friend was this:

"Something to understand about antisemitism is it isnt just ideological. The expulsion of jews from various countries was very often a method of "legally" seizing their wealth when the church needed money. It has been historically an incredibly convenient source of both a group of people to blame and also an easy way to just... Be able to steal from people, lmao. It has served very concrete material purposes for churches and governments throughout history. Sometimes you have to approach asking those questions from a different angle because it often isnt about the hatred so much as it is about ... Redirecting energy and attention, right, like upholding structures that benefit those in power. The hatred is convenient because it allows those in power to take actions that would not be tolerated if the group in question were not considered to be Exceptional in their inhumanity. Like the undocumented immigrants now, asking "why do they hate the immigrants so much" isnt always a productive avenue of thought because the hatred is usually just... Useful. Rather it is more helpful to ask "Who does it benefit for these people to be treated this way" -> "what do they need to make the general public believe about that group of people in order to justify this treatment". I think sometimes we are made to think hatred of jews is special and rooted in something different than other hatred... It's not. I mean all types of racism etc are unique. But it very much is about justifying actions that benefit a ruling class in all instances, imo."

And she like totally got it!!! She was like "OH I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT LIKE THAT BUT THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE THANK YOU" I am very proud of myself lol :')