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Factually Deficient: Lettuce Harvest

This week on Factually Deficient, my blog for telling insupportable lies, I answer a question from my wife about lettuce.

Please feel free to read, enjoy, send me more questions to answer with lies, and/or share with a farmer of your acquaintance!

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It's time to brag about @tohrinha!

Guess who just won first place at the county fair? :D

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Factually Deficient: AMA

Factually Deficient is my blog for telling lies on the internet! I will answer any reasonable question with unreasonable lies!

To that end, I need questions to answer incorrectly - this is an open call for any and all questions!

You can ask about science, history, math, books, directions, botany, marine biology, cooking, fashion, or any other topic that strikes your fancy!

You can ask in a reply, reblog, or tag on this post, or by sending me an ask!

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Factually Deficient: Tea Hostlers

This week on Factually Deficient, my blog for telling outlandish lies, I answer a question from @whispersosoftly about sea monsters and tea hostlers!

Please feel free to read, enjoy, send me more questions to answer with lies, and/or share with a sea monster of your acquaintance.

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Gadwall ducklings Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 4 beach

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Punk duck, dunk? Puck? Huh…

This is my first ever time using alcohol markers (I did this with no tutorial and now warmup) don’t judge too hard lollll

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Ducks doing duck things

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Wizard battle

instant forfeit.

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in an alternate timeline ireland could've joined israel and india in the "we recently gained independence from the british let's be besties" club but noooo somehow their hatred of jews is stronger than their hatred of britain

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Factually Deficient: Duck Guard

This week on Factually Deficient, my blog for irresponsibly disseminating misinformation, I answer a question from @itsscarab about ducks!

Please feel free to read, enjoy, send me more questions to answer with lies, and/or share with a well-armed mallard of your acquaintance.

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i really wish a lot of leftists knew how much they sound like someone's maga uncle

"all israelis are racist white colonizers" isn't any less bigoted than "all mexicans are rapists and druggies"!

left wingers only caring about antisemitism as way to prove that the right are the Bad Guys is scapegoating jews in the same way as right wingers only caring about antisemitism as a way to prove that the left are the Bad Guys!

single issue voting on palestine isn't any less stupid than single issue voting on second amendment rights!

saying "go back to where you came from" to jews in israel isn't any less xenophobic and racist than saying "go back to where you came from" to brown people in the US!

constantly comparing gaza and trump to the holocaust is still holocaust distortion in the same way constantly comparing abortion to the holocaust is!

"not all pro-palestinians are antisemitic, just because a lot of them are doesn't give you a right to be wary of the entire movement" isn't any better than "not all men are rapists, just because a lot of them are doesn't give you a right to be wary of all of them"!

idolizing politicians isn't any less weird when it's mamdani instead of trump!

thinking antizionism isn't antisemitism because there are antizionist jews is the same mindset of thinking trump isn't racist because there were people of color who voted for him!

arguing with holocaust and genocide experts about gaza doesn't make you any less uneducated than those who argue with healthcare professionals about vaccines and masks!

just because you deem yourself to be morally superior or "on the side of the oppressed" doesn't mean you can't be a bigot!!! stop being so fucking hypocritical!!!!!

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Which Shevet Are You?

it has been many years since my last unsolicited Jewish content but my wife put the idea in my head about a "which shevet (which of the twelve tribes of Israel) are you" personality quiz and i could not rest until I had made it:

tag yourselves!

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Lies About Books: Let the Sky Fall

Each month on Factually Deficient, my blog for spreading vicious lies, I present Lies About Books, in which I give a wildly inaccurate review of a book I enjoyed in the past month!

June's review is of Let the Sky Fall by Shannon Messenger. Please feel free to read, enjoy, send me questions to answer with lies, and/or share with poultry of your acquaintance!

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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

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"you have to support Hamas/IRGC to be an ally to muslims!! Calling them terrorists is islamophobia!1!1!"

hate to break it to you, oh sanctimonious white person, but the overwhelming majority of Muslims worldwide are normal people who don't support murder and are in fact the #1 victims of these "governments". No, it is not normal for a religion to be based on violence and the glorification of death. Supporting and platforming groups who don't represent Islam and are instead death cults is in fact Islamophobic, as is claiming that these groups accurately represent Islam as a whole. That is equating Islam = terrorism, which is racist. You are racist.

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Factually Deficient: Berry Bucks

This week on Factually Deficient, my blog for telling outrageous lies, I answer a question about strawberries! Please feel free to read, enjoy, send me more questions to answer with lies, and/or trade to a friend in exchange for a fruit!

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nobody has a right to an ethnostate. god didn’t promise you that. it’s actually almost exactly the same as the idea behind manifest destiny, which killed so many of the people who’s cultural context you’re apparently so familiar with

Anon, you seem to have a strange fixation on my wording regarding culture.

The wording is simply my way of communicating: I did not grow up with the “standard American” cultural experience. That my connection to Native American identity is not simply through disconnected/questionable ancestry like many who claim it, it is through falling asleep in the backseat to old tapes of chanting and drums played in the car on long drives home, being told important rules around handling animal remains and parts, reading Apache folk stories, and a lot of other specific and influential developmental experiences.

Manifest Destiny was built on the belief of foreign peoples with a foreign, proselytizing and imperialist religion, who established a government and territory on these lands and sought to expand it, resulting in the Louisiana purchase and subsequently, wars for the formerly Spanish territories. Some of my ancestors were directly impacted and displaced by policies and actions taken by the US government as a result of this.

You presume to speak to me in this manner, supposedly on behalf of those who suffered and were killed as a result of US imperialism and expansion. Yet you make false equivalence, you misrepresent history, and you speak down to me.

Manifest Destiny also resulted in the forced conversion of Native Americans to Christianity. Forcibly converting millions of Indigenous peoples to a foreign religion, is something the Jewish people have not done but that has been done to Jews. Something that has been done to Jews and Samaritans in the land of Israel. By Christians and Muslims.

Judaism originates in the region that is now Israel and the Palestinian territories/Judea and Samaria, but the establishment of Israel was not because of divine right to the land- which is something you actually find in both Christian and Islamic doctrines, by the way. It is because of ancestral, heritage ties. Jews maintain a culture and spirituality deeply, intrinsically connected to the land of Israel- how to act as its steward, how to live on it. Everything the Jewish people are comes from that land and could not exist without that land.

Very curious if you have ever been to a tribal reservation, know how tribal lands and governments work, and if you would view a sovereign Native American territory in the US as an ethnostate, which you seem to have equated with something morally reprehensible.