#taking notes...

[coingbee]

COOL ALRIGHRT!!!

Charlie's Inferno - That Handsome Devil

Odysseus - Epic

I'm Gonna Win - Rob Cantor

NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A - Toby Fox

Gladiator - Jann

Bull of Hell - Heaven Pierce Her

Eight Wonder - Lemon Demon

Empires - The Electric Swing Circus

WOO god I struggled with that second E. I dont listen to empires that much anymore but ya know it was one of my faves

also dont have that many mutuals..

@mahal-kita @pulpbeing @fontzero umm. double tag @yaekiss . 4/8 good enough. no pressure obv

I finally remembered to do this today - thanks for tagging me @numberonestuckyshipper!

Task: Pick a song for every letter in your tumblr-URL. Tag at least as many people as there are letters in your URL.

Challenging myself this time by picking only songs that are not in english 😁

Tanzt du noch einmal mit mir? - Broilers

Elle me dit - Mika

Silencio - David Bisbal

Schwarz zu blau - Peter Fox

Alors On Danse - Revolverheld

Bonnie & Clyde - Die Toten Hosen

Entre dos tierras - Heroes del Silencio

Nous debout - Zaz

Nur ein Wort - Wir sind Helden

Ein Sommer nur für mich - Die Ärzte

Torna a casa - Maneskin

Let's see if I can tag this many people... @tree-of-blue-squirrel @somethingsgottasaveyou @somanywords @duckinatruck @random-jot and/or @tomsmusictaste (is this cheating?) @mentalmeles @stuckydrewx @juiceboxdrink @hipsterdiva @unscharf-an-den-raendern and whoever else wants to do this ✌️

[nero-neptune]

tony just asked artie to move in with him?

[taraxacum-vulpes]

catching up on my mewtual lore.....

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[salvadorbonaparte]

"tiktok has massive problems that even if you don't agree with a complete ban have to be addressed for all social media platforms" and "the Chinese government is doing pretty awful things" and "there is a lot of sinophobic fearmongering and double standards in the conversation about tiktok" and "people should exercise basic caution signing up to foreign or domestic social media" and "most Chinese citizens like US citizens are just people living their life and cultural exchange between them can be beneficial for both sides" and "some people being on the same social media site isn't going to solve everything " and "I want to study the linguistics happening there under a microscope" are opinions that can coexist

[staryflowers]

@sop-soap

ON YURI DAY TOO????

[drjackabbots]

the thing about the mummy movies is that you really spend most of the time thinking "wow brendan fraser's character is so cool" or "man oded fehr is so mysterious and heroic" when the fact of the matter is that these two

are the absolute most batshit insane heroes in the entire franchise

these two are intellectual loner siblings with archeology backgrounds who read and speak ancient egyptian, hire a dude directly out of prison to take them to a lost city of gold, and fight mummies literally with their bare hands. twice.

no one in these movies stands a chance against the carnahans. frankly they're lethal in how willing they are to make the absolute and most undeniably deranged decisions. jonathan pickpockets a dude on fire. evy's resurrected from the dead and immediately remembers how to use sai. they're racking shotguns from a cliff in this scene and then proceed to blow away half the antagonists.

rick and ardeth should be so lucky

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

Headcannon that Jason got the headstone from his grave and put it above his bed because it says 'Here lies Jason Todd' (he broke off the good soldier bit ofc) and thinks it's the funniest thing ever, some of the family, of course, are horrified.

Dick, at Jason's before they go out on patrol: Hey Jaybird, make sure to bring a spare respir--WHAT THE HELL?!?

Dick, looking frantically between Jason and the headstone: this is clearly a threat. Somebody knows your identity. I swear to GOD when I find who did this--

Jason, looking up from his phone comepletely unbothered: oh yeah, about that

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Bonus:

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Tim, climbing through Jasons bedroom window: Hey, its me, dont shoot. Do you have a first aid kit here right?

Jason, getting up from where he was reading in bed: ugh yeah sure, one sec

Jason, proceeds to grab a sticky note saying 'DOES NOT' and jabs it onto the headstone so it reads 'Here DOES NOT lie Jason Todd':

Tim:

Tim: okay that's funny

[guiiay]

yeah... yeah

[nessa007]

Ted Lasso + The Wizard of Oz

[peachdoxie]

I looooove the shit that's like

"You have the power to possess me and take over my body but you don't because you respect me"

because it can lead to

"I'll let you possess me and take over my body when necessary because I trust you"

[mindfulstudyquest]

gentle reminder you can rise up from everything. you can recreate yourself. nothing is permanent. you are not stuck. you have choices. you can think new thoughts. you can learn something new. you can create new habits. all that matters is that you decide today and never look back.

[kensatou]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[penumbralwoods]

shocked i havent seen someone else post this moment yet

[foxonrollerskates]

Alright, I know my mutuals well and I'm kinda scared, but lets make a note game cuz why not? But lets put my own spin on it

Every 1 note is one day I will brush my teeth (i.e 20 notes = 20 days)

Every 25 notes is one day I will shower

Every 50 notes is one day I will go on a short walk (2~ miles or less)

Every 75 notes is one assignment I will do this fall semester

Every 100 notes is 1 load of laundry done

Every 125 notes is 1 time I will clean my room

Every 150 notes is 1 time I will clean my bathroom

Every 175 notes is an hour I will spend writing my fic

Every 200 notes is an hour I will spend working out

Every 225 notes is an hour I will spend working on my original story

Milestone goals:

At 2,000 notes I will finish one of my art projects

At 4,000 notes I will ride a horse

At 6,000 notes I will start learning how to sew

At 8,000 notes I'll do a Q&A where I'll answer any questions yall have(I'm not doxxing myself tho)

At 10,000 notes... idk I'll post a swimsuit pic

Rules:

Go wild idc, I'll make the post unrebloggable when I don't want anymore notes