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I’m listening, but you’re an idiot. If your arg is that witch and wizard iconography is inherently antisemitic, ok, I can see a historical connection, but you’ve made this green skin thing up out of whole cloth, and it all has zero to do with Taako.

hey jsyk green taakos are antisemitic! green skin has historically been in antisemitic caricatures, and with a character who can be seen as jewish-coded very easily, it’s bad scoob! also combined with a wizard hat? worse bc in medieval Europe jews were forced 2 wear those hats while outside of ghettos so they could be identified as Jewish. And I’ve seen people who do this draw him with a nose like pearl from su, which…. all combined to a green skinned, pointed hat wearing, big nosed character who loves money and steals? just…just think how that could connect to antisemitic imagery.

link, link

(also, I’ve heard ppl say that it’s a lazy way to make a character not white but still not a person of color so)

most people who do this don’t know that though! the green skin, big nose, witch hat look is associated mostly with the wicked witch of the west, and u probably don’t know that it’s antisemitic. Just keep informed and when a Jew (hi, me) tells you it’s antisemitic LISTEN!

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“This Rubik’s Cube is Driving Me Crazy!”

I’m gonna peel off all the stickers cuz I’m too stupid and lazy!

-Crazy Davis on Premium Blend, Comedy Central

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racists were upgraded to fullblown nazis with the ushering in of trump, agc

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“This Rubik’s Cube is Driving Me Crazy!”

I’m gonna peel off all the stickers cuz I’m too stupid and lazy!

-Crazy Davis on Premium Blend, Comedy Central

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~ “Progress”,  1915 editorial cartoon

Society despairs of the Modern Woman, 1915 style

History geek note: Now I’m imagining an editorial cartoon from 1615 comparing “Ye Moderne Bible Reading Woman” with the good, old-fashioned women from 1315 who didn’t insist on learning to read the bible for themselves but were content to have a learned Man of the Church interpret it for them. I’d try drawing it myself if I could draw anything other then stick figures.

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well good news your head is clear and clean

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mother teresa is being canonized (named a catholic saint) tomorrow so i just want to remind you all that she watched thousands of bengalis die and enjoyed it because she thought the denial of medical care and the prolonging of suffering brought one closer to god

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Gender pronoun stuff is annoying but otherwise really fascinating.

A Linguist Tweets Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer 

After I read an excerpt from Too Like The Lightning on Language Log, I couldn’t rest until I’d read the book. It turned out to be really linguistically interesting, so go check out the livetweet and the book. 

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Love me some &c

“This space represents tears of grief, remorse, anguish, contrition, sorrow, regret, despair, rage, disappointment, blighted hopes, withered joys, &c., &c., &c., &c., &c.”  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1871.

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OMG my friend told me about mayan hieroglyphics and they’re SO cute!!! They’re just a bunch of rounded squares ahhhhh it makes my heart warm

LOOK !!!!!

AWHHHH 

I WANT TO HUG WHOEVER MADE THIS SYSTEM I LOVE IT

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Yeah I heard the Vampire Weekend song. Hudson died in Hudson bay. It’s waters took its victim’s name. What more do you need to know.

Henry Hudson was set adrift by mutineers on this day in 1611. 

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i got a video of one of the new songs!

omg bless your heart!!!! this is incredible thank you for taking a video! edit: the title of this song is “haunting, haunted, haunt” !!

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“glad to see my assumption was correct!”

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when the depression hits but you still gotta do shit