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How to make sure you unplug your headlight before grabbing your bike? Tie one of those "remove before flight" keychains onto the charger! Yes, I once destroyed a charger by rolling away w/the headlight plugged in.

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Sharing Fake Hebrew with Goyiche Kabbalists to See If They Notice

Jewish mysticism has been heavily fetishized and appropriated by the occult community at large. This highly-complex subject is often passed around between goyiche practitioners with little to no cultural/academic understanding of what they're working with. Instead of learning through the proper channels, they learn from widely-antisemitic historical occultists who also didn't learn through the proper channels. Despite never bothering to learn how to speak, read, or understand Hebrew, many will tout it as an inherently mystical language carrying Ancient Jewish Truths in it and use it on everything. To make a long story short, it's cultural appropriation and antisemitism. So my Jewish ass decided to fuck around.

Keep in mind as we move forward- this all could have been avoided with one visit to google translate, so this is largely a social experiment to see who bothers to check their resources/pay attention to the language, and who accepts anything written in Hebrew at face value.

SEAL #1- SOUP'S UP

The center text here says tomato soup. The text around the star points says garlic bread. The Latin at the bottom is the scientific word for tomato. The alchemical symbols mean salt, water, potassium, boil, and mix thoroughly. I joined a discord server devoted to kabbalah, hermeticism, and other occult philosophy/esotericism. There's a room for conspiracy theories and another "cringe corner" that seems to mostly just be memes featuring fascism, antisemitism, and transphobia. I posted this seal in their resource channel and told them it helps people see through lies.

Everybody accepted it right away and one person asked me to make another one for improving at math, so I gave him this:

Seal #2- Be Not Afraid

This translates to "I am afraid of squirrels." The symbols were randomly selected and have no extra meaning.

In fainess, one person did ask what the Hebrew said. Not wanting to do the work for them, I said that I didn't know because I'd had a friend translate it for me. Even knowing that I didn't know what it meant, nobody had any objections.

I would have stayed longer, but the "memes" and general conversation was pretty antisemitic and I dipped to avoid psychic damage.

The next server was LHP/demonolatry focused and had Hebrew in the title. (The Hebrew did match the English title.) After joining the appropriation ran even deeper, they covered everything. There's an antisemitic user I've kicked out of other servers before in here. (They claim to have learned more Hebrew than most Jewish people. Cute.) They actually did catch it right away but tried to goysplain why I had spelled it wrong because they started reading from the wrong spot. When I pointed out I remembered their antisemitism they continued to act like they couldn't possibly be antisemitic and all Jews were just wrong I guess. They've gotten much more aggressive. Honestly at this point I remembered that antisemitism just not going to go away, and more people prefer to dig in their heels and attack the people they claim to fetishize the second we say something they don't like. I left pretty quickly because I could feel my heart pounding and didn't want to sour my day by letting it consume me. I think I'm going to stop for a bit, but I wanted to just share this story. Take it for what you will. That said, if anyone would like to take up the helm and continue blessing appropriators with good soup and a fear of squirrels please feel free (and tell me if they notice!)

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Got my 2nd Pfizer vaccination a week ago (almost no side effects). Another week until it takes full effect. Yay!

Not a question, but I really wanted to share that I got my first shot today! Only 5 more weeks until I'm immortal! (that's how that works, right?)

Way to go! I get my second Pfizer jab in ten days!

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Twitter is down and what do you know? Tumblr still exists!

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As I recall this was the cover of the Ben Bova book “Orion” in the 80′s.  Yup:  https://www.ebay.com/p/Orion-by-Ben-Bova-1984-Paperback/2612897  

David Mattingly

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Thank you, William Ware Theiss for my happy childhood.

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“201 Minutes of Space Idiocy”  

A Mad Magazine parody of “2001: A Space Odyssey”

This is from Issue 125 of “Mad Magazine”, published on March 1969.  Here are the pages of this spoof and enjoy.

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The 2018 Midnight Marathon Ride

For the past ten years cyclists have been doing a semi organized ride the night before the Boston Marathon.  We go to Hopkinton, some by bike, some by train, and ride the route into Boston.  Last year almost 3,000 cyclists did it.  This year’s freezing rain and wind cut the number to 221 riders.  Here’s my experience:

https://playingintrafficcommuting.blogspot.com/2018/04/2018-midnight-marathon-ride-million.html

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Gene Cernan, driving on the moon.

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Sufganiyot by Adam Solomon Via Flickr: Sufganiyot from Israel! They are like doughnuts, just more toothsome.

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Herbert!  Herbert!  Herbert!

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Brian & Amanda post show hug by Adam Solomon Via Flickr: From the Dresden Dolls show at The Paradise in Boston

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Brian playing guitar by Adam Solomon Via Flickr: Brian Viglione and Amanda Palmer -- The Dresden Dolls -- performing at The Paradise in Boston.

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Every Rose Has Its Thorne by Adam Solomon Via Flickr: Brian Viglione and Amanda Palmer -- The Dresden Dolls -- performing at The Paradise in Boston.

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Amanda Palmer/Dresden Dolls by Adam Solomon Via Flickr: From the Dresden Dolls' show at the Paradise Nov 6 2017

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Cormac Bride & The Dresden Dolls by Adam Solomon Via Flickr: Brian Viglione and Amanda Palmer -- The Dresden Dolls -- performing at The Paradise in Boston.

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Dresden Dolls by Adam Solomon Via Flickr: Brian Viglione and Amanda Palmer -- The Dresden Dolls -- performing at The Paradise in Boston.