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A Jewish politician gets his house firebombed on Passover by someone who declared they did it for Palestine, despite the fact that said politician is a critic of Israel. Jews get shot at a Jewish event at a Jewish museum by a dude shouting "free Palestine," both victims described as advocates for peace, one of whom did her masters on a program fostering Palestinian-Israeli dialogue. And now we've got people throwing Molotov cocktails at Holocaust survivors (yes, seriously, there was a Holocaust survivor in the demonstration in Boulder) because all Zionists deserve to die. Are you guys catching on yet? How good do you feel about all this? Are you fine with it?

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do y'all even know how much i hate being an "elder queer" at 40? a whole goddamn generation before me was wiped out by a plague that politicians deemed not their problem bc it was killing the "right" people. like. this was OPENLY STATED. i spent a large chunk of my childhood going to funerals. nevermind the fact that killing queer people for being queer wasn't codified into law as a hate crime until i was a junior in high school.

i should NOT be an elder queer, i should be middle at most. i am a middle aged queer. most of the elder queers died.

when i was growing up i didn't go to pride parades, i went to pride marches. because that's 100% what they were in the 80s and 90s.

from the absolute bottom of my heart, LEARN OUR FUCKING HISTORY. a generation was nearly wiped out so you young queers could be here. don't let that have been in vain, please.

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I think more academic programs should let you write a novel as your thesis project, particularly outside the fine arts. Just imagine the kind of bullshit that would result if they let you write a novel for your master's degree in computer science.

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I can only imagine, but it might be the sort of thing that would give John Kricfalusi nightmares.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing what sorts of cartoons we get when the folks whose formative media experience was spending hours a day parked in front of an iPad watching endless YouTube content farm pregnant Spider-Man machinima vids become the next generation of creators.

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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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like, okay, consent does literally just mean agree. which is what enables this little rhetorical trick. because there's all this cultural emphasis on sexual consent, which is just expressed as consent, a lot of phrases whose intended meanings are "rape is bad" can be taken literally to mean "i should get to agree to everything that happens in my vicinity."

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for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!

don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!

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Don't insult this lovely doggo by calling him a landlord.

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I will just leave this here.

possibly one of the most hilarious exchanges on doctor who 

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tbh it seems like they want us to bring it back

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Because it's awesome?

Now Playing: "Graft"

The final edit is done and posted, enjoy it today on Ao3. Graft is a cyberpunk story about a girl who gets her vagina hijacked and the chaos that ensues. Oops, I said "ensue."

DeeDee woke up this morning with a bad hangover, and her vagina was missing. This isn't supposed to happen with her secure password; but her whole body is a custom job. Of course her vagina is detachable.

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the more things change the more they stay the same

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why would you ever outsource fun to chatgpt? are you stupid? you can make mediocre shit by yourself too.

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Kinda horrified at all the people talking about using scratched up non-stick pans and not realising that Teflon and other coatings are so very carcinogenic. PFAS (carcinogenic forever chemicals) build up in your body like lead or mercury.

^ Don't fucking use this ^

I need young people and the older ones too apparently, to invest in at least one good thick based stainless steel pan. It's better for cooking and it won't give you cancer.

Stainless steel pan? You can scrub that shit with a steel scourer... If stuff won't come off? You can soak it in a laundry active oxygen cleaner for an hour or two and it will come right off, then rinse with clean water and you're golden. You want to whisk your eggs in the pan? Literally no downside, but in a non-stick pan you get CANCER flakes.

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This is a legitimate and damaging cultural shift for all involved parties and it needs to be addressed.

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Oh, but both parties are the same...