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You would think in a game where there two possible correct choices, that one would stumble into the right answer every so often, wouldn't you?! 🪽☀️🔥👑

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daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

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sickens me to my stomach. how dare this guy get to live my dream.

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Right well see the thing is that if the antisemitism is just words on the internet and irony, then it's just a joke and you're overreacting if you say anything about it.

If the antisemitism is just words even if said to your face in person, then it's just words and you shouldn't let them rile you up.

If the antisemitism is just microaggressions and people taunting our kids in public schools, then it's just bullying and you should just ignore the bullies.

If the antisemitism is discrimination by not getting holidays off or having kashrus respected or having religious clothing banned, then it probably affects other religious groups just as much or more than us, so you should really be fighting for and centering them.

If the antisemitism is people using slurs or blood libel or other canards, it could be worse, you're just being a neurotic Jew; it's still just words, at the end of the day.

If the antisemitism is Jewish shops or establishments or synagogues being vandalized or threatened, then it's just a little broken glass and spray paint, it's not like anyone actually got hurt, y'know?

If the antisemitism is people shouting out genocidal rhetoric in their slogans and seig heiling in the streets at protests, well really what do you expect when Israel is committing a holocaust of their own?? (If the antisemitism is holocaust inversion then fuck you for trying to control the narrative; dontcha know lots of other people were targeted and killed by the Nazis too? How dare you try to monopolize this tragedy??)

If the antisemitism is violence-inciting rhetoric from religious or political leaders, that's just, like, free speech man.

If the antisemitism is stochastic terrorist shootings at synagogues and JCCs and day schools (etc.) then it's just lone wolf actors and it's part of a larger conversation on mental health and/or gun control; it's still too early to say we should address it on its own terms.

If the antisemitism is individual Jews being physically attacked for looking Jewish in public, that's really unfortunate but also are we sure they aren't Zionists? Because even if not they might have been asking for it by looking like Zionists.... and if they were, well can you really even call that antisemitism? Anyway it's not like it's a widespread problem and there are more pressing issues than antisemitism that we should address first.

If the antisemitism is widespread violence, discrimination, and an inability to safely express Jewish identity, then we should maybe issue some meaningless platitudes about how that's bad, but make sure to include how Islamophobia is also bad too even if it's not at all relevant to the conversation.

If the antisemitism is individual Jews being killed, it's still too early to intervene, because can we really call that systemic violence? We should be focusing on the groups experiencing systemic violence first.

If the antisemitism is pogroms, make sure to ask which side of the political aisle it's coming from first to determine whether it's worth using as additional tar for our enemies, and if it's not, best to sweep it under the rug in service of The Cause. But it's still not the right time to actually take a stand on it.

If the antisemitism is groups of Jews being attacked and killed, that's deeply unfortunate, but it still really can't be our priority when there's a genocide going on. (Also have you considered that maybe those groups of Jews deserved it or are lying?)

If the antisemitism is state-sponsored repression, expulsion, concentration camps, and/or attempted genocide, well, it's kinda too late to do much about it, you know? Why didn't you say something before now?? Why did you let it get this bad? No way can we do anything about it at this late stage; it's not worth risking our people over people who won't even speak up for themselves.

If the antisemitism is a successful genocide insofar as it seriously reduces the Jewish population for several generations, then really the question we should be asking ourselves is why didn't they stand up for themselves? Why didn't they fight back? Why did they go like sheep to the slaughter?

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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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Okay you guys.

IF YOU PRIMARILY DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH reply with what you mentally call it, if you have a nickname for it or something

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Sylvia Riveras powerful speech against the exclusion of transgender people at the Gay Pride Rally NYC, 1973.

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as a severely mentally ill 14 year old, I remember thinking “the medical system would treat me better if I was physically ill and not mentally ill” and then I coincidentally developed multiple chronic illnesses and found out that actually they dgaf even when you’re essentially bedridden

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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my family historically has had vision problems on both sides. this effectively means that i’m destined to need glasses sometime in the future. but honestly it doesn’t concern me. because every trans woman with glasses i’ve seen has been painfully beautiful.

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i don’t know. i’m barely a person. i just want to be kind and hold someone’s hand. eat an ice cream cone. stare at the lake. feel the sun on my skin. lay in the grass. run through a sprinkler. it’s so easy to forget life is supposed to feel like a deep breath and not a gasp

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important message from the official broadcast home of the new york yankees:

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We need to bring back free the nipple

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I do want to hold someone in my lap and torment them (sexually)

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Define a function f from unordered pairs of positive integers to booleans, such that for any three positive integers a, b, c, some pair of them gives an output of true.

What is the minimum chance that for any random pair of positive integers, f will output true?

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STOP! before you decide you are irretrievably doomed, try one of the following options:

transition

bdsm

iron supplements

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