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uh hey that person you just reblogged from used to be in our discord server but we had to kick them out because they admitted to watching t*m and j*rry... that show features violence and as such glorifies it.... when we confronted them all they said was "wtf its a show about a cat and a mouse"... if you dont believe me theres a whole callout post that features their name age and street address so you can go to their house and check... anyways you should unfollow them before people start thinking you like problematic media too :/ just trying to help

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i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

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So Tom Lehrer was Jewish, and you will see a lot of Jews, and people who know about Judaism saying, may his memory be a blessing, or z''l, which is short for the same phrase in Hebrew. and, in fact, I said may his memory be a blessing on another post. but there is another saying that is often said by Jews to mark a death, which I feel is much more appropriate. That phrase is Baruch dayan ha'emet, meaning "Blessed is the true judge." Baruch dayan ha'emet is often abbreviated as BDE.

I can't think of anyone who would more appreciate the double meaning in BDE than Tom Lehrer, or anyone who embodied the other meaning of BDE more.

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For anyone who wants to call Visa or Mastercard about the Steam/Itchio: be the nice but inept person who eats up all their time.

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i understand you guys now. like i get it

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they were telling the truth then, got it

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“[T]he very term “religion” has been foreign to Judaism until relatively recently, when the dialogue with Christianity has compelled Jews to recognize and use it. Indeed the Hebrew language does not really have a word for “religion”. In modern Hebrew the word dat has been pressed into service to translate “religion”, but it is a word which properly refers to law, not belief. A more obvious contender might be the word emunah, which is a key word in the Jewish religious vocabulary, but emunah properly means “trust”: belief in, rather than belief that.”

— Nicholas de Lange, Judaism (2002)

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i can’t believe ele hasn’t been on game changer until this season

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TIL that Harvard professor Tom Lehrer was asked at the age of 84 by rapper 2 Chainz if he could sample his 60-year old song. Lehrer replied, “I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?”

via ift.tt

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I find it very offensive that the more unwell you are, the more things you have to do to maintain your health. Things like following special diets, going to medical appointments, making big and important decisions about what treatments to use. At the same time, the more unwell you are the less energy you have to do all of these extra things. It seems grossly unfair.

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every time i remember that photo of the little inuk girl with her puppy i engage in inconsolable hysterics

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idk thinking about how sometimes you have to show up for people you aren't that close to, because sometimes you're just the person who's there. sometimes you invite a new friend to a party and end up having to sit with them through a panic attack. sometimes you run into an acquaintance on their worst day and they need to talk about what happened. sometimes someone is crying in a stairwell and you're the only one around to ask if they're okay. and none of this is "trauma dumping" or whatever the fuck it's just being there for people because you're the one in the room with them.

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Censorship doesn’t only matter when you think something you like might be censored next. Censorship is wrong in and of itself.

Fiction is fiction. It’s not real. People should be allowed to purchase and engage with fiction that others dislike. They should be allowed to purchase and engage with fiction that others find wrong.

I was going to say “people might be using fictionalized depictions of things to explore their trauma! They might be using it to explore important messages! They might be using it for [other justification]”. And any of these things could be true. But they don’t need to be.

Censorship of fiction is wrong. It doesn’t matter if the things I like will not be censored. It doesn’t matter if I find the things being censored repulsive. The problem with focusing on the slippery slope is that it assumes that the bad thing happening now is only bad because of what might come next. But censorship is bad in and of itself.

No one should choose what others can engage with. Not Mastercard. Not Visa. Not Collective Shout. Not Moms for Liberty. No one.