This is an incredibly petty and incredibly specific vent. I'm an American Jew who engages in the study of Jewish mysticism. I had preordered a planner from a somewhat popular Jewish blog/shop that teaches about Jewish mysticism & antisemitism (I don't have to name them - you either know them or you don't) months and months ago.
I was so excited to have a convenient tool that tracks the Hebrew calendar, the Gregorian calendar, moon phases, along with other useful information. I was hoping to use it to help be more in touch with my Judaism and the Jewish reckonings of time and cycles of the year.
Months later, the planner finally arrives. Its gorgeous cover art in flowing Hebrew calligraphy seemed so promising.
I open it… and the entire thing's dedication is focused on Palestinian suffering. Not Jews. Not Judaism. But another people and the suffering they're enduring.
I feel for them, I really and truly do. The violence they're experiencing between Hamas's tyrannical control and Israel's aggressive right-wing government is an atrocity. It needs to be acknowledged.
Yet, can Jews have nothing separate from the suffering of our neighbors?
It's not about the planner; that's a symptom of a larger problem. It is about how every single thing about Jews is only acceptable now… if it's about Palestine first.
Am I now to expect every time I pick up a kippah or tallit, that on the underside is stitched "& also Palestine." Every siddur containing the dedication "& also Palestine." Can we have nothing that is ours separate from the conflict? Are we not allowed to seek respite in our own spirituality? I'm so tired.
I don't even want to use the damn planner anymore.
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I finally came across the name for it, thank god. Yelan is specialized in tricking! It's a form of acrobatics and martial arts movement that incorporates kicks, flips, twists, and similar. This has her auto attack sequence instantly make a whole lot of sense, and also yes, she kicks her bow and reels it back in with her line in that sequence (and yes, I had to point that out very specifically). Though certainly not an expert on this, I believe the twist towards the end of her auto sequence is called a raiz. Yelan, dear one, as an archer you must have decent strength in your core and arms, but tricking needs a lot of leg strength, jesus.
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work rant feel free to ignore i just need to get this out of my brain before i esplode:
My job not having any social media presence actually drives me insane...I'm going to try to rant without giving away where I work but my god. I work for an extremely well known (at least in the USA) organization and there's a lot of misinformation flying around out there and we do have a website, but just a website. That no one goes to or looks at unless they call and we direct them to exactly what they're looking for because they ask if we have it written down anywhere.
And I think it's incredibly...obtuse...to not have any presence at all. I'm not saying we need to have an extremely loud and huge presence. But even just like an official reddit or an official tiktok (we do have a twitter kind of but it is never used and I honest to god don't think anyone has access to it anymore) and even if those pages just have the most basic information on it, I think that would help. Just like "here's a link to our website. Here's our phone number. Here's which department handles what if you want to be asked for that specific department." I spend so much of my day on the phone with people that have questions that are so easily answered by just going on our website but no one does. Also don't even get me started on what they did to the website it looks like it got hacked now but it didn't.
This is a strange work rant for a Sunday night but I find myself annoyed. My coworkers and I send each other reddit posts of people misunderstanding things. I mean, they are willfully misunderstanding things they were previously informed of. In writing. But if we really want to make it better and more accessible for people, I think having the information presented in multiple ways would be best. Especially when we're dealing with children. These kids are on reddit and on tiktok and on twitter and they have questions and they are more likely going to go searching in those places to find information. And there are people that claim themselves as experts on all of those platforms but none of them work for or have previously worked for my organization. So they don't know. So these kids are getting incorrect information and then I get angry parents and children on the phone because they listened to the wrong person or organization and I'm standing by our policy and our rules and they don't like that.
Also sometimes they aren't angry on the phone because they were misinformed about something saying that they can't do this this or that and it turns out they can. And if they hadn't called they would have entirely missed the opportunity because they're going to the wrong sources because we, as an organization, refuse to be the source on a different platform other than our own.
And I get it. They don't want to hire someone to be the social media person because we are small and don't have the budget for that. But it's 2024. There are many people. Many staff. That have a lot of downtime (not my department unless it's the summer) and this could be the perfect task to give them. Even if it's just coming up with ideas to present. Not even necessarily filming anything. And videos don't need to show anyone's face or voice. We could literally do the most basic shit and it would be beneficial. It would count down on the number of calls we get and my coworkers and I would have time to do our jobs instead of spending half our time on the phone (do not ask how behind we are because it is sad).
There's something else I want to say about a different organization that I think this would help with but I cannot say without giving away where I work and also I can't bitch about our partner without causing problems. But if you live in the USA, you know about our partner, and I guarantee you hate them. But not as much as me. Never as much as me.
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Remember:
- Not everyone is out to attack you
- Petty snark does not indicate superiority
- Meeting all encounters with hostility is not "trendy"
It's very weird and embarrassingly egotistical to treat every person you meet as a stepping stone in your attempt to collect "gotcha"s like little trophies. Learn to recognize sincerity, honest mistakes, and goodwill that's simply different from yours.
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