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Oh frick I clicked through the reblogs on that post and I was NOT the only person who had that sort of thought. There are... there are so many names there. There are so many PEOPLE there, oh frick.

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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Generally I've been trying to, even if I'm not back again HERE here, pop in occassionally and scroll through the past week or month or so of activity, see if anyone said anything, see if any of the every-so-often new followers are not pornbots, see if anyone said anything or look for "oh, hey, someone liked that post -- I wonder how they saw it", stuff like that.

Unfortunately recently uhh, umm:

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Caper in the Castro is a legendary video game, not because legions of die-hard fans continue to play it, but because it was thought to be lost forever. Now, what is largely considered to be the first LGBTQ-focused video game (it was released in 1989) is on the Internet Archive for anybody to play.

The game is a noir point-and-click that puts the player in the (gum)shoes of a private detective named Tracker McDyke who is, in case you couldn’t guess by the name, a lesbian. McDyke must unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Tessy LaFemme, a transgender woman, in San Francisco’s Castro district, an historically gay neighbourhood.

OOOOOHhh!

The game was released as charityware – freely, with a strong request to give a donation an AIDS Charity of their choice. I’d like to push towards still following that and donating, if you’re able.

(And you might also want to donate to the Internet Archive, who is hosting it now, while you’re at it – they’re in the middle of a donation drive, and could use your support.)

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I know I'm writing this right as shabbat is coming in and tbh I'm fine with that. I'm so tired of Jews saying that if they don't keep shabbat or practice Judaism in an orthodox way they're "bad jews" or "not observant." Um, no, that's not true. That's now how it works.

Reform Jews who use electricity on Shabbat are just as observant. Because Reform rabbis did the same work of Torah law interpretation, and came up with a different answer than orthodox Jews, but using the same process and approach to reading the text. They didn't go, "this is inconvenient so we're just not gonna do it." They said, "where orthodoxy sees electricity as something that may create a spark and therefore violates the melachot around making fire, we see it as a current, like water flowing, and just as it is permitted to use a faucet on Shabbat, so is flipping an electric switch."

If you choose to not be observant because it's not for you, that's fine. But orthodoxy is not the only way to be observant of Jewish practice. There's no line of what makes you observant and what doesn't, and that doesn't just go for Shabbat but it's the easiest example to illustrate my point. The Torah just says, "observe the Shabbat." That's it. If you look around on Friday night and go, "oh hey it's Shabbat, huh?" then tell me how that isn't observing the Shabbat? If you light candles and make kiddush and then go out to a movie, haven't you observed it? The Rabbis in the Babylonian era interpreted what Jewish practice looks like in a diaspora without the cultural/religious structure around a central temple, but that has been re-interpreted in every generation since and continues to be.

The real question is, are you making informed choices about your practice or are you just doing what works for you? Which is also fine, by the way. The thing that bothers me is when people think that only orthodox Jewish practices are "real" or legitimate. An orthodox friend of mine once started shit talking Reform Jews to me (why???) and how they aren't observant like she is. So I asked her if she tears her toilet paper on Shabbat and she said yes, of course. I pointed out that there are a lot of charedi Jews who would consider that a blatant violation of Shabbat and that, in their eyes, she wouldn't be considered shomer Shabbat. It's all a spectrum, there's no ONE right way.

My favorite Midrash is that the Temple had 13 entrances - one for each of the 12 tribes, and one for those who weren't sure which one they belonged to/didn't belong to any of them. Judaism is such an inherently pluralistic ethnoreligion, please stop buying into the brainrot bullshit that only charedim can do it correctly.

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Wait hold on I don't want to disagree with the main point of this post because I 100% agree with it but in terms of the actual way that Reform religious practice is determined, like, IIRC I'm pretty sure it davka is specifically NOT the case that Reform Rabbis did the same halachic process of interpretation as Orthodox Rabbis and that that is why Reform has different practices, but that the Reform movement specifically (a) considers the individual as the autonomous determining agent of the halachic laws that they subscribe to and (b) doesn't consider halacha binding in the same sense as most other movements?

Which! like! still doesn't make them any "less Jewish", any "worse Jews", any "less religious" or "less observant" of their Judaism (an an objective sense -- colloquially I might use phrasing like that, from a subjective perspective, because it's harder to phrase around it).

Just, that, I think "Because Reform rabbis did the same work of Torah law interpretation, and came up with a different answer than orthodox Jews, but using the same process and approach to reading the text." in particular is mistaking the way Reform halacha works as far as I understand it.

I know I'm writing this right as shabbat is coming in and tbh I'm fine with that. I'm so tired of Jews saying that if they don't keep shabbat or practice Judaism in an orthodox way they're "bad jews" or "not observant." Um, no, that's not true. That's now how it works.

Reform Jews who use electricity on Shabbat are just as observant. Because Reform rabbis did the same work of Torah law interpretation, and came up with a different answer than orthodox Jews, but using the same process and approach to reading the text. They didn't go, "this is inconvenient so we're just not gonna do it." They said, "where orthodoxy sees electricity as something that may create a spark and therefore violates the melachot around making fire, we see it as a current, like water flowing, and just as it is permitted to use a faucet on Shabbat, so is flipping an electric switch."

If you choose to not be observant because it's not for you, that's fine. But orthodoxy is not the only way to be observant of Jewish practice. There's no line of what makes you observant and what doesn't, and that doesn't just go for Shabbat but it's the easiest example to illustrate my point. The Torah just says, "observe the Shabbat." That's it. If you look around on Friday night and go, "oh hey it's Shabbat, huh?" then tell me how that isn't observing the Shabbat? If you light candles and make kiddush and then go out to a movie, haven't you observed it? The Rabbis in the Babylonian era interpreted what Jewish practice looks like in a diaspora without the cultural/religious structure around a central temple, but that has been re-interpreted in every generation since and continues to be.

The real question is, are you making informed choices about your practice or are you just doing what works for you? Which is also fine, by the way. The thing that bothers me is when people think that only orthodox Jewish practices are "real" or legitimate. An orthodox friend of mine once started shit talking Reform Jews to me (why???) and how they aren't observant like she is. So I asked her if she tears her toilet paper on Shabbat and she said yes, of course. I pointed out that there are a lot of charedi Jews who would consider that a blatant violation of Shabbat and that, in their eyes, she wouldn't be considered shomer Shabbat. It's all a spectrum, there's no ONE right way.

My favorite Midrash is that the Temple had 13 entrances - one for each of the 12 tribes, and one for those who weren't sure which one they belonged to/didn't belong to any of them. Judaism is such an inherently pluralistic ethnoreligion, please stop buying into the brainrot bullshit that only charedim can do it correctly.

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#But were they clever about it? - @homoqueerjewhobbit

No.

"the pvp on this site is brutal" "this website's hatemail game is insane" you guys werent here from 2013-2016. they shot you if you reblogged from someone who reblogged from someone who liked kill la kill.

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Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it was pointed out to us that in English "meal" is "loose roughly ground grain"

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@nightpool

no you're being advertised a think tank report that's scaremongering about drugs I think

Look if UK think tanks or Florida Lavender-Scare witch-hunt committees want to actually effectively scaremonger about drugs or homosexuality then they should simply do that in a way that doesn't sound and function like an ad campaign

I am being advertised

being advertised cocaine, on Tumblr dot com ?

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I am being advertised

being advertised cocaine, on Tumblr dot com ?

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This is the real reason the US doesn't worry about balkanizing.

now i’m curious to see your ranking of US state flags

ill be honest i put way less thought into these. most of them are so so bad

not within tiers i dont rank. i loooove utahs flag

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I just got a notification that I was mentioned in a post.

It was this post.

I like how organized your sidebar is and the background is really pretty. A+ blog update

Thanks! I thrive on attention.

Same background as before but with a slight color shift, by the way. Organization technique with divider lines borrowed from thetransintransgenic, and I have also swapped out my avatar for a selfie combined with my avatar, used bullet points, monospace text, and font weight variation, and added external links to the same section as my pages.

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I dunno given some terrorist groups historically this is honestly might be kinda realistic.

(Except maybe the fact that their outfits are actually stylish, possibly?)

I keep thinking about how stupid pokemon villains are

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If you're uncertain what you can confidently mean but want to maintain the possibility of it being more widely applicable, you can say "Christian (at least -- I assume many others)".

You are still covering 2.4+ billion people and 150+ countries and territories. I promise toning down your claims to this still-very-wide range will not weaken your argument overmuch.

I am once again begging you not to say "Abrahamic" when you mean "Christian." Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are very different religions with very different theologies, philosophies, and histories.

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THERE, WHERE WE ARE LIVING, THAT IS OUR HOME

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Here Is How Bernie Can Still Win

So is this like. a Record.

for Simultaneous Jewish Heads Of State Worldwide

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So is this like. a Record.

for Simultaneous Jewish Heads Of State Worldwide