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there are only French sources on this so far. from google translate:

An ambush involving minors turned into an anti-Semitic attack in Colomiers, west of Toulouse, Europe 1 reveals. The incident reportedly occurred on Thursday, June 19, 2025. The 15-year-old boy was allegedly lured by a young girl via social media for a date. Upon his arrival, several individuals were waiting for him at the entrance to a cellar.

Violence and Humiliation in a Cellar

One of the attackers, armed with a knife, allegedly forced the victim to remove his T-shirt and dance. He then grabbed him by the neck, forcing him to kneel, while ordering him to "beg and pray." During this humiliating scene, the attackers called him a "dirty Jew," even though the victim was not Jewish. According to information from La Dépêche, the teenager is said to be attending the ORT high school in Colomiers, a Jewish educational institution that is "open to all students and where all faiths have coexisted in perfect harmony for years," we are told.

An attack filmed and broadcast

"He was indeed filmed and threatened, while being called a dirty Jew," confirmed a source close to the investigation. Footage of the attack was broadcast on social media. Although the young boy showed no physical injuries, the act was deeply shocking. The victim quickly filed a complaint. Less than 24 hours after the incident, one of the alleged attackers, a 14-year-old student in Colomiers, was arrested on Friday and taken into police custody.

An ongoing investigation

The investigation, still ongoing, has been entrusted to the Toulouse police. Two other minors, identified as potentially involved, are being actively sought. The offenses charged in this case are numerous: aggravated death threats based on religion, religious insults, violence with a weapon, and recording and disseminating images of violence.

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i learned that the Twilight Zone was created after Rod Serling’s teleplay inspired by Emmett Till’s murder was heavily censored by networks and advertisers. The censorship led Serling to rethink his approach and delve into the era’s social issues through a filter of science fiction and fantasy (x)

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Protests against ICE deportations that have engulfed San Francisco’s streets this week took an antisemitic turn when Manny’s, a local Jewish-owned event space, had its windows smashed and walls defaced with slurs including “Die Zio.”

Owner Manny Yekutiel believes the protests against ICE are “necessary” because ongoing deportations are “stoking hatred” and “we need to stand with immigrants.” While Yekutiel says he will continue identifying with left-wing causes, he also said the attack on his business makes the protests concerning for Jews.

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Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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There really is nothing in KOTOR 2 quite like getting your companions to become Jedi.

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I rly wish we got to see more detective obiwan in the prequels tbh 😞

we should've got more you're right!!! but they could've fixed this lack with more Obi-wan and Quinlan buddy cop stuff in tcw

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✽ Favourite Character Meme ✽ [½] Colors ➺ Blue

He is respected throughout the Jedi Order for his insight as well as his warrior skill. He has become the hero of the next generation of Padawans; he is the Jedi their Masters hold up as a model. He is the being that the Council assigns to their most important missions. He is modest, centered, and always kind.

He is the ultimate Jedi.

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Finally finished my Ki-Adi-Mundi defense video!

@antianakin asked me to tag him.

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I've been rewatching some episodes from BBC Merlin recently and there's something I've been wondering. Why were people shipping Merlin with Arthur when Gawain and Lancelot were right there?!

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Ok, I got kind of lazy at the end when writing the original post, but I did eventually think of something of a fix for the Nadia romance. Not a perfect fix, but enough to not be quite as squick for me. That fix comes with a few different steps.

Before becoming a companion, Nadia is already shown to be developing a budding friendship with the Consular.

This would ultimately be to help with the third step in this fix-it idea. Nadia and the JC do have some conversations before she becomes a companion, but none of those conversations suggest any kind of developing relationship, they're just "there's a spy."

2. Nadia becomes a companion at Quesh.

This would allow the fixes I suggested in the original post, there's more time for Nadia to be explored as a character and more time for her's and the Consular's relationship to be developed.

3. The romance begins pretty much immediately, at least becoming a couple before Senator Grell dies.

This is why I suggested the budding friendship before companion step. This would help avoid a lot of the most glaring issues in the JC/Nadia romance. This way, the relationship would pre-exist the student/teacher one and the not entirely acknowledged Senator/Jedi problem. The worst issue is now that the Consular is dating his boss's kid, still kind of weird but not any worse then other romances in the game, so whatever.

4. Just like what I said for the Felix romance, do not end the Nadia romance with a marriage proposal.

The Jedi Consular is a Jedi. Jedi are not supposed to get married and remain in the Order. Making this even worse is that Nadia is being trained as a Padawan. Like I suggested for the Felix romance, just have Nadia and the Consular agree for their relationship to be permanent and exclusive (I forgot to mention the exclusive bit with Felix in the original post but it applies to him too). If we must keep the marriage option, then it comes with the Consular saying that they will leave the Order and stop being a Jedi (this also applies to the Felix romance).

SWTOR: Jedi Consular Companions

Listen, I like the Jedi Consular story in SWTOR. It was the first story in the game I completed, and I still enjoy replaying it. I downloaded the game to play a Jedi, and the consular story gives, at least I think it gives, a better Jedi experience than the Jedi Knight story does. The big drawback for me however, is the companions.

We'll start with Qyzen, the first companion. He's a trandoshan and friend of the PC's master. At first, I actually liked him. The thing of him declaring the pc to be the Scorekeeper's Herald was not good, and I really think shouldn't have been there in the first place, but it was a single drawback. The Jedi Council is shown to have concerns about Qyzen and Yuon's (pc's master) friendship. When I first started playing, that last point got some eyerolls out of me. I've seen the movies, I know Jedi are allowed to have friends. However, on this 2nd playthrough, I'm fully on the Jedi Council's side concerning Qyzen, if anything my opinion is harsher than theirs'.

Qyzen, as he is, should not be allowed at the Jedi Temple. This guy has hunted Wookies for sport and shows no remorse for doing so. He doesn't believe hunting wookies is wrong. What if there are any wookie Jedi? Padawans? Initiates? Younglings? Their safety is more important than Yuon's or Qyzen's feelings, get him away from the Temple and off of Tython.

What I think should've been done with Qyzen: honestly, he doesn't need that many changes, two are all that are needed. 1. no calling the pc Scorekeeper's Herald. This never made sense, the pc is not trandoshan, not part of trandoshan culture, and does things that many Jedi could do. A nickname does make sense, both in universe and from a game development standpoint. I think something like "young hunter" (possibly "master hunter" later) would make more sense. It would be an acknowledgement of the Consular as a fellow and friend in a transdoshan way without placing undue importance on them.

2. don't have Qyzen be a wookie hunter. This is really the big one. It would resolve a lot of the issues that are created by Qyzen's presences as it is in the game. Maybe there's a group of trandoshans who think there should be limits on what can and can't be hunted, sentient species can't be hunter the same way animals can. Qyzen could have been part of this group (or even still is). This could even tie into Qyzen's side quest later of the wookie killing trandoshans based on information from a trandoshan. In the version I'm suggesting, the trandoshan who gives the wookie info on who to kill is telling the wookie to kill trandoshans who have sworn off hunting wookies. The wookie kills these trandoshans anyway because they're blinded by vengeance. When Qyzen and the Consular encounter this wookie, they could help get said wookie off the vengeance path or kill them to avenge the dead trandoshans.

We'll do Tharan next. Why is he there? He could find excitement, and probably be happier, without the Consular. He doesn't seem to like much about the Jedi, especially not their using the Force. I interact with this guy and I wonder why he doesn't try to find excitement and adventure elsewhere. Surely it couldn't be that hard for him to get his own ship.

My ideas for Tharan: scrap him, introduce him many planets later, or change his character to fit someone who'd hang out with Jedi.

Ideally, I think he should be scrapped, I simply do not find him likable. If we're going to change him instead, I think I have a solution. Make him a scientist who used to study the force. Instead of seeing something he doesn't understand and being rather averse to it, he wants to understand how it works. His dreams and aspirations on this were crushed by not finding enough funding, or something else happened to prevent him from studying the force. Working with the Consular on Nar Shadaa could than reawaken that ambition, and maybe he could use the Consular for his research (if they consent of course), it would give a clearer reason for him to travel with the Consular specifically. And maybe Syo and Fain tried to help with that study back in the day. It would change Tharan's focus, but it would make his extensive time around Jedi make more sense and explain why he'd have an anti-mind trick device (is that really part of exo-tech? that bit struck me as odd). Perhaps Tharan's working on Nar Shadaa could have been him seeking the most profitable work he could get since he couldn't fulfill his ambition. He could still have his tech knowledge, it just wouldn't be his main interest.

Now for Zenith: Zenith on his own is okay, not great but okay. He doesn't quite have the glaring issues some of the others do. My problem with him isn't really him, so much as that he's yet another companion who doesn't approve of the Jedi Consular acting like a Jedi. I think if we had at least one companion before him who did, I'd have a better opinion of Zenith.

Finally talking about companions I like, let's talk about Felix. Felix himself is fine, good actually. He's the only Jedi romance I actually like (I'm squicked by master/padawan romances, and Doc is just awful). The problem with Felix isn't Felix, the problem with Felix is that he shows up far to late. He's the first companion the Consular who fits the bog standard playthrough and is one of the romance options, and yet he doesn't appear until the last planet of chapter 2. This means he doesn't get the time he needs to be explored, as his own character or his relationship with the Consular.

Given his being a love interest and having the Sith holocron in his head that does absolutely nothing during the class story, Felix just screams underexplored to me. The fix with him, introduce and make him a companion in chapter one, maybe he could be on Tatooine so he could still be on a miserable middle of nowhere planet. And do something with the holocron during the class story, maybe we run into a Sith who knows about the holocron in Felix's head, and Felix and the Consular have to work together to deal with the problems that come from this. The love between Felix and the Consular (whether friendship or romance) could be used to help him in this. Also, don't end his romance with marriage. Instead, just have him and the Consular agree for them to be permanent, it accomplishes the same general goal without doing something that would make certain the Consular would have to leave the Jedi.

Now for Nadia, I like Nadia as a character, but there are some problems, especially with her as a love interest. The big issue with her, like Felix, is that she becomes a companion to late in the game. I think she should have become a companion at Quesh. This would allow her and her and the JC's relationship more time to develop.

As for the Nadia romance, it has so much wrong that I'm seriously considering saying it should be thrown out. The game's romances in general have power imbalance issues, but JC/Nadia has got to be one of the worst in this regard. I can ignore it with Felix cause it's not highlighted (it also helps that Felix is the one pursuing the Consular), but I can't do that with Nadia.

Okay, so the JC becomes her Jedi master and she starts to see the male JC as something of a father figure. This would have been genuinely adorable if she wasn't expressing romantic interest in the JC, and soon after her father's death.

Another part of the power dynamic in this is that Nadia is a Senator, she is the JC's boss. This doesn't get highlighted in the game with Nadia specifically, but it is the case.

Honestly, Nadia just shouldn't be a romance option, so much would have to change to make it not concerning that I don't even want to bother.

But what about male consulars? Shouldn't they get a romance option? A female one since this game came in 2008 and queer romance wasn't gonna happen?

Ok, genderbend Tharan and make her the male Consular's love interest. Keep Holiday, she could be a friend and assistant instead of a girlfriend (maybe there could be subtle hints of Holiday and lady Tharan being friendly exs) No I'm not elaborating more on that.

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Because that’s what it fucking is

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I forget the article but someone made the point that instead of trying to remove Trump from office, he should be forced to choke on and own the presidency for his second term, and tie the republicans to him.

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The problem is that the entire appeal of Anne Frank to the wider world—as opposed to those who knew and loved her—lies in her lack of a future.

There is an exculpatory ease to embracing this “young girl,” whose murder is almost as convenient for her many enthusiastic readers as it was for her persecutors, who found unarmed Jewish children easier to kill off than the Allied infantry. After all, an Anne Frank who lived might have been a bit upset at the Dutch people who, according to the leading theory, turned in her household and received a reward of approximately $1.40 per Jew. An Anne Frank who lived might not have wanted to represent “the children of the world,” particularly since so much of her diary is preoccupied with a desperate plea to be taken seriously—to not be perceived as a child. Most of all, an Anne Frank who lived might have told people about what she saw at Westerbork, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and people might not have liked what she had to say.

And here is the most devastating fact of Frank’s posthumous success, which leaves her real experience forever hidden: We know what she would have said, because other people have said it, and we don’t want to hear it.

The line most often quoted from Frank’s diary—“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart”—is often called “inspiring,” by which we mean that it flatters us. It makes us feel forgiven for those lapses of our civilization that allow for piles of murdered girls—and if those words came from a murdered girl, well, then, we must be absolved, because they must be true. That gift of grace and absolution from a murdered Jew (exactly the gift, it is worth noting, at the heart of Christianity) is what millions of people are so eager to find in Frank’s hiding place, in her writings, in her “legacy.” It is far more gratifying to believe that an innocent dead girl has offered us grace than to recognize the obvious: Frank wrote about people being “truly good at heart” three weeks before she met people who weren’t.

This is one of the most powerful, damning pieces I’ve ever read. At the very end, the author talks about a witness testimony written by a Sonderkommando, Zalmen Gradowski, in Auschwitz. I’m warning you, excerpts of his account of people being killed and burned are in here and are graphic, but the fact that most of us probably never heard of this man before this piece proves the author’s point. Read if you can.

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I’m thinking about the documentary, Shoah. What I linked below is only part one, and I think part two is also right on YouTube. It is 9.5 hours long and is essentially nothing but witness testimony.

I understand why people wouldn’t have time to watch it, but I at least want to tell you about it. Roger Ebert actually wrote a great review of it, and I’ll include some excerpts here:

“There is no proper response to this film. It is an enormous fact, a 550-minute howl of pain and anger in the face of genocide. It is one of the noblest films ever made.”

There is a part where a Czech Jewish man named Filip Muller is interviewed. He had to work the door of the gas chambers. I won’t put his descriptions of the dead bodies here, but Ebert said:

“The images evoked by his words are unutterably painful. What is remarkable, on reflection, is that Muller is describing an event that neither he nor anyone else now alive ever saw. I realized, at the end of his words, that a fundamental change had taken place in the way I personally visualized the gas chambers. Always before, in reading about them or hearing about them, my point of view was outside, looking in. Muller put me inside. That is what this whole movie does, and it is probably the most important thing it does. It changes our point of view about the Holocaust. After nine hours of ‘Shoah,’ the Holocaust is no longer a subject, a chapter of history, a phenomenon. It is an environment. It is around us. Ordinary people speak in ordinary voices of days that had become ordinary to them.”

He talks about the calm and really unsettling interviews with former Nazis:

“Some of the strangest passages in the film are the interviews with the officials who were actually responsible for running the camps and making the ‘Final Solution’ work smoothly and efficiently. None of them, at least by their testimony, seem to have witnessed the whole picture. They only participated in a small part of it, doing their little jobs in their little corners; if they are to be believed, they didn't personally kill anybody, they just did small portions of larger tasks, and somehow all of the tasks, when added up and completed, resulted in people dying…The message of this film (if we believe in the brotherhood of man) is that these crimes were committed by people like us, against people like us.”

Filip Muller, mentioned earlier, shared his moment of despair when he heard the group of Czech Jews entering the gas chamber sing the Czech national anthem and “Hatikva.” He wanted to go inside and die with them:

“Q. You were inside the gas chamber?

A. Yes. One of them said: ‘So you want to die. But that's senseless. Your death won't give us back our lives. That's no way. You must get out of here alive, you must bear witness to our suffering and to the injustice done to us.’”

If you ever possibly have the time, please watch this, even just some of it. I can’t remember why I decided to watch this a few years ago, but I’m glad I did.