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I went through the most difficult five days of my life. I really suffered a lot in these five days. I will tell you some of the suffering from them.

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why is wealwell thriving?

BECAUSE HE HAS A FUCKING SENSE OF WHIMSY!!

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parker bradley fans, hear me out: the player character keeps a couple adult-themed card games/board games in their bedroom, and awakens them to find just like. A hornier version of parker. In a more revealing outfit. Like how we have trap dorian, y'know, same character different states

Do you guys see my Vision

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this gorgeous lady plagues my mind everyday

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Can yall believe @jade-jupiter commissioned me to draw Betty? My current hyperfixation wife? I’ve never whipped something out so fast in my life, what a treat!!

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I love my d20

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I think it was before I started posting story concepts on tumblr but I had an old concept called ‘apocalyptia’ which was a dark comedy about a world where every apocalypse movie premise happened simultaneously

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There's a specific genre of shitty antisemitic joke that I have seen fly under the radar (as it was designed to) a LOT more often lately - especially since Kanye started going full mask-off nazi - so I feel the need to issue a warning about it. Namely, the genre is jokes that get spread around by people who aren't willfully antisemitic because outside of conspiracy brain rot land, it appears that the point of the joke is absurdism.

As an example, let's examine the 23-and-me lizard DNA test that I've sadly seen floating around unquestioned.

Because, see, to the average person who isn't willfully antisemitic, this genre of joke comes off as nonsequiturs, or hilarious mistakes - you, as a person with some level of basic observational and critical thinking skills, living on Earth and not in whatever batshit mirror dimension conspiracy theorists think we live in, might very well end up getting a giggle out of it because, HAH, we KNEW those DNA ancestry kits were a scam! If you're not a deliberate antisemite but not really up on the dogwhistles, it doesn't scan as anything awful because you're put in mind of things like feeding a photo of something decidedly not human into that one selfie-to-anime neural net, which sometimes works and produces interesting results because the thing is looking for specific patterns and trying to make anything fit - not things like blatantly lying about doing something like that in the hopes that normies who see the absurdity and want to have a laugh at a scummy company's expense will pass it along to people who unironically believe that Jewish people are actual literal lizard aliens and the test proves it.

This is the same strategy that guy at the game awards pulled. You, a person living in reality where the main source of political corruption is just the basic consequence of an economic system that makes power pool in the hands of anyone willing to exploit enough people, a world of banal mundane evil, know damned well that QAnon-pizzagate-satanic ritual abuse cult conspiracy bullshit is, well, bullshit, if you're even familiar with the details of what they believe at all. When someone crashes the stage and thanks Rabbi Bill Clinton, you may very well laugh because to YOU it is a blatant absurd nonsequitur.

Problem is that to someone else, someone who's deep into that shit, it's either someone letting the truth slip, or someone backing the deep state into a corner - whichever is more convenient to believe.

This is one form of how the far right uses memeification (CW: the example discussed in the link is a rape "joke") - it means something totally different to the in-group than it does to the out-group. To you, it's funny because it's nonsensical; to them, it's fun because they think they're onto something huge and they're about to blow this shit wide open and it's going to be their great moment of triumph.

I cannot stress enough that no matter how absurd an antisemitic conspiracy theory sounds to you, there are people who believe it, unironically. There are people who unironically believe that Jewish people are very literally not human and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever change their minds. There are people who believe that we're born with horns and tails and pointed ears and have them surgically altered to fit in with good Christian humans like some kind of extremely high-stakes game of Among Us. There are people who believe that we steal, ritualistically abuse, and kill Christian babies. These beliefs, while fringe enough that, yeah, most of you who this post is aimed at have never heard them in the wild before very recently, are not nearly as fringe as you probably think they are. Just look at fucking Kanye. This asshole has more fans than there are Jewish people in the world.

So I'm begging you to please, bare minimum, be careful of "absurdist" jokes about Jewish people, especially if they reference lizards, money, banking, or government power. Also, you may see Jewish people debating how religious laws may apply to fictional creatures, but outside of that context you should also be wary of any time Jewish people are mentioned in the same sentence as vampires, dragons, goblins, zombies, fantasy demons, or any number of other fantasy creatures known for greed, feeding on humans, or both.

If the reason it seems funny to you is because you'd have to be really stupid to believe it's true or makes any kind of sense - it's probably looking for you to spread it to people who are, in fact, that stupid.

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“ao3 is secretly using the money to fund Zionist proshipping” and other unrelated nouns i can put in one sentence WHAT ARE WE DOING!!! go donate some blood!! go donate TO ANERA!! spam your senator’s inbox with complaints. walk around in circles for ten minutes!!! doing anything else would have a more positive impact on the world than accusing ao3 of being shareholders in the elders of zion inc. i’m going to explode

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anyway regular reminder that i love you fellow cripples. i love you cripples who smoke. i love you cripples who are fat. i love you cripples who do things that are "bad" for your health. i love you cripples who rely on 24/7 care. i love you cripples who are addicts. i love you cripples who aren't "inspiring". i love you cripples who are housebound. i love you cripples who can never hold a job. i love you cripples who hate the medical system. i love you cripples who also have stigmatised mental health conditions. i love you cripples who can't keep up with your hobbies or social life. i love you cripples who self medicate. i love you cripples that society hates.

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So we go through and reblog fundraisers for people in Gaza that we receive in the inbox, but with the number of asks we get, we've gotten really behind on going through them. So I'm going to make some posts linking to a bunch of the ones we've been sent in the past couple of months.

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@aiamaher: [link] Vetted by association.

@hadiasuudb: [link] #65 on @/gazavetters list.

@ghadahalmadhoun7: [link] #4 on @/gaza-evacuation-funds list.

@abedallhferwanagaza: [link] #60 on @/gazavetters list.

@steadydreamenthusiast: [link] #133 on @/gazavetters list.

@yusra-maryam58: [link] Post discussing verification by association.

@twins-zain-yazan: [link] #22 on @/gazavetters list.

@ahmed79ss: [link] Post discussing verification.

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I think it's important to remember that every single religion can be twisted for violence and oppression and abuse and control. Yes, including the one that you think can't be. But quickly, before anti-theists start saying that religion is an inherently evil violence accelerant, remember that this is true for any ideology, including anti-theism. Violence and oppression and abuse and control happens wherever there are people who think that those things will help them get what they want.

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from this paper censored and removed from the cdc website by the trump administration

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be normal about people who wear diapers. be normal about people who need colostomy/catheter bags. be normal about people who need to wear pads or pad their mattress. be normal about incontinence. it’s not funny or weird or gross, it can happen to anyone of any age, and it’s frankly embarrassing that some of y’all can’t be normal about the aspects of disability that ick you out

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trump's big beautiful bill, which just passed congress, expands ICE's budget from $9.6 billion to over $170 billion, of which $45 billion is appropriated for new detention centers. not only is this budget bigger than the budget of the federal bureau of prisons, but it's greater than the military expenditure of all countries besides america and china ($246 billion), giving more money to ICE than the russian military receives ($129 billion). it will completely remake american society