Was scrolling down twitter and there’s currently a ton of ableist leftists using passive eugenics to justify their horrifying posts and stumbled upon fuckers claiming chronic illness doesn’t exist and everything is curable, using diabetes as their example. We are doomed to keep repeating these stupid ass arguments bc able bodied people refuse to listen to us disabled and chronically ill people. If you claim to be a leftist you can not be saying shit that could kill your comrades. You cannot act like the pandemic is over. You can not talk over disabled and and chronically ill people. You can not imply we are just lazy. Go fuck yourself
I had a revelation and I HATE it. colorblind people wont get this post btw
[ID: a series of texts reading, “why are the interrobang and bangbang emojis different shades of red” “⁉️ ‼️” “do u see what i’m saying”. The emojis are slightly different shades of red and they’re also slightly different heights.]
I am experiencing a lot of antisemitism due to the ongoing conflict and I would like it to stop, please.
Buckle up folks, this is gonna be a long one, with a lot of re-blogged additions. Mostly because there can only be 30 images in a post at a time. And I have, uh, way more than that. This was part of an experiment I did with @thatmuslimlady-deactivated20240 (who I am devastated about being deactivated, by the way. Truly I cannot even find the words tbh. She is a bright light, and I hope she’s doing well.)
I know she deactivated her old blog because all the i/p stuff and the antisemitism and islamophobia was getting to her. Seeing as how none of those things has slowed down even a little bit, I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s gone again for the same reason.
However, our friendship and that history is exactly why I reached out to her via DM about doing this. Here was our convo:
And it’s true, B’‘H! She received a lot of support, visibly, from Jews as well as other people! Which brings me incredible joy. I am not surprised that she received support, as she is a lovely person. I am not surprised that Jews stood up and did what was right to defend her. Despite what people seem to think about Jews and how we think we feel about both Muslims and Palestine, I know we are not crazed beasts looking for Muslims to harm in the name of Israel (or whatever the bigots seem to think motivates us for hateful purpose).
I am (happily) surprised that there was not any hatred and (very happily) surprised that no Jewish people (or those speaking on behalf of Jewish people) said anything negative at all. Not because I expected any kind of horrid thing to take place specifically. It’s just that I don’t hold Jew to a different standard than any other group. I get people of all kinds being hateful to me all the time. There’s a lot of Jewish pain at the heart of this conflict, and I wouldn’t be shocked (saddened, but not shocked) to learn that some of us have allowed our pain to morph into hatred. And I’m not saying that Jews don’t ever do Islamophobic things all the time! I’m sure many Muslims and Arabs on this site have encountered bigoted and unkind Jewish people in their comments. I’ve called out some of those people! So I’m not trying to cast Jewish people as perfect angels who do no wrong ever, is all I’m saying. But I was very happy for my friend that she didn’t experience this, even when posting to #Israel and #I/P and #Palestine, as that seems to be where a lot of hate is festering right now. I reblogged her post and planned to link to it, but I can’t find the reblog on my dash. IDK where it went. Luckily, I do have the replies to her post saved. (I’ve tried to redact names wherever possible for obvious reasons, but have kept profile pix as those are not usually unique to specific users)
In the below post I’d like you to notice, a week after we both originally posted early January 15th, her note count was 332. Aside from reblogging and liking each other’s posts, neither of us did anything to promote or drive engagement with our posts. My note count at the time of making this post is 104 Notes. This is not an inherently good or bad thing. It just means more interactions with her than with m than me. And that would have been terrible if it included anything bigoted. But it didn’t, for which i am very grateful. (Also, note: many of the photographed users identify as Jewish in their usernames.
Her interactions looked like this:
and this
This is all fantastic. People coming forward to defend human kindness and to make the correct and uncomplicated assertion that being bigoted is always wrong. People coming forward to say loudly and proudly that they will police their own communities for bigotry and to ensure that it will not be tolerated. People coming forward offer support and an ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on. Truly the best that we humans can be to one another.
This was…very much not my experience.
Don’t get me wrong! I did get some love, and for that I am eternally grateful. This isn’t the oppression Olympics and we are just two people–neither of us are speaking for all Jews or all Muslims. But almost immediately, my end of things got…complicated.
So complicated, in fact, that I wasn’t able to post that night like I planned. I looked into my notes and was instantly overwhelmed.
And before I explain why, I just want to be explicitly clear: THIS DOES NOT MEAN I WANT MY FELLOW JEWS TO STOP SHARING MY POSTS OR WRITING TO ME WITH THEIR CONCERNS OR TO BE SILENT ABOUT THEIR PAIN WITH ME OR ANYONE ELSE!!!!
I simply wish to highlight the overwhelming nature of Jewish pain at this moment in our culture.
I always intended for this post to be included in my #The Antisemitism Experiment tag. I didn’t expect it to be a whole new aspect of the experiment itself. But it’s absolutely become one.
It wasn’t just that I received a tremendous amount of hate (which I did). It wasn’t just that it was violent and actively threatening (which it was). It was more than that.
It was that instantly–and I mean within moments of posting–my pain was removed from me entirely and became something else. I stopped being human. I became a theoretical subject or an object of hate.
Note: I am not obscuring usernames in this small section, because you can literally see the usernames in the notes of this post anyway.
You see, the first notification that i saw on this post after I posted it was this. Like…Immediately. Like this person was waiting to attack a sad Jew. (And no, please don’t send hate to this person, please. I never want anyone spreading hate, especially not in my name. This person is not the point anyway. The behavior is the point.)
TW: SUICIDE BAIT/DEATH THREAT
I screenshot this by reflex. I don’t know why. I felt the need to document it. It felt horrible enough that it had to be remembered I guess. But at the same time, I kept thinking to myself “Ugh. I don’t want this on my phone. Why am I keeping this horrible memory?”
Over the next week, @arabian-knight sent several more nasty messages to me, which I ignored. @dougielombax attempted to de-escalate on my behalf, which was kind. And I watched for a week a @arabian-knight and @dougielombax engaged in a debate about whether or not I and all Jews deserved to experience antisemitism and hatred and death threats entirely without my involvement. I wasn’t relevant because I wasn’t real, at least not to @arabian-knight. He was shadowboxing someone who did not exist and who was not a part of the conversation at all. But he also didn’t seem to see me, the actual human being who he dragged into the boxing ring and just fucking wailed on repeatedly. He also sent me some kind of horrible message in my inbox. It might have included a death threat or suicide bait–or it might have just been the garden variety “You deserve this.” I cannot recall. Because after seeing his initial messages, I decided not to engage anymore until the day I decided to compare my post to @thatmuslimlady-deactivated20240’s the following week.
After messaging her as shown in my last screenshot of our convo, I went to my inbox to screenshot @arabian-knight’s message to find it gone. As were all the comments he made on my post–at least to me. Because he blocked me. I never engaged with him at all. But he came into my space and harrassed me then he blocked me.
I was instantly so glad I took that first screenshot. IDK if his messages still show up in the notes of this post. It felt like the strangest, most invasive gaslighting. I spent a week ignoring constant horrific attacks on my person and on my culture and the moment I went to speak about it, the rest of the evidence vanished. I was so gutted, I decided not to do the post. It wasn’t going to serve the purpose I thought it would serve and I didn’t know how to move forward. I re-directed my energy elsewhere.
I suppose I expected a bit of that. The being hated and gaslit and threatened and dehumanized. It’d already been happening for a while.
But what caught me off guard was the horrible solidarity with fellow Jews. The things we have all gone through. The way the internet at large has ghettoized us in the digital age. The way we are all so isolated from one another and from our non-Jewish communities that surround us. We’ve become nothing and no one to anyone but each other and, only if we’re lucky, a few very kind Beloved Goyim who have kept our hope alive. Non-Jews who are very much the exception in The Jewish Experience, not the rule.
So I started looking through my notes more. And checked my (sorry) often neglected inbox. And when that all got overwhelming, I would go to watch a show I like or a YouTuber I like and find that they were spouting irresponsible rhetoric. Or I’d go to Facebook and see my IRL Jewish friends feeling openly miserable and everyone ignoring them. I’d go to text a friend about something unrelated or to see if they wanted to hang out or just share a funny thing from my day and ask about theirs all to be met with the same exact response: Nothing. Silence. It became very apparent that the vast majority of people I know have blocked or muted me despite never even bringing up Palestine with them specifically. A couple people respond to me vaguely and occasionally as long a it is the most surface-level possible subject matter. A “Hey! How are you doing?” was mostly unanswered and absolutely never reciprocated.
I’d go for a walk outside and see reminders about the war or overhear people talking about all Israelis being evil or how 10/7 was somehow justified “because Israel” (as if anything could ever justify such horror).
It is fucking inescapable. And I have wanted to scream at anyone who has suggested that I “step away” for “my mental health.” There is no away. Every form of escapist media I enjoyed most is now filled with people who can’t distinguish between Jew sand Zionists and Nazis. They’re filled with people who are A-OK with ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion of Jews, so long as those Jews are Israeli (and so long as those same people don’t have to answer the question of “OK, so were are these millions of Jews gonna go? What’s your proposal here? How will they bee kept safe?”). I can’t be with people I can’t enjoy modern media, because its become so stressful wondering whether or not the people who make that media actually want me dead.
I can’t keep from wondering if the people who are speaking out about Palestine (but not saying a word about bringing the hostages home or the bombs constantly fired into Israel or the sky high levels of antisemitism) are staying quiet about every single pressing possible issue that affects ANY Jew ANYWHERE in the world are doing so because they have actually decided to care about Palestine (which is good; they should) and are just a little single-focused due to the truly horrible scale of the tragedy–or because they actually think that (at best) Jewish suffering is unimportant right now or (at worst) deserved and necessary. There’s no real way for me to know. The only way that people can actually signal that they care about me as a friend or me as a friend or Jews ass a people is for them to actually say and do something to prove that. And it’s frankly fucking terrifying that I can count on one hand the number of non-Jewish friends in my actual real life who have done a single thing to risk letting anyone know that they (gasp!) are friends with a Jew on purpose! And that they (double gasp!) care about how that Jew feels. I can think of exactly two (2) people (plus my sister, who is not Jewish). Two. You know who you are, and I love you. The rest of my support system is people I’ve never met IRL, because they are the only ones who talk to me anymore. (And I could not be more grateful for you. You have no idea).
I can’t step away for my mental health, I can only stop talking for your convenience. And if talking is all I have left, you won’t take that from me too.
I’ve been reading Agatha Christie and Terry Pratchett books like I breathe oxygen, because they’re dead and if they were antisemitic, I don’t have to know. It won’t affect my present or inadvertently harm other Jews for me to enjoy their work.
So, as I perused the internet in the vain hope of escapism, I saw the other Jew like me. The ones who are invisible in the real world now and who are ghettoized digitally.
And you know what I did? I SCREENSHOT EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE OF SOCIETAL FAILURE.
I noted every single time I’ve seen a Jew cry out in loneliness and every single time someone wished death upon us or refused to listen to us or minimized our suffering or tried to steal and invert our tragedy, deny our history, and otherwise abuse and neglect us. AND I’M GONNA SHARE THEM.
Not all on this post, but in other reblogs of this post. And because I’m not a monster, I will actually put all but the first picture/row of pictures under a read more going forward.
But this post stays long. And it stays inconvenient to scroll past, because maybe–JUST MAYBE–someone will see this wall of text enough times to actually read it and internalize it and change how they behave. Or maybe I’ll just make some antisemites annoyed, and I’m personally fine with either. I’d prefer the former, but won’t be mad at the latter.
And once I do post the pictures, I can FINALLY delete the hate off my photo library. Hopefully it’ll run out. Hopefully you’ll all stop being hateful toward us. You’re all in control of how long this lasts, not me. Stop giving me and other Jews horrible experiences to share, and you’ll stop having to see this wall. But it’s gonna be awhile. Because you’ve done a lot of harm to a lot of people, and now I’m their megaphone as well as my own. Oh. And this is how many notifications I’ve gotten since I’ve started typing, I’m really hoping that none of it adds more info to screenshot:
And these are the folders devoted to all the times in which people have isolated Jews from their communities and threatened their safety.
ALT
ALT
And here’s the folder of Goyische support which I also plan to share. There aren’t as many photos in that one:
ALT
And in case you are one of the people who are determined to misinterpret this post:
I AM NOT A ZIONIST.
I AM PRO-PALESTINE.
THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT PALESTINE. NEITHER THIS POST NOR THE USER WHO WROTE IT DENY INJUSTICE FACING PALESTINIANS OR THE SUFFERING THEY ARE ENDURING.
THIS POST IS ONLY TAGGED PALESTINE, BECAUSE IT ADDRESSES THE ORIGINAL ISSUE OF JEWS BEING DRIVEN OUT OF PRO-PALESTINE ACTIVISM BY A COMBINATION OF ANTISEMITISM AND ERASURE.
SUBSEQUENT REBLOGS OF THIS POST WILL NOT BE REBLOGGED WITH THE PALESTINE TAG, BECAUSE THIS POST IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT JEWS AND JEWISH SUFFERING ONLY.
Friends and allies: Reblog as much as you want. Keep sharing your stories. You are not alone in your pain. Future reblogs of this post will either be queued or scheduled. (I’ll never share personal identifying info without explicit approval from you or unless it was made available widely already.)
Reblog 2: The Jewish Experience
More Under The Cut
This is the only reblog I’ll do of this post tonight btw. For now just starting the process of showing you how reblogs will look.
I know more additions will be made to the post later but for now everything is transcribed under the cut. Sorry if I made any errors! (If someone wants to tag me when new additions are made I’ll do my best to transcribe everything!! I know this isn’t a lot but I hope it’s somewhat helpful.)
I am experiencing a lot of antisemitism due to the ongoing conflict and I would like it to stop, please.
Buckle up folks, this is gonna be a long one, with a lot of re-blogged additions. Mostly because there can only be 30 images in a post at a time. And I have, uh, way more than that. This was part of an experiment I did with @thatmuslimlady-deactivated20240 (who I am devastated about being deactivated, by the way. Truly I cannot even find the words tbh. She is a bright light, and I hope she’s doing well.)
I know she deactivated her old blog because all the i/p stuff and the antisemitism and islamophobia was getting to her. Seeing as how none of those things has slowed down even a little bit, I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s gone again for the same reason.
However, our friendship and that history is exactly why I reached out to her via DM about doing this. Here was our convo:
And it’s true, B’‘H! She received a lot of support, visibly, from Jews as well as other people! Which brings me incredible joy. I am not surprised that she received support, as she is a lovely person. I am not surprised that Jews stood up and did what was right to defend her. Despite what people seem to think about Jews and how we think we feel about both Muslims and Palestine, I know we are not crazed beasts looking for Muslims to harm in the name of Israel (or whatever the bigots seem to think motivates us for hateful purpose).
I am (happily) surprised that there was not any hatred and (very happily) surprised that no Jewish people (or those speaking on behalf of Jewish people) said anything negative at all. Not because I expected any kind of horrid thing to take place specifically. It’s just that I don’t hold Jew to a different standard than any other group. I get people of all kinds being hateful to me all the time. There’s a lot of Jewish pain at the heart of this conflict, and I wouldn’t be shocked (saddened, but not shocked) to learn that some of us have allowed our pain to morph into hatred. And I’m not saying that Jews don’t ever do Islamophobic things all the time! I’m sure many Muslims and Arabs on this site have encountered bigoted and unkind Jewish people in their comments. I’ve called out some of those people! So I’m not trying to cast Jewish people as perfect angels who do no wrong ever, is all I’m saying. But I was very happy for my friend that she didn’t experience this, even when posting to #Israel and #I/P and #Palestine, as that seems to be where a lot of hate is festering right now. I reblogged her post and planned to link to it, but I can’t find the reblog on my dash. IDK where it went. Luckily, I do have the replies to her post saved. (I’ve tried to redact names wherever possible for obvious reasons, but have kept profile pix as those are not usually unique to specific users)
In the below post I’d like you to notice, a week after we both originally posted early January 15th, her note count was 332. Aside from reblogging and liking each other’s posts, neither of us did anything to promote or drive engagement with our posts. My note count at the time of making this post is 104 Notes. This is not an inherently good or bad thing. It just means more interactions with her than with m than me. And that would have been terrible if it included anything bigoted. But it didn’t, for which i am very grateful. (Also, note: many of the photographed users identify as Jewish in their usernames.
Her interactions looked like this:
and this
This is all fantastic. People coming forward to defend human kindness and to make the correct and uncomplicated assertion that being bigoted is always wrong. People coming forward to say loudly and proudly that they will police their own communities for bigotry and to ensure that it will not be tolerated. People coming forward offer support and an ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on. Truly the best that we humans can be to one another.
This was…very much not my experience.
Don’t get me wrong! I did get some love, and for that I am eternally grateful. This isn’t the oppression Olympics and we are just two people–neither of us are speaking for all Jews or all Muslims. But almost immediately, my end of things got…complicated.
So complicated, in fact, that I wasn’t able to post that night like I planned. I looked into my notes and was instantly overwhelmed.
And before I explain why, I just want to be explicitly clear: THIS DOES NOT MEAN I WANT MY FELLOW JEWS TO STOP SHARING MY POSTS OR WRITING TO ME WITH THEIR CONCERNS OR TO BE SILENT ABOUT THEIR PAIN WITH ME OR ANYONE ELSE!!!!
I simply wish to highlight the overwhelming nature of Jewish pain at this moment in our culture.
I always intended for this post to be included in my #The Antisemitism Experiment tag. I didn’t expect it to be a whole new aspect of the experiment itself. But it’s absolutely become one.
It wasn’t just that I received a tremendous amount of hate (which I did). It wasn’t just that it was violent and actively threatening (which it was). It was more than that.
It was that instantly–and I mean within moments of posting–my pain was removed from me entirely and became something else. I stopped being human. I became a theoretical subject or an object of hate.
Note: I am not obscuring usernames in this small section, because you can literally see the usernames in the notes of this post anyway.
You see, the first notification that i saw on this post after I posted it was this. Like…Immediately. Like this person was waiting to attack a sad Jew. (And no, please don’t send hate to this person, please. I never want anyone spreading hate, especially not in my name. This person is not the point anyway. The behavior is the point.)
TW: SUICIDE BAIT/DEATH THREAT
I screenshot this by reflex. I don’t know why. I felt the need to document it. It felt horrible enough that it had to be remembered I guess. But at the same time, I kept thinking to myself “Ugh. I don’t want this on my phone. Why am I keeping this horrible memory?”
Over the next week, @arabian-knight sent several more nasty messages to me, which I ignored. @dougielombax attempted to de-escalate on my behalf, which was kind. And I watched for a week a @arabian-knight and @dougielombax engaged in a debate about whether or not I and all Jews deserved to experience antisemitism and hatred and death threats entirely without my involvement. I wasn’t relevant because I wasn’t real, at least not to @arabian-knight. He was shadowboxing someone who did not exist and who was not a part of the conversation at all. But he also didn’t seem to see me, the actual human being who he dragged into the boxing ring and just fucking wailed on repeatedly. He also sent me some kind of horrible message in my inbox. It might have included a death threat or suicide bait–or it might have just been the garden variety “You deserve this.” I cannot recall. Because after seeing his initial messages, I decided not to engage anymore until the day I decided to compare my post to @thatmuslimlady-deactivated20240’s the following week.
After messaging her as shown in my last screenshot of our convo, I went to my inbox to screenshot @arabian-knight’s message to find it gone. As were all the comments he made on my post–at least to me. Because he blocked me. I never engaged with him at all. But he came into my space and harrassed me then he blocked me.
I was instantly so glad I took that first screenshot. IDK if his messages still show up in the notes of this post. It felt like the strangest, most invasive gaslighting. I spent a week ignoring constant horrific attacks on my person and on my culture and the moment I went to speak about it, the rest of the evidence vanished. I was so gutted, I decided not to do the post. It wasn’t going to serve the purpose I thought it would serve and I didn’t know how to move forward. I re-directed my energy elsewhere.
I suppose I expected a bit of that. The being hated and gaslit and threatened and dehumanized. It’d already been happening for a while.
But what caught me off guard was the horrible solidarity with fellow Jews. The things we have all gone through. The way the internet at large has ghettoized us in the digital age. The way we are all so isolated from one another and from our non-Jewish communities that surround us. We’ve become nothing and no one to anyone but each other and, only if we’re lucky, a few very kind Beloved Goyim who have kept our hope alive. Non-Jews who are very much the exception in The Jewish Experience, not the rule.
So I started looking through my notes more. And checked my (sorry) often neglected inbox. And when that all got overwhelming, I would go to watch a show I like or a YouTuber I like and find that they were spouting irresponsible rhetoric. Or I’d go to Facebook and see my IRL Jewish friends feeling openly miserable and everyone ignoring them. I’d go to text a friend about something unrelated or to see if they wanted to hang out or just share a funny thing from my day and ask about theirs all to be met with the same exact response: Nothing. Silence. It became very apparent that the vast majority of people I know have blocked or muted me despite never even bringing up Palestine with them specifically. A couple people respond to me vaguely and occasionally as long a it is the most surface-level possible subject matter. A “Hey! How are you doing?” was mostly unanswered and absolutely never reciprocated.
I’d go for a walk outside and see reminders about the war or overhear people talking about all Israelis being evil or how 10/7 was somehow justified “because Israel” (as if anything could ever justify such horror).
It is fucking inescapable. And I have wanted to scream at anyone who has suggested that I “step away” for “my mental health.” There is no away. Every form of escapist media I enjoyed most is now filled with people who can’t distinguish between Jew sand Zionists and Nazis. They’re filled with people who are A-OK with ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion of Jews, so long as those Jews are Israeli (and so long as those same people don’t have to answer the question of “OK, so were are these millions of Jews gonna go? What’s your proposal here? How will they bee kept safe?”). I can’t be with people I can’t enjoy modern media, because its become so stressful wondering whether or not the people who make that media actually want me dead.
I can’t keep from wondering if the people who are speaking out about Palestine (but not saying a word about bringing the hostages home or the bombs constantly fired into Israel or the sky high levels of antisemitism) are staying quiet about every single pressing possible issue that affects ANY Jew ANYWHERE in the world are doing so because they have actually decided to care about Palestine (which is good; they should) and are just a little single-focused due to the truly horrible scale of the tragedy–or because they actually think that (at best) Jewish suffering is unimportant right now or (at worst) deserved and necessary. There’s no real way for me to know. The only way that people can actually signal that they care about me as a friend or me as a friend or Jews ass a people is for them to actually say and do something to prove that. And it’s frankly fucking terrifying that I can count on one hand the number of non-Jewish friends in my actual real life who have done a single thing to risk letting anyone know that they (gasp!) are friends with a Jew on purpose! And that they (double gasp!) care about how that Jew feels. I can think of exactly two (2) people (plus my sister, who is not Jewish). Two. You know who you are, and I love you. The rest of my support system is people I’ve never met IRL, because they are the only ones who talk to me anymore. (And I could not be more grateful for you. You have no idea).
I can’t step away for my mental health, I can only stop talking for your convenience. And if talking is all I have left, you won’t take that from me too.
I’ve been reading Agatha Christie and Terry Pratchett books like I breathe oxygen, because they’re dead and if they were antisemitic, I don’t have to know. It won’t affect my present or inadvertently harm other Jews for me to enjoy their work.
So, as I perused the internet in the vain hope of escapism, I saw the other Jew like me. The ones who are invisible in the real world now and who are ghettoized digitally.
And you know what I did? I SCREENSHOT EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE OF SOCIETAL FAILURE.
I noted every single time I’ve seen a Jew cry out in loneliness and every single time someone wished death upon us or refused to listen to us or minimized our suffering or tried to steal and invert our tragedy, deny our history, and otherwise abuse and neglect us. AND I’M GONNA SHARE THEM.
Not all on this post, but in other reblogs of this post. And because I’m not a monster, I will actually put all but the first picture/row of pictures under a read more going forward.
But this post stays long. And it stays inconvenient to scroll past, because maybe–JUST MAYBE–someone will see this wall of text enough times to actually read it and internalize it and change how they behave. Or maybe I’ll just make some antisemites annoyed, and I’m personally fine with either. I’d prefer the former, but won’t be mad at the latter.
And once I do post the pictures, I can FINALLY delete the hate off my photo library. Hopefully it’ll run out. Hopefully you’ll all stop being hateful toward us. You’re all in control of how long this lasts, not me. Stop giving me and other Jews horrible experiences to share, and you’ll stop having to see this wall. But it’s gonna be awhile. Because you’ve done a lot of harm to a lot of people, and now I’m their megaphone as well as my own. Oh. And this is how many notifications I’ve gotten since I’ve started typing, I’m really hoping that none of it adds more info to screenshot:
And these are the folders devoted to all the times in which people have isolated Jews from their communities and threatened their safety.
ALT
ALT
And here’s the folder of Goyische support which I also plan to share. There aren’t as many photos in that one:
ALT
And in case you are one of the people who are determined to misinterpret this post:
I AM NOT A ZIONIST.
I AM PRO-PALESTINE.
THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT PALESTINE. NEITHER THIS POST NOR THE USER WHO WROTE IT DENY INJUSTICE FACING PALESTINIANS OR THE SUFFERING THEY ARE ENDURING.
THIS POST IS ONLY TAGGED PALESTINE, BECAUSE IT ADDRESSES THE ORIGINAL ISSUE OF JEWS BEING DRIVEN OUT OF PRO-PALESTINE ACTIVISM BY A COMBINATION OF ANTISEMITISM AND ERASURE.
SUBSEQUENT REBLOGS OF THIS POST WILL NOT BE REBLOGGED WITH THE PALESTINE TAG, BECAUSE THIS POST IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT JEWS AND JEWISH SUFFERING ONLY.
Friends and allies: Reblog as much as you want. Keep sharing your stories. You are not alone in your pain. Future reblogs of this post will either be queued or scheduled. (I’ll never share personal identifying info without explicit approval from you or unless it was made available widely already.)
“Go ahead autistic people put the chips that killed the monkeys we tested them on in your brain! It will Cure your Bad Brain Disease! I am absolutely not just saying inflammatory and untrue shit because I have lived so long in my own grift I’ve started believing it!”
for the love of god separate the word TERF from the man hating ugly dyke feminist you made up in your head. it is a group founded on the exclusion of trans women from women’s spaces, everything else grows from that ideology. it is not a word for when feminist theory makes you mad. it is NOT when women hate men.
if i have to see another person call a trans woman a TERF for saying she doesn’t like men i’m gonna start hitting people with axes
you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are dangerous and need to be excluded. you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are their sisters who need saving. you will find TERFs who are themselves transmasculine. you will find racist tradwife TERFs. you will find black lesbian TERFs. you will find TERFs who commit to political lesbianism. you will find TERFs who are quite happy to have a husband and work with fascist men. (a lot of those actually)
you’re not going to find transfeminine TERFs. because the foundation of TERFism is the exclusion of trans women.
taking words coined to describe the specific oppression of trans women and cutting us out of their definitions is transmisogyny. turning around and using those words against us is fucking revolting.
transmisogyny is not sparkling transphobia, it is hatred of trans women. TERFism is not Feminism I Don’t Like, it is TRANS EXCLUSIONARY RADICAL FEMINISM
also let me assure you that if you walked into a discussion of transmisogyny with “sex based oppression” on your lips you are 100% closer to TERF ideology than the person telling you that transmasculine people are capable of oppressing trans women.
way too many fucking people seem to think TERFs exist because the feminism’d too hard and accidentally started hating trannies. no, actually, transmisogyny is a foundational part of colonial and christian society and they shaped their feminism around it.
btw, if you used the term “human shields” seriously when talking about palestinians and referred to “hamas stealing aid” then you manufactured consent.
just really want to drive home that any person who talked about either of these two “topics” as if they’re serious concerns are culpable in participating in this genocide. im not joking. you should feel incredibly guilty over this.
if you’re focusing on hamas “using human shields” rather than israel indiscriminately bombing civilian areas, then you’re part of the problem.
if you’re focusing on “Hamas stealing aid” rather than israel deliberately depriving Palestinians of food, water and other necessities, then you’re part of the problem.
if you’re focusing on hamas anything at this stage rather than the root cause of these problems facing Palestinians (israel, the occupation etc), then you’re part of the problem.
because nothing says caring about the livelihoods of Palestinians more than tacitly supporting the destruction of these livelihoods.
flashback to when MLK Jr said the worst group in the US for black rights wasn’t the lawmakers passing Jim Crow laws or the KKK but the white moderate. That it was the white moderate who was forcing the country to find a middle ground between civil rights and genocide which allowed the continued systematic mistreatment of the African American community
Me: *doesnt connect emotionally or socially with my peers*
Adults: 😊🙏😊 Look at you!! 😊🙏😊🙏🙏 you’re so mature for your age 😊😊😊🙏🙏 Such an old soul!!! 😊🙏😊🙏😊😀😀O h m y g o o d n e s s 😀😊🙏 a truly G I F T E D child 😄😄🙏🙏😊🙏🙏
Me: *doesnt connect emotionally or socially with my peers except im 20 now*
Adults: You need to get out there. Why don’t you go see your friends? All you do is sit in your room all day. I don’t think this is healthy for you. Why are you like this?
The day after the US and UK launched deadly airstrikes across Yemen, killing five, millions rallied across the country to affirm their support for Palestine and readiness for major war.
“This brutal aggression will not sway Yemen from its supportive stance for the plight of the Palestinian people,” the Yemeni Armed Forces declared.
Creature that looks like it was made by a tumblr poll where 40% of people voted “eye” and 5% voted “leg”
It’s a mouse-deer, the smallest hoofed mammal in the world. They live in tropical forests in Southeast Asia.
We call them ‘Kancil’ in Indonesia and Malaysia. They’re the main character of many of our traditional fables (typecast as clever/sly lil bastard)
So, so gratifying to know that the ecological niche and the folklore role are shared for both rabbits and mouse deer. Guess you gotta be slick to be a tiny thicket herbivore.
Was scrolling down twitter and there’s currently a ton of ableist leftists using passive eugenics to justify their horrifying posts and stumbled upon fuckers claiming chronic illness doesn’t exist and everything is curable, using diabetes as their example. We are doomed to keep repeating these stupid ass arguments bc able bodied people refuse to listen to us disabled and chronically ill people. If you claim to be a leftist you can not be saying shit that could kill your comrades. You cannot act like the pandemic is over. You can not talk over disabled and and chronically ill people. You can not imply we are just lazy. Go fuck yourself
It passed with 311 votes in its favor, 14 against it (13 of them Democrats), and 92 present votes from Democrats.
Just 14 lawmakers voted against the resolution, including Representatives Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Gerald Connolly, Jesús Garcia, Raúl Grijalva, Pramila Jayapal, Summer Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Delia Ramirez, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Congress’s only Palestinian representative, Rashida Tlaib. The small Democratic crowd was also joined by one Republican congressman, Representative Thomas Massie.
It passed with 311 votes in its favor, 14 against it (13 of them Democrats), and 92 present votes from Democrats.
Just 14 lawmakers voted against the resolution, including Representatives Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Gerald Connolly, Jesús Garcia, Raúl Grijalva, Pramila Jayapal, Summer Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Delia Ramirez, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Congress’s only Palestinian representative, Rashida Tlaib. The small Democratic crowd was also joined by one Republican congressman, Representative Thomas Massie.
every genius who thinks mandatory two-factor authentication is a good idea should be forced to do tech support for a public library that serves a lot of elderly poor people
way too many people are interpreting this as ‘old people are too ignorant to understand technology’ instead of 'poor people, especially elderly poor people, often do not have reliable access to a cell phone’.
i know 2fa is more secure. everyone knows that 2fa is more secure. the problem is, when you make your very secure 2fa reliant on a cell phone, people who do not have cell phones can no longer use your service. when the service in question includes every major email provider, and you are required to have an email to access many basic kinds of assistance, people without cell phones are cut off from accessing those things.
public service message that thinking “Maybe speaking up about Palestine is too controversial/political for me to do” or “maybe mentioning good aspects about Palestinians while they’re suffering so much is not okay” is exactly the kind of mindset zionists want you to have and have been hard at work for years for people to develope. thank you.
My money says that’s what plesiosaurs were like: fast underwater, extra padding for buoyancy, long neck. Look at their skeletons!
It’s just like this:
They’re basically large horizontal penguins with a long tail and spiky teeth.
OH SHIT THEY PENGUINS!!
OH SHIT PLESIOSAUR PENGUIN!!!!!!!!!
This is the inherant problem with most reconstructions. It’s just unknown how much fat the animals really had.
Except it’s not, always, and we do have ways to infer or estimate. While shrinkwrapping, yes, has been a problem in palaeoart before, we are doing better. Many modern palaeoartists, such as Mark Witton and Emily Wolloughby, are far more mindful of representing proper body mass and soft tissues.
Things such as fat distribution, body shape, and mass, can be calculated by studying bones, or even seen if we happen to get a well preserved specimen with soft-tissue evidence. We actually do have some soft-tissue fossils of plesiosaurs!
A penguin-shaped plesiosaur is unlikely for a few reasons. For one, plesiosaurs and penguins swam in very different ways. Secondly, the widely accepted hypothesis for the very long neck of plesiosaurs, is to reduce their profile in the water and allow them to ambush shoals of fish - hence why they are usually reconstructed with such thin necks.
While ideas like this are fun for a bit of a laugh, don’t dismiss the very real science that goes into palaeontological reconstructions.
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus by Mark Witton, showing a non-shrinkwrapped idea of what plesiosaurs may have looked like - including a tail fluke not often found in popular reconstructions.
This is why you should have a cat y’all. Egyptians believed that cats repelled evil spirits.
Cats are evil spirits. They’re just the strongest so all others must bow to their greatness.
Actually according to legend, cats are guardians of the Underworld. So once you are dead if you try to sneak back into the land of the living they send you back where you came from. They protect the living from the dead.
If you ever wonder why a cat stares off into the wild blue yonder and then bolts off for “no reason…”
That cat even looks like it’s accusing him of something like wait a Fucking minute here are you dead did you really think you could slip that shit passed me
I don’t know where you get your sources but cats were not fucking “guardians of the underworld”; this movie is based on EGYPT, cats were common domestic pets by the time Egypt unified, and they were representations of the goddess Bastet, ex goddess of warfare (formerly asociated with a lioness ), post-unification protector goddess. Cats were guardians of houses because they embodied the representation of Bastet, the “EYE of Ra”, the one that tells ra whatever happens. If a cat saw an evil spirit, it would tell Ra, and Ra would smite down the fucker in an instant. Bastet was also feared by evil spirits because she was the only one to be able to harm the evil snake Apep and save Ra’s ass, so you bet someone that escaped Anubis’ judgement and Osiris’ preservation would do well to fear Bastet out of fear of being caught by said gods. They were seen as this as well because they disposed of rats and snakes (perhaps an egyptian once saw a cat killing a snake and went “OH BAST JUST KILLED APEP” and that’s how the mythos started), so they were useful animals to keep as pets, revered, adored, mourned when they died, and if you killed one you received death penalty.
The only animal seen as a “guardian of the underworld” were jackals, because they embodied Anubis and were seen near tombs, but that’s because they entered said tombs to try and eat the corpses and the egyptians based their entire Anubis lore on them.
So yeah, if you were an evil emperor that escaped the process of the gods you once worshipped, unleashed curses around the world disrespecting your own pantheon, and you came across an avatar of the goddess of Warfare that could also call upon Ra to pulverize you with sunlight, and have your soul sundered by Osiris and weighted by Anubis to go to your rightful place as someone who perished AGES ago, you would shit on your pants as well.
Paleontologists completed a life-sized replica of Sue, the most complete T. Rex ever found.
And she is freaking GORGEOUS!
As I read more about this beauty, I found out some new details regarding things I thought I previously knew about the beast that was Tyrannosaurus Rex, and I’m going to share them with you.
First, and most obvious, her size:
This is nothing new, we all figured T. Rex was big, but I for one never stopped to consider exactly how big it was. Nobody ever really knows what to imagine when they read about something the size of a whale that walked around and ate everything it could kill.
Speaking of eating things, I just want to remind you all that T. Rex had–by miles–the strongest bite of any terrestrial animal living or dead, somewhere around six and a half tons of force. That’s over six times greater than the current estimate of what Allosaurus was capable of, and three times what was delivered by the highest measured reading of the living title holder–the estuarine crocodile. It didn’t have to waste time swinging its head open-mouthed like Saurophaganax for a little extra oomph, or grow fancy serrated teeth like Carcharodontosaurus to cut pieces out of its prey. It opted for the simplest approach: get its mouth around something and crush it to death; imagine the full weight of an elephant on whatever was between this thing’s jaws.
“How did it find something to eat?” I hear you asking. “It can’t see something if it doesn’t move, right?”
Listen, I love Jurassic Park too, but that’s a big crock of shit.
Notice how both her eyes face forward. That gives her binocular vision (the ability to focus both eyes on one target, like you and I). More importantly it means she has impeccable depth perception due to overlapping fields of vision from each, large, eyeball. Researchers agree that T. Rex not only had incredible vision, but that it was probably better than most modern animals–including eagles, hawks, and owls–and that she could likely spot something three and a half miles away. If something that big can see that well, it doesn’t matter if you move or not, she’d be able to tell if it was an animal trying to hide or a piece of vegetation. So pray she isn’t hungry if she lays eyes on you. And even if by some miracle she didn’t see you, she’d still smell you.
If she decided you looked tasty, you probably wouldn’t hear her coming as much as you’d feel her. Modern science indicates that T. Rex didn’t roar like in Jurassic Park, but rather bellowed or maybe even hissed like crocodilians. If she were on to you, you’d most likely feel this sense of unease creep up your spine as a low-pitched rumble in the air permeated through you. You wouldn’t know what it was or where it was coming from until you hear her footfalls. By then it’s too late–you could try to run but she’d probably catch you. There’s plenty on YouTube that reconstructs what T. Rex may have sounded like, and it’s legitimately haunting.
To wrap all of this up, the one bit of good that came out of the cursed year that is 2020 is that this wonderful child of science and art came into the world, and reaffirmed my respect and admiration for the eight ton slab of muscle and teeth that is this magnificent creature.
…and it is nothing if not magnificent.
I’m obsessed with dinosaurs and I looked up what different dinosaurs probably sounded like and it’s absolutely horrifying
Side note: people make fun of the arms, but just to be clear the math says that she could do pushups with them, ie stand back up after lying down. They may well have had other purposes, but that one thing alone justifies their existence.
i think that the “i do not control the ____” memes are generally tame and do not lend enough credence to the genuine absurdity of the original line that is
I saw this and remembered that I had this thread saved in a folder and figured this would be a good time to bring it out
READ THE WHOLE THING. I cannot garuntee that you will be pleased, but I can guarantee that it is one HELL of a rollercoaster.
on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection
between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.
Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.
You WILL miss content with that setting on.
i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why
I can only find the option on the app under Settings > Dashboard Preferences.
To support content creators do us a favour and turn off “Best stuff first”. Open the tumblr app (Android or iOs) and go to “Settings > Dashboard Preferences. And please reblog this post, so that everybody will see this. Thank you very much!
I assumed I just wasn’t writing very well, but maybe it’s not just me.
Am I supposed to pay to get my writing in front of followers now?
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled sci-fi content because this is important for app users, and it sucks. We all follow blogs because we want to see their content, not to have a crappy algorithm decide what’s best.
This blog is down approximately 80%, which doesn’t affect me other than as an annoyance (as this is a hobby and @okayto is small-ish) but the issue undoubtedly hurts others.
Below are instructions for turning it off. You have to do it individually–it doesn’t matter if a blog you follow turns it off, you’ll still be affected unless you do the same.
We don’t normally reblog PSAs, but this is very clearly affecting us, too! If you haven’t been getting your daily dose of RPG humor, this setting is probably why. Turn it off so you can see all the silly shit players say!
Trying to reblog the versions of these instructions with the most notes, so they’ll actually show up for the people afflicted by this update.
on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection
between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.
Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.
You WILL miss content with that setting on.
i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why
I can only find the option on the app under Settings > Dashboard Preferences.
To support content creators do us a favour and turn off “Best stuff first”. Open the tumblr app (Android or iOs) and go to “Settings > Dashboard Preferences. And please reblog this post, so that everybody will see this. Thank you very much!
I assumed I just wasn’t writing very well, but maybe it’s not just me.
Am I supposed to pay to get my writing in front of followers now?
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled sci-fi content because this is important for app users, and it sucks. We all follow blogs because we want to see their content, not to have a crappy algorithm decide what’s best.
This blog is down approximately 80%, which doesn’t affect me other than as an annoyance (as this is a hobby and @okayto is small-ish) but the issue undoubtedly hurts others.
Below are instructions for turning it off. You have to do it individually–it doesn’t matter if a blog you follow turns it off, you’ll still be affected unless you do the same.
We don’t normally reblog PSAs, but this is very clearly affecting us, too! If you haven’t been getting your daily dose of RPG humor, this setting is probably why. Turn it off so you can see all the silly shit players say!
Trying to reblog the versions of these instructions with the most notes, so they’ll actually show up for the people afflicted by this update.
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