Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.
The Comet Book (1587), details, “16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously (or maybe it was a woman who endured erasure) in Flanders”. Originally named in german Kometenbuch.
Actual human sex workers are always welcome to follow me.
Just not pornbots.
DARK HACKADEMIA
- scattered, ever-present chipped mugs of tepid black coffee
- one’s weird cluster of devoted online friends, connections originating back in some long-abandoned obscure forum
- learning new languages all the time. Greek, Latin, Python, Ruby, German, C#, French…
- living in a uniform, as you can’t be bothered: flat-footed sneakers, dull sweaters with worn-out elbows and long sleeves for pulling over your chilly fingers while you type. button-downs and hoodies.
- the late-night glow of old reading lamps and the terminal screen
- making your own secret chat servers, like post office boxes hidden in the woods
- lockpicking, bridge and tunnel hacking, breaking into the library late at night to read undisturbed
- whiteboarding in worn out notebooks, scribbling solutions on napkins when you think of the fix for That One Bug
- The X-Files, old sci-fi movies, or outdated cozy murder mysteries playing quietly in the background as you work
- playing Saint-Saëns or Satie as you code
- rifling through the bin of bits and bobs, looking for that one piece of hardware
- writing gems for funny little exploits and sending them to your friends
- staying up all night exploring abandoned websites, classic creepypasta, online unsolved mysteries
- mutual obsessions and infosec skills leading scooby-doo style online mystery-solving
doing all stem except english literature is like:
*catalogues my english quotes with Obsidian*
*uses a graphical calculator as my bookmark*
*creates tagged information logs for chapter summaries rather than paper notes*
*haven’t touched a paper flashcard, forgetting curve assisted Anki flashcards only, thank you very much*
I haven't seen anyone mention it yet but the Percy Jackson live action series is coming out Dec 20, 2023.
And that's the winter solstice.
Someone remind me, when did the lightning bolt get stolen in the first book?
this is so upsetting, PLEASE rb to spread awareness
omniscient-omniromantic-deactiv
PLEASE, PLEASE REBLOG THIS, WHETHER YOURE JEWISH OR NOT.
THIS IS A SUPER IMPORTANT PART OF OUR HISTORY, DONT LET IT GET DESTROYED.
perhaps help take steps to stop them now from future attempts...
You should be allowed to buy a hot, rotisserie chicken from the grocery store with EBT. You should be allowed to buy toothpaste and toilet paper. You should be allowed to buy otc medications. EBT should be expanded to include all basic necessities and be increased to match.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH I LOVE TREES AND HUMANS THJS IS ADORABLE
he’s not ugly he’s handsome
distinguished
rugged
orangecatbuttz
This motherfucker survives a lightning strike and you have the gull to call them ugly?? If mother nature cant kill them what chance do you have when this mofo comes after you?!
Reblog Lightning Bison for protection from lightning.
When you reblog Lightning Bison, Lightning Bison gets 200 metres closer to the journalist who called him ugly
He’s sacred now, btw.
“Trans men can be misogynistic because they’re MEN”
No, everyone can be misogynistic because misogyny is not stored in the gender.
Once had a friend's mom explain to me that she didn't believe that women being oppressed for their gender was a real thing. She was a woman who primarily did all the cooking, who had to bark at everyone to do the cleaning, who sewed a lot and had a lot of classically feminine-approved hobbies. The exact phrase she said was "I just don't see it. I'm not treated differently because of my gender" and I just stared at her like "... Fascinating." because I didn't know what to say or how to address the entire bag of lore she just dropped onto my lap. --- Another instance I've experienced was when I was in robotics in high school - The woman in charge of the robotics team was one of the guys' moms, and she hated me because she thought the only reason a girl would be interested in robotics was because they wanted to fuck the guys, and she didn't want me trying to fuck her son, so she constantly let me fall behind even though she'd bend over backwards for the guys struggling in the same ways as me. A guy loses his permission slip?: "Oh, you don't have your permission slip? You lost it? Here, I'll print it out for you and text your mom so she knows she needs to sign it, so you won't forget - And I'll let her know you need help remembering where to put it so you can bring it in tomorrow." I lost my permission slip?: "I don't know what you want me to do about it. That's your responsibility, isn't it? I'm sorry, but if you can't be responsible, I just don't understand what you want out of this club." "Can I have a new permission slip..?" "Ugh. I have a lot I'm supposed to be juggling, I can't be printing out permission slips every time you lose one. Why don't you give up on the technical side of things, and just go work on the art instead? We still need a logo." --- My own mother, someone who has fought extensively for women's rights in her workplaces and in her churches, still believes in male vs female dichotomies over really dumb stuff, like "Men are more likely to be innovators" and "Women are more likely to be nurturers". Even though she knows women who are innovators and men who are nurturers, she still believes that to be a gender-dictated quality, which causes her to PRAISE people who go against what she believes are gender-dictated qualities. --- Misogyny can be ingrained in you regardless of your sex, gender, even regardless of your beliefs. You can be fighting misogyny in your everyday life, and still hold some pretty fuckin' misogynist beliefs.
when you know that the word woke is aave and refers to someone who's informed about systemic antiblack racism all those conservative rants about "the woke mob" are that much more transparent. whether or not they know what it actually means, the effect of misusing it in the way they do is the same. most people will end up thinking it just means "the radical left" or some other nebulous and vague anti-conservative movement, and whatever topic du jour is considered "woke" ends up completely sweeping any discussions about the antiblack systems that the us is built upon under the rug
“Woke” is indeed AAE and in its original context does refer to awareness about antiblack racism, but the analysis above skips a middle step that took place around 2014-2016. In the mid-‘10s, nonblack liberals of the buzzfeed/upworthy/everyday feminism stripe started using “woke” more or less as a substitute for the previous term “PC”/“politically correct,” which had become a term no one could take seriously anymore. “Woke” broke containment when the nonblack progressive-leaning social media user speech community started saying/writing it and “woke” got more broadly applied to other oppressions. Most conservatives are responding to the escaped sense.
I think it’s important to acknowledge the middle step because it’s part of a larger phenomenon where AAE words and phrases that have existed since like the 1930s get memeified online, enter the nonblack mainstream, explode, and are then treated like last year’s internet slang by the nonblack mainstream. Remember “no cap”? It’s not online zoomer slang, it’s an idiom that’s been around since before your grandmother learned to talk.
This sort of thing keeps happening.
I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants.
made-of-love-and-stars
THIS.
alandofdawnandstarlight
Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough
Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.
I’m in love with this post
Anonymous asked:
Hello! I have a question about Siduri. Wikipedia lists her as a solar goddess, is this correct? Thank you and happy holidays :D
Siduri? No, she is an alewife. She has been interpreted as being linked to the sun, because she dwells near where the sun rises, but she isn’t a solar deity per se.
On that note: Wikipedia is good for a lot of things, but its information on the Ancient Near East is… not very trustworthy. Some of it is accurate, but a large amount is biased or based on debated interpretations. I use it to kickstart my memory, but if you want more in-depth, accurate information, I recommend websites like the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (and its wiki), and for Hittite civilisation, the Hethitologie Portal Mainz.
