I’m a little bit obsessed with makeover/dressing scenes where the reveal is an undeniable downgrade from what the character started out with. Top tier comedy
This absolute disgrace…
dating apps are embarrassing crushes in real life are embarrassing the only option left is to elope with a tumblr mutual
How dare you call us out like this 😆
Cane version (you are here!)
I don’t use crutches, so if crutch users would like one, please give me some suggestions!
[ID: Image of an edited “Why Do We Have Hands” meme. The top says “Why Do We Have Canes?” and just beneath that is a cartoon picture of a cane in black and white. This is followed by the text “There Are Many Reasons:”. Beneath that is a series of pictures in a square formation. The first picture on the top left is of a basic outline of a person with spikey black hair and a spiked collar. The are using a black cane topped with a skull. The caption is “look badass.” The next picture to the right of it is in the same style and depicts a person being hit on the head with a cane. The caption is “HIT the ableist.” The bottom left picture is a cartoon-style hand holding up a cane, and the caption is “shake stick at God.” The final image on the bottom right is a horizontal picture of a cane with a sticker on it that says “TALK SHIT, GET HIT” in a creepy font. To the right of the sticker is another sticker depicting a skull-faced cat. /end ID]
The moment I saw this, I was like "this is from JewWhoHasItAll, it has to be". And guess what? I was obviously right.
So this is me making sure she gets the credit, and her twitter is definitely worth a visit. https://twitter.com/JewWhoHasItAll?t=YztcRDDgogfda_WahU3FRw&s=09
The Good Place (2016-2020) Whenever You’re Ready (S04E13)
French is so beautiful they just say le unironically all the time
daily dose of granada holmes: sherlock just about looks like he wants to strangle that man
december 3, 2022
The sardonic, reductionist headline here could be "Scientists finally figured out why you get more colds in winter: bEcAuSe iT's CoLd!"—but the actual science involved here is both interesting, and potentially very relevant to everyday life and especially the immunocompromised:
It turns out the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose. [...] In fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils, according to the study published Tuesday in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. “Cold air is associated with increased viral infection because you’ve essentially lost half of your immunity just by that small drop in temperature,” said rhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleier, director of otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Want to avoid catching or spreading respiratory viruses like CoVid-19, RSV, influenza, or a common cold? Mask up, please, but also bundle up! Wrap up in a scarf, wear a balaclava, and just generally keep your face warm. There's no single magic solution, but that's not a reason to do nothing. Rather, it's a reason to take several simple precautions that help avoid the spread of disease and protect those around you. (I can't tell you how much "this isn't 100% effective so I shouldn't do it at all" frustrates me.)
Oh, and #knitblr? This is your time to shine.
daily dose of granada holmes: two lil cuties on a train
december 4, 2022
My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."
He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."
He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"
I did.
"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."
It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.
So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.
HBO Max: so basically we're going to erase most of our shows as a tax dodge in a week and you can't stop us
A Youtuber who makes two hour long & strangely ominous video essays about Lost Media: it'll all be on Archive dot org by the end of the week you son of a bitch. Also the forbidden original pilot of Caillou and the French dub of the long sought after August 27th, 2001 Spongebob bumpers
Lost Media Indiana Jones swiping the last copy of Batgirl from the CEO of Discovery and shouting "it BELONGS on Archive dot org and sketchy torrent sites!"
This is all fine from a consumer perspective but it utterly screws creators.
Did you know that if a company writes off your show or movie, you don't get residuals from it anymore?
If I were a creator, I'd rather my stuff be pirated than become lost media and cease to exist entirely. Just throwing that out there.
On Twitter after the HBO Max shitshow, showrunners were literally begging archivists to pirate their shows in order to preserve them. I don't have screenshots on hand, but Owen Dennis of Infinity Train and all the crew of Summer Camp Island come immediately to mind.
Like, at this point, the creators have already been screwed. The networks are hanging them out to dry. This isn't a "if you pirate it, it doesn't get renewed" situation, this is a "if you DON'T pirate it, it might become completely lost" situation.
It's like how the original 1931 Frankenstein movie had scenes cut from the completed film by censors under the Hays Code. The original film wasn't rediscovered until the 1980s, and then only because someone had stashed away an original copy somewhere.
Media piracy and media preservation are two sides of the same coin, and there's not really a universal code of ethics that can be applied. Sometimes piracy is a gray area. Sometimes it's vital.
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Anonymous asked:
Wait what I didn't realise name changes were common when converting to Judaism. Is it an obligation in some/all cases? I'm a bit worried as I spent ages going through legal name change stuff as part of my gender transition, and my current name means a lot to me even though it isn't of Hebrew origin. Is it possible to just keep ones current name, or maybe just take a Hebrew name as a second name?
It's something to discuss with your Rabbi, but again, it's usually not a requirement to use your new Hebrew name in day-to-day usage, and also not a requirement to change it legally. It's a religious thing, not a secular legal thing. So your new Hebrew name would only be used in religious settings, such as marriage, getting called up to the Torah, and when your conversion is officially completed and declared.
Lots of Jews, especially Jews in the diaspora, have two names: a secular, legal name that they use day-to-day, and a Hebrew name, which they use in religious contexts.
Your full Hebrew name is your Hebrew name and the Hebrew names of your parents. For Jews-by-choice, the "parents" would be Avraham and Sarah.
So, for example, my Hebrew name is Eitan Meshullam Chai ben (father's Hebrew name) v' (mother's Hebrew name).
Many Jews-by-choice choose to change their name completely to their Hebrew name, and stop using their old name. Many Jews-by-choice choose to keep their old name for legal and day-to-day purposes. Both are completely valid.
As for how you choose your new Hebrew name, usually you would choose it yourself or ask someone else to help you. Many Jews-by-choice choose names from Tanakh that speak to them and their experiences. Again, it's a very personal thing.
But yeah you really wouldn't need to change your name legally. Like, most of the Jews-by-choice I know in real life didn't change their names legally, and a lot of Jews, born Jewish or not, have a seperate secular legal name and Hebrew name.
despite the world, i love being trans with you!
[Image description: an art piece in black on lavender background. Two figures are hugging and looking lovingly at each other. Stars and sparks are floating around them, one of the sparks forming a top surgery scar on one of the figures. The text above and below the figures reads: “Despite the world / I love being trans with you” Artist’s signature, @/stoffberg, is on the side. End ID.]