extremely fucking weird to have to convince leftists that fighting for a better public education system & better wages for teachers is not, like, the Lame Establishment Dem take or whatever.

It is not Cool and Radical to advocate for the dissolution of the entire public education system in favor of Everyone Doing Their Own Thing. what you're describing is libertarianism, and a system that directly and dramatically benefits fascist right-wingers and child abusers.

the community-centered child rearing yall love to talk about exists. it desperately needs to be improved, but the bones are here, and they're already doing a lot of legwork in the fight against aggressive nuclear family isolation.

it's called public school, you fucking dweeb.

Public education is a thing we did right.

We just really, really need to update it.

Bear sploots

[image description: photos of bears lying on their stomachs with their legs splayed out]

kind of wild how the album, Nightfall in Middle Earth (1998) by the power metal band Blind Guardian, remains a far better depiction of the silmarillion & tolkien’s work in general than a show that am*zon spent well over a billion dollars on!!!

family appalled that their very quiet well behaved mature child who never caused any problems has grown up and turned out to have many many problems. more news at 8!

with adhd/autism it's funny like. people will call you weird all your life, people will bully you for your "outlandish" behaviour, people will criticize literally everything you do as "not normal", BUT THE SECOND YOU GET DIAGNOSED (or suggest you might have it) they're like "huh what but you're so normal, you're literally the most normal person I've ever seen, you're literally so normal and absolutely nothing is wrong with you? why would you have that now all of a sudden???"

That cat is absolutely an orphan-generating coal baron. The mustache and top-hat are there in spirit, if not actually.

You’re not supposed to say this stuff out loud, dude

"If voting were fair, we would lose" is not the point you want to be making publicly, man. That's not a rallying cry that's a self-own.

im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends

I briefly forgot there were normal humans named Elijah and wondered why this person thought they were getting messages from Actual Prophet and Messiah-Herald Elijah the Tishbite.

….yeah me too.

Me three.

Imagine getting visions of someone else’s holy prophet and having to text your friends like “….what am I supposed to do with that?”

“hey he’s back did you study this”

Getting a message from a prophet telling you to do things and instead texting your friends “wtf is this?” is very, very Jewish.

I was gonna say something like "expect the unexpected, but expect the expected too. Expect everything. Prepare for all of it." but then I realized that's just anxiety

Me, not talking: Ah fuck, I am being weird

Me, talking: Ah fuck, I am being weird

“This is a tapestry I made myself! I just finished it!” 

“…. this is…. big.”

“Eighty feet long, ten high, in forty panels! It was originally going to be sixty feet, but then the Thomas Malory Arthuriana got big and I had to put more stuff in.” 

“… Malory published in the fifteenth century.” 

“Do you have any idea how long it takes one person to embroider eight thousand square feet of tapestry?” 

“You’ve had a lot of free time in the last eight hundred years, haven’t you?” 

“Not once I took up embroidery as a hobby, no!” 

“Want to see my stalagmite cultivation work?”

50 years from today someone will tear out this kitchen. And this cabinet which fills out and empty space will get the whole neighborhood on their feet. I wish I could travel in time to see the face expression of that poor guy that will pull the countertop off of that cabinet.

in my most recent game of team defense fort 2 i was banned from a 24/7 hightower pony rp server for screaming ‘incoming gamer!’ into my mic every time i respawned or charged as demoman. and i have to say, nothing really prepares you for the sensation of hearing a grown man say with no hint of irony in his voice, ‘mr sex goblin, if you dont stop saying that im banning you from ponyville forever’

Mister sex goblin… if you don’t stop saying that, I’m going to have to ban you from Ponyville.

Permanently.

Incoming… gamer.

What we can learn about disability from the Burning Bush

Hashem speaking to Moshe at the Burning Bush is arguably the turning point of the Exodus story. There are many miracles that take place at the Burning Bush- Hashem turns Moshe’s staff into a snake, Hashem gives Moshe’s hand Tzara'at and then heals it, and of course the bush itself burns but isn’t consumed.

But you know what Hashem doesn’t do?

He doesn’t “cure” Moshe’s disability.

Moshe was disabled. He had a speech impediment, one that prevented him from communicating clearly. When Hashem tells him to go speak to Pharaoh, Moshe says that he can’t, that he has a speech impediment and he’s afraid Pharaoh, or anyone, won’t understand him.

Now, Hashem can do anything.

He just transformed a staff into a snake and then back into a staff again.

He just gave Moshe’s hand Tzara'at and then healed it.

He just told Moshe that He can turn the Nile into blood.

But when Moshe protests that he can’t fulfill Hashem’s mission for him because he’s disabled, Hashem doesn’t “cure” him.

Quite the opposite.

Hashem tells him:

“מִ֣י שָׂ֣ם פֶּה֮ לָֽאָדָם֒ א֚וֹ מִֽי־יָשׂ֣וּם אִלֵּ֔ם א֣וֹ חֵרֵ֔שׁ א֥וֹ פִקֵּ֖חַ א֣וֹ עִוֵּ֑ר הֲלֹ֥א אָנֹכִ֖י יְהֹוָֽה׃”

“Who gave humans speech? Or who makes them mute, or deaf, or sighted, or blind? Behold, I, G-d!”

[Shemot 4:11]

Hashem tells him that He made him disabled, just like He makes people abled. He doesn’t “cure” Moshe because he doesn’t need to be cured.

In fact, Hashem instead tells him that his brother, Aharon, will be his interpretor. Hashem doesn’t offer to “cure” Moshe, instead He makes his world more accessible by giving him an interpreter.

And I think we can learn a lot from that.

Hashem made humans have all kinds of diverse body types and abilities. Being disabled isn’t a disease, because if it was, Hashem would have “cured” Moshe of it, just like He cured him of the Tzara'at skin affliction. But Moshe didn’t need to be “cured” of his disability.

Disabilities don’t need to be cured.

@brightlotusmoon​ I think you might be interested in this.

I am extremely interested. I never knew that story.

i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

actually i'm reblogging this again with commentary, fuck it.

There's people in the notes talking about "not basing your worth off numbers", and like. that isn't what this post is about. It's not a threat, either, it's a comment on how this site works, at a mechanical level.

Likes are worthless. Let me say that again.

Likes. Are. Worthless.

They don't do anything. They're a bookmark. They were never part of how tumblr works - in the early days we didn't even have a like button, and the site still more or less acts as though we don't. They're personal bookmarks and the only people who "get" anything from them are you (you bookmark the post) and the OP (maybe a very slight serotonin boost), but they don't keep the post in circulation, they don't keep it alive.

Without reblogs, a post will be dead in the water within an hour. No matter how good it is, no matter how many hours of painstaking love and attention its creator put into it, it will be dead within an hour and never seen again. It gets pushed down the dashboard and nobody aside from the followers who were online when it was posted will see it. And there's a huge difference in engagement on posts that get even one lucky reblog from someone with wider reach - that one reblog shows your post to five, ten, fifteen other people, and if one of those people also reblogs it, and so on and so forth, that's how posts stay alive and in circulation. It's like a contagion, but we're sharing creativity instead of disease.

And that matters. That "lifespan" of the post matters, artists and writers give up on this site and go to sites where posts have longer lifespans because it sucks to spend hours of your life, maybe even days, to get two notes and some fucking pocket lint for your efforts. We create for ourselves, but we share because we want people to see it, because that engagement offers positive feedback and encouragement to continue. But more than that, if every post (whether art, fic, gifset, whatever) is dying within an hour or a day of being posted, that means it's not making it onto your dashboard. And if it's not on your dashboard, you won't see it. This kills the site, after a while. You stop seeing the posts, because nobody is putting them on your dashboard, because this site doesn't have an algorithm like twitter and insta's and it shouldn't, it's the last bastion of chronological timelines.

Forgive my giant fucking rant I am so tired right now and full of the plague but like stop acting like artists and writers are just being whiny little babies, or "threatening" to withhold our fucking work (you're not entitled to it! it's ours! if we get nothing out of sharing it we're well within our rights to keep it private!) when we say this site will dry up without reblogs. We're just stating facts.

also I’ve seen some people in the tags say ‘oh there have always been more likes on posts’ no there haven’t ???? 

these are posts from 2013, look at the ratio

not to sound like a nursing home resident but back then people know that the point of this site was to reblog things and share them, not to bury them away among your other 23k liked posts

Likes are just to haunt yourself. You read a post and get to the bottom only to discover you’ve been here before.