my cat stopping me from petting her

her swift maneuver, for context

I CANT GET OVER THE LECTURES MY HISTORY PROFESSOR RECORDED FOR US, HIS DAUGHTER KEEPS WALKING IN ITS SO FUCKING FUNNY & ADORABLE???

reblog if you appreciate fairy barbie 👊😔

update:

Long live the resistance -Free Palestine 🇵🇸

BEST QUEER MEDIA TOURNAMENT FINAL ROUND!!!!!

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The notes are almost as numerous as the votes

IMPORTANT REMINDER TO MY EUROPEAN FOLLOWERS AND OTHER TUMBLR DENIZENS FROM AN AMERICAN DESERT-DWELLER:

Climate change is a bitch and summer is coming. If you don’t already have an air conditioner and/or fans, NOW is the time to get them.

THINGS YOU SHOULD BE SHOPPING FOR NOW:

—clothes made of cotton or linen

—air conditioner

—fans

—frozen meals that can be cooked in the microwave

—potable bottled water; you want five days’ worth per person and pet in your household

—bottled fruit juices; it does not matter if these are sugar-added because you’ll want the electrolytes

—electrolyte drinks

—electrolyte pills (you can get these online, I get mine from Amazon)

—popsicle molds to use with fruit and juice

—ice cube trays

—nonperishable salty snacks like peanuts

—one charger brick per adult in case of rolling blackouts or power outages; charge these at the beginning of May, and drain them via use once a month if they’re not needed

YOUR TO-DO LIST:

—check your home’s HVAC system if you didn’t do it at the beginning of winter. Make sure all the filters are clean and replace them if needed

—check the seals on your sinks and bathtub in case you have to run water to handle shortages

—make and freeze meals you can cook in the microwave or simply defrost. Remember to select light summer fare, not hearty winter soups and gravies

—purchase and freeze lunch meats and cheeses you can defrost and use this summer for sandwiches when it’s hot

—assemble your check-in list: elderly, pregnant, disabled, and immunocompromised friends and relatives who may struggle to get things they need when the heat wave hits. Have this list posted and ready to go through daily once the heat gets high. DON’T JUST ASSUME YOU WILL REMEMBER. WRITE IT ALL DOWN.

—create a list of emergency contacts in case of fire, heat stroke, and other heat-related emergencies. This should include your local version of 911 (I think in most of Europe it’s 112, but don’t rely on me as an American, LOOK IT UP NOW before you need it), your doctor’s phone number, and two emergency contacts. Keep it in a place where it can be easily found if someone needs to make these calls on your behalf.

—ask your doctor for an additional prescription for any medications you take, and fill it now. Extreme heat can cause disruptions in the supply chain. Make sure you cycle these meds; that’s to say, always use your oldest bottle first so you don’t end up with expired meds in an emergency.

—stock your first-aid kit. If you don’t have one, now is a good time to make one.

—if you own a car, get your yearly maintenance done now. You don’t want to be dealing with an inoperable vehicle if you need to evacuate.

Staying safe this summer starts now. Get your prep done.

Someone in the notes tagged this as yet another sign of Tumblr’s aging user base, and while this is kind of true (I’m 35), if you are a European minor I ENCOURAGE YOU STRONGLY TO SHARE THIS POST WITH YOUR ADULTS. If these are not things you can do yourself—I don’t expect a 15-year-old to know how to check the HVAC filters, for example, although if you’re old enough to be on Tumblr you’re definitely old enough to learn how to do it—enlist those around you who can.

This isn’t just a post for the adults. It’s for teenagers to use to educate their families and those around them, as well. I want ALL of you safe in July. (And yes, as we get a bit closer to the summer months I’ll make another post detailing how to utilize the items I’ve told you to purchase now.)

Photography by Peter Solarz

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If you like the word “queer” reblog.

#fun umbrella. we r all sitting under it like the big rainbow thing in elementary school gym class

they. they dont actually do that right

Local tumblr user finds out gay adults do drugs

when i was in middle school a group of guys found out that my dad died when i was super young and they consistently gave me shit for it for a long time but then one of the guy's dads died near the end of the school year and it was a big ordeal and he was super wrecked about it and everyone was comforting him and being supportive and they held a memorial at the school but i think i just looked like this the whole time

Hanamusa AU AU???

cyberfrot

Oh so I'm guessing nobody survived that

pleaaaaaase y'all the process of having a manufacturing facility declared kosher has nothing to do with a rabbi blessing the food

pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase stop

you can literally google what is required

This touches on something I feel like most Christians (cultural and/or practicing) reaaaaallllly don’t get which is that rabbis traditionally aren’t clergy/priests in the Christian sense.

A rabbi isn’t a divinely-ordained speaker-for-God whose primary role is leading worship. Traditionally, rabbis are experts in Jewish law, practice, culture, history, etc.

A rabbi doesn’t have any sacred/spiritual/magical powers to bless things that any other Jew doesn’t have. (And that’s not how blessing things works in Judaism anyway. It’s an expression of gratitude, not a transmutation or instillation of magic divine power.)

The reason a rabbi is involved is to *make sure everything’s being done correctly.* Because they’re an *expert*.

Not to “bless” anything to fill it with godpowers or whatever.

Yes yes this.

You call in a rabbi to supervise and make sure that a kosher food production facility is set up properly the same way that you call in a master electrician to check and make sure all the lines are set up correctly. The electrician isn't blessing your production line any more than the rabbi is - they're both there to make sure shit is being done right.

So what you’re saying. Is the rabbi is like kOSHA?

This made me laugh so hard I wheezed.

#cool stuff#so they're scholars then#is there discourse tho?#or do they all agree on everything? like the ways to do stuff#i guess that depends on how the holy book is written and detailed right?#wait is the book holy?#i will read about this at some point#or find a video or something

@the-chickenshit-oddity, I am DYING from the question of "Is there discourse tho?"

Two thousand years of it, layered on layers.

Each page of those books in that image looks like this:

Here's a breakdown of the page's general structure:

And it continues today. There is an active tradition called "Daf Yomi" (literally "Page of the Day") where a given page of the above books is studied, debated, and analyzed each day; it takes seven years to finish one cycle. (I've seen it called "the world's largest Book Club", and not without reason!)

And is there discourse? You bet. To give one mildly humorous example, there is still not consensus among Jews if the turkey is a kosher bird. One camp argues that it is, because it fulfills the criteria. Another camp says that it isn't, because it is not on the list of kosher birds (which were native to the Levant and surrounding region, and the turkey is native to the Americas). It's been, oh... 400 years? Still ongoing.

coolio!

also turkey is it fits the criteria so it should be added to the list.

Responding to "this is an example of how there isn't consensus about a lot of these things" with "this is the one answer so this should be done" is sure some kind of look.

two weeks into April

keep talking about Palestine

don't lose hope

I believe that is but a humble jacemat

Happy Year of the Dragon!

I love the idea of kintsugi so here's a porcelain dragon that highlights the broken seams with gold. Despite all the pains of hardships in life, we are beautiful.

Obviously everyone should be an organ donor because your final act of compassion on this planet can leave an indelible mark on thousands of people by the act of saving a single life, but also there is the reasonable possibility that your eyes will continue to see lizards after your death and why tf would you not opt in to that?

oh brother 😔 I had this date a few years back with an autistic guy, where he was like “by the way, you’re autistic too,” and I was like “oh, haha, no I’m not!” and then he went through this listing of every diagnostic trait he’d noticed ending with “and you haven’t made eye contact with me ONCE!” while I sat there getting more and more furious.

in retrospect I think it was very funny, and I hope he’s doing well

Neither diagnosed nor undiagnosed but a secret third thing: peer reviewed.

the honest answer is that I will likely never be formally diagnosed. I can imagine a lot of negatives from having that information in my record, but (because I am self-employed and not in school) no real positives. if I ever want to adopt, or emigrate, or if I find myself hospitalized, it is not something that I want the people in charge of making decisions to know about me