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Chanukah values are universal, like freedom of religion, independence from oppressive empires, and fried food
Also perseverance in the face of hopeless odds.
and playing with a spinny toy
And fire pretty
and "WHY WON'T THE DARN WAX COME OUT"
And hustling your siblings with approved chocolate gambling
when i was a kid my dad had to sort out gelt equally between my brother and i or else there would have been war 💀
Whenever i get sad I just think about sour cream baby and get smiled again
What a pleasing coat!
There’s a new litter of coyote pups hanging out in the Graceland cemetery in Chicago. They are learning how to coyote.
Sound on!
I love Chicago's coyotes so much. The only time I've ever seen pups was in Graceland so I think some coyote mama must be coming back every year.
A few things I learned from my hyperfixation on Chicago's coyotes!
Chicago did not release coyotes into downtown as pest control decades ago, that's an urban myth, but the city does officially approve of and protect our colony of about 2,000 urban coyotes because they keep the rats and rabbits in check.
In Chicago as in most urban areas, coyotes are non-aggressive to humans and dogs generally; the two exceptions are in February during mating season and when there are pups nearby. If you see pups and no adult? Walk swiftly away. If you are walking your dog in a suburban or rural area during February, do not let it off leash.
"Coyote" attacks on humans in Chicago, particularly attacks on children, are invariably later found to have been off-leash dogs. If you are walking your dog in urban Chicago, unless you are in an enclosed dog park, do not let it off leash.
Studies of coyote spoor in Chicago and outlying suburbs indicate that coyotes mainly eat rodents and garbage, but are known to eat cats. If you aren't aware by now that your cats should be kept indoors or in controlled outdoor environments only, you must be very new to Tumblr.
In any dispute between human and coyote in Chicago I have come to the conclusion I should side with the coyote. Don't @ me, I have a more aggressive prey drive than they do.
laga dyga is an evil hag and she is going to Get you
It took me way too long to figure out what it's trying to say. I was just willing to accept "laga dyga" at face value.
Can't read my, can't read my pofa kerce
Spencer's Monitor aka Spencer's Goanna (Varanus spenceri), STANCED!!!, family Varanidae, Australia
photograph by Rob Sorrentino
I've seen 19th century taxidermy made by people who had never even been on the same continent as a monitor lizard, let alone seen how one is able to move, that looks more realistically posed than this thing. Monitors have a shape and we cannot quantify what shape that is.
this is actually a VERY good question and it's related to several interesting pieces of monitor lizard anatomy!
Since my early days on the internet, I have kept a file where where I record phrases that people have said on the internet that have really razed my hackles.
“Thanks for your inciteful comments”
Are you thanking me for starting a flame war?
“Right of passage”
This is what you have when you’re a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
“Free reign”
Sometimes the monarch offers you a 100% discount.
“Slight of hand”
They’re very dainty hands.
“Doesn’t phase me”
Some people might be turned incorporeal in situations like this, but not me.
“Sight your sources”
They’re beautiful sources. Gaze upon them and appreciate their splendor.
“This peaked my interest”
Now that my interest is at the summit, it can only go down.
“Rein supreme”
The horse is in charge now.
“For all intensive purposes”
These purposes are quite vigorous
“Deep seeded”
I’m sowing six feet deep.
“Wet your appetite”
I’m very well-hydrated before dinner.
“Mute point”
I’m going to articulate this entirely using gestures.
“I’m honing in on your location”
You probably went through a lot of whetstones on the way here.
“Baited breath”
The opposite of bad breath: it’s such a pleasant odor that few can resist its allure.
“For piece of mind”
Young Frankenstein’s assistant should have been willing to pay for this instead of stealing a brain from the university laboratory.
“Sneak peak”
Sometimes those summits can really catch you off guard.
“Tow the line”
I assume this is what tugboat operators do.
“Reek havoc”
Sometimes a stench is terrible enough to cause chaos.
“per say”
You owe me performance royalties for using that phrase. I charge $50 per say.
“Cease the day”
This happens earlier in the winter, especially after Daylight Saving Time ends in November.
“One foul swoop”
Not to be confused with a fowl swoop, this one is probably up to no good.
“Tongue and cheek”
A match made in heaven.
“Cold slaw”
You should keep your shredded cabbage in the fridge after adding the mayo.
“Here, here!”
I’m paying close attention to the location of the applause.
“Safety deposit box”
Where we keep our OSHA-compliant gear.
“I don’t want to take this for granite.”
Of course not, it’s clearly bismuth.
“Tenants of the faith”
I’m pretty sure it’s a violation of city code for a non-residential church building to charge rent.
“Coming down the pipe”
You don’t want to know what’s in the plumbing.
“Pallet cleanser”
The forklift operator is expected to use this to keep things sanitary.
“Extract revenge”
I’m going to attack my nemesis using this syringe.
“Statue of limitations”
Carved marble can last a very long time before expiring.
“Case and point”
I’ll case the joint, then gesture with my finger to draw your attention to anything suspicious.
“Chalk-full”
Rock climbers carry bags that are like this.
“I’m going to pour over the data”
Please don’t spill your coffee on spreadsheets.
“That’s just an old wise tale”
You shouldn’t be so dismissive of elderly wisdom!
“Jerry-rigged”
Old Jeremiah is always up to funny business.
“Don't give me short shift”
If you're getting paid by the hour, you don't want your employer to send you home early.
“This peeked my interests”
That sounds like an invasion of privacy.
by Richard Nadler
Richard Nadler (b.1987 in Penzberg, Germany), ArchiTextures, Digital illustration
what do you think zohran mamdani is going to personally do to jews
This is a wild concept anon, so bear with me.
The office of City Mayor usually doesn’t have foreign policy opinions. It’s just not something that gets centered in city elections. New York is an exceptional city in size and diversity, so if anywhere was going to do this, I’m least surprised it’s New York.
What I’m hearing and seeing Mamdani do by repeatedly messaging about foreign policy, and NOT outright condemning (or being mealy mouthed about) phrases like “globalize the intifada” is creating an environment that is permissive for that kind of message to catch fire.
He, therefore, doesn’t have to *do* anything for his words to have consequences. Like it or not, NYC is the largest Jewish population center outside of Israel - literally more than twice as many Jews in NYC than there are in the country with the third largest Jewish population.
The Jewish population in NYC already gets attacked, physically. People have been attacking visibly Jewish people there forever. For being Jews (the audacity of (((us)))! )
Now there’s a Mayor elect who is giving air to a movement that already speaks violently about Jews. And if you ask me, I listen when someone says they want to hurt me or my family.
And don’t @ me about islamaphobia or hating Mamdani. The right answer to “do you support xyz violent message as mayor?” Is “I’m the Mayor elect of blank and there is no place for violence or hatefulness between anyone in our neighborhoods.”
The bar is on the pavement.
On this anyone attacking him for 'being a muslim and doing communist sharia' are not only racist dickwads trying to hop on Cuomo's diseased dick, they're categorically wrong. Mamdani's a charismatic NY hipster rich kid. He has made Israel Palestine a defining aspect of his own personality for YEARS as... charismatic NY hipster rich kid. That's his lens, that's the people he's willing to enable, and that's why he's sought national and international press. His campaign was a launch because his dad is a decolonial studies professor who waxes poetic about suicide bombers and his mom is a multimillionaire movie producer who both are really fucking weird about Israel and Jews. From a NY hipster, academia/Artsy film lens. He has to pay for growing up comfortable in the 'Heart of the Imperial Metropole' that gave his parents jobs and audiences and respect and him a multicultural jet-setting childhood, but not directly. Maybe he can displace some of that. Maybe there's an Original Sinner. Because see...he made it about international issues, and he made it about Jews specifically from the minute his campaign launched. Maybe he doesn't hate us. Maybe he's convinced himself he doesn't hate us or that all the friends and streamers and reporters like Piker and Rania Khalek who orbit him aren't blaring signals that regardless of his own professed beliefs, he has let the fox into the henhouse and he is fine with Jews being collateral damage to his glorious rise. Which everyone seems to keep on missing. So the ignoring? The elevation of toxic surrogates, etc etc etc? it's all going to be done with sensitive language and a smile and fucking useful wannabe Court Jews like Lander (Or others) are going to function as his ablative armor for The Rise of Zorhran Mamdani (In one of the most toxic and thankless jobs in the country.) He'll probably get at least one musical. The people who love to mock hamilton fandom like it's still 2015 will love it.
these are still the most hilarious
Official ominous signs
I can't believe I ever respected Cenk Uygur, and damn if I'm not grateful that I stopped watching The Young Turks when I did.
"Muslims and Jews got along fine until 1948" gives the same energy as "there was no racial conflict in America until the Civil Rights Movement"
Given Cenk's ethnic background and the fact that he calls his journalism outfit "The Young Turks", I think that comparison has even more validity than you might think at first glance.
Oh, you don't have to draw lines about how Cenk feels about ethnic minorities in the Middle East. He drew them for you!
"The show's name Young Turks has been criticized and called for change[35] due to the original Young Turks political movement in the Ottoman Empire being responsible for committing the Armenian genocide, the Assyrian genocide, and the Greek genocide.[37][36] Alex Galitsky, who works for the Armenian National Committee of America, stated 'If a group decided to call themselves "the Young Nazis", and pitched themselves as a disruptor or anti-establishment news outlet, people would be rightly outraged'.[37]
"In 1991, Cenk Uygur wrote an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania, in which he promoted Armenian genocide denial.[155] In 2016, Cenk Uygur posted a statement on TYT's website in which he rescinded his Armenian Genocide denial statements, arguing: "My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not. I don't want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about."[156][157] In response to the criticism he has explained that the name of the show was chosen because it is a popular colloquialism traditionally meaning a young radical who fights the status quo.[36]"
When people say Jews and Muslims lived peacefully, what they mean is "Jews knew their place (and also we still killed them sometimes but nevermind that)"
I’m so tired of the minimizing of dhimmitude. These weren’t just “discriminatory laws,” they were laws Jews (and any other non-Muslims) were required to keep IN ORDER NOT TO BE MURDERED.
