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@thehandmadeshark

so there's a title. (((((if you need to feel better, look up #palate cleanser)))) (((new tag #internet functionality))) feminist/queer/cats/history/academics/knitting/honestly anything I find vaguely interesting, plus the random thoughts I have. If my brain could vomit, this is more or less what it would look like.

Antisemitism Education

As antisemitism is rising globally. And as a result, it is swelling online. It is a duty for not just the Jewish community, but for the people who claim to be our allies, to know this information. It is important to know who you are following, to analyze their information for credibility, and to be a defender against white supremacy. Therefore, we have provided a description and short breakdown of several tropes, terms, dog whistles, and conspiracy theories. Further research is recommended and encouraged. This is a living document and by no means complete guide to antisemitism.

This has been specifically tailored to the Internet experience, focusing on how you may see it in online spaces so as to report it and prevent yourself and others from sliding down the alt-right pipeline.

This includes information like: 

Antisemitism not Anti-semitism 

What is a Dog Whistle?

Context Matters

More than “Online Trolls”

Slurs

Dog Whistles

Conspiracy Theories

Hate Symbols & Images

I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together

Examples:

- guy at work "Yes, and -" ing the bit me and my coworker were doing where we pretended to be owners of a fantasy medieval tavern not minimum wage retail staff

- at the gay club when Die Young by Kesha came on and two hundred people, all dancing and drinking separately, jumped up and down to make the "- beat of the drums *STOMP STOMP*" as loud as possible

- person who watched me stomp round the beach singing a made up song about breakfast foods to name a cat after and suggested more breakfast foods that would be good cat names

- guy who started a dance off with everyone across the road while waiting for the lights to change

- very tiny girl at the pharmacy interviewing everyone in the queue and every single one of us in turn sat down and answered this toddler's questions like we were on Letterman

The three pillars of humanity, in no particular order, are Joy, Absurdity, and Sharing

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Fuck that post going around saying "you can have coffee in your story without justifying it :) you don't need to explain everything :)" I want, no, I DEMAND a fully researched ethnobotanical paper on every single food item in your work, if you don't explain to me where did potatoes come from in your fantasy setting or don't explain how the industry of coffee works over interstellar distances with full detail you are doing things wrong and I personally hate you and I hate your stupid story, fuck you

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Why are your stupid little wizards and knights eating potato stew in your dumb European middle ages fantasy world. Where did they get potatoes from. Where is the center of domestication of potatoes, do you have a fantasy Andean civilization? What are the social and economic consequences of having such a calorie rich crop in cold climates. I don't care about "themes" or "enemies to lovers with found family", I didn't ask about that. Where does your idiot space captain gets their shitty coffee from. Is it imported from Earth? Are there coffee growing worlds? Is it an alien species replacement with the same name? What are the social consequences of that? Don't try to change the subject, I'll stop pointing the gun when I want, I'm trying to have a conversation here,

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People saying this is "good" or "bad" advice: this is not "advice", I'm not asking. Haven't you noticed the gun

"yes worldbuilding is good but the narrative fl-" Don't care, I want your ethnobotany paper on my desk by monday.

Your reaction to chatGPT instantly lets me know how easy it would be to trick you into thinking that you are haunted

"omg it's literally alive!" Two beers, 45 minutes, deck of tarot cards, and I'm charging you 350$ for an exorcism.

"I read an article that it's showing simple self-awareness" two days, mild preparation, hot and cold reading, I can get 60$ for joints laced with sacred sage

"I just spoke to an AI and I'm... rattled to say the least, come with me on this dark journey" twenty minutes. I've got to science it up for you, but I can get you to come back every week to "disentangle the psychological imprint" for 125$

There should be nationwide solidarity protests for the LGBT folk in Florida.

We need to show we're united and supportive, that we aren't just leaving each other to the wolves.

I have a proposal...

June 1st. The first day of Pride. That's not to far from now.

What if we started Pride with protests in every major city and town that can plan a protest by then. With a matching boycott on everything online/offline for just that one day to match.

The feds and states get taxes on everything after all, it's not just the companies making profit.

And when you protest you need demands. You cant expect a government that historically has not protected you to just suddenly know/do what's best. And they need to be concise and focused on your specific cause.

Hypothetically speaking, what if these were our demands:

LGBT & Queer Rights Be Codified

  • ALL of the same full citizenship privileges that cishet Americans are automatically afforded by age, relationship, or birthright (ex: marriage, medical, spousal, & parental rights) - no longer 2nd class citizens.
  • Including bodily autonomy as a measure to guarantee that we can make our own medical choices & regulate what happens to our own bodies (ex: HRT, surgery, abortion)

Dissolving and barring any and all trans panic and gay panic laws.

Expand On and Codify Anti-Discrimination Laws

  • Barring discrimination against those who present or identify as any gender regardless of whether or not that aligns with their legal or physical sex
  • Religion must be explicitly defined as a non-valid cause for challenging the constitutional or federal freedoms of any specific group
  • Because of 1 & 2(below) we need a process to remove any government official when states systematically prevent citizens from challenging or removing corrupt officials that are directly challenging our freedoms.
  1. "Lower courts reasonably interpreted Supreme Court precedents as holding that unless First Amendment freedoms were targeted directly and specifically, antidiscrimination laws-promulgated at any level of government, and protecting any group-are exempt from normal constitutional limitations."
  2. Florida has no virtually no recall laws for governor

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If y'all like these I can make some graphics or something for reposts (or you can make them, whatever works best)

As a fellow queer person living comfortably in a protected state I'm happy to do what I can, just lmk #solidarity

Feel free to repost, y'all.

Nationwide Solidarity June 1st.

Use the tag #WrathWithPride2023

put the graphics on tik tok, insta, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Gonna reblog this every 2 days until July

theres too many pokemon games where you play as a kid whos full of life and full of potential. there needs to be a pokemon game where you play as a college dropout who lives in a shitty apartment

your starter pokemon are trubbish, rattata and glameow. which symbolise the trash you keep forgetting to take out, the rats living in your walls and the stray cat you keep trying to befriend but it keeps hissing at you.

you guys dont get it its not supposed to be dark and edgy its supposed to be living in a mundane setting and slowly rediscovering the wonder in the world by going on a journey with a magical trash bag that is your friend, its about love and recovery and coping with the stress of your adult life with your friend who is made of sentient garbage

I’ve never been so attached to literal trash before

I am similarly attached to the sentient trash. Can't wait to take him on little adventures

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Continuing my (accidental) Ace Attorney series with late 80’s Wright and Edgeworth! Just calling your rival your “work husband” until it sticks 😎

i am so serious when i say we as young adults are so starved and deprived of community

like we as a generation - i'm talking especially young adults who are just entering the workforce - are so so lonely! i think about it all the time. between the incoming recession and cost of living crisis + the rise of wfh + processing pandemic trauma so many of us live deeply isolated lives and i think we deserve better...i'm working fully remote and i consider myself lucky because i do have friends that i see regularly but there's a hunger for that place you can go to to be around people in an organic but meaningful way to you that is not being addressed rn! we now more than ever need communities!

comedies that turn into tragedies when the fucked up stuff played for jokes suddenly gets treated with the severity and realness that it would get in real life are genuinely my weakness and hit so much harder than tragedies that start off with the sad stuff.

like not only is the audience caught in the whole "boiling the frog" thing with the comedy slowly become a tragedy but it reveals that the characters are as well; that the previous comedy was only perceived as a comedy because the characters had no clue that what they were going through was not normal and just lighthearted fun. the audience realizes it as the characters do, making them both more sympathetic and their arcs all the more tragic as you look back on what previously happened.