Butch in the Burgh

Queer movies and TV, Judaism, feminism, infrastructure, and some other free-associative BS. They/them

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my pronouns are she/her bc I'll never be him (anthony head playing on his pink ds in full costume on the set of merlin)

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*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”

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i love that it’s a carefully worded, well-written, non-inflammatory answer too. which asker wouldn’t know because they won’t read it. i love website

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you are not going to believe what they did with Books

[parkchanwoohoo]

"A wall of text" baby that's a curb at best

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the other day I read a compelling point that many instances described as illiteracy would actually be more aptly described as aliteracy, meaning an individual has the ability to read but simply chooses not to. great example here, awesome work.

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Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

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Happy Pride Month!

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Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!

-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026

[literaryera]

I keep hearing John Green say he's retired from working and lemme just say John Green is the least retired retired person I've ever seen.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

I am retired!!! I retired in October of 2017 and have kept my promise not to exchange my labor for money.

Since 2017, I have only done stuff that I thought was interesting or useful regardless of whether it pays, because we have more than enough money, and despite what billionaires might tell you, there is literally no difference between "more than enough" and "much more than enough."

So I no longer work for money. But in retirement one must keep busy, which is why I have taken on an unpaid gig as the social media intern for a coffee and tea business that donates 100% of its profit to charity.

I also sometimes travel to universities and other places to speak in support of Partners in Health and global access to tuberculosis care, and sometimes I write books because writing makes me happy, and every Tuesday I make a video on vlogbrothers, and I make a podcast about the world cup with my friends from high school, and so on, but none of these things constitutes work. These are just Retirement Projects, which are essential to a happy retirement.

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[cleolinda]

Oscar-winning ‘Star Wars’ editor Marcia Lucas dies at 80

She was also part of the editing team for Martin Scorsese’s 1970s films “Taxi Driver,” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and “New York, New

Marcia Lucas was the editor on 1983’s "Return of the Jedi" and the pre-"Star Wars" George Lucas-directed films "THX 1138" and "American Graffiti."

She was also part of the editing team for director Martin Scorsese’s 1970s films "Taxi Driver," "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore" and "New York, New York."

Marcia Lucas was often called the unsung hero of "Star Wars," the original film that after sequels, prequels and spinoffs has come to be known by its subtitle, "A New Hope."

She convinced husband George that he should have Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness, in his light saber battle with Darth Vader and become a spirit guide to Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker.

And she had to make sense of the raw footage that could’ve been a mess in the wrong hands, including the climactic rebel attack on the Death Star.

[....]

"Her influence on film is indelible, but those who knew her best will remember the way she made life feel more vivid, more beautiful, more fun, and more full of love," a family statement said. "Her work was known for its emotional intelligence, rhythm, and humanity — a rare ability to find the truth of a scene and bring heart, momentum, and clarity to the screen."

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Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

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I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

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I type things and send resumes into the void

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I’m a video editor

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- Jacek Jędral.

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Jacek Jędral (Polish), Shadow Theater, 2026, Oil on canvas

[beardedmrbean]

I love the midwest so much

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rb to explode

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[what-even-is-thiss]

I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

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People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.

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Jewish media is jumping into the neo-Bundism vs. Zionism discourse and it’s….ahistorical.

I don’t really care. I care about the gentiles who have decided that any Jew who objects to anti-Semitism in the Palestine Liberation movements is a wrong thinking enemy.

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Pretty much all of the Bundism discourse disgusts me. Fucking evaluate the movement within the context of it’s time

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Actually I've decided that I'm fascinated by this very specific discourse. It mirrors how shit played out in the 30s and it's kind of like, beautiful performance art but no one realizes what they're reenacting.

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I am deeply interested in this take and want to know more but also am afraid of attracting the wrath of the internet. I feel like going “Waaooow… 🍿🍿🍿… it’s just like my history books….🍿🍿🍿…” at this discourse will provoke scary things

[historicity-was-already-taken]

I can expand! All the factionalism stems from opposing ideas over how to do Judaism where and when we are. That’s what the drama was about in 1930s Poland, and that’s what the drama is about today. But what’s fascinating about what I’m seeing playing out in insta, is that we’re relitigating those 1930s Polish factions through the lens of our own hopes, dreams, anxieties, and fears; and of course, our distorted understandings of the past. We’re appropriating labels which are anachronistic to our context to attempt to understand our context.

The fundamental issue at stake in 2026 is this: what does it mean to be a Jew in a global context wherein there is a sovereign Jewish nation-state in Eretz Yisrael?

But that was not the question Bundists and and various flavors of Zionists etc were asking in interwar Poland. They were asking: how should we behave as Jews in a nation-state in which we are the unwanted Other.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Huh…I’d bet cold hard cash that if you dug through Jewish history you’d find that the factionalism in the 20s and 30s wasn’t the first iteration, either. This is pure instinct here, it just feels like such a profoundly Jewish argument that it’s hard to believe that the interwar period was the first time it happened. Though the more I think on it, the more the Haskalah and the 2nd Temple era factionalism seems to fall into this category. Again, gut feeling, no historical analysis here.

All that said, I would say that question you attribute to the interwar period—how do we behave as Jews in a nation-state in which we are the unwanted Other—has always been the underlying question for this debate in the Diaspora. That’s the Jewish side of the Jewish Question. It is undeniably the unspoken part of “what does it mean to be a Jew in a global context wherein there is a sovereign Jewish state in Eretz Yisrael,” at least to Diapsora Jewry. If 10/7 had not been accompanied by a shocking spike in antisemitism (not to mention the growing antisemitism of the many years prior), I don’t think our community would be fighting like this. We are still being treated as the unwanted Other. The Jewish Question still lays like a yoke on our backs. And that is a HUGE part of the debate over the existence of Israel and the role it plays in Jewish life. For the first time in millennia, we have a guaranteed refuge. And said refuge is run by extremists committing atrocities. What now?

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Oh absolutely. The fundamental question wrt how to do Judaism with or without a Jewish state in Eretz Yisrael is like….the driving force behind all of these various politics debates, and literally the fundamental character of Judaism itself. But I’ve mainly been speaking in the context of the 1930s, so.

Also, you encapsulated all of the fundamental issues so beautifully. Just like, weeping @ ur writing style.

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millennial Jewish women flipping out over Jewish history bestieeez ✡️🤜🤛✡️

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