Amadi Talks

Yes, I’m the same Amadi from all the other places. These are the things I'm talking about today. All content is queued. I do not post strangers’ donation links. Fluffy and fannish posts @amadiwhispers. עם ישראל חי

[afurioushawk]

[prismatic-bell]

I am coming to you all in a state of desperation.

For those who may not know, I was laid off at the end of May. Permitting problems at our new location, combined with a downturn in sales (Ask Me How That Is Trump's Fault because there is an answer), meant just under half our workforce was cut.

I did actually get a severance package, which has paid my bills this past month. And I was told I could also reapply if the job opened back up (which has not happened). But in spite of many, many applications, I've had only three contacts: two scams (love that for me) and a job where I might have made it to the third and final interview round but I can't be sure until Monday and unfortunately at this moment it doesn't look good.

My rent is due on the first.

I'm here to ask if anyone, anyone at all, is willing to do a pay-up-front for either of my square blanket patterns, with the understanding that I will be asking less than they'd normally sell for:

(Scissors for scale on the right hand blanket, baby blanket on left.)

I do my pricing on a sliding scale where I tell you what the cost would be at federal minimum wage and what the cost would be at a living wage and you can pick any number between them. With those criteria, the blanket on the left would normally go for a minimum of $360 and the one on the right for a minimum of $700. If you're able to pay for it up front so I can give my roommates at least part of my rent, I'll do them for $200 and $450, respectively.

(I'd offer paper editing for high school and college, too, but of course this would happen in summer.)

I'm literally at my wits' end. I'll take smaller commissions too. Please just help me keep a roof over my head.

[creekfiend]

its really darkly funny that so many public figures keep dying "of cardiac complications after a brief illness" like wow y'all are Never ever going to say the word COVID huh.

[cosmictuesdays]

They used to say "complications from pneumonia" instead of AIDS.

[creekfiend]

☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[amaditalks]

Sometimes it's Covid, sometimes it's years of developing undiagnosed and untreated arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease and having a massive cardiac event, and the "brief illness" is the time spent on life support until the family can be there to say goodbye to a warm body before the machines are turned off.

Now did having Covid advance the arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease and whack a few years off of the inevitable? Very possibly. It's going to be a while before we have some reliable science on that specific question, but we do know that a couple of the best things that people can do for their health, especially as they get older, is avoid getting Covid and get regular check ups to make sure they aren't developing cardiovascular disease, or are treating it appropriately if it's started.

[starlightomatic]

i think the real reason antisemites hate the talmud is not because of anything contained therein, but because they hate that we had the audacity to create a new holy book after the bible that was not the new testament, and then worse yet, treat it with significant religious authority

[starlightomatic]

and im sure its also about christian beef with the pharisees

[starlightomatic]

and not only that but it affirms the law (as they’d call it) as continually relevant. ie jesus did not fulfill it. and also continually evolving, beyond what jesus would even have recognized. it makes blatant the fact that jews are not a historical artifact of pre-christ but an actual living breathing people that has continued to evolve, and continued to reject christ. this is the fundamental tension about jews in christianity; are we the Main Characters In The Bible or are we the Rejectors of Christ? can we be both? how can we be both?

[amaditalks]

It affirms that we are not a historical artifact, but it also affirms that we had and continue to have, religious autonomy and authority not related to nor in defiance of Christianity, but completely separate from any notion of it.

Christianity, in one way or another, must think of and refer to Judaism constantly, if only to repudiate it in whole or in part, even while weaponizing its bowdlerized appropriated Torah. The Talmud, existing solely to address Jewish law and Jewish thought in itself, and in the context of the Jewish world without regard to anyone outside of it, is the written manifestation of "we don't think of you at all," at least not in religious context. And having been assigned as Christianity's (and by extension, the West's) perpetual subalterns, how dare we? What gives us the right?

[afurioushawk]

[sweaterkittensahoy]

"Ugh, you all call all leftist men misogynists!"

NO WE CALLED HIM A NAZI FIRST BUT YOU WERE FINE WITH THAT

The fucking effort to act like the Nazi tattoo was NOT the first major scandal because they STILL DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH THE NAZI TATTOO is gonna make me start building saw traps.

[amaditalks]

It's also not difficult to make a list of left leaning men, whether they call themselves leftist or progressives or what have you, who would not and could not be reasonably labeled misogynist based on what we know about them at the present moment. But that can change if we find out that in fact, he has said or done something that indicates a problem viewing women as actual human beings. And that's what the argument really is, the men making this claim want to be labeled safe without any further scrutiny, past, present or future. 

[girlactionfigure]

Shavua Tov

Blessings for a good week, a safe and peaceful week, and may all the plans of our enemies fail.

[experiment41]

we are NOT bringing 4chan incel terminology to this site, take that "foid" out of your post and go wash your blog out with soap

[amaditalks]

The -slop and the -maxxing too. We don't need their language.

[amaditalks]

Lindsey Graham's death was announced 90 minutes ago and we still have zero crabs and no Destiel?!

Tumblr is getting OLD old.

[amaditalks]

All of the major (and many of the minor) Jewish creators across TikTok and Instagram are sharing and doing side by side reactions with _itsmemorgan singing Yerushalayim, and I'm not saying that her video isn't gorgeous, it is. Her enthusiasm is so lovely.

But the reaction is revealing.

When one single instance of public approval of one Jewish thing by a non-Jew (whose entire shtick is singing in her car) has created so much response, it really shows just how bad it's been for us.

The Jews yearn for basic kindness.

[amaditalks]

"Hobbyless behavior" is an excellent way to describe people who really need to find an outlet for all of their energy and big feelings, but I think we also need "overly hobbied behavior" as a descriptor for people who have an outlet for their energy and big feelings that is just a little too much. 

[hornymotionalcookie]

They just keep taking our babies

And nothing is done other than the suffering of their families as they watch on as their child's negligent at best "friends" are defended and folks plead fer forgiveness and understanding.

Fuck that. Another Black baby found dead after going out with supposed friends and yall wanna stick up fer the potential killers that will lawyer up and cry on camera and melt the hearts of supremacists everywhere. Meanwhile, they wouldn't be able to hold 30s of silence fer poor Nolan.

[afurioushawk]

The fact that 150K Mainers enthusiastically voted for a man they knew had a Nazi tattoo should haunt them like the legacy of voting for Klansmen haunts the South. Maybe the crackers up in New England are overdue for some national shaming.

[amaditalks]

Respect what they voted for?

Respect is for respectable people and actions.

[amaditalks]

Of course Nazi Tits used dog whistles to blame his downfall on Jews because what else would a Nazi Titted rapist asshole do?

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I’ve noticed a thing recently (well, I’m sure people have been doing it for a while, but it only occurred to me recently) wherein people will deny the antisemitism of the committing a crime against Jews in the diaspora as a way of expressing anger at Israel, then when they’re called on it they’ll go “hey, I never said it wasn’t a crime, I just said it wasn’t *antisemitic*” and bitch, you’re not as cute as you think you are.

[amaditalks]

It's worth noting that this particular gambit has been attempted by the Democratic nominee for the US House race in Colorado 1, Melat Kiros, who refuses to use the word antisemitism in connection with last year's firebombing attack on a group of Jews at a Jewish event in Boulder, which is in the district she will almost certainly be elected to represent.

[majestic-deers]

According to Wikipedia the motive for that attack was “anti-Zionism”

[spot-the-antisemitism]

you heard it here first folks a person was killed in the name of antizionism

[amaditalks]

And it just happened to be an 82 year old Jewish woman at a Jewish event even though the number of Christian people who claim to be Zionist in the United States alone outnumbers all the Jews on the planet. Somehow that antizionism honed right in on the smallest possible target in Boulder.

Tell us all so much more about that antizionism.

[shifgrethors]

wikipedia:

-XYZ is Catholic

-XYZ is bisexual.

-XYZ is Muslim.

also wikipedia:

-XYZ is of Jewish descent.

-XYZ has Jewish parents.

-XYZ’s grandparents escaped Auschwitz and immigrated to America and became Chabad shlichim. They were born at 770. Their parents are a rabbi and rebbetzin in a large Jewish community in Lakewood……….they’re of Jewish descent.

[amaditalks]

On one hand, Wikipedia current policy with regard to Jews acknowledges Jewish ethnicity. They would never say that someone is of Methodist descent or had Southern Baptist parents.

On the other hand the policy simultaneously treats Judaism as strictly a religion that no one can be said to hold unless there is a source that meets citation standards in which they speak about being a Jew, as if it is something requiring personal profession the way that Christianity does.

And with the ongoing antisemitic edit wars happening, where every Jewish person and topic is being changed on purpose in the worst faith manner, there is no way that even a large and very well organized group of Jews can fix this problem.

Wikipedia is inherently untrustworthy on any topic related to Jews or Judaism.

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I’ve noticed a thing recently (well, I’m sure people have been doing it for a while, but it only occurred to me recently) wherein people will deny the antisemitism of the committing a crime against Jews in the diaspora as a way of expressing anger at Israel, then when they’re called on it they’ll go “hey, I never said it wasn’t a crime, I just said it wasn’t *antisemitic*” and bitch, you’re not as cute as you think you are.

[amaditalks]

It's worth noting that this particular gambit has been attempted by the Democratic nominee for the US House race in Colorado 1, Melat Kiros, who refuses to use the word antisemitism in connection with last year's firebombing attack on a group of Jews at a Jewish event in Boulder, which is in the district she will almost certainly be elected to represent.

[hillsofspices]

just once it’d be nice if those antizionist jews who say they’re guided by jewish values were referring to ahavat yisrael instead of just tikkun olam

[leg3ndarycatlover]

and then you look at what they're saying and the kabbalists would hardly recognise a word of it as tikkun olam, just secular western leftism being referred to as tikkun olam

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

The concept of Reform was amazing. Allowing it to morph into Bourgeois Protestant Cosmopolitanism (with Latkes!)™ was a historic error.

[amaditalks]

Why are you bringing Reform Judaism into this? Especially when Ahavat Israel is a central value within it, and the leftist movement Jews are largely unaffiliated, at least as adults, many because Reform does not shy away from embracing both Am Yisrael and Medinat Israel and many can't stand the latter?

Are you really wanting to turn this conversation into yet another "your practice of Judaism is invalid" argument? Who does that serve? What does that serve?