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@apocalypticautumn
If tumblr shuts down you can contact me at autumnalapocalypse on pillowfort. That said I will likely not be very active on it
Someone's guide on how to backup your tumblr: (I reccomend the tumblr-utils option by cebtenzzre)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yBWlk-yEgpSoEh3c9oLhz_kbLtUGqbqzOpCtJsvQgjI/
Some invite codes for pillowfort:
fear not: you can also “attack” your friends even outside of art fight, so if you miss the chance to before august 2nd you can always get them after with no repercussions. No crime will be committed either way and its actually fine to draw art for others at any other time of the year
I feel like in the past ten years, boycotting has stopped being a tool for forcing action on specific policies and become a form of harassment and monastic self-denial. Less “I will not be giving my money to you until you improve these specific conditions” and more “don’t touch the contaminated thing, lest you also become contaminated.”
i'm going to say something brave: i see eva as more of a moses figure than a mary figure. leading her people, the time in the wilderness, a generation of death, and then success that will probably outpace her lifetime... 🫠
Exuberant rainbow quilt for a beloved friend (alas not quite finished in time for pride month 🤷♀️)
aspiring comedian who, rather than trying to come up with statements that are funny in themselves, is obsessed with trying to take banal statements devoid of any possible humor and “make them funny” via some kind of metaphysical alchemical process
did you know you can rename everything on your pc
i've been using computers since 2009 i know how computers work you people need to stop assuming people know nothing about computers. yes i know you can change icons. i just made this post because i wanted to make a silly post about my puter. so many of you people would be the least fun person at parties because of how you go "omgf youre so stupid wait until you learn about (thing)" like politely. shut the fuck up and start being nicer to strangers on the internet
have some fucking joy and whimsy and instead say "its so awesome people are learning about this"
we need to bring back old school tumblr communication and im so serious. sending an ask to a mutual just to say hello. seeing three different asks in your inbox all asking how your dentist appointment went. seeing a post you think one of your mutuals would enjoy and tagging them/sending it to them in the dms. nowadays its just silently liking a post or (if youre feeling extreme) replying under posts. WHAT HAPPENED TO US!! we used to be a proper community!!!! #LetsBringWhimsyBack
reblog if you want ppl to send you random lil' asks
Go ahead. Ask me random stuff. Idc XD
paper doll Roybie :)
btw this has a transparent background! If you take him into your drawing app of choice, you can pretty easily dress him up. Might wanna make some layers though
everybody go print a Roy now!!! :D
Racism against Indians is actually a little insane when you consider how widespread it is even among liberals and leftists . Even people who consider themselves to be progressive will laugh at call center or tech support jokes. All scammers are inherently indian. It’s okay to laugh at jokes making fun of Indians for their feelings towards animals or how they drive. India is inherently backwards and dirty so it’s okay to make jokes about getting food poisoning from even looking at indian food
Today is Tisha B'Av, the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av, which is when we commemorate the destruction of both Temples, in Jerusalem. Along with every other tragedy that occurred to the Jews; the exiles, the pogroms, the crusades. For context, there are 44 Kinnot (lamenting verses), and years, centuries later, three about the Holocaust were added. It's the saddest day of the year. We fast, we go completely in mourning, we sit on lowered seats, we cry.
There's not really a good way to end this. I hate this day, but hope that soon, it will turn into a day of celebrating. Take care. Easy fast for all those observing.
New York has 8.5 million people. Someone made up the difference.
The video reached me a dozen times before I finished my coffee. Friends, followers, strangers, all sending the same two minutes and thirteen seconds: the mayor of New York behind a desk, an American flag on one side and the city’s on the other, warm cinematic lighting, an orchestral score under his voice, the caption reading “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.” The staging is an Oval Office address. The content is a municipal legal memo about a promise that cannot be kept. By Wednesday morning, it had 55 million views across platforms. Twelve hours. The coverage focused on the rhetoric. Almost no one covered what the video actually announced.
The video opens cold on the accusation. Second zero: “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people.” The litany fills the first forty seconds. The sentence that constitutes actual news arrives at the 1:40 mark of a 2:13 video: “It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.” Anyone who has ever read a social video retention graph knows what that sequencing does. Most viewers are gone long before the final thirty seconds. The video is built so the accusation reaches everyone and the retreat reaches only those who stay to the end.
Zohran Mamdani promised to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu from the earliest days of his candidacy in 2024. He repeated the promise in the final weeks of the race. Days ago, he told the New York Times his attorneys were still reviewing it. On Monday, the president announced that Netanyahu would not be arrested anywhere in the United States. On Tuesday night, the mayor admitted his city’s Law Department had reached the same conclusion. The pledge that helped elect him is dead. The video is its funeral, staged as an offensive.
There is nothing inherently wrong about a politician criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC warrant exists; it was issued in 2024. Israel is contesting it. The ICC prosecutor who delivered those arrest warrants, Karim Khan, may lose his job this week over accusations of sexual assault. Be that as it may, Israelis have protested Netanyahu’s government in numbers an American mayor can only envy, week after week, for years. If Tuesday’s video had been criticism, even brutal criticism, it would have been an ordinary iteration of an old argument. My quarrel isn’t with criticism. It’s with political theatrics that trade in truth for exposure.
Here is the trade. What Mamdani promised his voters was an act of government: an arrest, jurisdiction, handcuffs, the full strength of the law applied to a foreign leader. What he delivered instead was language. “War criminal.” “Architect of a horrific genocide.” A casualty figure, 73,000, recited without a word about where it comes from or whom it counts. When a politician cannot produce the act, the language inflates to cover the difference, and the more impossible the deliverable, the more extreme the words. An arrest was off the table, so the accusation had to do the work of handcuffs. “Genocide” is what a broken promise sounds like when it needs to trend.
And it trended. Fifty-five million views in twelve hours, in a city of 8.5 million people. The mayor’s words reached six times as many people as his government ever could. On X alone, the video crossed 15 million by the end of the evening. No achievement of Mamdani’s actual mayoralty, no bus route, no childcare pilot, no housing number, has moved attention within an order of magnitude of this. Every ambitious politician in America absorbed the lesson by sunrise: a broken promise wrapped in maximal accusation against Israel outperforms a kept one. Attention has replaced delivery as the unit of political success. Mamdani’s video is the best demonstration of the exchange we have yet been given.
In my recent article “What Happened to Jeremy,” I documented how state-linked networks from Iran, Russia and Qatar amplify Western content about Israel. These operations rarely invent material. They find authentic domestic content that serves their aims and push it until the algorithm concludes the whole world is speaking. A sitting American mayor accusing Israel’s prime minister of genocide, in a professionally produced video, weeks before that prime minister is expected in New York for the UN General Assembly. That’s the exact material foreign influence operations exist to amplify.
Did they touch this one? I cannot tell you. No one can, because the platforms do not publish origin or coordination data even for political content at this scale. Fifty-five million views, and no public way to know how many arrived organically and how many came from accounts that have never once posted about a pothole in Queens. I am not claiming the surge was foreign. I am telling you that no one in America is currently allowed to check, and that the networks whose fingerprints I have traced elsewhere would consider this video a gift.
There is a fix, and it is boring, which is why it might work. After 2016, public pressure forced the platforms to build political ad libraries. The same should now apply to virality itself: when a piece of political content crosses a defined threshold, the platform publishes an engagement breakdown by country of origin and account age, and accredited researchers get the underlying data. If the surge behind Tuesday’s video was 55 million Americans, the numbers will show it, and Mamdani’s supporters can claim their moral clarity honestly. If it was something else, New Yorkers deserve to know who was shouting over them.
I am writing this on the even of Tisha B’Av, the day the Jewish calendar sets aside for mourning the destruction of both Temples and the catastrophes that gathered around the same date across two thousand years. The rabbis taught that the Second Temple fell to sinat chinam, baseless hatred. They argue that the problem was slander, not mere military weakness. I don’t believe Mamdani consulted a Jewish calendar before posting; the timing is likely coincidence. But the fast lands differently this year. Jews keep a national day of mourning because we have long experience with accusations that travel faster than any correction can, and with what happens in the years after they land. Fifty-five million views in twelve hours is the largest audience such an accusation has ever found this quickly. The day exists because accusations like this one have never, in our history, stayed on the page.
In September, Netanyahu is expected in New York. The video will circulate again, the mayor will be at ribbon cuttings, and the gap between the sentence and the act will still be sitting there, unexamined, because examining it benefits no one with power. Somewhere this week, a candidate for some other office watched those numbers climb and quietly took a note. The note had nothing to do with promoting peace for Palestinians, and everything to do with exploiting Jews to gain power.
Tonight begins Tisha B’Av the saddest day on the Jewish calendar.
Both Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed on this same date, centuries apart. Tonight we fast. We sit low. We read the book of Lamentations often by candlelight the way mourners do.
A few weeks ago I wrote about entering the month of Av, and how this month holds our heaviest memories while carrying a name that means Father. Tonight is that lowest point. The bottom of the descent.
But here is what I keep coming back to. Just six days from now comes Tu B’Av, one of the most joyful days on our calendar. The same month that holds our deepest grief also holds our greatest celebration of love. Not instead of the sorrow. After it. Through it.
That is the shape of Jewish memory, and honestly, the shape of most human lives. We do not skip the mourning. We sit in it fully, we name what was lost, and then we rise. Every single time, for thousands of years, we have risen.
So tonight I sit with the weight of it. And I know what is coming after.
To all who are observing, may your fast be meaningful ✡️
im fucking crying
Which of these did you NOT know?
I knew all of these things
Calvin Klein is real
Calvin Klein is alive
Calvin Klein is gay
Calvin Klein is real and alive
Calvin Klein is real and gay
Calvin Klein is alive and gay
I didn't know any of these things
imagine a goat with a hat
STOP-
what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat
"It really is hard to pretend im in a 'community' with trans men they are all so transmisoginistic" "I just can't trust trans women anymore all of them hate us transmascs :(" aaaand blocked. Get away from me with your weird generalization bullshit. Get along with the members from your community that are different from you OR ELSE
You dont have to get along with everyone but Can We Be Normal About Each Other Please
ive had trans men ask me before how to overcome the insecurity/fear that they are transitioning just to escape misogynist treatment and wondering about the validity of their identity. the simple solution is that u must continue to engage and fight misogyny even when you are not a woman. prove your fear wrong
u really cannot out-validate an insecurity that u do not do the work to fight against the structure that supports it u know. i am the gender i am simply because it looked fucking yummy. the reason i dont experience doubts w it in this way is because any time i do i turn around to face the thing im 'running from' and punch it
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