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name: molly age: 23 birthday: december 7 major: communications & journalism other defining info: autistic & jewish pronouns: she/her timezone: est favorite ice cream flavor: cotton candy favorite book(s): peter pan & the great gatsby favorite movie(s): tangled, a goofy movie, bad moms, good boys, free guy, the breakfast club, overboard (1987), cheaper by the dozen (2003), peter pan (2003), the sandlot favorite musical(s): finding neverland, jersey boys, school of rock, mrs. doubtfire, billy elliot, beauty and the beast, rent, tick tick boom, waitress, a bronx tale, mamma mia, legally blonde favorite tv show(s): boy meets world, that ‘70s show, abbott elementary, american housewife, the other two, the suite life of zack and cody, good luck charlie, arthur, the brady bunch, the facts of life, diff’rent strokes, the hogan family, mighty ducks: game changers, hsm:tm:ts, raven’s home, wizards of waverly place, austin and ally favorite fictional characters: jack hunter, eric matthews, george feeny, natalie green, andy moffett, willis jackson, pj duncan, gabe duncan, eric forman, ricky bowen, gina porter, taylor otto, oliver otto, cooper bradford, mark hogan, sandy hogan, david hogan, willie hogan, trish de la rosa, austin moon favorite actors: jason bateman, kate hudson, meg donnelly, mila kunis, ashton kutcher, sabrina carpenter, dove cameron, luke mullen, indiana massara, jules leblanc, laura michelle kelly (theatre), ben fankhauser (theatre) favorite artists: sabrina carpenter, dove cameron, taylor swift, harry styles, niall horan, new hope club, the vamps, the driver era, wallows, lovelytheband, frankie valli & the four seasons, olivia rodrigo, lizzo, hippo campus, the lunar year, johnny orlando, dayglow, joan, ben platt, ruel, the 1975, elton john, the mowgli’s, vacation manor, bleachers, the band camino, public, the regrettes, dnce, the jonas brothers, the night game, courtship., new rules, colony house, winnetka bowling league, surfaces, waterparks, the summer set, young rising sons, coin, neon trees, hotel apache favorite youtubers: danny gonzalez, drew gooden, grayson’s projects, kurtis conner, liam thompson, hannah meloche, hannah forcier, cody ko, life with beans, crazy middles, collegehumor, mia’s life, family freedom, julia boateng, mina le, mila tequila, anthpo, the sturniolo triplets, jake doolittle, molly burke, daniel thrasher

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skrunksthatwunk

see 0 note flop posts aren't that bad when they're personal but 0 note fandom posts feel literally so bad. like if you don't wanna play toys with me anymore just say that. i'll pack up my super cool awesome things and go and i'll sit on the other side of the playground by myself and i won't even look at you. fuck

everythingfox

Horsing around

pippindot

Chillin like a villain

blues-sevenfold

johnmulaneys

THE OTHER TWO S1E3 - Chase Gets a Girlfriend

todaysbat

Image description: photo of a brown sign with white text that reads: "You can't save everything cute, eat everything that tastes good, and kill everything you're afraid of and expect a working ecosystem to come out of it." -- Flip Nicklin, wildlife photographer

Image source: photograph by op

thanook

"there better not be an almost massless particle fucking up our sensors"

the notorious neutrino:

martacorss

Night sky Summer, 2016

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huariqueje

The Corridor - Chiara Gaggiotti , 2021.

italian , b. 1980s

Oil on wood , 65 x 54 cm.

wurmzone

Hey, I'm Walking Here!

askmrtorgue

LIST OF PROBLEMS THAT CANNOT BE SOLVED BY PUNCHING

ARM TIRED FROM TOO MUCH PUNCHING

CERTAIN SUDOKU PUZZLES

END OF LIST

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PROBLEM ONE CAN BE SOLVED BY USING YOUR OTHER ARM?

askmrtorgue

WE ARE IN A BRAVE NEW FRONTIER

chutzpahchesed

The vile murder of 6 Israeli hostages tells us who Hamas is – the heroic rescue of Bedouin captive Farhan al-Qadi tells us who Israel is

Israel, for almost a year, I am with you on the agonizing rollercoaster of despair and hope, hope and despair. I feel the crescendo of our briefest joy and I carry in my viscera the depths of our cavernous anguish

Just last week, 326 days after Hamas invaded Israel, pillaged, raped, and murdered 1,189 people – entire families, communities even unborn future generations in an act of ‘kinocide‘ (the weaponization of the destruction of families some consider a new crime against humanity), and abducted more than 250 hostages, Israel delivered a remarkable moment of joy.

Bedouin Israeli Muslim hostage Farhan al-Qadi was rescued by an 18-strong elite special forces IDF unit from the misery and barbarism of Hamas captivity, almost 10 months of it spent inside the subterranean dungeons of Hamas, some more than 230 feet below ground. In a tightly run operation, eyes shielded sunshine al-Qadi likely hadn’t seen for months, the IDF brought back the Bedouin to his astounded family and his elated nation.

Days later Israel is once again plunged into a vortex of grief. The whiplash from despair to joy to grief is intolerable. Joyful celebrations that night in the Bedouin city of Rahat in the Negev are already a fading memory as Israel rallies around the enormity of grief and rage.

When Farhi addressed the Prime Minister as “Abu Yair,” the Bedouin’s plain words revived hope for coexistence between two peoples. Days later, Hamas brutally crushed even this meager joy as they executed, possibly within earshot of the IDF, six hostages abducted on October 7, one an American, each shot at close range.

The cruelty is unbearable. The cruelty is more than one nation, more than two peoples, more than humanity can bear.

The six Israeli hostages were murdered some time Thursday night or Friday morning, two or three days after Farhi’s rescue – and possibly hours after the cabinet took a vote to hold a hard line on security measures along the Egyptian border. Many Israelis are linking these, particularly as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is reported to have explicitly said the vote would lead to hostage deaths. Others believe it may have been that IDF soldiers were closing in and the captors murdered the hostages before retreating. We may never have the full story unless the captors themselves are captured and questioned.

As a Muslim committed to Islam, and thus starkly opposed to the mendacious, totalitarian imposter of Islam that is Islamism, the underpinning of all Hamas’s words, deeds, and diabolical aspirations, I and countless other Muslims around the world who saw a humble Muslim Israeli rescued by the IDF only to witness this appalling execution of hostages at the last moment of rescue are reaffirmed in our mission to expose, disavow, reject and dismantle Islamism by all means possible. Even when Israel is bleeding and brokenhearted, you give us strength. You demand we be strong as you force us to confront the rank evil and ruthlessness of Hamas.

Hamas held these hostages along with hundreds of others, all the while claiming to represent the Palestinian people who have themselves been captive above ground as part of Hamas’s calculated collateral damage strategy. It is a strategy wherein maximizing Palestinian deaths translates as political capital for Hamas’s totalitarian Islamist aims: the eradication of the Jewish people, the elimination of the Jewish State and, let’s not forget, as Hamas says in its own words, the eradication of as many Palestinian lives as called for by their own sick calculus.

Hamas’s is a dual genocide, of Israelis and of their Palestinian brethren.

I toured Israel’s Gaza border region in the days after October 7. I saw the sites of the atrocities, spoke, interviewed, and filmed eyewitness survivors of the appalling massacres, and bore witness examining the bodies of the murdered, remnants of those incinerated, and other human remains.

Almost exactly a year on I will return to these places in mark of respect and commitment, just as Hamas’s war is not over, neither is mine on them.

Hamas’s war is the nihilist war waged by all Islamists. Embracing religionized war, Hamas espouses an ideology that has raised killing above all sacraments. Its enmity is not merely about Israel, or Palestinians or territories, or even the Jewish people. It rejects all Western constructs, a universal value of which is that the Holocaust is a crime against humanity. Hamas deems this and other humanist values an intellectual invasion and cultivates a cosmic enmity with all Jews. All humanity — you and I — become mere collateral.

Islamism is not Islam. Islam demands that we as Muslims have sympathy for our fellow beings even if, mortals that we are, we might feel allegiance to our own. Many under such allegiance are legitimizing Hamas, deluded by the dehumanization of the Jewish people that Islamism indoctrinates. Far from a moral stance, tolerating Hamas or even going so far as to celebrate it as in some way “defenders” of the Palestinian ‘against’ the Israeli is, in fact, an immoral fallacy.

The Quran reminds us to “Contend not on behalf of the treacherous. Plead not on behalf of those who persist in being unfaithful. God loves not those who are perfidious.” Quran 4;106-108

Israel is part of humanity and is fighting Hamas on behalf of humanity. When Israel is bleeding and broken, a part of our humanity – my humanity – bleeds too. The recovery of al-Qadi is a resounding victory for all who stand against Islamism. The death of six hostages executed on the threshold of salvation is a horrific loss sustained not only by Israel but by all of humanity. As in the Torah so too in the Quran, the murder of one is the murder of all mankind.

Hamas embodies Islamism’s dangerous creed of religionized antisemitism. Hamas’s acts embody its words, as it murders Jew after Jew while expending Palestinian lives to do so, its appetite for death boundless. A ruthless, malevolent, and unrelenting enemy of all humanity, there can be no accommodating Hamas. Nor can a peace be built with them. And, because humanity is me and you, Israel, your losses are made mine. Baruch Dayan Emet.