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Ok so this post is extremely long and I put it all together for my blogs Feeling sad page but as I don’t have a huge amount of followers I realize so many people are not seeing this information so I’m posting it here too!

alternatives without harming yourself:

holding/squeezing ice.

splashing your face with water.

getting a rubber band and snapping it against your skin (this could hurt, though it’s better than other ways that people usually choose to self-harm).

take a hot shower or bath.

eat something sour. it will take your mind of the urge. (lemon, sour lollies)

massage where you want to self-harm.

get a red pen or red paint and draw/paint over where you usually self-harm.

remind yourself as to why you shouldn’t do it. (scars, harms organs, leave memories etc…)

describe what you are feeling. (is the urge/pain in your chest, fists, legs, arms, head).

killing yourself will not help. it is not a solution.

you have your whole life ahead of you. you have so many more years that you can accomplish things in. for example;

having a family.

getting married.

to watch the sun rise.

to watch the sun set.

to save someone else’s life.

finish school.

get your dream job.

to laugh.

to smile.

to go camping.

travel to new places.

to wake up every morning to the person you love.

friends.

family.

to keep that promise you made.

to accomplish a goal.

to meet your idol.

to listen to new music.

theme parks.

video games.

chocolate.

to be able to look back and say “i made it”.

what you’re going through is temporary.

in case you need to hear this:

you are loved.

you are wanted.

you are needed.

you are beautiful.

you are handsome.

you are important.

you are not alone.

you are okay.

you are strong.

you are worth it.

you are smart.

you are not a failure.

you are useful.

you are going to be okay.

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is it bad this post triggered me 😭

[stoptheantisemitism]

They love making up scenarios to get mad at and play victim.

No one at the DSA said this or anything even remotely close to it but they know that.

What people are saying is "Stop the genocide of Palestinians" and if you find that antisemitic the problem is you.

OP is being antisemitic when saying stuff like this because he thinks Judaism requires the genocide of Palestinians.

[bestri]

Israel and Palestine are in a war, people die in war. the issue with the pro-palestine movement is that the majority of pro Palestinian people want to destroy Israel, which is a country where Jews are safe in. there are multiple cases of Jews being forced to move to Israel bc where they were living before just wasn't safe for them anymore. if you get rid of Israel, you get rid of a country where Jewish people are safe. the second issue is that the pro-palestine movement has been used to excuse acts of violent antisemitism. for example, two Jews were shot leaving the Capital Jewish Museum, without the shooter knowing if they were Zionist Jews or anti Zionist Jews. a pro-Palestinian person burned a Holocaust survivor alive in her home in France. the pro Palestine movement allows or even encourages antisemitism, which in turn makes more Jews think about moving to Israel for safety. if you don't want Israel to exist, make the rest of the world a safer place for Jews

[alleesaur]

the productivity creatures

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

you make one fucking post where the point is “women are encouraged to develop disordered eating from a very young age and that impacts how we view the ‘natural’ size and shape of women” and too many reblogs later i am being accused of saying short people wouldn’t exist if they ate better growing up. i’m sorry but if you genuinely think i was saying that you are just a buffoon. i cannot and will not sanction your buffoonery.

[starsidesomething]

ANTISEMITISM IS BAD

JEWISH PEOPLE EXISTING DOESN’T HURT YOU

THE ONLY GOOD NAZI IS A DEAD NAZI

I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO GET DEATH THREATS TO MY FUCKING NEOPETS BLOG JUST BECAUSE I’M A JEW

[chutzpahchesed]

henmazzig:

I hate how angry I get in this video.

“I’ll get into trouble for this.”

She won’t.

Nobody has ever gotten in trouble for this.

The takes get softer, the platforms get bigger, and the bravery is announced in advance like a tour date.

Robby Hoffman says antisemitism isn’t the worst thing. In a surprise to absolutely no one, she co-stars on Hacks with Hannah Einbinder, Hollywood’s loudest anti-Israel Jew. Maybe attacking and distancing yourself from your own people is just what that set does for applause now. It’s becoming a genre.

Since October 7th, “not the worst thing” looked like this: Matilda, a little girl shot dead at a Hanukkah celebration on the beach. Yaron and Sarah, shot in the back leaving a Jewish museum. He’d just bought the ring. Melvin and Adrian, killed outside their synagogue on Yom Kippur. Karen Diamond, 82, set on fire at a walk for the hostages. She died of her burns.

They weren’t offended. They were murdered.

My grandparents survived the Farhud in Baghdad, 1941. Two days, their neighbors, the streets full of Jewish dead.

Every massacre in our history started the same way— with someone influential shrugging.

Antisemitism is bad. That’s the whole sentence.

I think he deserves to be angrier, actually. we’re watching this explode in every corner of society, to the point where people are terrified to let strangers know they’re Jewish, to the point where Jews merely existing in public places or at events causes people to cause massive uproars, hurl slurs at them, and accost them. even if this didn’t come with a death toll - and it does - the hate crimes and harassment that precede murders (we know this historically) would be cause for concern. the arrogant, callous reaction that it’s not a big deal is exactly why it’s becoming normalized. everyone engaging in it knows they can get away with it.

[emmaubler]

This woman feels extremely insulated from any real consequences, and it shows. The leopards are never going to eat her face, so why should she care if someone else gets eaten offended?

Treating someone poorly, discriminating against someone, or harming someone because of their demographic is always wrong. There's never a reason to add a "but" to that statement.

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

I always forget there are maga people on tumblr, this doesn’t feel like a website you’d find them on, so to keep them away:

Reblog if your blog is a maga free zone because if it wasn’t clear enough fuck ice, fuck maga, fuck Trump, Fuck Rowling, and fuck all the other bigots I missed

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

In case anyone missed it

[weberina]

I feel compelled to post this PSA after observing the behaviours of those around me during the increasingly frequent heatwaves in the UK. This is specifically for the benefit of native Brits living in the UK. As someone from the tropics, PLEASE HEED MY WARNING.

How to survive a heatwave in the UK:

Please, please, please, for the love of all that is good, DO NOT run towards the sun when it comes out during a heatwave. I know we don't see it a lot, but you will from now on, I promise you. Sun yourself in the early mornings and late evenings if you must, BUT STAY AWAY from the sun at its hottest (11am--4pm), it is NOT YOUR FRIEND.

Houses in the UK are built like ovens, i.e. they are designed to keep heat IN. So, how do you make sure you don't get baked alive? Cool your house down the night BEFORE. Open all windows and doors once the outside temperature is lower than the inside temperature. Keep them open for as long as you can. Shut them up before bedtime (if you need to), and then reopen them again early next morning. Wear a coat if it gets too cold but suck it up.

Then, right before you hit temperature parity, seal everything shut. This keeps the cool air IN, and plays to the advantage of your insulation.

Make sure you close all blinds and curtains of windows facing the sun (rmb that the sun moves during the day). Unless you have heat-reflective films on the windows, the sun shining directly through the windows will heat up the room very, very quickly, and then the room will retain said heat, coz it's designed to retain heat.

If you feel hot in a room, turn on a fan. DO NOT open the windows in the middle of the day "to let a breeze in". That's a 33-39C breeze. Keep that shit out.

DRINK LOTS and LOTS of water. Chug it like there's no tomorrow. (edit: hyperbole here. do not chug it like beer. as suggested by @queenofthearchipelago below, reasonable amounts throughout the day). NOT tea, NOT coffee, NOT squash. WATER.

Shade is your friend. Don't put on sunglasses and think you're safe from the sun. Wear a wide-brimmed hat. Pick routes that are shaded. Learn from your Asian friends and bring an umbrella. Yes, an umbrella. Preferably a sun-reflective one.

Please stay safe in the heat, my friends!!

[dizziedupgirl]

“The uk heatwave is nothing to cry about”

THE WORLD IS DYING YOU DUMB F!CK

It is not supposed to be this hot.

England was 35° Paris was in the 40s

This is climate change

This is your dumb ai “remove the background” “turn me into a movie character” “change my hair colour”

This is your £200 shein hauls every 3 months

This is your new iPhones each new releases

This is your “omg this is the viral *insert stupid unimportant wasteful product*”

This is your “oh that doesn’t matter nothing will change Greta Thunburg is just sprouting nonsense for attention”

[whimsy-flags]

Some Pride spirals! Enjoy~

[eretzyisrael]

[h4ganah]

"retained"

"should not be allowed to leave"

holy shit can you try to sound any more ominous

"progressivism" = when your tokenised people of choice can have a little slavery, as a treat

[themodernmaccabee]

I swear to Go-d this will be explained as some sort of prison sentence or community service action for the crime of ... *checks notes*... living in Israel.

I also do love the part where they explicitly say Jews. Not Israelis, just Jews.

[knight-of-skyloft]

Remember when Trump talked about "Shylocks and bad [bankers]" in a speech and people on the right were arguing that he didn't mean Jews, he was just making a Shakespeare reference because he's so cultured, and we all saw how stupid and willfully blind that was?

Yeah, that's exactly how everyone defending Mamdani for saying "AIPAC uses dark money to sow discord" sounds right now.

[girlactionfigure]

OPERATION SIG

The Soviet Union began exporting antisemitic propaganda to the Arab world as early as the 1950s, when it disseminated Nazi-era, German-made propaganda films.

But following the 1967 Six Day War, the Soviet regime saw the perfect opportunity to strengthen its sphere of influence over Arab nations.

To do so, it launched a covert operation known as “Zionist Governments,” or “Operation SIG,” after its Russian acronym. It was overseen by top Soviet intelligence officers, including KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov and Romanian defector Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa. Pacepa later spoke to the Western press about their roles in the operation.

The goal of the operation was to portray Israel and the United States as imperialist threats to Islam, as well as to infiltrate academia in both the Middle East and the Western world, rewriting the history of both Israel’s establishment and the Zionist movement. 

SIG’s core messages were the following:

Jews and/or Zionists create or fake antisemitism to elicit sympathy.

Zionist organizations engage in espionage, which is why Jewish and/or Israeli organizations carry out humanitarian work and help impoverished communities.

Zionism is a Trojan horse for racism and imperialism in the developing world.

The Zionists worked with the Nazis during the Holocaust.

The State of Israel is the new Nazi Germany.

METHODS

Over the decades, SIG strategically employed a number of methods to carry out its disinformation campaigns, including:

Repetition: the Soviets repeated the same accusations against the Jewish state over and over again, until the substance of the accusation was no longer questioned and instead was accepted as fact.

Guilt by association: whenever anything bad happened in the world, the Soviets used tenuous connections to link it back to the Jewish state.

Deception, but most importantly, distortion: Soviet lies about the Jewish state included small kernels of (distorted) truth, which made them all the more believable.

Weaponization of the public’s empathy: the Soviets deliberately used tragic images to turn public sentiment against Israel.

EXAMPLES

Distortion: in 1976, the Soviet Union accused Israel of “racial genocide” after several Palestinians were killed in clashes in the West Bank. There was no substance to the accusation; while death is always tragic, it is not, in the vast majority of cases, indicative of genocide.

Guilt by association: when, in 1969, a Australian Christian fundamentalist tourist named Denis Michael Rohan set fire to Al Aqsa Mosque. Though Rohan was not Israeli and was tried in court, deported, and confined to a psychiatric facility, the Soviet Union ran an international campaign blaming Israel for the incident.

ZIONOLOGY

"[Zionologist books] perceptibly [stir] up antisemitism under the flag of antizionism."

SOVIET HISTORIAN AND ACADEMIC M. KOROSTOVTSEV IN A LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, 1975

Zionology was a pseudoacademic discipline invented by the Soviets in the 1960s and 1970s. It laundered Soviet state-sponsored discrimination against Jews and age-old antisemitic conspiracies, using the language of sociology and political science to present antizionism as an anti-imperialist, anti-racist endeavor. 

To do so, Zionologists produced countless books, brochures, and academic journals delegitimizing Zionism and intellectualizing antizionist discrimination. Some of these titles included Beware: Zionism!, Zionism: The Essence of Man-Hatred, Fascism Under the Blue Star, Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination, Invasion Without Arms, and more.

RESOLUTION 3379

Without a doubt, the most successful outcome of Operation SIG was the passing of United Nations Resolution 3379, also known as the “Zionism is racism” resolution.

With the support of Arab and African nations under its sphere of influence, the resolution passed 75 to 35, with 32 abstentions.

Resolution 3379 never defined Zionism.

Resolution 3379 never explained why or how Zionism is a form of racism.

The resolution was repealed in 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union – that is not a coincidence – but it forever left its mark on Israel-Palestine discourse. 

Upon its repeal, the Russian government admitted that Resolution 3379 had been a Cold War propaganda ploy, calling it “a relic of the Ice Age.”

DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGNS

In the West, Soviet disinformation campaigns notoriously exploited racial tensions and infiltrated marginalized minority groups. The Soviets then fed these minorities antizionist propaganda.

Though the Soviet Union discriminated heavily against its own ethnic minorities, the KGB successfully infiltrated the American Civil Rights movement, sowing discord among activists, radicalizing leading figures, and discrediting those it saw as a problem, in particular Martin Luther King Jr., who was famously a friend of Israel.Some civil rights activists, like Angela Davis, who became a folk hero in the Soviet Union, were “adopted” by the Soviets. In fact, Soviet dissidents and political prisoners accused figures like Davis of hypocrisy for fighting against the American incarceration system while condoning the Soviet regime, which imprisoned political dissidents.

In spite of heavily repressing its own indigenous populations, the Soviet Union exploited the Native American struggle in its propaganda campaigns. Native American leaders were invited to visit socialist countries, and when American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier was imprisoned, the Soviet Union spearheaded an international campaign for his release.

“And yet you are l*nching N**roes”: in the Soviet Union, the phrase became a political catchphrase used as a “gotcha” against the United States when Americans brought up the USSR’s human rights abuses and is emblematic of the USSR’s disinformation campaigns that exploited the plight of American minorities. The phrase in fact predated the Soviet Union and is traced back to a 1905 political joke, in which an American condemns the Russians for the Kishinev Pogrom, and the Russian responds, “And yet you are l*nching N**roes.”

One of the most notorious Soviet disinformation campaigns targeting the West exploited the fears and struggle of the American LGBTQ+ community, despite the fact that the Soviet Union criminalized homosexuality. Gay men were sentenced to up to five years of hard labor in labor camps, while lesbians were often sent to psychiatric institutions.In the 1980s, the Soviets disseminated a conspiracy titled “Operation Denver,” in which they claimed that HIV/AIDS had been created in an American military laboratory in order to use as a biological weapon.

Beyond minorities, the Soviets also infiltrated American academia, using US-Soviet academic exchanges as opportunities for espionage and the dissemination of disinformation. The Soviets used tactics such as the use of “useful idiots” (well-meaning but ignorant leftists), “ideological subversion,” and more.

ANTIZIONIST COMMITTEE OF THE SOVIET PUBLIC

In 1974, the Soviet Union’s Central Committee Propaganda Department proposed the creation of an antizionist committee to discourage Jewish refuseniks from trying to emigrate. Its suggested name would be the Committee for the Struggle Against Zionism, which was meant to echo the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, a group that raised $33 million for the Soviet war effort during World War II (its members were later arrested, tortured, and executed by the Soviet regime). 

The Committee for the Struggle Against Zionism was never established, but in 1983, the Soviets founded the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public, or AKSO, for its Russian acronym. In the Russian media, AKSO portrayed the refusenik issue as a Zionist, imperialist psychological campaign against the Soviet Union, through which the Zionists fostered anti-Soviet sentiment around the world.

But it didn’t end there. AKSO also published countless propaganda booklets portraying Zionism as a tool of American imperialism and equating Zionism to Nazism, even inspiring current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s PhD dissertation.

TRACING BUZZWORDS

Virtually every single accusation lobbed against Israel today was first employed by the Soviet Union as part of its SIG operations.

In 1965, former member of the Syrian Nazi-aligned party Fayez Sayegh first wrote an academic paper titled “Zionist Colonialism in Palestine,” under the auspices of the Soviet-funded Palestine Research Center in Beirut.

In 1969, to detract from criticism of its treatment of the Soviet Jewish population, the Soviet Union unsuccessfully attempted to add a clause charging that “Zionism is Nazism” to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

On May 11, 1976, the New York Times reported that the Soviet Union had accused Israel of “racial genocide” at the United Nations.

In 1975, the Soviet Union spearheaded Resolution 3379, or the infamous “Zionism is racism” resolution at the United Nations.

In 1991, Iron Curtain defector Ion Mihai Pacepa admitted that the fourth chairman of the KGB, Yuri Andropov (1967-1982), had personally ordered the dissemination of the narrative that Israel is an apartheid state, through the publication of books and propaganda booklets such as “Zionism and Apartheid.”

"[The goal was to] instill a Nazi-style hatred for Jews throughout the Islamic world."

ION MIHAI PACEPA

"We had only to keep repeating our themes—that the United States and Israel were ‘fascist, imperial-Zionist countries’ bankrolled by rich Jews."

ION MIHAI PACEPA

BUT...WHY?

Everything the Soviet Union did vis-a-vis Israel and Palestine must be understood in the context of the Cold War, as the two world powers, the USSR and the United States, competed to grow their respective spheres of influence, especially among developing nations. It’s no coincidence that the Soviets began exporting antisemitic propaganda in the Middle East when Israel grew closer to Western nations in the 1950s.

The Soviets were constantly under international pressure over their human rights violations. Sponsoring and even creating revolutionary movements in the developing world was a way to exert influence, deflect, and throw the accusation back at the West. The Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public, for example, was created specifically to delegitimize refuseniks.

The Soviets suppressed nationalist movements of their ethnic minorities, considering them a threat to their territorial integrity.

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