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♡♡♡ 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖊, 𝖍𝖊/𝖍𝖎𝖒, 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞/𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖒. 21. 𝕱𝖎𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖍 & (𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌) 𝕶𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖆𝖓. 𝕹𝖊𝖚𝖗𝖔𝖉𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙. 𝕴 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖓𝖘, 𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖑𝖘, 𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗, 𝖑𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖆 𝖋𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖔𝖓, 𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖕𝖞 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖇𝖎𝖉. 𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖘-𝖘𝖆𝖋𝖊 (𝖓𝖇 𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖑𝖚𝖉𝖊𝖉). 𝕬𝖗𝖙 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌: @crylambart ♡♡♡

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

Wait… Isn’t Ed Balls day coming up? ED BALLS DAY, I HAVE TO GET READY TO CELEBRATE 

[thewalrusfrompingu]

What’s Ed Balls day?

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

Omg, okay explanation time. 

On the 28th of April, 2011, Ed Balls got a Twitter account. He decided (as most people under the spotlight do) to attempted to look up his own name. However, all he did was tweet “Ed Balls”. This, for some reason, got retweeted by THOUSANDS of people. On a global scale. And because he didn’t know you could delete a tweet it stayed. Every year since then,the 28th of April is Ed Balls day. 

This is the infamous tweet

and here are some gems to celebrate that have followed the years, including last year where they framed the tweet and got him to sign it for charity

There are also LOADS MORE in this article from the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11566593/Ed-Balls-Day-fourth-anniversary-of-that-tweet.html 

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2017 WOOOP

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

Now that the clock has struck midnight…

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2018 WOOOOOOOOOOP

[lavender-and-red]

IT’S HERE

[flapjacques]

[ismellpestilence]

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2025!

[bugferatu]

ED BALLS

[homunculus-argument]

The entire range of human skin tones varies from so pale white that it's almost kind of blue, to so deep black that it's almost kind of blue, and I think that's beautiful. Do you love the colour of the guy.

[nocnitsa]

Harry Clarke- Judith slaying Holofernes, early 20th C

via Monster Brains

[ketubahring]

Lighting the first Hanukkah candle tonight feels more necessary than ever.

I illustrated this Jewish woman with her physical eyes closed because we all feel that deep need to shut out the cruelty and the noise of the world right now just to find a moment of internal peace. But I made sure her third eye was wide open because we must stay fully awakened to the unshakeable strength we carry.

That open eye represents the intuition and power that has kept our people alive for generations. It feels like there is a constant pressure trying to make us feel small or afraid to be visibly Jewish, but the entire story of Hanukkah is about the refusal to disappear when forces try to suppress us. We have always been a people who find light even when it seems impossible.

The smoke rising in this piece is a reminder that our spirit always ascends and endures no matter how hard others try to push it down. We cannot stop celebrating just because there is darkness out there, since Jewish joy is the ultimate form of resistance. We have to be prouder and stronger than ever to show that we aren’t going anywhere. I hope you feel that ancient power tonight.

Happy Hanukkah.

Copyright © 2025 Ketubah Ring. No reproduction, printing, resale, or use without permission.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Bondi Beach shooting: What we know so far about Hanukkah attack - BBC News

Eleven people have been killed in an attack targeting a Hanukkah event on the beach.

Tonight is the first night of Chanukkah. This gathering would have been a celebration to mark the holiday’s start. There were 1000 people there; 11 dead (plus one of the shooters), and 29 wounded, so far. They haven’t finished counting the casualties.

I mostly focus on antisemitism in America, but Diaspora communities all over the world have suffered a sharp uptick in antisemitic attacks in recent years:

A year ago, a synagogue was set on fire in Melbourne.

This January, a home formerly owned by by a Jewish community leader was vandalized with antisemitic slogans and two cars set on fire

A few days later, a childcare center near a Jewish school and synagogue was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti and firebombed

Two other synagogues were vandalized during this period

Members of the Australian Jewish community, though grief-stricken by this latest attack, are not surprised by it. Nor am I. We’re seeing the same bullshit here in the US, British and French Jews report much the same, and so forth. This is the new normal.

I know many of my Gentile friends are going to respond with expressions of support and sympathy. I’m grateful for that, I truly am, but I need you to do more. I need you to educate yourself about antisemitism, and to push back against it when you see it in your friend circles. Here are some books on the topic that may be useful for you:

Antisemitism: the Longest Hatred

Jews Don’t Count

On Antisemitism

[the-meaning-iz-42]

Everyone who is Australian please go today to give blood, they are saying that all the victims the blood supply is incredibly low and this is something small and practical you can do.

Heck if you are not Australian you should go donate blood because it's a good thing to do.

[singing-bowl]

thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight

[yurious-george]

I keep saying “separating men and women’s spaces is anti-feminist at its root and all competitions, bathrooms, etc., should be mixed-gender” and people keep saying “trans people should be allowed in their respective gendered spaces.” Which I agree with, but is only a step on the path, and I take issue with people treating it like an end goal. In fact, we COULD eliminate that step entirely by simply having mixed gender spaces.

I remember the fight for mixed gender sports, but now we’re fighting for trans people’s rights to be included in gendered sports. The only justification for gendered sports that exists is Those Men Will Crush Our Weak Little Women. It’s sexist. Segregation is always a means of oppression.

I’m not a fan of that goalpost shift, and I’m not sure why it’s so popular as of late.

[saltwaterembolism]

Humans of all the great apes are remarkably sexually non-dimorphic. The (mean) difference between men and women tends to be ~15%. For reference, other apes like gorillas, orangutans, tend to have about 50% dimorphism. 15% is comparable level of dimorphism to dogs and horses.

Both of which, if youll note, are species that we race in non-sexgender-segregated sports. There's not one derby for boy horses and another one for girl ones.

The majority of the dimorphism that we *see* is social and cultural. Women are discouraged from sports from a much earlier age than men. Women who are naturally tall and muscular may choose not to pursue body building because of social pressures for women to be small and dainty. Women who have broad shoulders, double jointed ankles and webbed toes (the things that make Michael Phelps such a good swimmer) may never touch a swimming pool in their life because of similar stigma surrounding women's bodies that men are not subject to.

Instead of looking to abolish the conditions that create these sexgender differences, trans-exclusionists attempt to reinforce the binary by asserting that women are naturally weak and there is no possible way to overcome this difference except by segregation. Ask yourself: who benefits from that train of thought?

[guttergirl-444]

[mintytrifecta]

[image description: the bugs bunny in a tuxedo "I wish all (blank) a very pleasant (blank)" meme edited to say "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant rosh hashanah". In front of Bugs there is a jar of honey, a stack of apples and pomegranates. In front of bug's mouth there is a shofar.]

[lepetitdragonvert]

Night and her Daughter Sleep

1902

Artist : Mary Lizzie Macomber (1861-1916)

[lepetitdragonvert]

Lilith

1924

Artist : Abel Pann (1883-1963)

Ye will surely not die

[songesoleil]

La Belle Dame Sans Merci.1905.

Art by Rose O’Neill.(1874-1944).

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Black wool riding habit, 1880-1889, Swedish.

By Augusta Lundin.

Worn by Irma von Geijer.

Hallwylska museet.

RIDDRÄKT Tredelad med liv, byxa och kjol av blåsvart yllejersey, byxan av något tunnare kvalitet a. Liv figursytt, med lång, formpressad, sm

[fashionsfromhistory]

Riding Jacket

c.1835

Europe

LACMA

[elhopper1sm]

Unpopular opinion but the reason being a teenager sucks is less to do with hormones and social cliques and more to do with the fact adults fucking hate teenagers. The fact that adults expect teenagers to be able to take on adult responsibilities yet don't deserve rights of an adult. They don't see teenagers as human beings and they aren't prepared to see kids with their own formed identities and humanity. Teenagers are so sexualized and seen as needing to take on more and more adult responsibilities. Yet when they want rights and humanity they are denied. The years your brain spends wanting nothing more than to form an identity are being taken away from you. Teenagers are essentially being kicked out of social spaces unless they have an extra 40 dollars lying around anytime they want to go out. Teenagers being kicked out of the mall just for existing or groomed into the school to prison pipeline. And now creating legislation to keep them off the Internet. Our society hates teenagers. And does everything we can to hurt them. The fact that anyone makes it out of their teenage years without trauma is a fucking miracle frankly.

[kaizenblue]