Yes all cops. Do Piracy. Trans rights.

Tankie punks fuck off. Trans rights are human rights. Most posts are queued, except for breaking news. Anonymous asks do not get published, period.

[nonbinaryjudean]

continuous Jewish presence in the Land of Israel

Coin with pomegranates from the Jewish War, 66-70 CE

Synagogue mosaic, 3rd-4th century

Synagogue menorah, 4th-5th century

Legal inscription from synagogue, 6th century

Aramaic inscription in Hebrew letters from Kursi, 6th century

Mosaic of the zodiac from Beth Alpha synagogue, 6th century

The Aleppo Codex, written in Tiberias, 10th century

The Rambam's writing on his journey to Israel, 1165/1166

The Mount of Olives, which has been used as a Jewish cemetery for over 3000 years. photo by Andrew Shiva.

First-hand account of the 1517 Hebron massacre

Torah Shields, 16th century

Synagogue of the Jews, Jerusalem, illustrated by John Carne, pub. 1836-1838

Jews at the Western Wall, 1880

Mazal-Saada, Yosef and Margalit Zinati, 1981. the Zinati family has lived in Peki'in for millennia. Margalit has been the synagogue's guardian for years, preserving the Jewish heritage of the town.

Shavuot celebration, 1946, photo by Zoltan Kluger

Ethiopian Jews celebrate Sigd, 2023

[turbomitzvah]

hey so fuck this lying asshole

[amygdalae]

still fucks me up what a bad rap coyotes get in peoples eyes. like ive talked to people who  see em as like. gross pests who should be culled. theyre literally just as cool as wolves just a lil smaller and less confident. i love them with all my heart to balance out all the coyote haters out there, coyotes rule theyre doing great

[amygdalae]

imagine having hatred in your heart for this beast

[amygdalae]

this post was so fucking funny I literally was just like “I like coyotes I think they’re cool” and so many people fucking hated it. Shut up I’m trying. To enjoy animal

[edenfenixblogs]

Love coyotes. As a concept. However, as someone who lives in a coyote area, I can also hate them. They have a tendency to murder small-to-medium-sized pets. I know several people whose cats and dogs were murdered by coyotes who hopped the fence into their yard.

We have a portion of our yard fenced off on the sides and on top with like a chicken wire ceiling to protect pets so they can go out at night and do their business without worrying about predators, like coyotes.

So, yes. Coyotes: cute, important for ecosystem, cool little dudes, etc. but also…they kill your pets and that makes many people hate them.

[captain-acab]

Now to be fair, the coyotes lived there before you did.

[edenfenixblogs]

Call me crazy, but I don’t think they should take that out on local dogs and cats????

I don’t hate coyotes but that’s a wild take.

[captain-acab]

However, as someone who lives in a coyote area, I can also hate them.

This u?

For real though, you (as in, human development. not just you as an individual) moved into a wild predator's territory, destroyed most of its natural habitat and food sources, then put left small docile prey animals outside unattended. And you're mad at the natural predator for *checks notes* eating the food you left out for it?

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[effbombmom]

as well they should because its fucking illegal. im tired of this administration getting away with crimes

[tanoraqui]

news story:

Democratic district attorneys vow to prosecute federal agents who target voting sites

President Donald Trump declined to rule out sending federal troops to polling places, prompting concern from Democrats around the country.

official website of the DAs’ Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach:

FAFO

FAFO

[koenji]

A plane filled with Iraqi Jewish refugees photographed on arrival at Lod Airport outside Tel Aviv in early 1951 (Teddy Brauner, GPO).

Today, November 30th, is Jewish Refugee day or Yom HaPlitim (יום הפליטים), and we remember their stories.

Their arrival came amid a mass exodus triggered by escalating persecution in Iraq, including violent pogroms such as the 1941 Farhud, during which Jewish homes and businesses were looted and many civilians including children were murdered and wounded. Jewish girls were publicly raped. The community also faced targeted assassinations, public executions such as the infamous Baghdad hangings, and a series of bombings in 1950–1951 aimed at Iraq's Jewish community. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Jews in Iraq were frequently arrested on fabricated charges, tortured in prison, and subjected to the banning of communal, religious and political activity. These pressures finally peaked in state-sanctioned expropriation, revocation of citizenship, and forced expatriation.

In 1951, 120,000 Iraqi Jews were issued passports for the sole purpose of emigration known as passports of No Return. A prerequisite was the waiving of all property and monetary belongings.

By the 1930s, Jews made up roughly a quarter of Baghdad’s total population, and by 1945 around 135,000 Jews lived across Iraq. Today only a handful remain.

This end of the millenia old Babylonian Jewish exile is referred to as Sant al-Tasqit.

This pattern was varied and repeated in every country across SWANA.

[blairhumphrey]

[captain-price-returns]

You will absolutely not be prepared for the logo that flashes at the end of this drone combat video

[leebrontide]

WOw I sure was not

[zoesupreme]

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly

reading an article about the guy who owns the Knicks and Madison Square Garden and they used facial recognition to track every move of a trans Knicks fan to try to make sure she didn't end up on game broadcasts and eventually just banned her from the arena.

[beemovieerotica]

every time I see some bigshot scientist revealed as a fraud my knee-jerk reaction is "hell yeah elisabeth bik got 'em good" AND IM RIGHT

PubPeer enables scientists to search for their publications or their peers publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation ano

SHE NEVER QUITS!!!!

ICONIC!!!!

[beemovieerotica]

> Elisabeth Bik is on patreon <

She is not directly paid for her work to vet papers, she has been hit with legal action & death threats by scientists who hate that she's exposing them and their financial fraud, and she keeps at it every single day, combing through thousands of papers to make science more fair. Please consider supporting her!

[chiknluvr]

actually beautiful

About

Elisabeth Bik is a renowned microbiologist and science integrity advocate known for detecting image duplication in scientific publications.

[alientitty]

Retraction Watch

Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

[thefairytaler]

people telling diabetics in that last post to ‘go to the bathroom to do their insulin’ do you understand how awful that is, like for a million reasons but protip from someone on an injection based medication: Please do not put anything inside your body in a bathroom, that’s where the shit and piss live, disabled people don’t owe you a major infection because you can’t look away and handle your own issues with needles while they take their meds.

[thefairytaler]

Like you know how people started/have started pointing out that it's disgusting to expect/want/tell nursing parents to go nurse their baby in the bathroom? Because it's uncomfortable, demeaning, dehumanizing, unsanitary, and dangerous?

I have shocking news about how all this applies to the disabled as well.

[imyourbadjew]

the childish tendency to blame every single one of the world's problems on billionaires was a direct pipeline to the current antisemitism send tweet

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

Further: The antisemitic tendency is in needing the state of the world to be someone’s fault, generally

What if conflict isn't entirely a product of a handful of convenient cartoon villains, what if those problems stem from normal people having grievances and just genuinely not all agreeing with each other

[perfectlynormalperson]

Even in the case of people who are cartoonishly villainous, there are large swathes of normal people who endorse and support them and thats where they get a lot of their power and influence. Trump did not become president off of the billionaire vote.

[nitpickspot]

If only there were some culture in the world who could save us with their millenia long tradition of debate, nuance and empathy.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We all know that a large number of the convicts sent to Australia back in the day were convicted of "stealing a crust of bread to feed my little sister" type crimes but today I learned that a lot of them were sent for stealing their workhouse uniforms. By which I mean they were from Victorian workhouses, which were desperate, exploitative and abusive places on purpose (to encourage people to stop being poor), they decided to take that encouragement and try to make it on their own, left (which they were allowed to do)... and were arrested, imprisoned and eventually sent as convict labour to Australia because they were wearing the uniform they were given when they entered the workhouse (their own stuff was usually all confiscated when they arrived and workhouses didn't pay wages at this time so there was no way for them to get any other clothes). Imagine quitting your job at a fast food restaurant and then you get sent to a distant colony to die tilling fields for the military because you wore your stupid little uniform hat home.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Humanity fucking loves having a prison industrial complex so much. We can just never stop doing it.

[captain-acab]

Bold of you to suggest colonial Britain had humanity

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

The Substack-ification of American Religion

Why young men aren't really going back to church, why liberals are sadder than conservatives, and how "Substack-ification" is transforming t

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

— Godstruck: Seven Women’s Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion

[shofarsogood]

At my job as a social worker, we ask people if they have a religion/faith system/spiritual calling. Because we know that having religion generally helps people out of depression and keeps them from committing suicide. And people who go to church/synagogue/mosque/temple have a support system! When my grandfather died, my synagogue did a meal train. We didn't have to cook while mourning. They also organized meal trains for a congregant who had a baby and one who had gender affirming surgery. It's much easier to heal from heartbreak or surgery when people are caring about you and checking in on you.

[storm-of-feathers]

speaking of volcanology i am at my LIMIT with people thinking that yellowstone is "overdue". Its not fucking pregnant. if it ever erupts again we'll have decades if not centuries of warning. whenever theres "increased activity" there it means something vibrated a bit more or something.

and while we're on it the eruptions happening rn are also not out of the ordinary. what kilauea is doing is not a cause for alarm. volcanoes erupt all the time its a part of our planet I am losing my mind

[he-who-reads-until-dawn]

They aborted the Yellowstone super eruption because of woke

[storm-of-feathers]

this is true

[nerd-bastard]

#fun fact: yellowstone has to replace their roads fucking constantly because of how much the magma shifts!#they rise and fall like frost heaves except much more extensive and it cracks any concrete or asphalt all to hell#i only lived there for like two years and the road was repaved twice#this is why so many roads in the park are gravel. they might be annoying but at least they don't have to rip it up every summer.#anyway.#my point being that we have kind of a good eye on the yellowstone situation because that kind of fuckery happens all the time#if/when it blows we're probably going to have lots of notice#science!

something delightful about a national park actively resisting being paved at all. fuck em up girl, be free

[weirdtranssexual]

are most of my political views significantly left leaning? to the point where it’d be simpler to call myself a leftist? yes. will i call myself a leftist ever again after seeing the way the left has been consumed by rabid jew hate in the name of antizionism since 10/7? probably not.

i have more in common with “liberal normies” who care about actual leftist ideals and making those ideals a reality than the majority of self described leftists. i have more in common with centrists who critically engage with biases in politics and the media than i do with leftists overall.

[mariacallous]

[mousidy]

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

[shinon-shn]

to elaborate: every piece of demographic information recorded on your passport is designed to deny you rights, not grant them. nationality? denies entry to countries that don't match it. age? denies access to products, services, and locations that the state deems inappropriate. sex? denies... wait a moment, why is this information written here? race and sexuality aren't, so why sex? so when TERFs talk about "defending sex-based rights", not only are they referring to something that has no legal precedent (rights are not "sex-based") - they're also defending the state's power to deny rights based on the "sex" marker in your ID.

in the UK, political parties are pushing for mandatory universal digital identification. queer people ought to know in advance exactly what this will entail.

[entomologist-of-abraham]

Aaaaaand there it is. First confirmed USA case of Cochliomyia hominivorax (primary screwworm / new world screwworm) that wasn't from traveling abroad. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-announcements/usda-confirms-presence-new-world-screwworm-united-states The effected animal is a calf in Zavala County, which is South West of San Antonio and North of Laredo.

I know A&M has a taskforce set up already, another entomologist with grant funding to study the issue (and lab renovations), and the Kerrville lab is actively working on the problem as well. My own university has sent out some internal memos about the issue, and I've been coordinating with some colleagues on it myself. But it's here. Which means we're in for a ride.