Blazer of cat photos, not trails.

A heretic if there ever was one. NSFW at times. Any pronouns will do. No FARTs (Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Tranaphobes). My thanks to fattyatomicmutant for coming up with FART.

[magnetothemagnificent]

I recently came across a post from you stating that it’s “insidious” that Pride events are often scheduled on Saturday which means you as an observant Jews can’t go. Why is your schedule more important that everyone else’s? Why do non Jews, such as myself, need to schedule things according to your schedule?

Are you a religious Christian for whom a Pride parade is considered "work" and therefore something you would not be able to attend were it scheduled on a Sunday? Do you attend Mass on Sunday that takes all day and therefore limits your free time on Sunday? No? So then why is it such a hassle for things to be scheduled on a Sunday? In fact, many workplaces still don't give off Saturday as a given, but they do give off Sunday. Wouldn't you want more people (Jewish or not) to be included?

Jews, whether you like it or not, were and are deeply foundational to the modern LGBTQ Pride and Rights movement. Magnus Hirschfeld was a Jew. Harvey Milk was a Jew. Brenda Howard, the literal "Mother of Pride" was a Jew. They may not have been Orthodox Jews or Shabbat-observant, but Jews of all levels of observance and religiosity deserve to be included. And Jewish religious institutions have been supportive of LGBTQ causes for decades. And even if Jews weren't part of and supporters of the community from the start, Jews are part of the community now and ought to be included, as should people of all ethnicities, races, religions, and nationalities.

But honestly? My views have changed since I made that post that earned it a screenshot and post onto reddit saying "look how crazy and entitled those Jews are". I think the Western LGBTQ movement's exclusion and hatred of Jews now goes far beyond scheduling things on Saturdays. That's just the surface level. Things are far more overt when Jewish interest groups are quite literally banned from Pride events, when Jews are regularly harassed and attacked both off-line and online, when the overwhelming message from the Western LGBTQ world is that an LGBTQ person who is also a Jew is a traitor to their own kind. And it gets worse and worse each year as more LGBTQ people trade in their own safety and welfare and future prospects to spend their time, energy, and money hating Jews. Not only is it disgustingly hateful, it's counterproductive. LGBTQ rights are being attacked and stripped away all around the Western world, but people care more about investing their energy into best excluding Jews, Jews who, LGBTQ or not, would be and are supportive of LGBTQ causes. It's deeply insidious.

My schedule isn't more important than anyone else's. I know that. You know that, and you know that you were reading my post in bad faith. Jews are not the only people who would benefit from important Pride events not being scheduled on Saturdays. People who still have to work on Saturdays would benefit too. And I know you read a tiny snippet of my post and blacked out, because in that post I also mentioned Pride events being scheduled on Jewish holidays (Shavuot often times falls out in June). I think if you are in a community with a large number of Jews who are contributing members, it's only basic decency to be considerate. I am annoyed at conventions that do that same thing, mind you. But "niche interest conventions" are not a broad, umbrella movement the way the Western LGBTQ movement is. A science fiction convention isn't part of the same movement as a WWII history airshow, for example, and they are often not run by the same kinds of people and they are often not even attended by the same kinds of people.

Put on your thinking cap and think for a moment as to why you have such a visceral reaction to a Jew asking to be included.

[tzelofachad]

Can you walk to pride parades?

[magnetothemagnificent]

Depends where you live, depends on the person. For some people, being in a parade, where music is blasting, etc. isn't okay on Shabbat, it's not in the spirit of Shabbat. There's also the issue of how to get there, or even what to do once you're there. If a city doesn't have an Eruv, an Eruv observant Jew wouldn't be able to carry anything. And then there's distance. Some people don't live within walking distance of their local parades.

[daniel-oneiroi-daily]

For Sale: Antique Bible Books

You like the Anne Rice Catholic/Xtian aesthetic, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, all the revamped 90s goth? Old World church aesthetic without the guilt and fear of eternal torment? Maybe you already got that part and now it's kinky, idk, you do you.

I can't resolve all that.

But I CAN resolve your need for cool Aesthetic books you will probably glance through and turn into art or something. Plus, Euro vampires have a big thing with catholicism. Your room can, too.

This early 1900s "Story of the Bible" is not in great shape but a lot of the pages are nice, not falling out, are filled with illustrations, and the cover looks cool.

Direct link to this book

I have a couple lots going up. This is an individual book, but most others will be in lots. Antiques will likely be individual.

Lions.and.Exiles on Mercari (link)

[avoicefromthestars]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine A Man Alone

You must miss Curzon, too.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

i feel like starting an argument

think carefully before voting

if you press the RED BUTTON, you LIVE. if you press the BLUE BUTTON, you will DIE, UNLESS one (1) person who reblogs from you ALSO presses the BLUE BUTTON

red

blue

Remaining time: 6 days 12 hours

reblog this post and put in the tags what you voted for

[technicoloryuri]

So I'm voting Red mainly because I'm close to the start of the chain and I have no information about how OP voted.

Assuming that information about who previously voted in your chain is provided it's still never a good idea to pick blue for one reason: every time someone picks blue atleast one more person can die.

Let's frame the voting structure as a tree, with OP at the root. Assuming op picked red, there is zero reason to pick blue, there is no one to save and picking blue puts yourself at risk. Thus making Red the obvious choice should the previous person on your branch have voted Red.

Voting blue however also has very little reason to be picked. Since we have information about what the previous voter picked it we assume that they picked blue we now have a decision to make, save yourself or save the person you voted from. Believe it or not being selfish reduces risk total deaths.

Since the person you previously voted from voted blue and can have any number of people after them vote from their branch, they can have any number of people vote blue to save them, however if more than one person votes blue, the number of possible deaths (and eventual deaths when the chains are inevitably ended when all possible votes are cares casted) increases by the number of extra blue votes.

Thus even if your previous voter voted blue, picking red is the smart decision. because voting blue not only puts yourself at unnecessary risk, but you are also putting the descendants of your branch at risk as well as they may vote blue to try and save you and generate extra blue votes.

This logic still holds in a system where you don't know the answer to who voted previously, voting blue will always increase the amount of risk taken on by those in your branch while voting Red does not create any additional risk.

Under this system there is no reason to vote blue, your vote at most saves a single individual and eventually those at the end of a blue voting chain will die.

Ergo the optimal voting strategy to save the most lives would be to vote red. As it ends blue voting benches and prevents more from being created

[cannibal-flowerbomb]

Chat pick blue

[technicoloryuri]

Can't argue with that logic everyone hit Blue

[mackerelllll]

from @/vero_muerte on tiktok!!

found this video at <2000 likes and i NEED more people to see this because. yeah.

[positivelyqueer]

Transcript:

“Maybe I like looking trans "oh your voice is too deep" Maybe I like having a deep voice. Maybe I'm not your femme fantasy. Maybe I'm my own fantasy. I love looking trans. I fucking hope that when I walk down the street, they say, "look at that transsexual!" And just maybe someone will see me and think, "hey, I can live that way, too."”

[scrixels]

My summer project for myself is to make a collection of 16 of these embroidered thimble rings (called kaga yubinuki), these are my first 2 ^^

[scrixels]

using this as an opportunity to add this link to this post too:

Thank you for coming back to my blog after so long a leave (again).  I plan to update my blog at least once a month but as you see it has be

really clear, written instructions that explain the why as well as the how. there's a lot of beautiful, simple designs on her blog as well!

[theonion]

In a move that left hundreds of longtime residents scrambling to find alternative housing, municipal construction crews reportedly demolished a local Black neighborhood Thursday, part of an ongoing city project to make room for nothing in particular. “For decades, this part of Fort Worth has languished as nothing more than a loving community for African American families and a bustling hub for Black-owned businesses,” said Mayor Mattie Parker, adding that the destruction of dozens of beloved restaurants, theaters, barbershops, and newspapers was an essential step toward creating more vacant lots that could sit empty behind fences for an indefinite length of time.

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[parkchanwoohoo]

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue

[thirteens-earring]

Video captions: And stop trying to show your ex what they missed out on! Stop trying to teach your family a lesson for not believing in you! Stop trying to shit on your haters! Do it for you! Do it because you deserve it! Do it for YOU! Water your dreams with love! Don’t put no hate and resentment, and try to — “oh Imma fucking show them, Imma show” — FUCK THEM! Fuck them, do it for you! They don’t matter! They NEVER mattered.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Squeals of horror over price caps – but how are we going to fix our broken food system?

Global events and the climate crisis have left Britain’s food system dangerously exposed and in desperate need of an overhaul

Firstly, the food price surge over the summer and beyond is likely to be significant – and will come on top of a near-40% rise in the price of food since 2020 – due to a devastating combination of the Iran war and a forecast record-breaking El Niño, which will hammer global food production. And secondly, Britain’s food system is painfully exposed to such shocks. The long-held assumption that a global food system can be relied on to meet the nation’s needs, at a reasonable price, no longer applies. With about one-third of the fertiliser trade travelling through the strait of Hormuz, and about half of the world population’s food supply dependent on artificial fertiliser, the shock to global food systems will play out over the next year – regardless of how quickly the strait may or may not reopen. The strait of Hormuz isn’t the only chokepoint in the global food system. In a prescient study from 2017, the foreign policy thinktank Chatham House said the world food system had become painfully exposed to 14 “critical junctures”, from the strait of Hormuz to the strait of Malacca, between the Malay peninsula and Sumatra, to the Black Sea ports that connect Ukrainian and Russian farmers to the world. The Panama canal is another; a multi-year drought across Central America has restricted transits through the freshwater-fed canal, which carries 16% of the world’s grain trade, forcing up global prices.

[...]

World hunger has been rising since 2014, with Covid-19 markedly accelerating the trend. And a belief that open markets can always compensate for disruption flies in the face of the growing dependency of the whole system on a few “breadbasket” locations, with 60% of global food production occurring in just five countries. It also ignores the possibility of simultaneous shocks – precisely what the climate crisis, as it leaves weather systems more unstable, starts to make more likely.

[...]

Our entire food system needs an overhaul. In private, the government recognises this. The grudgingly released summary of a still-secret Defra document on the national security risks from “ecosystem collapse” reported that “without significant increases in UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food … Countries best placed to adapt are those that invest in ecosystem protection and restoration, and resilient and efficient food systems.” Global price shocks alone won’t force the change, as an Oxford University study of previous shocks found. Government action is needed. Tariff reductions on nuts, and pleading with the supermarkets are unlikely to deliver results. Like other countries, the UK needs to rebuild its strategic food reserves, abandoned in the mid-1990s. It needs tighter government control and regulation of essential foods, including well designed price regulations like those being introduced across the world. And it needs a focus on longer-term investments in its own farming, supporting farmers in a more volatile environment with proposals like a basic income for farmers, and incentives to build in more resilient, sustainable food production.

24 May 2026

[sunflowerbutch]

me: *googling what kind of bike helmet i should get*

search result 1, AI-generated article: Since the dawn of time, humans have wondered what kind of bike helmet is best for protecting their cranium and lower intestine. In the event that you find yourself with a bike helmet, you must find a way to save your family. Therefore, we have compiled a list of qualities to look for. First, sodium content is of great importance when biking your helmet.

search results 2, 3, and 4: sponsored ads for bike helmets on amazon

search result 5, reddit thread: bikeaholic363736: hey guys, do any of you have experience with the windslapper 30g helmet from spronklegear?

spokejunkie666: it's probably the best helmet on the market right now. if you're not using the windslapper you might as well just be riding your bike into a woodchipper

handlebar_hamburglar: idiot. we've had this thread a hundred times. don't the mods enforce the repost ban anymore? OP, don't listen to spokejunkie. the windslapper is the leading cause of death in the netherlands

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[shadowen]

I'm scrolling Tumblr. I pause to watch a video of Amaury Guichon. He pours chocolate into a mold, then carefully removes the shape of a human head. There are time lapse clips of chocolate being formed into a body, limbs, and hair. As the final detail is finished, he steps back to reveal the figure of a beautiful woman, uncannily lifelike. He steps forward and places a delicate kiss on her lips. The figure, now a living human woman, stirs and looks around in wonder. Amaury Guichon looks into the camera with a wide smile and holds out his arms in presentation.

"Fucking chocolate guy," I mutter to myself before scrolling to the next post.

[theonewhopoops]

Throughout the video you see him molding, melting, filling, and piecing together chocolate, cake-filled, raspberry covered, spray painted organs.

[daniel-oneiroi]

She kisses him again.

He turns into chocolate.

[theconcealedweapon]

"Republicans opposed slavery. Democrats supported it."

Then why aren't Republicans demanding that Juneteenth be a national holiday?

[wiisagi-maiingan]

No citizens of any country are somehow inherently bad or evil because of their government. Full stop. That includes Russian citizens, Israeli citizens, Palestinian citizens, Chinese citizens, Iranian citizens, North Korean citizens, etc.

Everyone in this world is just living their lives, each with their own complex needs and desires and interests and emotions. They all have hobbies and friends and families and favorite foods. They all have their own motivations and varying political opinions and views on their governments. They all weigh the risks of standing out or speaking up and they all make their own decisions about that.

They all fear the same in times of danger. They all feel grief and pain and terror the same. They all love and hate and bleed the same.

They are people. They are no different from anyone else, they are not monsters or caricatures or nameless bodies in videos. Complexity and humanity are not exclusive to your country, to people like you.

[jewishtransdyke]

This should not be a controversial opinion. And yet somehow, it is.

[liarsblade]

Fanfiction is cool because you get to learn what other people's parents taught them the hymen is like

[liarsblade]

I know that I had somewhat unusually comprehensive sex ed but it still surprises me every time I'm reminded that some people genuinely think that losing your virginity is a capri sun kind of situation.

[rimonoroni2]

what people don’t understand about how adhd is disabling is that it’s not just getting temporarily distracted from, like, school work or hobbies. it’s getting distracted/being unable to motivate yourself to go to the doctor, eat regularly, do hygiene tasks, etc. it’s not knowing when or how long it will take you to do something, ANYTHING, and in many cases that thing is taking a shower or keeping your house from turning into a biohazard. it’s about being fundamentally incapable of controlling your attention and focus on anything, even and especially things you need to do to survive.