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Just rebloged shit I like or find amusing

[szphxyu]

Jason Todd!!

Also yes I know the neckline is a bit high but I feel like he would wear high necklines to hide his scars😭

(Ps. Please be kind this is my first digital art attempt 💔)

[deltien]

I tried to make something cooler than what is below

[benbamboozled]

[keijijit]

[women-who-do-sci-fi-and-fantasy]

Carrie Fisher, London, June 1983, Celebrating Cary Grant with the Daily Mirror

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Sam vs the leather pants.

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[katsdom]

Very damn good info for bakers!

[chutzpahchesed]

Every Box but One

Barbara Butch survived a year of far-right death threats. Then she signed a letter against antisemitism, and a different crowd showed up.

On Saturday night in Grenoble, France, at a city festival that has run for twenty-five years, the DJ Barbara Butch got twenty minutes. She went on around 10:20. In front of the stage stood a crowd of hundreds of protesters, waving Palestinian flags, whistling, and shouting insults. The city of Grenoble says glass bottles and other projectiles were thrown, deliberately aimed at her, and that electrical installations were sabotaged. Citing threats against the artist and the safety of the crowd, the city suspended the concert. Butch left the stage while John Lennon’s “Imagine” played over the speakers.

If you know Barbara Butch, it might be from the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in 2024. She was the DJ at the center of the “Festivity” tableau, the woman in the silver halo whom half the internet decided had blasphemed against a Renaissance painting. What followed was one of the ugliest harassment campaigns in recent French memory: tens of thousands of messages, including threats to kill her and to rape her. The abuse was antisemitic before it was anything else, with plenty left over for her body and her sexuality. She filed complaints. French prosecutors opened investigations, and some of the people who threatened her were charged and convicted. A month after the ceremony she carried the Paralympic torch through a Paris suburb and told an interviewer she had chosen not to be afraid to exist in public.

In March, Butch signed a letter in Le Point, alongside the philosopher Elisabeth Badinter and former prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve, supporting the proposition de loi Yadan, a bill whose stated purpose was to fight what its drafters called new forms of antisemitism. The case against that bill was real. Its critics, La France Insoumise loudest among them, argued that the drafting was vague and that it risked criminalizing legitimate criticism of Israel. The government withdrew the text in April. If the story ended there, it would be ordinary democratic politics: a contested bill and a government retreat. Protesting a law and supporting it are both speech. Both are legitimate.

The campaign against Butch began in May, a month after the bill died. There was no law left to oppose. What remained was the person. Allan Brunon, an LFI city councilor in Grenoble, posted a call to cancel her booking at the Cabaret Frappé festival, accusing her of supporting a colonial and genocidal regime. His evidence was the tribune, plus the claim that she had played Tel Aviv Pride in 2025, during the war. Tel Aviv Pride was canceled in 2025. What she actually played was a private event for the French Embassy in Israel. The full case against her, stripped of its phrasing, comes to this: she signed a letter against antisemitism, and she took a booking from her own country’s diplomats.

Grenoble’s mayor, Laurence Ruffin, refused to cancel the show, on the reasonable ground that city governments should not run ideological background checks on musicians. So the protesters came to the show instead. Afterward, Brunon, who attended, described the evening as a peaceful demonstration and said he was proud to have taken part. He denies that any projectiles were thrown, which puts his account in direct conflict with the city’s. He also offered a line worth quoting in full: “It is not Madame Butch who is being censored. It is everyone fighting the genocide in Gaza who is censored in our country today.” At the national level, LFI’s Manuel Bompard said he could understand a political position drawing protest, provided the protest stays peaceful. Given the city’s description of glass bottles aimed at her, that condition had already failed by the time he offered it.

The institutions, at least, were not confused. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez condemned the violence in the strongest terms, writing that antisemitism and intimidation have no place in the Republic and that preventing an artist from performing is an unacceptable attack on free expression. The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra), a French nonprofit, demanded an investigation and named what it saw: an antisemitic conflation that assigns Jewish people collective responsibility for the policies of the Israeli state. The mayor called the acts unacceptable and announced that the city will file a complaint.

Here is what makes Grenoble more than a local story. Barbara Butch is not a borderline case. She is a lesbian activist decorated by the Republic for services to culture, and the public face of the fight against fatphobia in France. In 2024 she absorbed a year of far-right hatred for representing inclusion at the most-watched event her country has staged this century. By every standard the progressive left claims to hold, she should be among its most protected people. None of it transferred. What disqualified her was the Jewish part, and one public statement: antisemitism in France is real, and it is present in the anti-Israel movement.

She never said anything about Israeli policy and has never defended the Israeli government. Her stated politics amount to fighting the hatreds she has personally received and warning against the conflation of Jews with a foreign state. That is the same conflation Licra denounced on Sunday. The crowd in Grenoble enforced it. To them, a French Jew who once played a party for French diplomats and French Jews, is an agent of Israel, answerable for its wars. The far right spent 2024 telling Butch she did not belong to France’s story. On Saturday, the left joined in.

In the video she posted afterward, she repeated what she has said for two years and warned once more against hating Jews because of the actions of a foreign government. The new note was darker. She said a society this divided is heading toward defeat. The city's complaint is expected within days. It will sit in a legal file. Files like hers are how this period of European Jewish life is going to be read later. Through all of it, her position has not moved: she stands for love.

[jewish-vents]

People are so weird about Jews in the arts. It's either ""bad Jews"" like Gal Gadot who are harassed for existing, ""good Jews"" that are tokenized beyond belief or those in between who's Judaism is never acknowledged so people call them "white". I see this especially with pop music where so many Jewish artists are just labeled "white". And they don't get the racialized criticism people like Gal Gadot do. How dare she exist as a visibly Jewish woman. People are so weird about Jews.

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[nonbinaryjudean]

crazy how the "all politicians are using rhetoric to persuade you and you cannot trust them 100% of the time" is just... gone. for the mayor of new york. why? because hes quirky and goofy and pushing 1930s type antisemitic propaganda?

[nonbinaryjudean]

images in order:

instant victim blaming on october 8th. literally before the bodies had been counted, before the fires were put out, before people knew if their loved ones were alive or not, before any retaliation at all.

he defends the words of the person in the screenshots below

screenshot of her words 1

words 2

words 3

Mamdani and Rashida "there's a kind of a calming feeling... when I think of the Holocaust..." Tlaib (yes I took this quote out of context but the full context is fucking WORSE)

Mamdani resharing JVP, a group that pretends to be ran by Jews but literally just appropriates Judaism and then defends the murders of jews on the daily, only 5 fucking days after 1200 Jews were murdered

Mamdani Monitor - NYC City Hall Accountability Tracker < this tracks all his actions, good and bad.

Articles:

Mamdani revokes IHRA antisemitism definition on day 1, amid broad rejection of Adams orders

Zohran Mamdani’s wife liked social media posts celebrating Oct. 7 attacks

New York’s First Lady Liked Post Calling October 7 Rapes a ‘Mass Hoax’

Zohran Mamdani team member praised people tearing hostage posters

Zohran Mamdani appointee resigns over resurfaced antisemitic posts

We're Jews in Zohran Mamdani's neighborhood. We love New York — but not like this. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Mamdani shares video of keffiyeh-clad door knocker, raising questions, hackles of Jewish New Yorkers

(btw, his wife was not a "private, regular person" as he puts it. she was a famous model. her photos are literally in every fucking "portrait ref" board on pinterest)

HERE is a post about his promotion of the "deadly exchange" conspiracy theory

HERE is a post about his refusal to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada", which calls for violence against diaspora jews, as per the words of the organizations that started it

and heres a post with examples of what this intifada in question is

many of these screenshots and articles i grabbed from @gingerswagfreckles posts.

some of the people mamdani has appointed:

Kazi Fouzia - Transition Committee on Worker Justice: "Kazi Fouzia posted on Facebook on October 8, 2023, mere hours after Hamas’s devastating attack in Israel: “Resistance are [sic] Justified when people are occupied”"

Tamika Mallory - Committee on Community Safety: is associated with the antisemitic group nation of islam and repeatedly defends leader Louis Farrakhan, was accused by fellow Women's March organizers of making antisemitic comments, and refused to condemn Farrakhan's antisemitism

Youssef Mubaraz - Transition Committee on Small Businesses & MWBEs: called the rape and kidnapping by hamas on october 7th "propaganda"

Gianpaolo Baiocchi - Transition Committee on Community Organizing: "Baiocchi was among the faculty arrested at the student-led, anti-Israel encampment at NYU in 2024. He alleged that “there was no expression of anti-semitism [sic], bigotry, or any hate speech” at the encampment." this is categorically false. this encampment was full of signs, posters, pamphlets, etc instigating violence against Jewish people.

Ruha Benjamin - Transition Committee on Technology: has been involved in encampments at Princeton that have created unsafe environments for Jewish students (support for hezbollah, calls for school to end funding for Jewish studies), believes in "jewish supremacy" bullshit

Hassaan Chaudhary - Muslim Outreach Director: "He used “Jew” as a slur, praised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (who called Israel “a cancer which will be eliminated”), and described Israel as a “bloody country” and “barbaric nation.”"

Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari - Transition Committee on Youth & Education: was involved in encampments that were rife with antisemitism, posted photos of herself with the inverted red triangle that Hamas uses with "long live the resistance"

Mamdani was also the co-founder of the SJP chapter at Bowdoin College. read about why SJP is antisemitic here, here, here, here

he promoted an event with jewfakers JVP and the co-founder of electronic intifada (disinformation machine)

oh yeah and hes associated with hasan piker and i do not have the fucking energy to talk about that stinky, stinky little man. he abuses his dog, hes gone to a brothel that was busted for sex trafficking, he denies the mass rape on oct 7, hes hosted a fucking houthi member on his stream.........

Anti-Jewish hate crimes have made up like 50% of hate crimes in NYC this year. Im sure abolishing safety measures for Jews will help right? /sarcasm. heres how NYC (10% jewish, most jewish city in the diaspora, second in the world, btw) is for Jews in 2026:

The only Ethiopian-Israeli/Jewish restaurant in NYC was forced to close after endless harassment

a flag with a swastika was raised at NYU

violent protests outside synagogues

the car ramming attack at chabad headquarters

antisemitic graffiti and threats at schools, playgrounds, synagogues, businesses

Albert Itzkowitz z''l, 75, an orthodox Jewish man, owner of a kosher bakery and former Hatzolah volunteer was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds. He was a beloved father, grandfather, husband and friend. His murder came only 3 weeks after his wife died of cancer. His family believes that his murder was an antisemitic hate crime, the killer has yet to be identified.

A 23 year old Jewish woman was verbally assaulted by a woman yelling "Jews are eating kids", who then grabbed her throat and strangled her, dragged her around, ripped out a huge chunk of her hair on the subway.

a rabbi was physically assaulted and harassed in Queens on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

i hope this is sufficient evidence for you that Zohran Mamdani is fostering antisemitism through the people he promotes and associates with and through his actions and words (or lack thereof).

(no, i do not agree with everything some of these sources do or say. the information here is still valuable.)

[etz-ashashiyot]

Hi, I saw your post about Jewish indigeneity and as a non-Jewish, non-indigenous person, have a genuine question that I hope you will take in good faith. At what point of conflict and violence do we say that being indigenous to a region does not actually confer land rights? I understand that having land stolen is a travesty and a part of genocide, and I don't mean to be dismissive. But at some level of conflict and violence, is it not healthier for individals to learn to love the place they are at, the people around them, and the new culture they can build together? I think there are ways to do that which are not assimilationist. And I think the ongoing suffering in war cannot be justified by mere land claims. I am presenting this to you hoping you can help me understand your view better, especially if you disagree with me. What am I missing? Thank you for considering my questions.

I'm gonna be honest: the fact that this is coming from a blank blog makes me far less likely to want to answer it, especially because I haven't been on tumblr as much lately and thus don't know if this is a copypasta ask.

Who are you? Have you read my pinned post? Have you read the many, many sources in it?

I am going to give you extremely truncated answers, but understand that you have a lot of reading to do that is not possible to summarize in an answer to a tumblr ask. (Edit: this got a lot longer than I expected, but I stand by my words that these are truncated, incomplete answers. You need to read several books to actually develop a reasonable understanding of this.)

At what point of conflict and violence do we say that being indigenous to a region does not actually confer land rights?

Never. What you are asking here conflates two separate concerns: (1) the rights of an indigenous group to the land they are indigenous to, and (2) the ethical responsibilities said indigenous group has towards other human beings, in particular those who also live on that land. People don't lose their indegeneity and thus their ties to the land by being bad people. "Indigenous" is not an indicator of moral purity or uprightness. It means that they have deep cultural, historical, and (often) religious roots in a particular land that cannot be severed without totally destroying the group as such.

Eretz Yisrael will always be the homeland of the Jewish people regardless of whether we have control over it or not, whether we have a sovereign nation there or not, whether we are permitted to live there or even visit there or not. All of our religious and cultural practices tie back to eretz Yisrael, even ones that have been adapted to the diaspora. Religiously observant Jews pray facing Jerusalem three times a day, our liturgy is infused with references to the land, the Temple in Jerusalem, the redemption (of the people to the land) and/or specific attributes of the land. Our sacred texts occur in and make constant reference to the land and our observance of the mitzvot and how that relates to the land. (A ton of the religious laws we are given are land-based because it developed as an agricultural religion, and a huge number of the rest are related to the Temple in Jerusalem.) We have three pilgrimage festivals that pre- forced diaspora, all Jews would make back to Jerusalem to make specific sacrifices. We still observe these festivals in ways adapted to the diaspora, but you need to understand that the essential condition of diasporic Jewry is one of constant longing to return to the land. We observe these things today to keep the knowledge alive so that someday, future generations of Jews can use that knowledge in eretz Yisrael. Jews are of that land and can never be severed from it without becoming something entirely different.

Now. Does that give us a right to act with total impunity? Absolutely not. We still have moral obligations to our fellow human beings that we have to observe no matter what. That is true of all peoples everywhere, indigenous or not.

But the idea that you can "punish" an indigenous group by severing their roots is to say that total cultural annihilation is a valid punishment ever, which is genocidal rhetoric.

I understand that having land stolen is a travesty and a part of genocide, and I don't mean to be dismissive.

You answered your own question here, don't you see? Reread what you wrote here, as many times as you need to, until you get it.

But at some level of conflict and violence, is it not healthier for individals to learn to love the place they are at, the people around them, and the new culture they can build together?

You need to read some Jewish history.

If you are asking this question about Israel, and in particular the Israel / Palestine conflict, you need to read more Jewish history.

"....to learn to love the place they are at" Jews in the diaspora tried this. Please read this list.

"...the people around them" Do you think that Jews were expelled, pogrommed, and genocided multiple times across numerous locations because we didn't "love the people around us" enough? For real? Read about the Kielce Pogrom and get back to me on that.

"...the new culture they can build together" Ah. I see. Yes this is the thing:

We don't fucking need a new culture. We have been fighting to practice the culture we already have in peace for thousands of years.

I think there are ways to do that which are not assimilationist.

Well. You're wrong. You are one in a long long long long long long long long long long long line of gentiles who think that "Jews can just..." and (1) you're wrong; read what the Nazis did to ethnic Jews who converted to Christianity, the history of "new Christians"/conversos/etc. but also even if that were guaranteed to work (2) why should we have to change our culture instead of other people not trying to kill us for it?

And I think the ongoing suffering in war cannot be justified by mere land claims.

This war is not about land claims though; not really. Hamas wants every Jew dead. That is why they started this war. They have promised a new October 7th every day until the whole land is entirely judenfrei. Of course there are reasonable Palestinians with legitimate policy objectives, but that's not who's driving this war, and the ones in Gaza who speak up about it tend to get abducted or have their families disappeared and are tortured until they escape, die, or are silenced.

Are there legitimate things to be discussed about Israel's approach in this war and/or in general? Sure. But this isn't "mere land claims." This is about the safety, lives, and self-determination of half the global Jewish population, the vast majority of whom are only there in the first place because they themselves or their parents/grandparents/great-grandparents fled (or were forcibly relocated) there as refugees of genocide. Israel is the only remaining place in the world for certain smaller Jewish sub-ethnicities. If Israel is destroyed, so much will be lost. And, we will be back to being subjects of the whims of hostile foreign powers who have proven again and again that they will just periodically expel or murder lots of us when it is politically useful for them to do so.

That is what is at stake for us.

The fact that you think that our connection to the land is "mere land claims" and not an existential part of our identity says volumes by itself, but the fact that you don't know what is actually at stake for us says even more. It tells me that you have a lot of reading to do.

What am I missing?

Empathy. History. Context.

Read People Love Dead Jews - I think it will help you understand more of these issues. There are other helpful sources in my pinned post too.

[etz-ashashiyot]

@spank-the-villain

That's so funny, because I felt like such a grouch answering this the way I did lol

I thought about not answering it at all tbh, but I ultimately decided to do so anyway because I think a lot of non-indigenous gentiles (especially culturally Christian folks) have this thought process because like. They didn't grow up with their identity and whole sense of self being tied to a particular land, and when that's your experience it's hard to fathom fighting for a specific parcel of land so intensely and at such a high human cost. I can't imagine fighting an actual war over, for example, the endless miles of cornfields I grew up with. If someone was willing to kill me and my friends and my whole family over us living there, I'd just fucking move. Nothing about living in my home state is worth dying or sacrificing other human lives for. To wit: I don't even live there anymore and have no plans to ever move back.

Similarly, when you don't grow up with a strong sense of culture and belonging to that group as an inherent fundamental aspect of who you are as a person, you just don't get why people would fight, kill, and die for it. There is nothing about my culture of origin worth risking my life for. I will simply just not if that's the alternative. As it is, I've already tried to leave as much of it behind as possible to become Jewish.

And now that I am a Jew and have been to Israel, I get it. I could never be bothered to care about my culture of origin except to vaguely joke about it and the idea of defending it with my life is laughable. But being a Jew? You'd have to beat the Judaism out of me until I was dead, and even then I know my community would still try to recover my body for a traditional Jewish burial and say Kaddish for me. That is indeed a choice that many Jews have been forced to make throughout our history, and so many have, despite the consequences.

I think it's hard to understand what the point of all this suffering is when it's not something you have, but is hard to stomach not fighting for if you do.

So I felt it was worth answering even if it maybe was a bait ask, because most people are too afraid to ask the question, but it's an important context to have when considering these issues.

Bottom line: while a normal land dispute certainly isn't worth this metric of suffering, fighting for the right to peacefully exist as who you are is fundamentally a profound matter of human dignity.

[cycle-of-ending]

Thank you for answering my questions with patience. Sorry it came off as a bait ask. I am an educator who uses place-based education methods to build a sense of place-based identity into students. I have been having moral dilemmas about doing, because of some of the concerns I put into my original ask. so... I wanted an opinion from someone who comes from a culture where land is inherent to identity (you pinned me correctly as someone who does not originate from such a culture) and who is willing to give me pretty uncensored answers (tumblr user). I won't bother you again, but wanted to express my sincerity. Best to you.

[etz-ashashiyot]

Oh hey! Genuinely, thank you for circling back - I'm heartened to hear that this truly was coming from a place of seeking education rather than trolling. I wish you'd led with some of this follow up information or shot me a direct message or something, because the thing is that I love answering earnest questions about Jewish culture, identity, and religion.

Unfortunately, you are catching me at over 500 days of constant antisemitic harassment over these issues in particular (honestly way longer than that, but it has been truly relentless since October 7th, 2023.) Other people have asked similar questions in the rhetorical as a "gotcha!" to show that we don't care about the safety, lives, security, dignity, and self-determination of Palestinians, as though caring about our own is mutually exclusive rather than just complex. Answering these types of sealioning questions pretty much always results in targeted harassment, accusations that amount to blood libel, and people who show up to downplay, deny, or support the atrocities that have happened to our people.

And obviously I'm speaking for myself here, but I feel comfortable saying it's been like this for pretty much the whole Jewish community online. It has been exhausting, demeaning, and dehumanizing. I cannot explain in words whst it feels like to have to justify everything about one's own culture, people, right to life and a peaceful existence, and trauma to a world that then uses every answer it demands as a weapon to degrade you further.

So I read the ask, checked your blog, saw that there were two posts, and sighed deeply. But then I answered this because of the reasons I gave spank-the-villain. I'm sorry my original tone was so surly, but there is a context for that reaction.

However! If you have further questions, please do feel free to follow up. I sincerely do enjoy explaining to people who actually are interested in the answers for their own sake. I hope you are well and have a good rest of your day!

[why-i-love-comics]

Titans #31 - "Divided They Fall" (2026)

written by by John Layman art by Pete Woods

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[bladesrunner]

OBI WAN KENOBI | 1x04 “Part IV”

[yourfandomfriend]

*TVL SPOILERS*

"It's also notable because all of the people in that scene are there because Lestat made them, murdered them, or traumatized them," Reid adds. "So he's acknowledging that he probably traumatized Paul, but he did not kill Paul." -- Sam Reid x

[tomat0burger]

Oh louis ..