kneelicks

in honor of the cat, not the Talaxian tags

[amilkyway]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

[spaghettinatural]

As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh

[roach-works]

in case europeans were worried: we love them very much! even tho they’re clumsy and slow and sometimes bump into you, no one swats fireflies here, or takes them for granted. even grownups sometimes reach out in the summer and gently catch a firefly for a minute before letting it go.

[actualaster]

By “reach out” that’s meant quite literally–you just kinda. Stick your hand in their flight path and they land on you and will sit on your hand for a bit. Sometimes if you’re just walking or standing outside while they’re active you have to shoo them off you because they’ll just. Sit on you.

They’re harmless and very pretty and it’s always a treat to see because they’re out for a relatively short time each year.

[dykeposting]

girl im bored lets browse academic articles

[markscherz]

Hot tip: if you want to see scientists being snarky and sardonic, type ‘Reply to’ into google scholar and make yourself some popcorn. You can add your field of interest to the search or narrow down the timeframe to make it more specific or recent.

[random-brushstrokes]

Rihards Zariņš - Poet’s tomb (1913)

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Why the author of ‘People Love Dead Jews’ is sorry her book is a huge hit

Dara Horn, the author of ‘People Love Dead Jews,’ talks about its success and why she is tired of Jews being the canary in the coal mine.

Speaking of.... this is a good article also.

[jew-flexive]

the entire article is fantastic. my favorite part: 

Her other major objection to the way the Holocaust is framed – part of a larger critique – are the efforts to universalize Hitler’s victims, which she sees as a form of eliminating Jewish and Yiddish religion culture from the narrative. This ranges from Anne Frank to “Daniel,” the fictional hero of “Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story,” the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s children’s exhibition about a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. Horn takes issue with the need to portray Jews who suffered and died in the Holocaust as being similar to the people viewing the exhibition. Avoided is the fact that so many of them lived visibly Jewish lives.

Why, she asks, did the experts who put the exhibit together choose soccer trophies and Daniel’s father’s war medals to display on his bedroom wall instead of his Jewish study books or Zionist scout uniform?

“Because the people who died in the Holocaust weren’t all just like you and me. Actually, a lot of people who died were [ultra-Orthodox] Hasidim. So is the message that it would be okay to murder them because they weren’t like you and me? If they have different clothes and different hairstyles, is it then totally fine to murder them? … Why do we care about how these people died if we really aren’t interested in how they lived?” she asks.

“The project of the Holocaust was to erase a civilization,” she continues. ”So why are we participating in that by also doing that? We’re not valuing the civilization that was destroyed – and maybe part of the problem was that nobody at the time valued the civilization that was destroyed either.”

Instead of educating against bigotry by pushing a line of “everybody is really the same,” she believes “the goal should be to encourage curiosity about, you know, different ways of being in the world.”

Another irritant for Horn is the argument that antisemitism must be confronted because Jews are canaries in the coal mine, and a society plagued by Jew hatred is clearly heading toward intolerance, hate and Nazi-style fascism. It irks her most when it’s Jews who are making that case.

“How degrading it is to yourself to make that argument, the whole ‘first they came for the Jews’ idea,’” she says. “You’re forced to erase and denigrate yourself in order to gain some kind of public empathy. Because then what you’re saying is that we should all care when Jews are murdered and maimed because, you know, it might be an ominous sign that real people might later get attacked.”

[thunderstruck9]

Ken Currie (British, 1960), Cerements, 2005. Etching, 44 x 36 cm. Edition of 30

[xenobotanist]

Hello, Starfleet. Look at your captain, now back to me, now back at your captain, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped using cheap Ferengi body wash and switched to Old Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up. Where are you? You’re on a starship with the captain your captain could smell like. What’s in your hand? Back at me. I have it, it’s an adorable tribble with two tickets to that thing you love. Look again, the tickets are now dilithium crystals. Anything is possible when your captain smells like Old Spice and not a Ferengi. I’m on a saber bear.

[eddieintheocean]

posted on the wonderful MBE discord by @xenia12

they bought a witch hat for a sea urchin, which did fall off at one point, However!!!

he put it back on :)

[balu8]

François Schuiten

[nobrashfestivity]

Piet Mondrian, early 1900s

[oldschoolfrp]

Welcome to the dungeon (Kevin Shaughnessy, The Space Gamer 21, Metagaming, Jan/Feb 1979)

[star-trekster]

Sparkle on! It’s Wednesday! Have fun and be yourself! 🌟💫

[the-spy-in-the-replimat]

I was watching ds9 behind the scene and couldn’t help myself

[garaks-padded-bra]

I have a massive deadline to meet but i can feel every single thread of my softest clothing today. Not lookimg good lads

[garaks-padded-bra]

this is a star trek blog

[dakidoesdumbsh1t]

[bogosortbeat]

WOKE STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE:

TRANSko

Kira NONBINARYs

BaSHE/HER

O'BIren

HOMO

QUEERk

Jadzia

Gul DYKEat

GAYrak

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i went nonverbal, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[pascal-0840]

I love grindr images like this, they're so awesome sauced

[littlegreenfag-deactivated20240]

How could you forget this classic?