Fuzzytheduck

[fuzzytheduck]

[fuzzytheduck]

I think mocking ignorance is not conducive to creating a kinder world full stop

[csnycomments]

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

[unyieldingsilence]

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[yesornopolls]

Do you remember the worst lesson your parents ever taught you?

Do you remember the worst lesson your parents ever taught you?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 6 days 21 hours

[werewolfetone]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[werewolfetone]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

all of history is like this, as is modernity.

What is the name of the person who hung your front door? Who laid the pipes that bring water to your home? What worker hung the traffic light you drive through everyday?

every single thing you see, hear, or touch that isn't naturally occuring has had at least one human put it there; and we know practically none of these people.

[knaidelmaidel]

thought of the day:

the only way to have a kosher cheeseburger with real meat and real cheese is with human meat

[fuzzytheduck]

using the milk from the udder of a cow you shechted already works

[charlataninred]

Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.

[hearnoweevil]

[wholesome-animal-images]

[myfootyrthroat]

They should invent a socialism for poor people.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

Being a fan of something that got canceled before its time or was left unfinished is bad enough, but what's even worse is the frustration of being a fan of lost media. You know more content was made, but unless a miracle happens in your lifetime you will never ever see it.

Special shout out to fans of old TV and radio shows, newspaper and pulp serials, and ancient literature.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

This post was prompted by finding a radio show about a wry hardboiled lady P.I. who's frequent sidekick was a gay-coded classical musician and learning that only 14 of the original 92 episodes still exist.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

"Yeah, like that thing that was cancelled but we know what it could've been if it had been finished properly" no. I'm sorry but no. This post is not for you. This post is for those of longing for something that once fully physically existed, something that other people were once able to enjoy, but has since been lost and is utterly beyond our reach. Things that accidentally got perma-deleted from the desktop of existence.

Put in the tags what lost media you yearn for, I wanna commiserate with y'all.

[fuzzytheduck]

at risk of coming off as more of a nerd than i already do

[classicalcanvas]

Fir Forest (1901) by Gustav Klimt

[honne-ga-deru]

I'm extremely open about my support of Jews being able to live in safety in their home country of Israel. When the subject is brought up, in conversation or on the radio, I'll speak up about my stance and my beliefs. But there are times where I wonder if it's truly right of me to even "take a stance" to begin with.

I don't call myself a Zionist, because I feel that as I'm not Jewish, and it is a deeply Jewish ideology, it wouldn't be right to claim myself as one. I agree with it wholeheartedly, but a straight person defending LGBT rights doesn't make them LGBT, you know?

On one hand, I'm always happy when I see straight people show open support for the LGBT, so I think in that direction. What's important to me isn't Israel's politics (which i know nothing of) but the country and the people who live there. I'd defend the rights of someone LGBT that i hated if homophobic remarks were thrown at them, because that's just common sense.

On the other, I'm not Jewish, and I'm taking a stance on something that I ultimately know little about, and that technically does not concern me. To me, being on the defensive for a historically oppressed and persecuted minority is just the most basic, logical, common-sense thing to do, but I worry it comes across as condescending. In the end, I am just another westerner who is "choosing a side" on a conflict thousands of kilometres away from me.

I've never said "You can trust me, I'm one of the good guys!!" because it makes me feel so slimy. I sometimes leave comments on how I will always support and defend Jews no matter what, then I realise only later how performative that sounds, and I worry it may be seen as disingenuous.

I think it's important to show open and loud support for Jews in these times, especially from people who aren't Jewish, without expecting trust in return.

Anyway so, my question to jumblr is: what do you think when westerners like my ass try to take stances on this? Do you feel it's an annoyance, performative etc, how best you feel support can be given, even if the best would be to just be left alone in peace?

[phoukanamedpookie]

I think you've got the right idea. What matters is that you are open and loud about standing up for Jews, especially since Israel is being made into a political wedge issue. You don't need to be an expert on Middle Eastern politics to stand firm in your values about how to treat people.

Hope this helps.

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

[akindlyowl]

agnostic quarterback throws a hail maybe

[homochadensistm]

This is so much fun

[homochadensistm]

I am bleeding profusely

[yourboykurt]

A story in two parts

[homochadensistm]

Part 3: it was worth it he's so cute I love him

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The SIGNIFICANT escalation in the amount of bandages really makes this.

[homochadensistm]

It was much deeper than I thought it was initially😭😭😭

[cryoverkiltmilk]

You emerge from your crafting space, pallid, staggering, and covered in bandages.

"You should see the other guy," you utter.

You point to a four inch cat figurine carved from purpleheart.