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[gillespiejr]

⋆.˚ 𓆝 riv | adult | f 🎗🕯️

✶ college student, unpaid mossad intern (american exchange program)

✶ catholic

✶ military history enjoyer, common sense appreciator, anti cloud storage activist

✶ i 100% unironically <3 capitalism, personal ownership, and democracy

✶ politically homeless

☞ i write things now!

required reading: pg. 10, Anti-Zionism [x]

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I add $5 to my Israel trip fund for every hate or gaza gfm ask I receive

wait why do you care about Israel? ⤵

I'm a born and raised catholic, and still practicing today, and I have jewish family! It's something that has always been a part of my identiy and something that I have always taken pride in. Its the reason i have the name i was given. Despite not being considered jewish myself, I have experienced antisemitism due to my jewish ancestry; my siblings and I were raised with the sobering reminder that in nazi germany, we also would have been considered undesireables. I'm proud to be the descendant of one of the most resilient groups to ever walk this earth.

from another post:

The reason I choose to mention it there is because I post a lot about israel, and it is something that does inform my opinions and affect my day to day life-- even in a positive way, for example I've found a wonderful community at hillel to learn more about Judaism (v important to me despite practicing another religion) and may have the opportunity to go in birthright soon because of it.

I do a lot of israel & jewish advocacy at my university, and part (although not all) of the reason I "care so much" is ultimately because of my ancestry. If there was a holocaust repeat, the best place for me to go and live a fulfilled, authentic life would be in israel. Growing up I went to the funerals of some of my immediate jewish relatives, and something that always stuck with me was just before the burial, pouring soil from the land of israel into their graves (I even have a post about it).

Identity is a complex thing, and I share all this information about mine here because it's very relevant to a lot of the content on my blog. A connection to the jewish people and the jewish land is just one facet of my identity, multidimensional just as everyone else's is.

[remainsoflilies]

A Jewish woman of Damascus, Syria, photographed by Charles Lallemand, c. 1865

[gillespiejr]

Just got paid should I drop a third of my paycheck on Noah Kahn tickets

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yes

no

Remaining time: 14 hours 58 minutes

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[junglejim4322]

Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane

[junglejim4322]

I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay

[junglejim4322]

“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?

[pineappical]

screenshot redraw that took FOREVER (it was 5 hours)

[mostlybirdsandphotos]

male bufflehead showing off his beautiful iridescence ( ˙꒳​˙ )

[livingforstars]

Skylab Over Earth - May 10th, 1998.

"Skylab was an orbiting laboratory launched by a Saturn V rocket in May of 1973. Skylab was visited three times by NASA astronauts who sometimes stayed as long as two and a half months. Many scientific tests were performed on Skylab, including astronomical observations in ultraviolet and X-ray light. Some of these observations yielded valuable information about Comet Kohoutek, our Sun and about the mysterious X-ray background - radiation that comes from all over the sky. Skylab fell back to earth on the 11th of July, 1979."

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summer by Chino Otsuka

[roadside--picnic]

[immigrant]

this was tumblr in 2013

[allegedly-human]

This is tumblr in 2026

[missingonpurpose]

01/19/2026 2:31am

[marbleguard]

conservatives call gay sex taboo and disgusting and that is bad

okay yes

Therefore it is praxis to support all taboo sexual practices no matter what they are because being taboo automatically is anti-conservative and therefore progressive

okay no

The american government pumps out so much propaganda about china that is blatantly misleading

Okay yes

Therefore the solution is to start consuming china’s government propaganda unquestioningly

Okay no

People who are overweight are mistreated interpersonally, societally, and by the medical system

Okay yes

Therefore it is praxis to get as fat as possible and all health risks are fake

Okay no

Why are progressive spaces like this.

[gillespiejr]

Do you like the smell of fabuloso?

yes

no

Remaining time: 3 days 5 hours

Context: I always thought it smelled horrible but recently I have seen some reels where people are saying that they love the smell!

[bigwozz]

An 11 year long call,

[cutecipher]

a cat is a sort of machine that dispenses hair all over you and everything else in the room

[chutzpahchesed]

[knight-of-skyloft]

From the Run For Their Lives website:

Yup, definitely sounds like death cult behavior.

The "wishing death on all the children of Gaza" seems to refer to an incident mentioned at the end of this article. The video doesn't seem to be publicly available, but after the firebombing counterprotesters began following the group and chanting "stop killing kids", and it seems someone answered with something like "not until the hostages are released". Which is extremely not cool. But the point is that the distance from "that's extremely not cool" to "therefore it is righteous and just to murder anyone at this event with you" is massive.

[chutzpahchesed]

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