American bison and European starlings.
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

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American bison and European starlings.
Chicha’s Filbert Flummoxed [Pedigree]
🐱 Maine Coon
📸 Birgit Holme
🎨 Blue Smoke Tortoiseshell [Mosaics, Chimeras & Tortie Tomcats]
I talk about this so much. The relationship between Dineʼé and Israelis is so beautiful and has only grown deeper and more beneficial over time. Presidents and other tribal leaders from the Diné nation have visited Israel for diplomatic missions numerous times; there have been exchange programs to aid with education, cultural revitalization, economics; Dineʼé have studied Israeli water management and agriculture to adapt to the conditions in Dinétah (due to the similar climates) and Israeli technologies have provided much-needed resources to Dinétah that the US federal government neglected to provide. Indigenous peoples supporting each other, despite the objections of those who want us weak and impoverished (or worse).
Project aims to address critical drinking water shortage within Hard Rock community where nearly 10,000 families across Navajo Nation lack a
Eastern River Cooter (Pseudemys c. concinna), family Emydidae, Ea. Tennessee, USA
This population of uniquely marked River Cooters used to be a subspecies called the Hieroglyphic River Cooter (P. c. hieroglyphica), but is not longer considered a distinct subspecies.
photographs by John Edward
horse bridle made from watsonia leaves by Hannah Thornhill
Meowrimos
These tiny mossball kitties come from the same ponds and streams as koi dogs, and are often found rolling around with baby guppies. They may be small, but each one packs a big personality!
Some of these are already sold, but others will be part of a pondful of meowrimos at Anthrocon, July 3-5!
La Ghriba, the oldest synagogue in Africa, believed to have been founded in 586 BCE by Jews fleeing the destruction of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.
JERBA, TUNISIA.
“Scenic train ride through Switzerland“ by | Tom Juenemann
🌈 Have you ever seen a prettier tree? Behold the beautiful rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta). This large evergreen grows up to about 197 ft (60 m) tall. When strips of its bark peel off, they change in color: Bark starts out in shades of green, then transitions into purple, red, and orange as time goes on. Continuous peeling helps the tree keep its trunk clear of other plants. You might spot one in the Philippines, New Guinea, Indonesia, Hawaii, or Southern California.
Photo: Gerald Corsi, iStock
how to read yiddish
(guide intended for people who can already read hebrew)
first we’ll talk about the words that are not from hebrew or aramaic origin — so this is mostly words of germanic origin, as well as words from other languages like russian, polish, hungarian, english, etc.
for these words, yiddish uses hebrew letters, but treats them the way you treat english letters: that is, some are consonants and some are vowels. nekudot (hebrew vowel marks) are only used in specific situations.
the consonants you already know are:
ב ג ד ה ז ט י כ ל מ נ ס פ פּ צ ק ר ש
some notes:
- the letter ב is always pronounced as a bet, not a vet
- double vav (וו) is how you would do a “v” sound
- the letter כ is always pronounced as chaf
- the letter ש is always pronounced as shin
- the letters ח and ת are not used for these words
just like in english, the way to construct words is to use some letters as vowels. these are the vowels:
so for example, if i want to write ketz (meaning cats), i’d write it as קעץ
the consonants are ק and צ, while ע is being used as a vowel, pronounced “eh.”
some of these vowels are pronounced differently in different dialects. the chart above is for klal shprach (aka YIVO dialect). this is different from the pronunciation you learn on duolingo.
hebrew and aramaic words, by contrast, are spelled the same way they are in their language of origin. for example, if we were to use the above orthography to write “shabbes,” it would be שאבעס. however, we don’t: we still write שבת.
words of hebrew and aramaic origin in yiddish are pronounced as they are in ashkenazi hebrew. in general, that will mean an emphasis on the first or second syllable rather than the last, and ת without a dagesh being pronounced as an “s” sound. eg “SHA-bes” instead of “sha-BAT” and “sha-VU-es” instead of “sha-vu-OT.” it also means that some vowel sounds get shortened or elided.
hopefully this is a useful guide. go forth and read!
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Some of my “Loveless” trading cards collection :)
Normally, I wouldn't share photos of myself, but I was sewing a bit, so here you go. Old duvet cover transformed into a frilly shirt, haha.
For those who are interested - for the shirt I was pretty much following the instructions here and here. It's very nicely described and because it's basically only made out of rectangles the pattern is very simple to make and in general it's not difficult to sew at all. I had to make it quite a bit smaller though and the sleeves are still rather too long for me, which may look stylish on photos but it's a bit too much. :'^)
The first link also has instructions for the neckcloth and other 18th century items ✨
I'm shouting into the void here but I need to get it out.
I don't label my politics, but I'm what someone would call on the left. I spent my teenage years when Tumblr social justice was at its height. I learned things, checked my own biases, and I would like to think became a more empathetic person because of what I learnt from online progressive spaces.
The way these spaces have treated Jewish communities over the past 2.5 years has been nothing short of fucking appalling.
The worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust was minimised, denied, justified, or outright celebrated.
Jewish people were immediately told to put their grief and trauma over this to away, because Palestine's pain was more important to talk about.*
Jewish and Israeli people were told they needed to try and understand why armed men raped, tortured, and killed members of their community. Because, you know, the murderous rapists are who we need to have sympathy for here. Anyone can be pushed to the point of, I don't know, murdering a young woman and parading her corpse around a street for men to spit on her dead body. If you really think about it, isn't that actually kind of an understandable thing to do?
When raising concerns over the rising antisemitism that was starting to look a lot like the build-up to that little historical tidbit called The Holocaust, Jews were told they were selfish for raising the issue.
When asking people not to call for intifadas that have historically resulted in thousands of dead Jews, they're told they're taking it all the wrong way.
When Israeli victims spoke of the abuse they received on Oct 7 and in captivity, they're told they need to stay silent because otherwise they risk justifying the genocide of Palestinians.
When 15 people were murdered at a Hannukah festival, there were no social media icons, no surge from progressive groups to find out what support they needed.
To be clear here, progressive groups seem more concerned with antisemitism in the Harry Potter books than they are about the actual, you know, string of dead Jews that have been murdered over the past few years. If you condemn antisemitic representations in diction and then turn around and completely ignore real-life fucking murder, then I'm sorry I genuinely do not think you ever gave a shit about fighting antisemitism, you just wanted to fight Jk Rowling. **
Absolutely fuck everyone who has justified or denied what happened on Oct 7th. There were ways to advocate for both Israeli and Palestinian victims, but the people who should have known better have ensured that Oct 7th wasn't just one day of hell for Jewish communities, but that its been currently 2.5 years of hell that seems to just be getting worse.
And the most infuriating part is the people who did justify Oct 7th will never admit they were wrong, because that would mean admitting they argued that the murder rape mutilation torture and kidnap of a Jewish community was acceptable, and that would break their brains. I mean it. The cognitive dissonance between believing you are someone who cares for human rights, whilst also being someone who justified all of that, is too great. The brain will always protect itself. Its why people are currently doubling down on there being no rapes on Oct 7th. Rape is not resistance, it is not self defence, it is not landback, it is not right of return, it is not decolonisation, it is not any of the shit people tell themselves Oct 7th was. Rape is just rape. It is just men torturing people (mainly women) for no other reason than because they enjoy it. You will never see these people admitting rape occurred, because the second they do is the second they realise just how horrifically they have behaved.
And it's not getting better. Hate crimes and murders of worldwide Jewish communities are rising. Jewish people are looking to leave places like the US, UK and Australia, which were once considered some of the safest places for them to live. A KKK slur (zio) is now common online usage. Jewish people are expected to sever any connection to an important part of their culture (Israel/Hebrew) in order to be treated somewhat civily. The more IDF crimes are uncovered in Gaza, the more worldwide Jewish communities bear the brunt of the anger. Typing 'Jewish' into any social media brings you into an absolute clusterfuck of the most horrific things you can possibly see people say about their fellow human beings.
I am just sick and exhausted and furious and it feels like I'm hitting my fists against a brick wall that is not knocking down. How do you even get people to realise how bad this is????
I am not Jewish. I know full well that Jewish people talking about all of this get ignored. I know full well that a Jewish person standing up for Palestine gets thousands of notes, and a Jewish person standing up for their own people barely breaks 100. I know full well that Jewish people are being smeared as paranoid or crazy or selfish. I know full well that non-Jewish people speaking up about antisemitism is taken more seriously than Jewish people talking about their own experiences.
Can you all just start fucking having some fucking empathy for Jewish and Israeli communities who have been facing the worst 2 years of their lives. Fucking please. It is not that fucking hard to feel empathy for lots of groups at once. To empathise with both Palestine and Israel, Muslims and Jews. Empathy for all is part of what brings us away from just being animals and makes us human.
If you can't do it, it is not an issue with Jews or Israelis or Zionists or the IDF, it is an issue with you.
*I am not saying Palestinian pain isn't important to raise awareness of, and the people fearing what the IDF would do immediately after Oct 7th were right to raise it. I'm saying asking Jewish communities to take on the trauma of Palestinians, when they were still reeling from their own inter-community trauma, was wrong and unhelpful. I wouldn't ask Palestinian communities to have centered the trauma of Oct 7th either. Trauma is not a competition and everyone deserves to have their respective pain treated fairly.
**also not saying that Rowling shouldn't be criticized, because she is awful, but that real-life massacres and rapes of Jews is sort of a bigger priority than bad representation in the Harry Potter books, and that if you can't understand that then...yeah. you didn't actually care about jewish people at all.
As far as I’m concerned, they’re the ones deviating from leftist and progressive principles, not me.
But on the other hand, I don’t know how to turn this ship around. If anything, the severity of this hate makes me doubt the sincerity of past kindness. Did the world I grew up in truly care about Jewish safety? Or had my people’s ashes purchased a measure of protection from pity?
I am utterly convinced that the West needs to deconstruct its antisemitism. Antisemitism has been endemic in Western society for around two thousand years, of course it has left its fingerprints all over our society. But trying to point this out only provokes attack. Leftists talk endlessly about deconstruction—deconstructing patriarchy, deconstructing whiteness, deconstructing heteronormativity, and so forth. Why is it so much to ask for a deconstruction of antisemitism? But somehow it is too much. I don’t understand why. And I don’t know how to persuade people otherwise.