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SEVERANCE 2.05 | Trojan's Horse
Cult mentality is such a disease man. When you're indoctrinated to believe certain people are less than and your black-and-white thinking skews reality so much that you no longer act human....
Oof these people are so brainwashed
“But my senator is a Republican”
Gamergate was like 200 people. And now look where we are. “A lot of emails” on a topic to congressional staffers is like, 20. Are politicians spineless idiots? Yes. Use that to your advantage! Is this the only thing you can be doing? No! But it can be the first.
The internet has completely short circuited our sense of scale. The number of people required to move almost any needle is remarkably low. Your involvement in local causes, political pressure WILL have an impact.
Ok, get out there.
Activists and lawmakers say a phone call can have more weight and be harder to ignore than an email or social media post.
Stands on the big button that says "snack" when it's pressed but I am not heavy enough to push it and my eyes get all round and wet
Silly little images source
i love when people say “dopamine addiction” to refer to anything that makes you feel good ever
I think star trek should introduce a changeling main character who is recast every episode.
“I’m becoming who I am and it’s the scariest thing I’ve ever done.” Posted from the PostSecret website.
(important to note: the postcard includes a chemical formula pasted next to the message. the chemical is testosterone.)
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media. One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the live site and say “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.”
[...] Two different web development experts who asked to remain anonymous because they were probing a federal website told 404 Media that doge.gov is seemingly built on a Cloudflare Pages site that is not currently hosted on government servers. The database it is pulling from can be and has been written to by third parties, and will show up on the live website.
Both sources told 404 Media that they noticed Doge.gov is pulling from a Cloudflare Pages website, where the code that runs it is actually deployed.
One of the sources told 404 Media that they were able to push updates to a database of government employment information after studying the website’s architecture and finding the database’s API endpoints.
“Feels like it was completely slapped together,” they added. “Tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code.”
Both sources said that the way the site is set up suggests that it is not running on government servers.
One thing that has made me a much more well-adjusted person is a clip I once saw of Hank Green saying that anyone can be in amazing shape as long as being in amazing shape is one of their top three priorities.
(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)
This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”
Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”
It also helps me to identify areas that I actually DO want to prioritize more. I realized in recent years that my envy for my friends who prioritized writing more than I did was NOT going away, so I started to prioritize writing more. (Not top three, but higher priority than it has been in the past.)
I haven’t slept in three days.
I’ve been working around the clock to back up over a petabyte of research data and records and articles from the National Library of Medicine before it gets attacked by that elongated dipstick and his gestapo squad. Trying to get copies of every federal research program’s data before it gets destroyed in the crossfire. I hope to God that it won’t, but I have no confidence that it will be safe. Lots of copies keep stuff safe.
Census Bureau data that breaks down the schedules of historical census records? Gone. NIH research into anything containing the word “diversity”? At risk of deletion. I am working so hard to make sure that some glimmer of what we know is preserved before something truly terrible happens to this knowledge.
Is there any way for others to help?
That's a hell of a lot of information to save...
Following the LOCKSS ethos, you should see if you can contribute to the Archive Team’s distributed computing download of every federal database.
Archiveteam
Tutorial on how to set things up here. It took me about five minutes. You do not have to be in the US to help with this.
the idea of tumblr being dead is so funny to me because it’s the only social media where i actually feel like other people are online at the same time
Jewish folks of tumblr, I have a question for anyone who knows a lot about the history of Germany 1890-1920, specifically in the Apolda region, and Jewish last names.
I am interested primarily because two different sources (one being a gentile doberman person, and the other being a nonpracticing Jewish person) have informed me that the last name Mann and names ending with the syllable Mann were primarily of Jewish ethnicity within Germany.
This is interesting to me because the doberman breed comes from the name of the creator- a tax collector in Apolda named Karl Fredrich Louis Dobermann. He made the breed to protect him because he was getting attacked while performing his job.
This is also interesting to me because MULTIPLE doberman history books that I've read have stated the breed lore that despite Hitler's seize of control of the breed during his rise to power in Germany, many of the breed's founders who took over the care and legacy of the breed after Dobermann's death were adamantly anti-Nazi, voiced disagreement with Hitler's ideals, and moved rapidly to get as many of the dogs out of the country as possible to prevent him from using them. This is repeated in American historical accounts- that at some point this country had a higher number of dobermans than Germany, right before the war officially broke out, and that German breeders were exporting their dogs here en masse to prevent the breed from being destroyed by the ensuing chaos.
In modern days, the breed is infested with far right, Q-anon, and neonazi reactionaries here within the US, owing a lot of that to its German roots and use during the war as well as its reputation as a fierce police and military dog both in Germany and here in the US.
I think it would be very interesting indeed if the breed had Jewish or Jewish-adjacent origins that were erased by Hitler's destruction. We already know that Dobermann himself was extremely cagey about his personal life as well as what went into the breed. We also know that at least two of the three people he passed the torch to were vocally anti-Hitler, if the history books are to be believed. And we know that the doberman history itself has experienced many purges of information, missing journals and pedigrees, cobbled together on a "stop paying attention to this" and "oh it was lost in the war".
We also know that this was commonplace among Jewish and Jewish-friendly communities to scrub the evidence of the existence of Jewish people present in an area to prevent them from coming to further harm as the SS began to search for anyone they might have missed.
Dobermann was buried as a German and, to my knowledge, was registered on the census as a German. I'm wondering if there could be any connection to Jewish community whatsoever, or if it just so happened that the early doberman people were not Nazis, or if the breed history books have got this so very wrong.
This comes especially as I watch the German Shepherd community once again get rocked with the realization that their own breed founder was proudly pro-Hitler, writing about it in his journals and breeding theory, while the doberman community mostly has 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ I guess he didn't write it down 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ to compare.
Again, I just find that very interesting, as "oops I guess there's no records" are a fairly common tactic used by freedom fighters and abolitionists worldwide to protect a vulnerable population. And it seems like an interesting coincidence, if the rest has any real truth to it.
A Compilation of @gerrysherry / @spot-the-antisemitism being a pathetic racist fuck. Because I'm sick of this shit.
Gerrysherry is anti BLM, referring to the removal of racist statues as historical revisionism
Gerrysherry utilizes alt accounts to facilitate mass harassment campaigns
More alleged harassment
Continuous alleged harassment
Alleged transphobia, homophobia, harassment following a conversation with gerrysherry
Misgendering
Harassment, transphobia, misgendering, ESPECIALLY RACISM, can all be found perpetuated against @/tamamita specifically like I don't even think I can do justice to this one folks
Claiming displaced Palestinian people are scammers, fakers, AI etc
More claiming displaced Palestinian people are scammers
Islamophobia
Alleged ableism
Attempted doxxing and harassment
Transphobia
More allegations of deliberately compromising the fundraising support for displaced Palestinian people
Even MORE ATTEMPTING TO INDIRECTLY MURDER PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IF YOU NEEDED MORE
Victim blaming and utilizing privilege as a shield when they are the perpetrator of bigotry in every argument they participate in
Again harassing Tamamita
Again fucking with the finances of those who ARE IN NEED OF SUPPORT FOR THE SAKE OF LIVELIHOOD
Alleging trusted charities are scams because said foundations support and fund the escape of Palestinian refugees of war
Islamophobia again
"NOOO NOOO DONT LET THE INNICENT CIVILIANS ESCAPE THE GENOCIDE THAT I CLAIM ISNT REAL"
Transmisogyny
Racism
Lying
Ableism, the r slur, Islamophobia, racism, Tamamita is also here
Lyingg
Racism and ableism teaming up yet again with Islamophobia
Lyinggg
LYINGGGG
Decrying war crimes committed by the IDF as "conspiracy"
If it's harassment and you know it clap your hands
Denying war crimes is a frequent pattern
Victim blaming, degendering, harassment (my post)
This post is a WIP. If you have more to send me, don't hesitate to tag me or send it directly. Anything deemed credible will be added.
Cecil is a disgusting racist. Reblogging for reach. Everyone should be reporting them
They also like to make blogs with URLs that resemble mine. Just want to clarify that I'm not Cecil (aka Gerry Sherry, spot-the-antisemitism)
fuck you cecil, you racist pos.
Fun fact, Gerry thinks many anons and even non-anons were me from alt accounts, but I actually only sent them ONE anon, ever, and their response to it was one of the most damning mask-off bigoted statements they ever made. This was only after they used alt accounts to try and "bait" me into providing them callout fuel, so it was only fair. I won't say which anon it was, but I pretended to be on their side and they never suspected. I hope they see this and it drives them nuts.
Hook, line, sinker :)
IMO this is one of the most important things about US politics that no one in US politics will ever acknowledge: “moderate” doesn’t actually mean anything
Please note once again that, according to the scatter plot above, the centre of gravity in American politics is precisely the opposite of the “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” quadrant where “centrist” pundits and politicians keep wishcasting for it to be. And indeed, the bipartisan outpouring of support for the assassination of that insurance CEO suddenly makes a lot more sense.
It’s Calvinism.
I keep telling people this, but SO much of American culture and particularly the ‘Protestant work ethic’ is derived from Calvin’s view that everything in life is predestined by God - that winners and losers are already chosen.
Those Puritan pilgrims who came here seeking ‘religious liberty?’ Hardcore Calvinists who were so obnoxious they were kicked out of their home countries.
And they use this belief to excuse the worst behaviors in American history: Racism, colonialism, genocide, segregation, patriarchy, prejudice against minorities, slavery, economic disparity, low wages, no public healthcare, systems that punish the poor and disabled while rewarding the already wealthy; attempts to impose theocracy and infiltrate democratic institutions to wreck them from within; the constant stream of made-up moral panics; the parochialism and fear of outsiders.
The belief, common among many conservatives, that humans are inherently evil, is why they distrust anything from government that advances the common good and instead praise church-based charity.
I could go on, but just read this.
American conservatism has a distinctive character. Here’s why.
i was literally about to say this. this shit isn’t new by any means
Of course that's their perspective they're eugenicists.
Me, Once again being reminded that a lot of America's woes can be traced back to to Calvinism (ie the Puritans):
I am in love with Clara 😭
Transcript:
Clara trusts me enough to show me different parts of her body like her belly. show me her mouth and allow me to touch all of those teeth. —right? can you turn and show them all of your teeth? good job!— So we work really hard on being able to look over their entire bodies, and progress those behaviors to things like voluntary blood draws, ultrasounds, teeth brushing, and radiographing. —right? yeah!— But the biggest thing is we find what they find reenforcing and they show us that. and that includes hugs. —right?— And Clara has shown us that she really seems to enjoy tactile, so I give her this hand signal and she will show me what part of her body she wants rubbed. So, right now she wants a big noogie —right? good.— and sometimes what I will do is I’ll make her head a little pancake. or then I’ll rub her side and then she snuggles right in. —huh? huh! good girl thats very nice, good.— And then like I said, she would climb right on my lap and allow me to continue giving her tactile.
Yeah I know all about Hachette Books. That's them ones about that kid who's in that plane crash in Alaska and he's gotta survive in the wilderness and whatnot
#Fuck I loved that one as a kid#I don't know what the joke is but I'm taking over this airwave to say Go Read Hatchet By Gary Paulsen
Hachette Book Group is a publishing company. I listen to a lot of books on tape and in every one of theirs the narrator goes "This has been a HAH-SHYET Audio production" with very clear enunciation and at a noticeably higher volume than other words so I can only assume they get annoyed when you pronounce it like the woodcutting tool
@natalieironside whoop, I hop in the wagon to say that Hachette is a french publishing company, and has been recently (2023) acquired by this huge far-right millionnaire owning a lot of France's mainstream media ; so hey, please, don't give them money !!
The guy's name is Vincent Bolloré, and he's among other things a (financial and mediatic) support of Eric Zemmour, a far-right racist, misogynistic guy who made 7% of the last presidential election's vote, but still managed to be invited to Trump's inauguration - because of his ideas.
We have a lot of fighting from independant publishers to boycott Hachette & Bolloré those days, so my dear cross-atlantic friends, please take part in the boycott, steal / download their books if you want, but support other countries fights against far-right billionnaires !
(more informations on the fight against bolloré here, but in french https://desarmerbollore.net/ )
well fuck them and their dumb name, then
on trans day of remembrance the community came together to have an event, including this being read by a local poet. and I know all you people will eat it up as much as I did
