[the-lazyyy-artist]

AT THE SAME!! DAMN!! TIME!!

Of course, we have Otoya, Karasu, and Yukimiya as THEE trio EVER!! This artwork is dedicated to the biggest TabiEitaKen girlie I know, @i-am-so-strange 😘 your kings, my lady ❤

Unrendered version utc!!

[i-am-so-strange]

AWWWWWW Thank you Denisseeee 😘 THEY LOOK SOOOO GOOD!!! 😍😍

[moldavite-moved]

why is this about to make me sob

[sorryhahaifellasleep]

a poem i am sure everyone has seen but i'm still going to share anyway

as well as this other poem inspired by giovanni's

and this beautiful tweet

[jackhawksmoor]

finding out house spiders die if you put them outside because they're supposed to be living in a house has saved the lives of so many spiders I have gritted my teeth and shooed into an out-of-the-way corner. I respect the ones who make webs amid my carnivorous plants so much I feel like that dude from Jurassic Park

[miyamiwu]

If you like ube, please keep this in mind

Ube (pronounced as ooh-beh), a purple yam native to the Philippines, has been the new “matcha craze” or so they call it online. It’s gotten popular for its bright purple color and natural sweet taste that leads to nice “aesthetic” desserts like these:

Foreign influencers are latching onto it, and so are many foreign companies, leading to a rising global demand for the root crop.

But the thing is, ube takes months to grow, and depending on the weather, it can sometimes take over a year. (The Philippines experiences over 20 typhoons in a year, so you can just imagine how difficult it is.) The amount produced has also always been just enough for Filipinos and maybe for export to some of our Southeast Asian neighbors. Government support for the cultivation and research of the crop has been rather low. So, although the global attention on ube brings pride, the increase in demand has also been a big problem over here because it drives up the prices of ube even for the locals. In other words, “gentrification” is happening:

a process in which a poor area (as of a city) experiences an influx of middle-class or wealthy people who renovate and rebuild homes and businesses and which often results in an increase in property values and the displacement of earlier, usually poorer residents (Merriam-Webster)

This YouTube video explains it better.

Now, I’m not telling you to feel guilty about it and stop eating ube. Unlike some reactionary people on Twitter, I don’t think food should be gatekept at all. Food exists to be enjoyed and shared, so I’m totally fine with people from other countries consuming ube.

But there is one thing you can do to help us and that is to be respectful and to check your privilege—especially if you’re white.

The Philippines is a country that’s been colonized 3 times (Spain, USA, Japan) and is currently facing threats of further colonization (USA again, China, and now even fucking Israel). Filipino identity, so “polluted” by foreign influences, continues to be a point of contention over here. It’s worse when we’re also considered the “black sheep” of Southeast Asia because of how different our culture are from theirs (more Catholic, American, and Latino than typical SEAsian).

And so, Filipinos argue among themselves everyday on what it truly means to be Filipino. When we see other cultures trying to use ube without acknowledging its origins, the instinct is to get defensive. It can’t be helped. We just cling onto the things that have always been native to us because only with them can we be sure about our identity—our language, or pre-colonial past, and even our food. Ube is one of those things upon which Filipino identity has been ascribed on. Call it silly or stupid, but that’s the cruel reality of colonization. Many things we’re taken from us, so now we hold tightly onto the things that we still have.

So, seeing comments like this fill me with so much rage:

the fucking audacity 💀

There’s an ube war currently happening on Twitter, and it all started from this post:

OP has been under fire because the way it’s worded sounded like he invented ube ice cream, which outraged Filipinos because it’s a method that’s existed for years in their country:

*dirty ice cream refers to sorbetes, a traditional Filipino ice cream. The term started out as a pejorative in contrast to branded ice cream, but has now been reclaimed and adopted widely by the locals. It’s not actually dirty.

I admit, though, that some of my fellow Filipinos’ reactions were too much, blowing the whole thing out of proportion. But you have to understand that Filipinos are coming from a place of colonial trauma. Besides, Italians get to rant all the time about how other countries don’t do their food right and nobody calls them silly/unreasonable over it. So, how come when Filipinos call out others for doing the same with our food, we get called stupid and inferior?

Moreover, when you saw how OP first reacted to all the criticism, you’d understand that the Filipino rage was only right:

Instead of trying to understand where all the criticism is coming from and apologizing for his mistake, his instinct was to give a snarky reply.

Later, he started backtracking and gaslighting us:

The apology sounds more like an afterthought instead of coming from a place of genuine remorse. Comments under this put it to light better:

This post sums up the gaslighting well:

Worse of all, because of this whole discourse that seems “ridiculous” to others who don’t understand post-colonial trauma, non-Filipinos think it’s now only right to be aggressive and racist towards Filipinos:

White people, please explain to me why you think there’s ever a “justified” reason to be racist to anyone??? Are you out of your fucking minds???

that Julian guy may or may not have made that post from a place of malice, but it doesn’t matter anymore because his subsequent reactions have made it clear that he doesn’t actually care about the Filipinos or Asians in general whom he claim to champion in his original tweet. He was just being performative.

If the guy had just apologized right away or clarified what he actually meant instead of acting all snarky about it first, then Filipinos would’ve forgiven him and moved on. But nope, he felt the need to frame himself as a victim first and put the other group in a bad light, inadvertently gathering allies from his fellow Americans and making them feel the need to attack Filipinos in his “defense.” It’s fucking insidious.

So, my point is, I don’t care if you’re a non-Filipino who likes ube. What I do care about is that you be respectful about it and acknowledge where it’s from. If you’re trying to experiment with recipes, go ahead! But keep in mind that whatever you’re trying to make has probably already been made before in the Philippines. Ube desserts have existed here for years and they’re nothing novel—ube ice cream, ube cheesecake, ube flan, ube cookies, etc. etc. Learn from the locals first because surely they know it best. You don’t have to act like you’re some innovative genius by doing everything from scratch just to invent something “new.” Once you’ve seen our methods and feel like they don’t work with the ingredients you have in your country or with your culture’s ways of preparing food, then you may go ahead and adjust it, creating your own recipe. THAT is how you properly adopt other people’s culture.

[animentality]

[alfgifu]

this reads like it was submitted to a local newspaper in the early 1900s

[itsororomunroe]

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[degenezijde]

So You're Talking To A Deaf Person Through An Interpreter

Don't ask questions directly to the interpreter

Don't go "it's so impressive, it's such a rare job, you're so kind" - I promise whatever the Deaf person is dealing with to navigate a hearing world is more impressive

The interpreter will tell you if you're going too fast, promise

If you are really curious about something about the interpreter, wait until after, or ask the Deaf person if you can ask the interpreter something

Don't go "can you ask if..." And "can you tell them that...", just talk directly to the other person

Don't say rude words just to see what the interpreter does

[ultrafacts]

According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:

“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.

Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.

Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.

From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

Head low in the water, mouth at water level

Head tilted back with mouth open

Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus

Eyes closed

Hair over forehead or eyes

Not using legs—vertical

Hyperventilating or gasping

Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway

Trying to roll over on the back

Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

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[mermaibee]

BOOST FOR THE SUMMER. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.

[1q8njk-deactivated20221112]

Can I just say thank you to OP for putting such a detailed description on this?

I’ve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves I’ve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the person’s head is going in and out of the water but it isn’t long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someone’s face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are they’re drowning. That look of “oh shit” is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you can’t tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. I’ve done “saves” where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but that’s preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.

Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but they’re acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.

However . If the victim is a stranger, I can’t recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape “attacks,” because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and won’t want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Don’t die trying to save someone else.

Please guys, read and memorize this post. Not all places have lifeguards. Being able to recognize drowning is such an important skill to have and you can save someone’s life.

[inspector-loki]

Just incase!

[witchofobsession-deactivated202]

In a water park once, I was suddenly grabbed by a child and he dragged me under the water without warning. I was going to get angry with him when I resurfaced because I thought he was being an ass, until I looked at him go back in and out hyperventilating the entire time. I grabbed him under his arms and began trying to drag him out while screaming for the lifeguard.

When the lifeguard got us both out, a woman came running down and accused me of harming him and said he had been completely fine in the water. That there was no reason to drag him out of there. The lifeguard had to explain to her that her son had been drowning, to which her response was to say that she didn’t hear him call for help.

People seriously need to learn the signs.

[princedrewwrites]

http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ really demonstrates how easy it is to miss drowning 

[infiniteglitterfall]

[ancestralsurvival]

To OP’s point, Indigenous Bridges put this statement on Instagram in late 2023:

[the-library-alcove]

#i feel like a lot of folks think that by saying Palestinians are native to the area known as the Levant#they are saying that Palestinians have a right to do literally anything they want there to other people who are there#and that is why they push so hard to make Jews NOT native to that land- because if Jews ARE native?#then by their own logic they are allowed to do whatever they want#of course this doesn't actually hold up and I promise you that if any native tribe here in the USA gained the power to have a state-#a full state on their land of origin#the leftists would turn on them in a fucking heartbeat#it's like... like to me#this is why leftists are the way they are about the fucking Holocaust and trying to claim it for everyone BUT the Jews#because they cannot stand that the Jews- who they HATE. HAVE something in their eyes#to be native is to be oppressed which is to have social capital to them and to be more valid#to have experienced genocide and pain is to be oppressed and is to have again that social capital and validity#and the PROBLEM they have with jews having those things is that if we ARE indeed marginalized oppressed people...#then the left is going to be forced to listen when we tell them all how fucking antisemitic and racist they are and they DON'T WANT TO HEAR

@hazel2468, your tags pass peer review.

[prismatic-bell]

I've had three separate propals get mad at my pinned because, according to them, if Palestinians aren't indigenous to Israel, then they have no human rights.

Note: not civil rights. HUMAN RIGHTS. As in "if you're not indigenous, you have no right to be alive."

Further note: my pinned explicitly notes that not being indigenous doesn't mean Palestinians shouldn't have the right to dignity and safety.

They are literally defining humanity by some weird "your culture must be this noble savage" metric.

[angrytheatremaker]

"Noble savage" racism is a beast. Native erasure is a beast. Antisemitism (no matter what noble veneer it hides under) is a beast. At the mo I'm side-eyeing a whole lotta people who practice all three and never bothered to unpack any of it.

My paternal great-grandfather was half-Native, the family legend goes, although most people who see me tend to erase that bit because I'm fair-skinned. My mother's family are all Jewish, and because I can read as anything but I get a carload of shocked Pikachu faces any time I bring it up. It makes me happy to see Native and Jewish solidarity; goyische (and white) leftists can stay mad about it.

[infiniteglitterfall]

I've encountered this weird extremist idea too. It's like... often it's Americans, who live in America, and think both Israel and America should be destroyed. But they don't want to do it themselves; they just want to feel like good people for calling for that. Because the rest of the time, they just feel bad about living on stolen land.

The specific call for destroying-Israel-and-America is a huge red flag for propaganda from the dictatorship of Iran. Like, I promise you there are not two (2) lone deeply evil countries on earth that should be nuked from orbit.

But there's definitely one (1) deeply evil dictatorship on earth that specifically and routinely calls for that.

There are many (many) countries on earth with extremely complicated histories full of ethnic cleansing, slavery, and genocide.

(Many of them way more recent than the U.S.'s practices of ethnic cleansing, slavery, and genocide. Myanmar just ethnically cleansed the Rohingya Muslims a few years ago, and nobody would suggest we should wipe Myanmar off the planet.)

Sometime in late 2023, I was beefing my way through some instagram comments, and a nonbinary Ethnic Studies professor genuinely told me that someday, trans women of color would do to the U.S. what Hamas had done to Israel.

I honestly don't know what leads someone to go, "aha! this is the one specific demographic that actually deserves to be here, and to torture, mutilate, and burn its way across the country in order to claim it." (And the demographic isn't even "people indigenous to this land.")

I do assume this person was unaware of exactly how fucking brutal Hamas's attack was.

But the idea that trans women of color, as a group, are like, "Wow, I really wish we could slaughter and conquer America, including cis indigenous people, transmascs, an unknown number of enbies, cis people with disabilities, cis Black people, white trans women," and so on, is just fucking mind-blowing to me.

Like, I absolutely understand that we all feel this level of rage at our oppressors sometimes. But most of us recognize that it only works as an angry fantasy, and in real life would be like trying to rebuild from an apocalypse.

I don't even think this person counted themself among trans women of color. I think they were just making a really impassioned statement without thinking any of it through.

I also don't remember who it was that said, somewhere in the weeds of tumblr discourse, that we should destroy Japan too. They wanted to destroy Israel because they thought it was an ethnostate. The response was that there are many countries whose populations are basically one ethnic group, like Japan (which is not what an ethnostate is, but it's what most people seem to THINK it is); and they immediately and enthusiastically included Japan on the list, to the absolute bafflement of everyone else.

I think there are a lot of people who are very scared and angry, and don't really care about anybody or anything; they just want to lash out and imagine their problems could be solved through violence.

And also, a non-zero number of those people have unknowingly absorbed the concept of scapegoating Jews.

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO

[iamgayjew]

"Opposing genocide isn't antisemitic," while technically being a true statement, implies that you have said "I oppose genocide" to which Jews have said "That is antisemitic." It is making a link between Jewish concern about antisemitism and support for genocide. Regardless of whether you think Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip meets the threshold for genocide, you are implicitly encouraging your peers to connect Jews/Judaism with genocide. So, antisemitic

[thatjewishteen]

"opposing genocide isnt antisemitic" has the same vibes as "opposing terrorism isnt islamophobic" and "opposing child predators isnt homophobic" in this essay i will

[infiniteglitterfall]

It's also specifically a response to Jews calling out antisemitism in the first place.

Literally the only context in which that word salad of a sentence would occur is if you're talking about Israel in some way and someone says, "no, that's antisemitic."

It's an impressive move, because we already had "antizionism isn't antisemitism!"

And sure, that's an INCREDIBLY ridiculous statement. Like, OMG?! ALERT THE PRESS, THERE'S AN ENTIRE TOPIC YOU CAN TALK ABOUT WITHOUT EVER RISKING SAYING SOMETHING ANTISEMITIC??? Is antizionism also inherently never racist, misogynist, Islamophobic, ableist, etc?! YOU'VE SOLVED OPPRESSION!!!

But since everybody was pretending it WASN'T a ridiculous statement, there was no real need to take it to the next level. By rephrasing it to imply that the only reason anyone would ever accuse you of hating Jews was that you oppose genocide.

The true fucking BEAUTY of this move is that it is wildly antisemitic to genuinely believe there's a specifically Jewish movement in favor of genocide.

Like, yeah, THAT'S what the history of the past 200 years have shown us. Jews COMMIT genocide. Jews just loooove a good genocide.

It's so poetic and sad that they would do to others what was just done to them!

Sure, they haven't enslaved 26,000,000 people, or any people at all. They haven't built industrial death factories. They haven't killed 41% of the Palestinians on earth, or 66% of the people of Palestine. They haven't developed a massive propaganda system telling the world that Palestinians are the cause of all its problems. They haven't stripped Palestinian Israelis of their citizenship, their businesses, their jobs, or their bank accounts.

It's extremely antisemitic to erase the entire Holocaust, or claim that Jews are actually doing any of the above because "they're the real Nazis."

Defending themselves by huffily saying, "you just think I'm biased against Jews because I oppose genocide," is kind of an evil genius move.

[infiniteglitterfall]

I was already going to reblog with illustrations, and then I saw @intergalacticle in the replies saying, "that is not how anything works. people point out the fact that the government of israel is committing genocide, then they get accused of antisemitism for criticizing israel, which is what actually prompts them to point out that being against genocide is not antisemitic. No one is just randomly being like "man, genocide is so totally not cool" for no reason, only for a Jewish person to randomly interject to accuse them of antisemitism completely unprompted."

No one is saying that's what's happening.

Let's see what happens when you throw "opposing genocide isn't antisemitic" into Twitter's search bar!

Latest tweets:

What he actually says in that clip is that even though there's been a ceasefire for months, the Green Party in England is exploiting Gaza by using its position on Gaza, an international issue, to gain city council seats, which are about hyper-local issues.

He does say that the reason this works is "antisemitism sells."

And here we see the problem: in order to understand that, you need to know enough about the issue to unpack it.

"This works because antisemitism sells" means:

Many people have an immediate emotional reaction to Israel that they don't have to any other country doing the same things or worse.

Let's assume that Israel actually committed genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. It must be virtually empty of Palestinians now, just as Myanmar has become virtually empty of the Rohingya Muslims, over a slightly longer period, through active genocide and ethnic cleansing.

But even if Israel went door to door raping and burning people to death until entire villages were razed to the ground, as Myanmar did, you cannot get votes for British city council seats by trumpeting your support for the Rohingya.

Most people have never heard of the Rohingya. Three years ago, most people had never heard of Gaza. But they have certainly heard of Jews.

And the past century, in particular, has seen intense efforts to spread propaganda globally, portraying Jews as untrustworthy, dishonest, shady, sneaky, scheming, power-hungry, money-hungry people. In a word: sus.

Many people who don't consciously "have a problem with Jews" have still absorbed a lot of unconscious bias from the world around them. Just as we do with every axis of oppression.

A lot of people mentally split Jews into "the good ones I have no problem with" and "the bad ones," just as people do with every marginalized group. But with Jews, "the bad ones" isn't "I do think some women are manipulative hos," it's "I do think there's a Jewish movement to commit genocide."

Now let's do another one, and hope that those bullet points unpacked enough to cover it too!

First of all, Jackson Hinkle is a white supremacist. And he's joined a lot of white supremacists in setting up a fun progressive-to-Nazi pipeline, to hide behind and trap people who would otherwise loathe them.

What is this person replying to?

Greens again; apparently Polanski is the head of the Green Party there.

Speaking on a visit to a synagogue, Starmer labelled Polanski “disgraceful” for saying it was important to distinguish between an actual threat to the Jewish community in the UK after recent arson attacks and the “perception of unsafety”.

Labour have also criticised Polanski for saying in another interview that he had been wrong to previously criticise Jeremy Corbyn for not properly dealing with antisemitism as Labour leader, and that the issue had been weaponised at the time.

This entire article is the Guardian doing what it does the most, which is stir up drama to get engagement.

When Polanski said that, nine out of what ended up being 11 attacks on London Jews had already occurred. The article brushes right past all that to focus on what he thought about antisemitism being weaponized. And his response was basically that he'd HEARD it had been, sometimes.

So basically:

1. Polanski said it was weird that Starmer was accusing him of antisemitism, which he didn't do; he accused him of not taking antisemitism seriously enough.

2. Someone quoted that on Twitter.

3. Someone immediately assumed that Polanski was being accused of antisemitism for talking about Gaza, which is not the case.

4. And immediately jumped to, "Opposing genocide isn't antisemitism," while linking to a white supremacist as supporting evidence.

Okay, here's a standalone one; that's interesting.

Literally nobody asked.

This one is the weakest argument I've seen in a while.

There were a lot of Zionist movements, many with totally different goals, but none of them were fascist or ethno-supremacist.

Hitler made the "I have no problem with Jewish people because of their religion" pretty much useless for everybody else.

(Ethno-supremacist is just a fancy way of getting mad that there's a country with a Jewish minority. It's just, "oh, so we're not good enough for you anymore?! You think you're better than us now?!" Like, no: people just got tired of the literally constant pogroms and systemic oppression.)

It's horrifying how quickly the "Epstein was a Mossad agent!" conspiracy theory spread from Christian Nationalists to the far left.

The Epstein-Mossad conspiracy theory continues to be a recurring theme in fringe and far-right discourse. Recently, it has gained renewed traction among Trump's MAGA base.... Prominent right-wing voices, including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have openly accused Epstein of being an Israeli agent, while also criticizing efforts to dismiss such claims as antisemitic conspiracy theories.

This new push was spurred by a MAGA Holocaust denier for the lolz. Because of course it fucking was.

Okay, just one more. Someone saw a tweet praising AOC for saying, "Hey so marching into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and leading with a chant saying 'we support Hamas' is a disgusting and antisemitic thing to do. Pretty basic!"

And knee-jerk responded with:

Protesting in a Jewish neighborhood and chanting about Palestine would be antisemitic for the exact same reason that people claim it's NOT: choosing a Jewish neighborhood as the site for your unrelated protest is pretty clearly Making It About The Jews.

It's not protesting at the Israeli Embassy. It's not protesting downtown to get the most visibility and spread awareness. It's not protesting about local issues in your own neighborhood.

It's going into a residential neighborhood you're not from, and acting like your protest has something to do with it.

Marching your protest into a Jewish neighborhood and chanting "We support Hamas" is an explicitly and openly hateful act against Jews.

Because Hamas, aka the Islamic Resistance Movement (that's what Hamas is an acronym for, in Arabic):

Explicitly believes that the entire land, both Israel and Palestine, and "all other lands accessed and consecrated by Muslims at the time of conquering for all Muslim generations until the day of Resurrection," is rightfully Muslim land forever.

Explicitly states that the Jews are its enemy: that "our battle with the Jews is long and dangerous, requiring all dedicated efforts."

As a result, Hamas considers Israel to be Occupied Palestine. Its goal is to free Palestine from them, and "to raise the banner of Allah on every inch of Palestine."

In 2021, it held a conference revealing its plans to establish its own caliphate across the whole land, once Israel has been annihilated.

(Something Hamas has been advocating for and working towards pretty hard ever since it seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 and established a brutal dictatorship.)

It talks about drawing up rules for which Jews will live, which ones must be killed or prosecuted, and which ones can flee. And that “educated Jews and experts in the areas of medicine, engineering, technology, and civilian and military industry… should not be allowed to leave.”

Hamas explicitly states that it will immediately issue "a direct continuation of the Pact of ‘Umar Bin Al-Khattab," which is the system of laws that subjugated indigenous Christians and Jews during 1,300 years of caliphate rule.

October 7 was a sort of "proof of concept." A test to see what more they needed to meet their goal. Hamas leaders have promised to repeat their attack until Israel has been annihilated.

On October 7, Hamas explicitly sought out Jewish civilians to kill. They did also kill Arabs, in some cases. But mostly, they tried to get Arabs to tell them where the Jews were. They repeatedly mocked Arabs as "traitors" for, e.g., working for Jews. There are also recordings of Hamas fighters looking for Jews specifically, and boasting about how many Jews they personally killed.

TL;DR: Hamas is not Palestine. It is not activism. It is not resistance.

It is a group that has explicitly said very openly, for DECADES, that it wants to commit genocide next door and take over. While telling us that actually, that's what ISRAEL wants.

It's a group that Gazans have been protesting throughout the entire war, and before it. While the supposedly pro-Palestine movement silences and erases them.

This one is definitely the most egregiously ignorant and blatantly wrong example of "Opposing genocide isn't antisemitic!" I saw.

[prismatic-bell]

One I've encountered, as a variation on a theme, is people saying "so you support genocide?" when I talk about antisemitism. You can literally say "I fucking hate having to be afraid to go pray" and have someone tell you Gaza has it worse and you support genocide.

Like bitch, that's an entirely different sentence. Do you think I'm crushing the heads of Gazan children under my car wheels every time I drive to shul or something? Because I live in Arizona. There is a notable lack of Gazan children here, possibly because Gaza is seven thousand-ish miles away. I want to pray without being afraid today is the day a gunman gets in or a bomb threat is real. That's it. And apparently that's too fucking much to ask, because wanting to pray is "supporting genocide."

[nonbinaryjudean]

crazy how the "all politicians are using rhetoric to persuade you and you cannot trust them 100% of the time" is just... gone. for the mayor of new york. why? because hes quirky and goofy and pushing 1930s type antisemitic propaganda?

[nonbinaryjudean]

images in order:

instant victim blaming on october 8th. literally before the bodies had been counted, before the fires were put out, before people knew if their loved ones were alive or not, before any retaliation at all.

he defends the words of the person in the screenshots below

screenshot of her words 1

words 2

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Mamdani and Rashida "there's a kind of a calming feeling... when I think of the Holocaust..." Tlaib (yes I took this quote out of context but the full context is fucking WORSE)

Mamdani resharing JVP, a group that pretends to be ran by Jews but literally just appropriates Judaism and then defends the murders of jews on the daily, only 5 fucking days after 1200 Jews were murdered

Mamdani Monitor - NYC City Hall Accountability Tracker < this tracks all his actions, good and bad.

Articles:

Mamdani revokes IHRA antisemitism definition on day 1, amid broad rejection of Adams orders

Zohran Mamdani’s wife liked social media posts celebrating Oct. 7 attacks

New York’s First Lady Liked Post Calling October 7 Rapes a ‘Mass Hoax’

Zohran Mamdani team member praised people tearing hostage posters

Zohran Mamdani appointee resigns over resurfaced antisemitic posts

We're Jews in Zohran Mamdani's neighborhood. We love New York — but not like this. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Mamdani shares video of keffiyeh-clad door knocker, raising questions, hackles of Jewish New Yorkers

(btw, his wife was not a "private, regular person" as he puts it. she was a famous model. her photos are literally in every fucking "portrait ref" board on pinterest)

HERE is a post about his promotion of the "deadly exchange" conspiracy theory

HERE is a post about his refusal to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada", which calls for violence against diaspora jews, as per the words of the organizations that started it

and heres a post with examples of what this intifada in question is

many of these screenshots and articles i grabbed from @gingerswagfreckles posts.

some of the people mamdani has appointed:

Kazi Fouzia - Transition Committee on Worker Justice: "Kazi Fouzia posted on Facebook on October 8, 2023, mere hours after Hamas’s devastating attack in Israel: “Resistance are [sic] Justified when people are occupied”"

Tamika Mallory - Committee on Community Safety: is associated with the antisemitic group nation of islam and repeatedly defends leader Louis Farrakhan, was accused by fellow Women's March organizers of making antisemitic comments, and refused to condemn Farrakhan's antisemitism

Youssef Mubaraz - Transition Committee on Small Businesses & MWBEs: called the rape and kidnapping by hamas on october 7th "propaganda"

Gianpaolo Baiocchi - Transition Committee on Community Organizing: "Baiocchi was among the faculty arrested at the student-led, anti-Israel encampment at NYU in 2024. He alleged that “there was no expression of anti-semitism [sic], bigotry, or any hate speech” at the encampment." this is categorically false. this encampment was full of signs, posters, pamphlets, etc instigating violence against Jewish people.

Ruha Benjamin - Transition Committee on Technology: has been involved in encampments at Princeton that have created unsafe environments for Jewish students (support for hezbollah, calls for school to end funding for Jewish studies), believes in "jewish supremacy" bullshit

Hassaan Chaudhary - Muslim Outreach Director: "He used “Jew” as a slur, praised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (who called Israel “a cancer which will be eliminated”), and described Israel as a “bloody country” and “barbaric nation.”"

Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari - Transition Committee on Youth & Education: was involved in encampments that were rife with antisemitism, posted photos of herself with the inverted red triangle that Hamas uses with "long live the resistance"

Mamdani was also the co-founder of the SJP chapter at Bowdoin College. read about why SJP is antisemitic here, here, here, here

he promoted an event with jewfakers JVP and the co-founder of electronic intifada (disinformation machine)

oh yeah and hes associated with hasan piker and i do not have the fucking energy to talk about that stinky, stinky little man. he abuses his dog, hes gone to a brothel that was busted for sex trafficking, he denies the mass rape on oct 7, hes hosted a fucking houthi member on his stream.........

Anti-Jewish hate crimes have made up like 50% of hate crimes in NYC this year. Im sure abolishing safety measures for Jews will help right? /sarcasm. heres how NYC (10% jewish, most jewish city in the diaspora, second in the world, btw) is for Jews in 2026:

The only Ethiopian-Israeli/Jewish restaurant in NYC was forced to close after endless harassment

a flag with a swastika was raised at NYU

violent protests outside synagogues

the car ramming attack at chabad headquarters

antisemitic graffiti and threats at schools, playgrounds, synagogues, businesses

Albert Itzkowitz z''l, 75, an orthodox Jewish man, owner of a kosher bakery and former Hatzolah volunteer was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds. He was a beloved father, grandfather, husband and friend. His murder came only 3 weeks after his wife died of cancer. His family believes that his murder was an antisemitic hate crime, the killer has yet to be identified.

A 23 year old Jewish woman was verbally assaulted by a woman yelling "Jews are eating kids", who then grabbed her throat and strangled her, dragged her around, ripped out a huge chunk of her hair on the subway.

a rabbi was physically assaulted and harassed in Queens on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

i hope this is sufficient evidence for you that Zohran Mamdani is fostering antisemitism through the people he promotes and associates with and through his actions and words (or lack thereof).

(no, i do not agree with everything some of these sources do or say. the information here is still valuable.)

[redladypaige]

Person did mandatory IDF service as a clerk? Beyond redemption, fate worse than death

Guy who chose to do 4 tours with a private military company and get a Nazi tattoo on the way? He hates Israel, We gotta elect him to public office

[scornfulundertowbanshee]

I’m in a group that is supposed to be about memes based off The Mummy (1999)

One of the main actors served in the IDF during the Intifadas, and suddenly every other post is calling him a genocide supporter, for doing mandatory service.

There’s even a bunch of idiots claiming that the “morally correct” thing to do would have been to refuse to serve and ho to jail, thereby tanking his entire life.

None of these commenters live in a country with mandatory service.

[letters-to-lgbt-kids]

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

Here’s a hug (or a high-five if you prefer) for everyone who is deeply interested in sex as a topic but not as an activity. 

Maybe you are interested in sex from a biological or psychological perspective (sexual health, relationship dynamics, cultural differences etc.) or from a creative standpoint (reading, writing, drawing, watching sex scenes), or maybe it tickles your collectors brain (in a „I’d like an itemized list of all sex positions, no I do not want to try any of them, I just like lists“ way) - but in either case, you are not sexually active and you do not wish to be. 

People who are not interested in having sex are often assumed to be immature, as if it automatically means you are a 7 year old in their „eww kissing gives you cooties“ phase. You are assigned a childlike innocence, you are presumed to have no understanding of how sex works or that it even exists…  But in reality you may actually have more theoretical knowledge on sex than your peers do! You just happen to not want the hands-on experience. 

People may also automatically assume you’re disgusted or even deeply afraid of sex and feel like they need to tip-toe around the topic with you - which can create a really unpleasant disconnect between your internal self-image and the way others treat you. In reality, you may love to talk about sex and wish you could discuss it with others freely without having to fight assumptions. There’s a loneliness in this. 

„Interested but not personally participating“ is not as strange a combination as people may think. People really do that with lots of activities! People can be super into watching sports but not play any sports themselves. People can love to learn about dogs but would personally never get one. It shouldn’t be that surprising that it can apply to sex too. 

There’s nothing wrong or weird about you. You basically just love basketball but do not play it. A fully normal, valid thing. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

[itsororomunroe]

For anyone interested in learning the terminologies to describe these experiences:

[nephritebabie]

the cycle of life

[morriganereshkigal]

Adding this from an occult-psychological perspective... The Nine of Wands is not a victory card. It is a diagnosis.

You are not resilient. You are armored. The cycle does not prove your strength. It proves that you have mistaken the battlefield for the temple. "I have no choice but to get through this" is not determination. It is hypervigilance as the Lonely Initiate — the unhealed child who learned that rest is earned only after bleeding. But the old maps knew: the sentinel who never leaves his post is not guarding the gate. He is blocking it. The break never comes because you are still waiting for permission from a Saturnian timeline that demands your collapse as proof of worth. Lay down the staff. The war is over. You were never meant to survive it. You were meant to transcend it.

I mapped this exact wound — the sentinel's armor, the cycle that never breaks, and the ritual to finally lay down the staff — in Garden of the Mind — Clear Negative Energy. The full clearing protocol is in my Etsy shop. Link in bio. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1831756564/e-book-pdf-garden-of-the-mind-clear?sr_prefetch=1&pf_from=shop_home&ref=shop_home_active_13&dd=1&logging_key=5d9d07134c97b2401d2f9b5146e06fc67fa07fd9%3A1831756564

[legsdemandias]

Do you think tumblr will ever learn the difference between “I’m defending this person because I agree with them wholeheartedly and I am also like this person” and “I’m defending this person because your behavior is dangerous and you need to stop”

[legsdemandias]

IMO, blurring the lines between “I’m defending them because they’re right” and “I’m defending them because you’re taking this too far” is step numero uno to cutting down the very existence of fair trial and democracy–even in places where saying that might seem a little dramatic. 

Mob mentality is extremely strong in humans and it’s also extremely dangerous. Mobs don’t think things through. Mobs kill and they destroy and they can’t be reasoned with. Someone trying to calm a mob down isn’t someone defending the ~problematic party~ It’s time we re-learn that.

[grimboigio]

Fear and anger are the easiest ways to bypass coherent and thought-through decision-making. All the propoganda you see that’s built on anger and fear is trying to make you angry and fearful because those deeply-rooted emotions are how our ancestors survived, and so you have to work against your own biology to overcome it. That’s hard and our brains are notoriously good at energy conservation. They don’t want to do the hard thing. But you have to learn to do it anyway.

Create the space of a deep breath in your mind. Just giving yourself 3 seconds to really think about the information (and underlying message) you are perceiving will make you an infinitely more measured philosophy.

Unlearn your disgust response. Unlearn your fear of difference. Give yourself time to think.

[agnesandhilda]

90% of people stop scrolling before they find the Post that brings them lasting emotional fulfillment

[jewishvitya-movingblogs]

This is Andrey X, a Jewish Israeli pro-Palestine activist.

I don't know how to describe this video so I'll just write out what he's saying:

That is the beginning of an Israeli settlement. And this is the Palestinian village of Umm al-Hiran. Which is right now under a demolition order, in order to expand the settlement that way.

And we are not in the West Bank. We are in the Naqab desert. Every single Palestinian in that village has an Israeli passport. And yet they're being expelled to make way for a Jewish settlement.

And look at the hills around us. This place is empty. If Israel wants to build a settlement, they can do it anywhere. And yet they choose to do it here. Because the only purpose of that settlement is to expel Palestinians from their land.

This is happen all over the Naqab desert. Currently 14 Palestinian Bedouin communities are under demolition orders. And thousands of people are set to become homeless.

This is the most blatant illustration that Israel is an ethno-nationalist apartheid state. The Palestinians of Umm al-Hiran have the exact same citizenship as the settlers who are about to move into their land. And yet the Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed just because they belong to an ethno-cultural group that the Israeli state wants to suppress as much as possible.

[magicmooshka]

just wanted to bring to everyone’s attention that two days ago, Andrey X was arrested by the Israeli police without due cause. Neither the public nor his lawyers have been allowed to access the evidence that supposedly warranted his arrest. His colleagues are asking for people to spread word about the situation.

[hinako-supremacy]

i fucking love subtitles

[hinako-supremacy]

i wish subtitles were in movies in theaters

[nudgers-and-shovers]

Good News!

Many cinemas, especially indie theatres, have Closed Caption sessions :)