Jewish Trans Dyke

Ashkenazi Jew. Trans woman. Queer lesbian. Polyamorous. ADD, Tourette's Syndrome, Depression, Social Anxiety, Long COVID, maybe AvPD, probably autistic. Socialist. Millennial. Los Angeles.

[queerautism]

Extremely fucking stupid bc genuinely who cares. Walking sticks are literally for anyone. They help you when you walk around. Perfectly healthy and abled bodied people use them while hiking because they just work.

And what if it was just a fashion thing? It used to be trendy. It gives your outfit a different vibe. Experimenting with fashion is fun, there's literally zero things wrong with using a cane because you like the way it looks or how it makes you feel.

Every single person choosing to use a mobility aid in public normalises their use, and makes it less likely for me to get harassed out there. It just becomes a regular thing you see while out in public. And that's the exact thing ableist TERFs like Stock are actually against - Not even mentioning the absolutely obvious misogyny here.

Covid was a mass disabling event. It continues to affect many, many people. Denying reality and gaslighting disabled people will not make us go away

[alcibiades-hacks-it]

Literally the only thing I have to say about this is "please look up guides on how to properly use a walking stick or cane if you're going to use them". Because it's real easy to fuck up your back long term doing it wrong.

[originalleftist]

A bitter realization I've had is that neither Jews or Israelis, or Palestinians, actually have much in the way of genuine allies.

Many of the most vocal "pro-Palestine" folks are at least partly just using the cause of Palestine to promote their hatred of Jews, and/or a communist/anarchist revolution against the "Western establishment." Or they're folks like the Ruzzian and Iranian regimes, pursuing their own imperial ambitions. They do not want an equitable peace, they want the warfare and bloodshed to escalate to the total destruction of Israel/Jews/the West, and they do not seem to care how many Palestinians are sacrificed in the process to get it. They ignore or outright defend the atrocities of Hamas, the Iranian regime, etc against their own people as well as others, and paint the victims and opponents of them as Israeli/US agents.

On the flip side, the most vocal and powerful supporters of Israel outside the Jewish community are US conservatives and evangelicals. They also do not actually care about Israel or Jews. Tr*mp rails against antisemitism in universities and arrests pro-Palestine activists, but this is not out of genuine concern for Jews. He is a casual antisemite and known Hitler fanboy who stacked his cabinet full of people like RFJ Jr.- who claimed Covid was designed to target white and Black people and spare Chinese people and Jews (implicitly, that it was designed as a bioweapon by the Jews). He USES fighting antisemitism as cover to try to criminalize dissent and control universities- while demanding, for example, that a university turn over a list of Jews on the campus. To fight antisemitism, of course. He isn't even a good ally to Netanyahu, having presumed to publicly announce policy changes or deal on behalf of Israel that Israel's government had not agreed to. As for the evangelicals, the True Believers only want Israel to exist so it can fulfill its role in their End Times prophecies and Jesus can return and send all the Jews to Hell (what this deranged hate fantasy looks like in practice is a nuclear exchange in the Middle East- US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a hardline member of the Religious Right, reportedly urged Tr*mp to nuke Iran).

It is a tremendous tragedy that both Palestinians and Israelis' "supporters" are very often people who have no actual interest in their well-being, but simply in using them as proxies in their own wars. Both peoples deserve far better than to have their nations, their rich cultures, their very lives reduced to expendable tokens for the pursuit of other nations' imperial ambitions, or the culture wars of white Westerners.

[mistons]

THE THING

You’ll never forget it

1967 / Mark

[undeadhousewife]

Me when I insist I don’t need to write it down

[mckitterick]

just ADHD Things

[key-pair]

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

[key-pair]

a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

[cantdrawtosavemylife]

Went to google more news about professor Jason Arday, and I swear to God the first two pages of research are rancid propaganda sites smearing the man's reputation, up to and including popular Brazilian news magazine Veja.

This article by professor Kehinde Andrews clarifies more about the story of racist harassment Arday has been suffering since he fucking got a teaching job at Cambridge in the first place, in 2023, as the FIRST Black professor in that fucking stupid institution, who sure is taking it's sweet time defending their worker, despite already fucking checking his work for plagiarism and saying he didn't do it:

https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/08/07/ardays-resignation/

A dark agenda lies behind Jason Arday's resignation - Voice Online

Arday's resignation has reignited questions about race and who is truly accepted at the highest levels of British academia

Several of the academics who harassed this man into suicide do not seem to have suffered at all in their academic careers. Actually, Dave Harris, who lost his Emeritus title for his racist behavior back in 2024 (something the news only call "criticizing Critical Race Theory", instead of "sent racist emails to fellow black academics"), was defended by Plymouth University, where he used to work, and fucking got the title back earlier this year.

[cannibalgender]

A couple things about the above.

1. He wasn’t the first Black Professor at Cambridge, but he WAS the youngest X

2. He was ALSO autistic, and nonverbal for the first 11 years of his life X

The rest of the story unfolds pretty much as described. And he was a fucking Sociologist studying racial equity in schools and academia. They publicly bullied a black autistic man to suicide for being imperfect whilst asserting a place for blackness in academia.

[captain-price-returns]

Re: sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln on half rations.

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[politijohn]

Source

[crazedporcupine]

A reminder that a universal basic income actually drastically improves the lives of everyone involved

[teaboot]

My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that

Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass

It takes both more and less time than you’d think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE

After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I’m not sure how to describe that.

Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it’s ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh

[teaboot]

Unexpected rift among security specialists on this one as 50% of respondents say “Yeah I know exactly what you mean” and the other half drop in just to say “no OP is just a freak”

[teaboot]

Bringing this back because I was on shift at this specific location the other day when one of the older cams got fried and I had to pull out the tower and rummage around in the wiring of my own damn eyeballs and maybe I AM the freak here but I'm disturbed to say it was an *extremely* bizarre and vulnerable feeling

Like being your own neurosurgeon

Also I'm blind in one of my 50ish eyes now and it feels like I lost a tooth in my brain

[seaymph]

I want to make you feel like a humid Southern night, where the Spanish moss drips from the trees like lace, and honeysuckle buds perfume the air. Sticky, glistening skin. Sultry and forever.

[pugsarelub]

and fifty dozen mosquitos are sucking your body dry and cicadas scream so loud you can never sleep and watch where your honeysuckle ass steps or you’ll plant your foot on a pissed off copperhead

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

One person is from the south. One person isn’t. Guess which.

[conquerorwurm]

“I want to make you feel like a humid Southern night” is a threat

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

The mosquitos I’m waging war on but the cicadas are my friends

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

“i also choose this guy’s dead wife” was easily the #1 funniest thing to ever be written on the internet.

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

you can know the punchline but you can’t stop it from punching you.

[mighty-meerkat]

i do also feel the need to add that phil8248 really liked the joke. he said his wife had always had a dark sense of humour, even about her illness and death, and seeing the joke made him feel like he was laughing with her one last time.

[moonlitstargazer]

[fancysheepnacho]

[goingrampant]

This is a good option for replacing "AI slop," which is problematic for originating with Nazi slang.

[womanaction]

one of the best sentences I've read on Wikipedia

[girlactionfigure]

In the summer of 1940, Paris fell under Nazi occupation. German soldiers marched through the boulevards, and swastika flags replaced the vibrant café illuminations that had defined the City of Light.

Yet, the beautiful Josephine Baker continued to captivate the French capital.

Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906, she was an African American dancer and singer who had risen to stardom in Europe during the 1920s.  

To the Nazis, she appeared as little more than an entertaining celebrity, fixated on glamour, performances, and luxury.

This was a grave error on their part.

Baker deeply opposed the Nazis’ ideology of racial superiority, brutality, and discrimination, views shaped by her own experiences of racism in the United States.  

When France declared war on Germany in September 1939, she was recruited by the Deuxième Bureau, France’s military intelligence agency, as an “honourable correspondent”. She agreed without hesitation, driven by loyalty to the country that had embraced her.

As part of the French Resistance, Baker operated openly rather than in secrecy. She frequented high-society gatherings at embassies and salons, mingling with Italian diplomats, Japanese officials, and German officers.  

These figures spoke candidly in her presence, sharing details of military strategies, troop positions, and alliances.

Baker committed this intelligence to memory, then relayed it to her contacts.

Smuggling the information posed significant risks, with borders tightly controlled and luggage routinely inspected. However, her status as an international star allowed her to travel extensively with trunks of costumes and stacks of sheet music.  

She concealed sensitive data by writing it in invisible ink on her sheet music, which appeared innocuous to inspectors. 

Her fame often spared her thorough searches; border guards frequently requested autographs instead.  In this way, she transported crucial intelligence across Europe and into North Africa, where she also entertained Allied troops, sometimes performing atop military vehicles in the desert while clad in elegant attire. 

During the war, Baker suffered a severe illness, likely peritonitis, which hospitalised her in Casablanca from 1941 to 1942.  Even then, she persisted, using her recovery period to host Resistance meetings.

After the war’s conclusion in 1945, France recognised her contributions. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance, and General Charles de Gaulle named her a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur, the nation’s highest civilian honour.  

Baker passed away on 12 April 1975, at the age of 68, following a cerebral haemorrhage.  Her funeral at L’Église de la Madeleine in Paris drew over 20,000 mourners, and she received full French military honours, including a 21-gun salute.   

She was the first American-born woman to be accorded such a tribute. 

Josephine Baker’s story illustrates a profound truth: underestimation can prove to be a formidable adversary’s undoing.

@LiquidFaerie

[helenvaughans]

📢📢📢

[materassassino]

Many homeless people rely on books as the only entertainment they can easily carry, can be replaced constantly, doesn't need charging and can be found for relatively cheap. Same thing for newspapers, which also double as insulation. I see plenty of homeless people reading, you just don't bother to look.

[mockiatoh]

You can’t deserve a person’s love. You’ll drive yourself crazy thinking like that. They either love you, or they don’t. That doesn’t mean you weren’t good enough for them to love you, because love isn’t something you earn by being good enough. It isn’t something that can be quantified or doled out. Don’t blame yourself for not being loved how you need to, just teach yourself how to look for love where love lives.

[mockiatoh]

This isn’t just about romantic love, or even skewed towards romantic love, although it does apply there too. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to accept is that my mother simply wasn’t someone who was capable of loving me, and there is no version of me that I could have ever been that would have earned that love. But with acceptance came healing. I was able to love myself more instead of resenting myself for not being more than any one person could be.

[mockiatoh]

Are you listening? Even love for yourself isn’t earned. It is a kindness you give yourself.

[grunkypeep]

i hate when men complain about women’s body hair, even like the fine hair on their backs. go fuck a shark if you wanna have sex with something hairless

[cannedviennasnausage]

#shark skin is actually covered in tiny barbs #aka teeth #they are literally a swimming tooth

I suddenly have the urge to grate cheese on a great white

[flanoirbunny]

wouldn’t that make the shark a

grate white

[shutupandtalkgeekytome]

This post got weird

[jennytrout]

This post started with fucking hairless sharks. Weird wasn’t a destination so much as a jumping off point.

[captainclickycat]

I’ve never been so surprised not to encounter the word “smooth” in a text post

[the-final-sif]

Smooth shark post happened circa 2017, this post occurred in 2013 (posted) + pun added and 2015 (Jennytrout enhancement), years before smooth sharks would be discovered and revealed to the public.

[charl0ttan]

Out-of-place artifact - Wikipedia

[kragehund-est]

some people can't fathom "rudeness" as a concept outside of identity, power, and oppression dynamics. so you point out they're being assholes and they start doing identity math at you to prove they're justified.

like sure, it's true that you are technically "punching up" in terms of that framework. but we're just hanging out rn, so why are you punching at all? you aren't challenging any power structures, you're just being mean to my friend kayla who has been nothing but lovely this evening.

[softness-and-shattering]

"Punching up" is a concept from comedy anyway, its not a universal rule. Comedy has to have a punchline, so make it the people in power.

A discussion, a hangout, a barbecue doesnt need a punchline doesnt need any punching. Lower your fists. Try a differrent method of connecting to someone. Youre not immune to being an asshole, no one is.