this used to be a mod blog for social justice now its used by the former mod morokei to goof off this will be changed as soon i think of something better to put here.
In Super Mario Galaxy, the battles against Bowser take place on spherical planetoids where Bowser must be tricked into Ground Pounding the blue spots on the floor, causing him to break the glass and get burned by the lava underneath.
However, if he is lured to Ground Pound on the metallic green platforms, he will destroy them and reveal a coin instead. If he does this from a very specific angle, he will escape the gravity of the planetoid and never come back down. Note Bowser slowly moving away in the footage.
There is no way to continue the battle in this state and the mission must be reset.
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I've been buying books for decades, and I remember when the plague of slick, stiff paper ads inserted in the middle of paperbacks fell upon the book buying public. Usually cigarette ads, as I recall, probably because that was after cigarette ads were forbidden on television and radio. They were annoying as hell because they tended to make the book open to that point by default--and you couldn't cleanly pull them out, either.
Fortunately, this plague on book buyers was fairly temporary, probably because it wasn't a good investment for the advertisers. A given book's ad can only reliably be expected to be read by ONE reader, and there was no way of tracking who it was, whether it influenced their buying habits, etc.
Taylor Swift went to a restaurant in NYC called Or'esh, if you look it up you'll see it says it's Mediterranean/Levantine, I guess because it's not safe atm to openly call it Israeli. it doesn't matter to freaks online though, who are saying, "shitty Zio supporter" "going to a restaurant owned by Israelis is fucking disgusting. Free Palestine."
what the hell do people want? when Israeli Jews aren't even in Israel they complain and want to boycott them and harm them. it's so OBVIOUS that they don't want any of us alive, or allowed to pursue livelihoods, anywhere on earth.
The owner, Manny Yekutiel, spent a year talking to business owners, community leaders, and anti-gentrification activists in the neighborhood to find out what they thought would benefit the area the most – and then he built it.
Manny's is staffed by people that are formerly homeless and formerly incarcerated.
It's in a Latine neighborhood that's struggled with gentrification for decades. All of its staff and written signs/materials are bilingual.
And its prices are deliberately kept as low as possible. Coffee is $1.75 and a meal is as low as $6.... in a city where a sandwich routinely goes for $15. (I am not exaggerating.)
Manny's has given free or low-cost space to dozens and dozens of nonprofits such as Mission Graduates, Indivisible, Citizen’s Climate Lobby and the Instituto Familiar de la Raza.
It contains a mini bookshop, curated by a local independent bookstore, focusing on social justice and activism.
It hosts talks on everything from Black Lives Matter to climate justice.
Manny's events are mostly free. But no one is turned away for lack of funds.
The kitchen is run by a nonprofit called Farming Hope.
The owner is a child of immigrants. And his father escaped anti-Jewish persecution in Afghanistan by walking to Israel.
But in 2017, anti-Zionists after the Chicago Dyke March cornered and surrounded women carrying rainbow flags with the star of David on them. And did that Plausible Deniability Harassment thing at them. The one where people are "just asking questions!!" and "this isn't YELLING!!" so they can insist later that "we didn't kick them out, they just left!"
In other words, at least two Jewish women were kicked out of the picnic after the Chicago Dyke March.
In response to that, Manny had posted to Facebook saying, "Anyone know of some good Zionist organizations in the Bay where I can plug in and help?”
ALL OF THAT happened 18 MONTHS BEFORE HIS CAFE OPENED.
So O B V I O U S L Y, he had (checks notes) “unequivocally espoused racist, Zionist, pro-Israel ideals,” and his cafe was a “gentrifying wine-bar, cafe and fake ‘social justice’ space” that should be shut down.
Because, as the Lucy Parsons Project put it, "We will not tolerate gentrifiers and Zionists attempts at invading and destroying our community through ‘woke-washing’!!”
(The Lucy Parsons Project is "a radical black queer direct action group fighting anti-blackness in the Bay Area," going so far out of its lane that it's almost comedic.)
Over the weekend I popped by Manny’s, the new café at 16th and Valencia to check out what all the…
That group, Gay Shame, and sometimes others, has protested outside of Manny's ALMOST EVERY FUCKING WEDNESDAY FOR LITERALLY YEARS.
They started protesting in late 2018 or early 2019. Here's them still posting about it in 2024:
(Gay Shame, meanwhile, was supposed to be an alternative to corporate Pride. Both groups basically sidelined their entire purposes so they could fuck around yelling at people at a cafe every damn week.)
Manny rented the space from the Mission Housing Development Corporation, the oldest and one of the largest non-profit community housing developers in San Francisco.
So of fucking course people called MHDC to threaten them. And called its board to demand the guy running it be fired for renting to Manny.
This 2019 article, updated again in 2022, says:
Luckily all this controversy hasn’t overshadowed the excellent work that Manny’s is doing. In fact it’s done the opposite. All the attention has ended up hipping way more people to them than would’ve known about them otherwise. And on Wednesday nights, as a way to counter the protestors outside, Manny’s gets packed with supporters who come from all over the Bay Area. In fact last week they sold out of nearly everything they had.
But that's balanced against the constant fucking harassment.
Not just the weekly protests with bullhorns. The windows were smashed early on. The building was graffitied with a star of David and "fuck Zionism!"
And in 2021, someone graffitied it with “Racist pigz” and “Zionist pigz."
And ater an October 6, 2024 "pro-Palestine" protest, someone covered the restaurant with graffiti saying "Zionists fund murder," "Kamala = murder," "Zionist out of Frisco,” “arms embargo now,” “Dems fund murder,” and “Manny is a Zionist murderer."
In a second, later incident that night, someone also tagged the cafe with the words “death 2 the enemy."
In June 2025, while Manny was at the nearby anti-ICE protest,
"protesters broke into my business, Manny’s, smashed my windows, and painted messages like “Intifada,” “Death 2 Israel is a Promise,” and “Die Zionist” on my walls.'
They also wrote "Fuck Manny."
The local Jewish community raised over $200,000 for repairs, “increased security measures” on site for guests and staff, and financial support to cover lost revenue as a result of the vandalism.
Because even Jewish cafes need security now, I guess.
The windows were actually smashed twice that night. Just another example of the age-old tradition of "we're mad about something political, so we're attacking some Jews!"
Vandals smashed windows and spray-painted hate speech at Manny’s, a community café in the Mission District. Supervisor Jackie Fielder has no
As Manny wrote in 2019:
The far-right has attacked the business and me when they’ve disapproved of a guest speaker. The alt-left has pushed vitriolic lies and hatred on social media.
Claims such as the space is a Zionist takeover of the Mission has emboldened people to walk in off the street and demand to know if the owner is Jewish.
The building has been vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti, is the target of weekly protests, and the business has been ideologically extorted: tell us if you’re a Zionist so we can try to drive you out of business.
Given the mission of Manny’s, we have invited these individuals into the space for dialogue, but their goal is to shut down discourse, not engage in it.
I knew most of this already.
I remember telling one of my friends about it - a woman who loved Jewish culture and had many Jewish friends, but was also a DEVOTED lifelong antizionist.
She responded with the kind of long silence that meant, "I am deeply suspicious of this story, but I can't think of an argument to justify that."
But reading it all again now, after 2½ years of seeing for myself how incredibly consistently antizionists talk and act like this?
I don't think there's any shred of evidence left to suggest that antizionism is anything but a violent, ignorant hate movement.
It's one thing to know that its arguments range from ahistoric and inaccurate, through disinformation, to just plain bias or hate. And to have posted about dozens and dozens and dozens of attacks on Jews and Jewish organizations, made explicitly in the name of antizionism.
It's another thing entirely to see that the antizionist movement was going straight from those arguments to those acts almost ten years ago.
And that level of speed and commitment means it has to go back even farther.
Meanwhile, when I opened Instagram to see Gay Shame's protest post, I saw this:
Me: "Okay, but what did she actually say, because sometimes people will dramatically paraphrase or just make shit up--"
Newsweek:
Maureen Galindo said she would turn a Texas Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center into a prison for "American Zionists."
"On Monday, Galindo doubled down on her comments, saying in a video: 'When I say that I want billionaire Zionists in prison, that does not mean I want Jews in internment camps. So why am I getting a whole bunch of death threats and MAGA insults?
"'I don't care what religion you are. If you are a Zionist—meaning that you believe that you are just entitled to land or someone's just entitled to land based off of religious beliefs, and that you'll kill all of the Semites for it—then yeah, I think that you're a danger to humanity and belong in prison, especially if you have the political and economic resources to make that happen.'"
OMFG NO ONE HAS EVER SAID THAT. WHY IS SHE ESCALATING FROM THE TERRIBLE CLAIMS PEOPLE ALREADY MAKE? and what the fuck kind of transparent bullshit CYA is calling Palestinians?? I guess?? "All of the semites???"
need everyone to know that the artist who created this iconic artwork:
is STILL creating wolf art TO THIS DAY. TEN YEARS LATER. proof that the world is beautiful. her username is wolfroad! you can find her art right here, and here are a few of her more recent pieces that I absolutely adore:
checked her page today and I think this might be because of everyone who saw this post and went to support her and show her art some love. the power of spotlighting an artist!! if you know an underappreciated artist, telling people about them could mean the world. [:
David from Accounting had to know. He was like "this is my chance, and I am going to take it", didn't reply, and then showed up to make friends. Intergenerational friends are really important! For reasons both practical and...spiritual. David from Accounting is your gift, Anthony. Cherish him.
To be honest, now that I look at it? The reality is very different and just as fucking grim.
Stand for Children Oregon and ECOnorthwest held a press conference earlier this morning to discuss new data that shows that Oregon is fallin
Oregon is changing how it measures student success statewide.
They are in fact setting new standards! that are, in a very real way, hideously low.
Regular attendance
Third-grade English language arts proficiency
Ninth-grade on-track rate for graduation
Graduation rates overall
Five-year completion rate, which includes students earning a GED or diploma
Kindergarten-second grade attendance
Eighth-grade math proficiency
I'm not saying that the apparent satire treated as truty is true, as it was in fact satire. All I'm saying is that the new minimums are pretty damn bad. And that's the baseline they're trying to get back up TO.
"Sure, some people will lose some rights and privacy, but at least we're protecting the kids!"
When I was 14, I used to carry a flashdrive with TOR on it to bypass the school's internet safety filters so I could get on Facebook and play flash games. Kids are smarter than you want to think. You aren't protecting shit.
Bruce doesn’t have split personality disorder and Batman isn’t “the real man.” Bruce and Batman are BOTH the ‘real man’ because the ‘real man’ cannot be separated either from the foundations of who he is as a person or the way in which he lives out his beliefs.
Batman does not exist without Bruce’s tragedy and trauma and motivations and morals…and likewise Bruce likely can’t function without engaging in direct action to prevent his own tragedy from happening to others. It really is that simple:
“Our own personal losses drove us to become what we are. We do what we can to save others from what we experienced. That includes everyone in Gotham.”
Anyway…….Murderer?/Fugitive already definitively answered this question:
“I thought that in many ways Bruce Wayne died along with his parents…and the mask I’ve shown the world all these years is the remnant of what that child was before that night. But it’s not true. My codes, the rules I live by–these ideals came from my father…from Thomas Wayne…that’s why I couldn’t let even a killer like Tony Rulyanchik get shot. Because he wouldn’t have either. He believed in the sanctity of all life. I’ve been so blind…all this time. I thought the real Bruce Wayne was that happy child of memory…but now that everything has been stripped away from him, I realize that mask is not Bruce…not at all. I am Bruce Wayne. I always have been.”
“Batman” doesn’t exist without Bruce to drive it. You can’t divorce Bruce from Batman or define one as the “true” self. Batman is what Bruce does but it’s driven and informed by Bruce’s past, trauma, and mindset. Case closed. No more debates. Everyone go home.
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My stance is that if you're a young and/or beginner fantasy writer, you need to stay far away from online fantasy discourse because it will get you obsessing over shit that does not actually matter to anyone other than online nitpickers.
If someone can't read one of the foundational works of fantasy about the importance of seemingly insignificant persons because the map has unrealistic geography, that's actually a them problem. You don't need to research geography, agriculture, economics, or any other logistics so that everything is realistic, you need to tell a story.
-> listening to a jaunty country style song
-> hear the lyrics wrong
-> pause. frown. go back a few seconds to relisten
-> hears the same fucked up lyrics
-> check the actual lyrics to see what it ACTUALLY says
