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name | age | sexual orientation | pronouns | living on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, and reclaimed land of the Jewish people.

[damazcuz]

When you have a hammer, every problem looks like it's a nail. And when you have a character, every post looks like it's about them. And that's cause it is! 😊 #wisdom

[sreegs]

the existence of uncanny valley would suggest there is also a canny mountain

[radwolf76]

Canny Mountain, Charlie!

[raichett]

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

Women who you don't like, or you don't politically align with, or who are horrible people, still have the right to see their rapists and abusers face justice and to have their voices heard.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

This is a putrid attitude to have, BTW. Rape isn't a punishment for being a shit person. It is a violent and fundamental violation of the right to control over one's body. Excusing, dismissing it, or justifying it, just once, just a little, is a road to total dehumanisation. The worst, most evil person in the world would still never deserve to have it happen to them.

[penrosesun]

I'm viscerally reminded of the time some weirdo tried to get me involved in some stupid wank for a fandom I knew nothing about by telling me that the person who they were running a harassment campaign against was a "rape apologist" and that if I didn't join in their harassment campaign, I would be supporting rape.

Needless to say, as soon as I made it clear that I wasn't going to participate in suicide baiting anyone, let alone someone I had never met on the basis of fandom drama I'd never heard of, they pivoted to... wouldn't you know it, sending me rape threats. Because, you see, by not taking a stand against an alleged "rape apologist" I deserved to get raped. They weren't a rape apologist for literally advocating for rape, though, of course. They were only advocating bad people getting raped, after all... and as everyone knows, that doesn't count.

[darkladynyara]

I remember a bit from, of all things, a Cracked.com article that said roughly "when a rapist is raped in prison, the score isn't 'rapist: 1, society: 1'. It's 'Rape: 2, Society 0'." If a (frequently edgelord-y) comedy site could get that, no one calling themselves progressive has any excuse.

[shanehollandered]

ok poll time because i am genuinely curious about something (and this is not a call out for anyone, that's just me being in my head)

do you answer comments on your fics or do you not (for the specific reason that it "distorts" the actual amount of comments)?

yes i answer comments

no i don't answer comments because of the above

secret third option (put it in the tags)

Remaining time: 4 days 4 hours

[afieldinengland]

vincent price calling christopher lee a bitch asmr

[afieldinengland]

great work everybody

[askjumblr]

I work with caring for animals at a scientific institution and I care for many snakes. My father insists they're cursed by Hashem and completely evil inherently.

I am very much aware of the serpent in Judaism, as I am an Orthodox Jew. However I follow the belief that all animals are cared for by Hashem and even the snake's curse was still not a complete condemnation as the legless body allowed snakes to hunt a different type of prey.

I have been looking for more positive or nuanced rabbinical opinions or insights on snakes, the literal animal not the symbolism of the serpent. Does anyone have any recommendations for this? Not looking to cancel out the negative image snakes have, but rather for deeper interpretations on this complex issue. I just don't believe that just because the Serpant was cursed in Gan Eden it means that every snake ever forever is evil.

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[turbomitzvah]

I have a ball python as a pet and she is the loveliest and sweetest girl so I'm also interested in where this goes. I absolutely refuse to believe they're evil, also snakes eat rodents so in that way they can serve the same purpose as cats!

[mossadspydolphin]

I feel like this is the kind of thing Rabbi Slifkin would have brought up at the Biblical Museum of Natural History if it were a widely held opinion, but I remember nothing of the sort. I got to hold Cuddles the python, though.

[turbomitzvah]

do we have pictures of Cuddles the python? for science?

[mossadspydolphin]

From the museum website

So much snek

[creature-adjacent]

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

[questionablepastries]

[deltagalacticdaydreamer]

[jewishpangolin]

More like:

[empyreal-lore]

*looking at the OC I crafted with my own hands* what the actual hell is her problem

[qillermeme]

[i-can-kazoo]

Being in a goyish environment is so stressful sometimes because yall have a completely different vocabulary for clothing expectations. All i know is shlumpy, normal, chulamoyd, vort, friday night, shabbos, weddding guest, and wedding host. If your dress code doesnt fall into one of those categories I simply will not have an outfit to wear.

[andthepeople]

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

[lamignonette]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

⚠️sweetiepie located

[divorceddadrock]

Anyone remember Dumb Ways To Die. Like they really made a 3 minute long music video of cute cartoon characters killing themselves in humorously fucked up ways solely as an elaborate PSA about being safe around trains and then made a fucking series of mobile games based around it and we all just let them. Will kids today ever understand how fucking legendary that was. Will they ever know.

[miss-nerd-alert]

We must preserve this for future generations.

[senatortedcruz]

I hate Elon musk so fucking much

[senatortedcruz]

Exactly!!!!!

[ofwings]

Are you single?

do these look like the posting habits of someone experiencing romance

[memecucker]

[bobthebenevolentpirate]

Been trying for like 20 min to find anything that supports this claim and cannot, so uhhh I’m gonna maybe skip incorporating this into my belief system

[zinderant]

So, Spanish Wikipedia cites a source from Muy Interesante, which itself cites the Institutio Nacional de Antropología e Historia, where a roundtable discussion about Maximilian of Habsburg featuring historian Salvador Rueda and writer Héctor Zagal is mentioned. Both are inaccessible now but archive.org has them. The 'knew how to speak Nahuatl' part is still dubious. The page quotes Zagal about Maximilian's "interés por aprander náhuatl", so he was interested in learning it, not he had learned it.

So, if this fact sounds fake, that's probably because it is.