[captainimprobable]

PLEASE PLEASE LOOK AT THIS MY FRIEND JUST SENT IT TO ME AND IM YELLING

https://www.amazon.com/Decoration-Hashanah-Supplies-Atonement-Forgiveness/dp/B08DKD817G It’s a yom kippur “party” decoration.  this is one of the funniest things ive EVER SEEN

W H A T

Look at the description…please….

GOYIM I AM BEGGING YOU PLEASE STOP but also dont bc lowkey i wanna buy this

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

I started off trying to give the benefit of the doubt that maybe someone out there is holding a break-fast party and would be interested in decorating for that but

The Magen David with MOONS because it’s a STAR doncha know and stars always go with moons

The CHANUKAH menorah, like not just the 7-branched menorah that could be a general symbol of Judaism, but specifically a CHANUKAH menorah

The fact that there’s a minhag not to wear gold jewelry on Yom Kippur because it recalls the cheit haeigel but let’s do some sparkly gold decorations, seems appropriate

I’m cool with the shofar because technically we do sound it at the end of YK, and they get points for the sign not saying “Happy” Yom Kippur I guess?

EDIT: OP, you were just gonna leave out the part where the other pictures on the listing include dreidels, gelt, latkes, Xmas ornaments in “Chanukah” colors in vases, holiday crackers, and a fully lit Chanukah menorah?

[khangi]

One of the most interesting things I’ve noticed about non-natives appropriating our stuff is they never want anything but sage, smudging, and feathers.

Native people will share: our food, our music, our dancing, our art.

But no one is interested in those. They don’t CARE about our food and music. We never see those things in popular culture. Non-natives just want to take our religious items, because they feel entitled to the things people don’t want to share.

[accidental-wedgie-deactivated20]

A Tribe Called Red (techno Native beats):

Taboo #noDAPL protest music (Native Hip Hop):

Supaman (Prayer loop song, Rap)

Check em out. Add on. Support Native Artists. Spread the love y'all

[khangi]

Good musical options. 🙌🏼

[graffiti-bi]

Snotty nose rez kids (hip hop) + Drezus (rap)

Blackfoot (rock)

Blackfire (punk/rock)

[lesbianladyeboshi]

Silla+Rise (Throat singing blended with spacey electro beats)

Kelly Fraser (Pop)

T-Rhyme (Hip Hop)

Piqsiq (Throat Singing Electro)

Tanya Tagaq (Avant Guard, Punk, throat singer)

Iskwè (Pop/Electronic)

And the iconic Buffy Sainte Marie (Folk/Rock/Electronic)

[merppppppppppppppppp]

I got some new music to check out. A tribe called red is DOPE AF anyway

[telegantmess]

Buffy Sainte-Marie is amazing. So is Tanya Tagaq

[library-mermaid-blog]

I am laughing so hard oh my god clickhole

[advanced-procrastination]

If you just scrolled past, don’t. Go back and read it. I promise it is not what you think

[gen-zee]

[aromoji]

That’s why we keep getting hacked lmao

[king-dykewarp-deactivated202106]

its because schools are so caught up in violating students every rights to privacy that they are blatently disregarding thoes same kids safety. zoom allowes you to track eye movements. mousepad/mouse movemenst. the browser activitiy of the user. its horrifying and dare i fucking say litteral motherfucking spyware. its not a app its a fucking virus.   its so horrifically easy to guess every facet of zoom that im guessing that schools just looked at the violation features and took them in without a second throught or trial. they disregard better functioning programs like discord because they are horrified that thoes programs would give students a sliver of privacy their instistance on using zoom is a very clear direct cause of schools horrific obsession with micromanageing every single facet of a students life.  report the fucking app.  get it taken down

[simontesla]

If you have to use Zoom, your best bet is to run it from the browser. The Zoom website will try to get you to use the app, but if you keep declining that, it will use its browser-based interface. Since browsers have much better security, they’re unable to do any kind of persistent monitoring and have almost no access to system activities. When you close the tab, you can be assured that it isn’t running.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/security-tips-every-work-from-homer-needs-to-know-about-zoom-right-now/

[king-dykewarp-deactivated202106]

^^^^^^^ REBLOG THIS VERSION TOO

[mytparty]

not saying it’s perfect but y’all are painting it like it’s some sort of malware??

it’s been around for years and is a normal video chat software for non-profits & other businesses. they don’t have the tracking stuff youre talking about, and that article y’all linked clarifies that. i also can’t figure out how you would even enable such tracking with the premium account i have access to. 

stop the fucking fearmongering

[micdotcom]

This white woman’s shocking account of police brutality reveals the importance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement

Molly Suzanna shared a story on Facebook that she had never told before: when she was 19, she ran a red light while crying, then was pulled over and forcefully removed and beaten by a police officer. She explains in the letter that she believes her situation would have been even worse had she been black — and she ends the letter with an important call to action.

[lanie-love09]

The public needs to hear more stories like this as well.

[lennybaby2]

Wow. This is horrifying.

[the-sarkai]

Cops are drunk on power. Add any ism to that, you have a bunch of abusive, gun wielding, trained to kill, non empathetic, killers running around.

[alexandra-erin]

This woman got hauled out of a window, beaten, stripped, tortured, and humiliated, and she still is able to understand how white privilege saved her life.

[solarcitrus]

I was helping a friend out earlier but then realized I could also share a few small tips on how to shop for groceries on a budget with u guys too!

[sexworkinfo]

A Local Chef Created a Service to Deliver Late-Night Health Food to Sex Workers

A few years ago, Nikeisah Newton noticed something strange in her girlfriend’s car. The woman she was dating at the time—who, as a stripper

Hey if you're in Portland, consider supporting Nikeisah Newton and getting yourself some late night food!

[sexworkinfo]

Thanks to anon who inboxed me, apparently you can DM her at @meals4heels on Instagram to place your order!

[spicysugarbaby]

Sex worker PSA

Last night my client mentioned how after I came to his house the last time I popped up on his Facebook. He wanted to warn me that even if you turn your location services off (which I always do) it still tracks your location and if you’re in close vicinity with someone you will pop up on their Facebook. So now he knows my real name and info. Thankfully he’s very nice and warned me, just be careful ladies!! You don’t want your info in the wrong hands

[amethystafrodite]

I need a second phone man

[moonlightingwhore-deactivated20]

Even if I have a second phone I have my other phone on right? Unless I turn it off this is unavoidable right

My profile pics are all at a distance so you can’t tell its me

[amethystafrodite]

My thinking is I would only bring the work phone to outcalls and leave my personal phone at home.

[emotional-labour]

aaaaaaaaaaaa oh god no.  Has anyone heard of ANY way to turn that off?  I don’t currently have a separate phone for work.

[anarchapella]

Or just uninstall Facebook and only use it in safari

[whoisdangerwoman-deactivated201]

Here’s a helpful thing: SEX WORKERS: CLIENTS ARE SEEING YOU ON FACEBOOK! HERE’S HOW TO STOP IT.

[wakewithgiggli]

Wow. This should be concerning to everyone.

[sirchinchilla]

I don’t know if any of my followers are sex workers, or if they know anyone who is, but signal boost just in general.  This is one reason why I don’t Facebook.

[valloir]

Plz take care of yourselves

[arcaneloquence]

F U C K   T H I S   &   F U C K   F A C E B O O K

@clarawebbwillcutoffyourhead

[precioustranswoman-deactivated2]

There’s so much info about tucking and gaffs (less so) but to all new trans girls.. just get some cotton panties like boyshorts style and push it back gently.

 Like you might have to do slightly (slightly) more for tighter clothes or different fabrics but like… ya don’t need to tape yourself every day… or ever… and gaffs are good but unless you’re wearing something tight n thin cotton boyshorts or some other strong underwear will do the trick.

 Like all this info pretending like you need special gaffs, tape, to shove ur testes up into your inguinal canal, etc. is classist, physically harmful, and preventatively daunting information to be spreading without disclaimers like this.

[polyhedralprincess]

Idk if this has been said before but a long time ago another trans lady and I kinda realized we could just wear 2 pairs of underwear and call it a day without taping or anything fancy. Its definitely a cheap alternative and Ive been doing it for 6 years 👍

I wear jeggings to work and when im out and about and I never get looks or comments, idk if this is helpful to anyone tho 😅

[shutyourmoustache]

Wow. JVN spoke his truth about being abused by an older boy at his church, filling his emotional void with junk food and then drugs (meth and coke) and sex, selling his body to make money cuz he was too embarrassed to ask his mom for help, flunking out of college, relapsing after rehab twice, and finding out at 25 that he was HIV positive. His journey’s been harrowing and yet he seems like such a radiant and positive person. He’s even braver than any of us realized.

[shutyourmoustache]

YOU’RE NEVER TOO BROKEN TO BE FIXED.

[illiterateagenda]

hey it’s your friendly neighborhood chicana lesbian and long story short we’re getting kicked out. my family is scrambling to find another place to live and while im cutting all of my expenses and asking for extra shifts at work we’re still gonna need some help to cover moving and down payments on such short notice. so if y’all could please please please help with what you can i’m literally two seconds away from crying because im scared of ending up on the street right before winter

venmo: @Yulenni

cashapp: $pastandfuturequeen

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

All this contrapoints stuff makes it real clear you guys don't care about antisemitism

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Like I'm sorry but you guys couldn't fucking cancel her over the lizard shit? Really?

[squonkgirlweed]

while also owning and wearing Nazi fetish gear......like Hello???

[theholychesse]

y’all. her Thing is that she makes fun of far right ideas and symbols using their own lanague and symbols. do you have any fucking idea what satire is holy shit

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

[marx-420]

A trans woman wearing Nazi fetish gear necessarily satirizes Nazism. A trans woman is about as far as you can get from the hypermasculine, rigid conservatism of fascist propaganda. Like I guess I'm saying that She didn't "contribute to what she intended to criticize" because there's no world where Nazis embrace her or her image.

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

ARE YOU REALLY SAYING THAT TRANS WOMEN CAN’T BE FASCIST HELLO?????

[maplebungus-deactivated20221118]

you want evidence of nazis appreciating contrapoints? look on /lgbt/ or any of those other 4chan-esque cesspools of gay and trans fascists.

she owns and wears nazi memorabilia. how am i supposed to look at that, other than “shes a cryptofascist”

sure she’s trans, but she’s an assimilationist. she’d rather burn everything she is, not to mention every other gay and trans person, if it meant she herself could Fit Into normie cis ppl’s happy little lives.

contrapoints herself has argued on multiple occasions that “what matters is the way things look, not the way things are“. im gonna hold her to that and assume she’s very deliberate in what she shows her audience. she’s shown a distaste for non-binary gender, an insistence that there are two genders, and an emphatic belief that passing is the only thing that makes trans people human. she’s also shown an appreciation for talking to fascists instead of deplatforming them.

how am i supposed to look at someone that is completely hostile to everything i am, diametrically opposed to me living how i want to, and also talks to nazis, and also wears nazi fetish gear? please differentiate this behavior from the run-of-the-mill nazi.

[gahdamnpunk]

That gap I-

[dysphoricfem-deactivated2020011]

Remember how 6 months ago people were talking about how transphobes ideas of ‘male’ and ‘female’ features was heavily based on european beauty standards? This is what we meant. Transphobes on twitter are saying that these Chinese female athletes ‘look like men’ because I guess short hair automatically makes someone male. 

Once again, this is what people mean when they say transmisogyny is misogyny

[terfsrgross]

terfs: throwing gnc women and woc under the bus since… forever, actually

[fandomsandfeminism]

Transmisogyny is heavily interconnected with racism and white supremacy.

[fandomsandfeminism]

@varsitymemeteam

https://www.koreaboo.com/news/chinese-female-athletes-go-viral-accused-looking-like-men/

They are literally cis women, you absolute twinkie.

This is the point. Transmisogynists base femininity on white supremist beauty standards and hyperfemininity. It hurts not only trans women but also lots and lots of cis women too.

[thekuthicollective]

[evilkaito]

the original tweet came from someone reprehensible who's not only racist but profits off of being fake-progressive to take money from people of color who think they're being supported by an ally.

Ungrateful Lesbians Anonymous

oumadice: “oumadice: “ oumadice: “ hey so i’m mad enough about this to make a post about it. i’ve been talking about it on twitter but basic

please stop letting this sort of racism go unchecked, this person also should have mentioned lizzo's blackness as if 90% of the people that do that arent being antiblack. woof.

[lexosaurus]

Boston Straight Pride

It was a fucking mess. Here are some highlights.

-there were probably like 10 white women and about 200 incel white men

-a bunch of the dudes made a point to set up right next to the holocaust memorial, as someone pointed out on twitter

-my personal twitter feed today was just bostonians taking pictures of the dumpsters outside their apartments and being like, “look at the straight pride parade, everyone!”

-businesses along their march route prepared by putting up lgbt flags or signs that said “go home alt-right scum”

-the floats were just trump 2020 floats

-milo fucking yiannopoulos showed up and made a speech but there were so many counter-protesters that no one could understand what he was saying

-legit there were counter-protesters flooding the streets. lots of rainbow and trans pride flags out today

-small bands along the route popped up to drown out the white supremacists’ hate with good upbeat tunes

-this dude in a clown suit and his buddy in green face paint drove 8 hours to protest the ban of a legit incel subreddit. yes you heard me. apparently incels are “reclaiming” clowns?

(im not showing a pictures of him or milo or anyone else like them because im not giving them the attention they’re so clearly begging for)

-people legit just flipped off the marchers as they walked by

-then the police decided to start arresting people. apparently there were 34 arrests of counter-protesters in total

-eventually fights broke out

-BPD started punching and driving motorcycles at counter protesters who refused to move out of the way for the straight pride parade

-the police ended up using mace on the counter-protesters towards the end of the parade

-there are reports of tear gas use also though i haven’t seen any photos of it yet

That’s basically where we’re at rn in MA as of about 8pm.

[sad-anticapitalist-bi]

I was there and the police were so openly and needlessly violent it was horrifying. I watched as a protestor was beaten by a crowd of police for bringing a plastic shield to protect themself. Beaten and carried away by four cops, one holding each limb.

In areas where protestors were already surrounded by cops in roads that had been blocked off specifically for protestors, police rode in on bikes and motorcycles for no other reason than to clash with protestors. Several people refused to move out of the way and were beaten and arrested.

Several times throughout the day I found myself being pushed along in groups of people who were running to get out of the way of cops who had pepper spray. Whenever the cops wanted people to move they attacked them with mace.

Some people were beaten and sprayed so horribly that they couldn’t walk and they were either dragged away by their comrades or by police.

At the end of the protest, the alt-right speakers overstayed their permit in the plaza. The police did not force them to move and did not pepper spray them. Pepper spray was reserved for us queers, not the fascists.

While people stood outside the plaza at the end of the protest, police actively mocked and taunted protestors.

From the arrests that I witnessed the police seemed to be specifically targeting people who were visibly trans, POC, or disabled.

Between the alt right rally and the protestors was a fenced off section where the cops stood. They were facing towards the protestors. Many had their badge numbers covered with black tape or were hiding their badges. Some of the cops took out their batons to intimidate peaceful protestors.

Cops are not our allies. Cops do not serve us. They do not protect us. They are instruments of the fascist state used to keep us silent and obedient. It is their job to silence us. It is their job to specifically target poc, disabled people, queer people, and the working class as a whole. They know this when they commit to their job. There are no good cops. There are no cops for the people. They are class traitors and are a military designed to be used against the people. Do not forget what they have done today. Do not let this get quiet. Get angry. Get loud about it. It doesn’t matter what state you live in, you are not safe from police brutality. None of us are. Protest it wherever you are. Protest in the name of the 34 people who were arrested today and the many peaceful protestors who are washing pepper spray from their eyes tonight.

[la-laborista-republiko]

The Immortal Leslie Feinberg

Leslie Feinberg (zie/hir) (1949-2014) was an absolute giant, a foundational figure in queer liberation, workers’ rights, antiwar, and proletarian literature movements in the United States and around the world.  Perhaps best known for hir work as an author and as a Jewish nonbinary lesbian activist, zie was also an early member of the Workers’ World Party, longtime editor WW’s newspaper, and a close confidant of Sam Marcy, and was on the front line of a lot of struggles from the 1960s up until hir death in 2014.

Leslie’s most famous work is probably Stone Butch Blues, a simi-autobiography about growing up as a working-class nonbinary lesbian in 1950s/60s New York and the intersection between queer liberation and the labor movement.  Follow the link for a free PDF!  It is a must-read!  (MASSIVE trigger warnings for sexual assault and misogynistic and queerphobic violence throughout – shit gets pretty real)

Other must-reads include Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left, a collection of Leslie’s columns from the Workers’ World newspaper, most famously dwelling on the necessity of an international and working-class character for queer liberation.

And zie also gave us Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come and Transgender Warriors: Making History From Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, works on queer theory and trans liberation from a materialist, working-class perspective.

Leslie was also one of the founders of Camp Trans, an ongoing protest against the janky-ass TERFs running the MichFest women’s music festival:

Amid the punk ethics of 1990’s identity politics, trans activists Leslie Feinberg and Riki Anne Wilchins spearhead a movement to protest the trans-exclusionary policy of a women’s music festival in CAMP TRANS.

And here’s Leslie giving hir amazing lecture, Beyond Pink Or Blue: The Transgender Movement Yesterday, Today, and in the Future:

Though Leslie tragically passed away from Lyme disease in 2014, hir legacy will live on forever.