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Currently digging through a veritable treasure trove of recordings one of our shul’s past cantors made by linking the microphones at the podium to a tape recorder. And like. Holy shit.
I’m listening to a magnetic tape reel from 1965 of services and they’re having a bat mitzvah and there’s something that really hit me in the solar plexus to hear this girl, who had her bat mitzvah decades before I was even born, doing her Haftarah at the same shul I went to for my whole life.
YIPPEE!!!
Voluntary first past the post voting only demonstrates a party's ability to motivate people to vote at all.
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I continue to maintain that the Australian combination of compulsory voting with ranked choice voting, is the greatest advancement in democracy in centuries.
Compulsory voting shifts the onus ensuring your access to the ballot box to the government. One Citizen, One Vote, No Matter How Remote.
It's hard to restrict the vote when everyone has to vote by law, and compulsory ranked choice voting gives a better median representation of national opinion.
You say "it's my right to refuse to vote", people do that all the time, submit it blank, draw a penis on the ballot, write that you're voting for the Loch Ness Monster. You can also not turn up and pay a small fine.
Save us, Evelyn Normielib!
in the tradition of outcast (2014), dragon blade (2015), and the great wall (2016), we need a movie set in the 1630s where a disillusioned member of the embroidered uniform guard and a profit-driven jianghu mercenary flee the corrupt and crumbling ming dynasty and somehow end up in the equally corrupt city of cologne, where they become key players in the fight against the sinister forces of cardinal richelieu and eventually secure the peace of westphalia and the end of the thirty years’ war. this is a million dollar idea i’m telling you
i really do love this concept. the protagonist is like i’m sick of dealing with wei zhongxian’s shit, i’m gonna go someplace where people are holy and don’t even know how to act like this (the impression of europe he got from the jesuit missionary he had a tactical lunch with once), and so he travels 5000 miles and as soon as he stops to catch his breath he runs into cardinal fucking richelieu, the european wei zhongxian
When we were out yesterday, we passed a man in a tank top and shorts with a daughter in a LOOK. Kid was maybe 8? Gothed out with hot pink accents, and it as just so clear she'd put the whole thing together herself, and all I could think was "Oh, yes, the Darkness is out for a Constitutional."
Related: We were at a restaurant a few weeks ago, and a mom came in with three kids, and the youngest was a girl of about 8 who had also, clearly, put a LOOK together. She had a cute little prismatic purse with a beaded strap, and the beads on the strap matched her bracelets, which complimented the color of her skirt, and I was just like "YES. YES."
As an adult who still loves to put a look together like I'm 8, it just makes me very happy.
There’s a whole bunch of photos of me from when I was a little kid where you can pinpoint exactly when I started being able to verbalize what my taste in clothing was.
I’m talking wearing multiple layers of shirts, clashing prints & colors, stripes on stripes on stripes. I asked my mom why I was wearing such odd combos in the photos, and she just raised an eyebrow at me and went, “It’s because you’ve picked out your own clothing and dressed yourself ever since you could talk.” Even as a toddler with zero coordination, they still went with whatever clothing choices I made myself, even if they thought I looked strange. And honestly I really love that. (It also makes for some really entertaining pictures when I got Creative)
I think a lot of this 'religion is necessarily oppressive' stuff honestly is kind of like the confusion about ppl thinking that like, slavery and scientific racism and etc came about BECAUSE OF beliefs that Black people etc were not fully human rather than those beliefs -- those ARGUMENTS, really -- being JUSTIFICATIONS that were invented to allow white ppl to continue to engage in slavery which was at its core about economic exploitation. Like that most systemic bigotry serves a Useful Purpose to those in power and that's why it exists; the policies aren't put in place because of the beliefs. The cart isn't pulling the horse. Christian stuff was used to justify the same things that later, "scientific progress" was used to justify in the west (e.g. scientific racism, eugenics, etc. Very very very much rooted in the idea of certain beliefs and cultures as inherently more rational and forward thinking because BEING RATIONAL AND VALUING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS WERE CULTURAL VALUES AT THE TIME.) (This does not say anything about Science. It says things about Institutes and power and oppression.)
Similarly, you see a lot of people saying "well religion is used to justify oppression by the people in power" and its like yes. Religion is not unique. Beliefs about what is true about the world -- ideology -- can always be used to do this and frequently is.
When there are common beliefs held by a majority of people in a given culture those beliefs will be used by the people in power to explain and justify the things they do to maintain power and control in society.
This isn't a function of religion. It's a function of power.
When people say "well, this religious rhetoric is/was used to justify misogynistic legal standards in this society" the answer is yep. And if it wasn't that it would be something else because that society had an investment in that specific kind of oppression of women. We have seen this morph into 'rational' 'scientific' explanations for women's inferiority and justifications for making women second class citizens once the cultural values swing more towards rationality and science, as well. Thats... regular.
Like... love to have a good faith convo about this with someone who doesn't get weird and reactionary about "Religious People" but sure not seeing much of that going on. Weirdly.
Anyway.
#i think this can be a tough pill to swallow bc it necessarily involves#accepting that your secular ideology and philosophy can be exploited just as easily for violence and harm#as religious ideology can#because thats humans babey#fascinating also to me is the phenomenon of people believing that bc they do not subscribe to any beliefs that they see as#''religious'' or ''spiritual'' they are immune to magical thinking of any sort.#i promise you that is not true in the slightest.#and also the things that we each identify as SILLY AND OBVIOUSLY UNTRUE FAIRY TALE SHIT is... culturally determined hee hee#im sorry to tell u that no one is objective about reality. thats rough buddy!
hello jumblr,
any Hebrew folk rock music recs please? I really need to expand my playlist <3
Perhaps The Paz Band (they’re Israeli but I think more of their catalog is in English), Eviatar Banai, or maybe Aviv Geffen?
What do you qualify as folk rock?
I recommend poking around on Bandcamp if you’re trying to find new albums.
so the United Kingdom just banned fictional incest in porn. this includes video games & anything that ones mind can relate to incest in a realistic fashion. fictional art of fictional characters that’s anywhere near realistic in art could potentially incriminate you.
you and your partner are into incest fantasies and post clips of content you’ve posted? aye, you are now posting illegal content that can get you several years in prison. if anyone was to own those clips? they can get incriminated for possession.
this is fucking scary and nobody is giving a fuck, or even knows this was secretly snuck in over a day ago.
there was no official press release and are trying to play it off because it’s “sensitive”. NO ONE KNOWS. THEY KEPT IT HIDDEN. — you can read the whole document here.
fictional content in the UK is now a criminal offence.
fucking braces? that adults very much can have?
and what the hell counts as a child's bedroom too? like? whimsical? I haven't changed my bedroom in over 10 years, does that make it a child's room?
idk i always kind of roll my eyes at all those posts that are like “people used to be ugly in movies” like….. well☝️i don’t think that’s true. i think male actors have always had more leeway to look a bit imperfect. we’ve had average/weird looking male actors in every generation, including this one. but people have always needed to be “hot” for movies. and they did crazy shit for it!! marlene dietrich getting teeth extracted to hollow out her cheeks, carole lombard undergoing her (non-cosmetic) facial reconstruction without anesthesia because they thought it would look better, etc ad infinitum. do you know the kinds of diets they had women on to keep them skinny…. not to mention beauty standards for women of color tryna be in movies. like there’s a reason the three biggest black actresses of classic hollywood decades were josephine baker, lena horne, and dorothy dandridge: all pretty lightskinned with smaller mouths and noses -> approximating whiteness (no shade i love these women sm). i think the difference Today is that there are simply way more procedures you can get done since cosmetic medicine has evolved so much. so people can change more of their face with better and more reliable results than they could in the 1930s. point being that people have definitely always needed to be conventionally attractive to be in movies but given the physical scope of what could be conceivably changed about your appearance there was simply more diversity in like facial structure and features
Hey do you know what rumination is?
Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.
Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.
Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.
I'll say it again:
Rumination is a compulsion.
Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.
I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.
And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.
Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.
Like this was genuinely life changing for me.
Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:
Defining Rumination
How to Stop Ruminating
ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination
What to Do When You're Triggered
Just want to add that if you're on the spectrum, you may also experience Autistic Rumination, which is distinct from the obsessive variety, despite the two having some overlapping characteristics!
If you’re planning on having your body buried, do you want a coffin?
If you’re planning on having your body buried, do you want a coffin?
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No
@them0thking jewish burials traditionally involve a white shroud rather than a casket. in israel this is still done, but in the us it isn’t legal so we use a plain pine casket that is unpainted and generally just has a magen david (jewish star) as adornment
@them0thking The rule for Jewish burials: decomposition is a must.
So not only must the casket be plain (and able to rot) the body itself can’t be treated with any embalming or preservation techniques.
It’s also traditional to get that body in the ground ASAP. We won’t bury the dead on Shabbat or a major holiday, but barring those delays, the funeral usually takes place within a couple days of the death.
one of the biggest tragedies of early 2010s tumblr is that the devil (bbc sherlock) took root as the face of johnlock when the guy ritchie films were RIGHT there
like come ON
I LITERALLY just watched a youtube video about this (and why Jude Law is the best Watson adaptation in ages) YESTERDAY, it's like 3 days old and it made me even more rabidly frustrated that stupid fuckin MOFFAT'S show got so much attention when it was a pretty shit adaptation actually (not even getting into the quality of the show, just the adaptation).
they need to start making epileptic-safe versions of movies and music videos and video games and I'm dead fucking serious
there is actually literally 0 reason you can justify for not having an epileptic safe version unless you are making a very specific kind of thing. epileptics deserve to enjoy the art you make
Sweden has decided that its Model of legalising the sale of sex services but criminalising the buyer side of the sex industry applies to online content.
So if you commission a video or photo set from an online sex worker, or patronise a live video chat... You can go to prison for up to a year.
Under the new law, it will be illegal to offer compensation to another person to perform a sexual act remotely online.
When sex workers say they want decriminalisation and not legalisation, this is why... Decriminalisation means that laws pertaining to sex work are struck from the legal code, legalisation creates new laws to govern the industry which can be just as violent as full criminalisation with a progressive veneer, which is how you get know nothing's bleating "the Nordic Model" in a conversation that they have never been a stakeholder in.
The Nordic Model sucks, and I hope that this law is repealed quickly, I hope Sweden has full decriminalisation of sex work soon.
Actually I'm not done... The Nordic Model is nasty, it's saying "you're free" out one side of their mouth and ordering you shackled out the other.
No longer threatening to arrest you for carrying out your business doesn't mean much, while restricting where you can work, routinely arresting and incarcerating your clients, allowing landlords to evict you for being a sex worker, allowing banks to refuse your business...
This isn't a model that promotes mobility between professions, the ability to save for other plans whatever they be, investment with your income, stable housing, stable business as a sex worker.
And then there's the idea that clients, who are assumed to be men, are evil for wanting sex... One of those things that is a basic need to most adults, and assumes that wanting to engage in good faith with a business person who will provide that service is abusive and not a very normal business transaction between adults.
@krivi on your question about human trafficking and the sex industry, in particular between regions of socioeconomic disparity... The answer requires two parts.
1) in a society that has fully decriminalised sex work human trafficking would remain a crime.
2) the issue for individuals who have been trafficked across borders is generally not the trafficking as this is usually a service they initiated hoping to advance their prospects.
The problem arises if the traffickers confiscate passports and other identity documents and make demands of the once clients and now hostages.
These people may be pressed into manual labour, domestic labour, and sexual labour (sex trafficking) etc... in decriminalising sex work, and not criminalising people for undocumented migration, you make it possible for people to report their situations of indenture without fear of deportation or prosecution.
It's also important to remember that a person who engages human traffickers to transport them across borders does so because there are barriers to safer modes of entry. Also a person who enters the sex industry by way of border crossing with human traffickers may have intended to support themself with sex work all along, and instead finding the tragedy that is indenture by those bad actors denying the would be sex worker the benefits of their sexual labour and their freedom.
These situations are complicated, but increasing the freedom of the individual to have no fear that they will have legal consequences for attempting escape is always the right move. Increasing penalties for sex workers and clients, and for migrants, only increases the fear that the consequences for speaking out will be greater than staying with the the criminals who have all but enslaved you.
Thought crimes of course aren’t real but uh. We know those aren’t just thoughts anymore once you’ve posted them publicly, yeah?
Then they’re just crimes.
sure, fictional crimes since nothing happened and no one was hurt. should we put the fictional handcuffs on? "sorry, you wrote about murder which is illegal, go spend 20 years in mind jail"
y'all make so much more fuss about shit in fanfiction than crimes in real life
Agatha Christie is serving 100,000 consecutive life sentences for all the murders
Ah paraphilia discourse, my old enemy.
