Australian

‘Night blogger’ I’ve been here too long

[gentlekirk]

catholics be like “don’t be horny kids” and then bombard you with images of half naked men tied up to things 

[onsetofhell]

Heartstopper on Netflix is a massive win and huge achievement

@heartstoppercomic should be so proud

I have religiously read the comic on Tumblr and am so excited to see it brought to life in such a wonderful way

I just have so many feelings about this I can’t

[iloe]

do the spiderverse kids all have. slightly different meme cultures

[iloe]

miles: look I can fit my whole fist in my mouth

gwen: freaky flexing. but alright

miles:

miles, through his fist: I’m sorry what did you just say

[muchymozzarella]

ok but remember Peter B’s world is most like ours

 so both Miles and Gwen would have slightly off memes and distress him when he has a hard enough time remembering his own world’s memes

[brawltogethernow]

I WAS HOPING SOMEBODY WOULD POINT THIS OUT.

[brawltogethernow]

Miles: It’s “strange flex but cool beans.” Peter: Am I tripping on something? Is this a stroke, is this what a stroke feels like?

[dontworryimdis-arm-ed-deactivat]

Miles: *makes a mistake* This is distressing. Siri play Take on Me.

Gwen: you absolute heathen. It’s ‘This is tragic, google play All Star.’

Peter: whAT the fUCK

[nazyalenskey]

THAT’S IT THIS ONE IS THE BEST ONE

[mangomorales-blog]

noir: strange flaunt, but alas

[thetransintransgenic]

Noir:

[brawltogethernow]

You’ve done it - you found something that fits the format but holds the meaning “fuck Nazis”.

[star-temeraire]

spiderham: hmm disappointing, jukebox play what’s new pussycat

[everythingfox]

“Jasper had his very first experience with snow today. I think he enjoyed it! I can’t wait for all of our hiking adventures.”

(Source)

[thesassyducks]

Please enjoy these ducks changing their minds 

(Source)

[fluffmugger]

#napoleon’s invasion of russia‚ 1812‚ colorized

[queermachmir]

“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[spaceraptor]

“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’” –Barbara Alice Mann

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[gender-critical-appspot]

“Let him die” spaketh the rabbis.

[ahsadler]

entitled dude: i’m gonna die if i don’t have sex with this woman

his doctors: no really he’ll die

rabbis:

[lizluvscupcakes]

Rabbis, approaching this horny dude and his bar mate who happens to have a doctorate: these dudes bothering you Queen?

[balverine]

Original post can be found here.

Gentiles are encouraged to read all the way through and reblog.

[belaphabet]

[Transcript: screenshots from an Instagram story. Posted by ilansawolstein

Slide 1: White text on black background. White star of David in the corner. In all caps: “Why is it so Scary to be a Jew Right Now”

Slide 2: White background with a large Venn diagram. Top text reads: “There is hate coming from all sides right now and no one is even trying to hide it”

Below this text is a four circle Venn diagram.

Top Circle: “Nation of Islam: Louis Farrakhan and his followers who call us “satanic termites””

Left Circle: “Far Left: Anti-Zionists believe we’re all racist imperialists and blame us for the Israeli government”

Right Circle: “Far Right: White supremacists are “racist” against us (even though Judaism is not a race)”

Bottom Circle: ““Mainstream Antisemitism: your everyday bigot Holocaust deniers. “Jews control the world”“

The middle overlap between all four circles reads: “have openly said they want me dead” and the other overlaps repeat this same message but broken up to a couple of words per overlap.

Slide 3: White background with a bar graph. Top text reads: “We are grossly outnumbered" Text continues down the right side: “The combined IG followings of 5 of the most vocal celebrities spreading dangerous antisemitism this month outnumber the total US Jewish population by OVER 7 to 1. (Stephen Jackson, Desean Jackson, Ice Cube, Nick Cannon, Diddy). Ice Cube and Diddy alone have each spread antisemitism to more followers than there are Jews in the ENTIRE WORLD. We literally can’t do this alone.”

The bar graph to the left of the text compares the Instagram followings of the above celebrities (in red) with the world Jewish population (in grey).

Left column: “Four [sic] Vocal Celebrity Instagram Followings

Stephen Jackson 89.3K

Desean Jackson 1.4 mil

Nick Cannon 4.9 million

Ice Cube 17.8 million

Diddy 17.1 million”

(The column continues to the top of the slide, with Diddy’s follow count presumably running over the top)

Right column: “Entire World Jewish Population

Total US Jews 5.7 million

Jews of the Rest of the World 9 million

Total: 14.7 million”

(This column reaches less than half of the visible left column)

Slide 4: large red number and smaller white text on the red background.

“2107 hate crimes against Jews reported by the ADL in 2009. The highest # of hate crimes since they started recording in 1979.”

Slide 5: White background with two pie charts. Top Text reads: “Jews make up just 2% of the U.S. population...” Bottom text reads: “...But were victims of 57.8% of all religion-based hate crimes in 2018. (The next highest is anti-Islam at 14.5%)”

The pie charts are black with copper slices

Top chart: compares total US population with Jewish population using statistic above. “Jews” is a tiny tiny sliver of the larger “Rest of US Population”

Bottom chart: compares hate crime percentages from above. “Hate Crimes Against Jews” takes up more than half of the chart compared to “All Other Religion Based Hate Crimes”

Slide 6: Title is white text black background, rest is white background. Title reads: “If it’s such a big deal why aren’t more people talking about it?”

1. “They’re scared.

For non-Jews, vocalizing support of Jewish people feels vulnerable and unsafe. What will people think of me? Will it look like I’m taking away from another movement? Will it change how people perceive me politically? Will people think I don’t care about Palestinians?

For Jews, standing up for ourselves is vulnerable and unsafe. Will people believe me? Will my coworkers judge me? Will people equate me with the Israeli government? Will I lose friends, respect? Will people see me differently? Will people think I’m taking away from another movement? Will people think I’m being dramatic?

2. They don’t want to.

A lot of non-Jews don’t want to talk about it because it doesn’t effect them. Others don’t want to talk about it because they believe what they’re hearing is “the truth”. And some, frankly, just don’t care.

For Jews, talking about it can feel like a lost cause -- “They’ve hated us for thousands of years and are going to hate us anyways so why bother”. For others, it is simply too painful.”

Slide 7: Black background. Large white text reads “Honestly, I don’t want to talk about it either. But if I don’t call out antisemitism, who will? Sadly I am afraid to know the answer to that question. And that is exactly why it’s so scary to be a Jew right now.”

Slide 8: Red background. White text in quotation marks reads: “If we’re going to be outraged by injustice, let’s be outraged by injustice against anyone. -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar”

Slide 9: Red background. White title text reads “ What Can You Do?”

“Non-Jews: We’re not asking for much. Call it out. Make it clear you stand against all hate. Believe us. Be open to learning, growing, and questioning what you’ve been taught.

Jews: Speak up. While you’re standing up for everyone else, don’t forget to stand up for yourself. Very few others are.”

\end ID]

[onsetofhell]

@cassandraclare I’m sure you get asked this a lot, but with chain of good coming out soon, what’s the full timeline of all your series?

[kingdomheart-archive-deactivate]

Jewish features are gorgeous im so tired of only seeing portrayals of my features in an ugly caricature way. Jewish features are beautiful and need more positivity surrounding them.

[kingdomheart-archive-deactivate]

like I don’t think I’ve seen any positivity posts about Jewish features despite how much our features are like....used against us on a daily and constant basis

[kingdomheart-archive-deactivate]

I’m glad this got some notes, I didn’t really expect it to. Please feel free to reblog this (goyim included) since there really isn’t much jewish positivity on this site.....

[onsetofhell]

Any followers/mutual got a Nintendo switch?

Your girl is about to get one, let’s be friends?

[tariqah]

Broke: Judeo-Christian

Woke: Judeo-Islamic

[madilik]

every time i see this post i think abt the time when i listened to a bunch of muslim and jewish students spent their entire 10 minute break arguing abt whether god actually cares you eat gummy bears (made with gelatin derived from pork) or not, standing by the vending machine and eating gummy bears the whole time

[sasgayjewchiha]

what a power move

[onsetofhell]

Brothers from Abraham

But also historically Islam has been much kinder to Judaism. For example, Jews seeked sanctuary in the Ottoman Empire from the Christians.

[artbymoga-deactivated20200516]

Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012…

[nejire-vs-villains]

Good post OP

[prismatic-bell]

Good post, OP, and if you ever decide to do another may I please suggest “NOT IN HEBREW IT DOESN’T” as a punchline? So much of the Old Testament is HORRIFICALLY translated from the Tanakh, it drives me batty.

[end-of--the-line]

WAIT WAIT WHAT DOES IT SAY?????? I NEED TO LIKE,, DESTROY MI MUM FOR BEING REALLY HOMOPHOBIC

[prismatic-bell]

Okay, so, strictly speaking, the infamous Leviticus 18:22 does say “forbidden.” Here’s the thing:

1) The word translated as “forbidden” is “toevah.” While that translation isn’t … wrong, it’s sort of like saying “McMansion” means “really big house.” There are a lot of connotations in that word. The specific issue with toevah is that we … sort of … don’t know anymore exactly what it meant. Based on context, it seems likely that the word referred to something ritually forbidden. This part of Torah was written not only as a guide for future generations, but also to say “so, look around, see your neighbors? DON’T DO THAT.“ Thus, if we interpret “toevah” to mean something that’s forbidden to do as a ritual before G-d, then the verse says nothing whatsoever about Adam and Steve and their two kids and their dog–it’s saying you shouldn’t have sex with another man in the Temple as a sacrifice.

2) Following the same “this is ritually forbidden” logic of toevah, this verse may also be interpreted as “don’t do sex magic,” which was a thing in. Like. A lot of fucking cultures at the time.

3) Hebrew is a highly gendered language, and the grammatical gender in this verse is really really weird. One of the “men” in this verse is given female grammar. Why? Who fucking knows, man, this isn’t the only grammatical oddity in Torah. (There are also places where G-d is referred to as plural, and also as female.) One suggestion is that this is a way of creating a diminutive–that is, that the verse should be read as “a man should not lie with a boy.” Now, it’s worth noting that modern secular scholarship has concluded the written Torah was written down around the 6th century BCE, and most non-Orthodox Jewish scholars are like “yeah, all things considered, that sounds pretty legit.”

Do you know what else was happening around the 6th century BCE? What laypeople tend to mean when they say “ancient Greece” was happening.

Do you know what happened a lot in that time period in Greece? Dudes forming relationships with younger boys, like ages 10-15, and using them for sex in exchange for financial gifts, mentorship, etc. While we don’t know just how young some of these younger boys may have been, we do know some were prepubescent. In light of this, and also something I mentioned under the first point–”see your neighbors? DON’T DO THAT,” if this verse is interpreted to say “a man should not lie with a boy,” then it’s pretty clearly “my dudes, my fellows, my lads, don’t be fucking pedophiles.”

4) Because of the grammar I mentioned in #3, it’s also possible that “should not lie with a man as with a woman” is actually referring to a place, not an abstract personhood: a man shouldn’t have sex with another man in a woman’s bed. In the time period, a woman’s bed was sort of like–that was her place, her safe sanctuary. It was also a ritually holy place where babies were made. By having sex in her bed, you’re violating her safe space (and also introducing a man who may not be a male relative, thus forcing her into breaking the laws of modesty). If this verse is read this way, then it should be taken to mean “don’t sexually violate a woman’s safety and modesty.” 5) And as an offshoot of #4, this may be a second verse relating to infidelity. Which woman’s bed is any random dude in 600 BCE most likely to have access to? His wife’s. But laws were administered differently based on whether the person they pertained to was slave or free, male or female, and so on–thus, a man committing adultery with a woman would be treated differently than man committing adultery with a man (especially because the latter would carry no chance of an illegitimate pregnancy).

So you’ll note, there are a lot of ways to read this verse, and only a one-to-one translation with no cultural awareness produces “being gay is wrong, all of the time”. (You’ll also notice the word “abomination” is nowhere to be found. That’s like … a straight-up fiction created for who only knows what reason.)

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

Apparently tumblr mobile doesn’t want to show @prismatic-bell ’s long and in-depth essay, so here’s the screenshots, because it still shows up on mobile browsers:

[prismatic-bell]

Much appreciated.

[kuriquinn]

I love when scholarship and history debunks bullshit

[mandalorianreynolds]

…I sadly have more bullshit to report.

“removed for violating guidelines”, EVERY screenshot.

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

…goddamnit

[pulmonary-poultry]

Let’s try this again

[the-invisible-self]

I am horrified that @prismatic-bell keeps getting censored + this info is gold.

[prismatic-bell]

Many thanks, @pulmonary-poultry. This isn’t the only Jewish post of mine that’s mysteriously stopped showing up in searches and/or vanished from my blog entirely, but it is the one I get the most requests to repost, so this saves me from having to rewrite the whole damned essay. @the-invisible-self, thanks for bringing it to my attention that someone was able to preserve the post!

[morsuna-deactivated20230116]

i can’t find the original post but this is the most alien music ive ever heard

[morsuna-deactivated20230116]

[onsetofhell]

Cursed. So cursed

[onsetofhell]

Happy New Year from the future.

[murdershegoat]

guess what time of year it is!!