PsyBomb's Brain

TTRPG Dev, dad, husband, gamer, IT guy, and accidental leftist.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I went to kabbalat shabbat at an Aussie shul (reform) for the first time last week. After services, in addition to challah and pastries and tiny glasses of wine, they had hard liquor (gin, vodka, and scotch) which I have never seen before at an American shul. Is this an Aussie thing? Did I just go to square shuls in the US? Is it more common in other denominations?

Does your synogogue normally provide hard liquor at the oneg?

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[magnetothemagnificent]

What American shuls are you going to where they *don't* have hard liquor???? For context I'm Orthodox, pretty much every Orthodox shul I've ever been to (and they've all been in either the US or Israel) has had hard liquor available during Kiddush. Some shuls would have more or less than others, some would advertise it more or less than others, but they'd all have l'chaims available if you wanted some.

[psybomb]

No Reform Shul I’ve ever gone to has had anything stronger than wine, and only one out of more than a dozen conservative ones. The Orthodox family I had a couple of Shabbat dinners with definitely did and offered it with a hearty “the fish must swim!”

[ham-sandwich-consumer-offical]

I would fuckin ROCK a maid dress

[ham-sandwich-consumer-offical]

10000 notes and I post a pic of me wearing a maid dress

[gus-offical]

@tagging-officals-offical

[ham-sandwich-consumer-offical]

I swear to god if I wake up tomorrow to 10000 comments

[psybomb]

You know what to do

[sunderwight]

Isekai where the main character is just, incredibly stoked to be there.

It's not even that the setting or scenario is especially appealing, not like, incel transmigrates into man who has harem pheromones or lifelong weakling becomes the demon queen or etc, MC is thrilled because five minutes ago they were dead and for several years before that they were terminally ill and now they're not either of those things.

Local villagers are like, please help us the dark magic blight is killing our crops and poisoning our wells, and MC is just like, yeah sure I'll help! I love wells! The sky is beautiful and doing stuff is amazing! Come, take my hand and look at this rainbow, and also this spider web, and also these really neat shadows, oh wait that's the ever-encroaching evil lol nvm although it is pretty cool looking. Yeah okay I'll carry your sacred light talisman into the catacombs to help stave off the Dark One's awakening. My calendar's clear so why not? Let's bring along a packed lunch and make it a picnic! If the Dark One does awaken anyway maybe he likes little finger sandwiches. Who doesn't, right?

[muffinlance]

Free isekai? In this economy?

YES PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE--

[tamamita]

Looks like things are going well

[psybomb]

In today’s breaking news: Donald Trump does in fact possess the ability to tell the truth, on occasion. Exhibit A above. Scientists divided on actual frequency calculations, since this is the only observed instance.

[4gifs]

[socially-awkward-supervillian]

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

[youwinagainmoffat-blog]

jesus that is good to know.

[chandra75-deactivated20180905]

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten. 

[magehenry-moved-blog]

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

[pkmnbreederbrianna]

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

[emo-islandniles]

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

[renirabbit]

this post just got so much better

[enjoying-nudiustertian-deactiva]

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

[wylltingtrees]

[sashayed]

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

[clover11-10]

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

[oshiawaseni]

so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist

[erin-luci-and-me]

the anxiety cat

[kittyplayz1cantmsg4somereason]

Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great

[elfwreck]

[bunjywunjy]

this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.

so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.

[june-egbert-official]

Cheetah: oh god what’s going on how are we feeling weird spotless cheetah

Dog: :) fine, thanks

Cheetah: :) oh, okay

[greatlordfluffernutter]

[soratayuya]

Wasn’t expecting this of all posts to be the first tumblr post I’ve ever seen crest 2mil notes, but I’ll take it

[madanimalscientist]

So the thing about cheetahs is it’s the males that are social. The females actually aren’t once the cubs are weaned, and having females have too much contact with each other will make it hard for them to get pregnant. They need their own, non-overlapping territories, with minimised female-female fenceline contact. Too much female-female contact stresses them out in general and makes it hard for them to conceive. The whole ‘I need to be chased to get in the mood’ thing is another thing that makes breeding hard for cheetahs, you need enough space so that that part of the breeding/courtship process can happen too.

Males on the other hand, form coalitions and are very social in their social group . Coalitions are usually 2-3 brothers that share food and resources and play together and it is adorable.

Cheetahs also usually have twins or more, and a cheetah that births a singleton will often abandon it. We don’t know why this happens but it does. But if you have another cheetah with cubs, you can sneak that cub in and she goes ‘oh another one, okay’ and the cub can be reared that way (the process of sneaking the cub in involves some scent transfer too iirc).

Monarto Safari Park in South Australia, which has one of the highest rates of cheetah breeding success, makes this work by giving the females their own territories but the males have their own shared space for that particular coalition. I very recommend going to check them out if you’re ever in the area, as it’s an amazing place doing a lot of great work in animal conservation and science and improving our understanding of what is needed to keep these animals happy and healthy. Also last time I was there I saw two rhinos playing tug of war with a stick and it was ADORABLE AS HECK.

[prokopetz]

The serious reason I have reservations about referring to someone doing art or writing in response to a shitpost as "fanfic" of that post is it feels like it's contributing to the erosion of the term "fanfic" to mean "any media that's in conversation with any other media", which is functionally meaningless because all media is in conversation with other media. At best it's a prompt fill.

The unserious reason is that if doing some writing in response to a Tumblr shitpost counts as as fanfic of that post, the list of people who've written fanfic based on my work includes Eliezer Yudkowski, and I'm not 100% sure how I feel about that.

[sistersorrow]

Accept that this your legacy

[prokopetz]

Honestly, as contemptible legacies of my online presence go, "had a prompt filled by the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality guy" probably ranks somewhere below "coined the phrase 'humans are space orcs'" and "convinced people to start shipping Tony the Tiger with the Grinch".

[kittenwriter]

... wait, people ship Tony the Tiger with the Grinch?

[psybomb]

Someone’s first time at the Devil’s Sacrament, I see. Welcome, juice boxes are on the table.

[tlirsgender]

I bet reifying christianity in its subversion feels good as hell if you're an ex christian who hasn't thought about it very hard

[tlirsgender]

There's a fairly prominent strain of thought that essentially presupposes christian ideology and/or cosmology to be largely true, just that you'd rather be 😈 Bad 😈 than follow the rules. Which strikes me as very immature. "I haven't meaningfully deconstructed any of this, I just found out I'm gay" type beat. You're still believing in christianity. You don't have to

[tlirsgender]

This is what the term "culturally christian" describes btw. Which a lot of ex christians take umbrage with -- when you're operating within christianity's framework, being A Christian is about not only belief but also correct practice/performance of christianity, ergo if you purposefully reject it you're not in any way christian anymore. But this isn't really how it works; christianity comes with many, many cultural ideas outside the theological itself & christian hegemony in the western world can make it hard to see. Unless! You think about it harder

Like ..................... this is a miscommunication I've watched happen. A Lot. And unfortunately it's nigh impossible to explain succinctly if you're the type of person who needs to hear it, i.e. haven't meaningfully deconstructed any of this

[tlirsgender]

Leans over. And learning about other cultures & religions can be extremely helpful for seeing outside of christianity & its approved messaging. You don't necessarily have to adopt any of it but just philosophically it's good to see other viewpoints. Cause that's the thing, isn't it? It isn't just about god, it's about your entire worldview. If you want to *really* deprogram yourself you'll need to engage with meaningfully non-christian schools of thought, not just invert christian values

[thepioden]

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

[thepioden]

tags by @eridan-ampora

[thepioden]

Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.

[tboy-cock]

the weird thing about being a leftist is the government calling you a radical extremist and your family believing that youre a radical extremist and the whole times your main political beliefs are shit like "we live in a world where we could very easily end world hunger, homelessness, most disease, poverty, ect. and the people in power are choosing not to, and thats evil and should change" and that bigotry is bad

[jewish-vents]

I'm still angry at what goyim did with the meaning of Zionism. I will never forgive it. I really fucking hate it. It's not fair.

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[psybomb]

This is a hill I’ll die on, Anon has a good point.

Zionism IS NOT being a genocidal xenophobe. It is the knowledge of the following facts:

1) People need homelands

2) Jews in particular have been forcibly converted, subjugated, expelled, or killed for the crime of Being Jewish in nearly every country on Earth at some point. Most of these occurred within the last couple of generations.

3) The Jewish people are indigenous to the Levant, specifically Canaan, now known as Israel. This is documented in histories and holy books over the course of thousands of years.

4) Jews were expelled from this land by invading forces several times, but have now returned in significant numbers to the area. Half of all Jews in the world live there, and nearly all of those who do have an expulsion or mass murder event in their family within two generations.

This is Zionism at its essence. If belief in it is a crime, I am a criminal.

[benzohoarder]

[figural]

#google translate does not capture the tone switch so i have to say. first two sentences are like. normal maybe kind of feminine posting tone #& the last is like. shounen manga protagonist. action movie hero. jojo's bizarre adventure character. #the tone you would use if you were holding a gun with the safety off (– @chadlesbianjasontodd)

[minothtime]

Basically, a translation could be:

I just think it's so interesting that people end up falling in love with their friends' boyfriends! I absolutely despise every single one of them. give me my fucking homie back you goddamn bastard

[liminalweirdo]

translation tags by @minothtime because they are so so good

[official-linguistics-post]

official translation post

[quailfence]

[Image description: Image 1: Tweet by that reads: @/6xKxf:

友達の彼氏好きになっちゃたって凄いよね。友達の彼氏とか全員嫌いだもん。俺のダチ返せよ translated from Japanese by Google It's amazing that people fall in love with their friend's boyfriends. I hate all my friends' boyfriends. Give back my friend.

Image 2: tags that read: translation degree coming in handy 07, if i may rant about it, first sentence is standard speak, a bit feminine but overall harmless casual conversation, second sentence gets slightly more vulgar. like a bit ruder but not violent. yet. last sentence… oh boy, use of hypermasculine slash rude as fuck pronoun, -seyo ending is extremely forceful, the use of 'dachi' instead of 'tomodachi' coupled with the katakana makes it sound so so so casual and rough, like you would NOT use this sentence in basically ANY irl context except a fight or talking with your close male friend if you're also male, it's insane tonal whiplash". End description]

Do NOT delete my description if you reblog from me, it is for accessibility. If you do I WILL block you.

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[thekijs]

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

[weaselle]

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @quartzfox

a lil exclamation of joy

text: There is no "joy" without "oy"

[psybomb]

I apologize in advance for, but this one NEEDED these tags.

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[goth-princess-gwennie]

The idea of listening to no black music is bizarre to me. Even if it's not rap like no earth wind and fire? No reggae? No moonstomp? No ska? No classic jazz? No R and B? No disco??? No skindred? No jungle? No even like metal bands with a few black members? No gospel? Not even stuff like alors en dance? No blues music? No mo town? No jazz of any kind? No big band? No soul music? Not even a little James Brown?

[jabbotmohan]

not even yola or tanner adell or brittney spencer or tracy chapman or india.arie or chapel hart or the carolina chocolate drops or rhiannon giddens????

[xoxoviva]

Or…

Hemlocke Springs (alt rock/new wave revival),

the Noisettes (indie),

Skunk Anansie (hard rock/metal),

Tamar Kali (rock/punk),

Valerie June (country/blues),

Santigold (indie),

Bloc Party (post punk revival/indie rock),

O Children (goth),

Lord Scary Black (goth),

Cemetery Sex (death rock)

[gayvampyr]

a few more artists i love:

deepincision (heavy metal)

zulu (metal)

black pantera (rock, metal)

winter wolf (punk, metal)

erzulie (punk, rock)

youth man (punk)

the 1865 (punk)

crystal axis (punk)

pleasure venom (post-punk/hard rock)

the rack (they describe their sound as “hard pop rock”, blends punk vocals and rock)

danny denial (indie punk/rock, queer)

gloom east (alt/indie rock, moody pop blend)

big joanie (synth punk + some more melodic, blues-like tones)

madame st beatrice (gothic, moody and melodic)

shadow age (goth)

saccharin (goth)

the ire (goth, punk)

bastet (goth punk)

here’s a playlist with a good mix of the above genres + some alt & indie from Black artists

[psybomb]

No Michael Jackson either

[maimonideznuts]

You ever go to say a Shehakol, and your brain tries to autopilot to shabbat candles or something, and you're like "uh, no, wtf brain, let's get back to the task at hand" but right then you miraculously forget all the brachot you ever learned so you sit there looking at a piece of chocolate for a full minute trying to remember what to say?

[some-sort-of-humanoid-lifeform]

Chocolate so beautiful the beholder is left dumbfounded

Relatable

[hachama]

I have forgotten the brachot for wine and bread after lighting the candles at shabbat dinner, while holding a glass of juice/wine.

[psybomb]

I’ve said Mizonot at the most random times when I completely blank on the actual prayer I’m supposed to be saying. This VERY NEARLY happened to me at a recent Bat Mitzvah I was at where I stepped up to say the call to Torah, which would have been a slightly different impression.

[weirdtranssexual]

why do europeans hate their diasporas so fucking much lol

[weirdtranssexual]

“irish americans aren’t irish” “italian americans aren’t italian” what the fuck else are they and why do you think you’re allowed to gatekeep a fucking ethnicity?

europeans will act like their concept of ethnicity is the only concept of ethnicity and throw a fit when euro-americans feel attached to their heritage. yes they’re americans first and foremost but idk how to tell you that “american” is not an ethnicity. euro-americans have european heritage and acting like they don’t because it pisses you off is fucking childish and eurocentric af.

[darthflake]

Ich glaube, es ist hauptsächlich die Sprachbarriere und die Identifikation über Anteile der Verwandtschaft. Außerdem haben sich die Kulturen inzwischen anders entwickelt, auch wenn es minimal erscheint.

Für manche erscheint es auch so, dass Amerikaner sich über uns lustig machen. Ich kann jetzt nicht über Iren sprechen, aber zum Beispiel wenn ich über Oktoberfeste in Amerika höre fühlt sich das wie eine Parodie auf Deutschland an. Vor allem da ich durchaus in amerikanischen Filmen und Serien solche schon gesehen habe, manchmal bösartigen, manchmal nur lustig. Da fällt es einem schon schwer, zu glauben, dass es ehrliche Identifikation mit uns ist.

[jewish-sideblog]

Look in theory I know Europeans will use literally any excuse to be racist against people who don’t share their exact ethnicity. But in practice it still hit me like a shit ton of bricks to see the argument “The fifteen million members of the German American diaspora aren’t really German because of Oktoberfest”

[the-library-alcove]

That's a very bad faith reading of what was said. It's talking about how Americans treat European cultures as the theme park version in extremely insulting manners, and, in that case, lose a degree of connection with German culture as they assimilate into American culture (to say nothing of St Patrick's Day and how the stereotype of Drunk Irish is propagated). And as part of that, Europeans are treated as stereotypes by Americans in general, so there's a degree of irritation that comes back to that. It's not an "excuse to be racist", it's basically saying, "No, the people back here in Europe kinda feel a bit angry when we're treated like props/fantasy beings by Americans, even if they're related to us, and here are a bunch of examples of how that treatment expresses itself."

[magnetothemagnificent]

Look I have no real skin in the game as someone who doesn't have any strong European roots (Ashkenazi roots don't count, my ancestors weren't considered to be citizens of the places they were forced to live and then were ultimately driven out to North America and countries then part of the British Empire) even though I do deeply admire European history and even learned German in high school (much to the surprise and horror of my very generationally-traumatized Orthodox Jewish friends and family), but I will say that while I understand Europeans feeling insulted by American stereotyping of various European cultures: -That stereotyping is often done by people who aren't actually descended from that ethnicity/nationality. Take St. Patrick's Day, for example. It's a big deal in many US cities, but most of the people who really make a big deal of it aren't actually Irish. The people who actually identify as Irish Americans will usually just go to Mass (if they're Catholic), maybe have a drink or a gathering with family. Likewise, the people making an almost mockery of Oktoberfest largely are not German Americans themselves. Americans who strongly identify as Irish or German or Scottish or Polish or Italian or what-have-you are largely not the ones embaressing themselves and perpetuating stereotypes.

-Sometimes, what is deemed as inauthentic expression of language and culture on the part of diaspora groups is actually natural continuations of language and cultures that are not part of "normative" culture in their European home countries. Take Italian-Americans, for example. Italian Americans get a lot of flack for their supposed bastardization of Italian culture and language, but Italian Americans are largely descended from Southern Italians, especially Sicilians. They are not descended from the same people and cultures in Northern or Central Italy. It's ridiculous to compare a Sicilian diaspora to say, Roman language and culture. Southern Italians immigrated to the US because of discrimination and poverty and violence in their homeland. Sometimes (not always), European derision of European American diaspora groups is just a repetition of the same ethnic and religious disputes that led those diaspora groups to become diasporas in the first place. Which I believe is what the OP was referring to. Just like there is no singular European culture, there also is no singular Italian, German, Polish, Irish, etc. culture. The national borders of the various European countries that exist today are quite recent. Europe is a collection of unique and diverse ethnic groups, languages, and cultures, and just as it's wrong for Americans to treat Italy like a single monoculture, it's also wrong for, for example, Romans to act like Sicilians aren't real Italians.

-I also see Europeans complain about seeming American "culturelessness" or the melting pot. I see complaints that American patriotism is always racist and is always an expression of American exceptionalism (which, not to go off on a tangent, but it's quite rich to see Europeans moral grandstand about American racist given the way that Romani people are still treated, the antisemitism, the ethnic clashes between people just a border over, not to mention the fact that American racism is a direct descendant of exported European racism and colonialism), and if there's such an issue with American self-identity, then if anything, Americans embracing their immigration stories and their heritage would be a good thing! It's actually vitally important for Americans to know where they come from, because all Americans that are not Indigineous Americans came from somewhere else, whether in bondage or through immigration (and immigration was often out of a sense of desperation).

It's perfectly understandable for Europeans to be irritated by Americans who make mockeries of European cultures, but as with many things, there very much is nuance.