That One Blog

If you are reading this, I'm sorry but there's no prize, just moderately amusing posts and things I want to find again, and you'll probably like at least some of this stuff

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Reminding you that with a single click you can:

feed the hungry

provide a free mammogram 

give food and care to a shelter animal

provide a homeless veteran with a meal

fund alzheimer’s research 

fund diabetes research 

provide books for children

protect wildlife habitat

It’s completely free.

[clarascottage]

Seriously everyone its one click! I just went through and did all of them!

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

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@ominous-signs

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Official ominous sign

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We need to bring this back full swing so bad

[angiemelon]

[femmecelworld]

coolest thing about Interview with the Vampire is everyone is literally insane. I am using the word ‘literally’ correctly; Louis has hallucinations so vivid he can feel the air displaced by them, Claudia has a kind of dysphoria that would terrify a greek god, Armand is so deep in psychosis he changed the world around him to match his own reality, Daniel is such a narcissist he taunts two powerful vampires without fear after they nearly killed him—

then of course, Lestat living out every entry of the DSM V

and you still have people trying to argue over who the ‘real’ villain is. my sweet summer child, free your mind and pick your favorite war criminal

[ariaste]

it's called the DSM-V because the V stands for Vampire. little known fact.

[clowniconography]

this is one of the more creative hate comments i've seen and i felt the need to immortalize it

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.

Why is measles back in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.

Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.

Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.

What contributed to the Covid outbreak?

Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.

“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

[vaspider]

Please give credit to Matthew Cortland, the disabled lawyer and activist whose work is reflected in that last screenshot. They work hard on documenting what Trump and his cronies have been doing & they deserve credit.

[queersatanic]

To @vaspider's point, this otherwise useful Bloomberg article is sullied by them just taking an individual's work and repeating it without credit:

As Parasite Spawned Chaos, Taylor Farms Slow-Walked Response

The US Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test linking its produce to the country’

Taylor Farms gave $1 million to a political action committee supporting the president last year. Chief Executive Officer Bruce Taylor had attended an event with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and hundreds of agriculture executives, members of Congress, and federal staff just days earlier, celebrating 250 years of American farming at Mount Vernon.

[thoodleoo]

reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

[thoodleoo]

catch me on the playground playing sacrifices

[feefal]

Gold, Silver, and Bronze!🥇🥈🥉

Now as sisters and with a complex sibling dynamic.

[feefal]

did you know 24k gold is so soft you can scratch it with a fingernail? Because bronze knows

[bulkhummus]

Wait is jerking it to fanfic like? Widely accepted?

critically acclaimed even

[thefairytaler]

My wife pointed out to me the other day that apparently most people were literally only taught how to say Sorry and not how to Apologize or even that they are different things so here.

If all you ever do is step 1, not only did you not apologize, but people will rightfully stop believing you and start getting pissed or hurt.

[knit-with-it]

I've been missing for a while because I've been working in some larger projects! This time I finally finished my Cozy Cottage Cardigan design in rainbow (just as pride month ends of course).

This is the first project I used buttons for and it was much simpler than I expected. Hopefully I will finish more of my ongoing work soon!

I will definitely be doing more types of designs in this "no sew" type of style!

[porterdavis]

[macsarcule1]

All this stuff is probably true, but it makes it sound like the workers are contaminating lettuce.

Wide-spread produce contamination happens through dirty irrigation water that sewage has leaked into.

Even if workers were taking shits in the field, it wouldn’t be enough to make these events and someone with intestinal diseases wouldn’t last long out doing manual labor in the hot sun (ask me how I know).

Food borne illnesses are almost always from shortcuts companies do to save a few bucks (don’t test the water, don’t test the produce, etc.)

[zekedms]

I'm so old i remember when people liked using Windows

[poupon]

That's because they stuck these bad boys to them

[zekedms]

Oh wow, that IS better.

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

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[joshmosh415]

I can never stop posting this. The narrow minded bible fanatics that just look at one small thing in the bible then feed the world with their hate over it. At the same time they ignore all the other silly laws made by man they claimed were made by god. These gif’s say it all.

[nerdygirlnoodles]

REBLOG EVERY TIME

[cockyhollows-blog]

Think about those questions.

[phoukanamedpookie]

Meanwhile, Jews are rolling their eyes at both of them.

[torahfeminist]

@eshusplayground you said it!

Not only is Jenna Jacobs (the character in the green coat) partaking in homophobia, but the other character, President Josiah Bartlet (and as a consequence, The West Wing’s writers), are unintentionally partaking in a form of anti-semitism - anti-Judaism. This is because Bartlet is making it out as though the Torah (The Jewish holy book often called the “Old Testament”) is an archaic and cruel manuscript, which often leads to the even worse assumption of “if the Torah is evil and Jews follow the Torah, then Jews must be evil”. Ideas like that have previously lead to countless pogroms and even a Holocaust - which is why anti-Judaism is so harmful.

 Let’s debunk Jacobs’ claims and answer Bartlet’s questions though: 

Ancient Hebrew is a difficult-to-interpret language. As a result, there is a wide variety of Jewish interpretations of this verse - many Jews do believe that Leviticus 18:22 states that homosexual acts (differing from homosexuality) is an abomination, but many don’t - see an in-depth study of the text from this point of view here. As Jacobs is so obviously taking a Xian interpretation of the text, I’d also recommend gaychristian101.com for info on the Xian New Testament’s supposed anti-homosexual verses as well if you’re interested in that. 

 Exodus 21:7 does tolerate female indentured servitude (not slavery), and we know that servitude can be one of the most unequal institution on Earth; Yet to Jews this tolerance is so obviously about the redistribution of wealth and in an ironic way, using that very institution to achieve equality that it’s almost funny other groups could interpret it any other way. Think of it like this: In ancient times, if you were a woman who’s parents couldn’t afford to pay a dowry, you couldn’t find a husband, and in such a patriarchal society that was practically a death sentence. So the Torah came up with a solution. It allowed impoverished parents to send their daughters to work for wealthy families and in return for her work, after 6 years she could marry her master or one of her master’s sons (Exodus 21:9-10 makes it clear that at this point she is to be treated equally as a wife, and not as a indentured servant); If there was any objection to the marriage, she can be redeemed for a lower sum of money and either way, the cycle of poverty is discontinued and a social construct is changed. See here for a better in-depth study. 

According to the Talmud (A secondary Jewish holy text) there are 39 categories of work. According to Exodus 34:21 it is prohibited to perform these 39 tasks on the Sabbath (which is a Saturday, not a Sunday like many believe) and Numbers 15:32-36 does designate this prohibition a capital crime; But what many don’t realise is that the Talmud also has a ridiculously complex list of requirements for the death penalty to actually be carried out, which you can see here. The list actually makes it so hard to impose this punishment that commentators for centuries have concluded that the death penalty is only designated as a punishment to warn against the severity of the crime, not to actually be carried out.

The Torah prohibition against crossbreeding things, including seeds, is called Kil’ayim. The Talmud dedicates no less than 77 Mishnahs (work of rabbinic literature) to the discussion of Kil’ayim and why it’s prohibited. Like many things in Judaism, no one is 100% sure why it’s prohibited but some commentators have suggested that it’s because when we crossbreed we are being arrogant as we are implying that G-d didn’t create all necessary things already. It isn’t forbidden to benefit from crossbreeding however.  See point 3 for info on capital punishment.

Sha’atnez, the mixing of linen and wool in garments, is a subcategory of Kil’ayim, meaning we aren’t 100% sure what it’s rationale is, but we can guess; One common explanation is that mixing a thread from an animal (wool) and a thread from a plant (linen) constitutes a form of witchcraft, which is prohibited for a myriad of reasons, including the fact that superstition when taken too far can be dangerous and because it can imply that one has a god complex. Again, see point 3 for info on capital punishment. 

So please, to the WW writers, OP and all who liked and reblogged this, think about how you may be doing as much harm as cherry picking Bible bashers when you spread this flawed theology, would you?

[slyandthefamilybook]

Also, one very important thing to note is that before the spread of the Christian gospels, no one understood the Torah as being for anyone but the Jews. It was (passed down/written) for the Jews alone. The laws it contains are the terms of our covenant with our G-d. Jews have no interest in converting non-Jews to Judaism, or forcing them to follow our laws, or judging them for not doing so. While I understand why this scene may be cathartic to some, it’s ultimately two people steeped in Christianity arguing about a text that really isn’t theirs, full of laws that don’t apply to them which neither of them even want to follow

[elbiotipo]

we don't hate J.J. Abrams enough

[elbiotipo]

Branson Reese, whoever you are, I keep your words in my heart all the time.

[kaijuerotica]

"branson reese, whoever you are" put some respect on the smooth sharks one fear man's name