[gragam]

the post below is fucking incinerated. sorry

[roselalonde]

hey guys i jus-AAAAA 🔥 AAAAAAAA🔥🔥AAA 🔥 🔥 A 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

[unrealunearths]

merry crisis

[lild3m0nsworld]

[bearsplash]

send me a number (1-100) and a character and I’ll draw them based off of my spotify top playlist

[murdershegoat]

just a friendly reminder that this type of rhetoric is misleading, (in my opinion, slightly antisemitic) and not the way to go about fighting religious homophobes.

religious jews still follow these laws. we dont wear clothes that have a blend of wool & linen (laws of shatnez). fresh produce in israel follows all of the agricultural laws outlined in the torah. as for some of the other laws i always see referenced: we don’t eat shellfish or pork or anything prohibited by the torah. clean-shaven men will only ever use electric razors never blades. we don’t work on the sabbath, we observe the sanctioned holy days, we believe in, love and fear God and obey God’s commandments.

personally, i find the rhetoric harmful and insulting for three reasons. one, it only works on the (very christian) premise that the torah is outdated, and that ~nobody in their right mind~ would follow those laws anymore. two, it tends to ignore the fact that lgbtq+ orthodox jews exist and have to live through the struggle of being lgbtq+ and observant, despite community backlash, severe judgement and institutionalised homophobia. and three, it gives homophobia-masked-as-religious-observance some sort of legitimacy because yeah, the rest of those laws are kept in varying degrees by millions of people.

don’t fight homophobes by saying ‘look at all of these other ridiculous laws’ – those laws matter to a lot of people, including me, a jewish lesbian. instead, say ‘do not stand idly by your fellow’s blood (leviticus 19:16)’, ‘whoever humiliates another in public forfeits their place in the World to Come (avot 3:11), ‘one shall not say to a person words that hurt them or cause them pain against which they cannot stand (sefer hachinuch, mitzvah 338)’, ‘do not do to others that which you would not wish them to do to you. this is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary (gemara shabbat 31a)’, and what is perhaps one of my favorite verses in tanach, ‘to what is good and just is more preferable to God than sacrifice (proverbs 21:3)’.

oh, and here’s a good starting point for educating your religious friends and family members. 

[afronerdism]

I love this information because I never would have thought of this in a Christian centric nation that these things would be disrespectful to Jewish people but it so obviously is and I hate I didn’t realize it before

[zolf]

[ID: A crowd of people in what may be a pride parade. There are two signs visible. The first is pink, with black text that reads: “You shall not wear a garment made of two kinds of fabric. Leviticus 19:19”. The second, held by someone with sunglasses and a rainbow wristband, reads: “Do not eat fruit from trees <5 (less than five) years old. Leviticus 19:23-25”. End ID]

[dragonsateyourtoast]

Absolutely fucking incensed by this ad. I can get unlimited months of unlimited reading and listening through Libby on my phone you dumb sack of shit Amazon I will not let you kill libraries I will not let you kill libraries I will not let you kill libraries

[dragonsateyourtoast]

Listen to me. You can read any library's digital collection via Libby in America and apparently in uh 78 other countries. If that doesn't do it for you, the internet archive has two million digitized books you can access for free. The only thing I can't help you access is books self-published through Amazon but even then sometimes they're ALSO published through separate websites. Do not fucking give in to this amazon bullshit. Amazon has a vested interest in destroying libraries and replacing them with for-profit bookstores or book rentals. Do not fucking let them do that. It's up to us to support libraries and keep literature free and accessible and we have to do everything in our power to act in that vein

Amazon can afford to throw money from exploited workers towards random shit like making an MMO and trying to destroy libraries. Libraries cannot fight that kind of financial might. It's our job to see amazon, tell it no, and choose libraries instead. As often as we can.

If anyone has info on other ways to ethically access self-published books on amazon feel free to add it

[mrsmarymorstan]

Project Gutenberg is also a really useful source for free ethical eBooks! They're volunteer run, and have free PDFs and eBooks for any out of Copyright book-- both fiction and non fiction! So if you're after a copy of Pride & Prejudice, or The Great Gatsby or The Communist Manifesto, that you want to download and keep -- check them out!

[dilfosaur]

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randomly picked color palette challenge from yesterday’s drawfee uwu

watch the speeddraw here!!

[droideka-exe]

NB 👏 Does 👏 Not 👏 Mean 👏 Woman 👏 Lite

[ayellowbirds]

it’s one of the most insidious forms of transphobia

[strawberrymilkshakeearrings]

losing my mind over this thread at r/neverbrokeabone

[macaroniandcheese]

this is the short of what happened. op has more info and more graphic images of the accident on his page. he also has a gofundme to help pay for medical bills

Help Noah’s family, organized by Rebecca Cates

One of my best friends sons was involved in an accident Friday which resulted in him crushing his h… Rebecca Cates needs your support for

[strawberrymilkshakeearrings]

Since this post blew up way faster than I was expecting, I think it's only fair for me to promote this guy's GoFundMe. If you have a couple dollars, please consider helping his family out with their medical debt.

[petrichorepoch]

the GoFundMe was created on August 1, 2021 fyi. Still current, and it's got ~half of the $10,000 goal so far.

[misterkarchie]

Let him have his emo moment

This was a really stupid idea

[mangostar]

some old art ive never posted/finished 

[luisonte]

Olvidé que lo había puesto en modo Ortega Cano

[satyriconmp3]

[mrfylke2001]

[mctreeleth]

I was trying to explain to my sister-in-law that I simply cannot turn on my car headlights if anyone is looking at me and she thought I was crazy.

[razzleberryjam]

Literally nothing more embarrassing than tying your shoes in public like oh look at me I'm a 5 year old because I couldn't tie my shoes tight enough to last a walk through the kroger

[official-lucifers-child]

are y’all okay

[thatqueerchoirkid]

no

[wisestbitchin-albion-deactivate]

I get embarrassed taking my jumper off because I don't want people to think I'm a whore

[leoreturns-deactivated20110811]

[tumboner]

omg

[merspers]

This has been in my queue for months.

[mcgooglykins]

I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

[heartlessqueen]

i don’t know who needs to hear this 

[gaiasgaurdian]

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This post is for anyone who needs protection. As you cut chords, it can be worrisome and create anxiety. You are protected, cared for, and loved by the universe. No one can cause you harm going forward, and your ancestors or guides will take care of them.