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[spicedbutters]

Meow

[evergreen-femme]

im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.

please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.

[t4t4t]

תפילה להפך – מאבן בֹחן | Prayer for Transformation, from the poem "Even Boḥan" by Rabbi Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir (1322) • the Open Si

A prayer by Kalonymus b. Kalonymus ben Meir that appears in his poem ספר אבן בוחן, יג Sefer Even Boḥan (§13), describing the author's wish t

[unabashedllamamusic]

Cursed be the one who announced to my father: “It’s a boy!"... ...How could he twist the course of the stars so much? How could he have erred so in his astrology? A lying tongue, a fool’s mouth it had given him For he foolishly transformed justice to poison He altered the law and transposed the lines

Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman... ...I would say "how lucky am I"

Father in heaven who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water... ...Who would then transform me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...

What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me and has maimed me with an immutable deformity then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition that we bless both, the good and the bitter I will bless in a voice hushed and weak: blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.

I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.

[jewishicequeen]

ההופכי הצור אגם מים חלמיש למעינו מים מי יתן ותהפכני מזכר לנקבה! אלו זכיתי לכך כמה חננתני טובה

Excuse me i'm. Going to scream

[david-goldrock]

IT GETS FUCKING BETTER

ואחר שכך למדתי מפי השמועה

שמברכין על הטובה ועל הרעה

אברך בקול נמוך בשפה חלושה

ברוך אתה יי שלא עשני אשה.

And after I learned so from hearsay's mouth

That you shall bless both for the good, and the bad

I will bless in low voice and a week lop

Blessed be G-d that hasn't made me a woman

[jewish-microwave-laser]

guys im so sorry but this dude is a satirist and this poem is surrounded by other pieces of satire. as a trans jew, not good rep at all and it feels reductive to pretend that it is

note that these excerpts conveniently leave out rhe parts where he jokes about how women have life on easy mode and spend their days laying on the floor tasting one dish after another. this poem is looking down on women and complaining about how many mitzvot men are beholden to

not trans rep just sexism

[queermarzipan]

#while YES this is indicative of a more pourous understanding of gender than we typically consider today. kalonymus was not a trans woman he#was just snarky#he wrote an entire fake talmud to make fun of the holiday of purim *in the same book* the whole book is satire

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

thought one: yummy yummy

thought two: orange juice in my tummy

[meangirlnurse]

*listens to your thoughts*

[blood-trip-god2]

When telekinesis is unavailable, analog mind reading is fine

[onenicebugperday]

Puerto Rican semi-slug, Gaeotis flavolineata, Amphibulimidae

Semi-slugs are land gastropods whose shells are too small to retract into, but are not quite vestigial (as with true slugs). The opaque green area seen in the middle of the body in the photos above is the shell.

Photos 1-4 by logancrees, 5-6 by gloriveenieves, 7 by stevemaldonadosilvestrini, and 8-10 by juliakmil

[spicedbutters]

Can someone let me know if there's some wacky word of Germanic / Old English origin for the feeling you get when you remember so explicitly the way someone would act; how they'd banter and laugh and smile in spite of the bad times, and how they'd shake and cry in your arms because of them; how they'd sigh into a kiss and kiss you so deeply and fully and completely, like there was no one else in the world; except they don't remember how you loved one another, how you looked out for one another, how you bantered and joked and argued and fought and loved and trusted and killed for one another; and you could tell looking into their deep, deep eyes, and their blank smile, that they aren't the same person you once knew? Thanks

[smokeydabear420422]

[spicedbutters]

U.S. Constitution - Fourteenth Amendment | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

The original text of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

[astra-the-dragon]

"I'm a good person because I not only boycott [all people from country I hate] I also go out of my way to warn others about those filthy [slur invented by David Duke] and their plot to [verbatim 1970s soviet propaganda]!"

[astra-the-dragon]

disagree with government X: sure

boycotting exports, corporations of state X: sure. whatever.

I HATE COUNTRY X FUCK COUNTRY X: uhh...

boycotting all people from state X regardless of political stance: okay you're getting racist now

people who don't hate country X are evil: have you tried nuance. or common sense

people who support country X are [slur]: WHOA THERE

fuck those [slur]!!: what the hell is wrong with you

fuck country X and fuck the [slurs] and they should all be bombed to death: oh so we support genocide now? got it

[resplendent-ragamuffin]

A question for Jumblr:

For those of you who know zemirot, what is the name and appropriate sound effect for that one tune for Yom Zeh Mechubad?

As in:

Yom zeh m'chubad mikol yamim

ki vo shavat tsur olamim...

What noise comes next?

Toot-toot!

Beep-beep

Something else???? (please tell me in the tags)

Voting ended onJan 5

This brought to you by the extremely confused double take my family made when our rabbi started singing it Wrong at a shul lunch.

If you can tell me which you use and where you learned it (location-wise) in the tags I need to know if this is a different traditions thing or if my rabbi's family is just Built Different

[spicedbutters]

Getting myself to clean my room by pretending I'm a crime scene cleaner cleaning my room which is of course the crime scene

[juney-blues]

"a lot of people would much rather imagine doing violence to a category of ontologically evil person than actually do anything to address the systemic issues that lead to harm in the real world" is one of those things you can say and it makes a lot of people angrily eager to prove you right it turns out.

[spicedbutters]

25 posts!

And yet I still am not famous

[spicedbutters]

Mr. Nicky walked so Lin Manuel-Miranda could run

[touch-starved-lurker]

i dont struggle with skin picking im very good at it

[xclowniex]

Antizionists when I, a peaceful two state solution jew criticize the Israeli government and recognize Palestinian suffering:

Antizionists when I talk about antisemitism, or critique actions which are performative actions for palestine which dont actually help Palestinians:

[chips1977]

I want you barefoot in my kitchen

[spicedbutters]

[mossadspypigeon]

WAIT

Hebrew school is separate to regular school?

Y'all go to EXTRA SCHOOL?

dyall gone mad?

LOL yeah it depends on if you’re frum or not (folks who grew up frum: you go to day school or beit yaakov right and learn all your stuff there with secular stuff?). if you’re not frum, you usually go to hebrew school on sundays.

chabad runs a hebrew school on sundays too, so it depends on if you can go to a religious jewish school or not.

[snissel613]

I’m frum and my schools were all separate private schools that did both general education and Jewish education

[spicedbutters]

My Hebrew school is co-ed and general and Judaic studies classes are intertwined throughout the day(English first period, tanakh second, etc)-- Judaic studies are typically separated by gender tho