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My instant block policy has officially evolved to include making arguments we’ve all heard a billion times that have counter arguments we’ve all heard a billion times. If you’re boring, you are not worth my time, and you’re getting blocked

adurot

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

adurot

I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.

adurot

But wait, there’s more!

adurot

bakwaaas

honestly it’s actually the small, mundane, boring things that someone does for you out of love which mean so much rather than grand gestures and proclamations

lastparty

from butch is a noun by s. bear bergman

stupidjewishwhiteboy

This makes me cry

jewelkat16

The bad guys? Have you seen what Iran does to its people? Just because the asker is an idiot doesn't mean you're smart. And it wasn't "Iraq" it was an Islamist terrorist group named Al-Qaeda. Osama Bin Laden was from Saudi Arabia. Most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. The leader was from Egypt. Some were from the UAE. One from Lebanon. You can easily learn this. You're all morons, and your teacher should be fired. Blocklist.

shofarsogood

Anyone who wants to simplify war to "these are bad guys and these are good guys" shouldn't be teaching young people. That's a level of ignorance I don't think any teacher should have.

schmergo

Yesterday, I was at dinner with some friends and briefly forgot Harrison Ford’s name, but I was like, “His name is a president and a car,” which is how we got such acceptable alternatives as McKinley Camry, Van Buren Gremlin, Clinton Infinity, and Range Rover Cleveland.

caesarsaladinn

Lincoln Lincoln

mysillycomics

wizardarchetypes

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS When Maggie last visited me in Dublin I asked him to bring me my two favorite snacks I was missing from the U.S.: Goldfish crackers and Swedish fish (obviously Swedish fish are Swedish, but I couldn't find the specific type I'm used to in Ireland).

Maggie brought them both and a few days later I was in a (very casual, snacks allowed) Zoom meeting with some Phd students and our academic advisor and I was talking about my upcoming fieldwork in Irish salmon fishing communities and eating my snacks and someone else in the meeting said, "hang on. I'm SO sorry to interrupt. but are you eating exclusively fish-themed snacks on purpose?"

batboyblog

2026 Elections, you'd better Vote!

Yes, Election Day is less than 80 days away and it's the first time for Americans to vote on how they feel about Trump 2.0. How you feeling about it? bad? okay! lets do something!

here's a run down of Senate races, if you're able you better get out there, knock doors, make calls, text, send postcards whatever you're able to do!

Senate

Alaska

Mary Peltola

Alaska is usually a Republican state but in 2022 Mary Peltola won an upset victory to become the state's only Congressperson, the first Democrat in that office since 1972. Mary is the first and only Alaska Native to have served in Congress. She was narrowly beaten in 2024 when the state went to Trump by 15 points but Peltola lost by only 2. Now she's back running for the US Senate. Peltola is known for her slogan "Fish, Family, and Freedom" pushing to protect Alaska's fisheries, protect small businesses from huge corporations, and reign in an out of control politics in Washington. Peltola is running against Republican Senator Dan Sullivan who unlike Alaska's other Senator has been a rubber stamp for Trump supporting basically everything the second Trump administration has done not even offering fig leaf oversight and happily selling our Alaska.

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Georgia

Jon Ossoff

Senator Jon Ossoff dramatically won his Senate in a run off taking place just after the 2020 Presidential election. It was an incredibly narrow win in a traditionally Republican state. In his 6 years as one of Georgia's first Democratic Senators in a generation Ossoff has become a powerful voice. His cutting questions during hearings often nail Trump administration figures and offer some of the only oversight for this messy government. Ossoff has consistently fought to protect voting rights in the name of his mentor the late Congressman John Lewis. Going into this year it was widely believed Ossoff faced the toughest re-election of any Democratic Senator. Trump endorsed Republican Congressman Mike Collins is running to unseat Ossoff. Members of Collins staff have been linked to white nationalist groups and Collins himself is under an ethics investigation. Collins is also known for Trump levels of crazy posting on-line. Georgia has a choice between a smart, hard working, forward looking Senator, and a very on-line 60 year old troll. Vote accordingly.

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Iowa

Josh Turek

Gold medal winning Paralympian and State Rep Josh Turek is running to flip usually Republican Iowa. Since Obama's 2012 win in the state Iowa has made a major and massive shift from swing state to deep red. However Trump's tariff policy has been devastating to farm country leading to a 200% rise in farm bankruptcy. This looks like setting off an earthquake in Iowa politics with Senate, Governor and 3 of its 4 House seats in play. Before running for office Josh Turek was a professional wheelchair basketball player winning gold with the US men's team at the 2016 and 2020 Paralympics. In the Iowa House he's focused on disability rights, fighting to pass a bill to allow disabled Iowans to work while on Medicaid. He's also stood up for farmers and their right to repair their own equipment. He's running against Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson. Hinson in Congress has supported Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" and voted against a War Powers act that would have forced Trump to stop his war with Iran.

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Maine

Troy Jackson

Maine was the most highly anticipated Senate race going into this cycle. Incumbent Susan Collins is widely understood to be the most at risk Republican incumbent this cycle. For decades Collins ran as a pro-choice Republican only to be the deciding vote for Trump's Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe V Wade. While Collins makes a show of voting against Trump on key issues it always seems to come right after Senate Republicans already have enough votes to pass it without her. Troy Jackson is the former President of the Maine State Senate, having represented Republican leaning districts in Northern Maine in the State Senate and House. While State Senate President Jackson worked with Governor Mills and State House Democrats to pass laws protecting abortion rights, force insurance companies to cover contraceptives with no out of pocket cost, and ensure free community college for Maine students. If you volunteer to knock doors, who knows you might be knocking with me.

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Michigan

Abdul El-Sayed

Democratic Senator Gary Peters is retiring setting up a hotly contested open Senate election in one of America's most swingy swing states. Republicans have nominated Trump endorsed former Congressman Mike Rogers. Rogers was also the GOP's 2022 Senate nominee and was endorsed by Trump that time as well. Once a moderate Rogers as embraced Trump's election denial even putting people who took part in Trump's fake electors scheme in leadership roles in his campaign. Rogers has endorsed Trump's tariffs, a trade war with Canada, and Trump's ICE terror immigration policy. Abdul El-Sayed is a long time public health official in the Detroit area. El-Sayed came to national attention for his 2018 Democratic primary campaign for Michigan governor where he centered Medicare for All which is still a centerpiece of his politics in this run for US Senate.

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Nebraska

Dan Osborn

This is an unusual race in normally deep red Nebraska. Union organizer Dan Osborn is running as an Independent candidate but has been endorsed by the Nebraska Democratic Party. Osborn ran for Senate in 2024 making the first competitive Senate election in Republican dominated Nebraska in a generation. Osborn is running on a pro-Union economic populist message that endorses raising the minimum wage, lowering retirement age, and higher taxes for billionaires. Osborn also endorses a "Libertarian" get the government out approach to social issues like abortion. Osborn will face off against incumbent Republican Senator and former Governor Pete Ricketts. Ricketts is a multi-millionaire co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, who was appointed to fill the Senate seat in 2023 in a sweetheart deal appointed immediately after leaving the Governor's office. As governor he's best known for pushing for Nebraska's first execution since 1997. In the Senate the first 3 bills Ricketts sponsored were abortion bans.

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New Hampshire

Chris Pappas

Long time Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen is retiring setting up an open Senate seat in New England swing state. Congressman Chris Pappas is running to take Shaheen's place. Since New Hampshire has one of the latest primaries (in September) it's not officially official that Pappas will be the nominee but it looks all but certain. Pappas has represented New Hampshire's Republican leaning sea coast district since 2018. If elected Pappas would be the first openly gay male Senator in American history, and the first person in a same-sex marriage to serve as a Senator. Pappas is running on an aggressive anti-corruption platform to hold Trump and his administration accountable. Former Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown is making his second try to become a Senator from New Hampshire in the GOP Primary. However it's much more likely Former New Hampshire Senator John E. Sununu will be the Republican nominee. Sununu's father and brother were both New Hampshire Governors and John served one term as a Senator back during the Bush Administration.

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North Carolina

Roy Cooper

North Carolina has been a swing state in every Presidential election since 2008 and 4 times its narrowly swung Republican. However this Senate election Democrats are hopeful to finally flip North Carolina blue. Democratic Former Governor Roy Cooper is running for the Senate. Cooper was first elected Governor in 2016 as part of the backlash against North Carolina Republican's bathroom bill which he helped overturn. Cooper fought for years against the Republican majority in the State House to expand Medicaid bring health care to over 600,000 low income North Carolinians. Republican Senator and sometime Trump critic Thom Tillis was basically bullied out of running for re-election by Trump. Trump's hand picked replacement is former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley. Whatley only "qualification" is his support of Trump having never held public office and only ever worked for the Republican Party.

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Ohio

Sherrod Brown

Over the last ten years Ohio has shifted from a swing state to a deep red state. However like in Iowa Trump's disastrous economic policies look like they're unleashing a political earthquake. Democratic Former Senator Sherrod Brown is seeking a political comeback. Brown was Ohio's Senator from 2007 till losing his bid for re-election in 2024. He was considered one of the most progressive Senators even as Ohio became a Red state. Through his whole career from his time in the US House to being a Senator Brown fought for universal healthcare, even refusing the Congressional health plan for decades till average people could get that level of care. Brown was often ranked along side Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for his progressive stands on the economy and consumer protections. He's running against Republican Former Lt. Governor Jon Husted who was appointed to the seat when JD Vance resigned to become Vice-President.

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South Carolina

Annie Andrews

Usually Republican South Carolina's Senate election has been thrown into chaos by the death of long time Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. Even before Graham's death early polling showed an unusually close race. Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews is a pediatrician who ran against Republican Nancy Mace in 2022. She made the choice to run against Lindsey Graham when he voted to confirm FRK Jr as Health and Human Services Secretary. Healthcare and abortion rights have been major issues for Andrews' campaign. The Republican side has been thrown into a messy emergency primary by the death of Graham who had already won renomination in a normal primary before he died. He was replaced by his sister, Darline Graham, who was endorsed by Trump for the job. Many people did not expect Darline to run for a full term, but she is, and faced half a dozen other Republicans. Darline will face off with long time Republican Congressman Ralph Norman in a run off election who called for martial law in 2021 to stop Joe Biden from taking office.

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Texas

James Talarico

There was a time that Texas may as well have been a synonym for Red State, but starting in 2018 there has been rumblings of a shift. Democrats have nominated State Representative James Talarico. Talarico has centered his faith for a vision of a compassionate Christianity and progressive values. His idea of a more compassionate society includes expanding health care access, immigration reform, protecting LGBT rights, and even stepping away from Texas' traditional oil and gas only views on energy to help protect the planet. Republicans have nominated the most corrupt politician in America not named Trump, Texas' Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton narrowly beat being impeached for his corruption by the Republican dominated State Senate. Paxton has also been the subject of a number of criminal investigations. Past his widely understood corruption Paxton is a raving right wing nut, using his office to harass doctors and hospitals in other states over gender-affirmative Care. Paxton also declared he'd defend and try to enforce Taxes anti-gay sex law even though it was ruled unconstitutional in 2003.

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Even if You don't live in one of these states, don't think that means you can sit this election out! Where ever you live there are key races, from School Board, City council, County commission, State House, Governor, and US House! Even if your Senate election doesn't look close, you never know, you lose every election you don't run!

AND! almost every single one of these candidates offers options to phonebank or textbank from anywhere in America for them! you can make a difference where ever you are.

and you can send post cards to voters, here's the organizations that do that

Postcards to Voters

Progressive Turnout Project

Center for Common Ground (focusing on the issue of voting rights and black voters

Activate America

If you plan on post carding, now is the moment, click that link right now and sign up!

And if you're not an American, I'm sorry, do us the favor of reflagging this so more Americans see it? I'll write up a Governor's one soon, good luck, vote, volunteer, fight!

fairycosmos

look. i don’t think my stretch marks are beautiful. i don’t think they’re tiger stripes or natural tattooos. i don’t think my acne is beautiful. i don’t think the bags under my eyes are beautiful. i just think they’re human. and i don’t think i have to be beautiful all of the time in order to be accepted and loved and sucessful. i don’t think every small detail of my outer appearence needs to be translated into prettiness.

serotonin-sunrise

fun fact: this POV is actually called “body neutrality” and it’s SO MUCH more accessible/realistic for a lot of people. it’s based on the idea that the way we look is the least interesting/important thing about who we are, and that our bodies are worthy of respect regardless if they fit the mold of the current beauty ideals.

strawberryisscrumptious

Haven't posted in 5 years ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 (8 days)

dementedgnomicwizard

i went to the met today

sinsumeria1-blog

Just an fyi cobalt is currently the most toxic oil paint usually. Older oil paints from old masters are also most likely made with lead.

So the death via oil paint isn’t impossible tbh

dementedgnomicwizard

i can’t die but thank you :) im sure this information will be useful for someone who can

loredwy

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

would-you-punt-them

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

jeaninelatragedia

holy shit.

frustratedasatruar

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

thelawfulchaotic

I’ve reblogged this before, but my addition this time is that we went to court internationally to defend our right to execute children for crimes.

stupidjewishwhiteboy

Look, it's a free country, if you're not Jewish and you don't want to accept the idea of Jews as an ethnocultural group with its origins in the Levant you're free to do so (and I'm free to think you're a racist to deny a group's ethnocultural identity as invalid and an idiot as this fact is rather well attested to in the historical record).

But what confuses me is when people who self identify as Jews refuse to accept the idea of Jews as an ethnocultural group with its origins in the Levant. Like, in what ways are you Jewish if you reject what could arguably be considered THE central tenet of Jewish identity, around which like 90% of the religion revolves in one way or another?

(if you're wanting to sass Sim Kern for their stupid opinions, just remember that they use they/them pronouns and misgendering them is a dick move)

some-israeli-guy

I mean, there is evidence very much on display in Rome, depicting exactly how Jews got to Europe, so that bitch can fuck all the way off.

stupidjewishwhiteboy

A lot of the quote tweets of this tweet were just pictures from the Arch of Titus

zoesupreme

no for real like sit over there and drink your little beverage and stay tf out of the way let me cook

kereeachan

My dad is like this. He and mom put something on TV, mom does commentary and crosswords while he cooks, she sometimes pauses if there's something visual he really needs to see and waits for him to have a moment at the correct angle (kitchen can usually see living room TV but when standing at the stove isn't a good angle for it). Then restart and keep going.

The version with me is I sit in a chair in or near the kitchen and read on my phone or laptop while conversing with him.

We do not have my mom cook. She is poor at it while Dad loves it. Let him cook.

meowzel-tov

yall WISH jews ran shit. you know how much more walkable your cities would be?

prismatic-bell

Things that would be true of the world if Jews actually ran it:

1) walkable cities

2) more eco-friendly everything

3) your boss couldn't force you to work weekends

4) teachers would get some fucking respect

5) restorative, rather than punitive, justice system

6) heavy-duty social safety net

7) emphasis on community

8) the abortion argument wouldn't be an argument because abortion isn't some fraught tangled issue in Judaism--it's a matter of health to be determined between a pregnant person, their doctor, and their rabbi, and the rabbi's role is basically to provide moral support

9) vaccines wouldn't be an argument. You're getting them because the science shows they protect people and we respect science and learning in this world. You're getting them because it's not all about you-you-you in this world. You have a duty to your community and that includes the preservation of life and health.

10) atheism would be considered a legitimate way of understanding G-d, not a moral failing.

starg2zerlion

RAMPS. there would be ramps everywhere.

prismatic-bell

And Braille without having to beg.

stupidjewishwhiteboy

I suspect it would be much easier to determine the exact ingredients of food (for kashrut purposes, also because I think we’re more likely to have food allergies)

prismatic-bell

Absolutely.

I've seen a few people in the comments note that the Orthodox were less likely to get vaccinated for Covid than the rest of the population, and there are three things I want to note for those people (aside from the fact that this is false--evangelical Christians are the group least likely to get vaccinated):

1) if you're unsure why a group of Jews involved mostly only in religious life would hesitate to take a "we're like 99.9999999% sure it's fine but we literally do not have time to test long-term effects" vaccine, please open your preferred encyclopedia and look up "Josef Mengele."

2) There are known issues with the scientific education of students who predominantly attended yeshivas. Rather than focusing on this as a Jewish problem, it would be more productive to look at the standards for teaching medical science in private education, because this problem was also noted among people educated in evangelical Christian schools.

3) in Orthodox Jewish communities where the rabbis were educated on what the vaccine actually is, does, and theoretically can do, the rabbis were able to get vaccinated and share this information with their congregations and vaccination rates rose substantially. In Evangelical Christian communities, religious leaders actively rejected that education and told their congregations not to get the vaccine, but you think the Orthodox are the problem here? I'd encourage you to look at what's happening to the CDC with an evangelical Christian in charge, friend!

I'm aware that several of the people who said this are, themselves, staunch allies of the Jewish people, and I don't think anything malicious was meant on this front. But if you were one of the people who said this, I need you to stop and sit with it for a bit and think about the fact that not all heavily devout religious communities are the same, and that Jews specifically have some serious medical trauma (I'd say it's actually more useful to think of Jewish medical trauma as racialized, not along religious lines; it has a lot in common with Black medical trauma). Consciously or not, you're projecting Christian evangelical culture on Orthodox Jewry, and that is an act of antisemitism.

And finally: you know the stereotype in 1990s media of Jewish mothers bragging that their daughter married a doctor? It's one of those "buried in a hundred pounds of bullshit is a single kernel of truth" stereotypes. Because of the values put forth in Torah and Talmud and by the Jewish community as a whole, the most respected secular jobs among Jews are lawyers (you fight for justice and fairness), teachers (you fight for knowledge and education), and medical professionals (you fight for life). That's why so many Jews belong to those professions, and why so many Nobel Prize winners are Jews.

Given the choice between being locked in a building with 100 Orthodox and 100 evangelicals for two weeks during Covid, I would have picked the Orthodox in a heartbeat, and not just because we're all Jews. No--it's because I know which group includes personal physical cleanliness among its religious values and which actively rejects medical science as being "against G-d," which group is more likely to be willing to talk and debate the merits of the vaccine, and which group is more likely to accept me saying "I'm not sure. I'm an informed layperson, not a doctor. But I can look it up" as a sign of education rather than weakness. And that would hold true no matter what the illness was.

If Jews ran the world, WE WOULD BE HEALTHIER. Full stop.

pinniposting

can i stare at u like this

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depsidase

derinthescarletpescatarian

Vampires where blood groups matter. Drinking off an incompatible blood group makes you extremely ill. Vampires can also feed from each other, and sometimes will as a bonding or dominance thing, so they have an organically evolved blood-group-based social caste system.