[justsomeguy-cassavetes]

[tokerundesu]

ネットで拾った変な画像『ハリウッドヒルズ息をのむ住宅』:哲学ニュースnwk

[autodiscipline]

Hole and L7 show flyer|1990

[shesgotcolorstospare]

A PSA for anyone getting the Covid vaccine, just so you know what to expect, some people experience no side effects, but it’s also not uncommon for people to feel like they have cold/flu-like symptoms for a day or two after getting the vaccine. For most people the symptoms are slightly worse after the second shot. The hospital I work at is recommending that employees get the vaccine the day before they have a day or two off. They have provided some extra PTO days in part because of this. I took a day off after each shot and was glad I did. This should not discourage anyone from getting the vaccine, but is just information to keep in mind when scheduling you or your loved ones vaccines. I highly recommend OTC pain relievers like Tylenol, Advil, or their generics. Tylenol relieved all of my symptoms. There’s no prize for toughing it out, just take them and they will make it so much easier.  For me, I got my first shot in the morning and about 14 hours later I started to feel muscle aches and pains, especially in my neck. I went to bed and then woke up feeling worse; headache, lightheadedness, a temp of 99.2 (higher than normal, but not technically a fever), and worse muscle aches and pains. I started taking Tylenol and I felt much better. The symptoms lasted for about 24 hrs. After my second shot, I felt symptoms much faster, about 6 hrs after the shot, I kept up with the Tylenol a little more aggressively this time and it kept the symptoms at bay, still wouldn’t have wanted to run a 5k or give a big work presentation or anything. Over all I would say the symptoms last about 36 hrs.  And I feel like I have to put this in here, just in case it crosses people’s minds, “What’s the point of getting the vaccine if it’s just going to make you sick?” You may feel sick, but you are not infected. You feel sick because the vaccine has “tricked” your immune system into thinking you are infected so that it starts to produce antibodies, but you are not actually infected. The symptoms from the vaccine last a day or two. In contrast Covid can last for weeks or months. The symptoms from the vaccine will not land you in the hospital or, more importantly, the morgue like Covid can. Also, you won’t be able to transmit the virus or the symptoms to anyone around you.  Hopefully being informed can lead to us all making smart choices that help us get out of this pandemic as soon as possible. 

[glassshark]

I think we all know at least a few people who need to hear this perspective

[nerdy-south]

This is basically exactly what happened to my wife after her second shot. It’s normal, it’s fine, get your shots anyway!

[darkwingatlarge]

FYI it is literally impossible for the vaccines to infect you with covid. The vaccine has no viral particles in it, only mRNA. The types of vaccines that have a risk (usually negligibly small risk for the ones that make it to market) are made of viral particles that have been rendered harmless. This vaccine is not one of those vaccines. There is no covid virus, dead or otherwise, in the vaccine. The reactions described above are just your immune system figuring out how to make antibodies that will kill covid.

[hexthesystem]

help a disabled trans youth eat

hi friends, my name is charlie and i'm a trans community organizer, artist, and abuse survivor. i'm really struggling with money - i've already used up my money for the month and it's only the 8th. i need money to buy food with - right now i'm skipping meals. my venmo is hexthesystem, same as my user on here. even $5 helps. thank you for reading and sharing.

[hexthesystem]

i've only received two donations. please continue boosting, sharing, and donating.

[nocountryforoldjetpacks]

[ijaazat]

your tits are gnc af

[nitrogen]

By Susan Blase

[blackbackedjackal]

I have a question & I hope that I don't come across as rude when I ask it. I want to educate myself & you're very knowledgeable when it comes to these things. Is there such a thing as "humane" fur farming? I've been under the impression that fur farms are the fur equivalent to the big meat industries, & that the animals have no quality of life before they're killed. Again, I don't know if this is ACTUALLY the case but I thought you would be the best person to ask! Thank you so much & take care!

I don’t believe the ethics of fur farming is something to be seen in a black and white perspective as being only good or bad. I believe there are good and bad sides to fur farming depending on the local legislations about animal welfare, the people that run the facilities, and demand for the product. Yes, there are fur farms that care very much for the animals they raise. They do their best to take care of the animals prior to dispatch (proper diet, clean enclosures, regular vet care etc.). I think the issue comes into play when people who do not work in this industry treat these animals with the same empathy we have for wild animals of the same kind or domestic animals we can keep as pets. The reality these animals are being raised for a product, so they’re neither wild nor fully domesticated, just tame enough to be raised and handled. They cannot survive in the wild if released, and they’re not tame enough to be brought into your home (though many shady rescues try to tell you otherwise). I’ve talked to a few owners/workers who raise foxes and other fur animals and they really put so much care into their facilities. These are usually small business though, not commercialized ones. I’ve also seen farms where the foxes are obviously unhealthy or inbred due to people simply breeding for the quality of the fur and not the quality of life for the animal. It’s the same with many commercial meat industries. I just feel like the larger the facility and the more demand people put on a product, the less care is put into raising and obtaining that product (this counts for both human rights AND animal welfare). But no, fur farming is not inherently a bad thing, but there are facilities that I do not follow certain rules/regulations that would be deemed more humane as far as treatment of the animals because those welfare laws are not international laws and do not apply to every country that allows fur farming. 

[golden-reedwolf]

I’d love to see something like WelFur made industry standard across the board. Cause some countries/individual farms definitely have much poorer welfare than should be acceptable. If you’re going to buy (non-vintage) fur/pelts then it’s definitely worth researching where that fur is coming from

[theconcealedweapon]

[anthonycrowleymoved]

orville peck is objectively the perfect celebrity all you know about his personal life is that he’s gay

[lessboogey]

Junji Ito  //  Hayao Miyazaki

[leanderqueenie]

The world if your favourite band is the Beatles:

The world if you fucking hate the Beatles:

[the-red-corpse]

The Biologic Show #1: Peloria- A Pim and Francie Adventure.

[animalinterlace-deactivated2022]

Al Columbia

[hymnsofheresy]

when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c

[covington-shenanigans]

#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line

it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired

[hymnsofheresy]

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY

[hachama]

I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

[hymnsofheresy]

um woah

[cutecreative]

I will always hit the reblog button so hard for Hallelujah but ESPECIALLY mentions of the elusive final verses which are just about my favorite lyrics ever. Why do people always omit the best part of the song??

[fromchaostocosmos]

In Yiddish

In Hebrew

[fromchaostocosmos]

In Ladino

[stoneandbloodandwater]

Yeah, I wonder why the verses that reference specific Jewish mystical and chassidic concepts that aren’t readily understood by American “I love Jews, you know, Jesus was Jewish!” Christians never get any airtime. Funny that.

You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah

These are specifically about Chassidic Jewish theories of the holy language, how each letter and combination of letters in Hebrew contains the essence of the divine spark and if used correctly, can unlock or uncover the divine spark in the mundane material word. And of course, there are secret names of God which, when spoken by any ordinary human would kill them, but if you are worthy and holy and righteous can be used to perform miracles or even to behold the glory of God face-to-face. The words themselves have power. Orthodox Jews often won’t even pronounce the word “hallelujah” in it’s entirety in conversation, because the “yah” sound at the end is a True Name of God (there are hundreds, supposedly) and thus too holy to say outside of prayer.

None of this is to mention how David’s sin in sleeping with Batshevah (the subject of much of the song, with a brief deviation to Shimshon and Delilah) is considered the turning point in the Tanach that ultimately dooms the Davidic line at the cosmological level and thus dooms Jewish sovereignty and independence altogether. From a Christian perspective this led to Jesus, the King of Kings, and that’s all very well and good for them, but for the Jews, the Davidic line never returned and is the central tragedy of the total arc of the Torah. Like, our Bible doesn’t have a happy ending? And that’s what this song is about? There’s no Grace - you just have to sit with the sin and its consequence.

Of course, Cohen is referencing all of this ironically, and personalizing these very high-level religious concepts. Like the point of this song is that Cohen, the songwriter, is identifying with David, the psalmist, and identifying his own sins with David’s. The ache that you hear in this song is that the two thousand year exile that resulted from one wrong night of passion and Cohen feels that the pain he has caused to his lover is of equally monumental infamy. Basically, in a certain light, the whole of Psalms is a vain effort for David to atone for his sin and I think Cohen was writing this song in wonderment that David could eternally praise the God who would not forgive him and would force him and his people into exile. But he ultimately gets how you have to surrender to the inexorable force of God in the face of your own inadequacies and how to surrender is to worship and to worship is to praise - hence, Hallelujah. You can either do the right thing and worship God from the start, or you can fuck up, be punished, and thus be forced to beg for His forgiveness. It’s the terrible inevitability of praise that’s driving him mad.

Like honestly, I identify with this song so strongly as an off-the-derech Jew, I sometimes wonder what Christians can possibly hear in this song, as it speaks so specifically to the sadomasochistic relationship that a lapsed Jew has with their God. It’s such a different song from a Christian theological perspective it’s almost unrecognizable, man. This song continues to be a wonder of postmodern Jewish theology and sexuality from start to finish. Don’t let anyone give you any “Judeo-Christian” narishkeit. This is a Jewish song.

(Sorry about the wild tangent it’s just 2AM and I love this song so dang much, you guys.)

[hymnsofheresy]

holy shit. woah.

[dduane]

This.

[dispatchrabbi]

That last bit from @stoneandbloodandwater, that’s a great articulation of the well of feeling, memory, storytelling, and culture packed into one of the most Jewish songs ever to get real famous. The song is both surrender and defiance, and that those are actually a single path together, not two opposite choices.

[jewishnursey]

[wetwareproblem]

A small addition: This song is such a deeply resonant Jewish touchstone that every synagogue I have ever attended uses its melody in services from time to time.

It is so important, so powerful, so spiritually resonant that we use it in prayer.

[prismatic-bell]

If memory serves me, the cover we most often hear came about specifically because Jeff Buckley was like “man, this song is badass but I don’t know that I can do its concepts justice” and Leonard Cohen was like “you need different verses? Here, I wrote over eighty of the fuckers, pick what you want to use” and so Buckley put together verses that spoke to him as a non-Jew about sexuality and this idea of a failed relationship.

Which wouldn’t be an issue if Christians didn’t then take his adaptation (done, I emphasize again, with Cohen’s blessing) and rewrite it in ways THAT DO NOT COME FROM THE ORIGINAL VERSES.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

Yes, this.

[nosferatu4ever]

@alltidvinter My favourite post on this website.

[vicholas]

[vortigone]

given most footage ive seen of celebrities on this show are immensely uncomfortable at best, seeing tony hawk of all people just go ham with the chaos really adds a lot

[jenniferrpovey]

Gonna talk about those MRNA vaccines real quick.

So, many of us (possibly not all, because other vaccines in the pipeline) are going to be getting either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.

What vaccine you end up getting is likely to depend on your age, health, and where you live. Pfizer’s vaccine is harder to store and transport, so if you live in a big city you’re more likely to get that one.

For what I’m going to say, though, it doesn’t make a difference.

You’re going to be getting two shots, a few weeks apart. For Moderna, it’s 28 days (4 weeks). For Pfizer, it’s 21 days (3 weeks). Yes, this sucks. No, this is not ideal for mass vaccination. You’ll get a card that will remind you to come back for the second dose. The person administering the shot, most likely a pharmacist, will also ask for your cell phone number so they can text you. Because if you don’t come back that first shot is a waste of time.

We don’t know for sure if the single shot gives any protection at all, but the reasonable assumption is that it doesn’t.

This means you need to get your ass back in there for that second shot. And while you are waiting for that shot, you are not protected.

This means you should continue to wear a mask, etc. In fact, if possible, you should be even more careful, because if you get sick and can’t come in for that second shot? They’ll most likely have to start over. The trial included longer periods between the two, so you might be fine, but there is a risk here.

And once you have had that second shot?

It’s going to take two to four weeks to build antibodies, during which time you will have lower, but increasing, protection. They’ll tell you what it is…that data hasn’t been released yet, but will be.

So you should still continue to be careful for those weeks.

Finally!

We don’t know if these vaccines provide what is called sterilizing immunity, meaning you can’t be infected and can’t pass it on.

They may only provide functional immunity, meaning you get infected but don’t get sick. You could still transmit COVID-19 to others, although the risk is lower.

Which means?

Yeah, the masks have to stay on until the case numbers and other metrics are looking good.

Please don’t be those people who get that first shot and go throw a wild party. Have a bit of patience.

[spiraling-halo-deactivated20220]

IMPORTANT.