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[frozenwolftemplar]

Mira: So. What're we watching tonight?

Zoey: The first few episodes of Percy Jackson! I read these books so much as a kid and-

Mira: Mmm-mmm. No.

Zoey: ?

Mira: You are pulling up Disney Plus.

Zoey: Well, yeah, that's where-

Mira: This is supposed to be a chill night, and Disney stuff makes Rumi cry every damn time!

Rumi: (not this again) It does not!

Mira: Overruled. Anyway, tonight was supposed to be fun and relaxing and there's nothing fun or relaxing about Rumi tears.

Zoey: Mir...you have nothing to worry about! These books are pure fun! The kid finds out he's a demigod and has adventures and goes to camp-

Rumi: Demigods go to camp?

Zoey: -and they are very much not Rumi-tears material

Rumi: Besides, I am not so emotionally fragile I'd cry at a tween novel about kids in camp.

Mira: Whatever you say...

LATER:

Percy Jackson's mom: You are not broken. You are singular

Zoey:...

Mira: (wait for it...)

Rumi: ...

Rumi: 😭😭😭

Mira: ...and there it is.

[sweetmapple]

Jonathan Sims’ fun steppe vacation

[wishyoudwell]

whos there

[juliaknz]

ARTHUR ERICKSON Law Courts Complex, 1973 Vancouver, Canada Image © Ezra Stoller

[ihateeveyoneandeverything]

This is how they went on their first date

And you cannot convince me otherwise

[kamiart]

basarios my sweet darling baby angel

why is trying to get a hunt with you in 4U so needlessly fucking difficult

[unsolicited-opinions]

An asshat on Twitter claimed John Adams hated Jews by quoting this:

"I cant Say that I love the Jews very much neither."

That's a real quote...but here's what Adams actually wrote in its full context:

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize Men than any other Nation. If I were an Atheist and believed in blind eternal Fate, I should Still believe that Fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential Instrument for civilizing the Nations. If I were an Atheist of the other Sect, who believe or pretend to believe that all is ordered by Chance, I Should believe that Chance had ordered the Jews to preserve and propagate, to all Mankind the Doctrine of a Supreme intelligent wise, almighty Sovereign of the Universe, which I believe to be the great essential Principle of all Morality and consequently of all Civilization. I cant Say that I love the Jews very much neither. Nor the French nor the English nor the Romans nor the Greeks. We must love all Nations as well as We can, but it is very hard to love most of them.

- John Adams

Letter to François Adriaan Van der Kemp dated February 16, 1809

So the quoted sentence isn't a dig at Jews. It's Adams saying that he doesn't love any group in the emotional sense, and that moral judgment can't rest on who you're fond of. He can admire the Jewish contribution to civilization without romanticizing "the Jews" as a collective. He's insisting on universality over favoritism.