definitely not me

Rito. sideblog, they/them, ooold, Am Yisrael Chai

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[dispassionedgrace]

i cannot express enough how much i don’t want to expend my energy as a jew brandishing my sword and never sheathing it. i don’t want to feel hunted. i don’t want to notice against my own will and popular belief the systems of communication that encourage people on levels both subliminal and spoken to murder me and my kin.

i don’t want to complain about my subjugation or suffering, i don’t want to have to mourn my murdered dead. i don’t want to have to flinch every day for the rest of my life for being what i am.

i want a life of prosperity and relative peace for my people and for israel and its neighbors. most days though it really feels like i’m the only one who does

[thenotme]

New podcast episode of CallMeBackPodcast with Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews.

It's an hour long and very interesting.

[firefox-official]

Be honest, are you a bad person in any kind of way? I've been finding out about gross stuff that a bunch of blogs I really liked did and I feel icky :(

yeah in most ways. Good luck out there

[mephistopheles]

hi so yeah im trying to find the hotel california and i know i have to take the highway to hell but i accidentally turned left onto the boulevard of broken dreams. i took the first hard right onto the rocky road to dublin cuz i thought it would loop back around but it didnt lol and i know im waaaaaay off course bc i just drove by the house of the rising sun haha. so how many miles until i get to the hotel

[mephistopheles]

500 MILES?!?!?!

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

How Claude marks AI-generated content | Claude Help Center

lol this is awesome. savvy operators will automate ways to remove the watermarks, but this will catch everyone below a certain level of sophistication with far more irrefutable proof than Pangram

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

@tsarina-anadyomene and other grad students, unclear exactly when this will be rolled out globally but this could be of interest to y'all

[holdoncallfailed]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[markovchaingang]

look at your man. now back to me. now back at your man. now look out of the window, focus on the scenery outside. now look at the window itself, the panes of glass and the frame. now switch between focusing on those two things for a while. try holding up a finger right in front of your eyes, then move it away from your face and then back towards you again, maintaining focus on it the whole time. repeat this process a few times. now go outside into the sunlight and try to focus on objects in the horizon. did you notice any problems focusing, or feelings of eye strain? try to do these exercises regularly

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[lookmomitsmytmblr]

Well, that was... cheery

[bilgisticallykosher]

Making my own post for Reasons.

Transcription: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (known by various slightly different names) is a memorial day that commemorates the victims of the Sinti and Romani Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of an estimated 220,000–500,000 Sinti and Romani people by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The date of 2 August was chosen for the memorial because on the night of 2–3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma, mostly women, children and elderly people, were killed in the Gypsy family camp (Zigeunerfamilienlager) at Auschwitz concentration camp. Some countries have chosen to commemorate the genocide on different dates.

[dipperthedestructor]

im the prettiest canary in this mine

[dipperthedestructor]

what the fuck is that smell

[escuerzoresucitado]

[bearcatcatbear]

Today is the only day you can summon the energy to reblog this.

[kortshen-tzong]

“I am as far as I know the most typical Western Jew among them. This means, expressed with exaggeration, that not one calm second is granted me, nothing is granted me, everything has to be earned, not only the present and the future, but the past too — something after all which perhaps every human being has inherited, this too must be earned, it is perhaps the hardest work.”

Franz Kafka on being a Galitsyaner Jew, ‘Letters to Milena’, 1953 English Translation.

[notyourgoodjew]

[nonbinaryjudean]

Insert obligatory disclaimer about my belief in peace and equality and condemnation of settler violence etc etc but it is genuinely fucking ridiculous how many important and historic Jewish locations we are absolutely forbidden from entering. It’s ridiculous how there already was a two state solution when Jordan gained independence and got 70% of the British mandate and how Jews are expected to just surrender our land and our rights to governments that build crap on top of our sacred sites and burial grounds. Whatever. Keep trying to erase our history and blot us out of existence cuz it’ll never work 💙 you can kick the Jews out of the land but the land will always remember us 💙

[shofarsogood]

Jews founded the city of Hebron and now we're not allowed there at all. To a city WE created and lived in for thousands of years.

[ancientbread]

They should invent a tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow that doesn’t creep in this petty pace from day to day

[legallybrunettedotcom]

[inbabylontheywept]

Until death, all defeat is psychological.

[stickandthorn]

every time I hear overly vague “therapy speak (i.e “I’ve been at capacity recently I want to honor those boundaries so please respect my desires as a community member and re-analyze how your positionality has affected your place as someone in community with me, I’d like you to do some decentering” type of stuff) I think of my old Italian professor who’d say “I love the term “taking accountability,” it’s so funny, it’s so American. What does it mean?! Are you going to do anything? It means nothing.” She was so real for that.