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so far all the other Australian Jews I've talked to are also sitting at "what the fuck". I've spent the past 20 hours swinging between crying, fear, anger, gallows humour, feeling supported, feeling tokenised, feeling frustrated and unheard and loved and hated

so yeah.

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yesterday my magen david fell off the table and broke a half hour after that dead douchebag tried to blow up a synagogue and I decided I missed jumblr

(I'm here for other stuff, but less. I've been trying to distill my social media into something better for my mental health)

I've left tumblr because it's not a safe space to be Jewish anymore, regardless of one's politics. I had friends- RL friends- so caught up in the blind discourse hyping here and absolute lack of background research that they were reblogging things from Holocaust deniers and TERFs and actual fucking neo-nazis and people who think women don't deserve education and just, so many Tankies. And what can you say in that situation? It's not fucking worth the heartache.

Maybe I'll come back some day. I don't know if anyone was actually reading my posts anymore so this might be a flounce into the void, but I thought just in case anyone was wondering.

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How it's been for the last few months

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Let’s see you little punks smash my letterbox now

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This reminds me of this guy who used to live on my dad’s street.

Every time it snowed, the snow plow would take out his mailbox - and only his mail box. And just to be clear - it was done intentionally. No one knows why, but the driver of the snow plow would target his box and mow it down. He’d call the DOT to complain, and would get an earful of excuses that amounted to “not our fault you have a wimpy mailbox.”

Fast forward to the next winter. First decent snow starts falling, and every kid is hoping for a snow day. It was right around 4:30 am that the whole neighborhood was woken up to this loud CLANG and the screech of tearing metal. My dad made it to the window first and started laughing his ass off.

Sitting out side was one very totaled, and almost ripped in half, snow plow. And these weren’t little pick-up trucks with a blade on the front, we have these up in NY:

Well, turns out over the summer, my dad’s neighbor got himself a backhoe and sank a steel I beam into the ground in his front yard. Then he covered it with a decorative wood sleeve and topped it with a brand new mailbox. When the snowplow driver tried to mow it down it was a bad case of immovable object meets unstoppable force - and the mailbox won. With the plow firmly impaled on the I beam, it was very clear that the driver had gone out of his way to hit it.

Naturally, the DOT wasn’t happy, and the neighbor’s reply was simple: “Not my faulty you have a wimpy snowplow.” They did try to sue him for the damages, but as he had gone to the town, gotten approval for the post and its installation, and made sure everything was up to code, it was thrown out pretty quick.

And for anyone wondering about the driver… He was fine. His job and tighty-whiteys … not so much.

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COMMUNITY 1.12: Comparative Religion

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J. K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman are such a funny contrast to me, like Rowling: Oh, and by the way, I put gay characters in my books. People: Is there anything... showing that? Rowling: No. Also trans women don't deserve respect People: wtf Gaiman: Here are some immortals that transcend all human concepts of gender and attraction who use a variety of pronouns, and also some clearly canon human queers. People: Are the immortals queer? Gaiman: That is an entirely valid way to view them. Other people: Ugh, pushing a modern woke agenda. It used to be- Gaiman: Fuck you

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i am trying to read this more charitably than ‘shut up jews.’ i am not succeeding. (((we))) keep bringing up the demographics because people keep going “white people lol/what’s antisemitism/go back to where you came from/can’t do that? die.” how does denying history—reality—help anyone? i think she is doing a tremendous disservice to palestinians with this.

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