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toboldlynerd

#these descriptors are a bit narrow #but otherwise good #i’d throw gratitude in there too

ymutate

Naomi Okubo b. 1985, Tokyo, Japan

lionofchaeronea

Title: The Moreno Garden at Bordighera Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) Date: 1884 Genre: landscape painting Movement: Impressionism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 73 cm (28.7 in) high x 93 cm (36.6 in) wide Location: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA

This painting is one of a number of canvases that Monet painted during his three-month visit to Bordighera, in Liguria on the Italian Riviera, early in 1884. While Monet complained in letters to friends about the difficulty of capturing Italian sunlight and the lush vegetation that obscured his view, his Bordighera series is considered one of his major artistic accomplishments.

germanpostwarmodern

Central Library (1969-73) of the University in Brasília, Brazil, by Milton Ramos

a-h-mad-hish

Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky

nubbsgalore

americanappall

Mountain on Io, moon of Jupiter

the-library-alcove

A few years ago, I was explaining to some non-Jewish friends why there are kosher rules specifically for milk. Not milk products, but just "milk".

"But it's just milk from a cow? Why would that be unkosher?" they asked.

"Well, it's simple but really disgusting. You see, the reason that kosher milk standards explicitly state that there needs to be a Jew present for every step of the process--from milking the cow to drinking the milk, ideally--is because of contamination fears."

"What kind of contamination fears?"

"The kind where Medieval Christians would milk pigs and try to sneak the sow's milk into cow's milk, just out of Jew-hating spite."

"..."

"Yeah. People would go to the trouble of milking a pig and wait for their chance to try to pour that milk into a bucket of cow's milk, just because they hated Jews so much that they wanted us to accidentally break kosher rules. So the kosher rules evolved because of that sort of environment of active spite."

In the last year, pretty much everyone who was involved in that conversation and who hasn't hopped onto the Jew-hating bandwagon themselves has admitted to me that at the time, they didn't believe it, not fully, and now they do.

Because, being blunt, that environment of active spite is in the process of returning after a seventy year absence.

frances-kafka

So much of kashrut makes so much more load bearing sense when you consider a community having to survive but being unable to trust the authorities who process their food. If this didn't keep people alive over generations, it would've died out by now.

It's worth thinking about if we lose any of our safeguards over our food supply.

sighinastorm

How is it hard to believe, when every vegetarian has a story about people trying to sneak meat?

shofarsogood

With the FDA being what it is now (going down the toilet), I believe that we'll see a resurgence of food borne illnesses. We've already seen botulism in baby food, ffs. And since Jews follow incredibly strict laws, we're less likely to be affected. Not totally free, because we're obviously going to be affected by things like E. coli or Salmonella on produce. But we won't be affected by tainted meat and dairy as much.

And I think, unfortunately, this will further antisemitism. "Why aren't the Jews sick? They must be contaminating our food!"

Alberta, Canada, has already tried to pass a law banning halal and kosher school lunches. (So they're putting pork into all school lunches? I don't understand how they thought this would work.) It won't be long until someone tries to do that in the US, too.

short-wooloo

Literally on the second to last paragraph, the black death was less (relatively) devastating to Jewish communities than christians because per their own laws, Jews had stricter standards of hygiene and bathed much more regularly

So naturally christians concluded it must be the Jews who called down the black death because what other reason could there be for them dying to it slightly less

a-s-fischer

When I see posts like this, I think it's important to say that we do not have good evidence that Jews died at lower rates of plague than Christians in the middle ages, and we know that Muslims had virtually identical hygene practices to Jews, and Muslim terretories were very hard hit by the plague.

Medieval Christians did not need Jews to be actually dying at lower rates of the plague to claim we were, and kill us over it. This is important to understand. Bigotry does not need evidence.

@short-wooloo blocked me when I sent this info over message, probably because they thought "who tf is this person?", an understandable reaponse. If I made them uncomfortable I would like to appologise, and will of course not persue any further contact.

haviye-deactivated20170417

pyrrhiccomedy

We should go back to calling things wack. Shit's never been wacker

#word

antonio-m

Koloman Moser (Austrian, 1868-1918). “Feldeinsamkeit (Field Solitude)”, c.1912/13. Private collection. oil on canvas

agapidraws

🏛️The Twelve Olympians🏛️

7. Artemis / Άρτεμις

radicalgraff

"They got money for war but can't feed the poor"

Sticker spotted in Pittsburgh

#only becoming truer

eucanthos

Johannes Wilhelm Jaeger (Berlin, 1832-1908)

Atelier Jaeger photography

Olga Raphael–Linden, 1911 In Titus Andronicus at Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, Sweden National Collections of Music, Theatre and Dance

thnx tiocfaidh

Maenads/Bacchae: Dionysus-Bacchus' female ecstatic followers May 1st

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olga_Raphael-Linden_in_Titus_at_Dramatiska_teatern_1911_-SMV-_NR026.tif?page=1

tomoleary

Ana Miralles “Le Souci” Djinn (2018) Source

channelz

i love weird al's range more than anything how is this all the same guy

the-haiku-bot

i love weird al’s range

more than anything how is

this all the same guy

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

rudjedet

Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost

The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction

The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity

We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either

Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender

The gods didn’t actually have animal heads

Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)

The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous

Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”

thatlittleegyptologist

The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit

rudjedet

‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”

While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago

The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved

rudjedet

The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum

Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose

Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards

Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”

The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)

rudjedet

While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition

It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that

Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass

rudjedet

I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On

Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies

rudjedet

Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids

Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt

Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt

Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt

Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization

Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt

Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)

McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs

Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion