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Which is why it’s important to not be mean.
Their cult teaches them that the world is full of scary monster people who hate them for being so good and loved by god. If you swear at them and call them names or get in their face you’re just doing the cults work for it.
I’m not saying you have to listen to their presentation or try to debate them (and really getting into a debate without thoroughly understanding what they’re being taught will just make things worse)… I am just saying to be polite and say no thank you like if they were trying to hand you a flyer for something you don’t care about.
It’s easier for them to see the world outside their bubble as less scary if they see everyday people just going about their business and being as nice to them as you are to everyone else. This goes doubly for anyone who happens to dress modestly, not swear, and not drink or smoke because whatever you believe, they’ll see you as a “good” person who happens to strangely have no interest in their “message”, and that might be enough to get some curious about the possibility of themselves living in the real world.
It’s sometimes hard to be nice to people who seem to represent something you dislike. Just remember these “elders” are sheltered young men, some of which are getting their first real contact with people of other/no faiths.
They are not your enemy. They are victims.
They aren't being sent out to actually convert people, they are being sent out hoping that they will be harassed and treated poorly so they view those outside the cult as dangerous and evil and stick to the safety of the familiar group.
You being mean to some teenager isn't sticking it to anyone, you're doing exactly what their church elders want to happen.
PLEASE READ THIS.
Please read this.
Don't do the church's work for them.
If you're kind to enough of them, they put you on a block list.
They were such sweet kids, they'd turn up at my door with the thatch of raspberries out front and try to share their word with me, and I'm me, so, I fed them.
Then it was one of the wee 'elder's' birthday, so I made him a cake, and all the little lads came, and they asked about my books and board games and CCGs, I was just a nice frumpy middle aged Jewish lady, I was no threat, so I fed them and made them cakes and took them to the local gaming store and listened when they talked.
One loved yu-gi-oh cards, and it turns out, one of the other wee lads, we'll he loved him back, so I got them in touch with some resources so they had support and a different way to pay for college, they're still together 15 years later, they have dogs, they send me ecards on their birthday. No-one figured out I'd.helped them, I was just the nice lady who made them tea and listened when people were slamming doors.
The next one really wanted to be an artist, so I left out art books and resources, my eldest shared their coptic markers, they draw comic books now, no idea why his folks were insisting he needed to be a dentist, but, he's not a Mormon anymore, (not a Jew either before anyone makes any counter conversion claims).
The first 2 lads were the only dramatic ones, the rest went back into the network but, like Hugh of Borg, they spread the word, sometimes I'd get Mormons from other cities come and make the journey to break bread at my Sabbath table and be seen.
I still think very fondly of that time.
Many of those boys still email me now and then.
Most of them aren't Mormons anymore.
Someone higher up spotted the pattern and suddenly no more Mormons at my door.
I was blacklisted, for kindness.
So there you go, if you don't want Mormons at your door, just love those kids for a couple of years, feed them, help them, and eventually, no more will be allowed to visit
Image description: A photograph of two 19-year-old white men wearing white polo shirts and striped neckties standing next to each other, smiling at the camera and pointing to The Book of Mormon between them. Bold white text has been added along the top and bottom of the photograph to say, “Excuse us, we're 19 year old kids venturing out into the world for the first time and know shit about life. Would you like to hear about what we were forced to learn from a book written by a 19th century con-man?”
I remember being approached one day while I was sitting in a park, crocheting a present for my brother. At least one of the two young men seemed a lot more interested in what I was crocheting than in the conversion talk he was supposed to be giving. I said I wasn't interested for various feminism-related reasons, and we agreed that doing good things for people was indeed pretty cool, and they went on their way. I think of that kid whenever posts like this come up.
A couple of years ago now, someone got a hold of my phone number and tried to harass me by putting me on a bunch of calling/mailing lists for various churches and so on -- knowing, of course, that I'm Jewish and not at all interested -- and when I got a message from a very clearly teenaged Mormon, I felt... really annoyed. Not on my behalf -- my skin is way, way too thick to be bothered by that kind of nonsense -- but because this was just mean to do to a kid. They were trying to make me feel bad, but they were also setting this kid up to possibly be yelled at, and that's just... cruel.
I called back, and he sounded so excited when I identified myself. I felt very bad kindly telling him, "I'm so sorry. I'm not the person who gave you my phone number. Someone was trying to use you to be mean to me, and while hearing from you doesn't bother me, I'm very happily Jewish and not interested in converting. I'm just calling you to let you know, because I respect your time and your humanity. I'm sorry the other person didn't do that. That was unkind of them."
We had an exchange or two more, and I said that if there's a way to mark my number as 'do not call' so nobody else's time is wasted in the future, that would be a good idea for both of us. "I don't like the idea of you being used as a weapon to try to hurt me. That's mean to us both."
And so now my number is on their DNC list, and it ended up being a pleasant 5 minute chat.
I was raised Mormon, and the above are all good ways to deal with Mormon Missionaries. Because of what we were taught, those outside the church being nice is one of the better ways to get a mormon to doubt, especially if you’re exmo. I know a lot of us exmos have trouble with being nice to mormons at first because we feel wronged and hurt by those in the church, but it goes nowhere. Mormons are taught apostates are evil and “anti-mormon”, so if you’re nice they realize that teaching was wrong, which can lead to them doubting other teachings.
Also being nice is just good.
I was raised Mormon, my partner is ex-JW and this is the TRUE way to handle them, dont try and scare them away as you only add to the rhetoric they are taught about the outside world being scary and cruel.
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Ah, the feeling you get when you watch a blooper reel, and find yourself thinking "yeah, I could show this to someone who lived five thousand years ago, and they'd laugh, too".
I understand why they do it but it's so funny when adult cats hiss at kittens that have barely opened their eyes like bro that thing doesn't even know it's real yet why are you beefing with a grub
They are really out here beefing with grubs.
Mine are just overstimulated by the kittens sometimes.
There’s something incredibly satisfying about seeing the Artfight 2025 attacks on my OCs pop up as my lock screen on my jailbroken kindle
This one is of my OC Natalia drawn by @ourteyeseen this year!
the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired
[1] Color Zones of the Face [Tried to find source, I think it’s here ]
[2] Navate’s Skin Chart Supplement – the actual tutorials are: Section I: Skin Basics & Section II: Skin tones
Two brilliant skin tutorials. Do not use flat colors for skin! Underpainting is important for realistic, vivid skin. Remember, underneath your skin is fat, muscles, red blood, blue veins, bones.
Consider reblogging this to support the original artist. I recommend following them as well!
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i hate that concerns about urban gardening/foraging safety is often met with "What are you, a cop?" scorn. I believe it's a suspicion of anything that hinders the punk/anti-system urgency to jump in immediately and do whatever feels right.
Safety, ethics, and sustainability are all a part of urban gardening and foraging. I'm sorry that means you need to do homework before you can do anything, I know that sounds lame. But life is complicated.
I know anti-intellectualism is viewed as activist these days, but like, surely you don't want to literally eat lead, right?
Let’s check in and see how those rascally solarpunk kids are doing, surely they’ve learned by now that…..
Daily reminder: Leafy greens like kales uptake all those delicious heavy metals in urban soils like lead and cadmium.
Don’t eat sidewalk-crack kale.
Here's some cool references from the EPA on safe urban gardening:
REUSING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED LANDSCAPES: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils
Steps to Creating a Community Garden or Expand Urban Agriculture at a Brownfields Site
Time to put my money where my mouth is.
Have you wanted to own a @mayakern skirt but they’re too expensive?
I will give away a 70$ giftcard to her store next Wednesday (11/13/25) ((when I get paid)) to 1 random person who reblogs this and shows me their pet. If you do not own a pet a stuffed animal or a cool stick would suffice.
I own so many of her skirts it’s time to redistribute the wealth a bit 💕
Here is a PART of our gaggle on the heated blanket <3 I have always wanted to wear Mayakern stuff!
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
Last month, AI company Anthropic agreed to a blockbuster $1.5 billion settlement after being caught red-handed training its models on an enormous cache of pirated versions of copyrighted books and other material. Now, a similar lawsuit aimed at ChatGPT maker OpenAI has taken a dramatic turn, raising the possibility of yet another major legal escalation regarding AI-facilitated copyright infringement — and a potentially much bigger payout to rightsholders. Specifically, authors and publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset, Bloomberg reports. A New York district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion last week. According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750.
...Wow, who knew we were going to need to inhabit another Earthlike planet just to raise enough popcorn...!
Just realized I never uploaded this here!
The racist dog whistle is the foundation to right wing ideology and indoctrination.
Anti-blackness messaging via very wealthy white people is the foundation to right wing ideology and indoctrination.
This should be a bigger news tbh
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
I just watched a video about students getting their papers falsely flagged for using AI, even when they didn’t, and the advice was things like, “Leave in incorrect grammar,” “If you’re quoting something, don’t copy and paste it, type it out manually because it leaves a metadata trail that you used the copy/paste function and that's a flag,” “Write in the cloud so there’s a version history,” and the one that really got me, “if you find you write in a manner that can sounds too robotic or professional and it gets flagged, go to the writing center so a writing tutor can help you sound more humanly flawed,” and like what the actual fuck.
Like I get that is practical advice, but people should not have to fucking do that. They should not have to train themselves around not sounding like AI, when AI only sounds like that BECAUSE it was trained on them.
I spent so much of my life learning how to write, I shouldn't have to unlearn that because some computer algorithm learned from me.