Why

[exssardonyx]

general rule of thumb: history was gayer than you have been led to believe

[prideknights]

Let’s have a mini history lesson, my fellow Pride Knights! Typically, history is often viewed through a heteronormative lens which results in queer history being erased or withheld. One of the more speculated examples of this is seen in the study of the life of Isaac Newton. Many of us know Newton from his laws of motion and being a co-developer of calculus, with him being a renowned mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and author. But for the large part, his personal life and sexuality have mostly gone undocumented, probably due to his scientific studies taking priority over his personal life. 

One rumour though, which constantly gets thrown about in regard to Newton is the thought that he died a virgin. People who hear this usually come to the conclusion that Newton was just heterosexual and could not get into sexual relationships for whatever reason. For example, it has been documented once that he sent a love letter to Lady Norris, who also resided at Cambridge University, but was ultimately rejected. Other than this love letter, there are little to no other documents of his love life. This is probably due to science and education looking at the work produced as opposed to the person who created it. But alongside the argument that Newton was heterosexual and could not form sexual relations, there are two other arguments which may have stronger implications about Newton’s personal life.

Firstly, there is reason to believe that Newton was actually gay, bisexual or pansexual, and that he did not die a virgin. There are two main reasons to believe that this is true. 

Keep reading

[grandfloridians]

hi, its your local black and extremely tired lesbian, and basically my family is gonna be out on the streets if we don't find money for a motel room or something by this evening. we're homeless and totally dependent on pantries and such for food and toiletries. there is a little girl with us and she needs to have somewhere to sleep at night. housing is our biggest expense and also the one we often can't afford to pay for. shelters are either full from christmas or won't take us. (cause salvation army is one of the only shelters here and ofc they hate gays I mean seriously thought me and my mom were a lesbian couple w our daughter)

$30 will get us a room for the night. $120 will last us for a week.

if you can reblog/donate, please do so, i'd appreciate it a ton!

paypal.me/amberinas

cashapp: $amberinas

[grandfloridians]

since I've only been able to pay for a day up until now, I owe $30 every morning to sleep here for the night. Homelessness is no joke and the only thing im doing all the time is struggling to have a place to sleep for the night so that my sister will have a place to come home to after school and rest and we won't have to worry about being harassed or attacked at nighttime when we're sleeping outside or in the car.

The last time we slept in the car, it was only 40 degrees F, but with no heat it was so chilly that all of us were shivering even under coats and blankets. I ended up with a cold that further triggered an already bad chest infection that I can't afford to get treatment for, and I'm still wheezing from that. Right now, I have about 4 hours to come up with another $30.

I've been asking for a whole lot lately and there has been many times when someone giving $5 or $20 has literally saved my family from the streets, or put food on the table after one or two days of an involuntary "fast," so thank you. To all of you. You all have no idea how much it is appreciated.

I'm tired of making these posts and I know you're tired of seeing them, but I am in desperate need and I can't ignore it. I apologize.

I'm asking, please, reblog this if you can. Even if you can't give, you could be putting our story in front of someone who can and that could be the difference between us sleeping in a bed and being stuck outside for a week, vulnerable. Please reblog.

Again, $30 pays for a single night, and $120 pays for the entire week. Thank you so much for reading this far!

Donate: paypal.me/amberinas

[grandfloridians]

I owe for Sunday and Monday + a late fee on tomorrow, so I'll owe $75 total! I have $15 if someone could help me get $60 I'd appreciate it please 💖👊

[original-honeychiles]

Read this and save a life - YOUR OWN

From a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:

1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.

2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.

4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.

12. If this message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.

please take the time and boost this post by reposting it and sending it to those you love because we all need to understand how to quickly deal with heart attacks

[thosevesuvianthots-deactivated2]

Hope you all stay safe.

[official-lucifers-child]

this really needs more notes. everyone should see this. everyone should remember this.

[ms-demeanor]

Look, motherfuckers.

I grew up in a house where I had to cite sources on my feelings. Every subject was an acceptable target for debate. My parents kept telling my sister and I that “not everything is a contest” but that might have been more impactful if my dad wasn’t an Argumentation professor who brought his work home with him.

What I am saying is that I was essentially constructed from the ground up to be the most unpleasant, contentious, prickly, contrarian motherfucker you’re likely to have the misfortune of interacting with this week.

And I have decided that you are a person worthy of love who has had unique experiences that make you special and important. It is my understanding that you are an everyday miracle and your very existence is a gift to the universe.

So nothing you can say will make me believe that you are worthless and useless and incapable of growth and undeserving of kindness. Bullshit. I won’t have it.

Fuck your negativity.

You are a treasure and if you wanna tell me I’m wrong then fucking fight me.

[ms-demeanor]

Some bastardous positivity for your friday night.

There’s a bunch of scary shit happening in the world but that doesn’t change the fact that you’re valuable and important and people love you.

[ms-demeanor]

I’ve been looking through the notes and the tags on this and I want you all to know: You never deserved the way that people were shitty to you.

No matter what you did you deserved to be treated with respect and allowed your dignity.

And god fucking damn it if you were a child and people treated you like shit you deserved so much better.

You’re worth kindness.

You never had to earn it.

You never had to earn it. It should have been free and expected and if other people wouldn’t give it to you you can have some of mine.

[wordsaremylife]

♥️

[queen-susans-revenge]

In traditional Irish folktales, the elves only understand/respect Gaelic: the English language revolts them, so don’t expect to be winning any of those famous riddle contests or song tournaments in English. I’ve idly considered making one of those memes where it’s like [THE IRISH] *brofist* [THE JEWS] and the point of agreement is “our language is magic,” but the joke would take too much explaining to be funny. A lot of Irish Gaelic is structured around speech and the power of language. There isn’t, for example, a word for “yes” or “no.” In order to answer a direct yes/no question, you have to use a form of the verb that was used to ask the question. So basically, if the question is–say–”did you murder your wife” then there is no way to simply say “Yes, Your Honor” or “No, Your Honor.” Your minimum required effort involves using the verb that was invoked in the question: “I murdered,” or “I didn’t murder.” Of course you can just as easily, in just as few syllables and maybe fewer, change the verb. “I was framed,” maybe. Which is to say that the most basic speech acts in Irish involve constructing a narrative, assenting to others’ narratives or challenging them, and most crucially elaborating on the narratives that have already been established. 

(I chose murder just to be a colorful example, but actually I need to go back to my language reference books and check because I bet this interacts interestingly with the tendency in Irish for the narrator never to be the subject of her own story. You’re always the object, in Irish: you can’t drop a plate, for instance, the plate drops itself at you. You’re not thirsty but a powerful thirst is on you. You didn’t murder that woman but she very well might have gotten murdered in your general vicinity.) You see this lots of other places in the language too. For instance there’s also no word for “hello” or “goodbye.” If you want to greet somebody your required minimum is to cough up a formulaic blessing: Dia duit, God be with you. Here’s the thing. The second person can’t just be like “yup, uh huh. dia duit.” No. The stakes have been raised. The second person’s required minimum answer is now Dia’s muire duit, God and Mary be with you. If a third person joins they have to invoke St. Patrick on top of the two already mentioned. I’m not kidding. At four people you do hit a limit where you’re allowed to just say “God be with all here,” but in the very traditional country pubs it’s an insult to cross the threshold without saying at least that to cover everyone inside. Actually worse than an insult; basically a curse. That’s the burden you bear when you start speaking a magic language.

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

That puts a lot of conversations I’ve had with rural Irish people into a far better context. Because even when speaking English they will speak in this structure, knowing that context makes so much more sense now.

[blackthorn-and-iron-deactivated]

The way Irish structures the speaker as *positional* is also deeply insightful. Not just because the speaker is the object of a narrative- though that is unique and fascinating too- but also because that narrative happens in a conceptual *space* around speaker and subjects. Tá brón orm, sorrow is on me. If I’m missing my coat it’s apart from me; my accomplishments are beneath me; my careers and skills are in me; if I’m to do something, it’s on me to do that. If I welcome you to my home, I’m putting the welcome in front of you.

We distinguish between temporary and permanent and habitual forms of being, even in English. The only other place I know that does this is AAVE. Marcus be playing the drums; aye lads, he surely does be playing them.

You can’t say please or thank you or I love you; those are powerful ideas, and you must put a little effort into articulating them. Le do thoil, with you will. Go raibh maith agat; very roughly “a good is at you.” (Good on you, mate; good going!) I love you, Christ if there’s not dozens of ways to say it, but none simple. The simplest I know translates most closely to “my heart is at you.”

[sparrowpraxis]

Solarpunk stuff for really broke people

Hey! I’m excited about sustainability, but I’m really poor! So here are some tips if you are also poor. 

Some starter tips

There are some things you can take that, while not stealing, people won’t expect you to take. This includes seed collecting from untended gardens, portions of plants that grow in the wild, and soil from parks. This kind of stuff can cut down on expenses.

Seeds can be sold in expensive stores, but can also be taken from produce you buy. Stuff like garlic, onions, green onions, tomatoes, and potatoes are all really easy to reproduce by themselves. Care enough to want organic, heirloom, ect? Go to a farmers market, take the seeds.

Some places also do seed libraries or seed swaps. Keep an eye out for these, especially if you live in or near a big town. Dollar tree also sells seeds in the spring.

A lot of this might involve bending rules. Be sneaky and be careful.

Plants

Ideally, land to plant on in a garden is how food is produced. However if you’re like me you live in a cramped, overpriced studio on the second floor or something.

Yeah containers work. But you need soil for that, and you can’t grab all of it from potting soil bags ripped open at your local garden store. Maybe if you’re patient. But I’m not.

Hydroponic setups work better. One like this requires a plastic bottle, some kind of mesh, and fertilizer. 

Fertilizer is, in a lot of places, seen as a bright blue powder sold in gardening stores. You could buy that. I wouldn’t personally. You could steal it from a chain store. But more likely, you could make your own. This article talks about fertilizer from food and food waste. And you can learn about nutritional needs of plants here.

This method could grow herbs, leafy greens, and some vine plants like pole beans, with support. this is not recommended for root plants like potatoes, for a lot of reasons.

Of course if you have access to dirt (not necessarily potting soil) you’re in a better place. Do a few tests, like drainage and composition. PH shouldn’t be a huge deal if you’re digging it up, just find dirt that shit is already growing in. Find a container that can hold a lot of dirt, poke a few good sized holes for water drainage, and plant that shit!

If you manage to bring some of your shit past usable to seed, congrats! Maybe learning about seed collection would help you spread the love to your other friends.

Oh and since there are no bees in your apartment (I hope) you’re gonna need to hand pollinate fruiting plants.

Recycling and reusing

Perhaps the most efficient way of doing this is having friends who also reuse things. You’re not gonna be able to save every candy wrapper most days, and I’m in no position to give up simple luxuries like candy. If you got the money, finding local producers who use compostable/recyclable materials for your little luxuries is nice though. But some of us ain’t got that kinda money. And that’s ok.

As I said before, bottles can be used to make hydroponic gardens. Maybe if you want you can help your friends set up some gardens if you got one too many two liters from Little Caesars.

Plastic bags can be turned into plarn (plastic yarn) and used to knit or crochet. If you feel so inclined you can learn to make cool shit, like reusable shopping bags or something. You could also make a bunch of plarn and outsource this to your friend who likes to knit in exchange for something you wanna do, or are good at.

Egg cartons can be used as seed starters. If you use the cardboard kind, they’ll dissolve into the soil if you break em down a little before planting them.

Aluminum foil can be used to keep algae out of your hydroponic garden, or as an alternative to steel wool. 

There’s a lot that I could say, but reuse stuff is popular right now. Ideally, it should be reused into something that has a good use. And remember, sharing your talents and outsourcing things you can’t do is good and pure.

Green Power

This is gonna be a little more expensive. If you got a little money laying around, this could help reduce your power bill or something. But this isn’t gonna be free or next to free.

Phone chargers are an easy one to power. They charge up and don’t vary in their power needs.

This tutorial is, quite frankly, brilliant, and takes away a lot of the barriers to making solar powered stuff (like soldering). They tear apart a garden light to do this. That light could be used for some plants or something.

Wind and hydro are kinda unrealistic for an apartment, but it’s something people do.

Local resources

Food banks, community gardens, borrowing land, pooling resources. Buy an empty plot with your friends and start a community garden. 

[anarchopuppy]

Hope you don’t mind if I add two quick things:

I’ve made a whole post on how to start growing plants for free - most of it you’ve already covered but there are a couple extra tricks too!

And while this doesn’t apply as much to people in apartments, the solarflower website has a lot of cool sustainability projects you can build completely or almost completely out of scrap, including a wind turbine and the eponymous solarflower solar collector

[why-am-i-even-on-here]

For fertiliser - if you live near a farm, use manure (only if you’ve got outdoor space/window boxes). Often it’s left in large heaps on the edge of fields, and if the field is next to the road it’s the work of a moment to nip across and help yourself to a bag of it.

Also, if you ask, most farms with cattle/horses have a far too much of it. Just knock on the door and ask the farmer if you can have some. On the farm where I live people do this every so often and we’re more than happy for them to take a sack or two. Even if you live in a city there may be farms on the outskirts.

(In addition - if you live in a flat, window boxes/baskets are your best friend for growing stuff - just make sure you get permission if you’re renting)

[andytehnerd]

Free Crochet Breast Forms (for all transgender and/or nonbinary people)

No questions asked - I just love to crochet!

A simple order form you can share around, for anyone who wants free crochet breast forms (for bra stuffing) - anonymous orders allowed!

[leesh]

this is terrifying

[thoughts-of-an-x-factor]

Here’s what’s happening in Australia at the moment.

For some context:  Mallacoota is a tourist town, usual population is a little over 1000, but at peak tourist times, it can be as high as 8000. There was an estimated 4000 there today, when the extreme heat, peaking at 49C/120F, combined with high winds, to spark a large, intense fire in the bushland around the area. This pretty much blocked off all ways out of the town, leading to all 4000 people being evacuated to the beach, with the emergency plan basically being “If the fire comes this way, get in the water” Thankfully, the wind did change direction, and as far as I’ve heard, most of the town was spared, but this is how bad the drought, heat, and fire situations have become in australia. And our government still refuses to make solid policies on climate change.

[awomanindeniall]

NSW Bush Fires - How you can help

[toapoet-deactivated20221001]

If you’re not in a place to give money, you can boost!!

[lgbtpagans-blog]

[adayinthelesbianlife-deactivate]

The first Pride was a riot.

Wall sticker in Marlborough lesbian pub, Brighton.

i’m actually realizing this now

but the original poster said “queer power” and someone erased that and replaced it with “gay power”

real classy

[barbidreamdumpster-deactivated2]

[wetwareproblem]

#is this real Well. I’m not exactly an expert at image analysis, but the bottom text in the first one looks much cleaner than the top text while the second one matches better. Also, the creases in the second one on the Q and U seem like the sort of detail that wouldn’t be faked. Finally, this actually matches up significantly better to “queer” politics than “gay” politics; it was always queers who advocated and took the front lines in direct action.

[vergess]

If you put the image in an editor or just view the full size of the first image, it becomes very obvious that the text on the bottom was added later: all of the vertical lines in every letter are pixel perfect straight lines. That is basically impossible with a photo of a poster that is both visibly at an angle, and has paper weathering and other distortion. Look at the verticals of the white text to compare. The only distortion of the text is the jpg artifacts we would expect in that level of contrast. There is no lighting on the pink text either, another highly suspicious trait.

Additionally, if you crop out the pink text in op and run an image search you get the second photo, as well as four or five other photos of the poster, all reading “queer power.”

With the pink text left in, however, the only version of the poster is this exact image, sourcing to op.

[wetwareproblem]

I want every single person who ever argued with me on That Queer Post to take a long, hard look at this. I have been told at least dozens of times that “nobody is saying you can’t identify as queer,” that I’m “ignoring history,” that they’re not trying to shift back to gay, etc.

Now, here’s this post, in which queer people are having their art defaced in order to rewrite their identity. Where they’re being forcibly rewritten as gay. Where history is being literally goddamn erased. It’s got three times the notes of That Queer Post, and as far as I can tell, @bifoxstiles is the first one to challenge this narrative. And I’m not gonna hold my breath on y'all to call out OP.

They’re literally stealing our history, rewriting it into a new version that excludes more than half of the community. And nobody’s challenging this. You’re too busy trying to shut down inclusive, egalitarian language.

Shame on every last one of you.

[vaspider]

Uhhhh. That’s like a really famous poster, at least if you are over a certain age. I recognized it immediately. 

Yeah. It… it never said ‘Gay Power’ originally. It said ‘Queer Power.’

What the actual fuck.

[sepdet]

OKAY KIDS. HISTORY LESSON TIME.

Ironically, just before this crossed my dash, Oxford University Press shared a link to a new archive of queer oral history. If not for Tumblr’s recent push to wipe “queer” from our collective memory, I wouldn’t have thought twice about OUP using the term. After all, it was chanted in pride and defiance when over a million of us participated in the 1993 March on Washington to demand an end to discrimination…

Video clip from that day: “We’ve come to Washington to show everyone that we’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not going anywhere!”

Queer theory, queer studies, new queer cinema, queer liberation: it was and remains the umbrella term in academia, since “gay” leaves out the bulk of people discriminated against for their gender and/or sexuality.

In the past year, I’ve seen some Tumblr members trying to suppress the word “queer,” just as people back then tried to suppress us. The excuse is that it’s sometimes used as a slur. But so is “gay.” In my 45 years, I have heard/seen “gay” used as an slur far more often.

At first, I tried to respect the fact that “queer” bothered some Tumblr users, even though it was painful for me to see queer-positive posts tagged “q slur.” But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that caving in to those asking us to drop the term “queer” would permit homophobic and/or transphobic sensibilities to define our identities. Do we have to drop “gay” now as well, or tag it “g slur”? Since when did we stop reclaiming these words as a matter of pride? 

Isn’t this just the latest ploy of internalized homophobia/transphobia sneaking up on us? 

Unfortunately, erasing “queer” from our vocabulary has hurtful real-world consequences.

Silencing “queer” silences many of those who fought, marched, rioted and died for your rights. It erases those of us who are queer but not gay: trans, intersex, nonbinary, lesbian, bisexual, aromantic, asexual people, and more (see why the term is so necessary?) Erasure/minimization of queer people is how we end up with disrespectful historical revisionism like that Stonewall movie. Or the Photoshopped poster above, rewriting our history with a lie. 

And that’s the real kicker.

Erase “queer” from our vocabulary, and we erase future generations’ ability to learn about their past. How will they be able to find LBGTA+ history, if you teach them not to use one of the main keywords they need to search for to find it? 

How much of our past and present community will be rendered invisible and their needs ignored (this article is really, REALLY worth a read), if those now lobbying against the term “queer” are successful?

Decades ago, when being out was taking a huge risk, we chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” It would be a bitter irony if, even as mainstream society becomes “used to it,” as demonstrated from the Supreme Court to the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, our own community becomes less “used to it.”

Think about the forces of prejudice who were trying to silence us when that “queer power” sign was made. Please don’t let them win.

[fadeintocase]

Long post for the people that like telling me to stop saying queer.

[grandfloridians]

hi, its your local black and extremely tired lesbian, and basically my family is gonna be out on the streets if we don't find money for a motel room or something by this evening. we're homeless and totally dependent on pantries and such for food and toiletries. there is a little girl with us and she needs to have somewhere to sleep at night. housing is our biggest expense and also the one we often can't afford to pay for. shelters are either full from christmas or won't take us. (cause salvation army is one of the only shelters here and ofc they hate gays I mean seriously thought me and my mom were a lesbian couple w our daughter)

$30 will get us a room for the night. $120 will last us for a week.

if you can reblog/donate, please do so, i'd appreciate it a ton!

paypal.me/amberinas

cashapp: $amberinas

[fuwaprince]

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[uie-deactivated20230402]

ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.

[kitten--aesthetics-blog]

I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so

Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123

[clakearts]

The LGBTQ+ rep I should’ve seen in TROS

65 frames all together, it’s messy but I like it!

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Reblog, don’t repost

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[grandfloridians]

(I'm making an abridged version of this post, because it's long and i don't want to clog anyone's dash.)

Hi, I'm homeless and i have been for several months now.

I was lucky enough to find a room that is relatively inexpensive compared to other options, but even working full time at walmart my income doesn't quite cover the rent, and my mother hasn't found a job yet.

Regardless, we still have to live and I've been paying to do so. I pay $60 a day to have a place to sleep, and as of today, I've run dry. I have no money to pay for another day, and as it looks we will be sleeping in the car.

Our car has no heating, which in 20-30 degree temps is absolutely not ideal for sleeping and living in.

My family and i have been relying on local pantries for food, and i have few belongings with me. The holidays are gonna be non-existent for us, which breaks my heart as my baby sis is looking forward to it but I don't have the heart to tell her that we don't even have money to eat for today.

If you can do anything to help us, even a dollar or two could be enough to buy us a more nutritional dinner for the night or enough to help us pay rent for a day.

Please if you can, reblog and share! We would appreciate it so so much. 💙

paypal: [email protected]

cashapp: $amberinas

venmo: britbacch

[grandfloridians]

please reblog! we are low on food and our car isn't working so driving to the pantry isn't an option right now, and we currently have until tomorrow to come up with $200 rent that we weren't able to pay for the last five days or else we will be kicked out. i cant ask for any more extensions on payment, if I don't have $200 tomorrow we will be sleeping out in the cold on christmas. please reblog if you can!!!!

[scoutsmoocrew]

Geese and pigs and turkeys and ducks and goats and cows are oh so gentle uwu I love to bully my cows and especially mature intact bulls owo

[mad-dyspunktional]

Never thought I’d see geese described as gentle.

[scoutsmoocrew]

Ladies and gentlegeese…

[bonefarm]

Husband has a scar 2mm from his jugular from a rabbit, every time I have to catch a turkey I come out looking like I lost a cage match, goats have SPEARS on their HEADS.

[creekfiend]

HASHHDHGDF PIGS

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Thinking about the time some of our cows, who are literally owned because they’ve always been there, and my friend’s mom likes having cows, who are free-range, who we don’t eat, who are born and live and die free in the pastures, saw me one day and decided to charge me,

But unlike the norm, they didn’t back down when I bluffed them, and they stampeded in earnest, and I had to actually for real run for my life through thickets, tearing up my legs to shreds, until I was close enough to the barn to call for the herding dog to come save me,

And when I posted about it, some vegan blog was like “cows only attack the humans who abuse them.”

[whimsical--dragon]

Was trying to help my uncle on his farm persuade a cow out of the pond so we could give her medicine for a hoof infection.

Cow didn’t give a FUCK we were there, didn’t give a FUCK about our attempts to move her, literally took my uncle booting her in the forehead before she even payed attention to us. We finally got her on land and she immediately fronted on me and then headbutted my uncle into the ground.

It’s okay, we got her out of the water at least, right? Nah nah nah. Cow’s confident, smug, and her hoof hurts, so she just goes right back into the water with a haughty shake of her bigass head. I have so much respect for that cow.

Cows are sturdy and don’t give a shit. good fucking luck trying to bully a cow.

[bizarrolord-deactivated20241123]

Ducks can also be scary, especially if you get in between a male duck and a female he’s trying to rape have sex with. That motherfucker will run you down.

And of course, bulls can be anything but placid.

But of course vegans have idealized views of animals, they probably have never even been to a small farm or kept the animals themselves.

[poisonedapples]

I literally almost lost my hand to a cow fucking Eating it don’t tell me cows are gentle

[gayerthenthefourthofjuly]

Ducks have big ass claws that they WILL use, our ducks have given me scratches that took months to heal

Pigs are both much bigger and much faster then you think, one of the guys who worked on our farm for a bit learned this when he tried to block a sow that was trying to get to her piglets and she lifted not only his 220lbs self but the gate he was standing on and tossed him out of the way. Our current ones are part wild boar and have 4 inch insizers, thank god they are laid back.

[koeyohte]

I’ve known people who have massive scars down their legs from emergency surgery after their goat head butted through its fence and broke their leg into 2.

[signlesstheredbloodedtroll]

I have a bite mark on my leg from almost twelve years ago from a pot belly pig, the smallest breed of pig there is. I have been tossed like a sack of potatoes big pigs when I weighed 230. We never let kids near the pen because the pigs WOULD eat them. I have a picture of my 7 ft tall grandfather feeding pigs that come up to his waist. I have seen pigs climb over 5 ft fences to get in the pen next door so they could /eat/ the other pig, no matter how much we fed them. Sure, most are too lazy to get up if you lay down on them, but they’ll just as soon eat every last bit of you as cuddle with you.

[meradorm-archive-deactivated202]

Have you MET a rooster?! 

[greenleek]

Born and raised on a farm over here. I remember these two little 5/6 year old girls, daughters of my mom’s best friend, who were terrified of the farm roosters, and with good reason - the roosters would gang up and attack the little girls, to the point of drawing blood. So it was my brother’s job, and mine, to defend the girls whenever they went near the barns. We weren’t much older ourselves, 10 and 12 years old. We’d gird for fucking battle in our snow suits and mittens to protect ourselves from the spurs and the pecking, and would chase the roosters away if they went after the girls. Some roosters can be chill, but some are completely fearless assholes. These ones attacked the horses, for chrissake. They ran off an Irish wolfhound once!

[wordsaremylife]

Yes, I once met a rooster. It got out of the enclosed area of the petting zoo and was roaming by the grass…my 2 year old daughter got scared and I said (stupidly), “Don’t worry, it’s more scared of us than we are…” and pretend kick/shooed in its direction…and it fucking attacked my leg! I got it off me, picked up my daughter, and ran the fuck away. Later I had to say well, guess you never know, better to stay away.

[why-am-i-even-on-here]

I had a hen damn near take my little finger off once - had to go to hospital to get it fixed.

I know someone who lost an eye to a chicken, I know a guy who got both his legs broken by a sheep, I know someone who had all their fingers on their right hand broken in multiple places by a sheep, and I know a guy who had 3 ribs broken by a sheep.

I know of a person who was eaten by his pigs and a guy who was killed by a cow. (Although I didn’t know any of the people who died personally, I heard about it through other farmers, some of whom did vaguely know the guys who died)

Farming is one of the jobs with the highest fatality rates, and while part of that is down to the machinery and part of that is down to the lack of any health and safety rules, part of the fatality rate is down to the fact that farmers handle animals that are NOT easily bullied into submission.

[muffinrag]

I need a Jewish person’s help with something.

I’m a gentile, raised Mormon. This year, my dad and his wife are celebrating Hanukkah.

So, question one, is it okay for gentiles to celebrate Hanukkah? They’re being pretty careful, learning the rules, making sure to light the candles right and everything.

Now we go down a bit of a rabbit-hole. In the Mormon religion, there’s a belief - a “doctrine” - that all people are descended from the twelve tribes of Israel. In a special, personalized “patriarchal blessing” you receive around 15 or 16 years of age, your “descent” is revealed - that is, which tribe of Israel you belong to. This is not genetic. Parents and children and siblings can “belong” to different tribes. It has nothing to do with actual family history, and seems to be entirely symbolic, based on your apparent role in God’s plan.

When I questioned why they were celebrating Hanukkah, they claimed it was because they’re celebrating their heritage. As far as I’m aware, however, there is no Jewish blood in my family or my stepfamily, and they made mention of their “descent” from the twelve tribes of Israel, implying that they believe they have a right to this holiday because of that.

I’m baffled. I absolutely support learning about and respecting Jewish culture, but it’s not okay for them to claim that this holiday is for them, is it? They’re Christian. They’re sitting here reading an article titled “Hanukkah is for Christians.”

Do any Jews out there have some advice for this goyim? It’s such a weird, niche issue. I’m not sure Google will have any help for me on this bizarre minutia of the interaction between Mormon and Jewish culture.

[progressivejudaism]

Hi there friend,

My name is Josh (he/him/his) and I’m a student rabbi and Jewish Educator living in New York City.

Thank you so so much for your thoughtful and very thorough question.  I really appreciate you reaching out to the Jewish community for some advice.  

In short, no.  It is not okay for a non-Jewish person to celebrate a Jewish holiday or perform a Jewish ritual unless they either (A) doing so in a Jewish space with or for the benefit of their Jewish loved ones or (B) doing so in preparation to convert to Judaism (and are working directly with a rabbi, cantor, or other Jewish person to help them on their blossoming Jewish journey).

I am not a fan of arguing that other people’s theological understanding of the world is incorrect as theology can be so personal, often confusing, and rather complicated.  So I do not feel comfortable commented specifically on this Mormon theology that you pointed out.  I believe that all religious beliefs that do not hurt another human being – or group of human beings – should be celebrated.  But I will comment specifically on the appropriation of Jewish rituals and why this is an act of antisemitism.

There is a growing movement in the Christian world – not just within the Mormon Church – of folks who believe that they have a right or a privilege to celebrate Jewish customs and holidays.  I have heard that many folks do it in the “name of Jesus,” or like in this case “because it is ‘our’ heritage.”   Both of these points are rather disturbing when you trace the atrocities committed against Jews by Christians throughout history. Christians are responsible for so much Jewish pain throughout history and have absolutely no right to appropriate Jewish traditions.  It is disrespectful, because regardless of how any non-Jew follows the “rules” one attempts to follow, it is still not their holiday, their custom, their heritage, nor their tradition.  

This is all my way of coming around to say that you are 100% correct friend.  And thank you for coming here for your Jewish siblings to reassure this uncomfortable feeling you might be feeling.  I also agree with your statement that learning about other people’s faith traditions is important.  Personally I love learning about Mormonism (if you have any fun articles, please send them my way!).  You are in the right here.

I’d like to end by adding a few fun tidbits that I am sure that your father and his wife might not be thinking about.   Every single Jewish holiday that we celebrate today is a product of evolution over time.  Most Jewish customs as well are a product of a slow evolution– meaning that the Jews would have practiced in Jesus’ time, is sharply different than the Judaism practiced of today.  As an example back in the first century, Jews were most likely having a debate about the custom around how many candles one should light– and in what order– on the Hanukiah (Hanukkah Menorah).  Although Jewish Law states that one should light at least one candle each night, the custom has developed to light one light the first, two the second, three the third, and so on and so fourth.  This is all to say that for the elites in the first century who practiced Hanukkah, they probably would not have lit the candles via today’s custom. (If it would be helpful, I’d be happy to make similar arguments about other Jewish holidays, customs, and modes of being Jewish!)

Ultimately friend, you are in the right here.  Your gut telling you that this celebration is wrong, is totally on point.  Thank you so much for bringing so much compassion to this really rather challenging issue. 

-Josh

[shofarsogood]

I also need to point out that Mormonism does this lovely thing where they posthumously baptize people as Mormon. This includes Holocaust victims.

Anne Frank was baptized as a Mormon decades after her death. Her death BECAUSE she was Jewish.

Many, many Jews have complained about this and the “church’s” standpoint has always been “deal with it.”

They also do this to other oppressed minorities, like Native Americans, without the consent of the person at all. It’s sickening.

So no, unless a Mormon person is willing to take the time to study and convert, I don’t want them anywhere near Jewish holidays, Judaica, temples, anything. Mormonism itself is antisemitic and continues to harm Jews.

[muffinrag]

Hey, thank you so much for your input, guys. I do want to clarify - I myself am no longer Mormon. I identify as agnostic these days.

I really appreciate you both reaching out and helping me understand this issue. The truth is, I felt in my gut that what they’re doing is wrong, but I didn’t want to broach the argument without asking actual Jews first - because I am not, after all, Jewish, and don’t know much about the culture or religion. Thank you so much for the information and treating my lack of knowledge kindly. I’m going to attempt to broach the issue with my family, but things between myself and them are… tense, and I’m not sure they’ll respect this.

I’ve really appreciated this opportunity to learn, and I hope I might be able to get through to my dad and his family about this.

And, @the-home-kvetch, I’ve heard about the issue with posthumously baptizing people. I believe the “baptism” of Anne Frank happened shortly before I left the church. To put it frankly, it’s not right, and it was disrespectful to Anne’s memory, religion, culture, and death. I don’t speak for the Mormon church, but as an ex-Mormon, I’m sorry. For Anne Frank, and for all the other Jews that Mormons have posthumously baptized.

[progressivejudaism]

Hey again @muffinrag​,

Thank you for modelling kindness and a yearning to learn about other human beings.  In the Jewish world, we would call you a true Tzadik.

@the-home-kvetch - thank you for your important input to this conversation here.

If you are not Jewish, please read this important conversation.  And if you have a chance, please read the notes. 

I hope that this conversation can inspire us all to learn about other faith traditions and to explore other cultures with the goal of making us better informed, more compassionate human beings.  As the Jewish sage Hillel would say, “If I am only for myself, what am I?”

l’shalom.

Josh

[spaci1701]

How much of a Jewish holiday such as Hanukkah can be celebrated by goyim without it being appropriation?

I’m asking this seriously and with only good intent. I’m a Scouter and part of what we try to teach our youth is respect for everyone’s beliefs. I’ve had discussions with imams to figure out how best to keep camp halal for a youth.

But I’ve always hesitated to bring in lessons on others’ faiths because I don’t want to overstep yet I also want to expose the kids to as many faiths as possible so that they grow up understanding and respecting.

Where’s the line? Can I (an agnostic) teach the 5-7 year olds the bare basics of Hanukkah and make a paper menorah craft or am I better to just avoid the topic all together unless I can bring in experts?

[progressivejudaism]

Hi there @spaci1701 ,

Thank you so much for your really thoughtful question. I’m really digging this thread- it’s great that you’ve joined !

I think that it’s important to come at these conversations from perspective to help frame where an individual might stand on a particular issue. You mentioned that you are identify as an agnostic. Something that I’ve noticed about most folks who identify as agnostics (and not as “agnostic Muslims” or “agnostic Jews”) is that they are most likely former Christians or their form of agnosticism benefits from being a part of a majority system. I think that is an important frame here : because although many folks have the best intent in mind (and I have no doubt in my mind that you don’t have only the best intent based on this very thorough and thoughtful question), oftentimes they should not be appropriating Jewish ritual.

Your question brings up a lot of really good questions that I’d like to answer individually.

Q- Can a non-Jew teach others about Hanukkah?

A- absolutely. Please do. Especially children. But please make sure to not white wash it. Teach about the battle of Hanukkah. Teach about why the Maccabee’s were fighting the battle and the centrality if Jerusalem to Jewish tradition and history. Teach about the myth of the oil lasting 8 nights. Teach about miracles. Teach about the driedel and the Hanukiah (Hanukkah menorah). And don’t let the Jewish kids feel left out at a time when a Jew cannot look two feet without being reminded that they are a Jew living in a Christian culture.

Q- What is the best way for a non-Jew to teach about Hanukkah?

A- If you can, please check in with your local rabbi it cantor - or a Jewish parent - to see if they could teach the lesson. If you can’t, please go over your lesson with a Jewish Professional - clergy or otherwise - to make sure it is effective. (I am a student rabbi and would be more than happy to help you if need be!)

Q- Can a Hanukkah lesson be taught to a room of children who are not Jewish?

A- absolutely. All children should be introduced to the family traditions and religious traditions of their peers.

Q- Is it inappropriate for a non-Jewish child to create a Hanukkah craft such as a paper Hanukiah (Hanukkah menorah) or another craft?

A- Personally I don’t think so, unless this is a classroom of only non-Jews. I think if the Jewish children celebrate Christmas with their Christian peers, I don’t see why Christian children shouldn’t not celebrate Hanukkah with their Jewish peers! If the project/celebration involves a Hanukkah craft, I say go for it! But please make sure to *raise* the Jewish children up and ask them to help you teach the lessons: what do you do at home for Hanukkah? What’s your favorite part? What’s your favorite Hanukkah food? Etc

Q- Is it inappropriate to do a Hanukkah craft with a group of students who are totally not Jewish at all?

A- Yes. I think that it is. I believe that it is because the Christian students are not celebrating with a Jewish student(s). Instead, I suggest asking for a local Jewish clergy person to come in to teach students about Hanukkah. Or even to do so over Skype would work well. Again if you’d like supoort in finding someone to come in or if you’d like me to skype in, please let me know!

[the-chaos-goblin-child]

Many thanks friends!!!! There are lots of conflicting Religious Ideas and it’s easy to get upset and angry defending them, and I’m glad I got to learn about this!

I’m also Mormon, but my family’s only Jewish Holiday Celebration has been a nice dinner of Latkes or something similar and that’s only because my Dad’s Mother grew up Jewish and we want to honor that.

@the-home-kvetch mentioned Post-Death Baptisms, and I want to briefly talk about that. I can definitely understand why that is upsetting to people, it seems like the Mormon (LDS) Church is trying to erase identities and whitewash people. Lots of individual members may have different opinions, but it is a common belief within the Mormon/LDS Church Community that these people still have a Choice to accept or reject that. The idea is that if they want to change to something Not Jewish, they should be allowed to, but it is not forced.

For what it’s worth, I apologize to POC, especially Jews, for what the practice of Post-Death Baptisms means to you and how that hurts you. That’s not our intention.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

[progressivejudaism]

Hi @chaosace ,

I appreciate your attempt to bring light to this conversation, but I am deeply troubled by your commentary on forced conversions.

Dead Jews cannot consent to a forced conversion. They don’t have a choice because they are dead. The Mormon Church DID USE forced conversions to attempt to erase people’s identities. And to do so to Holocaust victims is abhorrent and cruel.

The Mormon Church is not the first Christian organization to do something so deeply antisemitIc and will not be the last, but please do not defend this action.

Right now we as Jews are living at a deeply troubling moment in Jewish history with a rise in White Nationalist ideology in the political realm around the world and with Israel really becoming a tool to target Jews- we see Jews being murdered in their synagogue homes, Jews being targets of hate crimes in the streets, and Jewish people being smeered because they are members of the Jewish family.

For what it’s worth, post death baptisms DO hurt us. And if you cared about the Jewish People, you would call them abhorrent. That’s what your grandmother would have wanted.

[mysharona1987]

[bizarrolord-deactivated20241123]

If your partner feels threatened when you want alone time: RUN.

[theechrysalisamidst]

welp

[rashemibabe]

thats creepy

[thank-you-for-the-vampire-money]

This applies to you boys too- if your girlfriend won’t let you hang out with your friends, RUN

[snakebitcat]

No matter what gender you or your partner are, if they refuse to let you spend any time with your friends that’s a big sign of danger.

[theangrypomeranian]

GUESS WHAT MY EX BELIEVED 🙃🙃🙃

[sophies-sideshow-deactivated201]

Last time I reblogged this I lost ten followers, someone I liked blocked me, and I got hate mail in my inbox for several days.  Let’s see what happens this time.

[simonalkenmayer]

Abuse begins with insecurity

[colt-kun]

My ex wouldn’t even accept a ride from my friend who offered to drive us home in the pouring Orlando rain and instead forced us to walk 12 minutes in the rain, soaking my only pair of work shoes and giving me a cold. FUCKING RED FLAGS

[awesomlyautistic]

Let’s see how many followers I will lose over this! 🙃

[emeraldbirdcollector]

This is a serious red flag for abuse. If any person you date, of whatever gender or no gender, tries to separate you from your friends and family, and deny you any life outside of them, run as fast as you can. There is no way to have a healthy relationship with those sorts of rules. Period.