I like how this tacitly implies that there’s some sort of old-growth Menorah forest from which our ritual objects objects are lovingly plucked, and that every year, we drive out to the menorah farm, pick one out, and then strap it to the top of our cars, fully lit.
@tikkunolamorgtfo I present you with an alternative:
I LOVE IT
some people don’t get to see the chabad menorah-mobiles every year and that’s p sad tbh
never seen that show but I did watch it on tumblr
rb the give garlic bread and a warm hug to the person u rb'd from
genuinely cant stop thinking about whatever early human first looked a literal wolf full in the face and thought domestication would be fun but ALSO cant stop thinking about the ENTIRE early human tribe that absolutely did NOT think to stop them
HOLD THE PHONE
Slightly related: I read a book by Rick McIntyre, who was official Wolf Guy at Yellowstone Park for 25 years (and studied wolves for 40 yrs total). He describes how, when they’re alone, wolves—both adults and pups—will pick up sticks or bones or bits of animal skin and toss them around to entertain themselves, the way you might toss a ball up and down. They essentially play catch by themselves.
So if wolves do this by themselves, in nature, that means that we saw them playing this game and thought “huh, that wolf enjoys fetching the stick it’s throwing for itself, maybe I could throw it further and it would like that more?” And thus began our two species’ mutual favourite game to play together
But the point is that they invented fetch
WHO MADE THIS? 🎃
I love him so much
Noel Kerns is a Dallas-based photographer specializing in capturing Texas’ ghost towns, decommissioned military bases, and industrial abandonments at night. Growing up in the central Texas hill country, Kerns developed his photographic skills shooting large format black & white landscapes. The slow and deliberate nature of the large format photographic process was a perfect launching pad into the art of digitally photographing the nocturnal world.
One of the things Kerns enjoy most about photographing under a full moon are all the latent details, those things which reveal themselves only when you take the time to let the moonlight tell the story. He loves the calm and tranquility of a peaceful night scene, as well as the eerie feeling one can get when shooting an old desert ghost town under a full moon.
Seriously though like, I missed the boat on this whole radical honesty thing. I guess everyone wants to be true to themselves now? That’s…great…but like you’re really only ever going to meet a select few people you can be totally honest with about everything. Lie to strangers! Lie to authorities! Like damn didn’t you have parents that told you never to tell people on the phone that you were home alone? When the interviewer asks if you ever experimented with drugs, you say no! This is not a therapy session! He’s got no business asking you that anyway! Lots and lots of people are not entitled to your vulnerability. Damn.
I follow my grandmother’s rule: it’s only a lie if they have a right to know.
IT’S ONLY A LIE IF THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW
Americans really struggle to understand that some people actually are communists and it's not just a mean thing that conservatives call liberals or just an edgy internet aesthetic that liberals adopt out of contrarianism.
No we don't. They asked why people are defending it. We know you retards are out there trying to orchestrate another mass genocide.
Be willing to bet the only people who actually want to be under communism are the ones at the top... the least likely to end up against the wall or used as fertilizer for having too many chickens.
Seems like this post isn't very popular among slur-spewing edgelords with warhammer meme avatars and right-wing horny jail blogs who learned all their politics talking points from reddit.
Okay, so, can I come at this from a completely different direction? I actually grew up in a country of the former Soviet Bloc, and I had this history teacher who spent his whole life under the communist regime, and he had stories. Like, yeah, he did his time in the food queues that went around the block just for a bottle of cooking oil, he'd been interviewed by the secret police, he'd seen some shit. He was kind of a colorful character, he was really old, almost past the age of retirement, he was kind of politically incorrect in a way that was wildly inappropriate but appealed to us because we were all edgy teens at the time, but he was the best history teacher in the school, by everyone's admission.
And he had mixed feelings whenever we reached the 'recent history' portion of the curriculum, because to him that was lived experience and he believed history needed at least 50 years to decant before any measure of objectivity could be reached, but he said, you know what, okay. I'm going to teach you about that period. I'm going to teach you everything you need to know.
And one of the first things he drilled into our head was that what made that period bad wasn't 'communism', it was that it was a totalitarian dictatorship. He made us repeat that phrase until it flowed off the tongue without a stutter. The second thing he drilled into us was to never refer to that period as 'under communism', but always say 'under the communist regime'. Because yes, the communist party was ostensibly in charge (it was, in fact, the *only* party), so it was absolutely correct to call it the communist regime as a result, but it wasn't literal 'communism'. They had just cribbed the name because when the party was first getting formed, the concept of communism was incredibly popular and aspirational. The thing he wanted us to understand was that the party could have called itself anything.
It could have been called the Happy Puppy Rainbow Party, and the regime would still have been awful, because it was (repeat this phrase) a totalitarian dictatorship. That was the heart of it. It was a totalitarian dictatorship. He warned us before tests, if we talked about that period and used the phrase 'under communism' instead of 'under the communist regime', he would dock us 10% of our total score each time we did it. Atrocities happened under the communist regime. Under the regime. The totalitarian regime. Totalitarian dictatorship. Totalitarian dictatorship.
And to this day, I still have that phrase drilled in my head. The communist regime.
Because you can call your country the Democratic Land of the Free or whatever pompous, pleasant idealistic title you want, but pretty names don't actually make any difference if you pull back the pretty curtain and the man you find behind that curtain is
totalitarian dictatorship.
What a group does will always be more relevant than what a group calls itself.
i think the funniest and realist thing i’ve realized lately is how troubling idealization can be. every person is just… a person. the very people you want to impress or be apart of are just people. even if they seem wildly intimidating because of the way they look or because of their reputation, every one is just a person. human. as embarrassing, as remorseful and they are going through stages of growth just like you are. we only see what we want to see and then drown ourselves further in our own depression and we don’t have to.
truly and i am learning the less i idealise others, the more willing i am to meet people where they are warts n all. and the more willing i am to show myself too and bring my whole self into things. my own embarrassment becomes a new normal and fine thing. stumbling becomes more endearing.
had a teacher once who told us “idealizing people is just as dehumanizing as demonizing them” and that stuck with me so much
scientists in media: we have engineered a brand-new sentient lifeform in our lab but we treat it like an object with cold detachment and refer to as Specimen 1-A and subject it to horrible tests without remorse
scientists in reality: we built two robots that will leave Earth and never return and their names are Percy and Ginny and we gave Percy a family portrait of all our other Mars robots to take along with it and when the anniversary of its landing comes around we’re working on teaching it to sing itself “happy birthday” like we did for the other robot and–
My dad just told me about how with one of the rovers, they 3D-printed the rover’s name in binary on the treads of its wheels, so it prints it’s name in the dirt wherever it goes 😂
An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.
Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)
hope you don’t mind me adding some more info :’D
Many websites have those complaint forms you need to fill out to submit DMCA notice. Here are some of them:
Usually links to those forms can be found on website’s Terms of Service pages. (search for copyright or DMCA)
Any content you’ve created, is copyrighted by you. You have full right to ask staff to delete repost. Your works deserve to be protected. ♥
Yo. This better be my most reblogged post. I want to see all my artists friends reblogging this for their artists friends.
^^^^^ for all the artists with uncredited work on pinterest and insta
the statements “the south & appalachia can be and is an unsafe place for a lot of minorities in some places, especially for BIPOC & lgbt people and a lot of aspects of southern culture can be bigoted.” and “the south is the most racially diverse region and has the highest concentration of lgbt people in the country, is not inherently racist or unsafe, and claiming the entire south are uneducated, bigoted hicks is racist & classist and ignores the disenfranchisement of minorities in the south.” can coexist.
there is soooooooooo much nuance to this and i’m begging people who don’t live in the south to listen to people who live here. no one’s claiming the south is free from criticism and is a safe haven for minorities. but some people are far, far too comfortable calling everyone in the south uneducated hicks and refusing to understand the duality of there being poor, disenfranchised people in the south who are being exploited while refusing to acknowledge the racism anywhere else.
Oh this is delightful, it just keeps getting better
