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Going Rampant
Media musings and analysis with a focus on gender issues.
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Well, now, I'm just confused.
It was Scott Wilson, who was born in the 1940s in Georgia. He played a farmer in Georgia in The Walking Dead. He died in 2018, but I saw him at a con a few years before then.
one time i had a dream that tiktok users deemed âkidâ as a slur and that you HAD to refer to them as minors otherwise you would get harassed and threatened with doxxing. you couldnât say âwhen i was a kidâ anymore for example you HAD to say âwhen i was a minorâ instead
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I think this is a farming community thing. People who work with goats and actively use "kids" to mean young goats don't think of "kids" as synonymous with "children" and get pissed off when other people do. The guy who played Hershel in The Walking Dead was one of them and had dialog rewritten because he was adamant that no one in a farming community would say "kids" to mean "children". "Kids" are goats! (He ranted about it at Comic Con.)
one time i had a dream that tiktok users deemed âkidâ as a slur and that you HAD to refer to them as minors otherwise you would get harassed and threatened with doxxing. you couldnât say âwhen i was a kidâ anymore for example you HAD to say âwhen i was a minorâ instead
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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.
Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.
And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.
The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.
But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.
Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.
I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.
A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).
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Hey Sammie, a while back, you made a post about some tucking panties that you were either sponsored by or just really liked. I was looking through and can't seem to find the post. Would you be about to post a link to them? Thanks a bunch in advance!
Yaaassssswssss! The company is called Tcomfifits! Link to follow! I still do the occasional promo work for them, just haven't kept up with it as much due to life being silly and hectic, but seriously I still only wear these undies. I actually threw away a good majority of my old undied once I got my comfifits. But I digress, I have been in contact with the company recently and was going to start doing some promos again in the very near future, so I'm really glad that you asked!
ALSO BIG NEWS!!!
Tcomfifits is planning to release another line of undies next month!!! And girl they are about to put out tucking thongs!
I should be getting a couple pairs to model so keep an eye out for those posts to come in the next few weeks!
Also! Use discount code: P5YBXVJN9C3M for $30 off!!!
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WTAF? I've been using references to blood libel as "this is obviously absurd" and now people are outright repeating it word for word?
In its historical context, blood libel was about Jews being jealous of Christian miracles and trying to recreate the magic of the crucifixion with brutality against the most innocent Christian child. Whenever some kid went missing, the Jews would be the scapegoat. Christian authorities would claim to be alerted to this by literal miracles happening like birds randomly constituting themselves from nothingness, then they'd abduct some random Jewish person, torture them until they'd confess to everything (which I think we all understand is not a good way to get correct information, just a senseless brutality prompting babbling to get the pain to stop), and then perform a pogrom to avenge the innocent child and claim to see their soul in a random event like, again, birds that they didn't initially notice that they later noticed and claimed were miracles, which prompted more pogroms... Itâs pure hate-driven brutality based on nonsense, always has been.
âThE lEfT iS nOT aNtIseMITiCâ
The left are turning into the very people they keep saying theyâd slap. Theyâre fucking Nazis.
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I think I've seen this fellow in the Mos Eisley cantina.
Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica)
Saiga donât only look weird, but are found in the last place you would expect antelope to be- the cold, dry Eurasian steppe. Their large nose helps filter out dust and warm air before it reaches their lungs, and they also develop a warm, grey-brown coat in the wintertime. During the last ice age, saiga antelope were found across the cold northern steppe, from Britain and Mongolia to Alaska. Unfortunately, they are now critically endangered, found only in a few refuges in Kazakhstan and the surrounding countries.
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Fresh Pet dog food commercials use abusive psychological techniques to promote their products. It's freaking me out just how horrible these things are. It's in the trend of "your pet deserves better than generic; they deserve something resembling people food" and then they justify it by heading off criticism with these cult-like commercials depicting the friends or partners who try to tell you it's bad to have dog food in the fridge with the people food as abusive and worth cutting out of your life because your real love is your pet, and the assumption that Fresh Pet is best for them doesn't even deserve questioning. It reads like what an abusive partner or cult does. I hate it.
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I've had a colovaginoplasty. The surgery was a couple of weeks ago. Since then, non-stop discharge as all the residual tissue drains out. It smells like rancid pork. I think it's because humans resemble pigs in terms of tissue. The human intestines resemble pork hot dogs. The smell specifically reminds me of poorly cleaned cooking implements after making hot dogs. Also, kind of rotten Canadian bacon. I think I'm put off from pork for life, thank you.
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Hey everyone, please consider buying the 2024 itch.io Palestinian Relief Bundle- it's 373 games, game-making assets, tabletop roleplaying games, zines, and comics for a minimum of just 8 USD! They have a goal of 100,000 USD, and as of the time I'm writing this post, they have 8 more days to reach it.
Link will be in the reblog!
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A Chabad synagogue in Pomona, New York, burned to the ground on April 17th, along with its three Torah scrolls.
Torah scrolls are hand-written, hand-made, and kept in elaborately decorated cases or wrappings.
Many of them have long histories; my synagogue has two, I think, that were smuggled out of villages being destroyed in pogroms or in Nazi attacks. One of them is the only remaining piece of that village on earth.
Sometimes, the Torah scroll doesn't even belong to the synagogue, but is on loan from a place like the Memorial Scrolls Trust:
There's an entire Jewish holiday just for taking them out and dancing with them: Simchat Torah, "The Joy of Torah."
In fact, that was the holiday on which Hamas's invasion took place.
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So it's a particular tragedy when a Torah is destroyed.
Chabad itself has a page about what goes into making just one Torah scroll:
"An authentic Torah scroll is a mind-boggling masterpiece of labor and skill. Comprising between 62 and 84 sheets of parchment -- cured, tanned, scraped and prepared according to exacting Torah law specifications -- and containing exactly 304,805 letters, the resulting handwritten scroll takes many months to complete.
"An expert pious scribe carefully inks each letter with a feather quill, under the intricate calligraphic guidelines of Ktav Ashurit (Ashurite Script). The sheets of parchment are then sewn together with sinews to form one long scroll. While most Torah scrolls stand around two feet in height and weigh 20-25 pounds, some are huge and quite heavy, while others are doll-sized and lightweight."
I learned all of this on Tumblr.
Once upon time, in people's "punch Nazis" days, I would've been able to find some mention on Tumblr of this synagogue burning.
There is none, so I'm posting about it.
And I'm going to quote Daniel Weiner, Rabbi of Temple de Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue, Washington, when his own synagogue was vandalized last November:
"Itâs horrific and heartbreaking.... [Taking out your feelings about] what's going on in the Middle East by defacing a sacred space of a synagogue -- thatâs the very definition of antisemitism."
I'm also posting about the Kehillat Shaarei Torah Synagogue in Toronto, whose windows were broken on Friday, April 19th, by someone who also tried to break the front door down.
And the April 15 graffiti outside a Bangor, Maine synagogue that said, "Nazi Israel 30K murdered," next to a crossed-out Star of David. The same synagogue faced pro-Hamas flyers plastered around it in November.
I was going to include all the synagogues vandalized over the past six months. But there are way too many. Several every week. Lots are swastikas.
I'll go back to just doing attacks on and near synagogues.
Someone has to talk about the 1-year-old who was stabbed outside Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel (BZBI) synagogue, in Philadelphia, on April 13th.
The foiled terrorist attack on a Moscow synagogue on April 11th.
The man who, on April 9th, screamed at the rabbi at Moldova's Great Synagogue, "What are you doing here? How come no one has finished you off for everything you are doing to the Palestinians?" Just one week after people had vandalized a Holocaust memorial in nearby Soroka, and sprayed "Free Palestine" on it.
The Oldenburg, Germany synagogue that was firebombed on April 5th.
The Florida Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center, which on March 16 burned, but not to the ground. The Torah scrolls were safe, and no one was hurt, but the back of the building was severely damaged.
The planned-but-thwarted-on-March-7th ISIS massacre in a Moscow synagogue.
The stabbing of an Orthodox Jew in Switzerland on March 5th. (He was badly injured, but expected to survive.)
A man leaving a synagogue in Paris was beaten on March 3rd.
People set the courtyard of a synagogue in Sfax, Tunisia on fire on February 27th. Firefighters managed to put the fire out before it consumed the inside of the building.
The synagogue is no longer used; there are no Jews left in its area, and fewer than 1,000 Jews left in Tunisia overall.
(Thousands of Tunisian Jews were sent to work camps during the Holocaust. Antisemitism across the Middle East continued to increase rapidly for decades. By the 1970s, 90% of Tunisian Jews had fled to France or Israel.)
On February 18, an Orthodox Jew leaving Synagogue of Inverrary-Chabad in Lauderhill, Florida, was beaten by an attacker yelling racial slurs.
Someone deliberately chose International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, to smash all the windows in the front of Sgoolai Israel Synagogue in downtown Fredericton, New Brunswick.
On December 29, Turkey arrested 32 people linked to ISIS who were planning attacks on synagogues and churches.
On December 17, a man drove a U-Haul truck up onto the sidewalk between a barrier and the front door of the Kesher Israel Congregation in Washington D.C., got out, and started yelling "Gas the Jews." He also sprayed a foul-smelling substance on two people leaving the synagogue.
December 17 also saw 400 synagogues across the United States receive bomb threats.
On December 11, a man attacked an elderly couple on their way into a synagogue in Los Angeles, screaming, "Give me your earrings, Jew!!" and beating one of them bloody with a belt. (Happily, he chased the guy down the street, and caught him when his pants fell down.)
On December 10, a 16-year-old was arrested in Vienna for planning an attack on a synagogue.
On December 8, on the first night of Hanukkah, 15 synagogues in New York State received bomb threats. And someone screamed, "Free Palestine," and fired shots outside of Temple Israel in Albany, NY. Which has a preschool that was in session.
Meanwhile, the five Jews left in Egypt were canceling public Hanukkah candle-lighting at their synagogue out of fear of reprisals. Particularly after two Israelis in Alexandria had been gunned down by terrorists on October 8. (While Israel was still fighting Hamas in Israel.)
On November 15, a terrorist group set the only synagogue in Armenia on fire.
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) has a history of working with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
(PFLP is part of Hamas's network of groups. Samidoun is their nonprofit arm - which is why Germany banned Samidoun last year, although it's still active in many other countries.
PFLP is also actively supported by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a diaspora nonprofit group, and Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an SJP spinoff in NYC.)
On November 11, halfway through Shabbat services, police asked Central Shul in Melbourne, Australia to evacuate "as a precaution" due to a "pro-Palestinian" protest that had chosen the neighboring park as its gathering place. Australia has seen some very outspoken antisemitism at protests, including the march shortly after October 7 that chanted "Gas the Jews."
Also on November 11, protesters targeted a synagogue along a march route. They sat in their cars, spraying green smoke and shouting at people leaving the synagogue. The march itself featured a record number of horrifying signs and chants.
On November 7th, Congregation Beth Tikvah in Montreal was firebombed, and the back door of the Jewish organization across the street (Federation CJA) was set on fire.
On November 4, protesters chanted "Bomb Israel," and burned an Israeli flag outside the only synagogue in Malmo, Sweden.
During October, there were 501 antisemitic acts under investigation in France in just three weeks, including groups gathering in front of synagogues shouting threats, and graffiti such as the words âkilling Jews is a dutyâ sprayed outside a stadium.
On October 18, people firebombed a synagogue in Berlin after homes all over the neighborhood were graffitied with stars of David.
And also on October 18, hundreds of "pro-Palestine" rioters attacked the Or Zaruah Synagogue, in the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa, while worshippers were inside.
Based on the video, they seem to have blocked the synagogue entrance completely, while screaming "Murderous Israel" and waving Palestinian flags. (Melilla is an autonomous zone belonging to Spain. It borders Morocco.)
On October 17, during pro-Palestinian protests, hundreds of rioters set fire to Al Hammah synagogue, an abandoned house of prayer in central Tunisia. They hammered down the buildingâs walls and raised a Palestinian flag on the building. Police did not intervene.
The Facebook page "Tunigate", which has around 88 thousand followers, published a video of the assault. So did "Radio Bousalemâ, with 83 thousand users. The vast majority of comments on these videos welcome these acts. The building was severely damaged and almost completely razed to the ground.
On October 15, bomb threats were sent to many East Coast synagogues. Attleboro synagogue Congregation Agudas-Achim received one of the emails, which read, "The bombs will blow up in a few hours. A lot of people will die. You all deserve to die."
On October 8 -- again, while Hamas was still in Israel -- Madridâs main synagogue was defaced with graffiti that read âFree Palestineâ next to a crossed-out Star of David.
And on October 7, an assailant in Rockland, NY fired a BB gun at two women entering a synagogue. Later in the month, a banner at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in the area was vandalized with the words, âFuckin kikes."
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Ambulance Bill Passed Due
I hate to log back in to Tumblr just to beg for help, but I have 14 days to cough up $1200 for an ambulance bill.
I would really appreciate if you reblogged this for reach. Thank you đđđ
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stop listening to music and start listening to the sounds of nature. the âeagles?âThe ârolling stones?â The âbeetles?â Come into the beautiful forest with me and you will find all of those things friendâŠ. I promiseâŠ.If you just believe<3
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Antisemites really do just pull Talmud citations out of their asses and hope that gentiles don't know how to look it up. If some Nazi goon on twitter says "Sanhedrin 59a: It is not forbidden to murder a gentile because gentiles are like unto beasts," I can just go on Sefaria and look, and see that the Rabbis discuss nothing even close to that (never mind that any Rabbi who asserted such a thing would get his ass beat by later commentators). Nowhere in this debate is the notion that gentiles are like wild animals, or even whether it's permitted to murder gentiles at all, brought up? This conclusion that the Nazi comes to must be made out of whole cloth, or else repeated from someone else who made it out of whole cloth.
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Muintir O'Shannon
In Strangeling (s1e8) we're introduced to "Munitir".
When Fi says the Strangeling spell, the last line is "in ainm muintir OâSianhan.â
Roughly translated it's "in the name of family O'Shannon."
"Muintir has a wide range of meanings including family, household, community, kin. It speaks not only of your immediate relatives, but the wider groups of people from whom you descend by virtue of ancestry..." - University of Limerick Ollscoil Luimnigh
The word appears again in season two.
First, on the crest when Fi follows the banshee.
The translation, again, is "Family O'Shannon".
The events of Strangeling and Banshee affected Fi deeply because we see at the end of Vampire that she uses their common language as her password.
According to an online dictionary and language library, "muintir" can be pronounced at least three different ways and depends on the province you're in/someone is from.
Fi is American so her Irish-Gaelic accent doesn't really exist.
I did rewatch the Strangeling scenes (the first time she recites the spell and later when she repeats it in hopes to reverse it), and I *think* her pronunciation sounds closest to the Connacht dialect.
That could just be phonetics, but maybe that's how Grandma Kathleen taught her?
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When I saw the kitty without reading the caption, I first thought it looked like Mandarin chicken. Either way, it's a chicken kitty.
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I'm pretty sure these are Janeway's kids.
Did you guys know that the most recent version of sharks have fins that are kinda leg like and they like to walk up onto land?
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I've seen several sites mention this, it's real.
Do not make the MISTAKE of thinking you need to put your side forward. The Guardian is transphobic as fuck, and will twist your words. DO NOT ENGAGE.
By the way, this is in the aftermath of the Cass Report, and the goal will be to make Trans DIY something that needs to be regulated or stamped out. DO NOT ENGAGE.
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