I wish antisemitic hate crimes weren’t categorized as religious hate crimes. Or at least, not always.
Because the people slashing Orthodox people’s tires aren’t doing it because those Jews don’t worship Jesus, they are doing it because they hate Jewish people for being not white and Orthodox people are the most recognizable.
Synagogue shooters aren’t marching into synagogues and killing Jews because they believe Judaism is the wrong religion, they are doing it because they hate Jewish people for being not white and synagogues are closed-in groups of Jewish people.
White supremacists at rallies aren’t shouting “Jews Will Not Replace Us” because of religious prejudice, they are doing it because they hate Jewish people for being not white and for “trying to destroy the white race.”
I’m not saying that religiously-based antisemitism and antisemitic hate crimes don’t exist- but white supremacists are not yelling at, attacking, and killing Jewish people because they hate us for our religion. They are yelling at, attacking and killing Jewish people because they hate us for being not white. They are racists and committing racially-charged hate crimes against Jewish people.
This also adds to why people think the Holocaust was about “white victims”- one, not all Jews are white-passing/white, and two, the Nazis did not hate us for praying to Hashem and not Jesus.
They killed 6 million of us for being not white.
When Jewish people first came to Europe, we looked Middle Eastern. We experienced horrific racism, r*pe, forced assimilation, etc. But we never stopped being treated as not white. Even today in America, Jewish white-passing privilege (when we have it, as not all do,) can be taken away when you are visibly Jewish. See: the Orthodox Jewish people. They are visibly Jewish, 24/7, and people hate them, because they are visibly from a not white group. People who are racist against Jewish people can easily target them (or anyone wearing a kippah, or tallit, or any other jewish item,) and attack them for being visibly not white.
TL;DR: White supremacists hate Jewish people for being not white. Nazis hated Jewish people for being not white. Many antisemites hate Jewish people for being not white. Religious bigotry is not the main cause of antisemitism, racism is.
For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.
It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.
Examples (all done by me):
Here’s an example for how you can use it
Great find, thanks!
OMG HEAVEN!!
Bless you!!!!
@destatree we can finally design the boys apartment!!!!!
I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is
I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.
Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.
Here’s proof of what I mean:
THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!
everybody has to do their part. as a reference, this was posted on 1 june 2020. if any links are broken or direct to a place they should not, please feel free to add on with corrections. if there is new information with better knowledge, please feel free to share. thank you.
1. donate
donot donate to shaun king. he has repeatedly collected money to “support” black people, but no one knows where the money is.
BAIL FUNDS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER; NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST)
note:washington dcandnew jersey have cashless bail systems.
minnesota freedom fund (as of may 30, 2020, they are encouraging people to donate elsewhere since they have raised enough money; as of may 29, 2020, they do not have a venmo, as some fraudulent accounts have been claiming, source)
reclaim the block (aims to redistribute police funding to help the minneapolis community)
twin cities dsa (provides fresh groceries and hot meals to people in minneapolis)
2. educate yourself
it isn’t enough to sign petitions and reblog/retweet/etc. nonblack people, including people of color, owe it to black people to educate themselves and correct themselves and the people around them on anti-blackness.
note: more links are in the masterposts linked below.
people need supplies to protest safely, and even if they bring supplies with them, they can often run out. if you’re able, stock up and hand them out to people protesting. for more supplies to donate, see the “george floyd action” google docs link in section 5.
water bottles (dehydration and heatstroke are not things people should have to deal with alongside bastard cops. if the police in your area are particularly violent or known to use tear gas, get the ones with the sports cap/suction-thing/etc so people can use them as emergency eye-flushes.)
snacks (make sure to take into account that people have allergies of all sorts. foods will have a little label that says “may contain” and then list any potential allergens. write the allergens on the ziploc (or any container you use) in permanent marker, or better yet, write the snacks included in the pack.)
masks (don’t forget there’s still a pandemic going on. also it will aid in deterring facial recognition when the police try to track down protestors, also part two, if the cops use tear gas, wearing a mask (with the combination of a scarf or bandana) will lessen the adverse effects. lessen, not stop.)
bandanas, scarves, etc. and goggles (ski goggles, swimming goggles, etc.) (see above for explanation on the scarves. same goes for the goggles. anti–tear gas and anti–facial recognition.)
clean shirts (for people who are heavily gassed. also helps deter recognition through clothing.)
wound care supplies (band-aids, packets of neosporin packets or a similar antibiotic, alcohol wipes, etc.; if you can, decant bactine into those little travel bottles.)
a sharpie or another type of marker (for writing bail numbers or emergency contacts on arms, hands, etc. it’s not enough to have your city’s bail fund number stored on your phone; the police won’t give it to you to look it up. give people a marker so they can write it down, preferably not washable so it isn’t easily removed.)
IMPORTANT: KNOWING FIRST AID
tear gas: if you’re hit, get out as fast and as soon as you can. take anyone you can with you. the longer you’re in the gas, the harder it will be for you to see, and it can irritate your airways, making it hard to breathe. if you’re hit, don’t run; it’ll only make things worse on your lungs. when you leave the area, take a cold shower. don’t use hot water (it will only reactivate the agent); don’t bathe (it will only spread the CS around). (source 1) (source 2) (cdc fact sheet on tear gas)
move them to a clean and ventilated area where it’s as safe as possible.
ask them if they’re wearing contact lenses. have them remove it. if they’re wearing glasses, rinse it with water.
solution of half liquid antacid, half water. spray from the inside going out, with the head tilted back and slightly towards the side being rinsed. if they say it’s okay, open the eye slightly while doing this. (source)
bullet wounds: the most important thing is to stop the bleeding. be sure to check for an exit wound and cover that as well. treat both wounds, but treat the worse one first.
making a tourniquet (a commercial tourniquet is best, but improvised ones can work as well if done properly; the most important things to remember is that tourniquets are for limb injuries and are not meant for the head or torso and that they have to be very tightly wound on the injury.)
adult cpr tutorial (youtube video by cincinnati children’s; think of “staying alive” by the beegees or “uptown funk”)
4. be a source of information
be responsible with this. people’s lives are at stake. that being said, the media is a fucking joke and the best way to get accurate information in a grassroots rebellion is amongst ourselves. record everything, but if you are going to share any information at all, be sure to blur people’s faces.
signal (encrypted messenger app; messages delete after x amount of time): app store|google play
NUMBERS TO CALL FOR ARRESTED PROTESTORS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER; SOURCES LINKED TO THE NUMBER)
remember to keep phones OFF unless absolutely necessary. cell phone towers, stingrays, location notifs can all be used to track you and other protestors. don’t fuck around. if your phone must be on, keep it on airplane mode as often as possible and only communicate using encrypted methods. no, snapchat doesn’t count. (a twitter thread on stingrays, for those interested)
#blacklivesmatter (google docs by ambivaIcnt on twitter; includes information on relevant events, other masterposts, lists of petitions and donation links, how to protest safely and protests to go to, and more)
george floyd action (google docs; includes information on apps to download, supplies to buy and donate, places to donate to, protest safety, resources on unlearning racial bias, and more)
I’ve seen some stuff occasionally about the reaction to the “Not Like Other Girls” concept, and particularly women/girls who grew up not feeling like other girls being critical of opposition to this trope, and I just want to remind people that:
This is a trope, one that is centered on the idea that certain forms of femininity are bad or should be shamed–it usually goes along with the shaming of “vanity” and girls caring about their appearance, fashion, boys, etc. It presents other forms of behavior as preferable for women to exhibit, particularly ones that make them low-maintenance to the people around them: not caring about their clothing or appearance (though they’re always attractive despite it, they’re just not aware of being attractive), being interested in the hobbies or interests of the boys or men around them, and being “quirky” and “deep” in a palatable way.
The framing is generally between white women, or at the very least with white women being the girls who are “not like other girls”–they are generally thin or at least not fat, effortlessly attractive (unlike the girls who put effort into being attractive), and generally socially and culturally acceptable other than their set of quirks or oddities that make them “not like other girls”. Like, say, enjoying video games (as though women don’t make up approximately half of people who play video games) or enjoying sports (as though women don’t play sports).
It often presents the idea that most women are shallow, boy-obsessed, fashion- and appearance-obsessed, high-maintenance, etc., and also that having those or any traditional (Western) female characteristics makes them less-than–which, in turn, reinforces the idea that femininity is inherently worse than masculinity, and that the ideal thing for a women to be is similar (but not too similar) to a man.
The criticism of this trope is not about actual women who grew up not feeling like they fit in the traditional mold of femininity–it’s about the media trope that shames women for certain traditionally feminine actions and that privileges behaviors and characteristics that are associated with men.
Celebrating Women in Science With @rachelignotofsky
For more tributes to female scientists, follow @rachelignotofsky on Instagram.
Growing up, Rachel Ignotofsky (@rachelignotofsky) knew she was going to become either a scientist or an illustrator. The Missouri resident chose art, but now she’s combining her two passions with a series of drawings celebrating groundbreaking and often unheralded women in science.
“I wanted to do my part and celebrate these women and their accomplishments and hopefully get a younger audience familiar with them,” Rachel says. “I think that a good way to fight gender bias is to show young girls and boys strong female role models.”
So far, she’s done seven drawings out of a planned 50, highlighting women such as 19th century paleontologist Mary Anning and pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper.
“A lot of these women are not very well known, even though their accomplishments have changed our world forever,” she says. “I want my illustrations to help spark an interest in learning more about these women. I want young girls and boys to see that no matter who they are, despite their gender, they can accomplish anything.”
Another reason making the Northern Water Tribe misogynistic was an interesting choice to say the very least is like,
Okay so neither men or women are considered inherently superior or inferior in Inupiaq culture but if either of them is gonna be considered to be a bit on the dumb or wimpy side, it’s probably gonna be the men. Especially the younger ones.
Like if you had to give up a kid for adoption, you were gonna want to give up a girl. Because boys were more likely to do something that could get themselves killed, even when told not to. So you were gonna want some back up sons. And boys always complained about being hungry more, when girls could supposedly handle just smelling food and be strong enough to wait. And of course, a man who had reached marrying age had to be judged fit to be a husband, but a woman who knew all her domestic skills could just up and leave for the next village to find a suitable husband (or five) and no one would stop her. The ideal wife was not someone who always agreed that her husband knew best, but someone he could look at and be filled with pride that a woman so clever and capable chose to live with him.
Women would sit through their arms being tattooed, knuckle to shoulder, without modern technology, ignoring the pain because the lines on their bodies were pretty to them. That was considered feminine.
So again, kinda weird how such a culture irl can inspire people to write a fantasy one that treats women and women’s work so dismissively.
I’m saying this not to be judgemental, but out of concern and personal experience-
please always consider the mundane explanation before a magical/spiritual one.
I’ve seen a whole lot of posts on here talking about seeing spirits and clairvoyance and things like that, and I understand the appeal! I used to be really really into witchy stuff, I was for years, but please take note that some things could be signs of serious mental health conditions and not just “enlightenment”.
I overlooked my hallucinations for years because I was convinced they were spirits. Seeing dark shadowy figures, feeling watched, hearing someone call your name, tingling in your hands, feeling a “force” take control of your body, etc. can sometimes have medical causes.
If spirituality makes you happy, by all means go for it! I still cleanse my room regularly and do tarot whenever I get a chance. But please mention these things to a mental health professional if they become distressing. I was convinced I was haunted for a bit and turned to the internet for advice on banishing spirits when what I really needed was psychiatric help.
This goes especially for younger people, I first got into witchcraft when I was around 12 or 13 and I thought all of these were just signs I was doing it right. Your practice/religion/spirituality should feel safe and make you happy, not afraid.
What the gold rush means to most people: Prospectors! Dusty mine cars on tracks in the wild west! Gold nuggets!
What the gold rush means to an archaeologist: Hmm, where on this 100-acre plot of land covered in contaminated mine tailings do I think these clowns might have buried barrels full of literal cyanide?
How dare you leave this nugget hiding in the notes!
Why were they burying barrels of cyanide? How and why would you even compile enough cyanide to fill multiple barrels???
My friend let me introduce you to the terrifying process of cyanidation, wherein finely crushed ore containing traces of gold is made into a slurry by adding water, then transferred into vats known as “slime separators,” where potassium cyanide is then added to leach the gold into a liquid. Slaked lime is used to prevent the cyanide from going into full Murder Mode as hydrogen cyanide. The gold is then separated from the cyanide through one of a series of processes that I’m not really qualified to explain, but I think there are a few websites that talk about them if you want to google them.
But the key point here: from what I can tell, cyanide has been the main method of getting gold out of the ground for the last 120 years. (Yes, this process is still used today.) Before this technology came along, instead a thin coating of mercury was spread onto a copper plate, and the ore was allowed to wash over it. The gold stuck to the mercury, creating an amalgam, and then the amalgam was scraped off the plate and the mercury was boiled off (urk) to leave the gold behind.
And when processing mills shut down historically, why bother to dispose of your leftover deadly chemicals properly, when you can just bury them in your local tailings pile, which is already contaminated with mercury and arsenic? The known case of this happening in my local area was revealed through a bloom of “Prussian Blue” (ferro cyanide) on the surface of the tailings. Luckily, this is a fairly stable form of cyanide. Unluckily, geologists are crazier than archaeologists and they went ahead and dug a sample test unit right next to it, even knowing what it was, because science.
When I said to myself, “I’ll be an industrial archaeologist. It’ll be cool,” I did not foresee the terrifying knowledge it would unleash upon me.
I’m from Goldrush Country and I didn’t know this. All the gold-mining-related historical attractions around here are about good old-fashioned panning and pick-axes. Now I’m incredibly glad I’ve never had any urge to go explore the suspiciously colorful hills left in the wake of various mining operations.
Eek! Please don’t play in tailings piles and outflows folks, they are Bad News. “Oh but it’s lovely sand we want to take our ATVs out on it and let our kids build sandcastles” NO. DO NOT.
Reblogging because some desert-dwellers might not know this. Yes, those pretty hills are probably within ATV driving distance of Amargosa, Ocotillo, Buttercup, Superstition or whatever other recreational area you might be camped out at, but rainbow-colored dirt is usually rainbow-colored for toxic reasons!
Absolutely! And bear in mind too, not all tailings are brightly coloured - the ones in my area are just light grey. “Sand in spots where sand isn’t common” is sometimes the only warning sign.
I’m reviving this post because I’m doing up a Health & Safety protocol for digging near a mining site and folks. I did the math based on some recent soil tests. The tailings near my test site contain enough arsenic that ½ teaspoon of soil (tailings) easily contains a fatal dose of arsenic for an adult. Please stay safe and wash your hands thoroughly before eating/drinking/smoking if you aren’t 100% certain what the dirt is like where you’re digging.
And this is why we found a whole quart of mercury in my grandparent’s basement! Old timey prospectors would really just do shit.
Please consider signing (and reblogging) this petition to protect Osun River from pollution. I know she’s many favorite Orisa after all. I’m not sure how much of an impact we can make, but we can at least try to raise awareness and protect sacred lands from defilement.
For context, on Jan 8, 2022, Osun, a river in Nigeria - highly spiritually and materially important for the communities of over 2 million people who live along the river, is reportedly to be heavily polluted with heavy and hazardous materials like lead, cyanide and mercury due to metal mining activities up river. The government so far have failed to make any attempt to even examine the level of pollution, let alone initiate any clean up activity. The polluted river water has been causing serious health issues for people who rely on it.
What is almost certainly happening with Tumblr’s image classifier is that they’ve deployed the bot entirely untrained, and are relying on user complaints to train it what NSFW content on tumblr looks like.
Making people participate in their own censorship in this way and punishing them with the threat of being silenced even if in compliance with the rules should they not participate, is, IMHO, abuse of their userbase.
Source: I’ve worked for three different top-five social networks, and at all of them this type of work would have been done by making the userbase do it as much as possible.
Please signal boost. I don’t care if you reblog or repost, just get the word out so that people know what they’re doing as they interect with this thing.
My twitter is @soren_tycho (nsfw, sfw account coming soon) and my github username is sorentycho.
Just chiming in as a machine learning expert, this is almost certainly the case (and knowing tumblr, they weren’t even smart enough to throw in pre-trained weights)
I don’t remember agreeing to beta test
A well known AI blogger I follow also supports this theory.
maybe if you take a hot shower. cook something. eat a little soup. feel a little sunshine. make something with your hands—it doesn’t have to be big. maybe if you stretch your body and draw a silly little picture and get some rest, the world will feel like something your hands can still hold
Food is meant to be enjoyed. It is not solely about nutrition. It’s also an joyful, social, cultural experience. You deserve to eat for the sake of enjoyment.
It’s okay if coping skills don’t work right away, or if sometimes you try and they don’t work. Coping skills work better the more you use them, they become muscle memory but as you start to use them they're going to be hit or miss. And they’re never a magic bullet.
Don’t feel bad if you have to try something different either. Not every coping skills are going to work for everyone as well. No shame in trying multiple ways to cope.
Your trying and learning nothing has to be perfect.
healing does not always look like the good days, or bright eyes and wide smiles and loud laughter with no weight on your chest, or no longer feeling the pain you have endured. healing does not always look like winning the war.
sometimes healing looks like the clean shine of your hair after showering for the first time in a week.
sometimes healing looks like the textbooks you abandoned on your desk in favor of the first good night’s sleep you’ve had in months.
sometimes healing looks like getting out of bed in the morning.
sometimes healing looks like the meals you force yourself to eat.
sometimes healing looks like the tears you let yourself cry.
finding healing is not a finish line. healing is every forward step you take, regardless of how many backward ones you’ve already taken. even if you’re not where you want to be in your road of recovery, you have still come so far, and the acknowledgement of that is healing it itself.
Reading the news and seeing all the victim blaming talk is wearing me down and it feels like I’m slowly sinking into depression. I am trying really hard not to let it get to me, but it does.
Here are some friendly reminders:
You are not alone. If you were assaulted: you are not alone. If the news makes you super depressed: you are not alone.
You deserve to be believed. All victims/survivors deserve to be believed.
Drinking does not justify assault. If you were drinking, it does not give people permission to assault you. Also, being drunk is not an excuse for assaulting people.
People who experience trauma have gaps in their memories! Experiencing trauma is an overwhelming thing for the brain. A lot of details get lost, but the ones that tend to stick with you are the moments of being in danger/fearing for your life. It is normal to have gaps in traumatic memories. It does not mean a person is making it up.
You do not owe anyone your story. There is a lot of “Why didn’t they come forward sooner?” being talked about in the news lately. People do not come forward because of fear/shame/any other reason. But it is important to remember that you do not owe anyone your story. It is yours to tell if or when you are able to.
There is no timeline for healing. It does not matter if something happened decades ago. If it still hurts it still hurts. I have heard so many people talk about their traumas. Some more recent traumas and some that happened over half a century before. I can tell you I have never heard someone not sound hurt when talking about their traumas. There is a lot of healing that can be done, but people do not “get over” their traumas in the way people might expect.
Sexual assault/rape is about power. It is not about having a high sex drive and it is not about raging hormones. Those are not excuses for assaulting another person.
It is okay to take a break and walk away from the news. It is hard when it is everywhere, but it is okay to actively avoid these stories if it is hurting you.
Please remember you are loved. You didn’t deserve what happened to you. You deserve to be believed.
