Announcing Jew in the City’s 2015 Orthodox Jewish All Stars!!
Baroness Rosalind Altmann, U.K. minister of pensions; Ahmed Zayat, owner of American Pharoah, the first Triple Crown-winning thoroughbred racehorse in thirty-seven years; and Ilana Wernick, Emmy winning co-executive producer of the hit TV series Modern Family, are among 10 individuals who have been named 2015 Orthodox Jewish All- Stars by Jew in the City, the organization dedicated to re-branding Orthodox Judaism to the world through digital media.
This diverse and accomplished group also includes Jeremy England, a 33- year- old physicist and professor at MIT who some in the scientific community refer to as ‘the next Darwin’ on account of his brilliant mathematical theories and explanations of the origins of life; Lawrence Burian, general counsel, secretary, and executive vice president for The Madison Square Garden Company; Zahava Reisman, founder of Sarah Chloe Jewelry, who has built a devoted following of the Hollywood elite in six short years; Gregory Zuckerman, an award-winning business reporter for the Wall Street Journal; Gail Hoffman, the treasurer of Columbia University; Norm Eisen, who served as the United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011-2014; and Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, a 2014 CNN Hero who created Kids Kicking Cancer (in which he combines therapy and martial arts to help children fighting disease).
Yes, #PrayfortheAmazon and all, but let’s remember two things if you live in the USA:
-Brazil is a sovereign nation and your suggestions of a coup d'état aren’t helpful. Quit being globalists and let the people of Brazil speak for themselves.
-Boycotting beef etc in the USA does literally nothing for the cattle ranching industry in Brazil. We don’t import meat from Brazil, we export to them, if anything.
But if you live in the USA you could try and ask for international pressure to be put on Brazil, for christ’s sake. It’s not a Brazilian issue, it’s a global issue.
brazilian person here just to remind you that a lot of those guys who are burning the forest to get more land are also soy farmers, so it’s not just a meat issue, it’s about brazilian food industry as a whole.
The majority of soy is used as feed for livestock, so although yes it’s not just a meat issue, it is largely one
The majority of soy by weight is used as animal feed. This primarily (pretty much only) consists of human-inedible stalks and husks. Meanwhile 88% of soy oil is used in human food (the rest is used instead of petroleum oil). Considering soy is an oilseed, it’s unlikely that the production of soy would be lowered if we stopped feeding the by-products to animals and that they would instead find another buyer for said by-products (or just dump them/burn them).
Though certain cognitive functions have been theorized to correlate with high or low performance on IQ tests, personality type alone does not determine one’s intelligence. Every type has, at some point or another, been represented among the ‘gifted’ or high-achieving population. Type may be a starting point for intelligence but interest, motivation and discipline make up for more of the equation than personality alone seems to.
2. Whether or not you’re a nice person.
Some of the cruelest people I’ve ever met in my life have been ExFJs. Some of the nicest people I’ve ever met in my life have been xNTJs. Your Myers-Briggs personality type may indicate how naturally in tune you are with the feelings of others, but that doesn’t necessarily correlate with the care you put into your relationships. Whether or not you are kind and empathetic to those around you is a choice – and it’s one that any type can manage consciously.
3. Your level of motivation.
Though P types are stereotyped to be less motivated than Js, this myth doesn’t necessarily check out. Ps may struggle with follow-through but they make up some of the most entrepreneurial and industrious individuals out there. Any type can be motivated or unmotivated in his or her own right – it’s simply the way that motivation manifests itself that is attributed to personality.
4. How faithful or trustworthy you are.
I’ve met INFJs who’ve cheated without remorse. I’ve met ESTPs who stayed faithful to their partners until their dying day. Some types may be more naturally inclined to have a wandering eye but the decision to stay faithful is one that each of us is capable of making. How trustworthy you are as a partner or friend has nothing to do with your type – it has to do with how you choose to manage your impulses.
5. Your professional success.
Though certain types are more likely to glean energy from certain professional roles, any type is capable of achieving success in almost any field of work that they commit themselves to. Introverts can be powerful leaders and extroverts can flourish in introspective roles. So long as they are able to balance their natural tendencies in or outside of work, any dedicated type can find a way to succeed in their chosen field of work.
6. How successful a given relationship will be.
Though certain types are arguably more romantically compatible than others, natural compatibility only takes a relationship so far. Attraction is a tricky equation and when it comes down to it, any two types who are healthy and committed to each other are capable of making a relationship work.
7. Your ability to maintain basic social contracts.
Being a perceiver doesn’t mean you get to be late for everything. Being an introvert doesn’t mean you get to flake out on plans every time you’re feeling drained. Type is never an excuse for bad behavior – just because something doesn’t give you energy doesn’t mean you’re incapable of doing it.
8. Your ability to change and develop yourself.
Being an “F” doesn’t mean you can’t learn to budget and make pragmatic decisions. Being a “T” doesn’t mean you can’t learn to be a caring and compassionate parent. Our personalities should never be excuses to limit our own development or growth – if anything, they can provide a powerful framework for becoming the most well rounded versions of ourselves.
I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.
Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.
Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.
Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.
So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.
They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.
Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.
However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.
So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.
It gets better.
Here’s the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn’t as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.
Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn’tchanged much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.
And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.
all my commissions are open! UNLIMITED SLOTS, grab anything at any time!! discounted prices for my carrd launch too! ferals, anthros, fullbodies, headshots, etc. if something isn’t listed on there just dm and ask. i’m a food-insecure poc who is currently living with an abusive family and would greatly appreciate any business !! ^^
Things that are perfect are dead things. Empty things. A silence beyond change or challenge. An endpoint. A blank page.
You are a wonderfully messy thing. An impossible thing made of iron and rainwater. Meat and electricity. A dream with teeth. You’re too good for perfection.
define hole/is a hole a real thing? / Marco Poloni, Black Hole, from The Majorana Experiment, 2010 / Flatfields Fotografien/What We Talk About When We Talk About Holes / Dark (2017-2020) / post / Disco Elysium / Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) / Donnie Darko (2001) / Kaveh Akbar, from “The Miracle,” Pilgrim Bell/post/Weizmann Institute of Science/Mathworld/post/post/post/post / Anne Boyer, from “Woman Sitting at the Machine,” in A Handbook of Disappointed Fate / Dennis Patrick Slattery, The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh / The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio, 1601–1602 (detail) / The Incredulity of St. Thomas, Bernardo Strozzi, 1582-1644 (detail) / Don McKay, from “Twinflower,” Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay, intro. Méira Cook (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006) / thierryetherve / Pathologic / post / Gregory Orr, from How Beautiful the Beloved / Tomas Tranströmer, tr. by Robert Bly, from a poem titled “Track,” / Disco Elysium / Anne Carson, Economy of the Unlost / Pathologic 2 / Disco Elysium / Carl Phillips, from “Givingly”, Wild is the Wind / post / Pathologic /The Juniper Tree (Nietzchka Keene | 1990) / John Banville, Eclipse / Twin Peaks / Disco Elysium / VectorStock / True Detective / Night in the Woods
I also want to give credit to @arairah for being the lead holologist on this site and the intermediate source for a lot of this, thank you!
Hey guys, Happy Trans Day of Visibility!! I’m Gabriel, a Tejane/Native transmasc artist that’s in dire need of a way out of Texas
Tumblr helped me out before when I was in a tough spot, and I’m asking for that same help again. My best friend since high school is trying to help move me out of my violently abusive, transphobic, and toxic household, but we only have until June to make the $$$.
My mother is verbally and emotionally abusive, and even goes so far as to harm my cats when I am not around to stop her. She really hasn’t changed at all since [THIS] post nearly 2 years ago, and in fact has only gotten worse.
I’m at my limit and long past my breaking point, please help us get me out of here. I cannot afford a vet bill should she harm my girls again.
The money made will help us afford utilities and the cost of moving + rent for a few months. EVERY DONATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED, even smth as small as a dollar means a ton. The sooner we can raise the $$$, the sooner Angelo can get me and my girls out of here and to someplace safer.
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“You and this perfect person, who you’ve never met before, to come out of nowhere, fit into your life perfectly, complete you, and make you whole for the first time in your life, like your mother did for me.”
And even though what he said sounds sweet and whatever, the way it manifested to my seven-year-old self is, “If you are not with someone, you are broken. If you are not with someone, you are incomplete. If you are not with someone, you are not whole.”
And that’s not just something that my dad made me feel, that’s something that we as a society for the last 40 years has made every single child feel. Every Disney prince has a princess, every princess has a prince, and every television show or movie always has a character in it that doesn’t want to be in a relationship. They’re happy with who they are. But guess what, by the end of the series? They were wrong! They were wrong for wanting to be alone, the fucking idiot!
It’s all to do with love. Everyone needs someone. And when you raise children in that world, where everything points towards love, when you’ve raised them for 18 fucking years, when you become an adult for the first time in your late teens and early 20’s, we’re so terrified.
We’re so trying to be an adult that some of us will take the wrong person, the wrong jigsaw, and force them into our jigsaws anyway. I’m going to force this fucking person into our lives because it’s much better to have something than nothing.
Then five years later, you’re stood looking at this jigsaw you don’t recognize, being like, “Ah! There’s a fucking cunt in the middle of this!” And in that moment, you have a very, very difficult question to ask yourself. Do I admit the last five years of my life have been a waste? Do I waste the rest of my life?
My generation has become so obsessed with starting the rest of their lives that they give up the one that they’re currently living. We have romanticized the idea of romance, and it is cancerous. People are more in love with the idea of love than they are with the person they are with. The worst thing you can do with your life is to spend it with the wrong human being.
This video is a great primer on Amatonormativity if you’ve never heard of it! I skipped the intro and ad read for you guys (but the vid is 45 min long)
Ukrainians put together a list of resources on how foreigners can help. There are all reputable organizations doing good work.
Please people be careful and stop just signal boosting because you are desperate to help, one of the groups listed here has neo-nazi ties (armysos has ties to azov battalion)
Not to mention op is literally deactivated and the replies are turned off
This literally just happened, we don’t have nearly enough info or confirmation here. The best thing to do is wait, harsh as it might sound
Okay, maybe not the final answer, but part of the problem! Asks keep getting eaten. Which is a big problem when you’re doing something anon and don’t want to ask the person “did you get it”?
If the ask contains an ellipsis without a trailing space, it gets eaten. It says delivered, but it goes nowhere.
So “Well… then” will get delivered but “Well…then” won’t!
Hopefully this helps in getting your asks actually delivered.
Post I made for my RP account, but very relevant elsewhere.
After discovering this, I tested it. Five different accounts between two people, anon vs not. No matter what, without fail, if the trailing space was missing, the message was not delivered.
I contacted Tumblr staff. They were already fully aware this was happening, but it is not documented anywhere. Nor do they seem keen on giving their users a warning about it in any fashion.
this is why i fucking despise the proship community on tumblr. why are there people here who think its okay for children to take fucking porn art requests im going to start retching
when will people learn that 18+ content is not safe for minors just because minors enjoy it idk who anon is but we need more people in the proship community like them. ones that don’t encourage kids to draw porn and shit just because it’s in the name of proshipping
No yeah we should really acknowledge this more actually, if you’re underage you shouldn’t be taking 18+ commissions. They’re 18+ for a reason and it’s to protect you from dangerous fuckwads.
Similarly, if you’re a minor don’t ask for 18+ commissions from adults either. Ik y’all got them teenage hormones and shit but that’s illegal on the adult’s end and dangerous for you. You can’t trust people you don’t know well. And if any adult tries to interact with you over NSFW material, RUN. RUN AS FAR AS YOU FUCKING CAN.
i know it can be disheartening to work so slowly when it seems like everyone around you works so fast and churns out great content left and right. i know it’s easy to get frustrated with yourself for having to spend so much time on one thing and sometimes it’s hard to stay motivated long enough to finish. but the things you make are so good, and taking lot of time on something isn’t a bad thing. creation can be a very painstaking process, but the amount of love and care and effort and attention you pour into your work bleeds through. people can feel it. they appreciate it. they see how hard you try and they see how your thoughtful approach to creation affects the quality of the end product. speed is definitely a skill you can develop and chances are as you practice more and get more comfortable with things, you’ll be able to work faster. but no matter what, the things you make are worth waiting for. keep creating! you are wonderful!
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
