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I feel pretty safe posting this bc it’s really crap photo quality and there’s no full child faces showing so

This was Shabbat service last week. This is what Judaism looks like - this is our future.

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i'm glad there are episodes in the next generation where data gets reprogrammed/possessed/we meet his evil twin/etc, because as much as brent spiner is amazing as data, his real talent is playing weird little freaks

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When you click the x button on the ad but it pops up with the download screen and you go “meh, fuck it”

ADS THAT SUDDENLY TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAGE

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I really really second the fireproof box thing for the irreplaceables, we lost our apartment less than a year ago to a freak accident (guy who lived below us didn’t put out his cigarette properly, it caught his cooler of 4th of July beer on fire and engulfed our balcony in flames) during which we ended up with literally seconds to get ourselves and our pets out.

We were extremely extremely lucky that our important papers folder was deep enough in one of our entertainment center shelves to not be damaged, but we so easily could not have been. You can always check your local secondhand stores for them as well.

the real challenge of adulthood that no one tells you about in advance is how many goddamn pieces of paper you have to keep up with that are never important until they are suddenly VERY important

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These are all so pretty!!!

I have so much art for sale! Hats! Shawls! Bookmarks! Jewelry! Pride wear! Judaica! Knitting patterns! And so much more, all available in my shop! I also take commissions!

Also, it has been a very rough winter for me financially. My car is broken down and needs work, I need to pay the bill on my storage unit, I have meds I need to refill, and I still need to pay to have more of my pottery fired. Once I get some of the glazed stuff back from the kiln, there will be a whole new section in my shop for it, but getting there has put me in some debt to my parents (who are themselves disabled and impoverished).

I hate begging for reblogs, but you never know when your reblog will be the one that leads to a sale for me, at no cost to you but a few seconds. And anyone who does have budget for some art at the moment, now/soon would be a really good time for me.

Shipping outside the USA is not currently available through the store, but I can and do ship internationally – just message me about it and pay me directly through paypal or venmo or as a tip on my ko-fi, once I can get you a shipping estimate!

Any order of 2 or more items from my online store comes with a free watercolour bookmark!

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Nursing has long been a dependable, relatively accessible path to the middle class and financial stability for a lot of people, especially women

It deserves the pro-labor energy that the left gives any other blue collar job, and nurses should be able to ask for support and awareness without folks feeling the need to remind them that actually some nurses are problematic

Especially when the awareness is about a near-fatal assault or a hostage situation on a hospital unit

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FAMOUS AUTHORS

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The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

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Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

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Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

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KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

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Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

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Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

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A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

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Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

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Doctor: “is there any chance you’re pregnant?”

No

Doctor: “are you sure?”

Extremely

Doctor: “…so are you not sexually active or…?”

a) it’s super possible to have sex with people that literally cannot get you pregnant and I am in fact married to a non-sperm haver 2) no and iii) I feel like this is perhaps not pertinent to the discussion of me vomiting up blood and having an ear infection

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I have so much anger. So much grief. The way Shiri, Ariel and Kfir were treated is beyond words. It’s unbearable. But I saw this, and it gave me a moment of something else - a reminder that even in the darkest times, we can choose to bring light. A simple act, a bracha in their memory, a mitzvah, something good - anything - to show that they were here, that their lives mattered, and that Am Yisrael lives. Let’s turn our heartbreak into something real. Take on something in their zechut. Let’s flood the world with goodness in their name. 💙🧡

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I don’t know why that affected me so strongly, but I’m watching a youtube video on disasters on Lake Huron, and the first one involves a coal freighter that was lost in the White Hurricane of 1913 called the SS Argus. Everyone on the ship was lost. But it’s mentioned that the captain’s body washed up later, and was found without a life jacket. So they thought, based partly on testimony of another ship that thought they saw them go down, that it just happened too fast for him to have time to get his jacket. But then another body was found, that of the second cook, and she was found wearing the life jacket marked ‘captain’. And that’s …

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe also some day more than a century down the line, maybe some idiot will be crying into her coffee because of what you died trying.

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steve bannon tried to divide am yisrael again by saying that the #1 enemy of the jewish people are american jews who did not vote maga

what steve bannon doesn’t realize is that he can never divide am yisrael. we are one. and no matter how hard maga tries to paint their christian zionism as allyship, we know that he is lying

“we will outlive them” includes you, bannon

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Winter Driving Tips from Your Internet Brother:

Make time to scrape off your car before you go. Scrape off all of your car. This means the roof and the rear windshield as well.

If the road looks wet but you’re not sure if there’s black ice, look at the wheels of the car in front of you. If you can see droplets flinging up, the water on the road is not frozen.

Your stopping distance will increase exponentially with how bad the weather is. Give yourself at least twice as much room to stop as you normally would.

If your car is going out of control and you HAVE to hit something, aim for something soft (snowbanks are softer than trees) and hit that thing at an angle.

Never get in the car without a coat, hat, and gloves.

If your car is out of control, look and steer where you want your car to go.

Take your car to an empty parking lot with snow in it and purposefully lose control. This will teach you how to handle your car.

If your car is real wheel drive, put something heavy in the trunk to give you better traction.

Take 5mph off the speed limit for bad weather, 10mph off for really bad weather.

For automatic transmission cars, the N in PRNDL stands for Neutral. This is the gear that your car should be in if you are trying to push it.

If you need to use your windshield wipers, your headlights also need to be on.

This button is your defroster: 

Please use your defroster if your windows are fogging up.

Ultimately, please just stay safe. Do these things not only for yourself, but to protect others on the road.

-Reid

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We are getting towards winter in the northern hemisphere so it's time for me to share my number one tip for surviving winter power outages from my time living off grid that isn't "get a wood stove installed".

Get a bed tent. You don't have to permanently install it with your mattress inside it although you will have to do some macgyvering if you don't. It will create a little cocoon that will stay warmer anyway but you can level it up a notch by buying a cheap king size comforter and draping that over it for more insulation. If your power goes out and you need to stay warm, load every pillow, blanket, and living creature that will reasonably fit into it and close the door. You will have a warm and cozy little cocoon to which you can add battery powered lights, a gallon jug of water to keep it from freezing, etc.

Also grab you solar lanterns (LumenAID makes great ones), soft beanie hats, hand warmers, and socks to sleep in, and consider sweaters for your pets for whom they're appropriate.

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I’m really excited to share this little historical art/information I’ve been working on these last few days! A lot of research and love went into it ❤️

special thanks to my grandma and great grandma, as well as to my friend maya for stories about Tunis and Djerba 🇹🇳