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forgot where I got this joke but had to draw it with the main 3

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Finally... TWO OF THEM (I don't know when Clodsire will release outside Japan but I feel like it's gonna sell well too as Quagsire is the best selling and most popular of the Pokemon Center Comfy Friends line. Also beware of scalpers.)

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Here is a potentially silly question: how do you feel about birthstones? Do you think they fit the months (by season or astrological sign)? Do you have other stones you'd rather see as birthstones?

Okay, so, birthstones make absolutely no sense.

I mean, look at this mess. We’re doing beryl and corundum twice! I get that they get Special Different Names for their Special Different Colors, but it's just lazy. And why are we giving some months cheap, common gemstones like garnet and amethyst while the poor June birthdays have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for FREAKING ALEXANDRITE? That’s incredibly unfair! We should be picking birthstones that are all roughly the same price. And why do some months get multiple gemstones? I’ll tell you why: because nobody can agree on an official list and every attempt to standardize this thing has just added MORE birthstones to every month.

So obviously the answer is to standardize it again, by throwing out everything and starting over. Here are our goals:

Fair pricing. You should be paying roughly the same amount regardless of what month you were born in. We’re getting rid of those ridiculous outliers like diamond and alexandrite.

More customization potential! Nobody should be stuck with a stone they hate. We’re picking gemstones that come in multiple colors or varieties, so that everyone can choose a variant they like.

Wearability. Some birthstones are too fragile to be worn as jewelry. We need to replace them with stronger stuff.

No more duplicate gemstones. Every month gets a stone or family of stones with a unique chemical composition.

Now without further ado, I present to you:

The New And Improved List Of Birthstones With No Problems Or Flaws That Everyone Will Definitely Agree On And We Can Start Using Right Now Immediately

JANUARY: GARNET

I've got no problem with garnet. It's a fine, classic birthstone, so January can keep it. But I would like to see a little more garnet diversity. January birthdays shouldn’t be confined to just red. The garnet family of minerals contains a rainbow of different colors, like orange hessonite, green uvarovite, pink rhodolite, yellow grandite, and many more. They’re all garnet, so we should be wearing them all!

FEBRUARY: QUARTZ

The original birthstone of February was amethyst, which is… kinda boring. Super cheap and common and you only get one color? No, we can do better. February gets ALL the quartzes now. Keep wearing amethyst if you want, but also feel free to branch out into clear quartz, citrine, rose quartz, smoky quartz, rutilated quartz, tiger eye… actually, take all the agates too. If it’s quartz, it’s yours!

MARCH: SPODUMENE

March was originally aquamarine, but I’ll be giving all the beryls to May, so we need a different stone here. Let’s stick with that theme of pale pastels and go with spodumene. For an April birthday, bedeck yourself in green hiddenite, pink kunzite, or yellow triphane. Despite its subtle colors, your birthstone has some amazing fluorescence, with really cool pinks and oranges under a UV light.

APRIL: FELDSPAR

Diamond is too pricy for this list, so we’re replacing it with something less expensive and way more interesting. April will now be represented by the feldspar family. We’re talking labradorite, moonstone, amazonite, aventurine, and sunstone. While you don’t have much variety in color, your stones are full of shimmery schiller which glitters and shifts as it catches the light.

MAY: BERYL

May’s original birthstone was emerald, which is great and can stay, but we’re also adding its siblings! May is now represented by all beryls: Emerald, Aquamarine, Morganite, Bixbite, Heliodor, Goshenite, and whatever other varieties I’m forgetting to list. A bright and saturated rainbow of colors is represented here, so everyone born in May is sure to find something they like.

JUNE: ORGANIC GEMSTONES AND FOSSILS

It’s time to address the alexandrite in the room, and obviously we’re getting rid of alexandrite. A stone worth $15,000 to $70,000 a carat does not belong on the same list as friggin amethyst. Instead we’ll look at the other traditional June birthstone, pearl. The problem with pearl is that it’s a clear outlier in this list. An organic gemstone, by some definitions not even a mineral. Should we replace it? NO. We are OWNING it. All organic gemstones now belong to June. Pearl is joined here by jet, amber, coral, ivory, ammolite, petrified wood… in fact, June can have every fossil ever.

JULY: SPINEL

July was originally represented by ruby, which is a fine stone and won’t be kicked off the birthstone list - we’re just shuffling it down to September. Replacing ruby for July is spinel. (See, it’s funny because historically spinel has often been mistakenly identified as ruby! That's a little gemology humor for you.) Available in any hue you could possibly desire, spinel offers some nice color options to a month that previously only featured red. Of course if you want to keep wearing red, red spinel mimics ruby so well that you’ll barely notice the difference.

AUGUST: PERIDOT

Nope, we’re not changing this one. Peridot is the ideal gemstone and you ungrateful August whiners can die mad about it. HOW ABOUT YOU LEARN TO APPRECIATE PERFECTION

SEPTEMBER: CORUNDUM

Sapphire is a wonderful, classic stone and it deserves its spot on this list. But the corundum family has been separated for far too long, and we’re finally going to reunite them. Joining sapphire in September is its sister ruby. Between the pinks and reds of ruby and the many, many colors of sapphire, these two stones give September a nice variety of colors.

OCTOBER: TOURMALINE

Look, as gorgeous as opal is and as much as I love it, it is both way too pricy for our list and also TERRIBLE in jewelry. This stone is just too brittle to wear around from day to day and can be ruined just by getting it wet, which makes wearing your birthstone a huge hassle. We’ll kick opal out and hang on to October’s other traditional birthstone, tourmaline. Pink tourmaline may be classic, but this stone comes in plenty of other colors. Whether it’s brown dravite, watermelon elbaite, or the rare and beautiful blue indicolite, you can wear them all!

NOVEMBER: TOPAZ

November can keep topaz, but we’re not confining it to the color yellow. This stone comes in a huge variety of colors, and now they can ALL represent November. No further notes; it’s a nice, classic stone.

DECEMBER: ZIRCON

I dunno, I’ve had to come up with 12 of these, I’m burnt out. Sure, zircon, whatever.

“BUT WAIT,” you say. “Now instead of having a single color assigned to each month, almost every month is represented by almost every color, making it impossible to tell anyone’s birthstones apart and removing what made them special and recognizable as symbols!”

Well CLEARLY you didn’t read the title of this list.

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Compilation

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part one | part two

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Ok I've decided to make some basic resources for anti-Zionist Jews who feel really alone and want to connect with each other or with our culture or history.

Reading List

Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race

The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement

Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund A Memoir of Interwar Poland

Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews

Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing

The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History

With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism

A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York

How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America

Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893–1958

A History of Egyptian Communism Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution

The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging

On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat

Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity

(Do also check out Decolonize Palestine for the original resources as well as the reading list that centres Palestinians themselves)

News and Magazines

Jewish Currents [United States]

Treyf Podcast [Montreal, Quebec, Canada] (sadly defunct but you can listen to their older, archived podcasts which include some great interviews)

Edit: I think it's also worth adding The Electronic Intifada. It's not explicitly Jewish, but it often features interviews with and opinion pieces by anti-Zionist Jews while primarily being an outlet for Palestinians themselves.

Organisations

Jewish Voice for Peace [United States]

IfNotNow [United States]

Independent Jewish Voices Canada [Canada]

Jewdas [United Kingdom]

Jews Against Fascism [Australia]

Dayenu: New Zealand Jews Against Occupation [Aotearoa / New Zealand]

Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices [Aotearoa / New Zealand]

Synagogues

Tzedek [Chicago, Illinois, United States]

Chavurah For A Free Palestine at Kehilla Community Synagogue [Piedmont, California, United States]

Edit: Have also been told I can add Kadima Reconstructionist Community [Seattle, Washington, United States] to the list!

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Hello hello! 

Welcome to the last part of Woodland Ranch collection, the living room! It has been made to get a very warm and cozy look, but you can explore more styles with those different sofas and color swatches ! Speaking of colors, this set comes with a plaster wallpaper that will match the fireplace, but also the kitchen counters if you want a seamless look! 

I have added special slots on the fireplaces' top part that will allow you to snap some decor items. Ufortunatly, it doesnt work with all paintings from the game, but I have made those 3 new paintings compatible so you can snap them on the fireplaces to decor them if you want!

I am very excited about some textures of this new set, like the hammered look of the coffee table or the rattan of the fruit bowl and I hope you will like them as much as I do! 

You can find the items by searching for WOODLAND RANCH or Pierisim in game.

Some items share the same textures so make sure to have the packages finishing by "texture" in your mod folder :)

All base game compatible.

unmerged and merged version available.

Public release 02/12/2023

DOWNLAOD (early access)

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to any americans who feel "paralyzed" and "dont know what to do" to help with gaza:

reading a fucking book. i beg of you.

in a time of knowledge suppression is it your duty to arm yourself with knowledge.

read about americas occupations in the middle east.

read about 9/11 from outside of america and see how they inflicted senseless harm and violence to countless amounts of people and have been suppressing your rights for the past 2 fucking decades.

read about any of the countless wars from the past 30 years. especially from a civilian's. and the victims and survivors' perspective. listen to the horror stories and do not plug your fucking ears as to what your country is doing.

and read about fucking gaza and palestine and keep up with what is happening no matter how "sad" or "uncountable" you might get.

dont look away from this.

you dont have the right to be comfortable during countless active genocides.

if you're knowledgeable, you're powerful, and our current state doesnt fucking want that.

you have the power to change things if you open your eyes and scream to the world.

wake the fuck up.

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my beautiful children

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Daily Fish 11 - Indonesian Coelacanth

Photo by Laurent Ballesta (Nat Geo) | Wikipedia on Indonesian Coelacanth

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pumpkin boy in his natural habitat

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happy yaoi… friday

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AxA 2023  |  50+ CAS Items  |  Public 10-27

With the goal in mind for this pack being to make a lot of denim, Ayoshi and I have prepared AxA 2023 for you guys with, in my opinion, the perfect mix of cute versatile pieces and some streetwear pieces that blend seamlessly with previous AxA items that we have created. With some AxA necklaces, earrings, and even a Simlish AxA cardigan, AxA 2023 will make sure your Sims are arriving in style to wherever they may be going.

Item Index Preview  |  Download  |  Follow Ayoshi

The item index linked above will show the basic info for the items in this collab. Below are credits + Patreon .zip download of the entire pack

Basic info

All items are BGC and do not require other meshes/packages/versions.

All hairs come in 24 EA Colors

The clothes come in 1 out of 4 palettes ► 30 colorful solids  |   palette used ► 25+ pattern or graphic versions ► 20 denim swatches  |  palette used ► 25 cargo/khaki palette

Report any issues to me through Tumblr DM with images.

Follow my TOU for all items

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no more humanity for me im just this guy forever:

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Some knitting affirmations:

I know how to count

I know how to read

whatever I am making will be wearable and if it's not then I will learn something