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What Israel has done and is doing since 10/7/23 is atrocious. The horrors done to the Palestinian people are atrocious and unforgivable.

Being Jews doesn’t make one immune to forgetting their own humanity and that of others, unfortunately. We’re just as likely to behave inhumanely as anyone else.

I just hear too much equating Jews to the state of Israel and its command, when many of the Israelis (and all of non-Israeli Jews abroad) don’t control how their government reacts any more than every American does.

why are jews skeptical of antizionism? a guide for gentiles

I'd be ok with the notion Israel wasn't needed if y'all could be trusted not to fuck it up when Jews needed somewhere to flee. But last time (to put it politely) you fucked it up real bad, and six million Jews died.

Fundamentally, antizionism is asking Jews to put our lives in the hands of the same people who saw us screaming for help, who knew that death awaited us, and did all of nothing. Nada. Nil.

(As demonstrated by the recent Amsterdam pogrom, Israel is totally ok and often proactive in flying Jews out. Around the same time as Palestinians were being exiled, Jews from all over the Arab world were being driven out in similar numbers. The reason you don't hear about that refugee crisis? Israel accepted them, without complaint or delay or objection, just urgency.)

Pardon us for being a bit skeptical of your assertions that it won't happen again when a constant theme throughout our history has been it happening again.

This is a slightly modified form of an older, longer, post's tags/tldr.

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I’d also be ashamed to admit to that. M&M mini containers are very small.

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hi, i’m your local laid off discord employee, here to talk about exactly how safe it may or may not be to talk about Political Activism on discord. my credentials here are that i was a senior member of discord’s trust & safety team, which is the team that handles bans, legal investigations, and legal compliance. (my speciality was in child safety, anti-grooming, and taking down CSAM, but i also worked occasionally in low level terrorism issues and assisted that team in investigations.) i also know most of the people still working there in these capacities.

the tldr and most important thing to know is: i do not recommend you plan, discuss plans, or use any kind of hyperbolic (or not) language about violence to government officials or anyone in that vicinity on discord. please use signal instead.

a discord trust & safety employee is technically able to see any message you’ve sent under your account, going all the way back to the beginning of your account. unless you have manually deleted a message, it is viewable to a tns employee. now: it is a tremendous part of being on a tns team that we did NOT invade user privacy without cause. cause was usually: another user reported something you said, and we thought the reported message indicated you might be doing something elsewhere that was illegal (for example: a user says “i’m talking to this girl but she’s in high school lol.” i would then try to find evidence as to whether or not there was a child safety issue there. in this example, we’d require clear admission of age from both the user and the alleged high school girl, and then clear evidence of sexual talk between them, and go from there.) finding evidence required looking though all of that user’s messages.

most of the tns team, as i know them, are pretty resolute about not going further in looking than would be needed for action. most of the tns team that i still speak to is very much on the side of blue. your general conversations are probably perfectly safe, and we were very good at figuring out quickly if someone has reported you maliciously. i don’t believe you need to worry too much about your porn and fanfic and all that.

HOWEVER: reported content must be investigated, and discord can, and has been, legally subpoenaed to turn over user information. again, this has nominally been in Very Evil cases (CSAM and grooming, school shooting threats, murder admissions, etc.) but that could change, either at the federal level, or at the discord policy level. discord, like any social media company, could easily be pressured or forced into taking on different internal policies that could get you in serious trouble if you are organizing violent or “illegal” resistance. if that happens, there is a scenario where this incoming administration is given access to your messages.

again: please do not organize your political or social resistance on discord from now on. please use signal to ensure your maximum safety. do not panic if you have already talks about things on discord: you can easily delete your messages, and that WILL remove from an employee’s view. do that and use signal from now on.

stay safe. i love you. 💕

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a bi coworker was recently talking about his ex and about how awful their marriage was because when they watched movies or read books she’d talk about how sexy the characters were and how this was really hurtful to him and then turned to me expecting me to agree and I was at a loss for how to respond. sir in my culture if your wife says she thinks legolas is super sexy then it is customary to commission her an erotic digital painting of legolas with his dick out. I have no advice for you.

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sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry

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Tie my wrists together, toss me down on the bed and spank me till my ass is bruised so bad I'll feel it for a week

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Just watched the banned Moon Girl episode.

>the episode addresses the topic of trans kids in sports >the entire episode is about how bigots will always move the goalpost, and playing by their rules is pointless >the solution is not to play their game and break the rules >it also states that trans people should never feel like a burden >the character Brooklyn is explicitly stated to be trans >there is also an explicitly nonbinary character >multiple mentions of pride and depictions of pride flags, trans flags and progress flags

I'm not at all surprised this didn't get past the censors but I'm so mad that it didn't, because this could've been something really special, and the fact it was canned after being fully finished is downright painful. This episode was wonderful and I'm grateful to all the people who worked on it, and angry that their hard work was wasted. Disney did not deserve you.

Here's a link, as long as Disney doesn't take it down

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When Ox is a kid, his father teaches him a lesson: He’s worthless and no one will ever understand him. Then his father leaves.

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When Ox is a young adult, murder tears a hole in his heart. Violence flares and splits the pack, causing Joe to leave town, and Ox. 

Three years later, the boy is back, but a man—charming, handsome, and haunted. Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them. 

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I need these leaked online like yesterday.

GREEN CREEK UPDATE GREEN CREEK UPDATE

HEARTSONG BARNES & NOBLE EDITION CAME IN TODAY SPOILERS FOR EXCLUSIVE BONUS STORY BELOW THE CUT

ELIZABETH HAS GRANDKIDS (ADOPTED?!!!!???!?)

CALLIE IS PROBABLY OX AND JOE’S DAUGHTER, WILL BE NEXT ALPHA

CALEB ZANE AND LIAM ARE BROTHERS (CARTER AND GAVIN?????? BABIES?????!?!??!!!!)

GUNCLE GORDO

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ITS NOT A FLASHBACK ITS A FLASHFORWARD

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No one:

Gordo to Mark in Ravensong:

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I truly love this series.

I love robbie

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"You're over thinking this." "How can I not? Did you see page seventy-six?" "No. Why? What's on page seventy-six?" She opened the book again until she found the right page. "Wow. Okay. Holy Crap. Don't try that for at least six months. And make sure you drink plenty of water beforehand." I moaned again.

Brothersong by TJ Klune

Is this going to be my last art of 2023? who knows, I have other things I'm going to attempt to finish, and if I don't get there, I'm happy I went out with this one :')

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I would just like to take a moment to appreciate the aro and ace rep in the Green Creek series.

The fact the Kelly is ace but still sex positive is amazing to see. I also loved that his sex scene in the book was very minimal compared to the other books.

And Tanner being aro but still having a platonic mate made me happy cry