#October topics

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Top 5 Tuesday topics: October-December 2024

Hello friends!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: October-December 2024!! Ahh, our wrap up posts for 2024 are imminent!! And you know what, I’m a little bit excited about it. The November and December topics are always my favourites, every year. I think what I love is partially the part where I don’t need to make up topics… But I also love wrapping up the year of reading. If YOU would…

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Day 11: 2A Sports Fest. Kacchan is supposed to sit it out but why is he on the field??

Inspired by this Dandadan screencap:

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⋆｡ ⋆⭒˚⋆ my kinda fall ⋆｡ ⋆⭒˚⋆

[still-breathing-au-p3r]

[continued from here] [first post for October 18th]

Shinji’s taking his turn with graceless subject changes, apparently. Akihiko rolls the question around in his head for a moment, trying to decide which facet of it to answer first.

Despite himself, Akihiko can’t help feeling a little surprised. The doctor had said that it wasn’t uncommon for people in comas to not remember exactly what happened before they fell into it.

Shinji fixes him with a hard, flat stare.

That’s such a gross oversimplification that it’s almost comical, and Shinji sounds so damn matter-of-fact about it– irritation pricks hot behind Akihiko’s breastbone. He pushes it down as best he can, at least for the moment. Now really isn’t the time.

He gestures wildly with one hand at nothing.

[youling-the-ghost]

More handwritten fanfiction!!

I've decided to just write this entire bubbamiah fic in my notebook and honestly it's so much fun to write on paper. I've said this before but I genuinely recommend you try this out if you're a writer, even if it's just for a bit. It makes you think about your word choices more because it's so much harder to edit a mistake when it's on paper.

[hanzajesthanza]

i think it would be really funny if regis had a kind of fucked-up haircut

“he could save everyone except himself” but like with regard to the barbery, and not the surgery. kind of like when chefs don’t cook very well for themselves. or when fashion designers wear sweatpants all day.

but moreover. i think the aesthetic effects of a bad haircut would help to dampen his natural lugosian allure and good looks. to reduce any potential suspicions

[lacewise]

The same time the Brits caused the chaos that happened in 1948, the rest of the Middle East saw as an opportunity to expel their Jewish populations to Israel (to oversimplify, think about the reservations in Canada and the US—that’s how they envisioned Israel and how they expelled Jewish people while seizing all their belongings. A huge part of the reason many Middle Eastern countries are mad is Israel thrived anyway.)

Poland got rid of their Jewish population by literally committing the Holocaust

When you say, “Israel shouldn’t exist” or “Jewish people need to go back to Poland” what I hear is “we can have world peace if all Jewish people die” which is straight out of the “Protocols of Elders of Zion” (think “Birth of a Nation”) and “Mein Kampf”—this is also where ideas about Jewish people or a theoretical state of Israel wanting to “take over” the Middle East come from (they don’t, and you guys are ignoring actual Middle Eastern colonial empires engaged in society-wide human trafficking to scapegoat Jewish people. It’s weird, and I’m sure the victims find your callous disregard creepy, because they’ve actively said so—they would not feel safe in a room alone with you. Consider why that is.)

I have no idea if you guys realize you sound exactly like Adolf Hitler (who was inspired by “Protocols of Elders of Zion”) or Donald Trump (who kept “Mein Kampf” on his bedside table for years)

I’m frankly scared to ask

You cannot discuss Nakba without also discussing expulsions of Jewish people from both Europe and the Middle East—it’s disingenuous and I will not only assume you also support the Trail of Tears, I will tell other people you support the Trail of Tears

Think long and hard about if that’s something you want to be associated with, because I promise you, if other people look it up, they will see the similarities—they’re glaring—and they’ll also probably start asking questions like “why are you downplaying the Holocaust? Isn’t that Holocaust denialism?” (The answer is yes, by the way)

Depending on what else you say, I may also assume you support the enslavement of Black people by the tribes

Argue with your mirror, not with me

Regardless of what you know, some of the most prominent voices on antisemitic Tumblr and TikTok have almost certainly read “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and have been promoting hateful and baseless conspiracy theories found there, and either you haven’t noticed or you agree.

One of the main organizers is implicitly pro-other genocides and constantly spreads barely concealed hatred and bad paraphrases of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as threats directed at specific Jewish people and organizations. I have no idea how you all missed that, but I’ve always found people filled with gleeful hatred are easily distracted from both the particulars and the main facts

And you know what they say about Nazis—if one Nazi is welcome to a seat at your table, it’s a table of Nazis

The Nazism is not misguided. The calls for the death of every living Jewish person are not accidental. The flags calling for genocide did not appear out of overzealousness. It’s the point. Nazism, theocracy, fascism, and eugenics do not value mercy, and they will not give any to you, no matter how much you beg them. If you don’t quickly find your way out, you’ll find yourself dragged down, the rest of your actions discarded as tainted, and your names inscribed in the history books next to the rest of them. Decide if you want to be the shame of your families and cultures for decades to come.

May the memories of all those lost be a blessing, and may we find a way to stop repeating the mistakes of the past.

—signed a non-Jewish woman who knows how to read. You should really try it sometime.

Find a way to deradicalize yourselves.

P.S. In my offline research, I’ve found that in almost every subject, the popular information going around online is not just misinformed, but counterfactual. Especially on social media, it is the exact opposite of what every respected expert and researcher says. It’s often exact opposite of what primary sources say. If you’re getting a lot of your information from the internet, then the first thing you need to do is find offline sources. I didn’t have the information literacy to recognize how terrible the situation actually is before I started, and chances are, you don’t either. I would also recommend talking to people who spend time offline and getting some hobbies.

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good ol post

[welcome-to-green-hills]

I figured I share the short character bios on the back of the action figure boxes, though I couldn't find Knuckles and Robotnik:

"Sonic is on a roll, saved the world twice (but who's counting?) and has two besties for his team. But will they be enough to handle a devastating new threat?"

"Tails is Sonic's best bud, using his brains, tons of gadgets, and, of course, his two tails -- he will do everything he can for his friends."

"Shadow is a fierce and mysterious foe who is determined to accomplish his goals and won't let anything stand in his way!"

Oh wow! These are great characters bios! Thank you for sharing, my dear! Lucky for you, I’ve found the character bio for Dr. Robotnik:

“Ivo Robotnik proved that you can’t keep an evil genius down for long and sets his sights on world domination. No big deal!”

I’m having some trouble finding Knuckles, but I think that we’ll get a good idea around September.

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At the request of @ohwhatamidoinghere , pictures of the indoor plastic greenhouses I got for my orchids. Yes, they cost some money. A final payment from a travel company I had been doing work for helped me decide to spring for the big one a couple weeks ago. They’re both made by a company in Kyiv, Ukraine (who make other models too) and arrive as kits. The big one took some time and work to put together and figure out but you can set the humidity and the day length you want and even set the fans to run for a certain number of minutes per hour. I’m thinking of moving the orchids closer together to free up a shelf for growing lettuce all winter. We’ll see.

[auslanderka]

October 5th : happy birthday Joakim!

[upsidedownsmore]

i was so sure that i would get a bad grade on the last question of this computer systems exam cause i forgot to write down the max and min values for the various data types before the test and the question was like adding and subtracting them, so i had to manually add and subtract each binary place value up to like 2^15 or something and i finished just as class ended lol

so uh how the fuck did i get a full grade on that question what lmao

[shamemp3]

i was worried before i got into this program that palestine would never be mentioned but alhamdulilah its a topic of conversation in every class i did not expext this from [redacted] university

[tayfabe75]

This bridge ends up being sung by Carly Holt, your bandmate Adam Hann’s wife. How did that come to be? I think the whimsy and the naïveté in that song come from the fact that it was going to be a Drive Like I Do song. I wasn't thinking about the profundity of it, or I wasn't thinking about fitting it into a record. I was just thinking about it being quite pure and blissful. Just practically, what happened was that I didn't like that bridge. I wrote a bunch of different bridges. Michelle from Japanese Breakfast had sung on 'Part of the Band', and I remembered that moment of — I've done it a few times, but sometimes one of the revelations is, Maybe it's just the voice; it's not the part. So when Carly sang it, it was like, Okay, yeah, the part's great — just I shouldn't have been singing that. What we didn't want to do is have a feature. We hadn't really done a feature before in a 1975 album because I think that would take — well, Phoebe pops up on one of our records, but me and Phoebe kind of orbit each other: She's in our music video; I turn up and I open up for her shows. So that felt real. What wouldn’t feel real is if Bad Bunny turned up on track ten or something. We wanted to keep it in the family.

October 14, 2022: Matty shares some insight into The 1975's 'About You'. (source)

[blue-eli]

Ink October day five: Repose

Cessation or absence of activity, movement, or animation.

To lie at rest.

To lie dead.