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"phones are disrupting natural sleep cycles" - that depends on so many things.

Exposure to blue light on odd hours could disrupt your natural melatonin cycle, which would make you become sleepy at odd hours. The same could happen from working somewhere without windows and not being exposed to the sun during the day. The same could happen from crappy ads on the side of the road on those big digital screens, or from fluorescent lightbulbs, from having a roommate who watches tv when you get home.

If you're using your phone in a stressful way before bed, it could definitely disrupt your sleep. But so is doing anything stressful. Doom scrolling before bed would definitely mess up yourself, and so is having a fight with a loved one, losing something you need, noticing it's too late and you have to be up early in the morning, etc.

But if you're able to use your phone to distress? You should keep using it before bed. No one can have perfect sleep conditions, but if you can find stuff that will help you make the night easier? Don't give up on it.

Tips to making your phone less disruptive before bed:

Turn on the blue light filter. May also be called reading mode. I personally have it on all the time, and as yellow as I can set it, but do what's most comfortable to you.

Turn on dark mode. The less white light you see, the less blue light you see. Reading fanfics before bed? Dark mode. Scrolling Tumblr? Dark mode. Talking to people on discord? For the love of HaShem use dark mode.

Stay away from apps that gives you stress. News app, social media, your family WhatsApp group, the venting channel in discord, hour long video essays about drama in the art community - not before going to bed. Reading a comforting story, looking at art, listening to your favourite music, these all could be helpful on getting you ready to bed. Even if what's calming you don't isn't considered "calming" by most people, you know yourself best.

One of my favourite things to do to calm down before bed is meditation. I like to focus on the sensations of my body, from my feet to my hands, inwards and outwards. I usually fall asleep before I complete the exercise. Some people like to focus on outside sounds, I usually find it too distracting. Meditation isn't about stopping to think completely, but it definitely helped me redirect my multiple trains of thoughts toward one task, and to calm down my body before I fall asleep. On nights I meditate I usually sleep better.

If you fall asleep better with music or podcasts - DO IT. If it makes you wake up after you already already fall asleep, there are apps out there to turn all of the sound sources off after a set amount of time. Spotify has it built in, I used to put on music from YouTube so I used to have an app called Sleepy Time. Now I usually put on rain sounds so it doesn't wake me up anymore.

Also, if you exercise in the evening, and need your phone for that, then use your phone. The benefit of exercising outtakes the downsides of the blue light.

I'm an insomniac and in the process of getting a diagnosis of whatever is wrong with my sleep that makes me so damn tired even when I'm doing everything "right". I can tell you the time I spent trying to do everything by the book and not touch my phone before bed for two hours, I slept way worse than times I literally fell asleep with it in my hands.

Listen to your own needs, make your own decisions about what helps you fall asleep the best. Don't let randos on the internet blame you for things you struggle with. You may benefit from not using your phone for two hours before bed, and it also may make it harder for you to sleep. YOU are the only person who can determine what's true for you.

“phones are disrupting natural sleep cycles” I mean true but also bold of you to assume I had one before the tech boom lol catch me out here reading chapter books by the light of my light up pens in the third grade

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Imagine the block button is the Boop button. And just. Boop. Boop. Boop. Boop. Boop.

“i don’t block people just because of a difference of opinion” cool i do

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PROTECT THE BOYFRIEND

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Don't go into conflicts you understand nothing about and project your own white guilt on it.

Do you know any Palestinian? Do you know any Israeli?

Have you ever been to the area?

Have you gotten your information from reliable sources?

And most importantly: Are you willing to hold other countries to the same standard you're trying to hold Israel/Palestine to? Are you willing to go on a mass protest like that against China? Would you treat Russians the way you treat Israelis? Will you call for a free Iran?

And PLEASE remember there are ACTUAL PEOPLE living through these situations. We're not puppets, we're not play things, our lives aren't just a trend on TikTok. We're humans on all sides of the conflict. Yes, even the sides you don't agree with. Even the sides who are causing harm to others. Still human.

just wanna say as someone who's Aboriginal that I think First Nations peoples have every right to be a little angry at white leftists (NOT Palestinians, people blaming Palestinians stfu) who ignored our anti-colonial movements for years but are now supporting the Free Palestine movement. If you, someone living in the US, Canada or Australia or Aotearoa, are serious about the liberation of Palestine then you NEED to be just as serious about justice and liberation for the First Nations peoples' who's stolen and colonised land YOU live on. If you're not serious about where YOU fit in the paradigm of anti-colonial work, fix it. Here's a good place to start: if you're a person living on occupied Indigenous lands, learn who's land it really is, and how you can help them as an ally.

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"how do you have the patience to reply to this anon hate" dude I love replying to anon hate it's the funniest shit ever. They're so uncreative.

i hate when people are like "dont waste your energy being a hater" because its really no trouble at all, if anything i gain energy.

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I personally love pickled lemons.

Basically, just put lemon slices (with the peel) in a jar of salt water with spicy paprika and wait for I think at least a week? I LOVE putting them in toasted sandwiches. Just a little bit of them, because they have a very strong taste, but they're amazing.

That tip about boiling them to get rid of the bitter flavour is interesting, because the pickled lemons are still bitter, and that's my only issue with them. I wonder if that'll work for pickling lemons? Or if there's something else to be done?

Lemons! Limes! Oranges! You can do this with pretty much all citrus! Candied Lemon Peel 2 cups water 2 cups white sugar The peels of 3 lemons

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Omg I'm definitely adding this to my pfp after I draw myself one that's not a picrew!!

hi jumblr! i made these little jewish lgbt pride frames to put around images and videos for funsies

edit: guys!! the backgrounds are transparent because these were made to go over images, for icons and edits and stuff :) the aromantic and asexual ones should be readable over a lighter background!

another edit: sorry about the misspelling of שלום on a few of these, idk what got into me bc id usually remember when to put final letters but 😭 fixed version here!!!

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Personally I would like a pet golem. He would help me make cookies and I'll tell everyone what a good boy he is.

If I had the ability to make legit living golems right now I would be giving them to every Jewish school and synagogue. Tall, bulky, strong golems.

Then I'd work on custom ones. Kid getting bullied on the way to school? Grandma being followed by 'protestors' on her way home? Try our new Lend-A-Golem program! It's absolutely free! And these golems would be absolutely terrifying. Lanky, slender, pocket sized, lotta teeth, need multiples to crawl out of your handbag and bite some ankles? Good news! We got travel size and they are nearly indestructible!

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Dude you do realise our capital is Jerusalem and not Tel Aviv right?

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Here's the link to the video btw!!!

Tiny kitty that can be made with 2 pipe cleaners. If you care. If you even care.

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I remember getting a comment like that on a video of me playing kalimba, because one of my friends commented in Hebrew instead of english. I was like 16 and there was no indication in the video I was Jewish or Israeli. Just some music.

That wasn't activism. That's just harassment of minors. Like I couldn't even share a video of me playing a song without people trying to blame me for crimes I didn't commit.

hi! fun fact:

commenting “free palestine” on a post made by a jewish person simply living their life is actually not activism! it is antisemitism. hope this helps! :)

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Don't forget "ghetto" too.

Me: I wish goyim would make an effort to learn about Judaism and Jewish culture and history

Goyim: utterly butcher the terms “Zionism” “Ashkenazi” “Sephardi” “Mizrachi” “tikkun olam” “diaspora” “Holocaust”

Me: ok never mind, stop learning. No more effort. Don’t learn a new word ever again.

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I was gonna put it in the tags but it was getting too long.

Stop treating this war like a game and especially stop treating it like a fandom. People seriously treat this conflict and especially the current war like a goddamn reality show. It's disgusting.

They hide behind the mask of activism and righteousness to hide their bigotry. Both "sides" are guilty of this, both "pro-pals" and "pro-israel" people. So many of them are either antisemites, islamphobes, or both.

I'm getting sick of it. I want to live in peace and I want my neighbours to live in peace. I want children to be able to go to school without having to fear getting bombed.

We're human. Get this through your skull. Israelis are human. Palestinians are human. Jews are human. Muslims are human. We're all human.

The real sides aren't pro-israel and pro-palestine. The sides are pro-peace and pro-war. Pro settling this conflict already so we could fucking love our life in peace and pro dragging it out forever because we refuse to believe everyone can all exist in the same land in peace.

People who consider themselves pro-palestinian and go and attack synagogues are not pro peace.

People who consider themselves Zionists but also believe we need to flatten and take control over Gaza are not pro peace.

They're the people treating this war like a game and I'm sick and tired of watching them take over the internet with their stupid opinions. You're adding oil to the fire. You're actively lighting the match. You're trying to turn us against each other but that's not going to work for you.

Peace will win, at the end. Humanity will win. We will find a solution without the help of people who're only looking to fuel their hatred.

And fuck everyone who think otherwise.

remember that palestinians are humans: they are mohammed and amal and khaled and fatima and ahmed and sana.

remember that jews are humans: they are david and tamar and eitan and yael and ariel and noa.

we are not sides. we are not pawns. we are people. we have passions and hobbies and dreams. so stop treating this conflict like a game.

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Sharing our Joy without sharing our pain isn't support, it's idealization. You can't support a group while ignoring their struggle, you can't choose to only look at what's nice and pretty and fun.

And I'm sad, because the world is always so hard for us to live in, and especially now, and the people who say the support us don't even do the bare minimum to show it.

it's so annoying seeing posts about Jewish culture—cutesy posts about fighting with g-d that appeal to Christian atheists' religious trauma, posts with Jewish music, posts with pictures of beautiful Jews—getting tens or even hundreds of thousands of notes, but the moment someone makes a post about antisemitism—about how it's built in to Western society, about how it's insidious and creeping, about how you've probably internalized it, about the difficulties we face and the grief we feel—they fail to break jumblr containment. Don't get me wrong, I love that goyim are celebrating Jewish culture as something beautiful and wonderful, but that can't be all we are to you. We're real people with real problems that you can't just ignore in favor of reblogging posts about bagels or whatever

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The smoothie idea feels really familiar Joy... Could it be by any chance related to the time you suggested only eating 7/11 smoothies during Pesach to keep kosher? 🤔

Let's write about Jewish characters in dynamic ways- that make it clear "Yes this is us. Yes, we are living our lives with this happiness and ritual, and we love it. "

Like it's so easy to write about, to have casual observances of Judaism and cultural practices be in the background of stories. I'll write of the few examples I can think of in my frame of reference as a college student-

there's a mezuza in the doorway of a college kid's apartment. Whenever his friends come over, it's a reach for some of them to touch it because both he and the rabbi who installed it are 6 foot three. The others feel like a middle school boy slapping the ceiling as they try and reach for the damn thing.

Characters rush on public transport to get to a rabbi's house on shabbat. The train is due. There's a flurry of regrouping, then trying to call a missing friend to get there, and then the process of methodically hiding Magen davids and jewish objects because getting to shabbat dinner without a situation was an order from college Hillel staff.

A character is half-drunk at 2 AM at the convenience store but has to scan the list of ingredients on their chemically disgusting snack for gelatin.

Said character is prevented by her friends from only sustaining herself on 7/11 slushees "even though it's all kosher!"

There are references to the Purim incident constantly- it is never clarified what happened on Purim.

the hypothetical gang of characters are in the middle of nowhere on a grand magical adventure. The main character notices a mezuza on a door of a cabin, knocks on it, and has an in-depth conversation with the resident. Then, he waves his friends over. "Hey, guys! We have a place to stay tonight!" Because through the magic of Jewish geography, it was discovered that the grumpy old Jewish man in the woods is the grand uncle of one of his Jewish Day school teachers

A character who eats cheesy bacon bagels regularly on passover has a deep respect for jewish ritual items. He kisses the siddurim as they're handed back into a pile, he always kisses his kippah that he wears for ritual purposes of shabbats and minions. He's very careful with these objects and keeps on claiming dropping something He is observant, and he cares so much, but not in the "typical" way. Just... please show the nuance in practice.

The big "going out night" for our fearless college student isn't Friday but saturday night because of shabbat.

The stain on the rabbi's couch is not to be mentioned

A character keeps on mentioning the stain anyway.

Jewish goodbyes after any event take a minimum of two hours and that's why the gang is delayed on their journey to save the world .

I want more representation than characters in novels saying "haha I'm jewish but eat bacon and love Christmas!" in such flat ways. Please feel free to add more hypothetical ways of representation in the comments !!! About or inspired by your own life and experiences ! Let's make this post vibrant!

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The reason we think "Queers for Palestine" is ridiculous isn't because queers shouldn't support Palestine. It's because of the way they claim to support it that people make fun of it.

Now don't get me wrong, there's definitely queerphobic zionists. Not hard to find them all around Reddit - which is definitely known as a platform of people with chill opinions and not major extremists. But did you stop to think why queer Zionists are so appalled by this movement?

Palestinians deserve their own state. I have always supported this. But when you fight for the rights of Palestinians queers, you need to actually listen to them and understand that Palestine is currently not a safe space for them.

Israel giving refuge to Palestinian queers isn't pinkwashing. Israel having passed the law that lets same-sex couples adopt half a year ago wasn't pinkwashing either. Israel having an improvement in queer rights Is Not Pinkwashing. And saying queer Palestinians are currently safer in Israel is not pinkwashing!!

Fighting for Palestine to be free as a queer person? You need you opposite Hamas. Hamas are openly queerphobic. You need to understand Israel is literally the safest place for any queer in the middle east. Fight for their right to hold a pride parade and get married in Palestine.

They'll have a country, and then what? Then what will queer Palestinians do? What type of government will they have? Blind support won't help them, you need to actually understand what's going on and what they need. Just having a country won't be enough.

Free Gaza from Hamas. And free Palestine. But free it from Hamas first, or you're just fucking everyone over.

does anyone else find it really ironic that leftists accuse us of "pinkwashing" when we point out the ways israel is actually not half bad in terms of gay rights and then turn around and actually pretend that theres any amount of gay rights in palestine?