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Really tired of online autistic communities (usually populated by high-masking and level 1 ASD people) remaking Aspie Supremacy but with "neurodiversity-affirming" jargon.

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Why is it that it never seems to occur to y'all that Jews who oppose the war in Gaza, or name the Nakba or the apartheid system in the West Bank as things that exist and are bad, or oppose Zionism, are doing it out of actual sincere desire for justice and ethics?

Why do you always assume we're doing it to be "good Jews" or to save our skins or for social media clout? It's never occurred to you that we oppose the war in Gaza because people in Gaza are suffering and we actually sincerely care about that?

Honestly the level of false motives you ascribe to us would be antisemitic if it was coming from goyim.

And it's just disrespectful. Feel free to disagree with us. But please for half a second assume that we're not doing this to try to earn cookies from goyim.

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I think Tumblr definitely did that thing where it unfollowed people for me (maybe because I don't really log in all that often?).

So uh... mutuals I guess if I suddenly appear to refollow you that's why.

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The library got it in!! Now I just need to find time to read it!

My library doesn't carry The Cybernetic Tea Shop! :(

I'll have to find it elsewhere.

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Is this actually a community wide or systemic problem or did you just meet one annoying guy

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Just so everyone knows, this whole thing about Columbus having Sephardi DNA is extremely tenuous at best and absolute junk science at worst, meaning nobody should be accepting or citing it as fact.

Some quotes from this article by Sam Jones and Nadeem Badshah:

José Antonio Lorente, a forensic medical expert at the University of Granada who has led the research, said his analysis had revealed that Columbus’s DNA was “compatible” with a Jewish origin. “We have very partial, but sufficient, DNA from Christopher Columbus,” he said. “We have DNA from his son Fernando Colón, and in both the Y [male] chromosome and mitochondrial DNA [transmitted by the mother] of Fernando there are traces compatible with a Jewish origin.”

His history-changing conclusions, however, have been greeted with extreme caution by some of his peers. “Unfortunately, from a scientific point of view, we can’t really evaluate what was in the documentary because they offered no data from the analysis whatsoever,” Antonio Alonso, a geneticist and former director of Spain’s National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences told El País. “My conclusion is that the documentary never shows Columbus’s DNA and, as scientists, we don’t know what analysis was undertaken.” Rodrigo Barquera, an expert in archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said he was surprised the findings had been shared without prior scrutiny from others in the scientific community. “Normally, you send your article to a scientific journal,” he told El País. “An editor is then assigned to the piece and at least three independent reviewers examine the work and decide whether it’s scientifically valid or not. If it is, it gets published and so the rest of the scientific community can say whether they agree with it or not. Putting it on the screen, far from that dialogue and with all this media focus gets in the way of the scientific community being able to say something about it.”

tl;dr the science is not peer-reviewed, the team haven't published their methods, the scientific community at large is calling bullshit, and by their own admission, the sample was partial and showed traces that were compatible with Sephardi origin, nothing overwhelmingly definitive.

Incidentally, this sort of thing happens quite frequently! In 2019, a forensic research team claimed they'd solved the Jack the Ripper case, matching DNA from a crime scene to descendents of a Jewish immigrant named Aaron Kosminski. The findings were published in an academic journal, but were then effectively retracted after complaints from the broader scientific community prompted an investigation by the publisher that ended when the team could not, or would not, produce their original data (incidentally, somebody else cropped up in 2023 claiming they'd used historical medical records to "prove" that Jack the Ripper was a man called Hyam Hyams, and you'll never fucking guess what his ethnicity happened to be).

Another research team in Belgium published "findings" in a non-academic magazine suggesting Hitler might have had Jewish and African ancestry based on the presence the E1b1b haplogroup in a DNA sample. However, as other scientists pointed out, that haplogroup can be found in other populations, and even more importantly, the validity of the sample they used is highly disputed.

Like, I cannot stress enough that "Can we use science to prove this horrible person was Jewish?" is a very common game people freaking love to play, and you should demand an extremely high burden of proof before accepting their word when they tell you they've won.

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My library doesn't carry The Cybernetic Tea Shop! :(

I'll have to find it elsewhere.

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I'm really enjoying Sister, Maiden, Monster so far, but I don't think I'll be able to recommend this book to anyone else. The pandemic and overall hospital trauma in the book is so much.

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Even Though I Knew the End was so good! Excellent pacing and worldbuilding. Edith and Helen own my heart.

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Strange changes in “feminism” have happened since I was a teenager…

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Can I say I think it's insane how "xenophobia is fine if their government is bad enough" is like a mainstream liberal opinion to have. Also just deeply funny to think that way as an american. You think random people should be hated for where they're from except for you? War crimes capital of the world? Please be serious. Or is it like a guilt thing. Idk

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“This thing can’t possibly be an antisemitic dog whistle, it’s just a commonly used phrase!”

My dude you are so close to understanding how pervasive antisemitism is

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Reasons to Watch Drive-Away Dolls (2024):

Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan as Jamie and Marian, in the 90s Lesbian Road Trip Adventure Crime Comedy of Our (My) Dreams

It was delightfully absurd! I love a movie that is off-kilter at every turn!!! The stakes are escalating but rather than suspenseful, it is snappy and spirited

If you have ever wanted to watch a crime movie where the criminals are so incredibly inept at committing crimes that they have to keep pleading with lesbians they've just met to help them, this could be the movie for you

If you have ever wanted to watch a movie where for every scene involving violence there is also a longer lesbian sex scene, this could be the movie for you

Curlie, the Drive-Away Rental Dealer, who is decidedly in a different genre of movie, and who doesn't like people calling him Curlie (his actual name) because it's too familiar, deserves his own shout-out

This movie was exactly the right length!! It didn't drag, it told the story exactly in as much time as it needed (1h24min)

There is only one character in this movie who is based on a real person, and while I could not have predicted who that would be, they were once described with the phrase, "Someone like [them] should be in the Smithsonian."

Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, who are married, in a polymarous relationship and the latter of whom is a lesbian, directed and wrote this self-described B movie and have been trying to get it made for almost 20 years, which is incredible dedication

Quotes like: "Take the wall dildo." "It's your dildo, Suzanne."

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your daily reminder that masculinity ≠ man. "masc privilege" is not a real and masculine lesbians are not upholders of patriarchy for being masculine. in fact, masculine lesbians historically have been subjected to violence for being masculine presenting. butches, studs, and mascs are hyper-sexualized and ostracized from their own community, often at the hands of feminine lesbians. it's not a privilege to be openly lgbt presenting.

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No one wants to talk about how utterly lonely it is being a gender non-conforming woman in the queer community.

How you are not woman enough to be a woman.

How you are not gender non-conforming "in the right way" to speak about those issues.

How you cannot just be both and how that is just as radical as any other queer identity.

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter, or: What Can You Do When He's Drunk Your Sailors.

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We've all gotten just a bit too comfortable being jerks to strangers on the internet I think