pour one out for the site that literally nobody used
alas, poor Google+, we didn’t want to know ya.
What’s hilarious is the number of times I’ve read/seen the sneering “no one used it or liked it” and I’m part of a circle of people who are substantively being effected by this. A group of people left LJ around the Russian thing, but never got into DreamWidth. In fact a lot had set up accounts as early adopters and found it worked for us around our friendship groups that didn’t fit on LJ, DreamWidth or for a group of us… those that didn’t want to be on FB at all anymore. Twitter is too short, tumblr is an all or nothing shouting match with the world. So we ended up there.
So yeah, wasn’t a cuppa for a lot of people but despite what the responders keep insisting, there were a bunch of us who did in fact use it to great effect.
I’d say my circle has about 15 guys and of them the overlap is substantial but at outside I’d say probably around 100 of us communicate in a tight constellation that goes well up to higher numbers. Which is still small, yes I’m aware. But it’s not none and it does actually mean a bunch of us are probably going to fall out of touch – which is depressing us all. Because there’s no where else that is going to do what we were doing there.
Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and my cupboards bare, I have some food but it will not last and I still do not know how I will cover all the utility bills.
I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.
I have the opportunity to move, and this is something I desperately need to do for my health and well being, I will have better access to medical care and the services I require. To make this work I am going to need to be bringing more funds than my disability payment, I really need to get some art together and get more things on my redbubble, I would love to do something like a patreon but I don’t think I can put out timely content at this time.
I have a scanner now, I am desperately in need of a new computer, I have been using a borrowed computer for the last few months and will have to give it back before I move, and it is not compatible with my scanner and I am unable to add editing software to it even if I could.
I am trying to raise at least $1000 at this time, for moving expenses and a new laptop, I am trying to move forward but there is so much holding me back and I need help.
I’m not even worried about the laptop at this point I just really need to move and I need help to do it, anything helps.
It’s Oct 1st, in just over a week I will be moving and I’m really hoping this works out. I figure I’m $400 short at this time.
Oct 8th, could still use around $250, moving in less than a week.
there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s
Image is a facebook post from Melvinder Singh reading
At work.
Him: This ‘sexual harrassment’ shit is fucking ridiculous. What, now I can’t even tell a woman she is pretty without getting in shite for it?
Me: Well, we’ve worked together for 2 years and you’ve never told me I’m pretty.
Him: That’s different because you’re a dude, like me.
Me: Gotta tell ya, that’s a little disappointing because I think you’re pretty.
Him: Cut that shit, bro. You’re creeping me out.
Me: Soooo me telling you that you’re pretty when you neither asked for nor welcomed comments about your appearance is making you feel uncomfortable. Interesting.
Friendly October reminder not to put Spock or other Jewish characters in costumes with horns
to clarify: it is an antisemitic idea that Jews have horns (dating to a mistranslation of karan (shone) v keren (horns) ) which was perpetuated in art by the likes of Michelangelo. this is not a thing of the past–some gentiles still believe that jewish people have horns, and putting jewish characters in costumes/aus with horns is insensitive at best and also really fuckin gross
also do not depict Jewish characters as demons there is a very long history of Jews being seen as demons and that being used to kill us
please do not dress Jewish characters in costumes that are priest outfit or nun outfit or with crosses
Just to give y’all an idea of how modern the horn issue is: My dad, when he went to college in the early 1980’s, was asked by someone who had never met a Jew before where his horns were. In the 1980’s. My dad was asked where his horns were. This was only 30 years ago. I have been lucky not to deal with that particular stereotype in my lifetime, but that was less than a decade before I was born. And I know other Jews in areas where Jews are scarce have dealt with this much more recently than the 80’s.
Yup. When my mom went to college, her freshman year roommate woke up the first Sunday and started getting dressed for church. My mom was still in bed, so the roommate came over and woke her up.
Roommate: Did you want to come to church with me, or do you have your own church you’re going to?
Mom: Well, I don’t really go to religious services, but if I did I would go to a synagogue, not a church, because I’m Jewish.
(Long silence. My mom opens one eye to see her roommate staring in shock.)
Roommate: You … you don’t look Jewish.
Mom: (Who looks VERY Jewish) What do you mean?
Roommate: Well, my pastor always told me that Jews have horns and a tail.
Long story short: they didn’t end up getting along very well.
I’ve been asked about my horns as recently as 1997. In a public school in New Jersey.
It would b cool of my non-Jewish followers to reblog this!!! Spread this bc it’s scary and real and you should know!
I see a lot of people in the comments focusing on the fact that it’s Spock in the OP example, and asking what he has to do with it since Spock is a Vulcan, not Jewish.
Apart from the fact that Leonard Nimoy is Jewish in real life – which should be enough all by itself since despite Zachary Quinto’s excellent turn as the character Nimoy is still the iconic cultural precept – but he also heavily and explicitly used his heritage to influence Spock as a character.
Spock’s outsider role on the Enterprise and among other Vulcans due to his mixed ancestry is based on assimilation issues and prejudice faced by Jews in American society.
Many aspects of Vulcan philosophy were based on various Rabbinic and Talmudic teachings.
The infamous Vulcan Salute itself is based on the raising of the hands during a blessing.
Spock as a fictional person might be a member of an alien species and not technically a follower of the Jewish faith, but the character was based on and embodies several aspects of Judaism in general and Leonard Nimoy’s experiences as a Jew in particular. As the original and basis for all later Vulcans, it extends to the rest of them as well. That doesn’t mean he can’t be portrayed participating in non-Jewish events and celebrations – I eat candy on Halloween and I join friends for Christmas dinner every year – but you can’t ignore the background and history of the character.
Remember that when you’re including him in Halloween or Christmas stories.
Along the same lines, Superman is also an inherently Jewish character who was written as a metaphor for Jewish immigrant experience, so don’t put horns on him either.
A LOT of comic book characters are Jewish because a lot of the early creators were Jewish. Magneto, Kitty Pryde, the original comic Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Polaris, Batwoman, Doc Samson, Martin Stein (part of Firestorm), Ben Grimm…there’s a lot.
Remember the shitstorm over nazi!Cap?
Cap’s CREATORS were Jewish. So making him a fucking Nazi was so many shades of wrong.
Also Jewish: Billy Kaplan aka Wiccan aka future Demiurge
Yeah. I didn’t go through the entire list because there really are a lot. The American superhero comic would not be the genre it is without an entire bunch of truly talented Jews.
“I visited the
pumpkin patch yesterday and decided to bring home a pumpkin that in
shape appeared to be a penguin. Friends and family were mystified until I
started painting him.“
the idea that non sga bisexuals aren’t queer is a result of the homonormativity that pushes the idea that the salient feature of bisexuality which makes it “queer” is attraction to similar genders and not attraction to multiple genders. the truth is that bisexuality exists in conjunction with but entirely separate from homosexuality. we are not queer because of SGA (although for some of us that too is an aspect of our queerness/the only thing that makes them queer, which is valid but not a universal experience) we are queer due to our attraction to multiple genders and we deserve to be recognised and respected for that
when you’re straight but you’re mad about it
This is why I hate the term “queer”. It was used by straight people as a slur in the past, and it’s used by straight people to try and place themselves in gay spaces today.
Here’s the thing:
Bisexuality means attraction to both sexes. Not this absurd newspeak definition of “two or more genders”. Sexuality is about sex, not gender. Homosexual males are attracted to the male sex. Homosexual females are attracted to the female sex. Transgenderism has nothing to do with sexual attraction, and should never have been lumped in with bisexuality/homosexuality. But it was, and now people think that means that homosexual people should be attracted to the opposite sex if that sex identifies as their gender. But gender is made up, whereas sex and sexual attraction is a biological reality. So it’s insane to think that anyone should try to overcome their biological reality in order to satisfy somebody else’s demand to have their socially constructed identity validated.
I’m a Fucking WLW
Okay? Also if you’re gonna say certain people can’t interact with you in your About, you probably shouldn’t be seeking out and interacting with those people
I don’t know how to break this to you but ur on my post. I made this post. You aren’t supposed to be here.
When are exclusionists going to fucking realize that the ACTUAL straight people in society don’t give a flying fuck whether a bi/pan/queer person is “SGA” or not? Like… They still going to call you a f*g or a weirdo. They’re still going to assault you for being different. They’re still going to corrective rape you to turn you straight.
Like… It seems to me that exclusionists are under the impression that people are going to go “oh hey wtf kind of queer are you?” and then someone says “I’m a hetero-romantic asexual” and the response is going to be “oh sweet, you’re one of us, come on buddy, let’s go oppress those dirty SGA queers!”
No. ANYTHING that isn’t a heterosexual, heteroromantic, allosexual, cisgender response is going to be ridiculed and included in anti-LGBTQ+ oppression, because fucking homophobes don’t CARE about the specifics. They don’t CARE about the split attraction model or if someone is SGA or not. They will see someone different, someone who isn’t exactly like them, and they will throw the exact same bullshit at them that they give the rest of us.
And the sooner exclusionists realize that we are all fighting very similar battles against the same social institutions and the same prejudices, the sooner they can put on their big-kid pants, stop whining about people depleting non-tangible resources (and also tangible ones, because actually bi and ace people are being DENIED the same amount of resources as L and G people), and realize that not everyone is exactly like them, then they can stop peddling the same bullshit that homophobes and transphobes are by rejecting and ostracizing everyone who isn’t just like them or isn’t the “right” kind of queer.
On this day in music history: October 10, 1902 – Luthier Orville H. Gibson establishes the Gibson Mandolin Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd. in Kalamazoo, MI. Gibson begins crafting mandolins in his home workshop beginning in 1894, being the first to build mandolins and guitars featuring hand carved arch tops, similar to the tops on violins and other classical string instruments. Gibson is granted a patent for his unique design. These innovations help to further popularize these instruments, in part by making them more durable and louder when played. When demand for Gibson’s instruments becomes too great for his small shop, he makes plans to expand his business with other luthiers and craftsmen helping him build instruments. The company eventually becomes known as the Gibson Guitar Company, who come forth with many innovations in stringed instruments. They revolutionize the development of the acoustic and electric guitars.
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