daloy-politsey

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southerngiyoret

Thing is... the overlap on the diagram could also include hates Jews. Shapiro:

-repeatedly, publicly mocks and belittle women who are rabbis (even specific rabbis), claiming they aren’t real rabbis and shouldn’t do . He does the same to gay Jewish clergy (whom he calls “homosexuals”)
-regularly erases Judaism by talking in terms of “Judeo-Christian” history, values, legacies...something that doesn’t exist because they’re entirely separate traditions with different histories, values, legacies.
-frequently denies that Judaism is or could be pro-choice, telling Jewish woman and rabbis they are wrong and that any Jew who is pro-choice doesn’t know anything about Judaism
-has specifically claimed Reform Jews don’t care about Judaism and are anti-Jewish
-Jews who vote Democrat “don’t give a damn about Judaism”
-literally denies Bernie Sanders’ Jewishness, saying things like, “It doesn’t matter if he’s ethnically Jewish, Sanders is Jewish in name only.”

And this is literally just from things I can remember off the top of my head and quickly confirm before posting.

jump-on-the-band-swaggin

insomniac-arrest

people always talk about how the masses used to watch gladiator fights or public executions for fun, but we rarely discuss how people also went to human medical surgery’s for sport and entertainment, just showed up in a big tent and watched official operations, sometimes a flutist played music in the corner for it

like, “I’m not not dying of some random disease or having to work a 50 hour work day today, better go watch some dude get his leg sawed off in a science tent.”

what I’m saying is that it’s good we invented tv

insomniac-arrest

me, about to have my appendix removed in Victorian England:

random citizens there:

the bard:

daloy-politsey

6eezi

omg okay I’m so tired of this but for the past few days Israel has been indiscriminately bombing Gaza and it’s the start of Ramadan. They’re targeting residential buildings and they also destroyed a number of libraries in Gaza, destroying with them thousands of books.thats obviously not to mention the number of people who died bc of this lol. I’m seeing a lot of people on twitter justifying this by saying “well hamas started the bombing” well first of all, before any rockets were fired, four Palestinians were killed. Funny how the “self defense” excuse only works when we’re not talking about the occupied? This is not my point—I am not defending hamas at all, infact, a lot of the Palestinians I know do not align themselves with hamas at all, me included. Even if hamas fired rockets out of the blue this time, colonized people use violent means of resistance against the state violence they have to endure everyday and It’s just so funny to me how people are fooled into thinking this resistance justifies israel’s collective punishment on gazawis. Like people really say things like this and think they’ve made a point. Like of course there’s no justification for bombing and killing innocent Israeli citizens but COME ON. Justifying this with “hamas fired rockets first” like… colonized people are going to do whatever is necessary to fight against state violence (reminder that I hate hamas) and like… saying shit like that is basically you telling colonized people to just shut up and accept this extermination and that any resistance to this will only justify the extermination

plantyhamchuk:
“ currentsinbiology:
“ Ecologists Have this Simple Request to Homeowners—Plant Native They say the early bird catches the worm. For native songbirds in suburban backyards, however, finding enough food to feed a family is often...

Source: smithsonianmag.com

mijntuin

Worm transplantation

If you’re serious about balcony gardening, or container gardening in general, I think you should perform worm transplantations. The occasional worm gets in with planting material of course, but the soil in containers and pots is usually pretty dead as far as larger animals are concerned. Certainly worms, which can’t climb up multiple stories of a building to get to your balcony, will not often be present in great numbers.

We all know the benefit of worms: they aerate the soil, eat dead material and deliver it back to the soil in the form of fertile castings. If, like me, you don’t want to change the soil of your containers every year, worms are essential in making fertilising your soil easy to do.

You can buy them at a worm farm of, but a kilo may be a bit to much if you only want them to live in some containers or pots. Also price wise, collecting the worms yourself is a better option. To do this, you need to know someone with a garden. Go there, turn over logs, look under paving slabs or water the soil, then put moist cardboard on top. You’ll find worms by the dozens, all for free and easy to pick up. I also included some woodlice, for the odd bit of wood I may have lying around.

If the person with garden you know doesn’t want you to turn over logs and look under pavers, you may want to reconsider your friendship.

Of course, not all worms are created equal. Some live deep down in the earth while others prefer compost heaps and the top layer of the soil. I’d recommend you to only take those that live in the top layer or the compost heap, as they are the ones that munch on the dead plant materials.

When plants grow, they use nutrients from the soil, so you need to feed the soil to keep up with the growing needs of the plants, no matter if there are worms in it or not. If you take parts of the plant to eat, like fruit, leaves or roots, you use some of the nutrients from the soil to sustain your body. Other nutrients from the plants are sadly lost as ‘human waste’ in the largest waste of resources the earth is currently experiencing: sewage.

As people who don’t even have a garden probably don’t have the means of composting their own humanure (the worms don’t eat fast enough to keep up with your production!), the next best option is to buy pelleted manure to feed your soil with. Also add nails and hairs you loose or cut off, combined with old plant materials your balcony- or container garden produces, as well as kitchen waste.

Especially the manure, but also the scraps and body parts, should contain the trace elements your plants need. If you can get your hands on it, garden compost (made by a gardener, not bought in an anonymous sack you don’t know the origin of) could also give you these needed elements, maybe even in greater abundance than manure.

Balcony gardening is limiting the possibilities will be great still. Certainly if you enlist the help of the rest of the animal kingdom.

14 May 2017 © Dirk Hulst of @mijntuin.

revolutionarykoolaid

Today in ridiculously ignored Trump news!

whatbigotspost

Since tumblr hates date tagging…just confirming this is news as of 3/26/19 (aka today as I type this.)

What a GD monster.

thecringeandwincefactory

$72 million for Native Alaskan and Native Hawai’ian education.

Why are so many so gleeful to break or steal what little the poorest and most vulnerable people in the nation have?

brainsforbabyjesus

The thing that makes me giggle about Letterkenny is that it’s marketed as “that show about redneck small town Ontario” and it lures in dudebros with plots about beer/hockey/farts/fighting/sex but then it casually has 2 gay characters, 2 bisexual characters, 1 polyamorous character, a whole bunch of poc, doesn’t slut shame women, pointedly punches guys that honk at women, and is pro-choice.

like, haha beer and farts, by the way don’t talk to women if they don’t want to talk to you.

narishkeyt

profeminist

“Fuck #Ice shoutout to my Mexicans , pass this shit”

- Fabio Ochoa @QuePasaWindow

kropotkinisrecruitin

All the people in the notes saying “they aren’t protected by the Constitution,” know nothing of our laws and constitution. The Constitution does not state anywhere that it’s protections fall only on us citizens, ( in fact if states wanted they could open up voting for non-citizens ) and this is the opinion held by the supreme Court in multiple cases.

( this article also talks a bit about rights https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/t-he-constitutional-rights-of-noncitizens/ )

Just because you don’t like foreign people doesn’t mean they don’t have rights. Even if they didn’t you should still have enough of a heart to care for others.

kropotkinisrecruitin

Hey! This is the link to the cards, a good resource for anyone who needs them or wants to provide them to their community. https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

profeminist

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! Nice work @kropotkinisrecruitin! FOLKS PLEASE SHARE!!!

https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

narishkeyt

glowingforrest

bonding with your houseplants by watering them from a water bottle you’ve already drank from

lezzyharpy

indirect kiss

narishkeyt

memecucker

what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”

ace-and-ranty

That’s actually fascinating, does anyone have any examples?

memecucker

Chinese-American food is a really good example of this and this article provides a good intro to the history http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/03/illustrated-history-of-americanized-chinese-food

voxiferous

I took an entire class about Italian American immigrant cuisine and how it’s a product of their unique immigrant experience. The TL;DR is that many Italian immigrants came from the south (the poor) part of Italy, and were used to a mostly vegetable-based diet. However, when they came to the US they found foods that rich northern Italians were depicted as eating, such as sugar, coffee, wine, and meat, available for prices they could afford for the very first time. This is why Italian Americans were the first to combine meatballs with pasta, and why a lot of Italian American food is sugary and/or fattening. Italian American cuisine is a celebration of Italian immigrants’ newfound access to foods they hadn’t been able to access back home.

(Source: Cinotto, Simone. The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City. Chicago: U of Illinois, 2013. Print.)

emphasisonthehomo

Stuff you Missed in History Class has a really good podcast overview of “Foreign Food” in the US.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

I LOVE learning about stuff like this :D

thyme-for-a-nap

that corned beef and cabbage thing you hear abou irish americans is actually from a similar situation but because they weren’t allowed to eat that stuff due to that artificial famine

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

<3 FOOD HISTORY <3

capriceandwhimsy

Everyone knows Korean barbecue, right? It looks like this, right?

Well, this is called a “flanken cut” and was actually unheard of in traditional Korean cooking. In traditional galbi, the bone is cut about two inches long, separated into individual bones, and the meat is butterflied into a long, thin ribbon, like this:

In fact, the style of galbi with the bones cut short across the length is called “LA Galbi,” as in “Los Angeles-style.” So the “traditional Korean barbecue” is actually a Korean-American dish.

Now, here’s where things get interesting. You see, flanken-cut ribs aren’t actually all that popular in American cooking either. Where they are often used however, is in Mexican cooking, for tablitas.

So you have to imagine these Korean-American immigrants in 1970s Los Angeles getting a hankering for their traditional barbecue. Perhaps they end up going to a corner butcher shop to buy short ribs. Perhaps that butcher shop is owned by a Mexican family. Perhaps they end up buying flanken-cut short ribs for tablitas because that’s what’s available. Perhaps they get slightly weirded out by the way the bones are cut so short, but give it a chance anyway. “Holy crap this is delicious, and you can use the bones as a little handle too, so now galbi is finger food!” Soon, they actually come to prefer the flanken cut over the traditional cut: it’s easier to cook, easier to serve, and delicious, to boot!

Time goes on, Asian fusion becomes popular, and suddenly the flanken cut short rib becomes better known as “Korean BBQ,” when it actually originated as a Korean-Mexican fusion dish!

I don’t know that it actually happened this way, but I like to think it did.

darkersolstice

Corned beef and cabbage as we know it today? That came to the Irish immigrants via their Jewish neighbors at kosher delis.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/

The Irish immigrants almost solely bought their meat from kosher butchers. And what we think of today as Irish corned beef is actually Jewish corned beef thrown into a pot with cabbage and potatoes. The Jewish population in New York City at the time were relatively new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe. The corned beef they made was from brisket, a kosher cut of meat from the front of the cow. Since brisket is a tougher cut, the salting and cooking processes transformed the meat into the extremely tender, flavorful corned beef we know of today.

The Irish may have been drawn to settling near Jewish neighborhoods and shopping at Jewish butchers because their cultures had many parallels. Both groups were scattered across the globe to escape oppression, had a sacred lost homeland, discriminated against in the US, and had a love for the arts. There was an understanding between the two groups, which was a comfort to the newly arriving immigrants. This relationship can be seen in Irish, Irish-American and Jewish-American folklore. It is not a coincidence that James Joyce made the main character of his masterpiece Ulysses, Leopold Bloom, a man born to Jewish and Irish parents.

espanolbot2

Ahh, similar origin to fish and chips in the UK then.

That meal came about either in London or the North of England where Jewish immigrant fried fish venders decided to team up with the Irish cooked potato sellers to produce the meal everyone associates with the UK.

Because while a bunch of stuff from the UK was lifted and adapted from folks we colonised (Mulligatawny soup for example, was an adaptation of a soup recipe found in India and which British chefs tried to approximate back home), some of it was made by folks who actively moved here (like tikka masala, that originated in a restaurant up in Scotland).

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

I knew about tikka masala but had no idea about mulligatawny soup or the origins of fish and chips! :D

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vaspider:
glimmerblossoms:
holyshitwhat:
bonersniper:
Reblog the lgbt spook to piss off a fascist
YES I CAN CONFIRM THIS. WE CALL IT GAYSPER AND IT COMES WITH FRIENDS TOO.
Guys as cute as these are, don’t forget the person who made them, made them in hopes of antagonizing and vilifying the LGBTQ+ community.
Its totes okay to take their power away by co-opting them for us, but I feel like people need to really stop bitching over giving credit to the artist. They are not our friend and don’t deserve any money for these.
No.
This art was NOT created by fascists. This art was STOLEN from an independent artist. I will ABSOLUTELY bitch about credit for artists whose ART WAS STOLEN BY FASCISTS.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/baiiley
“A Gaysper haunts over Europe, the Gaysper of Communism.”
-Karl “Trans Rights” Marx

narishkeyt

leftposting

left-reminders

distinguishedbaloney

Source: @chanbanhi

Source: twitter.com

narishkeyt

why-ask-why

zoinksthisisembarassing

Just screaming

shamethepainaway

95 degrees? You don’t fucking die in 95 degrees.

why-ask-why

Yes, and I thought the same thing too, but please understand… They’re taking about wet-bulb temperature, which I had to look up.

Here’s a YouTube video that explains it too…

So from my limited understanding it would have to be really hot and humid to get a wet-bulb reading of 95°. On the National Weather Service Heat Index, at 80% humidity 95° feels like 136°

Not to panic though. We still have time but I really think it’s up to our youth to take control. Politically and environmentally. Trump just proposed to cut billions of dollars to NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Energy Department, AND the National Cancer Institute. These old rich bastards probably won’t even be alive when it goes down so they don’t care.

cwicseolfor

I live in Texas. Temperatures above 100-101°F (i.e. 38°C) aren’t uncommon in summer but our humidity is often below 40%. In 2009 I was very habituated to the heat, young, fit, and healthy, and I saw forecasts for Taipei, where I’d be traveling, were going to be not higher than 99°F (37°C).

What I did not count on was a typhoon (Morakot) keeping humidity in the 95-99% range.

I had to sit down every minute I walked, even under a cloudy sky. It’s like trying to suck air through a towel soaked in bathwater. I was pouring sweat and it wasn’t evaporating at all because the air was saturated, which is the point of wet bulb temperature readings: if there’s no evaporation, sweating doesn’t cool you. At that temperature, neither does water; everything you drink is the same temperature you are. Staying still, not exerting yourself at all, only keeps it from getting worse; it does not get better. And the environment I was in only went to body temperature and cooled off to the high eighties (30°C) at night: as long as I didn’t move I’d be fine. We also had the privilege of functional technology, iced drinks: in a brownout that’s not an option.

You should absolutely be afraid of this. We must absolutely prevent this happening. We must move now, because humans will assuredly die, are already dying, and because we aren’t the only ones on this planet with the right to live.

crazy-pages

Wet bulb temperatures (which are basically combined humidity and temperature conditions) over body temperature can be thought of as the point where the methods mammals use to regulate body heat just Stop Working. Every motion you make, every breath, every heartbeat, every nerve impulse heats you up and there’s nowhere in your environment you can dump that heat, so you just get hotter and hotter until you reach a temperature where your organs can’t function and you die. There’s nothing you can do to survive that other than ‘get colder’. And as the article pointed out, that may not be possible when heat impacts the power grid.

hannala

THIS IS FUCKING TERRIFYING

flowisaconstruct

Bad news: much of our populace and most of our leaders won’t believe this can happen until it does happen.

bibliohoe

Fuck…

enchainrain

So give up on democracy. Ask for no more permission, make no more demands for change. Act, with your own body, with your own bonds between the people already in your life and where you live. Stop hoping and start doing. Anything, without limits, to make it all just stop. Break it to brake it.

Shredder

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Ecologists Have this Simple Request to Homeowners—Plant Native

Worm transplantation

Just because you don’t like foreign people doesn’t mean they don’t have rights. Even if they didn’t you should still have enough of a heart to care for others.

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! Nice work @kropotkinisrecruitin! FOLKS PLEASE SHARE!!!

https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

THIS IS FUCKING TERRIFYING