I am so normal about BIONICLE

To the Jewish folks of tumblr: I'm sorry. I know this has been a stressful, scary time, and it doesn't look like it'll be letting up yet. The Right's hate has been bold for a while, and the Left has completely thrown you under the bus. I can tell that y'all feel completely alone in the world.

I wish I could make sweeping promises of definite change for the better. I can't. But I can promise that I will remain a friend to the Jewish people. I know I'm just one goy. But one friend is better than none. I'll do what I can.

Judaism ≠ Zionism

We love you, always will.

Okay.

While you are technically correct, I want to make it clear that this post is talking to Zionists too. And by Zionist, I mean Jewish people that recognize a. That they are indigenous to the Levant, b. That they have the right to live in their homeland, and c. That they have as much right to establish an independent nation in their homeland as any other indigenous group.

Zionist is not a dirty word. It is not the Jewish equivalent of a Nazi. It is a multifaceted idea with several different schools of thought, many (if not most) of which recognize Palestinian indigeneity as well. To treat it as problematic or a corruption of Judaism reveals some very dangerous biases that are actively threatening Jews around the world.

I made this post because my dash was filled with mutuals and other people I follow worrying about what the outcome of the U.S. presidential election would mean to Jews worldwide, especially in diaspora. Since then, there have been at least two pogroms in Amsterdam, with more being planned elsewhere in Europe. I made this post because I wanted to reassure them that even if the rest of the world is becoming more and more hostile to Jewish folks, there are still non-Jews that care about them and their safety.

And that includes the safety of Zionists.

I am not going to let anyone co-opt this post to be exclusionary to any subgroup of Jews. I am a friend to the Children of Israel, period. No asterisks, no qualifiers.

I don't think the fact that The Administrator is older than the invention of stairs in TF2 is talked about enough

Curse you Shakespearicles

dramatic irony enjoyers when they know something the characters dont

I say we put Trump's name on everything terrible that happens from his shit. Homeless camps due to recession? Trumpvilles. Tariffs? That's the Trump Tax you pay for!

Add onto this if you have other ideas to add Trump's name to his horrific policies.

Going by the Hoover precedent you're clearly calling back to, homeless person using cardboard and newspaper as bedding material? That's a Trump Blanket.

Yes! Trump blankets!

Rebrand all of his old failed shit.

"Trump Casinos" are the new term for the stock market.

"Trump Airline" is the new term for any aviation disaster under his... well, not watch, as he's fired all of the people responsible for watching.

"Trump University" for the gutted education system.

And, of course...

"Trump steaks" for groceries.

Yes, yes! These are all good!

Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

It's always "oh no my evil clone or twin or whatever is trying to kill me" and never How is my evil clone? Says a lot about society

Me, crashing the fuck out: you think you're better than me? You think you're fucking better than me???

My good clone, dodging a glass: I mean like objectively yeah

"i would have hidden my jewish neighbour!" would you have done it if they were a zionist?

Open question: Which Bionicle character relationships have the most Actual Sibling coded vibes?

Pretty much everyone's dynamic with Lewa in the Toa Mata, plus Gali's relationships with both Pohatu and Kopaka

Imagine unexpectedly popping up in Valhalla with your pants around your ankles because just half a minute ago you were taking a shit so bad that the Viking gods decided that it should count as dying in battle.

Isn't it even worse? You don't just pop up there. You get carried there by a Valkyrie.

You're experiencing a gastrointestinal event, and are really not having a good time, and the suddenly, without any logical way to be present there's a Winged Woman in there with you, in Armor, with Weapons and Helmet, who looks like she could take down Sandor Clegane or Geralt of Rivia in the 10 minutes before waking up, just plugs you from your porcelain throne and doesn't even gives you the chance to pull up your pants before carrying you off.

Guaranteed cure for headaches

@crystaltoa look it’s the plot of Bionicle!

okay so I'm having a debate with my flatmates

are these all different things and if so what do you call them

Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there.

Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and kicked a bit too, but I managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back, getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.

date of origin: 4th of april, 2015.

“#oh my god. ten years”

As far as ethical materials go you can’t really get better than wool.

The sheep need the hair cut.

Nothing dies for it.

Sheep live pretty much wild for most the year.

Placed correctly they maintain a landscape and help the wildlife that live there to thrive.

Doesn’t use Vast Quantities of land for little product.

Not draining inland fresh water oceans.

Been spending thousands of years perfecting the genetics for this purpose.

Comes in many different kinds of uses.

And the animal it comes off is fully edible.

My main issue with it is it has fallen so out of fashion that it pays the farmers who make it more to transport it than they get per fleece, and people have really fucking weird hang ups about the ethics of giving a sheep a hair cut.

Sheep can get infested with wool maggots if they are not shorn.

Also an unshorn sheep can drown if it falls into water, just by the sheer weight of the water its wool can absorb, dragging it down.

A Tunis sheep can live in a large doghouse, and staked in a different place every day, will mow your lawn (buy they get lonely. Buy two).

Light shearing nicks heal fast because the sheep’s waxy lanolin coats their skin. Though most sheep farmers won’t Nick the sheep bc it gets blood on the wool.

Sheep farmers MUST treat their sheep with care, because any little thing that upsets sheep affects the quality of their wool.

Even “natural” fibers like bamboo take TONS of water to process and alkaline dyes to color them. You can dye wool with unsweetened koolaid.

People have been raising sheep for close to 10,000 years. And all that time, we’ve been breeding them for better wool. Most mammals with thick coats shed naturally in the spring, sheep don’t because we bred it out of them.

Sheep and their farmers have an actual symbiotic relationship. Farmers remove their excess wool, keeping them healthy, and then sell that wool to buy what they need.

it’s also naturally antimicrobial and resists odors (unlike polyester, which absorbs them better and makes it harder to wash them out).

Librarians have a bone to pick with President Donald Trump.

On Monday, the Institute of Museum and Library Services placed its entire staff on administrative leave at the Trump administration’s behest ― a move that comes two weeks after the president proposed eliminating the IMLS as part of his ongoing efforts to slash the federal government’s workforce and funding.

That matters to local librarians because the majority of libraries’ federal funding comes from the IMLS. Of the agency’s $290 million budget, about $160 million goes directly to the nation’s libraries, where it’s used to develop literacy programs, workforce training and civic engagement initiatives. Museums and archives get a cut of IMLS funding, too.

As The New York Times reports,the IMLS ― which employs roughly 70 people ― also provides competitive grants directly to libraries of various type: Recently, that’s included things like $250,000 to the Seattle Public Library to support teen mental health and $150,000 to the University of South Florida to develop library resources for autistic patrons.

The American Library Association called the proposed budget cuts “short-sighted” and an “assault” by the Trump administration that would be deeply felt throughout local communities.

“By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration’s executive order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer,” it said.

god, your worst warrior needs money

- The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204)

treating "historians" not only as this unified group but also as a coherent socio-political entity w unified ideas, ideals, goals and methods is actually the reddest possible flag. thats a tell-tale sign that this person doesnt know what the fuck theyre talking about. capital h Historians arent lying to u. capital h Historians arent hiding stuff from u, they dont want u to believe anything, bc Historians isnt an organization or a political affiliation. u know the old saying, 2 jews, 3 opinions? historians r like that too

"Historians dont want u to know *historical figure* was gay!1!!" n its in the 'personal life' section of said figure's wikipedia page

scream. n when u graduate Evil Archeologist Grad School, They send u to rob graves in greece n the global south for the british museum

Dume: The Dark Ages (again)