I have to hand it to Donald Trump, I didn’t think the sequel to the 1932 Great Emu War would be a trade war against the penguin nation but he truly continues to be an innovator in the stupidity industry

For further reading of this absurdity.

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

The FAA had to explicitly make rules about how long pilots have to have off between shifts, and how far away from their home you can pin their home airport, because it doesn't mean shit that someone has 10 hours between shifts if they have a 2 hour commute each way. They had to make these rules because multiple passenger airplanes crashed because the pilots were exhausted from tight scheduling. Employers won't just work you to death, they'll take a hundred random customers with you.

really i think the key difference between david tennant and peter capaldi as fans of the show they were in is that david tennant's childhood obsession shows through when he comes face to face with elisabeth sladen in school reunion with all the joy of someone who was in love with the show as a kid in the 70s. you know, like a normal person. (by doctor who standards.) whereas peter capaldi's childhood obsession shows through when he comes face to face with creepy mummy-like cybermen based off a partly-lost william hartnell serial which is deeply deeply disturbing on a psychological level with all the glee of someone who was disturbed on a psychological level by the show as a kid in the 60s

I wish I could have warm fur. Like her.

i couldnt resist her Enchanting Shape

youre so fuckign right

this is honestly so endearing

Source on the Morgan Library exhibit:

People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

it literally could use a little clouds if i had to be honest

also the video above is the one i meant to post LMAOOO OOPS with the bacon and eggs.

from this post.

If "converting just to be able to say 'as a Jew'" had a face...

And there's a difference between being born a Jew and not keeping kashrut, in which case you're a Jew and have nothing to do against it (even converting to another religion doesn't make you not a Jew in Judaism), and choosing to convert, going through whatever process this individual went through (which I daresay was not even comprehensive enough to fit what someone who converts to Reform goes through) and then violating one of Judaism's core mitzvot first thing thereafter.

You don't have to convert. Nobody forces you to be a Jew. Hashem loves you just the way you are, Jewish, Muslim or Christian. Converting means you're willing to take on at least some mitzvot. It's like barging into someone's home and start breaking their china. This is so disrespectful. This is literally the definition of טובל ושרץ בידו. Dipping (in the mikvah) holding a sheretz (an unkosher meat). This is just disgusting. The reform movement should really have a better way of checking who actually converts because they want to be a Jew and who just wants to use it as a token. This individual doesn't even represent the reform movement, however divergent from Halacha it unfortunately is.

It goes so against my normal values to even say this but like... Is it possible for conversions to get revoked? It seems malicious and crazy disrespectful to not only do all this but also film it and present it as okay

I think not be recognized is the option, and yeah, I know no Jew who would recognize this lady as a jew

i mean

even if you don't keep kosher regularly you could at least have the good sense to NOT EAT BACON THAT DAY?? if only just for thematic significance??? if you're like "im wearing my hoodie with hebrew on it" then you're clearly thinking at least that element through

I usually eat kosher style but if i was going into a mikveh i would check the boxes of all the foods i had for breakfast even if id seen a kashrut on them a month ago, for the same reason i dont do the shabbat blessings on uncertified challah. it just feels wrong.

one single day and you couldn't take a beeak from bacon for one meal? why are you even converting

My stepmother is ger. My two best friends are gerim. I do not say this lightly. She is not a fucking Jew.

I feel so bad for the actual Gerey Tzedek, who went through a challenging, time-consuming process to become Jews, and now have to see this lady just spitting on their journey. Gosh.

THIS IS NOT A GIORET. THIS IS A GRIFTER.

Oh. So she just had a Mikveh attendant observe her immersion?? She didn't have her Rabbis in attendance? Soooo what she's actually admitting is that her conversion isn't even halachically valid.

But more than that, she LIED to her Beit Din. This lady is still celebrating Christmas. She is still eating treyf (like, not keeping strict kosher is one thing, but eating PORK?? on your Mikveh day???). She's still behaving as a Christian. And because of that, whatever Reform (or possibly Reconstructionist) Rabbi oversaw her conversion process should revoke her conversion on the basis of deceit.

This shit makes me SO ANGRY.

I am a convert! It took me five fucking years to convert! (Due to having to start over again and life happenings) I don’t keep fully kosher (I don’t eat treif animals and that’s about it) but I converted reform and let me tell you, discussions about kashrut and keeping the laws, and our relationship with them are ABSOLUTELY fucking part of it. I had my beit din, I had two rabbis (one had to attend the beit din online) standing right outside the mikveh door and the attendant in with me to make sure I was doing everything properly. I absolutely DO NOT keep Christian holidays. (The most I do is go to Xmas dinner and Easter brunch at my mom’s house. My home is UNMISTAKABLY Jewish)

Im angry because what the actual fuck. I’m not saying you have to be a Zionist to convert. Cause shit that’s for another conversation entirely. (Zionism is a nuanced issue at its core and I know that goyim have co-opted the word for their own purposes and I’m not going to get into that here) but eating bacon after the mikveh? Are you fucking kidding me?!

💙💙💙💙

like i am just saying. “hybrid online community.” wtaf????

also to all sincere and serious converts: this is absolutely not something you all do and we know that. i just want to preface so none of this comes across the other way. i’m trying to discuss a particular new phenomenon post oct 7.

(thank you to everyone who talked about their experiences btw 💙💙 thank you @disgruntled-detectives !!)

also i have issues with her filming at all and filming the front of the mikveh.

Does she have duets off?

Okay yeah this pisses me off and I am someone who is somewhat uncomfortable with scrutinising converts for their sincerity, as I've previously been subject to this type of treatment for things like disagreeing with another person's beliefs (unrelated to I/P).

I finished my conversion over a year ago after 6 years of study and Jewish life, and the mikvah was a sacred, spiritual experience for me. I'm not sure what happens in Masorti Judaism, but in Progressive Judaism the mikvah immersion has to be witnessed by 3 Jews to ensure it's in accordance with halacha. My immersion was witnessed by my female rabbi and two of my friends. Three Jewish women all from different backgrounds and different ways of observance, all connected to their Jewish identity, helping another Jewish woman to complete their journey. It was the most amazing experience and I'm desperate to go back.

And look. It's not my place to criticise how another Jew keeps kashrut or doesn't- I'm certainly not strict about it myself. But fucking bacon?? On your mitzvah day?? Really?

also there isnt a single other video about judaism. just xmas and

Okay.

Hey what.

See now I'm more than angry. Fuck Christmas. I was pagan for well over a decade before I finally made the decision to convert. Every sacred text and every grimoire I have is buried in my mother's front yard. I gave up half my life's work to fucking be here. How DARE you. How the fuck do you go from celebrating YOM KIPPUR a MONTH AGO into the fucking thinning of the veils talk with the ghosts holiday, something that is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN in Judaism. Every Jew AND pagan I know would be upset with this. You fucking know better.

I guess she likes to start the list as early as possible for next year 🤷‍♀️

also the video above is the one i meant to post LMAOOO OOPS with the bacon and eggs.

from this post.

If "converting just to be able to say 'as a Jew'" had a face...

And there's a difference between being born a Jew and not keeping kashrut, in which case you're a Jew and have nothing to do against it (even converting to another religion doesn't make you not a Jew in Judaism), and choosing to convert, going through whatever process this individual went through (which I daresay was not even comprehensive enough to fit what someone who converts to Reform goes through) and then violating one of Judaism's core mitzvot first thing thereafter.

You don't have to convert. Nobody forces you to be a Jew. Hashem loves you just the way you are, Jewish, Muslim or Christian. Converting means you're willing to take on at least some mitzvot. It's like barging into someone's home and start breaking their china. This is so disrespectful. This is literally the definition of טובל ושרץ בידו. Dipping (in the mikvah) holding a sheretz (an unkosher meat). This is just disgusting. The reform movement should really have a better way of checking who actually converts because they want to be a Jew and who just wants to use it as a token. This individual doesn't even represent the reform movement, however divergent from Halacha it unfortunately is.

It goes so against my normal values to even say this but like... Is it possible for conversions to get revoked? It seems malicious and crazy disrespectful to not only do all this but also film it and present it as okay

I think not be recognized is the option, and yeah, I know no Jew who would recognize this lady as a jew

i mean

even if you don't keep kosher regularly you could at least have the good sense to NOT EAT BACON THAT DAY?? if only just for thematic significance??? if you're like "im wearing my hoodie with hebrew on it" then you're clearly thinking at least that element through

I usually eat kosher style but if i was going into a mikveh i would check the boxes of all the foods i had for breakfast even if id seen a kashrut on them a month ago, for the same reason i dont do the shabbat blessings on uncertified challah. it just feels wrong.

one single day and you couldn't take a beeak from bacon for one meal? why are you even converting

My stepmother is ger. My two best friends are gerim. I do not say this lightly. She is not a fucking Jew.

I feel so bad for the actual Gerey Tzedek, who went through a challenging, time-consuming process to become Jews, and now have to see this lady just spitting on their journey. Gosh.

THIS IS NOT A GIORET. THIS IS A GRIFTER.

Oh. So she just had a Mikveh attendant observe her immersion?? She didn't have her Rabbis in attendance? Soooo what she's actually admitting is that her conversion isn't even halachically valid.

But more than that, she LIED to her Beit Din. This lady is still celebrating Christmas. She is still eating treyf (like, not keeping strict kosher is one thing, but eating PORK?? on your Mikveh day???). She's still behaving as a Christian. And because of that, whatever Reform (or possibly Reconstructionist) Rabbi oversaw her conversion process should revoke her conversion on the basis of deceit.

This shit makes me SO ANGRY.

I am a convert! It took me five fucking years to convert! (Due to having to start over again and life happenings) I don’t keep fully kosher (I don’t eat treif animals and that’s about it) but I converted reform and let me tell you, discussions about kashrut and keeping the laws, and our relationship with them are ABSOLUTELY fucking part of it. I had my beit din, I had two rabbis (one had to attend the beit din online) standing right outside the mikveh door and the attendant in with me to make sure I was doing everything properly. I absolutely DO NOT keep Christian holidays. (The most I do is go to Xmas dinner and Easter brunch at my mom’s house. My home is UNMISTAKABLY Jewish)

Im angry because what the actual fuck. I’m not saying you have to be a Zionist to convert. Cause shit that’s for another conversation entirely. (Zionism is a nuanced issue at its core and I know that goyim have co-opted the word for their own purposes and I’m not going to get into that here) but eating bacon after the mikveh? Are you fucking kidding me?!

💙💙💙💙

like i am just saying. “hybrid online community.” wtaf????

also to all sincere and serious converts: this is absolutely not something you all do and we know that. i just want to preface so none of this comes across the other way. i’m trying to discuss a particular new phenomenon post oct 7.

(thank you to everyone who talked about their experiences btw 💙💙 thank you @disgruntled-detectives !!)

also i have issues with her filming at all and filming the front of the mikveh.

Does she have duets off?

Okay yeah this pisses me off and I am someone who is somewhat uncomfortable with scrutinising converts for their sincerity, as I've previously been subject to this type of treatment for things like disagreeing with another person's beliefs (unrelated to I/P).

I finished my conversion over a year ago after 6 years of study and Jewish life, and the mikvah was a sacred, spiritual experience for me. I'm not sure what happens in Masorti Judaism, but in Progressive Judaism the mikvah immersion has to be witnessed by 3 Jews to ensure it's in accordance with halacha. My immersion was witnessed by my female rabbi and two of my friends. Three Jewish women all from different backgrounds and different ways of observance, all connected to their Jewish identity, helping another Jewish woman to complete their journey. It was the most amazing experience and I'm desperate to go back.

And look. It's not my place to criticise how another Jew keeps kashrut or doesn't- I'm certainly not strict about it myself. But fucking bacon?? On your mitzvah day?? Really?

also the video above is the one i meant to post LMAOOO OOPS with the bacon and eggs.

from this post.

If "converting just to be able to say 'as a Jew'" had a face...

And there's a difference between being born a Jew and not keeping kashrut, in which case you're a Jew and have nothing to do against it (even converting to another religion doesn't make you not a Jew in Judaism), and choosing to convert, going through whatever process this individual went through (which I daresay was not even comprehensive enough to fit what someone who converts to Reform goes through) and then violating one of Judaism's core mitzvot first thing thereafter.

You don't have to convert. Nobody forces you to be a Jew. Hashem loves you just the way you are, Jewish, Muslim or Christian. Converting means you're willing to take on at least some mitzvot. It's like barging into someone's home and start breaking their china. This is so disrespectful. This is literally the definition of טובל ושרץ בידו. Dipping (in the mikvah) holding a sheretz (an unkosher meat). This is just disgusting. The reform movement should really have a better way of checking who actually converts because they want to be a Jew and who just wants to use it as a token. This individual doesn't even represent the reform movement, however divergent from Halacha it unfortunately is.

It goes so against my normal values to even say this but like... Is it possible for conversions to get revoked? It seems malicious and crazy disrespectful to not only do all this but also film it and present it as okay

I think not be recognized is the option, and yeah, I know no Jew who would recognize this lady as a jew

i mean

even if you don't keep kosher regularly you could at least have the good sense to NOT EAT BACON THAT DAY?? if only just for thematic significance??? if you're like "im wearing my hoodie with hebrew on it" then you're clearly thinking at least that element through

I usually eat kosher style but if i was going into a mikveh i would check the boxes of all the foods i had for breakfast even if id seen a kashrut on them a month ago, for the same reason i dont do the shabbat blessings on uncertified challah. it just feels wrong.

one single day and you couldn't take a beeak from bacon for one meal? why are you even converting

My stepmother is ger. My two best friends are gerim. I do not say this lightly. She is not a fucking Jew.

I feel so bad for the actual Gerey Tzedek, who went through a challenging, time-consuming process to become Jews, and now have to see this lady just spitting on their journey. Gosh.

THIS IS NOT A GIORET. THIS IS A GRIFTER.

Oh. So she just had a Mikveh attendant observe her immersion?? She didn't have her Rabbis in attendance? Soooo what she's actually admitting is that her conversion isn't even halachically valid.

But more than that, she LIED to her Beit Din. This lady is still celebrating Christmas. She is still eating treyf (like, not keeping strict kosher is one thing, but eating PORK?? on your Mikveh day???). She's still behaving as a Christian. And because of that, whatever Reform (or possibly Reconstructionist) Rabbi oversaw her conversion process should revoke her conversion on the basis of deceit.

This shit makes me SO ANGRY.

I am a convert! It took me five fucking years to convert! (Due to having to start over again and life happenings) I don’t keep fully kosher (I don’t eat treif animals and that’s about it) but I converted reform and let me tell you, discussions about kashrut and keeping the laws, and our relationship with them are ABSOLUTELY fucking part of it. I had my beit din, I had two rabbis (one had to attend the beit din online) standing right outside the mikveh door and the attendant in with me to make sure I was doing everything properly. I absolutely DO NOT keep Christian holidays. (The most I do is go to Xmas dinner and Easter brunch at my mom’s house. My home is UNMISTAKABLY Jewish)

Im angry because what the actual fuck. I’m not saying you have to be a Zionist to convert. Cause shit that’s for another conversation entirely. (Zionism is a nuanced issue at its core and I know that goyim have co-opted the word for their own purposes and I’m not going to get into that here) but eating bacon after the mikveh? Are you fucking kidding me?!

💙💙💙💙

like i am just saying. “hybrid online community.” wtaf????

also to all sincere and serious converts: this is absolutely not something you all do and we know that. i just want to preface so none of this comes across the other way. i’m trying to discuss a particular new phenomenon post oct 7.

(thank you to everyone who talked about their experiences btw 💙💙 thank you @disgruntled-detectives !!)

also i have issues with her filming at all and filming the front of the mikveh.

Does she have duets off?

Okay yeah this pisses me off and I am someone who is somewhat uncomfortable with scrutinising converts for their sincerity, as I've previously been subject to this type of treatment for things like disagreeing with another person's beliefs (unrelated to I/P).

I finished my conversion over a year ago after 6 years of study and Jewish life, and the mikvah was a sacred, spiritual experience for me. I'm not sure what happens in Masorti Judaism, but in Progressive Judaism the mikvah immersion has to be witnessed by 3 Jews to ensure it's in accordance with halacha. My immersion was witnessed by my female rabbi and two of my friends. Three Jewish women all from different backgrounds and different ways of observance, all connected to their Jewish identity, helping another Jewish woman to complete their journey. It was the most amazing experience and I'm desperate to go back.

And look. It's not my place to criticise how another Jew keeps kashrut or doesn't- I'm certainly not strict about it myself. But fucking bacon?? On your mitzvah day?? Really?

💙 sephardic pesach traditions!