Just finished reading Maus for the first time and this part really spoke to me.

I always reblog this when I see it, but this time I want to add something.

Art Spiegelman is not a zionist. He still feels he is a displaced diaspora and does not seem to call himself anti-zionist, but he actively disproves of Israel's actions.

He describes Israel as resembling those with PTSD who begin to beat down on others. He feels it is a failed and very sad idea. I feel people never speak on this, as well as his criticism of the government response to 9/11.

He was in New York as it was happening, he had to pick up his child from school and it actively traumatized him due to his father being a Holocaust survivor. He still actively criticized the US and their bombing of the Middle East, rightfully implying the US government is actively filled with terrorists. It is.

I will not say he is the model perfect opinion, I will not say there is no fault to his work. But he at least acknowledges despite whatever he feels that no one deserves to be terrorized to the degree the Middle East has. Please keep Palestine in your thoughts and do what you can.

YES!!! Given this is my post with the most engagement by far of anything else on my blog, I've been meaning to write another post altogether to talk about Spiegelman's views on Israel, Palestine, and America.

And yes, support Palestine, demand a cease fire, speak out loudly against the genocide Israel is enacting on the Palestinian people, and call for countries around the world to do what they can to cut off support to Israel.

After grasping for his name for several moments I decided to just say, "The Boy with The Face" when trying to to refer to Timothée Chalamet to a friend just now.

I mean, *look* at him:

That's a very facey face!

Hi everyone especially to New Yorkers! Gov Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams are trying to pass a mask ban with the new NY budget. For the sake of our disabled comrades, we can't let this happen!

Please contact the NY Governor's office at 518-474-8390 to voice your opposition to her mask ban (option 2 to get a human, option 1 to leave a message.) If you call, you only have to give your NY Zip Code. You can also use the form here.

Please also contact your other state representatives (state assembly and state senators)

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie: 518-455-3791; Speaker@nyassembly.gov

Assembly Health Committee Chair J. Gustavo Rivera: 518-455-3395; grivera@nysenate.gov

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins: (518) 455-2585; scousins@nysenate.gov 

Senate Health Committee Chair Amy Paulin (a co-sponsor!): 518-455-5585; paulina@nyassembly.gov

Mayor Eric Adams contact form

Non-New Yorkers, contact iLoveNY: info@iloveny.com

Anyone Jewish, please sign the Jews for Mask Rights letter

More details and links, including social media handles for the people mentioned above, at http://bit.ly/StopMaskBanNY.

Please don't let the bystander effect take over--call, email, and contact, don't just reblog.

Explain how you and your loved ones will be impacted by this mask ban--the NYC subway is full of germs, and even if you only visit once a year, a mask ban will affect you! Anyone can get COVID, and anyone can get long COVID. Masking is essential for COVID safety, especially in high-density places like NYC.

Thanks!

You ever think about how the existence of life irrevocably changed the very geology of the planet

Yes, I take a shit everyday.

This is an excellent idea actually.

the number of spacecraft failures recently has been absolutely insane and it all comes down to tech bros barging into the industry going "it's not that hard wtf is nasa so bad" and then completely skipping out on any testing

Recently, a privately funded asteroid mission failed immediately after launch. Here are some choice excerpts from the company's blog post about it:

they cost that much because they do integration testing

.....by skipping integration testing

"skipping integration testing was the right move actually"

come fucking on.

AND YOU FUCKING LAUNCHED ANYWAYS

it failed immediately you dipshits

or you could. i don't know. do integration testing?

source

At that point we should just call it littering.

trepanation gets a bad rap but the thing is that dolphins are the smartest in the sea and they have a hole in theur heads. has anyone considered this

Clearly the dolphins did.

characters whose philosophy is “if i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until there’s nothing left of me.” thank you for everyone’s attention. falls off stage and dies

so gemma was orpheus all along. when she looked back, called mark’s name, and asked him to come home.. innie mark realized he had no feelings for this woman. if she had stayed facing forward maybe the allegiance to his outie would have won out. but gemma turning around made him hesitate long enough for helly to appear. and when she called his name.. it was game over. eurydice embraced the underworld with open arms.

Oh. You're wearing that sweater. Again. You must really think it suits you.

I would die for this dog.

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

So happy to see people enjoying these and spreading the love 💖

UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies! And bonus: cookie kudos.

HTML codes under the cut.

let me tell you, I got a ‘kisses your forehead’ kudos and it absolutely made my day

HOW is it possible that I am seeing this for the first time? Now safely installed in my tumblr short cuts folder. I am SO bad at coding that this is a real life saver.

@justleaveacommentfest for all of ours commenting needs!

I bookmarked these on my AO3 profile, I love them so much!

‼️ so this has been making the reblog rounds again but since december 2024, images in ao3 comments have been disabled in a spam-prevention measure :( -- there's an updated post from the OP that addresses this issue, here -- and more on ao3's disabling of images here

Son of a

You ever think about the MOVE bombing and then think about the fact that so few US Americans even know that the MOVE bombing like. Happened.

"The United States is dedicated to moving bombs away from people who would use them for nefarious purposes! Google MOVE bombing to learn more!"

jesus christ 😐

this also doesn't come close to telling the whole story.

the Philadelphia police harassed the MOVE organization for over a decade. MOVE began with peaceful protests against conditions at long-term-care facilities and against the city Zoo's mistreatment of animals. in 1972, police classified the group’s use of profanity as riotous and designated them violent threats to public order. the actual reason was their radical abolitionist message.

the Philadelphia police department had a brutal, corrupt, and racist reputation long before MOVE entered the picture. despite that fact, MOVE’s claims of police brutality typically fell on deaf ears, even when they had undeniable proof of mistreatment. the bombing is only one part of the story both because it is the culmination of violence between MOVE and the police and also because it is part of the broader narrative of police brutality in Philadelphia that is still largely played out today.

in 1957, two Black men were beaten by three off duty and allegedly drunk police officers, putting one in the hospital for 19 days. the commissioner at the time testified that all officers were trained in "race relations," which involved things such as having officers brandish shotguns out the window of their patrol vehicles as a show of force in so called "shotgun squads." the three officers were not convicted of any crimes.

in 1960, shots indiscriminately fired by officer Robert Marinelli killed two innocent Black bystanders. Marinelli was charged, tried, and then found not guilty on all charges by an all-white jury.

in 1967, a guy named Frank Rizzo became the police chief. his nickname while working in West Philadelphia as a captain was "The Cisco Kid," which referenced the fictional cowboy who "killed for the love of it or any other reason that came to mind." he referred to "vermin" in Philadelphia as the source of the crime and decline.

shortly after he was appointed, he sicced 300 officers in riot gear on Black students and advisors protesting the Board of Education who were protesting the lack of Black studies and Black teachers. Rizzo ordered the officers to "get their Black asses." 57 protesters were arrested, dozens were beaten, and 15 were hospitalized. Frank Rizzo was elected Mayor of Philadelphia 3 years later and during his bid for re-election in 1975, he said that he would "make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" once he was reelected.

so yeah, not only is the MOVE bombing virtually unheard of by the average person in America (and it's not much better in academia, for that matter), but the story that is often told when people do hear about is that this all happened in a vacuum "due to the actions of a violent Black resistance group." in reality, it was the culmination of over 50 years of brutality against Black people and minorities in Philly.

Oh look, it's a bit of America's history of racism that I already knew about for once 😬😔

Date someone who likes you before they know you’re secretly the heir to Minas Tirith.

Joke's on you, I would never date anyone after I found out that I was the heir to Minas Tirith; the bloodline ends with me. No more monarchy in middle earth, only anarcho-communism.

The girls are making music again. Recession headed our way for sure

I read "the girls" as "my tits". Made the post 10x better.

I’m reading that new memoir about working at Facebook,”Careless People,” and it’s just fucking insane.

At one point Facebook wanted to be an international hub for organ donation. The “Lean In” lady asked why she couldn’t go down to Mexico and buy a kidney if her four year old needs one. This is literally on p.57. What the fuck else is going to be in this book if that is on page 57

Facebook also had to have protocols for armed raids of its foreign offices because they violated so many laws or failed to pay taxes or comply with other official protocols!! How is this a company that still exists!!!

“Doing jail time in a foreign country is not a reasonable ask from your bosses” — legitimately an argument the author’s husband had to have with her!!

Is this what gilded age readers felt like when they read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”???

Though strangely nothing Mark Zuckerberg does is worse than Sheryl Sandburg, who comes across as an unhinged hypocrite who uses her uncontrollable anger issues to cultivate a reign of terror, I am just… baffled and appalled at how much Zuckerberg does not care about the world outside of Silicon Valley. There have already been two instances of him trying to wear a hoodie to state visits, and not in a Zelenskyy protest way. He just doesn’t like clothes that are not hoodies.

Wow they just abandoned a team member in the middle of an out of control crowd in Indonesia! Horrible company!

Guess who Mark Zuckerberg thinks is the best president of all time?

Hint: it’s Andrew Jackson!

URGENT EVICTION HELP

Hi everyone! I’m really really panicking right now. The court date for me to get evicted is on the 21st of March.

I am disabled and I have no money right now. I can barely afford food and I really need help. I don’t know what else to do and I’m scared. Please, I really need help. 

Kofi | Cshapp | Vnmo | PyPal

$464!!!!!

Please help if you can… today’s eviction day…

No amount too small