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Nick F.

@thecrazyalchemist

Titles: The Attraction Stealer Nickolasnames: Quackamole Ferret, alchemy bud don't ask how I got this duck or what I plan to do with it 🥣🐈‍⬛🥣🐈‍⬛ ← my Tumblr kibtys more info bout me in intro post
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(this post is edited from time to time, some stuff may be outdated) [last edited: Sounds, 16th February, 2025]

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More inactive as of now

Stuff to get out of the way:

I AM A MINOR. PORN BLOGS FOLLOWING *WILL* BE BLOCKED.

I am Israeli 🇮🇱 🎗️. I am tired. If you want Israel wiped away, if you want Jews killed - please get away from my blog and don't come back.

Post relating to my opinion on Zionism and current affairs <- this is a link to the post, please read!

Post relating to fundraisers and charities about the current conflict <- this is a link to the post

I want my blog to be a safe place for me first and foremost, and then a safe space for others. Not the other way around. I just came here to be silly.

This is my bubble. I'll post some stuff about chemistry from time to time (PASSED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY!!!! GOT A 97!!!! SO EXCITED), stuff from fandoms I like, reblog quite a lot maybe definitely too much (as @bettinalevyisdetermined said [I think]: "I abuse the fast-reblog button"), and generally random stuff my dopamine dependant fueled machine likes.

BEWARE: CHRONICALLY ONLINE

You're quite welcome to ask for random hugs! I have plenty - will take ions to run out of stock

Hug gif: (wanted to put it here because it's so good)

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Sideblogs:

@randomshowerpoems - poetry sideblog!

@littlegnomewriting - a blog for posting very infrequently stuff I write

@thecrazyalchemist2 - clone if I have been cursed by the post limit

@the-hugger - ✨gimmick blog✨, self explanatory (i'm one of the huggers)

Not gonna reblog every single post from there to here, don't wanna hit the post limit too often. Wanna know what's in there? Go look!

Also do please express your opinion about what I write! I appreciate it immensely 🥺

Some information bout me:

  • Current timezone: whatever the time in Greenwich is
  • Online name: Nick F. but you can call me Nick (you can also call me Crazy Al ;] | or Arsenic/Arsenick if you want - courtesy of @givemeasong-singamelody )
  • Nickolasnames: Quackamole Ferret (bestowed upon me by the amazing @annotated-catastrophe), alchemy buddy (bestowed upon me by the magnificent @alchemicalwerewolf), Alchenick (bestowed upon me by the awesome @anxious-alyssia)
  • Titles: Attraction stealer - beware (bestowed upon me by the amazing @thebookshelflord)
  • I'm a cis guy
  • Pronouns: He/Him, although I don't really care
  • Sexuality: bisexual & aroma(n)tic (aroflux) (I think - basically arospec)
  • Favorite color: blue-green
  • Favorite molecule: Azidoazide Azide
  • Taste of my ceiling - chalky
  • I prefer tea over coffee
  • Preference order: jackets>hoodies>sweaters
  • What I think about when I hear the word cozy: sitting on a yellow couch reading a book (preferably next to a crackling fireplace), while thunderstorm, inside a library
  • Got two tumblr kibtys! Samewl and Sybil

If you have anything else you want me to add to here, just ask/comment/message/send in a vision/transport in an ancient bottle/come to me in a dream/however you want, but please be clear about it cause I'm a bit of a dum-dum

My Tag lists: (please choose which one do u want me to add you to!)

Reminder: if you want to be added/removed, just say so! Preferably comment/reblog the tag list you want to be added to/removed from to notify me

Picrews, Picrews 2 <- this is a link to the list

Uquizzes, Uquizzes 2 <- this is a link to the list

Tag Games, Tag Games 2 <- this is a link to the list

Making Notes <- this is a link to the list

Other <- this is a link to the list

Chain Ask <- this is a link to the list

Ask Game <- this is a link to the list

Anything <- this is a link to the list (this one is mainly for convenience's sake)

Reminder: if you want to be added/removed, just say so! Preferably comment/reblog the tag list you want to be added to/removed from to notify me

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#nick's rambles or #arsenickel alloy - random posts of mine

#reblogs

#asks

#answered asks

#moots - mutuals

#tag game

#chain ask

#ask game

#samewl, #sybil, #🐈‍⬛ - my Tumblr kibtys

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(this post is edited from time to time, some stuff may be outdated) [last edited: Sunday, 16th February, 2025]

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#intro post#reblogs#moots#asks#answered asks#tag game#chain ask#ask game#arsenickel alloy#🐈‍⬛
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אוקיי, אני מבין את האירוניה של לכתוב פוסט כזה ביום הנראות הטרנסית (יום שמח, אגב 🏳️‍⚧️)

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אני חושב שהאקטיביסטים הטרנסים בישראל עושים טעות ענקית בזה שהם מעלים מודעות בארץ על הטרנספוביה בחו"ל. באופן כללי אבל בעיקר מאז שטראמפ נבחר הם מפרסמים לכל מי שמוכן לשמוע על כל פיפס טרנספובי שקורה בארה"ב, ואיך הטרנספוביה שם היא בעיה של כולנו, ודוגרי? זה לא עוזר בכלום. כל מה שזה עושה זה גורם לאנשים לראות יותר את הקיום שלנו כאן כדיבייט.

אנחנו, חצי בנס וחצי בזכות מאבק ממושך, חיים קיום יחסית ניטרלי במדינה דתית עם שירותי בריאות מסובסדים. יש בעיות כאן, בשפע, וחשוב לדבר עליהן ולהעלות את המודעות ולשנות את המצב. אבל הן ממש לא בקנה המידה של הטרנספוביה בחו"ל, וההתמקדות בבעיות לא שלנו רק תביא אותן לפה. אנשים ישמעו "לא נותנים לטרנסים באמריקה גישה לשירותי בריאות בסיסיים" ולא יחשבו: "וואו, זה ממש דפוק! אני עומד להיאבק בחוקים האלה מהצד השני של העולם בלי אזרחות או טיפת השפעה", אלא: "רגע, נותנים כאן לטרנסים גישה לשירותי בריאות בסיסיים? ממתי ולמה?" או "אני לא יודע על זה הרבה אבל האמריקאים האלה יודעים מה הם עושים, בטח יש סיבה טובה, צריך לשקול את זה גם פה".

"טראמפ אמר על הטרנסים שככה וככה! המשפיענית האמריקאית הזאת אמרה את זה! יש חוק טרנספובי חדש באיזה חור תחת בקרוליינה!" למה אתם נותנים לזרים האלה פלטפורמה וכוח ביבשת אחרת שבה אנחנו לא קורבן לmoral panic? למה לכל הרוחות להודיע לישראלים שזו דעה לגיטימית בעיני תושבי המדינה העוצמתית ביותר בעולם? אני לא אומר להתעלם, או להישאר בארון, או לוותר על הגאווה, או להפסיק להילחם בטרנספוביה. אבל תילחמו בטרנספוביה כאן, אל תציגו את הגיהנום האמריקאי כאופציה בכלל!

המצב בחו"ל מפחיד. מאוד. אני מבין את זה. אני מפחד בדיוק כמוכם. אבל זו סיבה להרחיק את עצמנו ממנו כמה שאפשר, לא לפרסם אותו קבל עם ופייסבוק.

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צודק בכל מילה

אחד הדברים הכי מנחמים בלהיות טרנס ישראלי זה שהאנשים שהכי ישנאו אותך לרוב לא מודעים לקיומך

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אם יש דבר שהכי מעצבן אותי בארץ זה טרנספוביה והומופוביה בקז'ואל. אני בארון והכמות שאני שומעת הוא באמת לא הרבה, אבל פשוט מזכירים את זה כדבר מובן מאילו. אני לא הולכת עכשיו לריב עם טרנספובים והומופובים באמצע שיעור כי זה כל הכיתה נגדי בעקרון. (אני בי'ג). 100% צריך להעלות מודעות בארץ וקבלה בארץ של הקהילה.

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הלב שלי יוצא אליך, אני זוכר מה זה להיות בארון בתיכון ולהיות משוכנע שאף אחד לא יקבל אותי אף פעם ולרצות לבכות בכל פעם שלוזרים בכיתה ח צועקים ״יא קוקסינל״. מבטיח לך שזה משתפר❤️

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אני לא בתיכון (יג יד) אבל תודה אחי

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תראה, אני מסכימה שצריך להעלות מודעות וקבלה, אבל זה נהיה טוב יותר כשיוצאים מהכיתה. לצאת מהארון מול אנשים שכבר מכירים אותך זה הרבה יותר קשה מאנשים שלא. למרות שהייתי בתיכון מקבל מאוד (היו כמה וכמה טראנסים בתיכון שלי), הטרנספוביה הקז׳ואלית של אנשים לא קשורים הפחידה אותי מספיק כדי לא לצאת מהארון שם. ברגע שיצאתי לסביבה חדשה והצגתי את עצמי מראש עם השם והלשון פנייה הנכונים, לרוב אנשים שלא קיבלו את זה לא היה את האומץ להגיד משהו שלילי. לפחות לא בכמה חודשים הראשונים. גם לחברים החדשים שהשגתי שלא הכירו את הקונספט לפני לא היה אומץ להתבדח על זה עד שהם הכירו אותי מספיק זמן כדי לנסות לספר על זה בדיחות.

גם במקום עבודה האחרון שלי אנשים השתמשו באוטיסט וקוקסינל והומו כקללות. באותו זמן הם פנו אלי בלשון פנייה הנכונה בלי זלזול. זאת בעיה שהם השתמשו במילים האלו כקללות וזה הופך יציאה מהארון לממש מפחידה ואפילו מרגישה מסוכנת, וזה חד משמעית משהו שצריך לטפל בו, אבל הדרך זה לא למשוך תשומת לב לטרנסופביה בחו"ל כי היא מאוד שונה מאיך שטרנספוביה עובדת בארץ ולתת לטרנבפובים פה רעיונות זה ממש מסוכן.

#reblogs#עברית#ישראל#moots#moran
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So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

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Saying "I'm not going to draw this thing because I don't know how to draw this thing" is really shooting yourself in the foot, because you've now cut yourself off from an opportunity to grow.

I had a friend in college who was an absolutely amazing artist. I loved seeing his work! One time I said something to the effect of "I could never do that."

He told me something that, as an artist, I resonate with. He said art isn't about natural talent; it's a learned skill. When you tell an artist their level of skill is impossible for you to reach, you're assuming their level of skill is a natural gifting they have, and it discredits the hundreds to thousands of hours of hard work they've put into getting where they are today, and you're cutting yourself off from trying to reach that point yourself.

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I don't remember where I heard this but I wish I could, because it stuck with me:

Talent is THE RATE at which you learn things, not whether or not you can learn certain skills at all.

And that suddenly clicked for me. I have been very talented with a lot of things in my life and once I realized that I had basically been getting XP multipliers on my normal life experiences, it suddenly felt so much less awful to realize that I did not have the same advantage with other skills I struggle with, and that's okay. I might even have some debuffs on those, and that's okay. It's still all gaining as long as I keep working on it!!

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This also holds true for writing: the best way to never be good at writing something is to never write it.

I see people say that they don't write fight scenes, for example, because they're bad at writing them, but the reality is that the way you get good is to write them.

And maybe you write one badly, but then you look at it and figure out what makes it bad. And then you write another one, and it's a little better, or it's bad in a different way, and you repeat the cycle until a lot of "a little better"s get you to "good".

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How to Criticize Israel Without Being Anti-Semitic

If you’ve spent any time discussing or reading about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I guarantee you’ve heard some variation of this statement:

OMG, Jews think any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic! 

In the interests of this post, I’m going to assume that the people who express such sentiments are acting in good faith and really don’t mean to cause pain to or problems for Diaspora Jewry.  For those good-faith people, I present some guidelines for staying on the good side of that admittedly murky line, along with the reasoning why the actions I list are problematic.  (And bad-faith people, you can no longer plead ignorance if you engage in any of these no-nos.  Consider yourselves warned.)  In no particular order:

  1. Don’t use the terms “bloodthirsty,” “lust for Palestinian blood,” or similar.  Historically, Jews have been massacred in the belief that we use the blood of non-Jews (particularly of children) in our religious rituals.  This belief still persists in large portions of the Arab world (largely because white Europeans deliberately spread the belief among Arabs) and even in parts of the Western world.  Murderous, inhumane, cruel, vicious–fine.  But blood…just don’t go there.  Depicting Israel/Israelis/Israeli leaders eating children is also a no-no, for the same reason.
  2. Don’t use crucifixion imagery. Another huge, driving motivation behind anti-Semitism historically has been the belief that the Jews, rather than the Romans, crucified Jesus.  As in #1, this belief still persists.  There are plenty of other ways to depict suffering that don’t call back to ancient libels.
  3. Don’t demand that Jews publicly repudiate the actions of settlers and extremists.  People who make this demand are assuming that Jews are terrible people or undeserving of being heard out unless they “prove” themselves acceptable by non-Jews’ standards.  (It’s not okay to demand Palestinians publicly repudiate the actions of Hamas in order to be accepted/trusted, either.)
  4. Don’t say “the Jews” when you mean Israel.  I think this should be pretty clear.  The people in power in Israel are Jews, but not all Jews are Israelis (let alone Israeli leaders).
  5. Don’t say “Zionists” when you mean Israel. Zionism is no more a dirty word than feminism.  It is simply the belief that the Jews should have a country in part of their ancestral homeland where they can take refuge from the anti-Semitism and persecution they face everywhere else.  It does not mean a belief that Jews have a right to grab land from others, a belief that Jews are superior to non-Jews, or any other such tripe, any more than feminism means hating men.  Unless you believe that Israel should entirely cease to exist, you are yourself Zionist.  Furthermore, using “Zionists” in place of “Israelis” is inaccurate and harmful.  The word “Zionists” includes Diasporan Jews as well (most of whom support a two-state solution and pretty much none of whom have any influence on Israel’s policies) and is used to justify anti-Semitic attacks outside Israel (i.e., they brought it on themselves by being Zionists).  And many of the Jews IN Israel who are most violent against Palestinians are actually anti-Zionist–they believe that the modern state of Israel is an offense against God because it isn’t governed by halakha (traditional Jewish religious law).  Be careful with the labels you use.
  6. Don’t call Jews you agree with “the good Jews.”  Imposing your values on another group is not okay.  Tokenizing is not okay.  Appointing yourself the judge of what other groups can or should believe is not okay.
  7. Don’t use your Jewish friends or Jews who agree with you as shields.  (AKA, “I can’t be anti-Semitic, I have Jewish friends!” or “Well, Jew X agrees with me, so you’re wrong.”)  Again, this behavior is tokenizing and essentially amounts to you as a non-Jew appointing yourself arbiter over what Jews can/should feel or believe.  You don’t get to do that.
  8. Don’t claim that Jews are ethnically European.  Jews come in many colors–white is only one.  Besides, the fact that many of us have some genetic mixing with the peoples who tried to force us to assimilate (be they German, Indian, Ethiopian, Italian…) doesn’t change the fact that all our common ancestral roots go back to Israel.
  9. Don’t claim that Jews “aren’t the TRUE/REAL Jews.“  Enough said.
  10. Don’t claim that Jews have no real historical connection to Israel/the Temple Mount.  Archaeology and the historical record both establish that this is false.
  11. Don’t accuse Diasporan Jews of dual loyalties or treason.  This is another charge that historically has been used to justify persecution and murder of Jews.  Having a connection to our ancestral homeland is natural.  Having a connection to our co-religionists who live there is natural.  It is no more treasonous for a Jew to consider the well-being of Israel when casting a vote than for a Muslim to consider the well-being of Islamic countries when voting.  (Tangent: fuck drone strikes.  End tangent.)
  12. Don’t claim that the Jews control the media/banks/country that isn’t Israel.  Yet another historical anti-Semitic claim is that Jews as a group intend to control the world and try to achieve this aim through shadowy, sinister channels.  There are many prominent Jews in the media and in the banking industry, yes, but they aren’t engaged in any kind of organized conspiracy to take over those industries, they simply work in those industries.  The phrase “the Jews control” should never be heard in a debate/discussion of Israel.
  13. Don’t depict the Magen David (Star of David) as an equivalent to the Nazi swastika.  The Magen David represents all Jews–not just Israelis, not just people who are violent against Palestinians, ALL JEWS.  When you do this, you are painting all Jews as violent, genocidal racists.  DON’T.
  14. Don’t use the Holocaust/Nazism/Hitler as a rhetorical prop.  The Jews who were murdered didn’t set foot in what was then Palestine, let alone take part in Israeli politics or policies.  It is wrong and appropriative to try to use their deaths to score political points.  Genocide, racism, occupation, murder, extermination–go ahead and use those terms, but leave the Holocaust out of it.
  15. In visual depictions (i.e., political cartoons and such), don’t depict Israel/Israelis as Jewish stereotypes.  Don’t show them in Chassidic, black-hat garb.  Don’t show them with exaggerated noses or frizzled red hair or payus (earlocks).  Don’t show them with horns or depict them as the Devil.  Don’t show them cackling over/hoarding money.  Don’t show them drinking blood or eating children (see #1).  Don’t show them raping non-Jewish women.  The Nazis didn’t invent the tropes they used in their propaganda–all of these have been anti-Semitic tropes going back centuries.  (The red hair trope, for instance, goes back to early depictions of Judas Iscariot as a redhead, and the horns trope stems from the belief that Jews are the Devil’s children, sent to destroy the world as best we can for our “father.”)
  16. Don’t use the phrase “the chosen people” to deride or as proof of Jewish racism.  When Jews say we are the chosen people, we don’t mean that we are biologically superior to others or that God loves us more than other groups.  Judaism in fact teaches that everyone is capable of being a righteous, Godly person, that Jews have obligations to be ethical and decent to “the stranger in our midst,” and that non-Jews don’t get sent to some kind of damnation for believing in another faith.  When we say we’re the chosen people, we mean that, according to our faith, God gave us extra responsibilities and codes of behavior that other groups aren’t burdened with, in the form of the Torah.  That’s all it means.
  17. Don’t claim that anti-Semitism is eradicated or negligible.  It isn’t.  In fact, according to international watchdog groups, it’s sharply on the rise.  (Which sadly isn’t surprising–anti-Semitism historically surges during economic downturns, thanks to the belief that Jews control the banks.)  This sort of statement is extremely dismissive and accuses us of lying about our own experiences.
  18. Don’t say that since Palestinians are Semites, Jews/Israelis are anti-Semitic, too.  You do not get to redefine the oppressions of others, nor do you get to police how they refer to that oppression.  This also often ties into #8.  Don’t do it.  Anti-Semitism has exclusively meant anti-Jewish bigotry for a good century plus now.  Coin your own word for anti-Palestinian oppression, or just call it what it is: racism mixed with Islamophobia.
  19. Don’t blow off Jews telling you that what you’re saying is anti-Semitic with some variant of the statement at the top of this post.  Not all anti-Israel speech is anti-Semitic (a lot of it is valid, much-deserved criticism), but some certainly is.  Actually give the accusation your consideration and hear the accuser out.  If they fail to convince you, that’s fine.  But at least hear them out (without talking over them) before you decide that.

I’m sure this isn’t a comprehensive list, but it covers all the hard-and-fast rules I can think of.  (I welcome input for improving it.)

But wait!  Why should I care about any of this?  I’m standing up for people who are suffering!

You should care because nonsense like the above makes Jews sympathetic to the Palestinian plight wary and afraid of joining your cause.  You should care because, unfortunately, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has correlated to an uptick in anti-Semitic attacks around the world, attacks on Jews who have no say in Israeli politics, and this kind of behavior merely aggravates that, whether you intend it to or not. 

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a real minefield in that it’s a clash between oppressed people of color and an ethnoreligious group that is dominant in Israel but marginalized and brutalized elsewhere (often nowadays on the exact grounds that they share ethnoreligious ties with the people of Israel), so it’s damned hard to toe the line of being socially aware and sensitive to both groups.  I get that.  But I think it is possible to toe that line, and I hope this post helps with that.  (And if a Palestinian makes a similar list of problematic arguments they hear targeted at them, I’d be happy to reblog it, too.)

So, TL;DR version:

  1. Do go ahead and criticize Israel.
  2. Don’t use anti-Semitic stereotypes or tropes.
  3. Don’t use overly expansive language that covers Jews as a whole and not just Israel.
  4. Don’t use lies to boost your claims.
  5. Do engage Jews in conversation on the issues of Israel and of anti-Semitism, rather than simply shutting them down for disagreeing.
  6. Do try to be sensitive to the fact that, fair or not, many people take verbal or violent revenge for the actions of Israelis on Diasporan Jews, and Diasporan Jews are understandably frightened and upset by this.

May there be peace in our days.

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ok so these new tariffs are likely going to be primarily affecting red states. i want y’all to ignore the urge to respond by saying the people in those red states deserve it because of the political representation we have. not because some of us are progressives but because this is an opportunity. if conservatives from these states start complaining about higher prices and financial strain, do not respond with “well you voted for this!” this is your opportunity to pull them to the center. say “wow that is really awful. i’m sure this isn’t what you wanted when you voted last year. you deserve representatives that will have your best interests at heart, you should let them know how upset you are! you deserve to be heard!”

because listen to me. republican politicians don’t give a shit about what progressives in red states have to say. they aren’t gonna change their voting trends for us. but if a bunch of small town conservatives start to get restless and angry with their politicians, if they lose support from their most important demographics, that has a shot at changing things. so swallow your pride and disgust and have a conversation with that republican truck driver instead of taking the pot shot that’ll get you 10 minutes of dopamine. do the hard work.

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Time to roll this image out for the conservatives for once.

Make them mad that they've been made fools of, because that right there is an out. A lot of them are going to dig their heels in because if they admit that they were making shit choices then what have they been doing all this time? The sunk-cost fallacy wouldn't allow it.

But! What if they were flat out lied to? There's the excuse to back out! They didn't sign up for this, didn't know that they were voting for a liar (🙃 I know. I KNOWWW). But aren't they pissed now? At the guy who fucking SCAMMED them out of their vote?

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yup. the republican party’s big pull is that they’re very good at pointing the finger at xyz minority group to blame them for the country’s ills. people like to know who to blame. conservatives especially like to know who to blame because very often they are not educated enough to understand what the actual problems are, because conservative politicians do not prioritize education.

so with the trump administration doing such a phenomenally horrible job at everything, now is the time to give those conservatives a group to blame. gas prices skyrocketing? trump isn’t following through on his promise to lower gas prices and i’m pretty sure those tariffs he imposed are why! groceries getting way too expensive? trump promised to make them cheaper but he’s doing the opposite!

if their options are imploding with embarrassment and having their entire worldview fall apart or ignoring reality, they’ll choose ignoring reality. if they have a third option of getting mad and blaming someone, that is the one they have been trained to choose. use that.

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Guys. This works.

I live in the fucking Bible Belt. This place is so atrociously red that I am the weirdest person that most of the people I know have ever met.

I’m not even the weirdest person I’ve ever met. But we are few and far between.

And I’m telling you, they are angry about the same exact things we are. They just have a different narrative.

Now, FINALLY, we are coming to a point where there won’t be anyone else to blame properly EXCEPT the people in power.

And nothing, NOTHING, makes these guys listen closer than when you point out it was their special guy who did this to begin with and doesn’t that make you angry? This fucker lied to us!

Us. Not you. Us.

Because they did lie to us even if some of us didn’t buy it.

Make it us, the truck driver and the other guy next to him in the Kroger, against the evil dip shits in power.

That’s how they work.

Make them identify with YOU.

You may look different and like weird books instead of football and have a rainbow pin, but you’re here, in their community, dealing with the same grocery prices.

Make them see that.

And then point them in the right direction.

“Fucked up that the (insert policy) seems to be backfiring. I feel lied too. You?”

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the crockpot is a piece of american jewish innovation?????

My grandmother Tamara Kaslovski Nachumsohn, grew up in a small “shtetl” in Lithuania. She told my dad, when he was a young child, that when she was growing up back in the old country, each Friday afternoon her mother would send her to the local bakery with their pot of prepared but yet uncooked “cholent.” There it would be put into the oven for a full day, while the family observed the Sabbath and the hot oven cooled to warm while not in use for that same period. At sundown she would go to the bakery and bring the family their delicious pot of steamy stew. Dad remembered the story and was inspired to find a way to create a heating element that surrounded the pot in the same way that an oven would have.

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hello???????

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THANK YOU MRS. NACHUMSOHN FOR THE CROCK POT CREATOR OF SO MANY HOT MEALS.

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in loving memory of tumblr's april fools' pranks 💐 2014 - 2024

icymi, tumblr used to do an elaborate april fool's prank every year, but this year they suddenly stopped. here's a somewhat detailed recap of everything they did over the decade:

2013 - mishapocalypse (honourable mention): tumblr staff didn’t start doing april fools until 2014, but the mishapocalypse happened on tumblr in 2013 and i feel like this list would be incomplete without it

2014 - tumblrpro: upon opening your dash you were greeted by an “inspirational” video, that ended with the option to get “tumblrpro (for free)”. all it did was put a top hat on your icon.

2015 - tumblr executivesuite/coppy: a copying machine appeared in the corner of your dash. it would offer tips on how to use tumblr, like clippy the paperclip used to do in microsoft word. as the day went on, it slowly broke down and died right in front of your eyes. many people hated him (but not me). you could also make a (small) spreadsheet. @executivesuite2016 is the official blog.

2016 - this is decision/lizard election/tumblrdecides: a parody of the 2016 US elections. there were 4 lizards (well, one of them turned out to be a salamander in a scandal) to vote for. the dash looked different and there was a live news report with election updates, as well as an election blog for each lizard. they all had their own slogans and you would get an "i voted" button after you voted that would get slapped next to your icon. there were built-in functions to make an election poster for your favourite lizard and to create a text post that supported your lizard of choice that autogenerated a statement for all your followers to read. imo tumblr’s april fools peak. @thisisdecision2016-blog is the official blog, @mop-2016-blog @wretchedtooth @timefordeborah-blog were candidates. rick also had a blog (rick-official) but that now seems to have vanished because he ended up dropping out of the election. mop won, if you're curious. by far the most elaborate prank tumblr ever did.

2017 - horse friend: a tamagotchi-inspired game where you had to take care of a little horse in the corner of your screen. it came with a randomly generated name, and you had to feed and clean up after it. if you didnt take good care of it, it died. you could then hatch (yes, hatch) a new one. there was also an option to look at the names of all your dead horses. this is now available to buy in the tumblr shop. @horse-friends is the official blog.

2018 - tumblcoin: a parody of cryptocurrency (this was the year bitcoin took off). you could ‘invest’ in tumblcoin, with which you could in turn buy things with to spice up your dash, including last year’s horse friend, coppy from 2015, and a frame for around your icon. you could share the amount of tumblcoin you owned in an automatically generated gif post which would be tagged #tbc2018 and #tumblcoin. @tumblcoin is the official blog.

2019 - @memories: this blog still functions the way it did on april fools itself! it's like mad libs, where it takes post templates and then adds in tags you use a lot and users you frequently interact with on your main blog. like a personalized shitpost bot.

2020 - group chat prank/@storybot: it was so hard to find info on this because it was contained entirely in the now-defunct group chat function, which no one used. i had to go through the notes of this post for information because no one cared enough to actually write anything explaining it. turns out, you could write a story with your mutuals by adding storybot to your group chat. it also kept working after april fools (well, up until the group chats were deleted) just like memories. many people missed out on it entirely because they did not use the group chat function.

2021 - tumblcryptids: tumblr allowed you to adopt “non-fungible tumblcryptids”, a parody of NFTs. clicking a button that said "Summon thy Tumblrcryptid" would spawn an image of a little blob-shaped creature with a short description, which would always read "Hi! My name is [randomly generated name]. I love [thing most people like]. I hate [thing most people dislike]. Like my parent, I can't get enough of #[tag from your main blog]." you could share them in a post, which would automatically add the tag #NFTumblcryptids to your post. and yes, people on the piss on the poor website freaked out about it because they thought they were real NFTs harming the environment. @tumblcryptidadoptioncenter is the official blog.

2022 - click-a-thon: when you clicked a light switch on your dashboard, a bunch of colourful things showed up, like a sponge you could move around, an "engagament meter", clickable buttons, and a “Summon Crab!” button, which would summon a crab when you clicked it. you could. the crabs, like horse friend, are still available in the tumblr store as of 2025. here's some screenshots. there were various ways to share your crab activities, which would all get tagged #april fools 2022. the prank was presented as a marketing technique created by Brick Whartley, a fictional businessman character created by tumblr, who (afaik) originated in a post on the official blog of the 2018 april fools prank, albeit originally in a different role. around this time he also started functioning as the mascot for tumblr's shop ( @emporium )

2023 - abstract reactions (emoji reacts): buttons were added to every post that allowed you to add emoji reactions, many of them based on tumblr inside jokes (horse as a reference to horse plinko/horse friend, vanilla for the vanilla extract meme, pikaman, bug for bug race, and brick whartley, who wasn't a meme but staff really wanted him to be). if one specific emoji was used a certain amount of times it would add an effect to the post, eg many cheese emoji reacts would cover the post in cheese. this was also attributed to Brick Whartley ("his" blog @brickwhartley also documented the day)

2024 - boop-o-meter: allowed you to “boop” other users who had opted in to the booping, like facebook’s poke feature back in the day. depending on how long you held the button, you would either boop, super boop, or evil boop. on the dashboard there was a counter for both how many times you had booped others and how many times others had booped you, as well as how many boops were given side-wide. when booping someone, an image of a cat paw appeared. you would get badges (which can still be used) for booping 1, 100 and 1000 times. if you got more than 999 boops, the counter would simply say “WOW”. this was brought back for halloween 2024 (as BOOp-o-meter. get it), with a ghost, skeleton and mummy paw. no official blog, but here's an official recap for april first from staff. i believe this was the only april fools prank that was mobile user friendly.

2025 - @fandom is running some polls, i guess

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so I told yall how I came out to my mom as trans over text but I didn’t tell yall how I came out to my dad

I pretty much just walked into the room said “dad I’m trans” and he was like “yeah I’d kinda guessed that already” then proceeded to infodump to me about Star Trek

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Yay that's cool <3

So so so proud of you, you were very brave and I'm so glad everything went well

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thanks thanks thanks :)

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Glad it went wellll

#reblogs#moots#felix
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connormurphweed-deactivated2018

just a heads up

if you’re an active follower of mine, i do recognize your username and/or icon. i smile when i see it in my activity. i get excited when you add funny tags to things. i get really happy when you reblog my op posts. so thank you, i appreciate you massively.

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💯

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I wish the world worked like it did in the stardew valley universe. If I'm strapped for cash I should be able to go grab some blackberries off the nearest roadside bush and go sell them to a grocery store for a quick ten bucks. I should be able to think "huh I wanna go talk to the wizard today" and then I go talk to the wizard in his wizard tower

#reblogs#moots#firefly
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