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tentacledtechnomancer:

alder-knight:

I know “we will outlive them” is very specifically a Jewish resistance slogan

(it comes from a song, there’s a really badass story about it, you can hear about it here )

what I want to know is: should people who aren’t Jewish use that slogan? cuz I would suspect it’s a pretty emphatic no

please advise if you’re Jewish and have the energy, thank you 💙

Mixed-race Muslim/Jewish fam of @alder-knight here, and I’d be inclined to say it depends on whether your “we” when you use it explicitly includes Jewish folks in your other statements and actions of solidarity. Like, I hope you outlive them too, you are part of my “we” when I say it.

thank you @tentacledtechnomancer and @umruik !

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alder-knight:

I die a little every time a grown-ass man walks by in a suit coat with the threads holding the vents together not cut

dude

cut yr fucken threads

especially when the rest of his outfit makes it clear he thinks he’s hot shit

my guy, my man, my dude, your floral pocket square is MEANINGLESS if you look like you just shoplifted your jacket from lord & fucken taylor’s

I’m embarrassed FOR you

that stitch exists to keep shit from getting wrinkly during shipping, not to pucker around your ass every time you bend or sit

for folks who legitimately do not know what I’m talking about, which is fine:

those little Xs are called tack stitching – as soon as your jacket is bought and paid for, cut ✂️ that ✂️ shit ✂️

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alder-knight:

as an adult, most of the people I associate with on a daily basis have spent way less time in trailer parks than I have, and it really, really shows

@skysquids I still have friends from home who live in trailers too, mostly rural Maine. I am thinking of certain kinds of class obliviousness, the difference between understanding something intellectually and Actually Getting It. I’m having trouble articulating what I mean though.

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alder-knight:

all these truscum/transmed blogs are by like… 16-yr-olds

who is telling these children this bullshit

and can they stop

@onionjuggler augh that’s really true. I was also very vocal when I thought I had an important piece of information that others were ~ignorant~ of. I guess it’s probably somewhat universal?

I wonder what the solution is. cuz like, if I was convinced, and had been given information in the context of “people will argue with you because they don’t want to HEAR the TRUTH”… I probably would have argued righteously and not really listened at all. hmm hmm.

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lettherebedragons:

vassraptor:

transcoranic:

how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay? 

none of them ever did any laundry at all

The emotional and physical labor necessary to maintain the lifestyles of Renaissance and Enlightenment polymaths was shunted almost entirely to their uncredited servants, slaves, wives, and daughters. 

Whenever we compare ourselves to the ‘genius men’ of the past, and wonder why we fall so short, remember this: their intellectual capacity, energy, and freedom was because there was someone else washing the damn dishes.

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alder-knight:

should I look into going back to school for an engineering degree? 🤔

@onionjuggler – I’ve only got a bachelor’s and it’s not in the sciences so I’m nowhere near PhD… 😔

@what0da0fuck0man – I keep thinking I’ve figured out the correct training or experience I need to make my ass employable and I keep being fucken mistaken, but I have a background in photovoltaic solar power and was an electrical apprentice until my wrist got busted

a master’s is usually crazy expensive, right? and idk if my undergrad would even be applicable enough for me to do a master’s and not another bachelor’s 😫