Does anyone know of any businesses owned by Jewish people that sell Jewish themed knitting supplies? Or Jewish owned yarn companies in general?

can I self promo? I have a crocheting etsy that sells finished crocheted goods, does that help?

Yess please! What’s your Etsy?

FloralFeverFashions!!

I sell crocheted goods, only a few up right now but I plan on making more once my seasonal depression lessens… (winter is hard for me!)

https://www.etsy.com/shop/FloralFeverFashions

the worst extremely low-stakes consequence of societal fatphobia is when a low-calorie/""""healthy"""" recipe is actually good and suddenly everyone thinks you're sharing it as a diet aid and not because it fucks hard

anyway put some frozen raspberries in a bowl and pour just a leetle bit of cold oat milk over it and the oat milk will semi-freeze into a kind of ice cream texture. and now you have fake raspberry ripple ice cream that's 90% raspberries by volume

straight up it should be illegal for a physical storefront not to accept physical currency, or for restaurants not to provide physical menus

I'm assuming the above is a normie opinion (as it should be) so i do wanna go a tiny step further and explicitly state any laundromat that requires digital payment should be burned to the fucking ground

if a business cooerces its customers to download an app, i should legally be allowed to set both the business and its board of directors on fire

The assumption that every single business, or service, is owed your personal data, and should be able to track you and mercilessly spam you and monetise the ability to sell off your contact details and so on it’s absolutely deranged.

I have flashlights that are borderline unusable because, while the hardware is fine, the company that made them (hello OLight!) demands that you install and login to the storefront before you can access the configuration software.

But they don’t actively maintain the software or provide any of the new utilities that they promise. They are mostly using it as a way to turn off functional hardware to try and force you to upgrade.

We are living in a society where you can pay for something and the manufacturer can turn it off because they’ve decided that you’ve owned it too long .

I’ve just had to warn my family not to buy electronic door locks because the chances are, if they are Internet connected they will be disabled once the company that owns them has decided that they’re not making enough money charging you a monthly fee to open your own front door.

This is part of an ongoing trend to turn money into something that is no longer usable by everybody .

The eventual aim is to be able to pay people company scrip: If you lose your job, or badmouth the company, or disagree with the dictator, they severely curtail what you are allowed to buy, and from who.

And at that point, you have to pick sides – do you want to be able to have drinking water from Coca-Cola, or Pepsi, and whose package allows you to buy Doritos, and use your smart oven to cook food? Because it won’t turn on unless you use the app to scan the appropriate barcode from the company who now owns your ability to eat drink, heat your home, and wear clothes from brands that they approve.

And if you think that Bezos wouldn’t do that or run his own ghetto where employees have to use Amazon brands and be paid in Amazon money… You haven’t been paying attention to what he’s been building lately.

Read "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow, from his book Radicalized

Found a link to the story: Unauthorized Bread

Holy shit.

I mean I know a certain level of projection on fictional characters and situations is inevitable and even healthy, but sometimes you got to step back into the real world to remind yourself that Character X is not your shitty parent/abusive ex/asshole boss/bully from high school, and that people who like Character X are not personally victimizing you.

op is getting death threats now probably

i used to buy into that online leftist black-and-white Glorious Revolution stuff and what i remember about my mindset at that time. stresses me out tbh. i couldn't see the viability of anything short of full-scale revolution so i constantly felt helpless. i viewed the revolution as necessary to address any and all societal problems, but i was also, privately, terrified of it. i didn't want to die for the cause, but i told myself that if that was what happened when the revolution came it would be worth it, that my blood could move us that much faster toward perfect socialist utopia.

in this mindset, the only useful thing i could do was die. i didn't want to. i wasn't generally suicidal (although i do consider this mindset a form of... abstract suicidal thought). but i believed my life was the only meaningful thing i had to offer.

now i'm a member of a community who values me and values my contributions even if i can't contribute as much as i'd like -- a community that emphasizes that every single good deed matters, every compassionate act changes the world. a community where just showing up is enough.

now i know that i can change so much more while i'm alive than i'd ever be able to as a corpse on a battlefield. i know that if i keep showing up, i will find or someone will show me a way to make a difference. i know that i am valued as more than a hypothetical martyr in some grand final battle. i know that i am missed when i'm gone. i know that the actual work is done by regular people with a goal in mind, and i know that that work is unglamorous. i know the unglamorous work is often the most meaningful and the most fulfilling.

the "revolution or nothing" mindset is rendering my generation hopeless. a very loud portion of gen z now believes the only contribution they have to offer is their life. this belief effectively nullifies a person's capacity to create meaningful change; any action they could take while alive is not worthwhile because it won't fix the world's myriad problems in one fell swoop -- better to burn it all down and yourself with it.

if they weren't actively fucking over the rest of us to feed their own suicidal hopelessness, i'd feel sorry for them.

No, that would also be a moderate position, because nearly all of it (except the “grant full citizenship” part, which would be implied by the rest of it) follows from the treaties which the US signed after WWII and the laws it passed to enact those treaties. If you’re just following the law as written you aren’t taking a radical position.

something about the whole "fuck authority" outlook that amuses me is that people tend to fall into two incorrect camps. the first assumes that hating authority is something for edgy teens to do and you grow out of it when you reach the fabled "real world." the second assumes it's about sticking it to the establishment -- government, cops, etc.

but true authority haters know the secret third thing. and that's that authority is insidious and you have to fuck it everywhere you find it. when you know something is damn well wrong but the doctor tells you it's fine and you think well i'm no expert -- surprise! you have conformed to authority. when you see somebody acting a clown in public and everyone is uncomfortable but nobody says anything -- surprise! this too is a form of authority. when you see a consequence and think to yourself "it's fine, i just won't do [thing] and then i don't have to worry about it" you have altered your style of living because of -- surprise! authority.

when you tell yourself you can't be/do x or y because That's Not How It Works. when you refuse to believe someone's lived experience because apparently it shouldn't work like that. when you come up against something outside your understanding and ridicule it or assume it's a falsehood. guess what's behind all that! that's right. someone else's authority.

we realise this as teens because we're trapped 24/7 with teachers, parents, and guardians who have ultimate power over us and we recognise the inherent unfairness and injustice of many of their decisions. when we grow older and gain more authority ourselves many forget this fact and either think it's useless immature teenage rebellion or that the issues we must rebel against grow in proportion to our new responsibilities. we forget about our duty to root it out wherever we find it. and if you don't start small you'll never get the big shit. there's a reason people don't walk into the gym and start lifting 200lb on their first day.

anyway fuck authority. and before anyone comes at me talking about degrees and experts and "oh so we should just say fuck anyone with any advantage over us?" authority is not to be conflated with experience. experience advises and authority forces. one wants you curious and independent and the other wants you unquestioning and compliant. and that my friend is the difference.

"People from [insert country] are all inherently bad" NO. WRONG. VERY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER FOLLOWED BY FLASHING LIGHTS AND AN AUTOMATED RECORDING OVER THE PA SYSTEM WHICH JUST SAYS "XENOPHOBIA IS A VIOLENT AND DEHUMANIZING TRAP THAT SOWS PARANOIA, DISTRUST, AND HATE AND COMPLETELY DESTROYS COMMUNITIES AND LIVES" OVER AND OVER

You can't 'forcefem' anyone. It's imaginary fetish play. Why are people pretending that it's important and meaningful political work, or even like, real for that matter. Learn a fucking trade or something.

Honestly makes me sad that the only short word we have to describe the way that some children are forcibly feminised (as in, being physically confined, forbidden from doing normal childhood stuff with the intent of changing their behaviour/preferences permanently, dressed in particular ways, given hormonal interventions often against their will or without their knowledge to try to make them 'feminine', disciplined to speak/act in particular ways etc, by people -parents, doctors, teachers, etc- who have the power of life and death over them and who withdraw safety/comfort/care from them if they resist the aforesaid conditioning) is a word cribbed from porn.

Because on one hand are people trying to talk about awful things happening to small children, but on the other are people hearing it and first thinking about the slightly-comical tongue-in-cheek stuff that happens in kink. And people should be able to enjoy their lighthearted kink stuff without thinking about children being abused, and vice-versa. I don't know why the same word is used for both, and it would be so easy to just use *any other word*.

ALT

This is genuinely so evil

• Avoiding funding studies on black men specifically and then using the lack of studies as justification for denying care
• There is even less screening for BRCA variants with no sign this will increase if this goes ahead
• I work in primary care. We already have to justify that PSA screenings are necessary, and most of the people having the tests are actively pissing blood
• Yes, prostate cancer treatment can cause incontinence and impotence- which is why most patients with less aggressive cancers are put on to active surveillance, and those that do need treatment make that choice with the full risks and benefits explained to them
• The classic covid strategy of "If we don't test for it, numbers go down so we can just pretend it isn't an issue"
• Using the fact that some of the people who have cancer on active surveillance may eventually need treatment as evidence of overtreatment- it reminds me of how puberty blockers are considered bad because most of the people on them will eventually transition

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Around 55,000 men are diagnosed with each year, and 12,000 men die from it in annually in the UK. That the government is being advised to deny people even the option of knowing whether they have it is such a huge step back for medicine.

@doberbutts this feels relevant to the stuff you talk about, even if it's not specifically about trans black men.

Unfortunately black people being abandoned by medical staff is nothing new:

Black women are 3-4 times as likely than white women to die in pregnancy and childbirth. Black women are also twice as likely to develop diabetes and preeclampsia, 40% more likely to die from breast cancer, 40% more likely to develop and 75% more likely to die from cervical cancer, 20% more likely to be pushed into a C-section and overall receive nearly 30% less anesthesia and pain control than white women.

It is just sort of common knowledge that hospitals are to black women as police are to black men. Except police do target and kill black women, and hospitals do neglect and dismiss black men, as well.

You should look up the Tuskegee Syphilis Study sometime. You'll see that this is hardly the first time a country's government has deliberately played eugenics with black men's health.