People keep relogging this with some song I’ve never heard of. I looked it up and that song came out in 2011. I put the link to original source that is artwork here but no one seems to know.
The artist is Dalia Shevin and it was made in 1999 in reference to the WTO protests in Seattle, a pre-9/11 event that fundamentally changed the activism landscape.
The Instagram algorithm is not conscious—stop personifying it. The algorithm is not trying to “convince you” that antizionism is the same thing as antisemitism. You train your algorithm by interacting with it. The way leftists interact with posts about israel, jews, and zionism is identical to how a nazi engages with those same posts about israel, jews, and zionism. Your rhetoric is nazi rhetoric. Talk like a nazi? The algorithm gives you other content you might like: Nazi content. Stop talking like a nazi and you won’t be shown nazi content. And no, commenting “i support jews, NOT ZIONISTS” is not the allyship you think it is. You use nazi dogwhistles. You might think you’re making some sort of meaningful distinction between “jews” and “zionists”, but nazis think even the most antizionist token “good jew” is a zionist—because to nazis and other antisemites, “zionist” is a dogwhistle for “jew”. Fix your hearts.
Another trading card has been added to my deck:
Talk like a Nazi, then surprised_pikachu.jpg that you attract Nazis!
They’re so close to getting it but they refuse to entertain the idea that they’ve been spouting antisemitism this whole time
Another trading card has been added to my deck.
Reblog this version.
In case you missed it in the last picture, this comedian went out of his way to stage his “friend” being a jew-hater: here’s what’s on his monitor
[Picture ID: a blurry zoomed in screenshot of the youtube searchbar, which says “the truth about the holocaust”]
[Picture ID: a blurry zoomed in screenshot of a youtube video thumbnail, which is titled “The Truth Behind The Holocaust”. The thumbnail includes a picture of Adolf Hitler and clickbait text which says, “Was it fake?”]
[Picture ID: a blurry zoomed in screenshot of a youtube shorts thumbnail, also titled: “the TRUTH about the Holocaust”]
And more obviously: the “friend” in the skit is doing a Hitler salute.
Yet another trading card has been added to my deck:
They just keep coming. I wonder why this keeps happening to leftists! I wonder why! It’s a mystery! Who could have seen this coming!
If you haven’t heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…
Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.
Including (sigh) the em dash.
There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.
A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.
No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.
You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.
Defend the em dash.
(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)
hey you ever think about how the Cullen’s love-bombing eventually replaced Bella’s personality?
She mentions multiple times in the books that she despises expensive gifts, and the ones that actually leave an impact on are her Chevy and the wooden wolf bracelet Jacob gives her. The Chevy is second-hand from Billy, and the bracelet was carved by Jacob. They hold value to her because they have personality; they speak to her tastes and were given to her with those tastes in mind.
She loves her Chevy, but it is eventually replaced with a sleek, expensive designer car gifted to her by the Cullens. She adores the bracelet but Edward puts an designer charm on it to remind her of him.
Even her clothes, which she insists are fine and suit her, are replaced with branded sweaters, dresses and heels.
She hates the idea of any kind of marriage but Edward holds vampirism over her head to get what he wants. Even when she agrees to marry him (against her will) she wants to keep it simple, wanting to simply drive to Texas and get married via a drive thru- Alice begs Bella to allow her to plan the wedding and it’s easily more ostentacious and expensive than her birthday party in New Moon, which she describes as “a hundred times worse than I’d imagined”
They get rid of her preferred aesthetics in hopes that their consumerist one will stick, and one of the last things they do to her is literallystrip her of her humanity.
She becomes a cold, perfect creature and as a result, is no longer allowed to have ties to her father, mother, her best friend or the interests she had before. She’s converted into a Cullen and this shit is supposed to be romantic.
Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with “In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights.”
This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find
Some people get existential dread from this
Me? I think it’s fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating
@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn’t that long when you’re in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally
And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history
Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you’re curious)
This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I’ve learned so many incredible things about Australia’s past and it’s been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.
My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.
The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.
as a gilgar gunditj woman, i was not expecting to see my culture on my dash.
thank you for spreading our words and treating our culture with respect.
Boosting signal.
Echoes from the ancient human past, wonderful.
Their oral history also contains stories about hunting prehistoric megafauna too. Native Australians are the oldest existing culture on earth, which is even more amazing considering how hard the british tried to wipe it out.
*sandwich voice* the world is vast and beautiful and i have a sandwich
*wiggles fingers* balicazam!! Your sandwich is now yarn
idk what you did and normally i wouldn’t complain but my sandwich has straight up vanished as if by dark magic
im not even joking my sandwich is gone and i am fucking pissed
motherFUCKER i bet i lost it on the railway tracks
ok im on a train right now. so what happened is I was rushing with my precariously-stacked luggage with my sandwich on the top. and unfortunately it was a vertical sandwich (baguette) and i didn’t tie the plastic baggie shut. fucker slid right out of its wrapper
somewhere in this train station is a single perfect naked sandwich lying peaceably on the ground
MOTHERFUCKER I WAS RIGHT i lost it wheeling my luggage (jostling) across the tracks. i can see it from the fucking window. it’s just sitting there, taunting me
the train leaves in 5 min, I’m already in my seat, and as stated the sandwich is lying buttnaked on the train tracks.
ALT
