What is Zionism?

Zionism IS believing in the development and protection of a Jewish nation in its historic homeland of Israel. It is antisemitic to believe that jews are not indigenous to Israel – we have lived there for SO LONG.

Note: Antisemitism refers to the hatred of jews. Many people claim that they “can’t be antisemitic” because they’re semitic peoples and speak semitic languages. This is completely false and makes no sense at all. To avoid confusion and be clear, many jews prefer to use the term ‘jew hatred’ instead.

Zionism IS believing that jews of all shapes, sizes, colors, observances, nationalities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and more all have a place in our ancestral homeland – Israel.

Zionism IS believing that diaspora jews who have been forced to move around the world just to survive, can return to the home of our ancestors. A home that the jewish people should’ve never had to leave (some never did).

Zionism IS the belief that jews are people who deserve safety AND the right to keep our homes safe, to keep our autonomy, and do our best to secure a future where jews can exist.

Zionism IS an idea with a lot of history that has continued to evolve through the centuries. There are many types of Zionism and Zionists. Zionism means many things for many people.

Zionism IS NOT believing that jews are superior or deserve more than any other human being.

Zionism IS NOT the belief in a jewish-only nation.

Zionism IS NOT colonization.

Zionism IS NOT violent, genocidal, or racist.

Zionism IS NOT complete and blind support of the Israeli government.

Anti-Zionism IS Anti-Semitism

am yisrael chai 🤍💙

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pleeeeeease? :33

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

I spent the last ten hours doing a job a whole lot of people think could be automated.

Want to know what I was doing?

LOOKING FOR ERRORS THE COMPUTER LET THROUGH.

This is from 1992 (link below it)

Early warning (pre-AI) of the dangers of relying on automation.

I have a spelling checker It came with my PC It highlights for my review Mistakes I cannot sea. I ran this poem thru it I'm sure your pleased to no Its letter perfect in it's weigh My checker told me sew.

And let's face it, we all have stories of how a grammar checker not only doesn't help, but can actually make it worse.

Also, if you're wondering how well-known that warning was, my activity preview showed me up to "I have a spelling..." and my brain immediately went "oh! I have a spelling chequer, it came with my pea sea!" My mom sent me to school with a copy for my teacher.

Now you'll notice this doesn't match the version above, nor the beat-you-with-a-two-by-four version in the link. And indeed, neither of those is the version I remember. The second one is closer, but not a perfect match.

Which means there's at least one more version floating around out there, and given the nature of the early internet, there are probably dozens.

Now, you wanna know something funny?

My modern spellchecker doesn't recognize "chequer."

indeed.com: hello person with a graphic design degree we think you'll be great match for (checks notes) dying in a coal mine

one time i walked into God’s room when He wasn’t expecting me and He was kneeling by the foot of His bed praying. tf. who was He praying to ..?

dei cubiculum quondam intravi dum me non exspectaret et ad pedem cubilis orans genuit. qf. cui orabat ..?

this is good because maybe there are medieval priests who wanna read this one

hit gelamp sume dæge þæt ic ga in godes rom þa he ne min wende and he cneowlode æt his beddes fet him gebiddende. þf. to hwam gebæd..?

motherfucker stop translating my post into the common vernacular and distributing it out to the peasantry

Funnily enough, in the Talmud there is a discussion about what does God say when he prays

I often refer to my bottle-raised lamb as my adopted daughter, because it’s mostly true, it temporarily keeps nosy strangers from knowing I’m an eeeevil childfree woman, and it’s hilarious when people find out. And by that time they’re usually too disturbed by the “her-daughter-is-a-sheep” thing to get on my case about the “woman-with-no-husband-or-kids-oh-the-horror” thing.

Most of my friends are aware that I do this, and will back me up in conversations without batting an eye when I reference my daughter. And the best part is that they literally never drop the story. They just 100% all the time accept that I have a two-year-old adopted daughter. The fact that she happens to be a sheep is an unimportant detail, not worth mentioning until an anecdote gets too weird to plausibly be about a human toddler.

Which actually takes much longer than you’d think, since human toddlers apparently have absolutely zero sense. “She bites if you stop paying attention to her” is believable, “she tries to eat rocks out of the landscaping” is believable, “she stuck her head through a fence and couldn’t get out” is believable. “She jumped a five foot fence and came screaming back into the house through the dog door when I left her outside in the pasture” does get some strange looks, though usually not for the right reason.

Occasionally the joke gets turned around on me, though. I posted a picture on my not-tumblr blog of her wearing my glasses, and every comment was “Oh my gosh she looks just like you!!!” “I would never have known she was adopted If you hadn’t told me!!” “Are you sure that’s not an old picture of you?!”

So apparently this is what I look like:

At least she does look cute in glasses.

[ID: a close-up photo of a brown sheep, stylishly sporting a pair of glasses. End ID]

My dad walked in the door a bit ago with a gigantic bag of rice and said “I can explain”

For context we just don’t have the space for bulk purchases so we usually buy things in small amounts so him entering the room with a giant bag of rice is like. Concerning.

It’s currently just sitting on the counter because there’s absolutely no space for it in the pantry.

The explanation was that for some reason our usual small $5 bag of rice had been marked up to $10 but the giant bag was only $11.

Which is a smart financial decision yes but now we have a gigantic bag of rice on our counter.

When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I'm allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.

So there's a medication called hyaluronidase. It's used to make other medications absorb better, because it makes the cell wall more permeable.

One common usage is to make local anesthetic more effective during surgery, for instance. It's used in a number of injected medications.

Bee stings contain an enzyme very similar to this medication, so sometimes, people with bee allergies have an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.

This is called cross-reactivity, where your body mistakes something for the thing it's actually allergic to, and has an allergic reaction anyway. For instance, sometimes people with latex allergies also are allergic to bananas and other fruits. They don't actually contain latex, but there are some similar proteins.

Apparently, hyraluronidase used in humans is derived from one of four sources: sheep testicles, cow testicles, cow testicles again, and GMO hamster ovaries.

tl;dr: They won't inject you with bees, but they might inject you with purified cow testicle juice, and your body might say 'eh, cow balls are BASICALLY bees' and try to kill you anyway.

The world is full of such beauty and wonder. Thank you for that sentence.

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. O click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

Power is a funny thing.

Is it not striking and heartening that Jews worldwide have, for decades, consistently and universally differentiated between the Iranian people and the regime which oppresses them?

I have yet to meet a Jew who fails to make this distinction...even when Iranian Regime missiles were over Tel Aviv.

I find that I'm proud of this behavior in Am Yisrael.

I also have yet to meet an Iranian in person who wasn't normal about Jews and Israel.

This makes me so happy to see, @fugamalefica and @andyet-itmoves 💙

That means a great deal. Your blog (and the rest of Jumblr) have been the only community on this site talking about Iran at all and I'm so beyond grateful that. I'd already lost all faith in the rest of this site and their phoney activism after the vile anti-semitism perpetrated by them en masse after October 7th and the hypocritical weaponisation of Jewish trauma as a gotcha while they're themselves just as anti-semitic as the people they claim to fight. It didn't come as a surprise at all that they don't care about Iranians, but having the Jewish community's support has been so heartwarming and necessary in such a time.

You have helped us too. We are family. I mean just personally you (Persians as a whole lol) helped me be proud of what I look like and taught me my own history and even my cultural music. You have had our backs for thousands of years. Jewish people love to debate, but one thing we never do is leave our family in need no matter what. Woman, Life, Freedom.

Today I learned that they're making a video game library including everything from video game artbooks and guides to books on game studies and other non-fiction.

Question for the demographic composition of jumblr because I am curious:

A part 2 will be posted as well

I identify as Chabad but not as ultra-Orthodox, a term which is only ever used by out-group people looking to portray the people they’re describing as extremists.

I get where you are coming from. I'm part of that out group I guess, I'm otd but from a yeshivish background who went to a Chabad school. I classified it as being ultra orthodox because my experience with this was that it fit the ultra orthodox criteria such as keeping shabbos, kosher, going to yeshiva/sem and rigorous Torah learning with it being common to go through the shidduch system and . Also another reason is that I think that the big Chabad seminaries and yeshivas would probably identify as ultra orthodox.

Tbh I'm not completely comftorable with how the otd community handles a lot of things including its portrayal of Chabad - but I also understand having religious trauma myself that a lot of these people are hurting and that when they express how they feel in the otd community they can have a productive conversation.

Hope this at least explains my thought process.

Sorry, I don’t think I was clear. I’m not saying that there is a category of people who are “ultra-Orthodox” but that Chabad does not fall into that category. I’m saying that “ultra-Orthodox” is a label that is only ever slapped on ANYONE if it’s to portray them as extreme. It is not a self-identification. I have never met anyone who goes around thinking of themselves as “ultra-Orthodox,” Chabad or otherwise. Perhaps you are using it as a synonym for Chareidi, a label with which many people do self-identify, but in that case note the extremely significant difference in actual meaning between “ultra-Orthodox” (extreme super crazy Orthodox) and “Chareidi” (one who trembles in awe of Hashem). They are not actually synonyms despite often being billed as such.

To be clear, I don’t think that you personally meant badly here, but I do think it’s important that people become cognizant of the pejorative nature of the term “ultra-Orthodox” so that they can then stop using it.

Also by out group I didn’t mean OTD people, I meant anyone who is not a member of the group that they are using the word to describe (which is most of the world).

Yes and no? It's because it's a "secular" (that isnt' the word I want but I don't have a better one) term. I also don't think I know people who call themselves Orthodox. They'll say they're frum, yeshivish, chareidi, chasidish, chabad etc. They're just not using the English

I absolutely call myself Orthodox when speaking to people who don’t know what frum means (in fact I just did so the other day when interviewing a non-Jewish babysitter), and if I were to ban myself from using non-English words in my own internal self-description, I would think of myself as Orthodox. I am Orthodox and the subtype of Orthodox that I am is Chabad. I would never refer to or think of myself as ultra-Orthodox regardless of context. I am perhaps chareidi (but that gets sticky because then people are often thinking Israeli chareidi and there’s quite a difference between American chareidi and Israeli chareidi) but I am not ultra-Orthodox.

Interesting. I would just say religious, because that's how I would translate it. (I mean, I'm not anymore, but what I would have said.)

But I was religious when I was Reform, too. I mean don’t get me wrong, I know frum people who use religious as a synonym for frum, but it’s not so accurate.

It's accurate in that you are explaining you're a religious Jew. It would be evident from your dress what sort of religious you were

Also, I would like to add that the way op described ultra Orthodox, seems to fit the broader definition of Orthodox (i.e. modern Orthodox as well)

perhaps a hot take but using “migraine” as a stand in word for “headache” is like saying you’re so ocd because you like organized spaces

op is in fact a zionist and wants you to know that all of the posts i make about disability and chronic illness and mental health recovery is in fact inclusive of israelis! because it’s inclusive of humans regardless of nationality!

unclehood is being wasted on unworthy figures

saw a post about someone who makes a website for fake pokemon news to troll and torment their nephews and felt a pang of deep existential loss that I have no nieces or nephews to construct convoluted pranks for

it's really good we have non-jews out there correcting "misinfornation." otherwise we might have people out there sincerely believing that the word "goyim" is less than 200 years old

I found the source, actually.

It's the Oxford English Dictionary.

Yes, really.

Now, I'm presuming that the OED means that 1826 is the first usage they could find of the word "goy" in English, and I am going to clown on anybody who didn't hear "the word goy was first used in 1826" and think, "well that can't be right," but I do think the OED could be clearer there.

OED is just bad with any words that aren’t English origin, I checked the word Hangul and it’s first usage was apparently only 1935. Kimchi similarly dates back to 1888 according to OED.

now this is just stupid

this made me spiral down into looking for the ACTUAL origin of the word hutzpa, and the earliest use i could find (tho tbf, i didnt look that much) is in Talmud Bavli, Masecheth Sanhedrin, page 105:

it's Aramaic. OED fails to even mention Hebrew in the etymology, it only mentions Yiddish.

honestly it's. kinda pathetic