Month: January 2017

17-is-lucky:

vastderp:

roachpatrol:

alternate suggestion on punching nazis: follow them around shouting the shehecheyanu, a prayer in hebrew that celebrates being alive, until the nazi either clears out or takes a swing at you. then punch them back with a perfectly clear conscience. 

aw hell yes. always preferred tanking for outside violence to invoking it.

Actually, I’m reblogging this again with a personal request: sing the Shecheyanu, but sing it like this guy and his bomb-ass choir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYlOLPi8P0

Who is this guy, you might ask? Well, he’s Moshe Koussevitzky, a Jewish cantor popular in New York City, particularly Brooklyn, in the 50s and 60s. But what makes him so cool is that he maintained a pro choir, as you can hear from this recording. And what makes him SO AWESOME AND MAXIMUM COOL is that my grandfather and his brother were both in his choir as children!

Koussevitszky left a huge impact on my grandfather, who had a beautiful, commanding, and strong singing voice. He always had such a soft spot for him that he always sang his arrangements for blessings and prayer. I say did, because he had a stroke a few weeks ago that left him largely unable to talk, let alone sing.

I ask all of you, please, sing for my grandfather, the son of Holocaust survivors. The arrangement is easy enough to learn once you know the words to the song (though maybe I’m biased).

Plus, it’s a very annoying version to hear over and over again!

why are tags bold

is this happening for anyone else

pileofbras:

prokopetz:

Instead of saying [common, perfectly serviceable word] when you write, why not try one of the following synonyms?

• [wildly differing connotation]
• [five syllables where one will do]
• [tonally dissonant formalism]
• [misunderstood medical term]
• [word that hasn’t been in regular use since the 1700s]
• [actual typo]

For example:

Instead of saying ’said’ when you write, why not try one of the following synonyms?

• spurted
• communicated
• avowed
• intravased
• orated
• clammed

periegesisvoid:

futureblackpolitician:

unpopular-ship-queen:

royallysouthernsportsloving:

spartanlady16:

Leave. Them. Alone. 

Tiffany. Barron. Arabella. Theodore. Joseph. Chloe. Kai. Donald III. Spencer. Tristan. 

They did not ask to be born to the family they have. The have no control over what their father/grandfather says and does. They did not ask him to run for President. 

However, they are all tasked with the enormous burden of being the immediate family of Donald Trump, which is not going to be easy. 

For 8 years, we stood back and let Malia and Sasha Obama grow up in peace. While there were some mishaps with members of the press and photos leaking from so called “friends”, they had a pretty quiet childhood outside of the public eye just like President and First Lady Michelle Obama wished. 

I know Donald Trump is a terrible person, and we aren’t too fond of Melania, but I’m asking all of you to be the bigger person and leave the children out of the issues we have Trump. Let them have a normal childhood. 

That means: 

~ Don’t threaten them (which is a federal crime anyway).
~ Don’t make fun of their looks.
~ If you see them in public, ignore them and go about your day. 
~ Don’t retweet crude comments
~ Don’t tweet Tiffany (the only one of the younger family members on SM) stupid shit about her dad. 

And if you still need a reason, remember, the less ammunition we give Trump to take away our basic rights the better. We saw how reacted to Pence getting booed at Hamilton. Do you really wanna see how he reacts if people bully his kids? 

These next four years aren’t going to be easy, we’re going to protest, argue and resist the best we can, but we can still have some class and common decency in the process. 

Remember what Michelle Obama said, “When they go low, we go high.” 

PS: Also extend this courtesy to the children of Mike Pence and his cabinet picks.

THIS!!!!! They are children and should be left alone! Do NOT attack them when they have no say. They are innocent. You can’t pick your family!

^^^
i hate trump and pence as much as the next person, but it’s not their kids’ fault who they live with or what their parents do. please leave them alone.

Reblogging this again because it’s very important. Leave the kids and grandkids alone please.

There’s an outside chance they’ll see that their families are shit. God knows people gave me that chance. And here I am today, queer as fuck and almost a decent person, most days.