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Hey Jumblr,

Reblog this and tell me one thing you'd like for non-Jews to know about Jews and Judaism.

There are only 15.8 million of us in the entire world. We are in no way a “major world religion,” and the idea that we are is a misconception that stems from the fact that the two largest and most historically and geopolitically powerful religions in the world, Christianity and Islam, were founded on the appropriation of our sacred texts which were never intended to be used by anyone other than the Jewish people. If you think you know anything about Judaism because you’ve learned about “Abrahamic faiths,” you probably don’t know anywhere near as much about Judaism as you think you do.

oh wow! hey if you take pills check this out. new medicine taking meta just dropped.

according to these models, out of the 4 tested postures, the best position to digest pills is laying on your right side. standing upright has a similar time to laying in your back at twice as much as laying on the right side, and laying on the left side is the slowest by far.

laying on right side: pill dissolves in around 10 minutes.

standing: pill dissolves in 23 minutes. laying on the back has a similar time.

laying on left side: pill dissolves in up to 100 minutes.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877

definitely worth a lot more research.

if you want your medicine to kick in fast, try laying on your right side! if you want your medicine to kick in slower, try laying on your left side.

This makes sense! I learned from a doc that if you have gas pain or nausea, you turn on your left side to make it easier for your stomach to send stuff through. The goal in turning left is to NOT absorb, but to release.

Turning on your right can make nausea/gas pain worse because it has to fight gravity to exit your stomach/body. So, yeah, lying on your right would make things absorb faster because it's going into the stomach lining, which is the point.

Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey

I was going to reblog this anyway for the useful info but the last addition fucking sent me

I did not know this, but it makes so much sense, and it's SO good to learn fanfiction history.

Is THAT where "No [X], we die like men" comes from?????

That tag makes me laugh a bit cause there's quite a bit of range in the kind of character filling the "men" slot. Sometimes it's someone who got a memorable death. Sometimes it's a group of characters whose role seems to include dying easily, like Red Shirts or Stromtroopers. Sometimes its someone who just won't die.

I think it's funny.

Hey everyone!! Did you know that this August is the third annual Fat Liberation Month? The month is organized by NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance), and it's something I didn't know about until I randomly wondered earlier this year if we have a month for our movement, and looked it up. I've never seen anyone talk about it, so I want to change that!!

Through the month of August, I'm going to be drawing lots of fat art, and I would encourage any artists who see this post to do the same. Draw body types you've never tried drawing before! Draw bodies that are bigger than society's "acceptable" level of fatness! Use references (fatphotoref, Morpho Fat and Skin Folds, my own Pinterest reference board)! Perhaps even draw yourself with complete honesty, without trimming out the parts of yourself that make you self conscious, to help better understand and accept your body!

If you participate in this event, please tag your fat art with #Fat Liberation Month, so that I can see and share your work. Have fun and help spread the visibility for this really cool and underrepresented event! 🎉✨

here's a quick tip for life: if you hate someone and you have a choice in the matter, keep their name out of your mouth and the reasons you hate them out of your head. keep your head on a swivel around people who habitually break this guideline because they're just as capable of obsessive negativity about you

genuinely "living rent-free in your head" is a curse. obessing yourself with people you find odious who don't have the actual power to harm you does nothing good for your life. there is immense strength in walking the fuck away and treating someone as dead to you, not half-living in their shadow.

just noticed that my edition of witch king has a big blank page for the signature, which is extremely funny once you see martha wells' signature

personally i think expecting authors to hand sign hundreds and thousands of books is stupid and in a better world than this one any publisher who wanted authors to sign books would be required to commission them a custom hand-carved stamp and ink blend, allowing pretentious fucks like me to date their signatures by the stamp and ink used. and it would look cool as hell.

Bookseller Info Dump Time:

Like OP said, Signing hundreds of thousands of books is hard work. (Yes, some publishers domake signature stamps of super famous authors, but not as many as you think) Author signings are largely done by hand. It takes so much time and energy, nearly every author I've talked to about it usually dislikes the process, but they to do it, because they care for their fans. They'll carve out entire days to just sit in a publisher's office and sign books. It's a tedious task.

But people who love a signed edition usually don't think about the above. They usually don't consider what went into them receiving an author-signed copy of a book. Yet, I assure you -- in order for you to get that signed edition an author propbably lamented for hours, signing their name over and over and over.

Which is why some authors just don't do signed copies. Some authors only do in-person book signings (which personally, I enjoy best because I can chat to the author personally and the signature means more to me).

The question is, how can this signing process be made easier?

Well, glad you asked! It turns out in 2006, Margaret Atwood (yes, that Margaret Atwood) actually developed a tool to not only help with signing tons of copies, but it also allows authors to sign books - in ink - remotely! It's called LongPen.

Basically, it's an accessibility device. An author can do a digital book event, nowadays you can do live Q&A while streaming an author in to an event from anywhere in the world. And with LongPen, authors can also sign books without being in the room.

The device allows the author to speak to the fans while signing the book right in front of them, even though the author is somewhere else. The author signs the dedication and their signature via a digital tablet, and in-person, LongPen uses a robotic arm to transfer that exact signature/dedication onto the book for the fan!

It's honestly revolutionary and an incredible accessiblity tool, because it allows more fans/readers to have the opprutunity to get their books signed 'in-person' without the hassle of authors travelling all over the world for book tours.

And I just think it's neat!

Some things you need to know if you really want to be an ally to Jews:

-There is no such thing as a “Semitic people”, and if there was, only Jews would be considered “Semitic people”, since “antisemitism” was coined specifically as an alternative to the word Judenhasse, which means “Jew-hatred”, and specifically to refer to Jews. If “Semites” was a legitimate identity, the only “Semites” would be Jews. People from the Levant who are not Jewish are not “Semitic”, and are still very much capable of being antisemitic. In linguistic sense, “Semitic” only refers to a language family, not a cultural identity.

-“Goy” is not a slur. It means “nation”, it’s literally a word that means “non-Jewish person.”

-Only Jews get to define what is and isn’t antisemitic. If Jews are saying that something is antisemitic, listen to them.

-Jews are not White People Lite. There are Jews of every skin colour, and even light-skinned Jews can still be subject to racialized antisemitism. Listen to Jews when they say they experience racialized antisemitism.

-Judaism isn’t just a religion. It’s an ethnoreligion, a tribe, and a peoplehood. There are non-religious Jews. There are atheist Jews. And all Jews experience antisemitism.

-Judaism is a closed practice. Yes, we allow conversion, but it is a long and difficult process, and we do not allow prosletizing. It’s like a locked gate where getting the key is extremely difficult.

-Judaism is not Christianity-Lite. Judaism came first, it is an ancient identity and peoplehood independent from Christianity. Christianity appropriated and butchered elements of Judaism.

-There are Jews of every sexuality and gender identity, and we have a long history of gender diversity and non-heteronormative sexuality. Include LGBTQ Jews in your activism.

-The Holocaust isn’t your metaphor or comparison tool.

-Antisemitism has been around for thousands of years and it’s still extremely prevalent and rising today.

-The Jewish community is a diverse, multi-faceted community. There are so many ways to be Jewish and so many ways to express one’s Jewish identity. No two Jews are the same, but we are united by our shared history, heritage, and identity.

Thank you for taking the steps to being a true ally to Jewish people.

-because jews are so diverse and have so many perspectives, and because a commonality in jewish thought is that truth can only be reached through examination and debate, one single jewish person CAN NOT GIVE YOU A DEFINITIVE ANSWER. ABOUT ANYTHING.

-listen to jews, plural. it needs to be plural. i am so so tired of seeing well-meaning christian allies who apparently listened to one sentence of what one  jew told them about antisemitism and took it as gospel.

-it doesn’t work like that.

-listen to jews, plural, and watch what happens when you get two or three jews in one place, and realize that learning and growing and helping people and making the world a better place is an ongoing and complicated process, not an easy checklist of rights and wrongs.