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Beit Kvetch

@nerdyqueerandjewish / nerdyqueerandjewish.tumblr.com

They/them pronouns. I’m a queeny gay in the Midwest who is into art/crafts/DIY and nature. I end up making a lot of personal posts about my life .
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embervoices

(There is a lot more. Rather than give you all the images, I've copied the full text below.)

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snailchimera
  1. This is actually the most hopeful thing I've read since the election. It's hard to believe we'll all be okay just because we're full of spite or we're on the right side of history. It's easy to believe Trump and his administration is a pile of venomous bucket crabs in clownshoes.
  2. Take that part about grifters and amateur analysts on the left seriously. Scam artists take advantage of panic and desperation, and a lot of us are feeling panicked and desperate. Also, when people are panicked and desperate, their critical thinking skills suck and they don't necessarily come to logical conclusions even when doing their best. God knows I've fallen for scams and dramatic worst case scenarios. The most important thing is to check your sources and be suspicious of dramatic appeals to emotion (though dramatic appeals to emotion don't mean something is false, either).
  3. Isolation fries your brain. I know there are lots of ways to wind up trapped in an isolating situation, but reach out to other people- preferably multiple groups of other people- any way you can. Volunteering is a good way to do this.
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Daily "avoiding hopelessness" checklist

Hey, friends. I know I've been really struggling to look towards the future with any kind of hope, so here are some little things I've been trying to do every day that might help you, too.

  • Accept that your productivity might look weird right now. Don't expect yourself to act as if nothing is wrong.
  • Make art. I try to write something every day, even if I don't really feel like it, and I've found that once I get into it, I'm grateful I did.
  • Do something to plan for the future. Doesn't have to be big. Even getting some ice cream you know future you will thank you for counts.
  • Eat. Even if you're not hungry. I keep skipping meals because I don't feel like eating, and then I force myself to make something and realize I was absolutely starving.
  • Clean up one thing in your space. If doing all the dishes and sweeping the floors and putting away laundry all feel too overwhelming, try just doing one of those things.
  • Lean on your online and offline communities. I live in a county that voted trump by a margin of eighty percent. My world feels scary and hostile right now, and it's my communities that are helping me feel hopeful.
  • Try to find one thing that feels normal. One thing that feels safe and normal and helps you feel a bit more grounded. My local grocery store just got their shipment of chocolate oranges in for the season. That's my thing.
  • Try to find one thing to look forward to, no matter how small. My thing is checking my ao3 inbox for comments on my fics.

Love you all <3

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funnelcloudd

Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.

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jumblr is such a great community because sometimes you see someone being a bitch and then you think "nah, someone else will get it" and then they do

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Fascinating watching this website contort around the idea of reaching out to and converting far right leaning individuals as if the same 3-4 stances aren't having a do-si-do while all being able to coexist

It's like

Outreach to radicalized individuals needs to happen, because without it their numbers just grow

But also

Outreach is time consuming and difficult, not guaranteed to work, and put you or people around you in danger by putting you on a radicalized persons radar

But also

We know that compassionate, prolonged outreach is remarkably effective. We also know emotional appeals are astronomically more likely to change someone's mind than factual ones when it comes to core beliefs

But also

most deradicalization works when someone who is close to the individual puts in the work to shift their perspective.

But also

You do not need to do this yourself/no one is obligated to do this thing that is difficult and dangerous and there is a ton of organizing work and also outreach work in our own political circle that needs doing and you should utilize your resources how you see fit

But also

You do not need to be nice to or coddle people who have done material harm

But also

Outright hostility only serves to reinforce the us vs. them mentality and makes it harder to deprogram people

But also

focusing on trying to win over radicalized individuals can't come at the expense of work to help victims/our community/those marginalized/etc.

But also

People who are deradicalized need a community to reintegrate to or what's the point.

But also

You don't have to welcome someone who's done harm into your community.

But also

Sometimes your desire to not allow someone who has reformed reintegrate into a community has less to do with harm reduction and more to do with punishing them for previous wrongdoing

But also

You never owe forgiveness to anyone who has harmed you.

But also

Outreach to radicalized individuals needs to happen, because without it their numbers just grow.

Just ad infinitum. Just a never ending ouroboros of "You're an idiot for how you engage with this famously thorny issue".

Just pick one of the bullet points above and work at it, and if someone else wants to work at one of the other ones, we're all trying to make things better. Maybe be less snarky and self righteous.

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So many stressful things any my brain is like “why don’t you ruminate on anxieties related to being poly?”

Not helpful 🫠

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yidspiration

“The truth—that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

- Viktor Frankl

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Anyway my partner lost their job and my focus on work is so low 🫠

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Trying to practice sculpting more and have started A Frog.

Their legs are becoming the bane of my existence tho. I was doing subtractive sculpting but now I’m thinking maybe additive would be easier because I can just make them and fold them up

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Paper Amulet, Germany ca. 1775

According to the museum: "This very esthetic amulet was written in Germany.  When its use was finished, it was put into the Genizah of the synagogue in Westheim in Bavaria, where it was found about 35 years ago.  This example shows clearly how such amulets were folded, place in some sort of enclosure and kept in the owners clothing or purse. The inscriptions indicate that the purpose of the amulet is a general protection for the bearer.  Some of the inscriptions are written in micrographic script. In the very center is a six celled magic square with Hebrew letters of one of the names of Lilith. The scribe who wrote this amulet possessed an excellent esthetic sensibility. The large letters around the perimiter and around the magic square in the center are all names of protective angels."

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Because i do pottery outside my home I’m actually starting a sketchbook for ideas / inspiration. Not necessarily limited to pottery.

But this is big for me because I have so many little scraps and doodles I’ve saved for art purposes and now it’s like. Pasted into the book you go.

I think it will really help cut down on the collage clutter I have because I have access to a copier. I can save things for later by pasting them in.

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So there's the idea of "kitchen table poly," AKA "everyone in the polycule needs to be able to sit at a kitchen table together and get along like friends."

One of my roommates just came up with a counter idea, which is "poker table poly." Everyone in the polycule must be enemies. No one is allowed to get too chummy or they're kicked out. They all also likely owe eachother money.

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Anonymous asked:

just realized your bio/tag means house of complaining/kvetching,,, 10/10 no notes

😊 thank you - I thought it was very funny

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