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adding some more resources!

from an LA lawyer

the state laws

article from women’s law abt finding lawyers trained in this area

big long list of resources

free crisis line for victims of non-consensual porn

even more info

if you find yourself in a situation like this, don’t panic. there are people who can, and will, help you <3

[video ID: a pale skinned person with blue hair and a lip ring is shown from the waist up, speaking into the camera. transcript (some of the captions on the video are not spoken, so those are added in parentheses):

“I don’t know who needs to hear this today but there is no such thing as a “leaked nude”! (obvs don’t mean colloquially) 1. if your nude is behind a paywall like onlyfans, it is: copyright infringement and onlyfans will fight for you. 2. if your nude was taken or sent in private, that is: revenge porn, and as of 2019, is illegal in most states and countries where social media is prominent.

in 2019 one of my girls came to me and said that her ex was threatening to leak her nudes. she played me his voicemail and I fucking laughed. homeboy left his full name and threat on a recorded message.

usually I’m not very supportive of the police if that’s not obvious (I made this decision based on the people involved and didn’t put anyone in danger) but in this situation I told her to call. she filed completely over the phone, never met with an officer and he never saw her face (she also said that he didn’t make any remarks or judgements on her which was important to her). that officer called the dumbass and told him that he was facing a felony in his state. basically, the dumbass wet himself and never contacted her again.

but if you don’t want to go that route you can always get a lawyer involved (to inform and advocate for you). I know even that sounds like “how can I do this?” but for my she’s, gays, & theys out there: if you are in an abusive situation or they’re committing crimes against you, some lawyers in your city will work for free.” end ID/transcript]

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accidentally hit something on the treadmill at my gym and it opened a web browser??

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Hey so it looks like the Amsterdam pogrom was not the only planned pogrom. We do not know how planned the ones in other European countries and cities are, like if it's been planned to the same level or if they were, if they would still happen as Paris will deploy 4,000 police officers to the match because of this information and what happened in Amsterdam.

Jews in Europe, please stay safe. I hope nothing like Amsterdam happens again

Source:

Adding definitions of pogrom because I was confused.

A pogrom[a] is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews.[1] The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire

Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently.” Historically, the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries.

pogrom, (Russian: “devastation,” or “riot”), a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority. The term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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(aside: idk what the use of “orcs” means here, I assume it’s racist?)

The Jewish Chronicle ran an opinion piece today also insisting we not call it a pogrom due to proportionate scale.

“Kristallnacht saw many hundreds of Jews murdered (not the 91 so frequently misquoted); 267 synagogues burnt to the ground; 7000+ Jewish businesses looted and/or destroyed; and 30,000 Jewish men put into concentration camps.”

I might be inclined to agree with his primary thesis, as certainly this was nowhere near the level of horror and devastating tragedy as Kristallnacht or other Holocaust era massacres. it wasn’t Clifford’s Tower or Kishinev or Hebron or the Farhud or Babi Yar. it wasn’t October 7th. if we’re judging it against death and destruction across Jewish history, even recent history, it’s barely a ripple. so, sure, the author and others saying this could have a point (even if I disagree with some of the phrasing he uses in the piece, he’s the director of the Holocaust Centre and Museum in the UK, I can respect a differing opinion that is educated and not clouded by antisemitism).

except, he then goes on to liken it much more to other soccer related riots. this is where his premise falters - because that wasn’t the motive, and anything offensive fans did (while not excusable, also not a reason for mob violence) was not a motive. the motive was, very explicitly, a premeditated “Jew hunt,” and now we know a Jew hunt with ties to Hamas and the IRI, regimes that quite literally want to eradicate Jews.

no one is saying this is equivalent to Kristallnacht or any other similarly catastrophic event. what we are saying is that the motive was hatred of Jews. the intent was to harm Jews. it wasn’t about sports or politics or scores or chants, or even about nations. it was, specifically, about violence directed at Jews. the fortunate outcome of there not being numerous deaths does not alter the motive. what are we meant to call it?

if you try to kill someone, and they survive, it’s still attempted murder. the term is still used. and this is also where we get into that very key word: intent. intent matters, not only rhetorically, but judicially.

too many people (aside from the ones justifying this) are saying it wasn’t a pogrom because no one was killed. thank goodness no one was killed - considering the car rammings, the stabbings, the beatings, it’s a miracle no one died.

if you try to brutalize Jews for being Jewish, even if you don’t cause tremendous casualties, is it not still a pogrom?

should we minimize the language, or is that unsettling, giving free reign to those who would like to do this and worse again? when we know what happened was a planned attack targeting Jews, “pogrom” is a word to signify that, specifically used within our history.

no, of COURSE this doesn’t compare to massacres where people were tortured and expelled and murdered en masse. this evoked trauma from those past events, it evoked trauma from last October, but we all know it’s not equivalent in any sense, nor is that the point. even invoking Kristallnacht, due to closeness of the dates, no one is saying it’s the same as that, or anywhere near as bad as that, what we are trying to say is that there are powerful and frightening historical echoes and we’re begging others to notice them.

the mass murder of Jews isn’t what defines something as a pogrom. it’s the targeted attack part that’s relevant.

it’s unbelievable how, repeatedly, we are shouted over and told we are not allowed to use OUR OWN TERMS to describe our own experiences.

“in order to create loving males we need to love males” means teach boys that they can be themselves without being less of a man. it means being encouraging and nurturing of their emotions so they don’t become cold and hateful. it means showing boys, early in their lives, that they have value outside of what our society deems proper masculinity. what it doesn’t mean is that it’s our job to handhold men who see women as walking sex toys through the concept of empathy, and maybe if we’re really really nice to them and don’t say things that hurt their feelings they’ll stop killing us for saying no

This is what that bell hooks essay actually says, btw.

thats pretty reasonable i guess

For fun points, this is pretty much exactly what happened to Denethor. His phone (palantír) showed him vitally important information on very real threats, but also kept him in contact with misery and pain and malicious people who wanted to drive him into despair, and in the end, on top of tragedies in his own life, caused him to destroy himself (and nearly his family too).

So yeah. Be careful not to become Denethor?

And it also showed him nothing but the doom (the way both news sites and the majority of organic human information-sharing patterns do) even though there were lots of reasons for hope.

In short, Tolkien’s timeless message is: beware of Mount Doomscrolling.

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I forgot I have to be active here so here’s my Twitter tutorial on how to draw folds I made a while back to help a friend!

love these detailed explanations on clothing and folds!

All of you talking about how republicans are literal Nazis sure have been quiet as a literal pogrom is happening in Amsterdam just hours after the commemoration of Kristallnacht