If you’re someone affected by the platform’s definition of what they’re going to be banning, I strongly suggest you back up your Tumblr blog. RIGHT NOW. Info on how to do that is here.
I can’t think why my own Tumblr would be affected, but I’ll be backing things up too… because in situations like this one might expect the algorithm to get a little out of hand and make mistakes that one might or might not be able to recover from. (See this article.)
For safety’s sake – because I’d very much dislike losing the content I’ve shared with other people here – I’l be embodying my Tumblr content in a new WordPress blog over the coming days. I’ll share the address here when it’s ready, for those who might be interested.
But in the meantime, seriously: friends and cousins, back yourselves up.
Since apparently Tumblr really is gonna follow through on nsfw art not being allowed on here, follow me over to twitter, instagram, and eventually pillowfort, furaffinity, and perhaps more places. I’m going to use the same username so you all can find me!
I have a roommate that’s recently turned into an outright abuser. Yesterday he attacked my father as he was there guarding my cats from further abuse. When my father called the police the police asked him to leave the home and told my abuser he was allowed to stay for at least 30 days.
I spoke with the police myself and was told they didn’t want to deal with the paperwork, so theg would do nothing more than escort me there to collect my things. When I went, my abuser tried to lock me out of the house and take one of my cats. The police, of course, did nothing.
I’m safe in a hotel for now with my cats and my dad and the irreplacable belongings I have. But its only for one more day, at which point I will be homeless because I can’t return to my house without fearing for my life.
Tl:dr I’m not in a place where I can write. I have to pay bills for the house I can’t live in and I also have to try and pay for housing for myself and my two babies.
This is them hiding under the hotel bed. I have nothing for them except for their food.
I swore I’d never be that person, but if anyone has a spare dollar or two, my paypal is https://www.paypal.me/embenj
I’m so sorry about the lack of content and the continued lack of content. I’m doing my best, I swear.
So, I am furious and sad and furious again about the Tree of Life shooting and basically everything around it. But it has been some relief to see so many people, both Jewish and gentile, posting about fundraisers and looking for ways to help in the aftermath.
Unfortunately, the notes of those posts are often full of anti-Semitism, whether from the overt hatefulness of alt-right neo-Nazi shitheads, or the concern-trolling of self-proclaimed leftists who think this is a great time to start up the I/P debate.
(Hint: It is not.)
(I just saw, with my own actual eyeballs, a post in which someone asked whether the shul and the victims were Zionists or not, because they didn’t want to support or mourn for them if they were.)
After a while, it’s hard to see the point of trying to refute the shitty arguments of shitty people, and you can only say “fuck you” so many times before it starts to lose all meaning.
Fortunately, there is something to fall back on. Gentile allies, may I introduce you to the wonderful world of
Yiddish curses
Some of my favorites:
May you turn into a blintz and be snatched by a cat.
May you either have to use the toilet every three minutes or every three months.
May I have the pleasure of sewing your funeral shroud.
May all your teeth fall out but one and may that one give you a toothache.
May you have thunder in your belly and lightning in your pants.
May he have a hundred houses, each house with a hundred rooms, each room with twenty beds, and may a delirious fever toss him from bed to bed.
May you eat chopped liver with onions, shmaltz herring, chicken soup with dumplings, baked carp with horseradish, braised meat with vegetable stew, latkes, tea with lemon, every day – and may you choke on every bite!
Yiddish curses: For when “fuck you, you fucking fuck” lacks sufficient flair.
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