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[tamamita]

Zionists going on about "Israel must be bad at genocide" to argue against the number of killed Palestinians relative to the population, is one of the most insane and dehumanizing arguments that they love to pull

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[deadryn]

It's not even the own they think it is because "being bad at genocide" still means "committing genocide". That's like saying the Nazis or Ottomans were bad at genocide because we still have Jewish and Armenian people, like come the fuck on now. Israel being "good" or "bad" at genocide has no bearing on their moral standing, both possibilities are equally evil.

[Silver Blur]

[saywhat-politics]

After failing to govern, Republicans fear possible consequences

The Republicans’ lack of accomplishments is the result, not of an accident or unfortunate circumstances, but of a deliberate choice of a pos

MSNBC.com

The Republicans’ lack of accomplishments is the result, not of an accident or unfortunate circumstances, but of a deliberate choice of a post-policy party.

It was the political challenge heard ‘round the political world. Two months ago, as members of Congress prepared to leave Capitol Hill for their Thanksgiving break, Republican Rep. Chip Roy delivered impassioned remarks on the House floor.

“One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing — one! — that I can go campaign on and say we did,” the Texan said. “Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.”

No one rushed to respond to his challenge.

A month later, Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona complained during an on-air Newsmax interview that GOP lawmakers have “nothing to campaign on” in the fall because the party hasn’t accomplished anything. “It’s embarrassing,” the congressman added.

Few have challenged the premise of such complaints. Even if someone were willing to overlook the GOP’s pointless messaging bills, the GOP’s government-shutdown threats, the GOP’s debt-ceiling crisis, the GOP’s meritless censure resolutions, GOP members’ willingness to oust their own House speaker for the first time in American history, and the expulsion of a GOP member, the fact remains that this Congress is on track to be the least productive since 1932.

[the-real-seebs]

i note that some of them have said, in their own words, that not accomplishing anything is intentional, because if they sabotage government during Democrat administrations, they can claim the Democrats are ineffectual.

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[fleursdesmorts]

from naoki urasawa’s pluto

while this was a commentary on the american forces in iraq, this feels very relevant still. the use of an elusive mostly imaginary target gives them an excuse to exact violence upon civilian life

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[phantomrose96]

Cant have fucking shit in Detroit

[phantomrose96]

[phantomrose96]

Cant have shit

[phantomrose96]

Okay so door saga

• The only way into my building is through the front door which locks itself when closed. There's a back entrance but it's deadbolted from the inside. This means the only people who can get into the building are me, my cat sitter with the spare keys, and the people living in the other two units.
• The door to MY unit now... has no doorknob. Impossible to get in.
• There is a shared BACK hallway that leads to the shared basement/back entrance. My back door into this hall is always deadbolted. EXCEPT, fortuitously, right now, since neighbor (Molly) in unit 2 had heard Patches meowing when alone and offered to spend some time with her, so I had the cat sitter unlock the bolt.
• This, LUCKILY, means there is A Way into my unit. But it requires getting into the building, then going THROUGH my neighbors' unit into the back hall, then up to my unit.
• Cat sitter is effectively locked out from Patches, and won't be able to get in if not fixed by the next day.
• Text neighbor about predicament. They're willing to look at my door bUT (it's Christmas) they're not home and not getting home until the next day.
• Next day, text for an update but hear nothing. (Neighbors aren't attached to their phones much). Communicate with catsitter saying "okay if I don't hear back from neighbors, maybe you go over and I contact a locksmith who you can let in?" (since cat sitter has the keys to the building)
• Catsitter is very not keen on the idea
• Patches is unaware she's a prisoner.
• Hear back from neighbors. Say they should be home around 5pm.
• Okay... Good Enough... (Patches graze-feeds so Luckily she hasn't missed any meals but we're going on 24 hours of house arrest Patches).
• 6pm comes. 7pm comes. 7:40pm I text asking for an update. Nothing.
• 8:30pm I'm figuring out what friends I can call to break into my own house. Text neighbor again and notice this text doesn't go through.
• Text neighbor's partner being like "hey sorry, can't seem to reach Molly--". Get a text back "Sorry this is Molly on David's phone! My phone died." Family Christmas plans ran late but they're on their way back and will be home soon. Thank goodness.
• 9pm-ish, they get back, give Patches attention and top up her food. I get a text "David fixed your door!" Woo!
• Friday 5pm I finally get home
• Lugging my suitcase up three flights of stairs while I hear Patches meowing like a dying Victorian child
• Shoes off coat off suitcase down fish out keys unlock door grab doorknob
• ...Doorknob falls off
• Falls off right into my hands
• Staring at doorknob. Staring at door. Patches meowing. Shove doorknob against door like an idiot and no it does not go back on.
• Fucking
• Go down flight of stairs, knock on Molly and David's door. David is luckily home. "My doorknob fell off again can I go home"
• David lets me in. I scoot past their dogs and apparently I startled the more nervous one since she apparently tried to nip at me but I didn't even notice because I'm like my cat.
• Get in through the back hall.
• Patches comes bounding over.
• My cat.
• Doesn't even know she was a prisoner.
• Doesn't even know what a doorknob is.
• Later that night receive a text from neighbor apologizing for the dog and I'm like "I Did Not Even Notice."
• Any attempt to leave my house now is perilous until I fix the doorknob.
• Can't even leave my door cracked open because I know Patches is gonna shove her stupid little face through it and become the opposite of a prisoner.
• I wanna go buy a reeces peanut butter cup but by god it's not worth the risk
• I'm gonna try to fix the doorknob
• Or... buy? a new doorknob?
• On Amazon searching "doorknob".
• Merry Christmas

[phantomrose96]

You are completely right because I have now investigated the knob and can confirm the screw holding the knob to bar was loose. I have tightened the screw and it SEEMS fixed but I’m very Fool Me Once on this since my neighbor also thought they’d fixed it.

There is a Home Depot trip in my future. Or maybe an online purchase if Patches would get off my laptop

[phantomrose96]

Merry Christmas I hope I know how to install a doorknob

[phantomrose96]

Complication. Doorknob is here and I tried to install it, but because my door is older than God, the latch-majig (technical term) is offset like an inch higher than the knob. Modern doorknob has the latch LEVEL with the knob.

To swap in the new knob I'd need to cut a new knob-hole an inch higher in the door which

1. With what tools
2. That would leave an unused gaping doorknob-sized hole in my door which any robber the size of a weasel or smaller will use to rob my home. I don't need fucking Redwall in my home.
3. Probably bad for the integrity of the door
4. I don't wanna.

I think what I really want is just the knob like above tags said. Like the knob and the rectangular bar, which I can substitute in for my stripped-bare knob and rectangle bar. I WOULD do this with the new knob, but it's got two welded-on spokes poking out from the knob.

I can maybe drill two holes for the spokes in my door...?

(Squinting at shitty amazon listings trying to see if any knobs don't have the two spokes)

(I think the two spokes might be standard.)

Developing new respect for Jesus (carpenter).

In the meantime, because I'd already unscrewed a lot of things I DID take the genius action of flipping my current doorknob around.

This way the side that causes problems is on the INSIDE.

Doorknob fall of while INSIDE house significantly better than doorknob fall off while OUTSIDE.

I'm retightening all the screws.

Patches has offered no solutions.

[phantomrose96]

ALT

So it does!

Never heard the term "spindle doorknob" before so I never would have found this on my own.

They're also all labeled "vintage" which extra feels right since my door predates the Cambrian Explosion.

Crowdsourcing my door fix on Tumblr dot com! Doorknob 2.0 is ordered.

[phantomrose96]

ALT

At least 4,000 but we still got time

[phantomrose96]

New doorknob should get here tomorrow, but in the meantime things in the notes of this post:

• Several dozen stories of other people getting locked in/out of bathrooms/basements/classrooms/bedrooms/buildings. Extra shout out to the person whose classmate managed to do this twice, in rapid4reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesdweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
• Patches is on my keyboard
• whose classmate managed to do this twice, in rapid succession, to both sides of a classroom door after being saved the first time.
• Several people taking this as a sign to go tighten their doorknob screws, including someone whose knob fell off in their hands while doing this
• 10 or so people reading the "can't have shit in Detroit" meme to mean I live in Detroit. Sorry to confess I'm a fake Detroitite. Doxxing myself by 0.00001% more by informing the world I live in not-Detroit.
• Many many people wondering why I'm not pestering my landlord about this. Truth is my landlord is way too sexy, cool, fashionable, smart, pretty, funny, and popular on Tumblr to it's me. It's me. I'm me I'm my landlord. It's my condo. Including, with immense regret, every single doorknob inside.
• 3 separate professional locksmiths who have reached out offering advice, which is very cool. I have burst into a virtual hardware store clutching my shit doorknob and fainted, only to be caught by three very strong and cool locksmiths rushing to my aid.
• Person with a story of dogsitting a friend's Tibetan Mastiff who managed to knock the entire backdoor down. Taking inspiration from this to train Patches in battering-ram techniques, should she ever get locked inside again.

[phantomrose96]

[phantomrose96]

DOORKNOB

ALSO MY PAPER TOWELS

(Ran out of paper towels)

Old knob coming off.

Wretched thing. Accursed knob of woe.

Get undid

New knob reign by forceful coup. Went to great pains to PRECISELY wait Patches is escaping

Patches retrieved

Anyway GREAT care was taken to ensure both knobs are ALIGNED, EVEN, SCREWED ON, with the wait hang on

Patches retrieved again.

Anyway

DOORKNOB SCREWED ON

KNOB

Still gonna keep the emergency screwdriver in the hall for probably the next month.

[phantomrose96]

In conclusion look at my cat

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[wizzardhat]

at the start of the game karlach and astarion are absolutely fucking reeling from being suddenly freed and are in a state of manic joy that would probably seem alien to them like a week ago, while gale has been locked in his depression tower for so long he's almost completely forgotten how to talk to people. shadowheart has not a single fucking clue whats going on because shar keeps slurping up her memories and lae'zel is literally in the midst of her ultimate nightmare scenario and trapped on an alien planet with a bunch of jackasses who have no idea whats happening. so almost everyone has experienced a situational personality shift and isn't quite the person they were a year before you met them. EXCEPT Wyll. Who is just like "this isnt even the weirdest thing thats happened to me this month." my man got scooped up, tadpoled, and slammed back and said "oh well, not gonna ruin my day" and went about his business teaching self defense to children and slaying evil beasts. He didn't even seem confused he literally did not give a shit. no urgency. He's like "I'll put that in my day planner but is gonna have to wait until after i hunt down this demon." When you recruit him there is no sense of "oh man we really gotta help each other because we have the same problem" he just would have said yes because you asked and he's wyll. Or because you told him he could kill mindflayers. He'd be like "sick" and done, no questions asked. Just another Tuesday for the blade.

[ofdarklands]

#literally #everyone half dead and covered in illithid slime (feat the wizard who just got extracted from a stone) #vs wyll. fresh and cool as usual. does his signature move with a flourish. how did he survive the crash? how did he make his way to the #grove so fast??? how is he so CLEAN??? #LAE'ZEL got trapped in a makeshift cage five minutes after the crash. but wyll? #wyll is just being a hero as usual. rolled a nat20 or something #wyll ravengard the man that you are. (@unionizedwizard x )

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[totallynotcensorship]

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[i-am-aprl]

Those who were once oppressed under an Apartheid regime have stepped up to help those being oppressed under another one.

Meanwhile, the so-called "free" world is still trying to find ways to justify "standing with" and defending Israel's rogue racist Apartheid regime.

They should feel deep shame. They don't. But they all should.

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[arikad0]

Final Fantasy VII (1997) vs Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)

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[dagny-hashtaggart]

I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

[voxette-vk]

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

[booksandchainmail]

according to wikipedia, before

[decepticonsensual]

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

[stele3]

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

[sun-moon-stars-jedi]

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[wildegeist]

Change your Tumblr password now.

Humongous data breach just happened, with loads upon loads of sites being affected. Tumblr's among those. Also on the list is Wattpad for you fanfic people out there- among many, many other places.

There's a searchable list at the bottom of the article. Highly recommend scrolling or searching through, seeing what places you may be on that have been affected, and securing all your accounts. This thing's kind of big.

Mother of All Breaches: ​a Historic Data Leak Reveals 26 Billion Records | Cybernews

The supermassive leak contains data from numerous previous breaches, comprising an astounding 12 terabytes of information, spanning over a m

Cybernews

If you know people on any of the sites affected, let them know about this too, and spread the article around.

[bluesturngold]

I've seen this on my dash a bunch without anyone defusing the bombshell headline, so allow me: this is not exactly 'the monster of all breaches,' which to a layperson suggests a bunch of sites all got hacked recently.

In reality, someone compiled a bunch of old data breach info and has reposted it online. There might be some new info from other sites included in the breach, but the Tumblr information is from 2013, so most people reading this in 2024 should be alright.

If you're worried your info might've been compromised, haveibeenpwned.com is a good tool for seeing which breaches have impacted you, as well as when they took place.