In love with possibility

I cannot overstate how funny this is when you see it on television for the first time. It’s just a really perfect joke. 

Did the Discworld fandom just hijack a post?

what a vitalist establishment

I think part of the reason we emphasize “Chanukah is a minor holiday” and “Chanukah isn’t Jewish Christmas” isn’t because we don’t make a big deal out of Chanukah or because we don’t recognize that it’s also a pretty-lights-in-darkness solstice-y holiday, but because we really wish people were aware of our more important holidays, like Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Passover, and even the religiously-important-but-not-so-well-known ones like Sukkot and Shavuot. It’s not just that I think intercultural knowledge is good, but also that I think that maybe if people knew more about these other holidays, they’d be more accommodating. Maybe if employers knew about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, they’d let Jews take off work then with fewer consequences. Maybe if the people running dining halls and events knew more about Passover, they’d include more food Jews could eat on Passover. Maybe if school administrators knew about Shavuot, they’d make sure to pick a different weekend for graduation. I don’t know, maybe I’m naive — plenty of people already know and either don’t care, or figure if we decide to be weird then that’s our problem. But maybe there are people who will be like “hey, you know what, I’ll make space for you.”

@chersidamas

Yeah sex is cool i guess (if you’re into that sort of thing) but have you ever tried blasphemy or moderate-to-severe heresy against the tyrant that calls himself “God”?

sigh in vexation at the disappointing trimming on your new fur