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that.jewish.activist: this isn’t my usual activism post, but rather it’s a little post about the history of kaifeng jews 

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HELP ME RAISE $700 TO PREVENT MY LUNGS 🫁 FROM COLLAPSING

It's my first time fundraising and to be honest this hasn't worked.

We are drowning in bills, eating is practically a luxury, and my health has been deteriorating rapidly.

Everything has gone from bad to worse, my lungs are compromised for not being able to have my treatment as indicated by my doctor After my last check-up, my doctor says that the hopes of a recovery are nil because I am not complying with the treatment as indicated.

Respiratory crises are becoming more frequent.

I need medication for life to prevent my lungs from collapsing, this implies permanent treatment with steroids, oxygen therapy, control of oxygen in the blood and antibiotics to prevent the development of bacteria in the lungs.

I'm afraid I have to insist on this because it may be the only way to get my treatment, This costs around $700 per month.

Things are really tough on me, I can’t afford. Please donate🖤

Here's the link to donate

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Yes!

In fact one has only to listen to Riley Gaines countering Lia Thomas being allowed to compete against women.

Riley and her follow women swimmers are at the top of their game in terms of skill.

Not wanting to compete against Lia Thomas (An adult biological male and over 6ft tall with it) has absolutely nothing to do with personal insecurity.

These women are amongst the best swimmers in the world.

Riley has no problem.calling Liz Thomas out, because she knows her own skill level is super high.

But 'Lia' has only starting winning medals as a male swimming against females, against whom she already has a strength and speed advantage, courtesy of her biological sex.

Swimming against fellow males 'she' was way, way behind.

Now, I call that darn suspicious 😾.

Not to mention deeply unfair to all those women who have trained themselves to a peak.

Deeply concerned by the number of people (especially women) who genuinely believe that women and men have the same capacity for physical strength

and who think you’re being sexist if you point out that they don’t

ma’am the only one equating physical strength with innate value here is you

it’s concerning that you think strength has anything to do with value

and if the men in your life ever stop being decent you are setting yourself up to be in so much more danger

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And it's an all male group celebrating the beauty of Platonic Love.

The Power of Friendship!

I think the biggest shame about people becoming way too comfortable sexualizing everything is that it limits creative freedom. now you have to worry about someone's obscure fetish just in case you write something and you have freaks online like 👀 ayooOOO like shut up man. if you're finding sexual undertones in mundane things, you don't 'see the world differently', you have a mental disorder.

No one should have to carefully scoot around something because the internet has made it ok to see everything through a sexual lens

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As for Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band, by The Beatles.

Well, where to begin. 🤔

Also Bohemian Rhapsody

Rock bands used to just write about whatever the fuck. Not to be all "old music was better!" but when's the last time the world's highest selling band released a song about killing people with hammers. The Who made an entire rock opera about a deaf, mute, and blind guy who is so good at pinball that he inspires a cultlike group of devotees who think he's the next christ. It was released at the peak of their popularity and was made into a movie featuring people like Elton John and Tina Turner.

I think classic rock gets a reputation for being all about girls and cars and drugs but for about 15-20 years there were absolutely no rules on acceptable song subject matter. Pink Floyd has a song about a gnome going on an adventure. Alice Cooper has a whole album about breaking out of the Ableist Insane Asylum because he misses his dog. These weren't weird little indie groups, these were all highly successful charting bands getting radio airplay and selling out stadiums.

We need to bring this culture back. No more love songs. Sing about wizards.

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Here in the UK too.

They were FIERCE! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Cute! 😁😍😁😍😁😍😁😍😁

But you need to wear the same shirts, little men.

Teachers notice things like that...

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Police/Cops are people, human beings.

To my mind, that makes it just as ridiculous to cry ACAB as it is to claim that all Law Enforcement are pure as the driven snow.

Joining the Police Force puts a person into a position of authority.

So we're going to end up with some assholes who get off on having power and will abuse it.

We don't have to and shouldn't be quiet about it when they do.

But we also have plenty of Police Officers who joined up to Serve and Protect. And that's what they do.

I've met and talked to plenty of Police Officers in my time. And the vast majority are just men and women doing a job like any other.

Too often, they're understaffed, tied up by the type of 'red tape' that hinders their work, rather than protects civil liberties. And their budgets are often ridiculous.

Of course we have every right to expect that our Police be given the funding and legal permission to do the job that we need them to, then to expect the Police to do that job to the best of their abilities.

We have every right to spell it out when they do it badly.

But I think we should also show appreciation for the times when they do it well.

Particularly as it can be a very dangerous job at times.

I know that I couldn't do it.

How come when a TV show depicts the police favorably, it's copaganda, but when a TV show depicts BLM favorably, it's not propaganda?

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@anamericangirl

Cool! The Tudor period was fascinating, despite there being so much gore and cruelty involved. 😳

If you like YouTube videos on the subject. I can heartily recommend Dr David Starkey. The Tudors are a speciality of his.

He has a series of videos about Henry VIII's reign, he has a book about Henry and his Wives, and there's an especially good talk he does about Katherine Howard.

I'm brushing up my knowledge of French and learning Italian and Latin.

I think some of those tumblr users who are interacting with that boycott post need to get a life off social media, a hobby, anything.

Speaking of. What’s a hobby you’ve been into recently?

They definitely do. Go touch grass or something. Like there’s nothing about it that should be so rage inducing lol. But hey I don’t pretend I’m a store so what do I know 🤷‍♀️

But as for me I’m trying to teach myself how to play piano and I’m also learning three different languages and I do indulge in some true crime at times.

What hobby keeps you busy?

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Art is for People.

The Common Humanity that unites us is more important than any differences between us.

I can't think of any situation (other than single sex spaces, which do have an objective point) where splitting people according to our differences has ever lead to somewhere good.

Music, food and drink, dance, drama, literature and poetry, painting, sculpture, drawing etc.

Different cultures do these things in a variety of ways. And that variety is good, because the combination of different cultures plus the common human need that art meets, this enables us to build bridges and understand each other more.

I'm all for that.

If you have any kind of artistic, musical or writing skill and you’re not using those abilities to help and lift up people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, you are wasting your talent and I’m not sure if I can really trust you

I make art for myself. If people like what I do, then that's great. But I don't really do it for them or anyone.

Putting obligations on an artist's message, themes or ideals shackles them and hampers the creative spirit. If an artist has to be confined within a narrow box of goals, they're going to suffer because they will be forced compromise their vision for messaging or optics.

Freddy Mercury was not obligated to send a message about the LGBT community. They may have at points and created specific songs with that in mind, but they did so because they wanted to. Not because they were obligated to.

Freddy wrote "Somebody to Love" and and poured his soul into it. Somebody to Love has helped ease my pains of being in the closet. It is the song I listen to when I feel like I can never escape and I'll never find someone who will love me.

He also wrote "Bohemian Rhapsody", a song that has nothing to do with the struggle of the LGBT. If he was shackled by the obligations you demand of artists, he might never have wrote the Rhapsody.

And by that chain of events, Queen might not have ever succeeded with Night at the Opera. And without the Rhapsody and success of the Opera album, Freddie Mercury would've never been able to put "Somebody to Love" into the world like he did.

And without Queen's success, John Deacon probably wouldn't have written "I want to Break Free", a song made landmark and controversial by the lyrics and the breakout music video featuring the band in drag.

If you got your way, if you were to shackle a young Freddy Mercury in the way you demand now, Queen wouldn't be a thing. All the songs that speak to LGBT people, the awareness of AIDS Mercury brought, none of it would've happened.

You're the toxic element here. You would've chided and derided the man who became an LGBT and rock icon because he started his career singing songs about his own made up fantasy world of Rhye.

You're in no place to judge me, my struggles, my art or my intent. You are a cancer on art everywhere. I'm glad I don't have your approval.

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“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”

— Richard Bach

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For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. - Richard Bach

More Richard Bach Quotes and Sayings

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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

— Richard Bach

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That’s what learning is… Losing, in a curious way is winning.

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“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”

— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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Quotable – Richard Bach

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The best way to pay for a

lovely moment is to enjoy it.

(Richard Bach)