How do you feel about the use of AI as a tool for writers? Not to make the writing for us, of course, but to ask for prompts or "chat" about plot points where you're stuck.
Friends are nice. If you can find some human ones. That's how Terry Pratchett and I became friends. He'd call me up when he wanted to chat about plot points when he got stuck.
there is something horrifically grim to it, but illustrations for gaza and palestinians tend to catch more mass attention that actual photos of people. this made me feel incredibly helpless for a long while, seeing both how people would rather look at a neat drawing of red black green and white than look a human in the eyes, and how online platforms would rather push a viral drawing while suppressing those begging for help at the same time.
a way to cope with this feeling has been taking advantage of it to directly guide people to helping palestinians.
if art gets better traction, then there’s an incredible amount of good that can be done by creating art that immediately links to fundraisers. creating art of the many images of those who are asking for help.
within hours of posting my drawing, there has been jumps in the thousands for bashar from gaza’s fundraiser. it’s a small effort in the grand scheme of things. it’s not a fix it. but it’s something good. please take care of each other and do what you can. i think this could help a lot of people if a lot of people did it.
here is bashar. i’ve drawn him, spoken to him, and known him now for a few months. any shares help, any art helps. draw who you see, draw what you see. thanks all
not only does judaism heavily value having multiple opinions for a singular topic, whether amongst a group or within yourself, it also values realizing when those opinions are not based in truth and changing your viewpoint would likely be helpful. this is a skill many goyim need to learn very fucking soon.
Hi,
I hope this message finds you well. My friend's @bilalhammadsblog family in Gaza is facing an incredibly difficult time, having lost everything due to the ongoing conflict. They are in urgent need of basic necessities
We've set up a GoFundMe to support them, and it would mean the world to me if you could help by sharing this link with your friends and family
Thank you so much for your support.
https://gofund.me/491b6f98
Bilal’s gofundme is legit. They are at €32,909/€70,000 donations so far
Listen, if you want to understand how emanations work, it's like this:
If you're an infinite thing like God, and you want to become a finite thing like the world, how do you go from infinite to finite? Answer: emanation.
You know when youre at a wedding, and there's a big pyramid of wine glasses? And they fill the wine glasses by pouring champagne into the top, so it overflows and then fills all the glasses beneath it? Imagine the wine bottle is infinite. That's God.
Each of the glasses is called a hypostasis. God can emanate through many hypostases to reach it's final emanation.
As for how many hypostases there are, and how they're arranged, that's the tricky one. Every religion has a different answer, and it's never simple.
You know, if you’re a goy, and you want to help with antisemitism online, you want to know one of the biggest things you could do right now?
Just reach out to some Jews to shoot the shit. Not about Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Netanyahu or any of it. Just…how was Chanukkah? Half your blog is OFMD, who do you ship if you roll that way? Love your cat posts, what’s the kitty’s name?
We have been reduced to Good Jew Who Hates Israel And All Things Jewish, and Evil Jew Who Doesn’t Want To Die To Be Absolved Of Palestine. We are not allowed to be people anymore. Someone I know on here, a goy, got harassed because she was having a crummy week and asked for cheer-up things and when I reblogged with a picture of one of my cats she reblogged from me with something like “HE’S SO FLUFFY.” Someone literally went after her for thinking a Jew had a cute cat. Apparently an Australian reblogging a cat pic from an American is somehow oppressing people in Palestine.
We’ve been isolated and alienated and people are calling for our deaths because apparently killing Jews will help Palestine, or something. Please, just…let us be people. A lot of us have lost a LOT of friends in the last two months. One of my losses was someone I’d known for seven years who instantly started simping for Hamas. That cuts. That cuts DEEP.
If you want to help, start by being a friend. It’s really that simple.
my favorite calvin and hobbes comic is the one where his dad just rolls up and casually destroys his entire night by pointing out some neat trivia about record players
@comicaurora You seen this already?
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i miss when you could make political art without placing personal identity (and the self) at the center of everything
“Once you accept that Nazis, or pedophiles, or other evil people are subhuman, your definition of “Nazi” can be expanded.” Was literally just thinking about that. I’m hanging onto that quote.
I've been seeing some peculiar beliefs in leftist spaces recently.
• Nazis are literally subhuman and deserve to die.
• Zionism is a Nazi movement
• All Jews are secretly zionists
To an outside observer, these beliefs can look innocent (I am far too guilty of number 1, honestly) but the problem is a lot of people believe all three. By the transitive property, they believe that all Jews are subhuman and deserve to die. That is a very familiar and terrifying sentiment to us Jews.
Be careful dehumanizing literally anyone. Once you accept that Nazis, or pedophiles, or other evil people are subhuman, your definition of "Nazi" can be expanded. It can even be expanded to include groups that were originally targeted in the Holocaust. Do better.