That relatable (older) Gen Z memory: when all the projectors and white boards got replaced by Smart Boards™ around like fifth grade and none of the teachers knew how to use them but they Had To Use them otherwise the school just wasted a bunch of money and it was a rlly weird transition
an addition: when they calibrated the board by pressing the dots and everyone in class lost their minds
Tfw in your country people STILL use overhead projectors, provided they can actually WORK that is.
It kinda blew my mind to learn today that “thou” was actually an informal form, and “you/ye” was the fancy one
Now whenever I see “thou” I read it in a tone kinda like “y’all” in tumblr posts and like… 1600s bible verses were supposed to be perfectly frank, not stilted. this changes everything………..
“Listen, then, if y’all have ears!” – Jesus, maybe
Religious leaders across faiths, elected officials and community
members filled a memorial hall late Sunday to honor the victims of a
mass shooting a Pittsburgh synagogue one day prior.
Through speeches, hymns and prayer, the thousands who
gathered at the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall sat to remember
those who died in the tragedy. Eleven people were killed and six others
were injured when a suspected gunman, identified as Robert Bowers of
Baldwin, Penn., opened fire in the Tree of Life
synagogue Saturday morning. Bowers has been taken into custody and
charged with 29 counts related to federal hate crime laws, including 11
counts of obstruction of religious beliefs resulting in death.
Outside the memorial hall, hundreds of attendees who
couldn’t fit into the auditorium gathered in the rain to listen to the
event on speakers while inside, community leaders vowed to remain strong
in wake of the massacre. Rabbis from the three affected Tree of Life
congregations spoke during the event — Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, Rabbi
Jeffrey Myers and Rabbi Cheryl Klein.
Perlman, who leads the New Light congregation, commended the people
of his congregation for their volunteerism and efforts in the local
community.
“What happened yesterday will not break us,” he said,
holding back tears. “It will not ruin us. We will continue to thrive
and sing and worship and learn together and continue our historic legacy
in this city with the friendliest people that we know.”
Myers, who was leading services at Tree of Life
minutes before the shooter entered, said there were 12 people in his
sanctuary when the mass murder started.
“I helped pull out the people that I could from the
front,” he said. “But alas I had eight people in the back. One
fortunately survived. Seven of my congregants were shot dead in my
sanctuary. My holy place has been defiled. We will rebuild.”
Klein, who leads Congregation Dor Hadash, said the
shooting left her “numb.” The only reason she hadn’t been at Tree of
Life during the shooting was because she was out of town celebrating
Shabbat with her family, she said.
Klein honored Jerry Rabinowitz, who was killed in the
shooting. She said Rabinowitz died while trying to tend to the wounded,
calling him a “voice of reason.”
“Jerry defined what it is to be a mensch,” she said.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto also spoke at the vigil to say the city will go to lengths to “eradicate any type of hate.”
“We will drive anti-semitism and the hate of any
people back to the basement, on their computer and away from the open
discussions and dialogues around this city, around the state and around
the country,” he said.
The efforts on part of other faith groups in
Pittsburgh were highlighted during the event. Wasi Mohamed, executive
director of the Islamic Center for Pittsburgh, received a standing
ovation after announcing that the Muslim community raised more than $70,000 in an online campaign on behalf of the Jewish community to help families affected in the shooting.
“We realize that it’s such a tragic time. These are
our family — money should not be an issue. That should not be a concern.
Paying for a funeral or paying for medical costs, that is not what
should be focused on. It’s about mourning right now,” Mohamed said.
“We’re not going to stop. We just want to know what you need.
Community leaders took time during the vigil to emphasize the need to be together in the wake of the massacre.
“After a raging anti-Semite shot up a holy place of
worship on our Shabbat and murdered our extended Pittsburgh Jewish
family, we needed to be here because in times like these we need
community,” said Jeff Finkelstein, CEO of Jewish Federation of Greater
Pittsburgh. “We need the comfort of each other. We need love, not hate.
And we need that giant hug that this Pittsburgh Jewish community always
gives.”
My favorite thing will always be the people that spout about how they don’t sh/ip abusive things and diss things I or other people like, that then you look at their blogs and see they sh/ip pairings thar are just as toxic as the ones they condemn or scream about how they are so much better.
Hypocrisy at its finest.
(And omg o/p of other post was so right about ed/win)
(Like E/dwin, Z/utara, etc, often i have seen a pattern of people acting like x is never ok ever, then they turn around and use mis/ogynistic slurs toward girls who like y/aoi and who also somehow ignore their own flaws in their own pairings. Another example could be cl/uclu which has c/c force herself on L/elouch. Lol. It is the pot calling the kettle black.)
Shrugs. All fiction is either prob/lematic or else what they don’t like is and what they like isn’t. It is such convenient reasoning and worst part is I used to think like that, lmao. I used to think cuz i hated characters that it made a series bad. Thank god I have matured and think more of plot and how it succeeds and not judged based on how it makes me feel.
Whatever, I have two essays to focus on, so I will vent my frustrations into this.
Also, I hate abstinence-only, and I absolutely agree that teenagers need accurate information about sexuality that isn’t shaming or meant to “scare em straight,” but I feel like social media (especially fucking Instagram) has reeeaally pushed this “hoe culture” thing that tells especially underage girls that the best way to own your sexuality, be “sex positive,” and be #empowered is to act out this really porny hypersexuality to appeal to boys. (And also to be hypersexual for boys on demand but never expect anything like emotional reciprocation in return, because that’s prudish and whiny and not what Baddies™ do.)
Even on places like tunglr.hell; of a clearly underage teen girl deepthroating a banana in front of her cheering peers at a party, and the reactions were all “yaaaaasss what a queen lmaaaooo #baddie,” with nobody really stopping to ask if maaaaybe that doesn’t really look like a really great situation, also why are you sharing a clip of a teen faking a sex act, let alone cheering it on as badass.
The only people who expressed any kind of concern were the people yelling about how “if that was my daughter I’d whoop her hoe ass and lock her in the basement.” It seems like young girls are caught between the left and right wall in a maze, one being this porny sexiness for boys, he other being this controlling and shaming insistence on “purity”, and in between are predators who know how to corner you against either of those walls
It’s weird that girls are taught that being sexually appealing/enticing is empowering instead of being aware of and okay with their own sexual desires. And by weird I mean malicious and intentional.
Good sex ed: There’s nothing wrong with having crushes or having sexual feelings. But at your age it is very dangerous to act upon them with other people and it can affect your future. Watch media featuring sexual content (or create it yourself) and save actually doing it in the real world until you’re an adult.
Bad sex ed: aaosdjfoaijfoiejo ROMANCE?! SEX?! That’s evil/satanic/heresy/western culture!!! No! No! You must never EVER ask any questions about such “dirty” things and stay inside the house otherwise you’ll get raped/rape someone!!! What is rape you ask? SHUT UP AND DON’T ASK QUESTIONS!
Also bad sex ed: HEY GIRLSSSS LETS WEAR BOOTY SHORTS AND PASTIES AND BANG BOIZZZ HEY BOIZZ LETS GET PISS DRUNK AND BANG GIRLS YAAS KWEEN SLAAAY
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