You Know What, I’m About To Say It

Soca Valley, Slovenia [OC] (3456x5184) by: peterino99

But, for real, do you give a shit about real live Jews? Do you care about the violent antisemitism they face? Do you care about their physical and mental well-being?

OR do you only care about "antisemitism" when it's calling a piece of media out for being "antisemitic?"

i think it is bad to say that a group of people, whose schools and places of worship get firebombed in several places around the world , talking about the danger they face is equivalent to “white people whining about reverse racism,” but hey

This is a good point. I am reblogging about the antisemitism relating to the war rather than what is happening in the war itself, but I can see how this is can be unfair to those who are looking for positivity or trying to avoid the negatives rn. There should be discussion about where are the appropriate boundaries for the tags. Maybe people like me should stick to other tags (I am lately using #judenhass and #queer antisemitism because those are far less likely to be co-opted than #antisemitism), or maybe they should use other tags themselves. But it isn't fair to people's mental health to leave them without a safe space where they aren't constantly retraumatised. There's also of course the perennial question of what aspects of hiloni life and Israeli life outside of religion should count as part of Jewish tumblr.

Guys. If you’re gonna make a post about Israel or Gaza, and just Israel or Gaza, can you get off the #jumblr tag

That’s a tag for Jewish tumblr. Yknow, Jewish stuff. Mezuzot, stories from the mikrah, converts talking about the process. The politics of one Binyamin Netanyahu and his cronies is a different topic and for the love of god I want to get a break from this shit sometimes.

Imma start blocking people who do it istg

I tried captioning with as many creatures I could recognise

Merry Whalesfallsgiving!

The Early Therocene: 30 million years post-establishment

Where The Buffalomys Roam: The Mison

The largest land animals of the Early Therocene are the giant, herbivorous descendants of the cavybaras, known as the mison. One of the most successful megafaunal herbivores of this age, they are represented by several dozen species in five genera, and are found in various biomes of the continents of Nodera, Westerna and Ecatoria.

The mison first emerged at the end of the Late Rodentocene, having evolved from the still-extant alpine cavybaras (Pilosocricetus spp.) native to the continent of Westerna. A lowering of the sea levels during a short period of glaciation at the end of the Rodentocene exposed land bridges from the shallow seas and allowed the mison to migrate west to Nodera and south to Ecatoria, where they became isolated once the sea levels rose and eventually evolved into different species.

Today, the mison are among the most abundant grazers throughout the plains across all three continents, and also the biggest. Weighing up to two thousand pounds and standing six feet as the shoulder, they are the biggest hamsters of this age, far outclassing their cavybara ancestors and rivalling the biggest rodent ever to live on Earth, the prehistoric giant pacarana, Josephoartegesia monesi. Their enormous size leaves them nigh-invulnerable to predators once they are fully grown, by sheer virtue of being so big.

The bearded mison of Westerna (Bovitauromys spp.) is the most basal genus, native to the cold plateaus of the Westernan continent where the mison first originated. Their Noderan cousins, the plains mison (Buffalomys spp.) and the savannah mison (Bisonomimus spp.) are adapted to warmer climates, with the plains mison being a resident of relatively warmer temperate plains, and the savannah mison being far less shaggy than its cold-clime relatives, as well as sporting a distinctly shorter and blockier head, as an adaptation for stronger jaw muscles to masticate the tough succulents of the dry semidesert.

In the southern continent of Ecatoria, however, live a distinct lineage of mison, which sport an unusual adaptation: a pair of tusks. All mison species possess molars that, much like their incisors, have evolved to grow constantly, allowing them to cope with the constant wear and tear of grinding tough woody vegetation. This branch of the mison family tree, however, modified their first upper molars into a pair of prominent protruding tusks, as while their sheer size was protection enough from fearret predators in Nodera and Westerna, in the continent of Ecatoria the mison had a different, endemic carnivore to worry about: the hamyenas.

The steppe tusked mison (Ceratodontomys spp.) sport small straight tusks, which serve to dig up ground plants and defend themselves from predatory hamyenas with jabbing thrusts of their massive heads. The southern tusked mison (Megaloceratodon spp.), on the other hand sport enormous, curving tusks, which it uses to sweep aside snow, fend off predators, and compete with other males- while both sexes sport tusks, they are markedly bigger in the males, which they use to joust with rivals over territory and mates.

All species of mison are grazers, specializing to feed on low-growing vegetation such as grasses, bushes and shrubs. Their immense sizes and tendency to travel in large herds numbering in the hundreds make them important ecosystem engineers, grazing through tough, thorny vegetation and promoting the growth of other plants that other herbivores, such as boingos and hamtelopes, rely on for food.

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They are also erasing Jewish history of Israel from before the foundation of the state, and en masse rewriting articles on Zionism and Jews in the Middle East, getting rid of any context that justifies Israel and sometimes adding conspiracy theories. Israeli right-wing sources are considered unreliable due to being propaganda (which they are, but they also sometimes tell the truth) yet Qatari outlets are considered completely okay to use despite many many instances of outright fabrication. They should either ban both or ban neither if they want consistency. I have to constantly go to archived revisions for almost any page relating to Israel's history. Even on the summary page of Israel itself, they erased the link to the "Land of Israel" but kept the "Holy Land" and "historic region of Palestine".

This kind of stuff was happening on other topics than Jews long before October 7th, and is due to an inherent issue in English Wikipedia's editing culture. I remember how the decision making process worked years ago in a debate about deadnaming; trans people were outright ignored not just by transphobes but by "allies" because anyone with a personal stake in an issue is viewed as untrustworthy. Rules are made by consensus, which isn't a terrible idea on its own - but key part of how consensus is built is to marginalise the very people affected. I know from a friend this is also how Wikipedia operates on Romani issues.

I love the *idea* of Wikipedia so much, but the editing culture there is really toxic.

Another Jew on here commented that people were going onto Wikipedia and removing references to certain people's Jewishness, and I just saw for myself that this is true. As a Jew and a fan of old movies and history, I was looking up a list of Jewish actors on Wikipedia. I saw Tina Louise (you know, from Gilligan's Island) pop up. So I popped over to her actual page on Wikipedia. And there were zero references to her being Jewish. So I hopped on over to the Wayback Machine (bless you, Internet Archive) and put in the URL for her Wikipedia page. And wouldn't ya know it: before 10/7, there were at least 3 to 5 references to her Jewishness at any given time on her Wikipedia page. Wtf is happening.

The Late Rodentocene: 20 million years post-establishment

The Map and World of the Late Rodentocene

The Late Rodentocene, 20 million years PE, is a world that geologically speaking has changed very little from the time the hamsters first arrived, save for the rise and fall of the sea levels due to the glaciation of the northern and southern ice caps, which in turn repeatedly exposed and submerged land bridges that allowed hamsters to migrate across continents only to later be isolated from their relatives, to diverge genetically and become a new species.

The climate of the Late Rodentocene is temperate and humid, and conducive to the growth of a wide array of biomes across its six primary continents: small Borealia in the north, Easaterra and Nodera south and east of Borealia, temperate Westerna and tropical Ecatoria across the expanse of the Centralic Ocean, and the oddly-shaped Peninsulaustra at the south of the Centralic. For a brief period spanning a few thousand years, they were all connected when the sea level dropped, bridging them all to Isla Genesis (highlighted in orange), the experimental island where hamsters were first released as test subjects in a secluded environment.

With the land bridges long since sunk, however, the continents have been cut off from one another and in their separation have developed their own unique flora and fauna, such as Peninsulaustra becoming an frigid tundra home to species adapted to the cold, and Borealia, with only a few species making it across the land bridge before it flooded over, now being a thriving hotspot for endemic species found nowhere else on the planet.

The seas are also thriving as of the Late Rodentocene: while no hamsters have colonized it, at least just yet, the warm waters are flourishing with reefs and algae forests that grow with tremendous jungles of kelp that form their own biome from small organisms that take shelter in them. Most conspicuously, however, are the lack of fish: and in the absence of the dominant marine vertebrates of Earth, strange new clades have evolved in the briny depths, to fill the gaps left vacant.

The era is a time of stability: for the next tens of millions of years, the clime and tectonics will change little and the biomes will remain habitable and little-changing. But while the world itself stagnates, its creatures do not -- and this era will be their first big hurrah, as the planet's dominant clade.

Well this sure hit me like a ton of bricks