Day Six - Recommended Books

Day Fourteen - Valentines Day

I must admit, I'm not a big one for the big V - I don't see why you need only show someone you love them once a year, why not every day?

Unfortunately I don't really have much practice with valentines day anyway, most of my life I've either been a) too young, b) single or c) too far away from my partner, however this year was different! this year I got to spend the evening of Valentines with Amanda (only the evening though because she had uni during the day) and she made me a really nice dinner and then we watched a DVD, yay for snuggles!

The day after that we actually celebrated valentines day, going out to the cinema and just generally having a nice chilled day together, was awesome.

hopefully next year we'll be free to go out for a meal on the day instead *fingers crossed*

so yeah, short post this time, my inexperience shone through I guess?

Love you lots Amanda!

Nik

Yall remember how Texas had that "report an abortion" form that they had to take down after a week?

Well, Missouri has one, only it's for reporting transgender concerns.

Comrades. Friends. Romans. Countrymen. You know what to do.

As a leftist Jew who believes strongly in the cause of dignity and freedom for the Palestinian people, and that Israel has abused them, I am begging fellow leftists to understand that real life is not a comic book. A government being “the bad guy” in a situation does not automatically make anyone who opposes it “the good guy”.

Hamas denies the Holocaust. Hamas disseminates the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—the conspiracy theory it paints is what they mean by “Zionist”. Hamas forbids foreign aid educators from teaching human rights to Palestinians, and claims that even teaching that the Holocaust happened is a war crime. Hamas has written the aim of annihilating Israel (the country and its people) into its charter—the mass slaughter and violent expulsion of 7 million Jews from the land is written into its laws.

There is no crime any state could ever do that would justify any of that; there is no act of state repression that could ever make it acceptable to side with the organization spreading Nazi pamphlets and Holocaust denial.

Oppose Bibi Netanyahu. Oppose Israel’s far-right, authoritarian government. Oppose its apartheid policies. Oppose its violent abuse of the Palestinian people. That isn’t antisemitic. But Hamas is—verifiably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to its core—antisemitic. Its portrayal of Israeli Jews as blood-thirsty, child-killing master manipulators that control international media and finance is antisemitic. Its insistence that Palestinian freedom necessitates the death & expulsion of Jews from the land is antisemitic. Its redefinition of “Zionism” as a pejorative to mean genocidal Jewish/Israeli Supremacy is antisemitic.

Supporting the Palestinian people in their plight is a noble and loving goal; please never stop that. But do not let Hamas co-opt that into excusing or denying their rampant antisemitism and war crimes.

SHARON! SHARON! SHARON! SHARON! I DON'T CARE WHO'S LISTENING, PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!

My Neighbours (yelled at about 11pm last night)

We really need to get some better sound-proofing

Such an awesome cosplay, inspiration for the expo next year perhaps?

Faith in humanity restored.

Vote Harris.