A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.
IN TODAYS FISH NEWS
a breed of goldfish, so rare they were thought to be an urban legend by some, was found by u/heavypickle99 on reddit just a day ago.
a pair, lovingly named "Tater Tot" and "Chicken Nugget" because of their body shape, were found in a pond and initially thought to be a birth defect or healed injury, only to blow the minds of everyone else in the subcommunity
i gotta say folks, as far as lost media goes it'll be hard to top a find like this!
I’m having a meltdown. When I was 9 years old I read an article in a magazine called Backyard Adventures about how this antelope, the saiga, was on the verge of extinction. I enlisted the help of my best friend and launched a fundraising campaign called Save the Saigas. We sold lemonade, had bake sales, sold belongings, yelled at strangers as they passed in their cars. Our parents were able to match the money we made. Our school helped. It wasn’t much, it didn’t save them, but it helped the organization at least a little bit.
Y’all. The saigas have been saved. A little piece of my passionate child heart that has seemed hopelessly lost and endlessly disappointed for a long time feels so soothed. Maybe it’s not all hopeless. Maybe our efforts aren’t a complete waste. Maybe we keep trying and actually hope for the best.
Every Jewish conspiracy theory is so much cooler than the reality.
"You've got space lasers" "You've got an underground tunnel system in NYC" no I fucking don't I've got religious trauma and an unhealthy fixation on pickled foods.
No they fucking didn't, they arrested 10 guys for digging one tunnel between one building into another literally adjacent to it.
Its funny as shit, I get it, but this is literally the point of my post. The difference between "a few guys dug one 60 foot tunnel into an adjacent building to win a property dispute" and "The Jews have a series of elaborate tunnel systems under NYC" is pretty fucking huge. Do you understand? Do you understand how those two sentences could be construed completely differently? And how the latter could be used by the worst people in the world to justify their world view to themselves and others?
I promise I understand how funny this situation is, I truly wish I could just point and laugh, but if I hear one more person say "intricate tunnel system" instead "singular tunnel built by a dozen kids huffing lethal doses on propaganda" Im gonna flip my fucking lid.
This is some Chelm behavior, and nothing more sinister or elaborate than that.
This is so important.
Because I want to laugh about the Secret Jew Tunnel (singular). I want to tell jokes about it, because the fact that a bunch of Yeshiva bachers (basically frat boys in black hats) got arrested for illegal renovations is not even the most absurd part of the story.
But the antisemites have taken this and run with it, and I am genuinely worried that this 60 foot tunnel dug by a bunch of 20 year olds with insufficient supervision will be used as an excuse for a pogrom.
We're already seeing the literal blood libels.
This is what it means to be Jewish. We want to laugh at the silly conspiracy theories, and at the absurd things that people sometimes get up to.
And we do laugh, because we have a long history of laughing through the pain.
But we also know that we might very well be murdered over this.
I love you albums. I love you songs connected by similar themes. I love you listening to songs in a specific order picked by the artist. I love you reoccurring motifs throughout the same album. I love you album covers. I love you albums with extended editions. I love you songs that reference each other.