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kalayo

@kalayo@hol.ogra.ph

20s, they/she • made of nyan-euclidean geomeowtry. pusangyawa. mindanyaoan. • pinned intro

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Jaqspur, to random
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Mended a hole with a soot sprite :anidab_left:

The same as the first picture but not on a foot

carbonated_estrogen, to random

(Stole this meme to add alt text)

nova, to random

​:neocat_box:​

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Pirated for Alt Text

18+ gavi, to random

VERYYY hot take but a lot of people on here are far more privileged than they seem to realize or are willing to admit. this is even a thing ive witnessed some jews on here do as well.

im a disabled queer jewish man from the south. i am visibly jewish both with stereotypical ashkenazi jewish features and wear a kippah. my jewish identity is visible to the world, and it has placed my life in danger at numerous times in my life even before i was a practicing jew. i have had to hide my kippah numerous times or just nod along with people being extremely antisemitic due to the risk i was placed in. my synagogue has faced numerous violent threats and recently faced a bomb threat. ive been to synagogues in the south and had to be escorted by armed guards there, not because i wanted to but because without them being present people would literally firebomb the synagogue and have done so before.

i see people talk about stuff with a level of privilege that is very visible and its infuriating. i do not have the luxury to just leave my state, and whenever you say that "oh just let the south secede" you are basically sentencing me and those around me to our demise

or when i see people talk about just not voting over frustration with the government. ive been consistently failed as a low income southerner by my own government and have had to fight a broken system at numerous times. but just.... refusing to vote? for such absurd reasons? just reeks of so much privilege its unreal. if you think shit is terrible, just fucking wait under fascism!

or violent revolution.............. when people see the opportunity to massacre me and my community they will and i highly doubt people will step up to protect us.

18+ gavi,

my jewish community is so small that it is the only option with the nearest option being available nearly an hour and a half away.

my synagogue is so small it does not have a full time rabbi. and we are often excluded from larger jewish events due to our congregation being mainly led by volunteers. but its the only choice i have, and being able to go there and have a small amount of jews to interact with is something i value.

i have witnessed and experienced antisemitism and homophobia all my life and it has impacted me at numerous points of my life.

im not saying that its not worth advocating or arguing for things to be better, but so much of the way people talk about stuff here just feels extremely dismissive and privileged in so many gross ways.

like, the KKK is active in my state! and i have to be mindful of that quite a lot!

i cannot eat kosher due to being unable to afford it, and many aspects of jewish living i just cant participate in because it is just too expensive to.

i have to exist with the dynamics that people assume because im jewish im wealthy or have a lot of money, whilst dealing with many aspects of jewish worship having a "pay to pray" aspect to it due to the ritual nature of judaism.

18+ gavi,

a giant issue with my community that is the elephant in the room is that in ideal circumstances, there would be no cops remotely near a synagogue. none. i have an extreme distrust of police for very obvious reasons but there is no other option to provide us protection. many communities in the south like mine cannot afford armed guards, and even though it exists with the fact that police and law enforcement often is heavily associated with antisemitic organizations there is pretty much no choice but to rely on them for protection. we know that police are not our friends. its pretty obvious. and it sucks as we also have to grapple with the very real fact that cops present makes black jews unsafe.

but no one is willing to offer protection otherwise. what is the option? let people firebomb our synagogue and just deal with it? let nazis break into our building and ransack the place? just pray for the best and be at the mercy of the people around us who actively present a real threat to us? i dont really know what the alternative is quite honestly.

this isnt even a bunch of jews being paranoid either, in the south there is very real threats to our lives we have to deal with.

aura, to random

good morning/evening mga holographs! 🌈💖

we're starting a book club/reading group for hol.ogra.ph (off-site folks will be welcome to join!)

before we kick it off, we're seeking recommendations for our first book - please reply to this thread with any recs you have & then have a discussion to narrow down the selection.

​:eoc_read:​

kalayo,
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@aura inhale. I tend not to look up books before I read them, but

  1. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
    Suggested mostly because it's next on my reading list haha. As far as I can tell, it's about a woman who is trying to be an artist, but life sucks and she's not writing as much as she wants to? Coming-of-age but for adults lol. It doesn't sound like much, but it's recommended by a friend whose taste is excellent and I can always trust them. Apparently this one is sad and funny and hopeful, in the way life is.

  2. Babel by R.F. Kuang
    Yes I already read this a few months ago yes I would be happy to reread it with friends. She's thick but she's delicious. It's historical fantasy set juuust before the first opium war, but England has ✨magic✨. Magic specifically powered by translation. The book follows an orphan plucked from China and groomed to study as a ✨translator✨ in Oxford. This one is about friendship, colonial resistance, how shitty academia is, and a lot of nerdery and politics about language and translation. CW for racism; parental death; physical, emotional, and colonial violence.

  3. The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
    Another reread for me lmao. It's a frame story, a story within a story within a story. It shifts between first, second, and third POVs on a sentence-by-sentence level. It's kind of a lot to keep up with, but really fun once it's got its hooks in. It's about two outcasts trying to transport a dying goddess across the country, on the run from the emperor she escaped from. It's also about the Inverted Theater, where the lovechild of the Moon and Water performs. It's also about a man during something that's WW2 but not, thinking about the stories his lola used to tell. CW for graphic violence and death, imprisonment, and all that people go through under a tyrannical emperor

  4. Queer Phenomenology by Sara Ahmed
    I don't know much about this one, but it's non-fiction and othe title seems self-explanatory? Might be cool if anyone is in the mood to get brainy 🤓

  5. Any of the Terry Pratchetts. We can probably spin a wheel to choose and it'll be fine? 💀

kalayo,
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@jammy @aura ack these all sound so good 🥺 im adding them all to my reading list lmao

for now tho I think I'd vote for welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop first... I've been craving slice-of-life-y reads

jammy,
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@aura i’m so excited!! here are my suggestions:

  1. welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop by hwang bo-reum — about a korean woman who quits her fast-paced job and opens up a bookshop and finds peace in her life.

  2. the lonely hearts book club by lucy gilmore — about a librarian who starts a book club to help lonely people in her town and forms an unexpected friendship with a grumpy old man.

  3. a professional lola by e. p. tuazon — short stories influenced by the filipino-american experience.

  4. kaikeyi by vaishvani patel — reimagining of the villainised stepmother from the ancient Indian epic the Ramayana.

webnotbombs,
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@aura I am in the middle of Palo Alto: a History of California, Capitalism and the World by Malcolm Harris and it is amazing. I found this book by way of Mastodon, would highly recommend to absolutely everyone. I think it's really timely in regards to the current situation with Silicon Valley and society.

updlibrary, to random
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📢 WE ARE HIRING! 📢

The University Library Diliman is looking for (1) College Librarian II. Deadline of application is on 07 June 2024.

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Please visit http://hrdo.upd.edu.ph/jobs for more details.

reginasbread, to random
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'When a style is ten years too soon or “before its time” it is considered indecent; at five years too soon it is shameless; at one year too soon it is daring; the fashion “today” is “in fashion” or “smart.” That fashion one year later is dowdy; ten years later is hideous; 20 years later is ridiculous; 30 years later is amusing; 50 years later is quaint; 70 years later is charming; 100 years later is romantic; and 150 years later is beautiful.'
humans are so unserious. I both love and hate it.

gil, to random

fedora twerkstation

budak, to random
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look up

#vietnam #macro #insect #bug

webnotbombs, to random
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Hi! We're Web Not Bombs!

kern, to random
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Thank you @mavica_again for https://maple.pet/webgbcam/ ​:ablob_hologram:​

art_history_animalia, to random
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Here is a whole pile of turtles for ! 🐢
of Group of
Japan, 19th century
Ivory, H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) x W. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 10.211.897: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60191

gil, to random

i'm actually really excited at the prospect of a holograph book club/readalong ​:eoc_read:​

hannah, to random
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I found a boon companion for future travels to that sunny land of the Cæsars

apocheir,
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@hannah Jtaly (jeans Italy)

SallyStrange, to random
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Does anyone think this person isn't lying? Like, to an empathetic person who genuinely opposes racism, it should be obvious that if you're talking about something that could be harassment, and it's being done to a Black person, then it's extremely reasonable to conclude that racism is at play.

So, to volunteer to reply to a Black person who's pointing out racist harassment to tell them that, in your opinion, it's harassment that's not "specifically anti-black" would be essentially to tell that Black person that there's nothing specific about them to you. Which is racist.

This doesn't seem complicated to me. Anyway, and candidate

https://akko.wtf/objects/a237dee3-d617-495f-b2ab-9dc3cb0007e2

gil,

@SallyStrange we already have this instance blocked on our instance, but i'll boost for visibility

the other thing i wanted to say about this- it takes so much energy out of me to see replies like this in response to the situation. people like this are not helping me/us in any way. they're just stressing me out.

i already took care of the user in question and am prepared to do more if they continue, because i agree about the original incident we're responding to. it was needless harassment, and if folks cannot see the anti-Blackness in it - well, i'd appreciate it if they left me out of it.

i don't want any part in their crusade and i have zero interest in being anyone's token. this is why i specifically said the other day that i don't want to litigate it any further and i don't want anyone trying to on our behalf. they're entitled to do what they want, so stop harassing them and stay tf away from me.

kern, to random
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What would the internet be like in a thousand years? One of my favorite Wikipedia articles has always been "Timeline of the Far Future" which contains a table of far-off predictions/estimates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

I know about link rot and the fact that lots of sites are actually very ephemeral. At some point we could invent an extremely stable form of storage though, like permanently etching data into inert crystals or something, and in the future there could be near perfect retention of all data, maybe. What's left of our modern web by then would be miniscule in comparison, and maybe they'd truly value every scrap of data about our lives just like archaeologists today.

Idk just thinkin out loud. I know by then "the internet" won't exist exactly as it is now, but I wonder if we can make any predictions about the far-future state of information technology and where our data will ultimately go, similar to the Wikipedia article

JohnBarentine, to Astronomy
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It's ! In 1754 the English botanist and author John Hill proposed a new constellation he called "Testudo" (the Tortoise). It didn't catch on with astronomers, but under dark night skies it can still be seen. Read more about it: https://unchartedconstellations.com/

geraineon, to random
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This!

Whenever I read something along the lines of that, I get annoyed because what? People need to be hardworking, a contribution to the economy, etc. to have rights and feel safe?

(Many times, well meaning people have told me that they "cannot imagine why they make visas such a painful process. People like you are a great contribution to the country!")

(I get why they say that but also... Can you listen to yourself?)

RE: https://mstdn.social/users/rebeccawatson/statuses/112491549508379338

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