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mzminola:

tiny-fallen-star:

sometimes i remember that hebrew was literally a dead language. dead!! for two thousand years!!!! until this one guy in the 1880′s was like hey fuck german and russian and spanish and french We Are Jews we should speak The Language Of The Jews!! and everyone was like dude tf hebrew is DEAD it’s OLD it’s missing too many words, we can’t use it. so he was like ok. i’ll make up new ones. checkmate, atheists and he fuckninh did he stood up by his little desk (?) and invented so many new words and wrote a whole dictionary and then he had a child and only spoke hebrew to him and that child was the first person who’s first language was hebrew in two thousand years and…………………………… i’m sorry i’m so emotional over my man, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. he singe-handedly revived a dead language. what a man

NOT single-handedly! His wife Hemda worked her ass off alongside him. She did the childcare (in a language that wasn’t her first and they were, as you said, having to come up with new words for!), she made that ‘little desk’ possible, she campaigned to get her husband and father out of fucking jail when their newspaper was accused of inciting rebellion, she networked with other scholars, she was a journalist, she worked on reviving Hebrew alongside her husband and continued the dictionary work after his death, and she put together a committee to make sure the dictionary would grow after her own death too!

And none of their work was in a vacuum! We might not have gotten modern Hebrew going as quickly and as strongly without them as we did, but they were inspired by and drew help from Jewish people who were already speaking Hebrew in daily life, and shared their work with contemporary enthusiasts. Hemda and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda did a mountain of work and they did not do it alone.

6 years ago

yehudmeme:

rebel-without-a-cunt:

kaylapocalypse:

enyafan:

microcroft:

microcroft:

things i never expected to learn through a tedtalk but now am glad to know:

the founder of Sirius XM radio is a sapphic trans woman and is currently trying to preserve her wife’s consciousness in a digital file so her wife can be immortal in the body of a robot.

heres the tedtalk if you dont believe because everyone deserves to know this reality of the amazing world in which we live 

Holy shit you neglected to mention that when her daughter got a terminal disease with no cure or treatment possible she literally went to the library got some medical textbooks and taught herself enough biochemistry to actually begin developing a drug that halted the disease good god why have we never heard of this absolute genius

YOU KNOW WHY

 YOU K N O W   W  H Y

Real life tony stark is a gay trans woman

Her name is Martine Rothblatt. She also founded United Therapeutics, which is a company that works to find cures for “””small””” diseases that don’t necessarily affect a lot of people. 

oh, yes–and she’s Jewish.

Here is a picture of Martine and her wife, Bina Aspen:

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6 years ago
anyayikes: “ humansofnewyork: ““We had dorm rooms next to each other freshman year. We mainly just played a lot of board games: Risk, Scrabble, Scattergories, a Trivial Pursuit game from the 1980’s, which everyone sucked at. But we became best...
anyayikes: “ humansofnewyork: ““We had dorm rooms next to each other freshman year. We mainly just played a lot of board games: Risk, Scrabble, Scattergories, a Trivial Pursuit game from the 1980’s, which everyone sucked at. But we became best...
anyayikes: “ humansofnewyork: ““We had dorm rooms next to each other freshman year. We mainly just played a lot of board games: Risk, Scrabble, Scattergories, a Trivial Pursuit game from the 1980’s, which everyone sucked at. But we became best...

anyayikes:

humansofnewyork:

“We had dorm rooms next to each other freshman year.  We mainly just played a lot of board games: Risk, Scrabble, Scattergories, a Trivial Pursuit game from the 1980’s, which everyone sucked at.  But we became best friends, and the next year decided to get a house together.  That’s when things started to get tense.  We began sitting closer together.  We were touching more.  We’d play with each other’s hands.  Never holding hands, but playing with hands.  And we’d even fall asleep in the same bed together.  There was a time that she told me goodnight, and I swear I felt her brush my lips, but by the time I opened my eyes she was out of the room.  Neither of us had ever dated a woman.  And I was terrified to try anything.  We were such good friends.  There was always this fear that if I voiced the desire, it would ruin our friendship.  But one night we were out for drinks at a hotel where Al Capone used to stay.  I was feeling pretty drunk, so I leaned over and said: ‘Sometimes I feel like I want to kiss you.’  And she replied: ‘Sometimes I do too.’  I didn’t say a thing.  I wasn’t even sure that I’d heard her correctly.  I just kept thinking: ‘Oh my God, it’s happening.  It’s happening.’  Then once we finished our drinks, and started walking home, I stopped her in front of a bridge.  I said: ‘Shall we do it here?’  It was December 12th, 2002.  And even though we got married five years ago, that’s the day we celebrate as our anniversary.”


T̷̻͐́ ̸͎͕̮̯́̈̈́H̸̦͒͑͒͘ ̴̢̰̝̑̎̓È̶̳͕͕ ̶̦̈́̉͛̓Y̷̨̙͍̑̍ ̴̳̑̔͑̚ ̵̬͚̖̍̀̅͠ͅ ̴̠̠̊̊͜ ̷͉̼͖̾̍̚͝ ̶̦̑͊W̶̞̚ ̷̩̖̈̕E̴͔̤͖̅͂͗̓ ̴̮̩̺͐̊R̴̼͓̾́̾͌ ̵̨̬͆͆̈́̌Ë̶̖̓̂ ̶͊͂͛͜ ̴̣̮̟̘̌̄̔ ̷̨̃ͅ ̵͓̬͇̠̂̈̆͠ ̸̲͔̒̉̕R̵̟͇̉̆́͊ ̸̧͆O̵̢̜̳̓͝ ̵̹͐̔Ǫ̶̥̳̆̐̋͑ ̴̡̛̙̦̀M̶̬͈̃͌ ̵̘̚M̴̨̳̟̮̊̂͝ ̸̬̣̘̎͆̈́͘A̴̝̲͌̉̉͜͜ ̶̙̓́T̸̥͕̀̒ ̴̧̹̻̀ͅȨ̷̡͍͚̂ ̸̠̎͒̐̈́S̷̪̆͊̾

6 years ago

curseworm:

whenever i see parents walking with their baby andtheyve got their baby between them i get so emotional im not describing it well but like this

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i ran out of space for the other one so theyve only got 1.5 parents but its fine

6 years ago

thecassafrasstree:

blogthegreatrouge:

jumpingjacktrash:

commandtower-solring-go:

juneboba:

twiststreet:

!!!

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This is incredible because it is super difficult to visualise how much 6 feet actually is and most people don’t bother to try

HOLY SHIT ok first of all that is a brilliant use of technology, and second, that activated my flight response bigtime and i bet it convinced people to evacuate that weren’t gonna, which would’ve saved lives. so good job folks, worth the effort.

Why can’t she share that protective shield spell that she clearly casted on herself at least?

This is a really great way to really visualize how incredibly dangerous these storm surges can be, and really gets across how important it is to prepare to evacuate in a timely manner. Great use of technology for maximum impact.

6 years ago
Hold up fam Thats all Why would you want to see more?