David Stollings

= Forward JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT. Support Us A few days later came another night I'll never forget - the Israelis for Peace vigil marking two years since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023. Hundreds gathered - Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Arabs, Americans - huddled together on folding chairs in Union Square in chilly weather, under an open sky. As part of a wide-ranging lineup, from the stage, I read a message from Liat Atzili, whose husband Aviv was killed that day; a short, piercing story by Etgar Keret; and a poem by Mahmoud Darwish that hung in the air like a spell. And there was Mamdani again, sitting quietly in the front row next to Lander. He didn't take the microphone. He didn't try to center the event on himself. He was just listening. Bearing witness. His presence wasn't performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up. That's when it hit me: This is what safety looks like. Not fences or slogans, not solidarity-as-branding - but the radical act of standing with people in pain, without needing to own or edit it.

“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”

i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

retailers dealing with increased levels of no one buying any fucking thing because it’s all locked up and it’s easier to just pull up your phone that instant and get it delivered than flag an employee

OMG

Funding for airlines and airplanes is never questioned in Washington D.C., but we have to fight tooth and nail to get money for the forms of transport that actually get used out of the feds. If you're for tangible examples of how the US political system favors geography over people, start here.

RORSCHACH: *rolls eyes* and what about this one

GEORGIA OKEEFFE:

This is great! I thought a lot of this while playing too.

Pee Wee Herman, Phyllis Diller, Elvira, Joan Rivers

Hulk Hogan and Johnny Carson

Talking Mr T toy

Alf on a game show

the 80s had a high density of celebrities whose authenticity was hard to figure out, as a kid. like, was Mr. T a real guy? he was like that in shows/movies but also in interviews? or pee wee, elvira, max headroom, various wrestlers. even alf was on celebrity squares. it was a confusing time.

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

We're one Dodger win away from getting to make this reference for the first time since the pandemic-

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

A graph of a giraffe. The x axis is length, the y axis is height, the head is obviously top right of the graph as it is the apex of both stats

Hi bluesky I made you a giraph ok thanks

WeatherStar 4000+ Web based WeatherStar 4000 simulator that reports current and forecast weather conditions plus a few extras!

Same.

I'm also amused by this site which gives you local weather in a soothing, familiar format.

weatherstar.netbymatt.com

Hey, there is a new set of bad-faith hit pieces going around about a politician i like! I'm gonna make sure to share it so as many people as possible see the bad faith hit piece and my opponents' main talking points!

Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game

Gemini: Wrestling with your demons is usually a metaphor for boring things like developing effective coping strategies and discipline. Not today though. Today Satan is going to hit you with a folding chair.

A photo of a large pumpkin with a long stem on top. The face has a very long slender nose with two small round eyes at the top and a little mouth with two carved buck teeth on the bottom. It is smiling and looking to the right.

A photo of 4 pumpkins sitting on a white indoor staircase. The long nose pumpkin sits at the bottom, above it is a pumpkin with snake line eyes and a little oval smile, above it is a pumpkin that looks like a little house with a smaller pumpkin peeking out the door, above it is a pumpkin with angry little eyebrows and a snarling mouth with vampire teeth.

A photo of two pumpkins on the steps in the dark. The flow from the candle inside lights up their faces and glows. This is the long nose pumpkin and the snake eyes pumpkin.

A photo showing a pumpkin sitting on an indoor step. The pumpkin is carved to look like a little house with an open door and a window. A tiny white pumpkin peeks out of the door with round eyes and a smile. There is also a little ladder at the bottom of the door, and a tiny orange pumpkin outside.

Our pumpkins!!!! The little pumpkin house was not my idea, I saw it elsewhere and needed to try it. Eric's pumpkins are on the upper step and the third step!

The fact that Sam Raimi and "Weird Al" Yankovic were born on the exact same day seems genuinely poetic. Two titans of insanity chose to enter our feeble world in tandem.

Junie peeking out from behind my laptop.

"Mother, why do you spend so much time staring at the glass box that makes you angry?"

a photo of black kittens wearing adorable little bat wings

Good morning from these Halloween goblins

We took the lead out of gasoline, then put the lead into tiktok.

Haven't seen a giant loon, have seen a giant loonie.

Block letter print on notebook paper, pinned to wall YOU LOOK GREAT. YOUR TEETH ARE SHARP. YOUR EYES ARE LUMINOUS. THE TOWN FOLK WHISPER YOUR NAME IN HUSHED TONES

#MondayMotivation

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

lolol

Someone appears to have gotten their hands on a NO PARKING ANY TIME sign, but they blocked out the par part so it says no king lol

ooh well done

Best sign so far. #NoKingsDay

She's surrounded by her fanart so she always knows she's loved.

If I’m not mistaken, the founders of antifa have arrived.

A pencil drawing of a shooting star, except the star has little butt cheeks and is farting it's way across the sky

Farting star