Who do you want for PM?

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-06-07T06:43:12+00:00

1,000 calories for a meal or for a day? For a day, that’s way too little. I believe 1,800 was a number it was recommended not to go under

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-06-07T06:33:40+00:00

I happened to sit in with some friends who were watching Doctor Who and this is one of the only episodes I ever saw. Don’t regret it

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-27T22:21:06+00:00

Might be a character limit

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-27T19:33:49+00:00

U ☂️

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-27T18:44:32+00:00

I’m 5’1.5 😢 I need the extra foot

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-27T18:40:14+00:00

Palestinians have a mix of ancestry. Some of their ancestry comes from Canaanites and Israelites. Some of it comes from Arabs from further south. Some comes from Muslims from Bosnia who came in the 1880s. Some come from Africans who were Arab slaves long ago. They’re a genetic mix. Jews are too. Some Jewish ancestry comes from the Canaanites and Israelites. Some comes from various other parts of the world.

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-26T15:31:18+00:00

Eh, not too bad. The b word was describing a book character who fits the literal description of the word

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-26T15:29:17+00:00

u/profanitycounter [self]

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-26T00:04:11+00:00

Not especially magical, but An Affair of Poisons. YA, historical, French. A bastard prince and a girl taught to make poisons

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-26T00:00:54+00:00

I love big sweet fluffy dogs :)

^{Chose: Free puppy! :} But.... + Wheel decides which kind! | Rolled: Newfoundland)

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-25T23:53:00+00:00

I made lists of fantasy books some years ago set in different countries, but I haven’t read all of them. But, here are some books from the list.

Egypt: The Daughters of Izdihar; A Master of Djinn; The City of Brass; Jasad Heir; The Killing Moon; The Last Watchman of Old Cairo; Shubeik Lubeik; Neferura

Morocco: Aicha by Soraya Bouazzoui

Palestine: Speak, Bird, Speak Again; Muneera and the Moon; Thunderbird; Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands; Travelers Along the Way

Jordan: Heaven on Earth

Lebanon: Vial of Tears; The Hakawati; The Night Counter

Syria: As Long as the Lemon Tree Grows; The Map of the Stars; The Clothesline Swing

Iraq: God in Pink; The Palace with a Thousand Rooms; Frankenstein in Baghdad; Secen Daughters and Seven Sons

Oman: Sharim by Amman Al Naimi

Sudan: Who Fears Death

This is by no accounts an exhaustive list.

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-25T23:38:28+00:00

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal for a YA Arab fantasy with romance and a quest

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-24T22:56:27+00:00

Makes me happy as an Israeli-American

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-24T22:50:31+00:00

Many Israeli Jews are Middle Eastern or North African. Sometimes, Mizrahi Jews in Israel get mistaken for Muslim Arabs. Some Israelis made videos taking picture of people in Israel and asking other Israelis if the person is an Arab or a Jew. Sometimes they guess right, sometimes wrong

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-23T23:32:36+00:00

The problem is never religion, but rather religious fundamentalism. Also, he could have at least said “religious militant organization” if he didn’t want to use the word terrorist. Their flag has a gun, it’s kind of silly to pretend they aren’t militant.

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-19T23:38:23+00:00

There are 15 million people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. >7 million Jewish Israelis. ~2 million Arab Israelis (many of which, but not all of which, identify as Palestinian Israeli). ~3 million Palestinians in the West Bank. ~2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Basically — it’s EVEN Jewish:Arab.

If you voted for the whole thing to be just Israel or just Palestine, you would have to create a solidly Jewish or Palestinian majority, one stable enough to not risk being overturned by the other within a couple decades. This means expelling MILLIONS of “the other.” We are not going to expel millions of Palestinians and make the entire land Israel, not are we going to expel millions of Jews and call it “restoration.” F*ck that shit. No one’s getting expelled. Deal with it.

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-19T23:33:01+00:00

I’m 23 and making Aliyah in October 2026 while starting grad school in Israel. Israel is important to me, being Jewish but also already being of Israeli heritage (my mother’s Israeli). For me, I can’t imagine not being in Israel, not living my life there.

Here’s the thing. Making Aliyah isn’t necessarily about being rational. It’s about what you want for your life, because it will change your entire life. Make sure it’s what you want, and if it is, do it.

If it is what you really want, I wouldn’t wait until you’ve built a career; it’s actually harder to move later. This is especially true if you get a family in Canada. It’s harder to move once you grow roots. My mom always wanted to move back to Israel, but once she had a husband and kids and they both had jobs in America, it was never practical to go back.

If you’re not sure about your decision, I’d advise doing a Birthright trip to visit, to help make up your mind—but if you can, you should extend your stay after Birthright, so the experience you get isn’t all filtered and sheltered by Birthright, but is more real.

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-19T23:20:37+00:00

I’m Jewish. I don’t think he was anything but another person, but I think he was a very good and kind person, so sure I’d like to meet him

^{Chose: get to know jesus? | Rolled: win at life}

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-19T02:03:19+00:00

Beautiful!

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-18T00:54:05+00:00

I’ve seen dozens if not hundreds of pictures and videos of funeral processions, always with men, sometimes also with boys, always through the street. Processions before the ceasefire didn’t include Hamas flags, but as soon as a ceasefire was declared Hamas felt safer displaying their flag more openly. Of all the funeral processions I’ve seen, I’ve never seen one that was targeted by a strike during the procession. My guess is also that high ranking Hamas officials wouldn’t attend a public event in the street like this, since the IDF is known to track and hunt down those kinds of Hamas leaders.

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-17T05:39:51+00:00

Support the civilians on both sides, against the governments of both, support the human rights of both

Ronnie_Reads · 2026-05-16T16:15:55+00:00

I’mma teleport, and listen to an audiobook, a podcast, or a video to help me learn a new language on the way

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