I wish there was a website that would let me make a dance playlist by just showing me iconic top songs and I’d just swipe left or right.

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yea it’s a bit esoteric but he’s voicing the idea that the popularity of rap, and really all of Black culture, is really a plot to undermine whiteness being propagated by a Jewish conspiracy in entertainment.

Guess what 👀👀

In honour of Benjamin Ryan saying I “sit comfortably at the front of the pack of the most radical intellectuals in the transgender-theory space,” here’s the paper that describes the philosophy underpinning most of my work!

In honour of Benjamin Ryan claiming I “sit comfortably at the front of the pack of the most radical intellectuals in the transgender-theory space,” you should buy my eViL rAdiCaL nEw bOoK~

I think Benjamin Ryan is a bit obsessed with me. Anyway, I’ll gladly take the unintended compliment!

“In its deeds, however — and deeds always count more than words” So, one might say… by works and not by faith?

Apparently, by the way, “under God” wasn’t added until 1954.

I stumbled upon this essay arguing that Genesis 2:18 doesn’t say God creates “a helper for him” but rather “a woman his equal.” If you don’t know it yet, TheTorah.com is perhaps the best place for short, accessible, creative essays on the Torah by reputable scholars.

Common law: “Defaming an entire group of people is legal.” Chofetz Chaim: “Defaming an entire group of people is even worse lashon hara.”

If God isn’t gay, why is he in the closet (ארון)?

The relatively new-ish strain of anti Israel politics in the US which is predicated on the idea that Israel is bad because it victimizes America is objectively the dumbest shit of all time and it's the main reason why most right wing criticism of Israel is meaningless

Some philosophers would rather create a whole journal to enable bigotry and marginalization than take accountability for the ways their "research" has made life immeasurably worse for marginalized people across demographics. Yes, I am talking about the Journal of Controversial Ideas.

It’s interesting how many relatively common Jewish names are, like, not exactly “good guys” in the Torah. This reflection prompted by the name Ben-Ami, the incestuous son (and grandson) of Lot.

Not to halakha on main but doesn’t Nazir 23b:6 give an orthodox basis to tolerate gay sex at least as much as people being frum out of inertia and peer pressure—let alone self-righteousness?

Not Gershom Scholem suggesting that Frankists just became Reform Rabbis. 😆

The answer to “how did so many people get caught up in the Sabbatean heresy” seems to be, in the end, that it wasn’t half as heretical as it’s been made to sound.

Shabbateanism: What If We Worshipped The Demiurge

Anyone knows of any English translation of Shabbatai Tzvi’s Raza de-Mehemanuta? (It also may be pseudepigraphic; either way, I’d love to get my hand on it. In a pinch, I’d take the Hebrew.)

Is there a way to make Universal Clipboard work across Windows PC and an iPhone?

Also, way too many people don’t realize that there’s actually a lot of different ethnic groups in Africa.

Me when I didn’t bother doing the assigned readings on how “born this way” was a terrible gamble for the movement:

@floralashes.bsky.social's book is a must read for anyone working or interested in trans youth and the law. If I ever have another chance to teach trans studies it's definitely going on the syllabus.

Moshe Cordovero: “What if Kabbalah was Aristotle?”

“If you shittalk someone, your merits transfer to them.” -Chofetz Chaim

The Supreme Court may have authority over law, but it does not have authority over history. Or truth.

“The five which constitute a mystery: Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, and Hod.” *groans at the pun*

In dishonour of SCOTUS, help me scheme how to make sure my latest book ends up in the hands of everyone who could benefit from it.

I am texting with my chapter head right now and APPARENTLY the delegates had to hold the floor for TWELVE HOURS without a PEE BREAK to keep the TERFs—who showed up WEARING DEPENDS—from pulling a sneak vote Y’ALL

I teach, as sole professor, more courses that I *haven’t* taken than courses I *have.* I also did my doctorate on an area of law I didn’t take a single course in.

À propos of nothing in particular, it is fascinating how often features of Judaism which seem so inextricable from it, come to find out, are relatively recent developments. Brings home just how true it is that the Torah is a sourcebook and not a textbook.

Someone on TikTok asked “can an anime man make you bark?” And this girl stitched:

Originalism can mean whatever you want if you’re bad enough at history.

Wishing I was fluent in Medieval Hebrew right now. :(

I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.

Shulchan Arukh: “Messiah? Never heard of her!”

constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

My girlfriend is officially moved in! 🎉

Where does the idea that the Rebbe studied science at the Sorbonne come from? Because it’s oft-repeated but doesn’t seem to be true.

yes. you cannot win calvinball by taking advantage of the new rules. you have to fire the refs

I’m hesitant to even call Jacob Frank a Jewish messianic claimant given how anti-Torah and anti-Jews he was. He’s a Christian who wants to usurp Jesus’ place far more than he is a Jewish messiah.

among the things i'd like to ask sam alito is simply, "when are mail-in ballots cast, before or after the election?"

Someone made a poll asking people to self-identify in a Jewish shitposting group and the one that took me out was “I know enough to be an apikoros not just an am haaretz.” 🪦

The Fifth Circuit opinion was one of the dumbest things I've ever read. The fact that it was reversed by *just* a 5-4 majority is breathtaking.

A text by @floralashes.bsky.social I return to often: "Whether we realize it or not, we often exclude trans people from community when they need it most." www.intomore.com/impact/trans...

If HaShem isn’t gay, then why does He kiss so many of his male prophets on the mouth?!?