That number again is (617) 332-3333 @repauchincloss.bsky.social

בִּפְרֹ֤חַ רְשָׁעִ֨ים ׀ כְּמ֥וֹ־עֵ֗שֶׂב וַ֭יָּצִיצוּ כׇּל־פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן לְהִשָּׁמְדָ֥ם עֲדֵי־עַֽד׃

I wanted to find BlueSky accounts of friends, and so I thought "I'll use the getFollowers() API to find people that several of my friends follow". Part 2 will be to actually triangulate those relationships into clusters, so I can find NPL friends or high-school friends, etc.

Left a message at @repauchincloss.bsky.social 's office, saying that he'd better be a leader in pursuing articles of impeachment over this.

New Year's shredding is so depressing. Feeding the receipts of my 2018 life into the oubliette and watching the memories come out as confetti, meaningless and ephemeral. Choosing which scraps are spared (I'm looking at you, confirmation slips).

I cried. I cried over and over. What a beautiful speech. youtu.be/NFVT5iUV8bA?...

There's a Great Performances on @pbs.org at 9pm tonight. PBS is certain to get better ratings than anything else that's on at the same time. Especially given that I'm sure my friends, and their friends and followers, etc. will be sure to have their cable boxes on and tuned to PBS this evening.

Joseph is queer and autistic AF My takes on this week's torah portion

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Overall, I love the @merriam-webster.com Twelfth Edition of the Collegiate dictionary. Great typography, much thought about what needs to stay in. But one major gripe.... 1/

Sen. Warren's DC office number: (202) 224-4543 Sen. Markey's DC office number: (202) 224-2742

Not an April Fool's joke

A reminder that I'm still updating my genealogy blog with posts about last month's amazing trip to Germany. Today's post is about an incredible researcher that I discovered just in time. greenealogy.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/k...

I need a tl;dr. Is wordpress.com the good guys, the bad guys ,or neither?

Hello, friends. I am back online after an amazing 4-week journey that included a week of intensive genealogy field work in Ermreuth, Hüttenheim-in-Bayern, and Ichenhausen. I plan to revive my genealogy blog at greenealogy.wordpress.com and there should be a "subscribe" option there.

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One of the best things in genealogy is entering a new cousin (in this case a 4c3r) with the birthdate of "today".

Here's where I am right now. (A thread)

If you think about corresponding letters between Hebrew and English, both by position and how the letters come from common roots, the transliteration of the Tetragrammaton should actually be JEFE, which @merriamwebster.bsky.social defines as one "who exercises control or authority".

שנה טובה ומתוקה לכולם A good and sweet year to all!

A 🧵on how I make sense of the Israeli campaign in Leabnon. A couple of premliminenary notes: I don't know for certain that this is the case since if I did I probably couldn't talk about it. Also, understanding something is not morally conclusive. This is an explanation. Not Justification. 1/

I wrote a (hopefully easy) puzzle suite for the Basic Autumnal Parade of Holidays from Leviticus (not a BAPHL). greenehouse.com/a/puzzles/57... Hints and answer-checker available at greenehouse.com/a/puzzles/57...

I don't want to suffer the consequences of other people's bad decisions. It's bad enough living with my own aftermaths.

Man shot at pro-Israel rally in Newtonville; suspect arrested at scene www.universalhub.com/2024/man-sho... #NewtonMA #crime #guns

The holiday season is almost upon us, and my Zwetschgenkuchen are ready!

I want to see a TV ad for a Boston-area restaurant chain, featuring the Thane of Cawdor instructing his servants to distribute early-morning coffee and "Wake Brockton with thy Dunkin'"

MASS TRANSIT!!! WOOOOO!!!

Vance is a 737? This explains much. Attn: @bcdreyer.bsky.social

I see that the media has given up on hiding spoilers for Olympic results. IIRC even 2 years ago you'd get alerts like "RESULTS OF THE TEAM TIDDLYWINKS FINALS" and you could choose whether or not to click through. Now it's all "NEWS ALERT: DUCHY OF GRAND FENWICK WINS GOLD, SHOCKING US!"

It's time to revisit the Reapportionment Act of 1929. We're now up to each member of the House representing about 700K people. Let's triple the size of the House from 435 to 1299 or so.

I keep coming back to that Dark Helmet line from /Spaceballs/: "Evil always wins, because Good is stupid!"

When I was in college, it took *hours* for a buggy program to bring down almost the entire Internet!

nmhz.wordpress.com/2024/07/07/h... Fred Uhlman's memoir contains these chilling passages.

Thinking of my father, my teacher, Gershon Eliyah ben Avraham ha-Levi v'Raizl, z"l, on his thirteenth Jahrzeit.

Next, the MBTA will decorate Orange Line cars with cartoons of dogs saying "This is fine".

For purposes of National Weather Service watches and warnings, could we maybe subdivide Middlesex County MA?

So let me get this straight: In Massachusetts, we think France is in the E.U., but in France, they think Massachusetts is in the E.U.?

If the "Ten Commandments" must be displayed in classrooms, I suggest this typographical treatment.

Perhaps this coming Shabbat we should read the quiet part out loud. :-(

Oh, when you go to the delicatessen store, don't buy the liverwurst. Happy Allan Sherman day to those who observe it.

These are fine candidates but how is it possible that in Massachusetts in 2024 this sort of gender-based division is not only legal but mandated?

It's been years since we've needed an extra Adar this much.

Still grappling—and not too well—with how my world has divided among those who have recently revealed their anti-semitism, the broken-hearted, the brave, the "useful idiots", the knee-jerks, and people seemingly living normal lives.

I can only assume that all the folks who protested demanding a cease fire are now protesting to demand Hamas release additional hostages, both because that would be a good in and of itself and also because it would extend the ceasefire. <Princess-Amidala-Saying-'Right?'-dot-gif>

In today's daf (Bava Kamma 16) we learn that the Leopards Eating People's Faces party is always mu'ad.

On this 9 Nov, a story in three dates and five images: A wedding on 21 March 1938, a murder on 16 December 1938, and a schoolbook published in 2010. Those dates -- or similar ones -- are why we Jews are constantly assessing the safety of our surroundings. nmhz.wordpress.com/2023/11/09/l...

Haaretz journalist Amir Tibon looks back a month later at his harrowing experience surviving 10.7 by hiding in his home’s safe room. He then talks about the justness and wisdom of Israel's actions since. For those trying to understand progressive Israelis' thinking. twitter.com/amirtibon/st...

Voted for City Council in the three contested races. School board was entirely unopposed so I left that portion blank. Was totally unprepared for the Newtonville Area Council election. A blah ballot but continuing my unbroken streak of not missing an election since I became eligible to vote.

Mishna: There are four primary categories of damage. Gemara: THE EXISTENCE OF PRIMARY CATEGORIES IMPLIES THE EXISTENCE OF SECONDARY CATEGORIES! #dafyomi #dafyomimeme