The movie that was #1 when you turned 10 years old is how your 2026 will go... I've literally never heard of this, but according to Wikipedia, it's a legal thriller, which is really NOT how I want my 2026 to go

Made For Each Other (2023) a sculptor creates a golem to be her perfect man! I'm extremely excited about this!

so, I'm not really doing ranking bc I don't want to talk about every single Hallmark movie I watched (pls check out Xan's ranking, which is really funny), but I have additional thoughts (and a couple additional movies), so here we go!

final night! so sorry I forgot to post last night! we watched Hanukkah on the Rocks, which we'd seen before, and I remembered it being almost as good as Hanukkah on Rye, and ... eh, it was pretty good. the scene where the Grandpa took 5 minutes to explain Nes Gadol Haya Sham to 2 adult Jews, oy vey

happy seventh night! Xan and I are hanging out with some friends for a "blind date with a book" style book exchange I made latkes for the first time ever, and they turned out really well! (though I think they could have used another egg) and Xan bought sufganiyot

night 6! Shabbat Shalom! tonight's movie: Oy to the World (2025) now (sigh) the name's bad. also it's a joint holiday movie. Xan worries about what this year's movie means as a kind of cultural benchmark, but I'm kinda hopeful?

night 5! tonight's movie is my personal favorite (before I watched Round and Round), Hanukkah on Rye it's definitely the Most Jewish movie. I love the matchmaking aspect of the movie, it's a really nice unique twist. I also love the deli culture plus, I ADORE Yael Groblas, she's a FANTASTIC actor

night 4 tonight's movie is a new one for us: Love, Lights, Hanukkah! the main character was adopted, and did a DNA test and found out she was half Jewish ... she meets up with a DNA match and meets their family (and also a cute guy who's a friend of the family)

night 3! tonight's movie is Eight Gifts of Hanukkah: no fake dating, barely any Christmas, very Jewish & there's a very funny bit in the beginning where the main girl is showing up to online dates & one's a guy in a Santa outfit who shouts MERRY CHRISTMAS & she immediately turns around & leaves

happy second night of Chanukah! for tonight's Hallmark Chanukkah movie, we're going back in time to before Hanukkah was invented, 2012 Hitched for the Holidays was Hallmark's first acknowledgement that Hanukah is a separate holiday from Christmas

CHAG SAMEACH and happy Chanukkah! for the first night, Xan and I got Chinese food and watched Round and Round, which was EXCELLENT

I call it Blanket Time™ bc Midna needs me to put on a fuzzy blanket so she can suckle on it and knead me

periodic reminder that the crusade against MSG was just racism and it is actually just magical science salt that gets you More Yummy for Less Sodium

SCREAMING

relistening to Sapiens so I can listen to it all the way through without pausing, but I got four minutes in and got to the TED talk where he talks about how humans can create coalitions of strangers bc of our ability to "create and believe fictions" and I CAN'T open.spotify.com/episode/1IeS...

Xan and I are trying to listen to If Books Could Kill's newest episode, about Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari we're almost eight minutes in and we've already paused it three times to look up the author and also to go on various rants about his claims

Call me a raging liberal but I don’t think shoplifting should be a capital crime. Take the license number and go over to the house and arrest em, what was the urgency? Officer acquitted in death of Ta'Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother accused of shoplifting apnews.com/article/taki...

started playing #TinyBookshop last night. in it, you run a mobile bookshop and you can recommend books to shoppers, and one of the things that drew me in was that most of the books are real books, and I was so happy to see @yrfatfriend.bsky.social's first book!!!

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The use of "food pyramid" instead of "food triangle" suggests there are further categories of food we don't even know about because they're displayed on the faces of the pyramid that are pointing away from us Maybe we can eat paper? Metal? Fire? WHAT'S ON THE OTHER FACES

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Raccoon Sweatshirt. What's that little raccoon friend, life isn't great? Here's some advice: STOP EATING GARBAGE. THERE ARE OTHER THINGS YOU CAN EAT. YOU EAT NOTHING BUT LITERAL GARBAGE. collabs.shop/z9khlo

the worst part about breaking my ankle is my inability to sit bisexually

hey ho, I get to leave the fucking hospital

SOMEHOW the hospital had standing orders to check my blood sugar before I ate, despite the fact that I told MULTIPLE people/forms that I am not diabetic, so that's fun #antifatbias

surgery today! they're putting a metal plate and some screws in my bones, hooray!

broke my ankle on Saturday by slipping in the wet/muddy grass outside my apartment building I think my left leg is cursed, considering I broke my left foot almost a decade ago I'm going to need surgery for the ankle; I'm meeting the surgeon tomorrow, so 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

For the nomadic Israelites, who were latecomers to settled nation building, this reversal carries tremendous theological value that God would covenant with the secondborn nation. Whether this is historical fact or not is immaterial to the spiritual experience of the texts.

Ya Shema Evyonecha (God please hear your destitute!) Sephardic piyyut

despite their constant whining about how "wokeness killed comedy!" and "you can't say anything anymore without getting canceled!" after receiving pushback on their shitty punch-down jokes, none of those failed, hacky, has-been comedians will ever conceive of anything in the same stratosphere as this

Medieval Jewish scholars debating Elijah's marital status:

GENDER CENSUS TIME!

what a ride! thanks to everyone who's been following along 💜

Part one of our finale & the last anime episode see Hibari acquiring powers from the gender-affirming white alligators who secretly live in her home. Rowan & Xan discuss their most & least beloved characters of the series plus ideas for a Stop!! Hibari-kun! revival hibari.libsyn.com/41-hibari-is...

"also Rie exists" is also how she exists in my mind

#CrusaderKings3 is starting up!!!

my new micro SD card for my Switch 2 won't arrive until Monday, but the micro SD to SD adapter arrived last night, so I absolutely cannibalized the one from my Switch so I could put it in my laptop and CRUSADER KINGS III is now downloading!!! I'm so fucking excited about playing this game, y'all

beware: I yell a lot

currently watching this on twitch with my gf and it's AMAZING

YOOO, Crusader Kings III is on sale so I'm finally going to set up my desktop computer bc my laptop doesn't have the space for another game 😭😭😭 I'M SO EXCITED TO BUILD A VERY JEWISH WORLD I'll post updates here as they become available #CrusaderKings

the voice actors executed the body swap beautifully; but the fact that the writers couldn't bring themselves to imagine for a second how a trans person would feel about body swapping is just ... something

yo, the Heian period was LIT ... unless you needed, like, money also Muscular Christianity is weird and ruins hanging out with your friends

this episode is great so far, but also: if I hadn't discovered Linguistics in my second year of college, I totally would have become a Political Science major, and listening to Peter dunk on political scientists is giving me life

finally started listening to the most recent episode of #MaintenancePhase, and Michael says "do you know what else is ready-to-eat?" and we both said "a fucking apple" almost in unison lol open.spotify.com/episode/5KQF...

incoming: a very long bit where I read a magazine article about transness in Buddhism

seriously if you're not familiar with Klaus Nomi or Petra and Lorenza Böttner (the disabled transgender multidisciplinary visual artist Petra was based on), look them up IMMEDIATELY

As @foxkvells.bsky.social pointed out to me, this says something about the Mormon brand of bigotry. The Cass review and the HHS report are garbage because the writers already knew what the conclusion was going to be before they were written: they exist solely as propaganda. 1/2