Alison Roman, on the Guardian www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...

Reformed S1E6, Spinning, is pretty Seinfeld-ian. An Alsatian woman gives away an armchair her grandfather looted from a Jewish house. The Holocaust museum refuses to accept it. The synagogue owner hires an ex-IDF security, upset when it's a woman who doesn't speak French (Darya Sheizaf).

Embrace the "I" for a whole month. Be like Carol. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/a-we-free-...

Didn't know this was up yet but thrilled it is! Chaya is great.

School season is ending in Australia (well it's spring going to summer there) and instead of Bali or Gold Coast, the safety first generation is going to Japan. karryon.com.au/industry-new...

A 87 yo stepuncle just died, and my aunt's main concern is she doesn't want her sister at the funeral. Meanwhile I'm also concerned about my parents esp dad. Moments when I really regret I didn't choose Australia (ironically step uncle's child is a Melburnian who cannot come and entrusts aunt).

It's either a coincidence or a masterstroke that Helen Andrews followed me back just before her article came out.

We had some pirated Betamax tapes that were mixed of Disney cartoons c1950s, with some random Disneyland promo videos at the end. Of course I preferred those promo segments.

Reformed S1E5, The Rebellious Son, is the most exciting/brutal I've seen so far. A son in a pork-eating family turns Orthodox. Next thing I see, the liberal rabinne fights with the (married) rabbi she just flirted with in an interfaith panel, and viral videos label her an anti-patriarchy hero.

Asking for a former student: Are there any MFA programs geared toward YA and/or fantasy? She's very talented but we're both a little lost as to next steps for her.

Something very jarring about a place that has a land acknowledgment sign near its entrance with a NO PUBLIC TOILETS sign right beside it.

You might read this story better than I am, but a performative male contest was also held in Indonesia months ago. I thought the term was mocking and everyone would be cynical about it...and yet it goes on. From perhaps ironic to be something new? theconversation.com/the-rise-of-...

What www.dw.com/en/jakarta-t...

Unrelated screenshots (this is what X has been playing this weekend)

Many important things from the news and sports definitely those as well are addressed herein. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/world-of-a...

The Asian Australian man was jailed for nine days and banned from re-entering Singapore, I assume including for transit. www.bbc.com/news/article...

In an interview with Jonathan Kay, Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown discusses how an anti-Israel faction within his own subscriber base tried to cancel him after he began speaking out about antisemitism.

I’m selling stuff I made like books, prints, postcards, and ephemera at the Maker Bean Holiday Market on Bloor near Dufferin. Come by! I’ll be here today and tomorrow.

"They are the same picture", said my phone's gallery

"Finally, Featured Author @defaultfriend.bsky.social makes the case that unlike the “trad” movement, the next real counterculture will refuse spectacle." Among this week's Fairer Disputations highlights. www.gq.com/story/trad-m...

Is it a privilege to be proud of your X location?

Interesting development in the UK as reported by @danielsugarman.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/inside-the-f...

There is another woman-with-PhD rage on X, but this is more restricted to UK afaik, and again it's my conservative mutuals and followings dunking the upset lads. Dr. Turner researches bugs. As my mutuals said, "She does something for the world. What do you do, anon?"

Be like Brian!

My city club has replaced the 'stop the genocide' banner with "Unite against human trafficking" (both banners are in English). Which is a local concern, really.

NYP runs a story on "Look at these experts saying that diaper change can become a teaching moment in consent" and the experts are from Melbourne. Of all places. theconversation.com/nappy-change...

It's beginning to look like (American) Thanksgiving on my X.

The picture looks familiar and I just remembered that this Chinese scam master who also served as a mayor in the Philippines was arrested in Indonesia. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

It's the last day to bid on a 30-minute hang for @jaketapper.bsky.social's extremely good veterans cause!

Turning my Mission: Impossible comments into a Stack provmandarin.substack.com/p/tv-mission...

Something cheerful for a chilly November day. This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand. (Artist uncredited)

This is a really excellent piece by @joshyunis.bsky.social, recently featured by @phoebebovy.bsky.social joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...

The bones of our conspiracies haven’t changed, though their details are different.

Management news techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/b...

Since X offers no context link I just thought "AI teddy, ok, not everyone's taste,", before clicked the link and saw what's the title. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...

JWA Fall Book Talks wrap up this Thursday, November 20, at 8 PM ET with Sarah Hurwitz, author of "As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us." An exploration of how antisemitism shapes Jewish identity and how Jews can reclaim tradition. Register: buff.ly/l1Ml2oK

And here is the essay that spurred our conversation: joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...

Via @jmdc88.bsky.social, as quote post is disabled. Surprised that Wolfe produced his settler colonial theory and linking it to antizionism just in 1999, one year before I arrived in Melbourne. Might have walked past him somewhere. My Muslim Left friends read Said, I knew set col just in 2010s.

Excellent ep (if I may say so myself) of The Jewish Angle @thecjn.bsky.social featuring @joshyunis.bsky.social thecjn.ca/opinion/jewi...

Because why not, I wrote up my worst-ever experience on transit, and must have scheduled the post for today because here it is. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

On Summers and how it goes for every woman. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/math-probl...

I'm ok with people attempting to blame Indonesians because once we're called the rudest people on the Internet (The quote tweet is from me)

Now Substack too it seems. This Cloudflare problem can be a cyber attack, or update problem, or server accident, or what else.

X is crashing constantly today. A...um...friend of mine might have been asking Grok to write erotica for her amusement lately and is sorry if this is what's caused it.

X rn

Seems there's a Cloudflare server error in Singapore that prevents my access to several services inc X.

Hello again my beautiful girl #flindersstreetstation #melbourne

Read @phoebebovy.bsky.social on the Vulture piece, in which I I am quoted! thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

The first sight of the image made me imagining the Milky Way as a psychedelic spot on a pavement. www.livescience.com/space/astron...

Google Books selling this hard