Remembered this over Shabbos :)

The broad vibe shift against an organization like AIPAC is good overall and indicates something serious in the underlying direction of the Democratic base but I think, and have for a long time now thought, it was always a bit too simplistic to chalk up the pro-Israel consensus *to* AIPAC et al.

This would create like, nine wars in 1602

Just remembered this

Sometimes an angel* does my work *me from that morning, totally unrelated

So there's this thing called the Exeter Book, it's a codex from 1072 that's basically some rich guy's mixtape of Old English poetry. The interesting thing is it's heavily water damaged in the back half so the closer you get to the end of the book the more and more of each page is just missing

Sometimes I think I'm doing just as well during my ADHD medication break as when I was on it, and then I realize I've been trying to make a coffee and check what time mincha is for 45 minutes, each task distracting me from starting the other one

joyce carol oates and menswear guy should tape a special together

How Kemuel (Kmiel locally) became a Jewish name specifically in Pokuttia is anyone's guess, but as usual the renaming ritual involving a random Tanach is most likely

It's Rosh-haKahals* all the way up *("Shul presidents")

You might be lucky and get named after a Jewish dead relative who had been ill and selected a new name from a random page of Tanach Hello, Shealtiel Pag'iel Kemuel

If you react reflexively to things suggestive of antisemitism, even if it's not always reasonable, you might have sensitivity issue. I do, and I know what it is - it's called being Jewish. Conversely, if you react reflexively to suggestions that things might be antisemitic, and [I believe you!]...

an occasional reminder that while JStreet and AIPAC are both lobbying groups for Israel they are not the same and in fact fucking hate each other

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

This is absolutely the best way I’ve ever heard North American deer described, hands down.

Thread does prove point, just not way thread wanted

There is a fascinating twenty page article in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal explaining how they figured this out, which involved tracing 900 years of history for a chapel built 500 years ago.

If you need a break from Earthly bullshit may I present to you some cosmic gloriousness? I suspect it may help. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s... 🧪🔭

Today in linguistic example sentences 🍅 (Source: Gueche Fotso's 2024 illustration of resumptive pronouns for left-dislocated topics in Nda'Nda')

If you felt good last Tuesday, Wednesday, remember none of that depended on current democratic senators. That's the vibe to hold.

Side point, but with the décor, I can't fathom being any more comfortable there than a movie vampire would be

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

Check out the “against your will” sequence at the end of this Mishnah

BTW I've seen an anti-theist argue that God is a rapist because of the whole Mary thing, which again brings me to my thesis "mortals are mere playthings to immortals except when they chose to pretend otherwise to humour us"

You'll be surprised to learn (or maybe not?) that I've addressed this, from Tanach and Talmudic sources

I, for one, am pleased that the Anunnaki obtained Mary's consent

Look! A theologian!

okay so you're not gonna believe me but the Jersey City Ward *F* Councilman's real legal name is Frank E. Gilmore and the E is Educational. he changed his name to Frank Educational Gilmore because he...believes in the power of education...?

If pardoning one's fellow rebels isn't a step in the head-losing direction, what is?

really appreciate Nate Silver giving us a unifying point during what is otherwise a pretty unpleasant couple days of Bluesky

The look on his face says: Bailey, Bailey, lamah azevuni?

Religion (and many other forms of group/ideal identification) is helped greatly by "brown M&M" clauses

Don't dogpile or necro the thread, just...witness what I witnessed.

Am I the only whose blocklists have stopped working? My own blocklists, running from my @pymundgenealogy.com account (and subscribed to from this one) can still be added to, but the newest just aren't blocked in the process. For example, I can still see everything Skousen posts on both accounts.

Anyway that enough. But now you know why "religious differences in a relationship don't matter" gets me angry - that's what I said in February 2021, and I learned the hard way that I was wrong, over 3 miserable years

Do you understand that I deliberately hide parts of halacha from my quite studious bar mitzvah boy because I know I will suffer consequences for them? If he learns the particulars of bishul Yisrael he will stop eating at the vegan pizzeria his mother told him is kosher, and I can't contradict her?

The prison analogy is hers, btw, and hearing it at a joint therapy session is what changed my view of the past 14 years from a tragedy to a crime. This did not happen to me. This was *done* to me.

I moved to a town where I knew no one and still don't belong, bc it had the only Orthodox school with a big enough non-Orth. parent body for her. My then 4 year old comes home with stories about Noach, she makes sure to remind him that he's like Santa and Peppa Pig I'm not the one who didn't try.

Yes I am a little bitter about the subject I sacrificed my life for, destroyed my sanity, and wasted my years. You know what's worse than marrying someone to change them? Marrying them so they should ‘keep you in control’, not knowing that they've been taken as a prison warden...

Consistent bedtime? No Consistent brand? Yes!

Is *that* why a bunch of people who shouldn't even feel the need to are denouncing Candace Owens? Because of Susan Abulhawa? We covered this, she's your Shmuley, no one needs to acknowledge her, let alone bother distancing themselves from her, unless, you know, vocally supportive of her otherwise.

Reminder: we are in this together. Whether you accept it or not, they’ll eventually remind you.

also to set the record straight: 1) BCG has >30k employees, I obviously had zero connection to any Gaza work 2) the Gaza work was done in secret by 2 rogue partners 3) I left BCG in April, the Gaza work wasn’t public until June 4) all my projects were tied to climate change & decarbonization lol

it’s cool how San Francisco’s reactionary leftists are lying about my career to try and make Zohran look bad, all because they’re mad at him for actually supporting building housing SF’s NIMBY “leftists” are: 1. literally just conservatives 2. the biggest losers on earth 3. allergic to power

The answer *did* surprise me

Name a US politician more likely to defect to Germany, get captured by Lithuanians, serve as a German envoy to the USSR, defect to the Soviet Union to try and reconquer Turkey, get sent to fight Turkish rebels in Central Asia instead, defect to them, and then get killed fighting the Red Army.

Every time I might be tempted by anti-electoralism, I let a proponent open their mouth and I correct course.