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What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management Grab your umbrella and your tights.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Sorry I am only just finding your post. I too wish the dagesh ḥazaq had its own code-point. Looping you into this separate Unicode application for recognizing the shəva na -- provisionallly accepted as of 27 January 2025, afaik! www.facebook.com/groups/10792...

My group of rabbis was helping Palestinian farmers. Israelis pointed guns at us. (RNS) — If our group had not consisted of American and Israeli rabbis and activists, it is likely that day could have ended with serious injuries or fatalities.

A powerful call to confront settler violence by @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social of @truahrabbis.bsky.social

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Frame from the 2006 movie "Children of Men." Under gray city skies, illegal immigrants are held in open-air cages while riot police hold off protesters.

Rewatching "Children of Men" for the 1st time in almost 20 years and OMG, the opening lines.

"Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue."

The movie takes place in 2027.

oh! I just found one more! (this is usually how the work goes)

Elsie Davis (translation) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ Prayers and other works by Elsie Davis (translation) shared through the Open Siddur Project.

The task I set before myself, now complete, was to transcribe all the piyyutim known to have been translated by Elsie Schryver (née Davis, 1876-1933). This is part of a larger project illuminating the work of pioneering Jewish women translators and prayer authors opensiddur.org/profile/elsi...

Yooooooo.

Antisemitism exposed in the ranks of the right — the GOP-Israeli honeymoon is over For decades, the Israeli, American Jewish and Christian Right forged what seemed like an ironclad alliance. If conservatives truly wanted to fight this battle, they would turn first to their own ca…

“Israel’s right-wing defenders are flailing…long accustomed to looking only left for the next threat, their necks have painfully swiveled…With their dreams increasingly discredited, we must work to awaken from the nightmare they have helped create.” thehill.com/opinion/whit...

As folks keep pointing out, Musk has likely never read/understood SciFi or fantasy, and continues to show his 'knowledge' of them at lolzy levels.

So the only thing you need to know is the closest thing Musk is to SciFi is he is reality's version of the character: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

pretty sure this is the original quote

The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one might actually be needy. Some act as if they are exempt from giving charity to 100 beggars in the event that one might be a fraud. —Rabbi Chaim Halberstam

Should That Be In A Museum? On Access and Private Collectors of Judaica. The Nuremberg Mahzor: History, Codicology, Liturgy and Art, edited by Elisabeth Hollender, Magnes Press, 2025

On the need to digitize rare manuscripts whether they are privately held or in a museum of library collection seforimchatter.substack.com/p/should-tha... — an essay by Michelle Margolis (mmargolis.bsky.social)

If Severance is the retelling of the myth of Orpheus that I think it may be, then I can't help but wonder what the Furies might do to Mark S. in season three

An illustration of a representation of the noösphere superimposed over a view of Planet Earth from orbit (attribution unknown)

Pledges of Allegiance to the Earth (1965-1994): opensiddur.org/index.php?ta...

וְהָיָה אִם שָׁמֹעַ | V'haya Im Shamo'a (And If You Listen): a prayer in a time of planetary danger by Rabbi Arthur Waskow • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ A midrashic translation/ interpretation of the second paragraph of the Sh’ma. . . .

וְהָיָה אִם שָׁמֹעַ | V’haya Im Shamo’a (And If You Listen): a prayer in a time of planetary danger by Rabbi Arthur Waskow opensiddur.org?p=5424

Earth Pledge by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart in conclusion to his personal affirmation of awareness (11 May 1972) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ This earth pledge can be found in the Church of All Worlds's newsletter, Green Egg, vol. 5, issue 47 (11 May 1972), p. 28. The quote, appearing after a line break of asterisks, appears to conclude an ...

Earth Pledge by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart in conclusion to his personal affirmation of awareness (11 May 1972) opensiddur.org?p=64075

Bbc news screenshot 'police focus on ladder placed against side of the Louvre'

> GO UP LADDER

I do not understand 'go up'

> USE LADDER

Use ladder with what?

> CLIMB LADDER

You climb the ladder

> LOOK

You are in a museum gallery. It is dark, but a display case glints in the dim light.

> EXAMINE DISPLAY CASE

It's full of jewels!

> PICK UP JEWELS

You take the jewels.

yet another attack on DEI by powerful white men 😏

Funny how the press + white politicians just about never refer to unarmed Black teenagers who get murdered --

like Laquan McDonald, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Ma'Khia Bryant, & younger, like Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones-

as "kids," even though they call 30something racists "kids". 🤔

For Rebbe Naḥman, a generation or more younger than the Vilna Gaon, one can only speculate. (Who knows?) But for the Alter Rebbe, I think we have a better idea

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

“As of today, Dominion is gone. Liberty Vote assumes full ownership and operational control.”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

It's time again for one of my favorite prayers. Translated excerpt: "May we not take their (non-human animal's) energy to ourselves, Heaven forbid (ḥas v'shalom), so that we will not cause the premature deaths of domesticated-animals and wild creatures, ḥas v'shalom."

Jacqueline Wilson - Wikipedia

Jacqueline Wilson wrote a YA novel inspired by Anne Fank: Secrets (2002) and I'm betting the publisher lifted some promo line from the hype for it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets...

Busy, busy in DC and Lester the Jester in Riyadh

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Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

There aren't too many two lane highways left within Cincinnati's city limits guarded by giant crabs. The abandoned subway system though is a completely different story

Superb