Abigail Nussbaum

טוב, אם אתה באירופה אז הם עפים לישראל

ואז מיידית כיבה את זה כשהסתבר שהרבה מהחשבונות הכי פעילים בימין האמריקאי למעשה ממוקמים ברוסיה, הודו, ו... ישראל.

מנופפת שלום מבית הכנסת הרפורמי

זה לא שאין מאכלים מתוקים עם בטטות. שישימו מרשמלו על פאי בטטה ויעזבו את המנות העיקריות במנוחה.

And as you said, you can't claim that you "did your own research" while ignoring the extremely well-known bit of information that pre-modern medicine, childbirth was extremely dangerous for mothers and babies. This isn't the science of vaccines. It's common knowledge that they chose to ignore.

Israeli here: we do not want your extra child molesters. Hope that helps.

Did you read that Guardian article that's making the rounds about the "freebirth" influencers? It's basically this but for childbirth.

Most of the reactions I've seen have been pouring scorn on the influencers, and quite rightly. But I am having a lot of trouble feeling sympathy for people who will spends hundreds of dollars on a crank who tells them what they want to hear, but won't get an ultrasound for their baby.

(מחקתי את התגובה הקודמת כי אני מתבלבלת עם הדורות.(

לא היה איזה בן דוד שמת כשעשה סקי? אחד הבנים של רוברט, לדעתי.

רובם מתים מדברים מטומטמים שאנשים עשירים עושים, אבל סרטן כל כך אלים בגיל כל כך צעיר זה באמת מזל ביש מחריד.

Seconded. A really fascinating look at how Hollywood works in general, and how the clusterfuck of this movie happened in particular.

לא רואה סיבה להאמין שיש הבדל בין בנים לבנות, כי גם משחקי מחשב היום מעלימים את מערכת הקבצים (וזה כשעוד משחקים על PC ולא על קונסול). יש לא מעט עדויות של מרצים באוניברסיטה מהעשור האחרון שמספרים שהם צריכים ללמד את הסטודנטים שלהם אוריינות מחשב בסיסית כאילו היו פקידה בת 45 שקיבלה מחשב ראשון בשנת 1989.

I mean, it's also a very blatant (and creative and well-done) Stephen King riff by way of Stranger Things, but it's interesting how those two things end up dovetailing.

So, Weapons: this is about school shootings, right?

Specifically, the way that authority figures - parents, teachers, cops - have completely abdicated responsibility for children's safety, leaving the kids to rescue themselves.

“If you’re not a member of my religion, you don’t matter”, an attitude famously adhered to by the followers of one and only one religion.

Helm by Sarah Hall
We Love You Bunny by Mona Awad
Animals by Geoff Ryman
The Antidote by Karen Russell
Some Body Like Me by Lucy Lapinska (recommended by @niallharrison.bsky.social)

Hmm, restricting solely to books I have copies of:

Notes From a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
Transmentation | Transience by Darkly Lem
Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
Letters From An Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss

(cont.)

A day or two after he was elected I noted to some friends that it might be a good thing that he doesn't have children, and that if he has any in office they'll be too young for the NYPD to be able to plausibly abduct them.

Pretty classic case of "the most famous person in the cast is the murderer"

אני חושבת שזה תלוי בגודל הכלב ועובי הפרווה. כנראה שהיום כלב לא צריך סוודר, אבל בשיא החורף כלב קטן כזה אולי צריך קצת שכבות.

די סטנדרטי בכנסיות הענק האוונגליסטיות בארה״ב. קצת מאכזב שהקתולים בעולם הישן גם הולכים לכיוון הזה.

There is certainly something very familiar about the way the virus has mashed together every bit of human experience and intellect and yet the resulting persona appears to be kind of dim.

I have to tell you, when I saw that book on the lineup, it was literally like a disturbance in the force.

I was once on a reading holiday where a friend was reading it, and you could see her face drop as first I, then several other people walked up to her, saw what she was reading, and made a face.

I don't know how well that tracks with Gilligan apparently having this idea more than a decade ago, but I guess we'll see.

Why? The hivemind killed her wife and is trying to absorb her. Beyond not hurting it, why should she show it any consideration?

Respect. I barely got three and I'm not even sure I found all the riddles.

Amazing Sweetie GIF Alt: Amazing Sweetie GIF

Carol: cavalierly accepts a world in which whole passenger planes are redirected for her pleasure and hundreds of people appear out of nowhere to stock an entire grocery store just for her.

Me:

Another Pluribus thought: feels like I'm meant to see Carol as quite flawed, and it's true that her baseline is pretty misanthropic. But in three episodes:

1. her wife died
2. the world ended
3. she can't get mad about this or millions will die

So I think in context she's doing pretty well!

אני חושבת שאפשר להבדיל פה בין שתי רמות של אותה התופעה. אי אפשר להכחיש שישראלים הפנימו שאירופה זה מקום עם "המון מוסלמים" ושזה כמעט הדבר הראשון שעולה כשמדברים עליה. זה לא אומר שכל ישראל חושבת שאנחנו מרחק שני פסעים מהחליפות השנייה.

Alien: Earth at least has the justification that the entire franchise has rested on the concept that corporations are willing to sacrifice hundreds of lives for a bit of profit, and sometimes misjudge how many lives will actually be lost. That's not an idea that Pluribus seems to be playing with.