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I've been saying it for more than a year now, @jay.bsky.team is not fit to lead this project. Perma-banning Link (presumably because who is going to care about the Black disabled guy) is yet another immature and petulant action as if we needed more proof.

Here's my question

Sukkot begins tomorrow! For 7 days we honor the harvest & the ties that the Jewish people have to nature & our indigenous land. More crafty folks build a small hut open to the sky & decorate it with fruits & leaves. Eating dinner with the stars is magic.
#kidlitart #kidlit #jewishkidlit

This, y'all. So much this.

Jew on Bluesky: 500+ posts in the last year about how Israel needs to stop the occupation and Palestinians deserve to be free.

Same Jew on Bluesky: I'm tired of antisemitism, y'all.

Comments: Free Palestine! Zionist colonizer! Genocide enabler! I'm not the antisemite, you're the antisemite!

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I suspect it’s also location dependent—different spots see more left or right sleep action, and that cushy bed is his most ambidextrous

A white and orange Maine Coon sleeping in his dark red cat bed on his left side

The same white and orange Maine Coon sleeping on his right side!

What if your cat is ambidextrous? I went to my photos and this guy can be found on both sides regularly!

I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the degree to which the AI obsession is driven by dweeby tech dudes furious that women have autonomy and can say no to them.

I’m tempted to dunk, but ok, let’s engage seriously.

Putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps was a fascist activity.

(And I think that if you were Japanese-American at the time, you were experiencing the US as a fascist country.)

Does that mean the US was fascist?

Wrong question.

He’s all Maine Coon, all the time haha

RBF from a white and orange Maine Coon, who is actually thrilled to lounge in his bed

I love when cats look so grumpy but that’s their thrilled face. My Ben does the same thing in his beloved beds.

We millennials do know this. Far too many of us made these extreme sacrifices, doing our best, and then our bodies just collapsed. Now we have a whole slew of disabilities and chronic illnesses so that we can’t even fake normal anymore! Yay for 60 hour weeks as a PhD student at 21 years old! 🤦🏻‍♀️😩😡

A map of Gaza made up of various styles of Hebrew text. Around the border of the piece is the English translation of the Hebrew. On the bottom right is my signature, in the form of olive branches. The text is in blue, green, red, and black. -- Maimonides states “there is no greater mitzvah than the redemption of captives.” And who are the captives? They are the Palestinians in Gaza, held hostage by foreign powers and by their own government, who has not had elections since they came to power. They’re held hostage by an Israeli government that has empowered that government holding them hostage and has not tried to redeem them. Then there are the Israeli civilian hostages taken into Gaza by terrorists. The blue letters in the main territory represent each of those people, with the letters taken from their names. The calligraphic representations of the name of God (YHVH is not here) are also blue, to represent anyone else not accounted for. The colors come from both the Palestine and Israel flags. In black are the borders of the blockade. In red, the translations of the verses calling for the redemption of captives. In the cursive writing is the verse of Amos, “let justice well up like waters.” The only just end to this war is a redemption of both Israeli AND Palestinian captives. Put redemption is as intertwined as the letters making up the territory. There is no peace for either of us until there is peace for both of us.

Closeup of the print, showing in greater detail my signature. It is made of olive branches and says "Seek not vengeance and bear no grudges - love peace and pursue peace," in Hebrew and English. It is in green and blue. Red text is around the edge: "Do not harden your heart or close your hand, do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor, One shall not oppress them with exhausting work in your presence."

Close up of the blue and green Hebrew text that makes up the land of Gaza. Around it, stylized like barbed wire, is additional Hebrew text. Part of the sea blockade border can be seen, in block Hebrew. Red English text cuts through it.

"No Greater Mitzvah"

This work is a stylized map of Gaza, under siege and blockade by Israel and Egypt for almost 2 decades. The title refers to Maimonides’ insistence that “there is no greater mitzvah than the redemption of captives.” More in alt text.

Refuah sheleimah!!

We need to understand that, too. There is no "reform." Either poorly trained people with no impulse control can murder people on the streets while we watch, or we have a democracy.

The two are antithetical.

One of the things we are going to have to be very, very aware of is that a lot of people who are being heavily armed right now will simply not be willing to accept the results of a democratic election because they will go to jail.

Zohran Mamdani once again delivered a thoughtful, appropriate holiday message that displays familiarity with actual Jewish people to Jews in New York City, and most of the replies are about ... Israel. Which, last I checked, is not in New York, and is not particularly influenced by Jews in the US.

How To Make Yom Kippur Meaningful Even If You Don’t Fast How can Yom Kippur still be powerful if you aren’t fasting? Discover meaningful ways to observe the Day of Atonement on your own terms.

Let’s leave the Puritanism to others. Don’t read their hang ups into ours. May you have an easy fast if you are safely able. And if you need other ways to mark the holiday while eating food here’s some lovely suggestions. And you can donate to Gaza relief too.

What is the procedure for one who must eat on Yom Kippur? Just as a healthy person fulfills a mitzvah by fasting; an ill person does a mitzvah by eating.

To anyone disabled, pregnant, prone to eating disorders, blood sugar issues, on meds that require food etc: Yom Kippur rules are very clear. You must NOT fast if it will hurt your health. Don’t believe me? Believe Chabad, even they say so. Judaism doesn’t want you to endanger your health.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Yidden: in keeping with the mitzvah of pikuach nefesh, you should be testing for COVID before Yom Kippur services.

This whole thread is 100% wrong. As of April 2024 (most recent Pew survey results) abortion rights have the MOST support they've had at any point since 1995. Among Democrats as a whole *85%* think abortion should be legal in all or nearly all cases. Among Republicans 47% say legal in all/nearly all.

Yeah, this is why both practicing Christians and cultural Christians are so unable to be normal about Jews.

They can’t un-narrativize actual Jewish humans.

The prominent critique of the ADL on the left in recent years has been that they do whatever the Israeli government wants. And I understand why people think that! But this is actually not that. The Israeli government did not ask for this; the American Christian right did.

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Was it @juliusgoat.bsky.social who said:

“Meet me in the middle,” says the dishonest man.

You take a step forward.

He takes a step back.

“Meet me in the middle,” says the dishonest man.

The thing about the AI bros, and this AI madam, pimping out an enslaved illusion of a questionably adult woman, is they rarely articulate WHOM their product will supposedly benefit.

Because they’d have to give the game away:

It’s people in power who hate paying other humans.

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"

Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

Just want to remind people that in January 2017 I gave a talk at the American Physical Society meeting warning everyone that Trump would gut science just like Hitler did

And I've posted the link on social media before, including again earlier this year:
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If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.