Alexa (human variety)

We watched that episode, and now I'm mad about it, too! I don't think the judges had any idea what most of the books they chose were about.

Work of Art: The Next Great Artist Season 1 - YouTube

I think it's this!
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Have you looked at Yeats's
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry? There are some specific stories about changelings in there. It's on Project Gutenberg share.google/aZQxIL5LfXVp...

An overhead view of a library with light wood shelves

"I left it at work."

The work in question:

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

Juniper's breakfast dance

Hey #asheville folks... We've released an album to benefit BeLoved Asheville on the first anniversary of #Helene. This is a trailer for a full demo vid we made. 16 tracks recorded in the days & nights after the storm passed over. coopersonfire.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...

Shana tova to everyone except RFK Jr. and other vaccine deniers. I have Covid for the first time ever, so I'm ringing in 5786 with apples, honey, and acetaminophen.

For some reason, this makes me think about how one year I was listening to a Rosh Hashanah radio program with the apartment windows open, and when they blew the shofar, our neighbor's urban goats all started bleating back.

Palestine and Israel This is not a comprehensive list. But here are some places to start, to learn, to engage. Truth. Dignity.

Also: I put together a book list for this piece, as I do sometimes when what I'm doing in one essay will be wildly inadequate for the topic.

I chose these for various reasons, & there are other books that could be added that are not. I'm a human person with finite time over here! But it's a start:

Yeah, that particular song gives me shivers in a way nothing else on that album or either of the other artists' bodies of work does.

NewsGuard today published its anniversary edition of the AI False Claims Monitor, the monthly benchmark for how AI tools handle provably false claims.

For the first time, NewsGuard de-anonymized the results and named scores for the top LLMs.

www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/a...

Or maybe some kind of Looper situation?

Currently operating under the assumption you were separated at birth.

Ahem.

"Full Radagast" is a very apt description, but also might be #goals for him?

I wish I had thought to, but he wouldn't have let me share it! I have a recording from a previous incident where he was very distressed about a bird in a nature documentary that I've been forbidden to let anyone else hear.

Fortunately (?) he just delivered an extemporaneous monologue to me about how it had been decades since he'd eaten a corn dog and how he wanted to get into HEMA.

On the right side of the page is a pen and ink drawing of a woman in profile crying. Her tears are turning into rivers of smoke that rise from a bombed-out city. Below that image, a globe in the shape of a heart is broken in two. On the right side of the page is a poem: Lamentations 5785 On Tisha B'Av we mourn The destruction of the temple Twice over, The center that held Our now-scattered faith And family Sure and sound As gravity. Does a human soul not hold The gravity of a world For those who love them? And if a temple is made As a dwelling-place for God How much more so A human heart? Is the loss of that life Not greater Than the destruction of any temple? The heart stops And without it Whole nations lose their center. 18,500 children And counting Now every day is Tisha B'Av In Gaza.

Tisha B'Av was this past weekend, and this was my meditation on it. I don't always know how to express the depth of my distress about what's going on in Israel and Gaza, so sometimes I fall back on my coping tactics from high school - mediocre free verse poetry and sketching.

We made it ourselves!

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

"“God’s name is being desecrated through our sins,” Rabbi Amital wrote nearly five decades ago. “Is it possible to remain silent?!” Today, his challenge tragically rings just as true."

My words in the Forward today (appropriately on Rav Amital’s yahrtzeit)

forward.com/opinion/7575...

And should not be a wedding song

At the very least, you have to expect you'll be implicated in murder and/or have your furniture business's prospects ruined.

I mean, if they actually *want* to rescue you, they might do a good job. It all depends on what The Wilderness wants.

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.

It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

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Please help my sister get a therapy dog!

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This is a concentration camp

The Israeli army has been killing dozens of Palestinians at aid hubs in Gaza practically on a daily basis. Soldiers have told Haaretz they have been ordered to fire at crowds “even though it was clear they posed no threat” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I think you mean Juni LaForge

You know they would ace the Kobayashi Maru if they only applied themselves.