Florence Ashley

Aaah

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

The very first one—be of the disciplines of Aharon? *chef’s kiss*

I’m, in fact, quite confident that the grand total of psalms about Jesus are 0.

I did not understand this 😅

Pirkei Avot slaps so hard, ngl.

The שינת truly do be חינמינג.

(I apologize for this deep cut of a joke.)

Man, I can’t believe Amalek destroyed the Second Temple.

It’s half the fun!

Also, bold of you to assume that the best of Hebrew writings are grammatically intelligible. 😆

All I can do is base myself on the NRSVue, as I don’t know shit about Greek!

But complaints about its bad Greek seem to be more about proper grammar than compelling writing style?

And yet so much more interesting and compelling than almost everything else!

They’re not written like dogshit.

He’s still a complete and utter douche.

A what?

Letting Fetterman score clean dunks like this is a threat to national security

It’s not giving revolutionary religious movement. It’s giving cult. It’s also pretty obvious that Paul is a scammer.

But I’ll give credit where credit is due—John and Revelations were pretty solid.

Instead, it’s mostly complaints about people not believing Jesus is the messiah, wish a mishmash of misinterpreted Jewish law and vague, unspecific calls to be a good person.

It doesn’t fare well in the comparison to classical prophets like Isaiah and Amos.

I just finished the Jesus Chronicles (the “New Testament”) and I have to say, I was quite surprised.

I was led to believe that it would be a lot more focused on justice, and better written.

don’t make me tap the “for thousands of years, antisemitism has functioned primarily by scapegoating: the king tells you he is only oppressing you because the Jews have forced his hand, so you kill the Jews rather than the king” sign

reading over Malliotakis v. Williams and lowkey think New York courts/the NY Redistricting Commission should be like...since the Supreme Court clearly lacked jurisdiction to intervene in the case at this time, we are treating it as the nonbinding advisory opinion that it is, thanks for the input tho

All meme groups should ban AI.

we need a total shut down of cis gay journalists named ben until we find out what the hell is going on

Heads up, Canadian trans folx — this looks to be excellent. Ashley is a top notch scholar and a fantastic writer, which is a rare combo.

Courtroom Science and Trans Youth - University of Toronto Press

For those curious:

TL;DR of my forthcoming book:

I do appreciate cis advocates of trans healthcare, especially in these times, but I do wish more of them would let go of the "experts know best" framing. I'm aware it's safe, palatable, sellable, but there's a century of "experts" torturing, converting, and sexually abusing trans people. So.