Florence Ashley

@ghawinriver.bsky.social do you have other suggestions?

Any good one you’d recommend on Sefaria? :3

I want to read more about that view—where should I look?

I thought it was fully banned to even benefit from acts of a goyim who acted solely for your benefit?

(1) What do you mean by the latter

(2) But what about prepaid cards that allow for a certain number of uses? For instance, what if I pay my barista on Friday for a coffee at 10 am on Shabbat. But then I miss some weeks so we want to switch to a system where I pre-buy many and ‘tick off’ as I go.

Setting aside the electronics involved, does paying for something with a regular credit card, pre-loaded credit card, and pre-bought electronic tickets (e.g. bus tickets) count as commerce for Shabbat? You're not actually exchanging money at the time, and it's not quite a regular debt either.

It starts with a Jordan Peterson epigraph. Everything is just getting better and better as you go along. 😆

Not only attorneys tho!

If you're an attorney and we know each other, you better be preordering.

Acknowledgments This dissertation would not have been possible without the support of many people. First and foremost, I thank my advisors Leah Somerville, Randy Buckner, and Steven Pinker for welcoming me to Harvard and for their years of outstanding mentorship. I am also indebted to my professors from the University of Southern California, including Frank Manis, who nurtured my passion for developmental psychology, and Megan Herting, whose mentorship introduced me to research on neuroendocrinology and sexual development. I am also grateful to my high school teacher, Mrs. E., for first introducing me to academic psychology. I am thankful that my studies have set me on a path connecting with brilliant researchers similarly fascinated by sex differences, including Carole Hooven, Alex Byrne, and Hollie Hammond. Through these friendships I am grateful to have been introduced to my committee members, Michael Bailey and Kenneth Zucker, whose support made this dissertation possible and whose feedback has been tremendously valuable. I am also indebted to the transgender people my work has allowed me to connect with and learn from through their lived experiences, especially my friend Ramblin. This is a sensitive topic and I appreciate those who have approached it with nuance and grace in the public forum, especially Lisa Littman, Helen Joyce, Abigail Shrier, Leor Sapir, and James Morandini, all of whom I also had the good fortune of meeting during my graduate studies. As an interdisciplinary researcher with eclectic interests, I am fascinated by my dissertation topic because it threads so many existing topics I have dabbled in throughout my research career, including: hormones and brain development, evolution and sex differences, puberty and mental health, adolescent social development, and philosophical questions of mind, identity, and bioethics, all while addressing an ongoing public health crisis and unfortunately ix

It also comes with the most cursed acknowledgements page to have ever been written.

Thesis acceptance certificate signed by Steven Pinker, Leah Somerville, Randy Buckner, Michael Bailey, and Kenneth Zucker.

Pack up. I’ve found the most cursed thesis committee ever to exist.

Courtroom Science and Trans Youth Courtroom Science and Trans Youth : Ashley, Florence: Amazon.ca: Books

Huh. My upcoming book is #4 on Amazon Canada's "hot new releases" on LGBTQ2S+ issues.

"Like all propaganda, the Cass Review is not intended to stand up to scrutiny. It is intended to make a bang, a media blitz across the country saying trans healthcare is bad, which can then be used by the government to justify further restricting access to gender-affirming care."

Exactly.

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

What's going on in Israel re: propaganda, so ppl know:

Was talking to family there this AM & they had TV on. It was reported to me (w/eyeroll) that there was a segment on "what a tough masculine hottie" Hegseth is, "with the tattoos and everything."

"Did they mention the Nazi tattoo?"

"What?!?"

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

Moses: “Women are so superficial with their mirrors and stuff.”

God: “Actually, they used them to neg their husbands into having sex and that’s how you didn’t go extinct in Egypt so show some respect. So yeah, how about you make the Temple washbasin out of their mirrors?!?”

Usually not because preparing. But also, are you suggesting, להבדיל, that Shabbat isn’t fun? ;P

(The joke is that “designed” is more literally “works of thinking,” so you could also render it as “made thinking,” aka made in the position of a thinker.)

four statue of a man sitting on a rock Alt: Statue of the thinker by Rodin, rotating against a white background and at some point becoming four statues doing the same thing

Translations: “Designed cherubim”

Me:

Majority doesn’t mention it but they’d agree with that, they’re just not going to point it out for no reason.

That’s nice. At solstice it ends at 11:32 here. 🙃

*giggles* face bread

Me af

a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat and says "I'm in danger"

When I have to keep myself occupied but Shabbos doesn't end until 9:30 pm

Another reason to abolish daylight savings — what the fuck is this Shabbat time?!?

Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada released a decision in which the majority applies what they explicitly call an “intersectional approach” to discrimination. Even if it’s just words, it’s a pretty big deal in the current sociopolitical landscape.

Read: www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/do...

TikTok comment reading: Chabad is EVIL. At the Purim party, they ran out of chocolate hamantaschens and I had to suffer eating a jam one. Also they played Benny Friedman music on a constant loop

Best response so far to Tucker Carlson’s Chabad nonsense.

Shabbat shalom everyone! See you on the other side. Please no nuclear war while I’m gone.