Florence Ashley

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Alright so what the fuck

(1) Readability is about possibility not actuality. ;)

(2) Isn’t ambiguity part and parcel of midrashic Hebrew? ;P

Sometimes we like things BECAUSE they’re worse.

Case in point: Manischewitz

All of them.

*you didn’t say reasonably readable nor that it had to be human eyeballs

jesse singal suggesting that someone else has a professional stake in this is wild since it's the only story he's written in a decade

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.

not to get too Socrates Talking to His Boys vs Mother Showing You Wooden Blocks about it but these panic pieces do truly elide the one in one out thing we’ve kind of got going on for all the different kinds

“Is your coffee safe,” ask the guy who’s giving us measles.

Can’t help but notice that even Mordecai didn’t propose preemptive strikes.

בהצלחה!

‘Rising anti-trans hatred’ in the UK creating ‘hostile environment’, report suggests 99 per cent of trans people say media coverage of issue has harmed their mental health

The story has been picked up by mainstream press.

Great work by @transactualuk.bsky.social

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

I knew next to zero Hebrew a year ago, and look where I am now!

I’m working on it!

Well probably both 😆 But it was just that I didn’t click on which passage you were referring to from the transliterated version, as I’m hardly fluent in Mishnaic Hebrew

It’s definitely a huge upgrade over print! I just wish it was more BDB-y

Isn’t it mostly modern?

Best Talmudic dictionary available online? Jastrow is… meh.

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!