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Someone needs to park under her window with a boom box playing Boney M's "Rasputin" at high volume until she gets a clue.

Just in case anyone else is wondering - because Spotify clearly is - the Kalevala and the Kabbalah? TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

Rabbi: There is one consistent theme that runs through the Talmud.

Me: Demons also study Jewish law.

Rabbi: Well, yes, but that’s not what I’m referring to.

Me: Palm trees are scary.

Rabbi: Please let me finish.

As my grandfather would say "Well, worse things have happened at sea..."

I JUST WANT TO EDIT THE DOCUMENT I WAS EDITING TWENTY MINUTES AGO, STOP TRYING TO HELP ME.

I was offered an 1- year extension at my current position in Egypt this week, saving me from DC's kerfuffle for another year. To celebrate I splurged on lip filler, more Arabic lessons and Werther's Salted Caramel Popcorn.

Of the three, I am definitely enjoying the popcorn the most.

Oh, I like this one. I think I'll try a thicker nib. I tend to be an ultrafine girly, and that isn't doing me any favors with Arabic.

What IS good for Arabic? I am on a (sadly) multi-year quest to elevate my Arabic handwriting into the realm of legibility and need all the help I can get.

It’s like @johnrogers.bsky.social says: if you constantly label everything you don’t like socialism, and you suck, eventually the youth will just embrace socialism.

I took a negotiation class at FSI the week Trump withdrew us from JPOCA. They had a video for the last session of the course that covered how it was negotiated as an example of what diplomacy could do, which we all watched silently, knowing that it had just been destroyed.

Ouch.

Uh, isn't that the H2A program? Pretty sure that's the H2A program.

Breaking: Federal judge blocks Rubio's anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy for all Judge Julia Kobick granted a classwide preliminary injunction that applies to all trans and nonbinary people on Tuesday.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Rubio's anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy for all.

Judge Julia Kobick granted a classwide preliminary injunction that applies to all trans and nonbinary people on Tuesday.

New, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-f...

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below

Oh, you're doomscrolling current events? That's baby shit. I'm doomscrolling the events of 536. A volcano just erupted in Iceland. Snow just fell during the summer in China. Crops are failing. All of the crops are failing.

Excellent. I prefer my disasters one at a time. I can more effectively savor them that way.

Wait, you can kill people by going to brunch? I've been doing it wrong all my life...?

Hot pink chairs and benches stacked up in a protest with protesters hiding behind them as law enforcement fires upon the barricades with rubber bullets and tear gas

RIOS rios.imagines RIOS rios.imagines Images of the bright pink Civic furniture line that we designed for@grandpark_la "The Park for Everyone," being used by LA protesters stopped us in our tracks. These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect - and now protect. We stand in solidarity with our city during moments of civic expression in support of unjust treatment, and we are reminded of why we design: for our community, diversity, and a sense of belonging. Photo by: David Ryder-AFP/Getty Images

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines

"These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

I will be excited for Smart Fridges when I can call them from the grocery store and they can tell me not only whether I have green onions, but whether they're fresh and I have enough for the recipe I'm planning. Anything else is bullshit and not worth my time.

even though LA is a sexy news story, neighbors have been protecting neighbors across the country all year and they will continue to. You have a community right outside your door. Care for it.

Two book covers posted side by side. The left one is the cover of the original Dune but the title has been changed to "Paul is Bad." The right one is the original cover of Dune: Messiah but the title has been changed to "OK, I Guess I Wasn't Clear."

Something something charismatic leaders. This may or may not be about Dune. #Dune #Dunesky #Memes #Sietchposting

Also, I honestly just don't like weed that much?

If you think you’ve made poor life decisions, there is a woman who not only married Stephen Miller, she left him for Elon Musk.

I am tired of antisemitism.

And I am tired of being expected to be ok with antisemitism when the Jews who it’s directed at are Israelis.

I, an American and mom to three other Americans, very much want COVID Boosters, kthxbi

Some political commentators never worked in a dive bar, and it shows.

(To be fair, I didn't either. But my baby sister did, and has 86-ed enough drunken frat boys that I'm real clear on what that means.)

As a Jew, I don't care what your heart has done (although, if it's bleeding, perhaps a cardiologist...?). I DO care what you say publicly when those words and beliefs encourage antisemitism that leads people to hurt and kill actual Jewish humans. Hope that helps!

I'm not saying it's the sharks... But I am saying that since planes started falling off aircraft carriers we haven't had a "beach closed due to sharks" day and maybe it's not a coincidence?