Megillah 7b re-typeset so the main column of Gemara follows the shape of the Absolut Vodka bottle, with the caption "ABSOLUT PURIM".

Or, as I typeset it back in 1995...

"I'll fix-name [your] bad fart?"

I can't wait for the quantum version. How many builder's qubits will it need?

That sounds like a dog whistle; the "mixed multitudes" were the non-Jewish slaves who escaped with the Jews in the Exodus and who were, according to tradition, troublemakers later for Moses. Definitely not a positive term, and I'm sure she knows that.

"It's not easy being Mr. Green...."

Minnesota appears to have a state equivalent to RICO; I'm surprised that hasn't been invoked yet.

As in "Vote for the crook. It's important"?

That number again is (617) 332-3333 @repauchincloss.bsky.social

בִּפְרֹ֤חַ רְשָׁעִ֨ים ׀ כְּמ֥וֹ־עֵ֗שֶׂב וַ֭יָּצִיצוּ כׇּל־פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן לְהִשָּׁמְדָ֥ם עֲדֵי־עַֽד׃

"Bicycles" in the sense that you shuffle 54 cards, look up what word corresponds to the cut card, and repeat until you get a joker.

The number 1 account? AOC is followed by 44% of the accounts that I follow; then there's Ben Collins at 32%, Mark Hamill at 30%, and Chris Hayes at 29% (whom I did not know in high school but who is an HCHS alum). Then NPR, George Takei....

For now, part 1 is just getting the list of "accounts that are followed by accounts that I follow, but which I do not myself yet follow", scored by how many two-step links lead from me to the target account.

I wanted to find BlueSky accounts of friends, and so I thought "I'll use the getFollowers() API to find people that several of my friends follow". Part 2 will be to actually triangulate those relationships into clusters, so I can find NPL friends or high-school friends, etc.

Left a message at @repauchincloss.bsky.social 's office, saying that he'd better be a leader in pursuing articles of impeachment over this.

New Year's shredding is so depressing. Feeding the receipts of my 2018 life into the oubliette and watching the memories come out as confetti, meaningless and ephemeral. Choosing which scraps are spared (I'm looking at you, confirmation slips).

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's full speech after taking oath of office

I cried. I cried over and over. What a beautiful speech.

youtu.be/NFVT5iUV8bA?...

A commemorative MetroCard(R) from the opening of the Second Ave. Subway

To which I have long added

4. Does this need to be said by me, right now, in these words?

Are you familiar with Don Knuth's "3:16" project? www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/316.h...

Is it true that some people pronounce "Merriam", "Marriam", and "Mariam" with the same vowel?

At a Boston-area NPL minicon in 2018 or so, Tortoise gave out Connecting Wall nametags as the icebreaker. Find your three partners and enter your 4 number codes on a phone-friendly website to confirm the quartet. It was great.

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Oops, wrong handle. Sorry.

Yes. Much much more worth tuning in to than anything else that might be on at that time, say on the Tiff-Fanny network.

And also very important to make sure the overnight ratings numbers reflect that choice.

Spread the word.

There's a Great Performances on @pbs.org at 9pm tonight. PBS is certain to get better ratings than anything else that's on at the same time. Especially given that I'm sure my friends, and their friends and followers, etc. will be sure to have their cable boxes on and tuned to PBS this evening.

Parashat Miketz: Survival Is Not Redemption Joseph, Power, and the Aftermath of Trauma

Joseph is queer and autistic AF

My takes on this week's torah portion

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OMNOMNOMNY cards!

Now I want one from @mta.info with the colored circles for N, G, H, and S (yes, there was an H).

Mishnah Makkot 1:10 This mishna continues to discuss the matter of testimony in the case of one who is liable to be executed. Concerning one whose verdict was delivered and he was...

סַנְהֶדְרִין הַהוֹרֶגֶת אֶחָד בְּשָׁבוּעַ נִקְרֵאת חָבְלָנִית. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה אוֹמֵר, אֶחָד לְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה.

A sanhedrin that executes once in seven years, is called murderous. Rabbi Eliezer b. Azariah Says: once in seventy years.

www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Makk...

I'm not sure whether to be more amused that they wrote "Sunday" or appalled that they conveniently ignore the fact that in Jewish law, saving a life suspends the Sabbath.