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@elswhere.bsky.social

Queer middle-aged Vancouverite. She/her. Library and children's book person. Sometime ukuleleist. Once and future picture book author. Talk, sing, read, write, play.

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US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum tweet reading: 
"Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."

US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum tweet reading: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."

It's not a false equivalency. It's not exploitative. What's happening now is the whole reason we said Never Again and insisted generations of Jewish schoolchildren learn and remember what happened. For this moment.
Never again means never again for anyone.

27.01.2026 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

@rachelhartmanbooks.com !

05.01.2026 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right there with you.

19.12.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a black and white photo of a woman playing a piano with the caption me at work when i should be watching ALT: a black and white photo of a woman playing a piano with the caption me at work when i should be watching
12.12.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"HOT TO GO!" (Chappell Roan cover) β€’ "Weird Al" Yankovic & Will Forte β€’ THUNDERGONG! 2024
YouTube video by Steps Of Faith Foundation "HOT TO GO!" (Chappell Roan cover) β€’ "Weird Al" Yankovic & Will Forte β€’ THUNDERGONG! 2024

Don't know if this is what you had in mind, but here ya go... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kaiy...

09.12.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

omg ENJOY, I was introduced to it only about 5 years ago and it has definitely made my life better.

05.11.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Omg!!!

24.10.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Redirecting...

@skeskali.ca I thought of you: www.facebook.com/share/r/17X3...

04.10.2025 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rabelais!

26.08.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I recommend reading the entire thread. And the nested thread Rabbi Danya quotes below.

04.08.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pop Culture Happy Hour, July 25 episode, the "What's making us happy this week" segment near the end.

02.08.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I heard someone recommending it on a podcast just this morning!

01.08.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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to Jews, on the Gaza famine an open letter: we have been commanded

I just sent this out.

The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.

It is a choice not to heed them.

Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

24.07.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1021    πŸ” 416    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 50

BATH WARS, THE SEQUEL

26.07.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The majority are sadly not, and many of those who are are leaving the country. There are still determined peaceniks, though -- Standing Together and other orgs are doing good things.

21.07.2025 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Better.

21.07.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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muppet fozzie bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a hat and tie . ALT: muppet fozzie bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a hat and tie .

This deserves more than a simple heart react

20.07.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am a weary hard-bitten cynic (and native New Yorker) and legit just teared up looking at my feed.

25.06.2025 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That movie was so freaking intense! My kid couldn't even finish it. I mean, so beautiful. BUT. AND.

23.06.2025 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

best news I've heard in ages

23.06.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
🧡

20.06.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5412    πŸ” 3531    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 59

Who needs a hobby
like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby!
Rereading Lady Chatterley!

04.06.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This kid! β™₯️

16.05.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really great thread, and a key question…

14.05.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do they...not know what you do for a living??

09.05.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hooo boy *headdesk*

06.05.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i don]t know what happened but oh no

06.05.2025 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh interesting! Sounds like they put some thought into it and she wasn't just sort of default token Girl

04.05.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This looks great! (Only 1 girl among the MCs, looks like - do there end up being more girl characters?)

04.05.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I not infrequently get they/themmed even though I've never been anything but she/her. I think people gauge on hair length a lot of the time.

03.05.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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