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A thread: Various folks get very angry at me when I don't call Gaza a genocide. Since threads about this have been showing up in my feed again (yay algorithm) I decided to do some poking around and reading on the consensus that has developed among many genocide scholars. 🧵>

this is petty, but just rename yourselves back to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays if you love those uniforms so much cowards

I've seen this referenced but never seen the whole story AND THE WHOLE THING HAPPENED ON MY BIRTHDAY. I shall now endeavor to share this each year on my birthday as is the custom in these times.

These two posts by @digital-diogenes.bsky.social are good examples of anti-Zionism crossing into antisemitism by using old tropes with Israel swapped in for Jews: 1) Israel as a source of worldwide evil 2) Israel in control of US election outcomes

May his memory be for a blessing.

Small-dollar donations to Republican candidates are just apocalyptic. Selected examples here. Our forecasting research found in-state individual contributions are a strong predictor of results. Way stronger than PAC spending! votehub.com/2026/10/24/2...

I'm so deeply frustrated with the entire OT and PT field right now. Everyone is at least competent at things within certain boundaries but the moment someone or something doesn't fit those boundaries the therapists I've had are clearly clueless. That PLUS a lot of correlation/causation confusion.

3-2-1 Contact was very popular in my household and among my friends and that's where I learned about acid rain, probably right around '83 or '84. It was in kids programming!

Luis Rojas moonlighting as the Rays' third base coach I see

In high school my son and his friends had a rule that relationships with anyone more than a class year above/below them weren't okay because of the maturity gap between, say, 9th and 11th graders. It felt to them like, no matter what, the older student was taking advantage of the younger one.

4. The Harry Dresden books are not necessarily good per say but they are very enjoyable

I worked in the district everyone posts about when they post about “banning” To Kill a Mockingbird. 1. It was not banned. It was removed from the curriculum. 2. The “uncomfortable” quote isn’t from white students or parents. It was from BIPOC students and families, who wanted to move on—

I'm also a 2 with Jimmy Carter - my father peed next to him at JFK airport once in the 90s. They exchanged pleasantries after hand washing.

2, but I worked for a synagogue in DC while he was President, so it's sort of embarrassing that I never made it to 1.

The variety and quality of fresh prepared kosher food that's available today is mind blowing compared to what I grew up with.

My favorite Cohen/Rincewind story is "Interesting Times".

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

#JewSky, Which rabbis would have done best on each social media platform? I know these ones for sure: - Rashi would have loved Tumblr. - Yochanan would have been a TikTok e-boy.

Due to various factors the MLB players who are US citizens are overwhelmingly white. The % who are registered as GOP is pretty close to party ID for white people according to Pew. Since MLB is also all male they actually may be slightly less GOP than other white men.

The two boys grew up, and Esav was boobs while Jacob was moon...

"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.

See also Ackroyd's first draft of Ghostbusters, which was huge and had stuff like time travel in it.

The moment when I became 100% sure of how terribly Palestinians are treated by the IDF and police was when one of the heads of Women Of The wall (a Reform rabbi) described in detail how she was treated after being arrested for the group's activities. (I was already pretty sure, this got me to 100%)

My wife is currently cracking up because I said "Mage Hand is like my hand, but invisible"

For those following the Emory Hillel Rabbi story, the Hillels have escalated by having a proxy attack her. If you are on FB just search for David-Seth Kirshner. He wrote as an Emory parent and friend of the rabbi who runs the GA Hillels. I'm pretty sure he's being lied to by his "friend".

The mistake here is assuming that FL has more Rays fans than Yankees fans. Pretty sure Yankees fans are Brewers fans for the next week.

There was a Kosher TX style BBQ food truck in NJ called "Hakadosh BBQ", which is a pun of one of the phrases that's commonly used to refer to God. When they began to get more popular some Jews complained to the rabbinic agency providing their certification, so it became the inferior "Wandering Q"

I am an Ashkenazi Jew We don't DO that sort of thing

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My son already got the most Jewish of home appliances for his new college apartment, a Crockpot. However, he was visibly disgusted with me when I told him about the existence of "dump meals" (the name, not what one actually is) Can't win them all...

I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with Israelis for Peace, Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine & Protect the Harvest.

I just showed self control by NOT trying to have the last word in an up until that point pleasant exchange in a FB group for Jewish Educators.

My 19 year old FINALLY moved into his college apartment (brand new building) and just informed me that he and his roommate are going to begin a sourdough starter. I didn't know what that even WAS at 19. The kids are alright.

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps