Thread by @JoshuaCypess

86.01/ Week eighty-six, March 5-11, 2022, thread begins here.

Week 85 below.

Thank God #Ukraine still stands.

86.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. Tonight, we started the 2009 Star Trek remake (the lens flare film). This was a requested film and I prepared them accordingly (story soon)
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…

86.03/ This makes me shudder.

86.04/ Thread about how science works, useful for staving off the criticism of "The" science in this pandemic

86.05/ Rubio is really terrible.


(As I said in June 2021)

86.06/ If the pattern holds then the GOP will treat the invasion of Ukraine like they did the Jan 6 Insurrection - both events tore the mask off of fascism to reveal the ugliness they support. They'll wait until memory fades & openly cheer Putin again.

86.07/ By the grace of God, conditions in my town (no community spread, very high vax rate) combined with NJ's gov. lifting of the mask mandate allowed me to go maskless.

There's a bright line between stringency & zealotry so I felt I needed to shed the mask to demonstrate that.

86.08/ Two pieces of good news from last night:

1. The revanchist SCOTUS didn't destroy voting rights in NC & PA (for now)

2. After a century of waiting, the Senate passes an anti-lynching bill
nytimes.com/2022/03/07/us/…

86.09/ Joke's on him, now he'll never get Grey Poupon

86.10/ This is a clear case where being anti-Zionist is truly not antisemitic. Ironically, by making the claim, OP is conflating Israel with Judaism and that's seriously dangerous.

(Also, that's a cool looking car. That counts for something)

86.11/ For #InternationalWomensDay here's a recent article by my wife about a new and necessary way to view women as artists in the past, despite their structural erasure.
earlymusicamerica.org/emag-feature-a…
For more: masongross-rutgers.academia.edu/RebeccaCypess

86.12/ This is a very useful paradigm for me, a cishet social scientist, to understand a trans teenager's perspective: "For [@trans_mum's daughter] the idea of developing male secondary sex characteristics is horrifying"

I plan to use that formulation.

86.13/ I see the clickbait NYT has another bad-faith anti-college piece from a Young Republican about how they expected school to be all about "debate."

Look: college is about "discussion." And research. And peer-review. *That* is how we gain knowledge.

86.14/ Mazal tov to all the Lomdei #DafYomi on finishing Seder Mo'ed. We're now leaving the friendly, cushy confines of topics that are either recognizable or interesting and will plummet headlong into #Yevamot. Until July 8th. (BTW, Eruvin is still worse)
dafyomi.org/machzor.php?ma…

86.15/ Was just thinking how the T-Rex had feathers (in my imagination, peacock hued) which is so jarring for such an "apex predator" & how it's like the gaudy colors on Greek sculpture. There's a paper in this.
nytimes.com/2019/03/07/art…
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

86.16/ Not to brag, but one of my favorite puzzle-tasks as a parent is to answer any question from my kids with an approx. 30 second answer (if poss). Not gonna lie, I trained my whole life for that. They know that to ask too much risks a lecture, though.

86.17/ A little biographical randomness. My son said the #NFL, in their blunt force greed, may move the Combine out of Indy. It reminded me of the 1997 Federation GA in Indy; the convention hotel is attached to Colts stadium & I saw players from this game:
pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/1997…

86.18/ In honor of #InternationalWomensDay here's my list from 2021 of women on twitter who I enjoy reading. I'll add to it when I can.

I should also add @CypessSM, Prof. Sandra Cypess, who raised me to be a feminist. I hope she thinks it happened.

86.18b/ The names in my #IWD list below are:
@Teri_Kanefield
@HC_Richardson
@AlexandraErin
@TheRaDR
@RVAwonk
@docrocktex26
@Delafina777
@eveewing
@Quinnae_Moon
@gwensnyderPHL
@magi_jay
@JoyAnnReid
@AshaRangappa_
@MJB_SF
@CZEdwards
& BE"H soon more

86.18c/ Thread with my 2022 #IWD recommendations for women to read & follow on twitter.

86.17/ Mazal Tov to my sister-in-law @LeahCypess on becoming a Nebula finalist for "Thornwood"!
leahcypess.com/books/thornwoo…

86.18/ According to Ezekiel, Hakadosh Barukh Hu has a plushie of one of these attached to the side window of the Merkava [citation needed]

86.19/ I added a "yimach shemo" to the end of TFG's name because of the family separations at the border. I'm very glad that Biden & congressional Democrats have attempted to reverse the crimes against humanity perpetrated in my country's name.

86.20/ Very much true about these wicked "anti-trans" laws.


It's one of my social science mottos: power is people. Only the #literalist mindset thinks words on paper have meaning.

86.21/ This would make an excellent T-shirt, with that caption

86.22/ TBH, this version is pretty good.

86.23/ Not speculation, actual experience: around 0. I've been specifically targeted by at least two cult-leaders b/c they knew I was a threat to their plans. It's the silver lining to being a truculent non-conformist, which normally brings social scorn.

86.24/ This is a really great thread. My kind of chaos.

A list of companies that tried to steal valor and claim they support women but who were exposed for inequitable pay.

86.25/ "Knight Rider" is on Netflix and there's a button to skip the intro? What monster would do that?!

86.26/ Surely there can be a middle ground between South Korea & Peru - where acc. to this thread, every single president has been arrested/jailed after their term - and the USA where Nixon (pardon), GWBush (war crimes/torture), DJT (ya know) walked free.

86.27/ Finally, baseball is back. Naturally, I supported the the players but I was especially confident given that new Met "Mad" Max Scherzer is a union leader. Why? Because he clearly wants to play which & that added heft to his criticism of the owners
nytimes.com/2022/03/10/spo…

86.28/ This is extraordinary! A frum ParaOlympian who wears a skirt and is Shomeret Shabbat.

Sheina Vaspi from Israel is a Chabad athlete. This is Dati-Leumi to the highest degree. Yasher Kocheich (figuratively & literally)
timesofisrael.com/israels-first-…
&
nytimes.com/2022/03/11/spo…

86.29/ In honor of #Vayikra here's a thread from 2 years ago about the concept of sacrifices.


BTW, I don't think our current "civilization" would reject animal sacrifice; many people I know would find it very significant (see: Kaparos, Tashlich)

86.30a/ #ChochmatNashim part 1, #Vayikra
5780 Tammy Jacobowitz blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-need-of-wis…
5781 Jennifer Raskas blogs.timesofisrael.com/talking-across…
5781 JOFA Shira Billet blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-profundity…
Hamizrachi
drive.google.com/file/d/18AOiPo…
pgs. 5, 7, 8. 16, 21, 24

86.30b/ #ChochmatNashim p2, #Zakhor & #Purim
5779 Leibowitz blogs.timesofisrael.com/does-the-book-…
5780 White blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-possibilit…
5780 Raskas blogs.timesofisrael.com/taking-control…
5781 JOFA) Honeyman blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-had-a-miscar…
5782 Starr blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-bother-wit…
5782 JOFA) Novak blogs.timesofisrael.com/finding-meanin…

86.31/ Because it's Shabbat #Zakhor, here's a link to a thread about one way to understand #Amalek in our time (from 2018, redone in 2020)

86.32/ I agree with this assessment mainly because that's how America was when I was a teenager (in the 80s).

86.33/ One of the only silver linings to cryptomoola is that only criminals and/or the aggressively ignorant (Putin is evidently both) will depend on it and thus get easily nabbed given how resource dependent the scam is

86.34/ Very well said, re: why we've been saying every election is the "most important." From me: Because (a) they have been! We're in a global civil war! & (b) because when the dilettantes sit out an election, things get horribly worse: 2000, 2010, 2016

86.34b/ Follow-up: this is why you elect Democrats.

86.35/ This is when the screenwriter gets lazy and telegraphs the message (which has been happening constantly since 2016, right??)

86.36/ Yes: "You can help make trans kids happy & healthy or you can help make trans kids miserable & isolated. You cannot make trans kids cis."

The other side claims being LBGTQ is merely a choice; that's how they "justify" terrorizing & hurting kids.

86.37/ Gotta appreciate a well struck delivery of receipts.

86.38/ This is the heart of Zionism. To deny our need to have a safe haven is to deny the facts of Jewish history (and our pain).

86.39/ Oh... oh my

86.40/ This is long overdue. There's no legitimate use for cryptomoola PLUS it actively ruins the environment and causes critical shortages of high tech equipment. Let's end the aggressive nonsense.

86.41/ How else do they learn?

86.42/ Excellent point

86.43/ Last early Shabbos of the season; please stay safe everyone. #ShabbatShalom

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