Thread by @JoshuaCypess

91.01/ Week ninety-one, April 9-15, 2022, thread begins here. (Third attempt)

Week 90 below.

91.02/ This is awful, tragic news to read right after Shabbas. How horrible. My deep condolences to the Haskins family.

91.03/ Rangers clinch! Awesome! [Insert #NYR goal chant here]

91.04/ Catching up after Shabbas about the weird #Mets news from yesterday. Personally, I don't think the Nationals pitchers are trying to hit us, I think they're just bad. #LGM
Last night:

Tonight:

91.05/ But a Pete Alonso grand slam is a nice way to start the week! #LGM

91.06/ #Passover prep, a download of a kitchen-koshering guide from Artscroll (PDF, 35 pages)
parshasheets.com/newsletter/gui…

91.07/ Netflix informed me today is my joining anniversary but they say it's only since 2001 and I distinctly remember joining them at least in 1999 when there was a collaboration with UMN. My nerd cred is at stake!
interestingengineering.com/the-fascinatin…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GroupLens…

91.08/ I mentioned that when I am under the weather I lose my internal monologue and it goes external. I was misheard as saying "turtle monologue" and now we're improving what that would be like on stage. #PesachCleaningHijinks

91.09/ Why does a windows keyboard even posses these buttons that hijack your computer if you press 'em by mistake. I'm looking at you F1, and don't get me started on the goofy "windows key"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_k…

91.10/ Shopping for afikoman gifts (books) and went through a wild adventure examining "Yiddish for Pirates" and it's a bit too expensive for a lark and there's this review:
"After a while, a parrot speaking Yiddish is more boring than you'd think"
smile.amazon.com/Yiddish-Pirate…

91.11/ It me.

91.12/ I agree with this, especially highlighting "short-term thinking" because it really is. They want to win the day and they often use money not for luxury but for keeping score.

91.13/ This is very true and overlooked: that the standard voice in the MSM is presumed to be white. Is it just casual, institutional racism or is it knowing recognition of who their preferred audience is. Catering entirely to people they presume are power

91.14/ Setting aside the misguided "Framers" worship, they very well knew what tyranny looked like - it's a common human condition in all recorded history - and wrote the Constitution accordingly. H*wley & his ilk crave the crown & pine for a King George

91.15/ #NachasAlert: My eldest got into the college of his choice and just accepted! And on Friday he passed his driving test. He worked so hard, over all these COVID years and before, to make it to these milestones and I'm so proud of him.

91.16/ #Passover downloads (B"N I'll try to put all of these scattered links in a thread before Yom Tov). This is from Dr. Jeremy Brown's Talmudology @talmudology blog (re: Torah & science):
talmudology.com/jeremybrownmdg…

91.17/ The essay @frumfollies references is so skin-crawlingly creepy that I'm dumbstruck that Dr. Marcus felt it exonerated her gross behavior instead of implicating her & JOFA in indefensible treatment of "Sarah."

91.18/ I kinda agree

91.19/ In addition to 91.17 above, see this below. JOFA needs to do teshuva.

91.20/ Re: 91.19 & 91.17 about the burgeoning JOFA scandal, a thread with some of my ideas for how we as a community can hold the perpetrators accountable.

91.21/ "Why the heck did I put this in the freezer in the first place??" A #Pesach cleaning story.

And it's exciting sequel: "Well, I guess I have to eat it now"

91.22/ Case study in how a schlimazel is that way because they're actually schlemihls
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlemiel

91.23/ They key is that they are very good at taking marching orders. They crave doing so. That's where they demand consistency.

91.24/ Not a lawyer, but this sounds like it could work to at least expose the 'shadow docket' and it's undemocratic seizure of power.

91.25/ Left-handedness is a very important model for understanding what's an inherent disability and societally imposed one.

91.26/ Excellent.

91.27/ Someone described #MoonKnight as Oscar Isaac blurting out "Cor Blimey!" for a straight hour and it's pretty accurate.

91.28/ I forget if I sent this out last week, but who cares I'll send it out again because it makes me happy. #JusticeKetanjiBrownJackson

91.29/ I agree with this wholeheartedly. That's why as an Orthodox Jew I'm also a liberal. It's not only a matter of ethics (I can list chapter & verse, masechet & amud, siman & se'if for why) but also as a matter of self-preservation.

91.30/ I love this.

91.31/ I agree with both these points and have said them for a long time, re: that actually Barrett was DJT's first choice for SCOTUS.



It's what I called the Bragg Principle:

91.32/ #Pesach

The reason some Seders go very long:

91.33/ The visual "yanny/laurel" case.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanny_or_…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
For real, on my phone it's gold & on my laptop it's blue (probably because I have an anti-blue filter...)

91.34/ Fact check: true.

It's the pattern in nearly every fascist takeover; the moneyed elite think they can control the populist demagogue and they NEVER CAN. They're greedy and addicted and act like all addicts.

91.35/ I took the bait, yes. But the country that pogrom'd & expelled Jews because of Passover shouldn't be allowed to practice genteel antisemitism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o…
(Look, I get it, English food is so bad it *could* be pesadik.)

91.36/ Excellent answer:

To this question:

#Pesach #Passover #CharoestLife

91.37/ Does. Not. Compute.

91.38/ Sigh. @HellcatBruce is right.

These types he describes are extremists and I've learned (2000 was my big lesson, for my parents it was 1968) that they give lip-service to liberal goals but aren't there for the long fight.

91.39/ OMG I love this!

[My son quipped: I wonder if Rashi released his work with the Daf Yomi cycle?]

91.40/ My son and I, the comics folk in this house, were talking about which character deserves their own MCU show and after tossing around joke ideas (Dr. Druid! MODOK!) for real we think Deathlok deserves a long series.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathlok

91.41/ Yes. Yes it is.

91.42/ This is a cursed trifecta.

91.43/ A thread about the question I was asked about food aversions on #Pesach. #Passover is unavoidably about food, so these questions are central to the holiday.

91.43b/ I like how there are 4 emoji cups of wine in the above Passover post. Serendipity... or is it?

91.44/ Yes, this is very important. Doctor-patient confidentiality is necessary not only out of "ethics" but because of public health! It's super dangerous to make people scared of medical treatment.

91.45/ Life as an "out of town" frum guy: having to explain to your boss - public school admin in my case - what Sukkot is, that I'm not making it up and then dread having to explain Shemini Atzeret.

(Hint: US tolerance of diversity helps us do mitzvot)

91.46/ It was a rare piece of fun to have Melon Usk get bounced from the Twitter board after he failed the ethics/background check. It's good when petards get hoisted in front of the whole world.
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91.47/ This, all told and above everything, is why I have exclusively been playing the Lego games on our PS4. No killing, no blood, just painless destruction and the satisfaction of gulping down yummy lego-stud-money.

91.48/ Same in my Jewish lifetime.

To have such power - the vote - and then throw it away when so many things need to get better, all the time? Anyone who suggests to not vote demonstrates toxic egotistical privilege.

91.49/ These were very nice comments and feedback about the #DisabilityHalakha #Pesach thread. Glad to be available to help.

91.50/ Two threads about my initial response to the JOFA scandal, as seen here:

First, my conversation with @frumfollies, responding to his criticism:

Second, a further refinement of my 1st attempt.

91.51/ Is there a Yiddish word for the warm nostalgic feeling you get when seeing the special flatware your family uses only on #Pesach - special colored plates, weirdly designed forks & knives - and/or the food you only eat for those 7/8 days. FruitSliceSchmertz?

91.52/ For #Passover #quinoa fans out there, the Bud Light commercial where people do crazy superstitious things to support their NFL team:

[Dialogue]
Man 1: "What is that? A loofah?"
Man 2: [Putting a quinoa burger on a grill] "It's a kween-oh!"]

91.53/ The 5782-2022 #Passover signs we're using. I print the KFP on blue paper, the chametz on red. I found the original images randomly online. Font is Maiandra GD

91.54/ #ChochmatNashim for #Pesach
OLP
5782 blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-is-abraha…
5781 blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-did-moses-…
5779 blogs.timesofisrael.com/without-the-wi…
JOFA
5781 blogs.timesofisrael.com/finding-comfor…
5781 blogs.timesofisrael.com/pesachim-and-p…
Hamizrachi
drive.google.com/file/d/1QxNeox…
pg 5, 7, 8, 16, 21, 24

91.55/ It's so close to Shabbos, to Yuntif, to the Seder [cue panicked cooking & prep] so I will end this thread now. Stay safe everyone, have a great #Pesach and #ShabbatShalom & Chag Kasher v'Sameach

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