38.03/ The wisdom/motivation of changing the name associated with your group depends on who gave the name in the first place.
If the majority imposed the original name: understandable way to reframe stigma
If you chose the original name: you're not fooling anybody prunes
38.04/ My kids tell me that the vaccine is called a "Fauci Ouchie" and I love that.
I bless you all to receive your Fauci-Ouchie soon, in good health.
38.05/ I really want this to be true
How it can be: I was gifted a t-shirt from China & was told it said "People of the Book." Later, my friend told me the shirt actually just said "Book" (BTW, his holding back laughter was gold). IMO, the OP is plausible
38.06/ Nice. This 7th inning is revenge by the #Mets for last night's error laden meltdown that ruined yet another scintillating DeGrom start
38.07/ Two very good articles from Magdi Semrau from Alternet, which I receive from my subscription to the Stoehr "Editorial Board" - one of my favorite reads of the week. I highly recommend Stoehr's work, and Semrau's stoehr.substack.com alternet.org/author/magdise…
38.08/ I will endeavor, when I reprimand/scold/chide/whatever someone on their use of a bigoted term/concept/trope, to quickly provide them with a easily usable alternative.
I will thus also need to quickly devise a set of actually useful alternatives ASAP.
38.09/ Read this last night and said "This is profound and I need to spend time thinking about it" and that holds even more given today is #YomHaShoah
38.10/ I enjoy Twitter and read it for news & all forms of education. But the fact that people are afraid to post about #YomHaShoah because they'll get dogpiled by enthusiastic & cruel N*zis demonstrates that the website is built on flawed principles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_o…
38.11/ Brilliant line and important thread about fascist propaganda and the assault on voting rights: "disinformation offers permission, not persuasion"
38.12/ New book from my sister-in-law @LeahCypess!
"Thornwood, is told from the point of view of Sleeping Beauty’s little sister, and is going to kick off a series of retellings, called Sisters Ever After, about “the sisters the fairy tales left out.”" tor.com/2021/04/07/fai…
38.13/ Today begins the modern Jewish history week, between #YomHaShoah and #YomHaAtzmaut, which is when I recommend reading "Faith & Destiny" by Rav J.B. Soloveitchik.
(It's #5 in my list of books every Jew should read, see thread below:)
38.14/ This is a good entry in the most recent Twitter Humor Template.
(I wonder if there's a record of this somewhere because certain jokes travel through the meme-stream, live like mayflies and then become passé in just a few days)
38.15/ Wrote this last year. It still holds. We've played 3.5 games and we've left about ten thousand guys on base in scoring position. Did we back the team bus over a witch's bicycle or something?
38.18/ Strong agree. The fight still goes on, the brutes are fighting hard to regain power, but we won this round and we can enjoy the ability to right the wrongs
38.19/ An excellent distillation of the proper attitude in fighting the dangerous kooks: don't out argue them (which is your paradigm), out power them (which is the paradigm they understand)
38.22/ Time to pull up the rug on this week. I had a successful second trip to the Meadowlands, thanks to @sthorntonflute!, and that took some time away.
227.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #ChayeiSara 5784 2023 (LAST YEAR) @ChochmatNashim.
Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars. 19 pages. #ChayaSara #ChayeiSarah
227.03/ The first time through the cruel & stupid Trump (ym'sh) circus I read the news with trepidation because I didn't know what terrible thing he'd do next. This time, I read the news with contempt & anger because the MSM helped elect him and wants him to succeed.
225.02/ Finally dropped off our ballots this morning & took a selfie. A fun thing then happened: a young dad carrying a baby arrived after us & he said that it was his first time voting after becoming a citizen! So I insisted on taking a photo of him (with his camera). USA! USA!
225.03/ Yes, I'm the one who waited all Shabbas for the poll, taught my kids how polls work (social science PhD, baby) & what I hoped would happen (GOP leading by only 5). And they got to see my stunned elation in real time when I read the news.
224.02/ There's sticker shock and then there's "standing on the bathroom scale after 3 three-day yuntifs and 2 major fasts over 3 weeks" sticker shock.
224.03/ BTW, Trump (ym"sh) abd the MAGA-GOP going completely mask-off with racist nativism was very much on my BINGO card.
223.02/ Downside of "October is the Best Sports Month" - mixed blessing really - is that at 8pm tonight 3 of my teams will be on at the same time. NYMets facing elimination, #LIGHTITUPNYL in the last game of the finals, and the Steelers on SNF.
223.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Vezot #SimchatTorah #SheminiAtzeret 2023-5784 (LAST YEAR). @ChochmatNashim
Downloadable PDF with working links with Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the topics of the week. 23 Pages drive.google.com/file/d/1pQso-a…
222.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Sukkot 5784 2023 (LAST YEAR) @ChochmatNashim.
Downloadable PDF with Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the holiday & other weekly topics. 15 pages. drive.google.com/file/d/154AH4_…
222.03/ Another October sports is awesome moment: Mets playoffs, Yankees playoffs, Monday night football plus the #NYR at home. Pretty much all at the same time.