Thread by @JoshuaCypess

41.01/ Week Forty-one, April 24-30, 2021, thread begins here.

Week 40, April 17-23 2021, linked below:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1384155408827240450

41.02/ From last night, re: #JoshFight2021. I claim victory by dint of the battle being on Shabbas. Then again, on Shabbas I could be Hanokh.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1386166252759130112?s=20

41.03/ A thread about an important episode I experienced that demonstrates what higher education is about, to me.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1387068259929833478

41.04/ As @mattbc describes, this attitude is child abuse and quite pervasive among adults about themselves. I don't get it, but it's likely connected to anti-science/pro-naturalist solipsism. Or just aggressive egotism.

https://twitter.com/mattbc/status/1378840538321915908?s=20

41.05/ This illustrates an important cultural overlap of academia and journalism; an acknowledged culture of accuracy at all costs.

https://twitter.com/AndrewChamings/status/1383121721750818818

41.06/ BD"E, Gen. Michael Collins has passed away. Former Pres. Nixon has some thoughtful reminisces on Collins and the Apollo 11 mission:

https://twitter.com/dick_nixon/status/1387448935220973576?s=03

41.07/ I first encountered this genre in 9th grade - I had to write an essay about someone who influenced me - & instinctively wrote comedic fiction of a psycho teacher.

My mood was & continues to be: my life is my business to share on my terms.

https://twitter.com/chunkbardey/status/1387146414791274504?s=20

41.08/ I mentioned before how DietCoke tastes like gas-station generic cola, but I have a theory as to why it remains popular: it has way more caffeine than Coke Zero or even Classic.

Zero/Classic: 34mg/12oz

Gas Station Crud: 46mg/12oz!

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1377294913407180802?s=20

41.09a/ Antimaskers are so resistant to minor sacrifices that they're asked to endure so to benefit society & for the safety of others b/c they often just hate diversity & hate compassion. This is the background for why the same people reject disability accommodations.

41.09b/ Because accommodating others would mean modifying the rigidly structured majority society they've created that functions as their own 'accommodations'!

This, in turn, makes disability accommodations so *necessary* for others, yet often unattainable.

41.10/ Woo boy, this thread. I guess it's good to know when something evil exists that it's from actual malice aforethought and not pure negligence.

https://twitter.com/MercurialMiss/status/1386856858338697216?s=03

41.11/ "Twitter is designed to help the bad people more than the good" in play, again. I'm hoping that the bad-faith methods of Big Tech get exposed so we can clean them up and have healthy media to use. They're too essential to let the brutes reign.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1387792639773265921?s=20

41.12/ Sweet. [Insert, as well, the epic "sowing vs. reaping" tweet]

https://twitter.com/ZackFord/status/1386816540310482950?s=20

41.13/ This goes in the Reply Guy hall of fame, no?

https://twitter.com/Caulimovirus/status/1386544142386335746

41.14/ It's a variation of Dunning-Kruger. In this case, their love is based on a (bigoted) mythology of the USA, and that (bigotry) myth is central to their identity.

Facts are deeply threatening to people who crave self-identity through crafted fiction.

https://twitter.com/plmanseau/status/1386797023345745922?s=03

41.15/ Nice set of photos. Looking at the dates, April 26, 1945 was 13 Iyyar 5705, and Lag B'Omer was May 1st.
hebcal.com/hebcal/?year=1…

https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1386800223545184263?s=03

41.16/ As I said in 41.09, these anti-mask psychos demand rigid accommodations from everyone in order to maintain their fragile, and misanthropic, worldview

https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1386861874407485442

41.17/ These gender reveal parties are getting out of hand [this is a joke]

https://twitter.com/Browns/status/1387780927326244867

41.18/ At 7:30pm tonight: "Stories of Jewish Musicians and their Contemporaries in Early Modern Europe" - concert by "Incantare" (violins, sackbut, & organ) and lectures by Drs. Liza Malamut and (my wife) Rebecca Cypess. See here for links to live video:
nysbaroque.com/exile-and-conn…

41.19/ 100% "If the abuser is welcome then the victim is not."

https://twitter.com/letsgoayo/status/1386707836802113538?s=03

41.20/ Nice way to discover this account. Good word too, but need to streamline it for the Go-Go-Twenties

https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1386602738117718017?s=20

41.21/ Throwback Friday for #LagBaomer, possibly the best picture ever taken of me, 1982 Haifa at a school celebration.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1131383228688998400?s=20

41.22/ I taught an important lesson to my son last night: I was convinced the #Steelers wouldn't take Harris (too old, too many carries) despite nearly every professional saying it was a done deal.

The lesson? I can be seriously wrong when I think I know more than I do.

41.23/ This looks like a very valuable guide to avoiding ableist language.

Thanks to the extraordinary @roryreckons, who I've only recently started following but have found worth reading.
autistichoya.com/p/ableist-word…

41.24a/ #ReshetKeshet; Emor is often used to suggest the Torah is against disabled Cohanim. IMO it's adarabba: these cohanim are given free food from the Mikdash without being made to work for it (see today's daf, Yoma 19a).

41.24b/ My theory is that If disabled Cohanim were available for the avoda, then those people would davka have been shunted away from society, hidden in the Mikdash. Instead, they're the ones who are made to represent Cohanim to the people, teaching & judging (see Lev. 10:11)

41.25/ #ShabbatShalom & #LagBaomer sameach everyone. Praying for #Meron as well, rachamana latzlan.

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