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8 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
A thing that regularly cracks me up about Jewish prayer is how much of it is respectability politics--

--inflicted on God.

Freal there's a whole MASS of Jewish prayers that are basically "If you let bad stuff happen to us, other peoples will think you're bad at being God."
the number of times I've been unable to control the giggles as people skate right past that "for the sake of Your Name" stuff
forgive us for the SAKE OF YOUR NAME or what will people think of you and just to be clear, whatever they will think is going to be on you, not on us, because it's not like we didn't warn you
just sayin'

anyway also it hasn't rained in a bit and we're sick of hauling water so some rain would be nice if you're not too busy

if we all die out in the drought it's not gonna look very good for you, huh
I AM NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP IT'S LIKE IN HALF OF THE PSALMS

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9 Dec
I bought this book purely because of the blurb, which is funny because I worked in publishing and know not to trust blurbs.

But "a primal scream of a book" is both the sort of blurb I'd write for someone and the blurb I would most want, so.

amazon.com/Iron-Widow-Xir…
but seriously, don't trust blurbs

I've been asked to ghostwrite a lot of blurbs

including a time when the publisher asked me to ghostwrite a blurb for a book I HAD WORKED ON in the name of a famous person who was like "sure, write something about your own book & sign my name"
should also note: I bought the book because of the blurb, which I don't recommend because blurbs are bullshit

I PICKED IT UP in the first place because of the cover.
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8 Dec
Thread, up and down.

And a few things to add:

Ajit is absolutely right about how often there are fuckups on credit pages. I’m missing plenty of dev and writing credits I should have, and have a handful I shouldn’t. It can hurt to discover you’re left out or miscredited!
And it absolutely sucks if, for whatever reason, you really need that credit.

Companies need to act quickly—update digital files immediately, issue a public apology and correction, & make sure it’s corrected in the current print run if there’s still time—and pay the change fee
—and make sure future print runs are corrected if it’s already been printed.

I mean, were it me, I’d also probably send the person left out an apology card and some cookies to address the personal hurt as well as the professional harm.
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8 Dec
so, btw, since we've gotten to the point where companies are actually hiring cultural consultants/sensitivity readers instead of being like "what? why would we pay money for that?"

be wary of individuals and small companies claiming to be one-stop shops
like, look, let me be very clear:

this is not a hard and fast thing--it's a red flag to *investigate.*
10 years ago we were in a place of "omg please get SOMEONE who's not a straight white cis dude to read through your shit" and look, that IS usually helpful
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8 Dec
Getting real tired of Twitter gamers' pretended ignorance of how companies work so they can go after whichever dev--usually a marginalized person, how weird! I'm sure that's purely coincidental!--they perceive as being available to them.
like, no one here believes that harassing whichever dev or community manager has to fucking announce a thing is going to change one iota of how a company operates

you have 15 fucking years of data about how they don't give a shit about their employees being harassed
y'all want to yell at someone, preferably a woman, so why bother taking 2 seconds to actually email the company? why bother looking up the names of the execs, let alone contact info for anyone C-level when there's a woman RIGHT THERE to mob?
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7 Dec
Yup, here's the thing that gets me. If thousands and thousands of women are telling you that a procedure hurts, "the cervix doesn't have pain receptors so you're not feeling pain" isn't actually a logical or helpful response.

They ARE feeling pain, or they wouldn't be saying so
Maybe current medical science is wrong, and it DOES have pain receptors but they don't look like what we recognize.

Or, more likely, maybe the way doctors currently do these procedures is tripping pain receptors in some other tissue.
(And sorry, I keep automatically thinking "people at gyno office" = "women" but there are also people who experience this who aren't women--sorry.)
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30 Nov
okay, I was not aware of the Hanukkah-Judith connection, but a few minutes of googling have brought me to the realization that it is very much A Thing and I have images to share (this August Riedel painting is only here so the first tweet has an image):
Okay, so first we have this image I already retweeted of a 19th century Italian hanukkiah, from the Jewish Museum, with a gloriously tits-out Judith brandishing Holofernes's head and standing atop two lions 11/10 need a replica
Here's an 18th century one from the Eldridge Street Museum.

4/10--not really comfortable with the halo, not enough knives, but the cherubim are fun
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