Thread by @JoshuaCypess

74.01/ Week seventy-four, Dec. 11-17, 2021, thread here.

Week 73 below.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1467294869681020932

74.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. This week: Sneakers (1992) with Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Akroyd, really an amazing cast. Underrated film.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_…

74.03/ I can see having more than one of these surrounding me in my library if I lived in days of yore.

(reposting the pic to ensure alt-text)

https://twitter.com/ProfHindman/status/1469739964019748873

74.04/ Informative (heh) thread for those who may be unfamiliar with #Nitl and need cultural competency during the "Hol-li-day" season (Holl-li-day, accent on first syllable, means Nitl).

https://twitter.com/JewWhoHasItAll/status/1470255637355544578?s=20

74.05/ She's definitely a hero in my book. (And I hope this doesn't get milkshake-ducked... we need humanitarian heroes)

https://twitter.com/PeterCronau/status/1470246514416967683?s=20

74.06/ This is so odd: someone made a 'genealogy' for Serach bat Asher (including her mother, unmentioned in Tanakh) yet they claim she's deceased?! How do you care that much about her but nullify her most important stat-line: a well-earned eternal life!?
geni.com/people/Serah/6…

74.07/ Art:

https://twitter.com/astrobassball/status/1469482125770604549?s=20

74.08/ My entire computer apparatus is going haywire today (and recently, I think the internet has gotten increasingly predatory and dysfunctional over the past few years and it's deteriorating geometrically). I'll try to wrap up this week's writing soon.

74.09/ (From Sunday)

This was a great demonstration of respect all around.

https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1470139359097765889

74.10/ First Bond I saw in the theater so I have rose- colored nostalgia spex, but any movie that can have genuine tension about a hero in a clown suit saving the world is filled with skilled necromancy.

https://twitter.com/LouisatheLast/status/1470573392738803714?s=20

74.11/ Why Twitter is fun, exhibit eleventy-billion (Simon is the famed creator of the "Wire" and if a narrative is too abstruse for him... well, it's beyond salvation)

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1470518670149488642

74.12/ Han Solo showing up at the end of Star Wars to help Luke:

https://twitter.com/lightsabrqueen/status/1470494707612635141?s=20

74.13/ This is good praxis:

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1470887169984282629

74.14/ As a - please God, future - member of Beit Hillel, my test would just have one question. And I promise: no measuring rods near your head

https://twitter.com/ShammaiIntl/status/1471584528254869516

74.15/ This is so beautiful [crying]. I must remember it.

https://twitter.com/ymercado/status/1471400097086787584?s=20

74.16/ Excellent Torah on #Vayechi here:

https://twitter.com/cholentface/status/1471596801090277387?s=20

74.17/ 100%.

(OTOH, Sadly many of the scofflaws/scoff-science I know who got COVID actually didn't suffer too much and I think it's related: they think they're more invulnerable than they actually are)

https://twitter.com/fortesalatifi/status/1471188198797627393?s=20

74.18/ This blew my mind and I excitedly told my wife who proceeded to tell me that she already knew because she read the literature that accompanied the Foreman grill (yes, we're both academics, why do you ask?)

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1471662711012397057?s=20

74.19/ Oh my, yes. I mean, it just seamlessly fits into Jewish simchas, it's almost bashert.

https://twitter.com/_nishei_/status/1471650273915461636?s=20

74.20/ I take Dr. Brett's word seriously (and I won't traumatize myself reading about the evidence). Add another famous slimeball to the list.

https://twitter.com/QueenMab87/status/1471623035987894274?s=20

74.21/ No question that I prefer my science both substantive and whimsical.

https://twitter.com/sternbergh/status/1471585971028254728?s=20

74.22/ This news, plus the FDA abortion-pill decision, helped defray some of the creeping dread. I'll take the wins wherever and whenever we can get them.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1471646333970825218?s=20

74.23/ This comment and it's follow-up encapsulate something I've been saying for a while, especially the comparison to armchair sports-experts.

1)

https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/1471458472483082251?s=20

2)

https://twitter.com/bwreed/status/1471460342085693441?s=20

74.24/ Spot-on! Anyone who claims the Democrats have 'done nothing' aren't sharing my universe of perceptions. The perfect is the enemy of the good, but also: IMO the cranks think that "chaos will inevitably create liberation" and that's terribly wrong.

https://twitter.com/QueenMab87/status/1471465236045742081?s=20

74.25/ Yes the Onion but then Not The Onion. The fascist-GOP is a parody of themselves.

https://twitter.com/thor_benson/status/1471186700688887812?s=20

74.26/ Putting this up here (thanks Tema) because I cited it to my family and they couldn't imagine it. But, yes, this kind of aggressive ignorance is all around us.

https://twitter.com/temasmith/status/1471298423055949828?s=20

74.27/ OK, gotta go, Shabbas is very close. Stay safe everyone! Omicron is no joke. #ShabbatShalom

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