77.05/ This observation & comment are totally correct (i.e. the inherent eugenics in wanting to "get back to normal" which involves sacrificing certain people because of an implicit hierarchy of human value):
77.07/ Good page explaining what's now in public domain in 20222 and also the laws/rules for what and why. I learned a lot. web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdom…
77.08/ Great thread by the always informative @drskyskull about a very early DnD book: Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes (1976), the proto-Deities & Demigods. And, BONUS, I was able to find it online!
77.09/ It feels like the early pandemic days rn despite multiple vax & therapies b/c (a) we're concerned abt. the health care system being overwhelmed & (b) nobody is cutting anyone any slack.
Individually we can help w/both: please be kind & if you can, reduce optional exposure
77.10/ Seeing how many people are saying Biden has done nothing, even saying "TFG gave us checks" (um, via Pelosi you mean?), I can understand why the Jan 6 Committee is waiting until an election year to expose the crimes: people have seriously short memories.
77.11/ Schmoozed about this very topic at our Shabbas table Friday night! It's part of my rolling series explaining how to understand Midrash that I teach my kids - esp. when they come from school with a goofy vort that requires taking Midrash literally.
77.12/ All of us have the galloping cold/flu/COVID that's running around & it's tough logging our symptoms & medication. Rapid COVID test was neg. & PCR test via pediatrician will take 10 days (next to useless, but the system is overwhelmed & I'm trying not to contribute to that)
77.13/ Reupping story about the MSM bothsiding distortions: Computer analysis shows that "Biden’s press for the past four months has been as bad as — and for a time worse than — the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
77.14/ Learned a lot from this thread (and its referents) re: the original Founders' ideas about the USA and how it changed over time.
77.15/ Uploaded an updated version of my #plague chart (from my #ReshetKeshet#Haggadah) that illustrates the patterns of the first 9. Pay special attention to the word pattern in heart-hardening (H = God, P = Pharaoh, K=Chaza*k*, D=Kavei*d*) academia.edu/67305674/Plagu…
77.16/ I forget if I RT'd this glorious picture of a real-life library that looks like @neilhimself's library in the Dreaming. Very similar to my favorite place as a kid: the AD White Reading Room at Cornell.
77.17/ Missed the #Knicks win, what's being called an "instant classic" because I was putting 3 kids to bed. It's "l'fum tzara agra" - the more I lose out, the bigger the Mitzvah. But the ending looked amazing!
77.18/ First #SnowDay of 2022. We're all in various stages of sick - negative COVID, but it turns out the other viruses/streptocockles were feeling left out so in they came - so we will stay hunkered down for Shabbas.
77.20b/ Rule by decree is a hallmark of a fundamentally unjust system, seen in monarchies and of course dictatorships. It's the ideology of the "Daas Torah" system. IMO it's anti-halachic. It also inevitably leads to horrors like #Walder and COVID-denial.
77.21/ Dear medicine manufacturers: please give an (adult) liquid/chewable option for all OTC meds. Tylenol did it!
- Signed, Disability Researcher
77.22/ Adventures in antibiotics: it's a world saving medicine, I know, but it also torpedoes my stomach into smithereens, which in turn nerfs all my other medication because they're absorbed through - that's right - my stomach.
77.23/ We've seen the cynical criticism that the US (which means the Democratic led House) only gave their citizens a 1400 check, or some other calumny, but the truth is otherwise. It wasn't as much as I think we needed, but it was relatively robust:
77.27/ It's stuff like this that makes me grudgingly acknowledge that exaggerated villain backstories in B-movies are closer to real life than I knew. CJ Roberts abetting the AIDS epidemic? Check. Kavanaugh pushing Clinton impeachment? Check.
77.28/ I think this thread is correct. While the phrase "unskilled workers" is likely an insult warped by the culture wars, there is a necessary distinction for how easy some workers can be replaced and why, thus, unions are crucial to protect them.
77.29/ I've been having terrible trouble with @threadreaderapp - the website seems to be down constantly - and it's especially frustrating during a week when I've been laid up with strep/flu/locusts. Sorry for the intermittent writing; I had a lot more to say.
77.30/ Please stay safe everyone, it's especially crazy out there now (and on the bird site). And be as generous to others as you are able. We're all suffering.
192.02/ So today is #ZayinAdar and Saint Patrick's Day during Ramadan. What could go wrong?
192.03/ There's a resonance in having a fast that commemorates a community sacrifice for soldiers fighting a defensive war against raging antisemites. #TaanitEsther
191.02/ Last #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight of the season. How to top last week, and with a movie my youngest hasn't seen yet? "Fletch (1985)" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(f…
191.03/ I agree with Prof. Simkovich, re: the Oscar guy.
Also, I see people wrestling to make sense of his convoluted phrasing, but I'm not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to a declaration that inherently refuses to give others the same benefit.
190.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues, 2 weeks left before we change the clocks so climbing to the finale. It's "Raising Arizona (1987)" night! I don't need to explain how great it is, right? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_A…
190.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Vayakhel #Pekudei 5783 (last year; this year it's Vayakhel-Shekalim)
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Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women on the parsha and other weekly Torah. drive.google.com/file/d/1FLeFk2…
189.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. Tonight, the sequel to Knives Out: "Glass Onion (2022)." Both movies are great and this one has one of the best portrayals of the vibe of the pandemic/2020. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Oni…
189.03/ Watching the Mets preseason game, listening to Gary and Ron in the booth... that's the first sign of Spring in my house. What a joy. #LGM
188.02/ #MotzeiShabbasMovieNight this week was "The Freshman (1990)" - a very underrated comedy - because my oldest was home for Shabbas and he is a first year in college. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fresh…
188.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Tetzaveh 5783 (last year) (#Zachor & #Purim in there as well).
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Downloadable PDF with working links of shiurim by Orthodox women on the parsha and other Torah of the week. drive.google.com/file/d/165ZPnh…
187.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues: Spiderverse 2 (I refuse to learn the minor variations of the titles they apply to all the Spiderman movies just to annoy me) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Ma…
187.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Mishpatim 5784 (A few days late; please don't sue, it was my ox's fault)
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Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. drive.google.com/file/d/1O-XNKM…