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@JoshuaCypess
Jan 2, 2022 • 31 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
77.01/ Week seventy-seven, Jan. 1-7, 2022, thread here.

Week 76 below.
77.02/ #HappyNewYear everyone. We're having a socially distanced party, just the nuclear family, at home. Happy to survive a year of the pandemic.
77.03/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. Saved my favorite movie for a party night:

Jake and Elwood... The Blues Brothers.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blues…
77.04/ Happy New Year, indeed! Bye bye to a pernicious brute

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):

&
77.06/ Thread about why many famous comedians crash and burn later in their careers

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!

americanroads.us/DandD/ODnD_God…
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.


cornell.edu/tour/ADWhiteRe…
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.
77.19/ Barukh Dayan ha-Emet, #SidneyPoitier passes away. He was a real hero.

77.20/ cw: a bunch

The response by the Haredi community to #Walder's crimes is a Sandy Hook moment: a time of testing that, once failed, is a damning point of no return.

That's what a Yom Ha-Din does (see my 2019 thread):
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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_by_d…
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:
77.24/ Art? Yes. Art.

See here for why:

(and I feel great that I blocked that schmo a while ago)
77.25/ For those who wonder how Pharaoh could harden his heart after suffering from the self same plagues that afflicted his people. #Bo #Parsha

77.26/ I agree with this thread, especially this leadership point:
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.

#ShabbatShalom!

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229.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues with Argo (2012), the rare winner of a best picture Oscar that's also re-watchable.
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228.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-eight, November 23-29, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 227 below.
228.02/ Fundamentally, a plurality want a minority to do all the work but get no reward while they do very little work & get all the reward. The only system that will get close to that - liberal Democracy - gives too much to people the plurality hates, so they vote for fantasies.
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Week 224 below.
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!
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