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@JoshuaCypess
Apr 3, 2022 • 59 tweets • 26 min read • Read on X
90.01/ Week ninety, April 2-8, 2022, thread begins here.

Week 89 below.
90.02/ Was not a fan of "Is it COVID or is it allergies or is it a cold" season the first two times and I can honestly say the third time is definitely not the charm.
90.03/ This is a really great thread, esp. re: translating vernacular thoughts into corporate-speak.

90.04/ I had a great "I'm such a YU guy" moment the other night. Schmoozing with a fellow rabbi at an event & he said he just got Rav Chaim's Haggadah and I was confused by the vortlach until I realized he meant Rav Kanievsky z'l & not the Brisker Rav.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Sol…
90.05/ Is there a term for "something they think is a flex but everyone else thinks is blinkered nonsense"? Like guys who brag about drinking until they pass out, or (what prompted this) some ascetic chumras for Pesach. Look, dude, the holiday is super hard as it is!
90.06/ This is evil.
90.07/ The Times sports coverage is almost ridiculously bad and this is just the icing on the cake. It's like they hate sports, that's how bad it is.


See this link for more about agate: onsports.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/aga…
90.08/ I wish I could pull this off but I'm so obviously a non-camper that I don't think I have enough chutzpah in my soul to generate it. But a guy can dream
90.09/ I live this. Sometimes I need to misspell a word two or three more times until it even recognizes what I was even TRYING to do
90.10/ While I don't go as far as this, I agree with the basic point that sanitizing violence makes it easier for people to choose violence, especially war.

My additional hot take is that movies teach people more than schools.
90.11/ Nice to be appreciated [smile].

BTW, I also can help with pepto-pills, which comes up nearly as often as my Tylenol.

90.12/ Actual Torah directed theocracy has so much mutual-aid and wealth-sharing that the overt sin that led to the destruction of the First Temple was abrogating the sabbatical year (#shemitta) & yovel. They're very hard but very necessary laws.
90.13/ This two tweet sequence needs greater engagement #PassoverHumor #BloodLibelGallowsHumor

90.14/ Classy to admit error. Good to see.
90.15/ I saw this quote floating around, unattributed, and discovered that this is apparently the original. It's very good and very apt.
90.16/ Great idea, me too!
90.17/ Just as I accept @MuppetRabbi despite being an Orthodox rabbi because what it satirizes are things I criticize as a knowledgeable insider, so too with @ass_deans, despite my wife now being an Asoc Dean. Both of us know the satire is accurate. E.g.:
90.18/ Two #AprilFools entries that I particularly liked (and made me hesitate for a moment)

For the GenX #Steelers fans:
90.19/ Zach Banner @ZBNFL is a total class act and I really wanted him to succeed. The criminally bad turf at MetLife cost him his #Steelers career and that really stinks. Best of luck to him, one of the good guys.
90.20/ My new litmus test for commenting on COVID (and possibly any serious social issue): I want to hear primarily from someone who has had to ration their medicine at one point in their life. It's hard to really understand health deprivation without that type of scar.
90.21/ Highly, highly recommend. And, yes, especially for the British shows.
90.22/ Except that we pretty much know for a fact that the QAn*n-conquered GOP does not care one bit for children. They've gone full cruelty.

As we see from TN, they want child marriage for God's sake!
90.23/ This is just science. [Obligatory "Jurassic Park" gif about messing with the awesome powers of science, to paraphrase Mr. Wizard and Timmy.]
90.24/ My father is a #UNC grad so we come by our school loyalty - and irrational hatred of Duke - the old fashioned way. And it was so much fun while it lasted. I will not talk about the final game and take no further questions.
90.24b/ And it was nice seeing other #UNC fellow travelers (or just anti-Duke) reveling that night:



90.25/ Given this, I was definitely precocious:
90.26/ Nerd achievement unlocked: when browsing in Amazon (and the like) and the page displays "People interested in [this item] have also liked [these items]" and it's only and entirely things that I've looked at over the past year. My weird timeline of interests...
90.27/ Right knee. And yup.

(Bonus points if you get it from an all-metal jungle-gym with asphalt under it)
90.28/ This is a great question. He played so many villains but based on his heroic character in Galaxy Quest, I think he'd have made an interesting Magneto.

These are also good answers:

90.29/ Territorial compromise as a means to peace can only work with good faith partners who want to help their own people live & thrive. Too many people just want to stop seeing violence, even if that can only happen through sanitized oppression.
90.30/ Barukh Dayan ha-Emet! @EricBoehlert died in a tragic accident! This is such terrible news. I subscribe to his newsletter and read him avidly multiple times a week, what a huge loss!
90.31/ Hall of Fame comment right here from @ShannonSharpe:
90.32/ For Early Modern Music fans, free live concert on now, featuring Dr. Rebecca Cypess
masongross.rutgers.edu/calendar-event…
90.33/ 100%! "Overpopulation" just reeks of eugenics.
90.34/ This is pretty much my realization back 20 years ago when wackos were blaming 9-11 on the Mossad. I interpreted the conspiracy theory as admitting that it was bad, so bad in fact that only the Joos coulda done it!
90.35/ Absolutely. I need a term for this ideology, found in every disempowered group, which boils down to "When will it be my turn to commit injustice?!"
90.36/ From the beginning DiSantis has acted like someone who doesn't worry about elections; he barely won - with a lot of hinky fraud - and he behaves like someone who knows he doesn't need "votes". A lot of the GOP wins in 2018 feel like that.
90.37/ No bet. Gevalt.
90.38/ Sigh. Yup.
90.39/ A good description of a widespread phenomenon; and one thing that unites the ends of the horseshoe, what @TimothyDSnyder describes as wanting to eliminate a changing future.

90.40/ An excellent set of rules:
90.41/ This is cold.
90.42/ It's here. First pitch is imminent. #LGM !
90.43/ 100%.

It's because every accusation by revanchists is pure projection. And when they demand a "GA" with their MA- they are saying they hate the way America is now. And since that GA never existed, they basically hate our past and our future.
90.44/ Some #Passover reading and downloads:
From Hamizrachi: mizrachi.org/hamizrachi
or drive.google.com/file/d/1TsZ5GN…

YUTorah: yutorah.org/togo/pesach/
#Pesach
90.45/ This is the kind of fight I appreciate from the Democrats. Power to @brianschatz!

h.t. @StevenTDennis
90.46/ #Pesach jokes are all gallows-humor because 8 days of eating IKEA boards make us all a little, uh, bitter.
90.47/ Behold! The Horseshoe (see 90.39). Sanctions is the 'S' of BDS for those keeping score at home.
90.48/ It's good to hear this from a sitting president. FoxNews is a wretched hive of [redacted] and villainy.

90.49/ Oh my goodness, she's right!
90.50/ Anything M*sk does is twisted & broken; here are 2 comments I appreciated:

90.51/ My parents were actually at this Spring training game, which is a miracle in itself - the ability to travel safely after two plus years being isolated. Thank God.

90.52/ Nice to win opening day. Great job by Tie-Lore. #LGM
90.52b/ And a #LGM poll:
90.53/ Judge #KetanjiBrownJackson is now #JusticeKetanjiBrownJackson and that makes today a very good day.

This is me as well:


And this is a fascinating datum:
90.54/ The Polychrome Haggadah is an underrated resource. People think it's just colors, or don't find utility with his historical-layers display, but the source footnotes are invaluable! I used it extensively when writing my own (which I still am).
jewishlink.news/features/50464…
90.55/ #ChochmatNashim for #Metzora

5779 OLP) Tikva Blaukopf blogs.timesofisrael.com/faking-it/
5782 OLP) Evonne Marzouk blogs.timesofisrael.com/reentry-comes-…
5782 JOFA) Daphne Lazar Price blogs.timesofisrael.com/striking-the-r…

Hamizrachi
drive.google.com/file/d/1SQIxNc…
Pgs. 5, 7, 8, 16, 21, 24
90.56/ I didn't have time this week to discuss one of my favorite mishnayot, Negaim 2:1, and what it means for "the color of Jews" but in short: pshat in the Mishna is that we're every color, every "race" #Metzora

sefaria.org/Mishnah_Negaim…
90.57/ Have a "great" Shabbos everyone. Stay safe.

#ShabbatShalom

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Week 232 below. #HappyChanukah!
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230.03/ Mets Twitter is having a party right now. This is fun. #LGM

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(201…
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228.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-eight, November 23-29, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 227 below.
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