105.02/ Wait, hold on, the longest hottest fast day - #ShivaAsarBiTammuz - is #NationalIceCreamDay?! This is both irritatingly annoying... and religiously satisfying. We get extra credit for the fast!
105.03/ Gotta hand it to #ShivaAsarBiTammuz this year, it's getting its money's worth because I'm feeling really terrible. Excellent quality, consistent results. A well-crafted day of affliction. 5 stars on yelp and/or five yelps.
105.04/ We did use a "tooth fairy" for our kids - to cushion the fright and pain they feel when they lose teeth - but instead of a "fairy" I said it was Elijah, because if he's traveling to every Seder and bris, he can leave money under pillows.
105.06/ This is good news, at least better news than before, that they are denying this unrepentant monster citizenship. He's a persistent threat to others and it's an egregious lapse that he was allowed entry.
105.14/ I dunno, IMO people don't vote against their interests. Their vote *reveals* their interests.
(Unless there's actual coercion, I cannot paternalistically assign naivete or lack of agency to people, especially when they do bad things that require preparation/effort.)
105.15/ After playing "Owner of a Lonely Heart" before dinner for my kids, I decided to go for the trifecta and followed it with "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" then "Won't Get Fooled Again." If you don't know why, see below:
105.16/ This looks like a good law. It's actually pretty impressive what Biden-Harris are getting done even with such a perilously thin majority in Congress.
105.20/ For some reason I have trouble printing tweets (they show up blank) so to preserve some threads I need to take screenshots. @_screenshoter is good for this & now they made a standalone page to do it! screenshoter.live
See here for more tools: twitter.com/i/lists/140558…
205.02/ It's important to know: every pawn can become a queen.
205.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Behaalotecha 5783 (last year) @ChochmatNashim
Downloadable PDF with working links of Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. drive.google.com/file/d/14uXvSR…
204.02/ What incredible news! Barukh Hashem, 4 hostages rescued from those monsters.
'Operation Arnon’: How 4 hostages were freed from Hamas captivity in central Gaza
204.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Naso 5783 (last year) @ChochmatNashim.
Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. (I'm not sure I can update this well enough for 5784 today) drive.google.com/file/d/1b46N_z…
202.02/ The internet is disappearing; I knew this in my bones & now there's data to support it. (h.t. @ParkerMolloy)
I encourage everyone to save pages to the @internetarchive as much as possible. An extension you can add to your browser to make it easy pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024…
202.03/ As a lifelong #Mets fan, I've experienced extended periods of the team being demoralizing and unwatchable. This is why I told my kids at the time that the DeGrom years were special: every 5 days there'd be a transcendent sports experience & those are rare.
201.02/ Has anyone checked in on the campus protesters, their supreme leader just died and they will be very sad to lose their moral guide. (BTW, I gave tzedaka in honor of the brave chopper). timesofisrael.com/ebrahim-raisi-…
201.03/ You know what? I'll accept that definition. Keeps things clear as to relative morality of each side.