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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, I'm sure it must be the fault of all Jews everywhere that suddenly you don't like Jews

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1h

These people who hate Jews -- are just like Jews! is such a weird argument to make

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1h

Me: (as a teacher) I don't coddle students. You're going to hear a lot in this class that you don't like, and that's just part of the educational experience. (Eyes roll back, an unearthly glow emerges from mouth.) Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 2h

My almost complete Jewish studies degree is actually making things a little more difficult

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 2h

That's the Lutheran version of a Jewish joke I was satirizing!

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 2h

A Gentile is rescued from a desert island. Before he leaves, he gives his rescuers a tour of the entire village he built. To their surprise, there are two synagogues. Why.

"That's the one I call a church," he says, "and that one (typing furiously on social media) is the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN."

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 6h

Why did Rush Limbaugh have a weirdly psychedelic line of ties?

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 6h

Just because you’re an egomaniac it doesn’t mean you aren’t adored by a great multitude

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 7h

But you’re really tipping your hat with this “delusional victimhood” talk.

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 7h

Christian Zionism predates and vastly outnumbers Jewish Zionism

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 21h

I don't even want to see Game of Thrones

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 21h

It's a pretty good Kinks song too

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 22h

You literally responded to them

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 22h

No, it predates antisemitism, however, it is a classic (perhaps the classic) example of anti-Judaism in the Gospels, and almost certainly never happened

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

the Mongo Santamaría version is also stunning

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know how to tell you that you can’t copyright an image made by ChatGPT

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Crypt Keeper: Now to sit down with a good book, Anne of SCREAM Gables. (Flipping through book.) I have badly misunderstood the title of this book.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

The Gemara asks if Moses was ever mistaken. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus answers that Moses once supposed his noses was roses. What does this mean? Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya answers that when that happened, Moses supposed erroneously.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Callooh! Callay!

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Me: I’m sapiosexual.

You: Ah, attracted to smart people.

Me: (putting a tap in a maple tree in full bondage gear) What?

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't though.

buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

Christopher Columbus was not Jewish

Junk science is also junk history

buttondown.com

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Ent (476) seeks partner for long, very slow conversations

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

I'm guessing he'd claim it to be true, even though the writer was Irish-American

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

One thing is absolutely Jewison's fault -- he found Zero Mostel too American, too broad, which is why he cast Topol, who he saw as somehow more universal.

Not a Jew alive sees Mostel as anything other than somebody who rolled off the Yiddish stage and into movies.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Tevye talks about poverty, but he seems to be doing ... okay. The grinding poverty in the stories is absent. Tevye's cow shows up late in the stories, a reward for saving two women, and basically moves him up an entire class.

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