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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸

@jsx.bsky.social

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Jewish. American. Fan of R' Shimon bar Yochai. Open to corrections by people who speak various languages better than I do. She/her זי/איר היא/את

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · Nov 3

CHRISTIANS: this verse in the old testament says X
JEWS: It doesn't say that
CHRISTIAN: maybe. Who knows?
JEWS: we do. That's not in the Hebrew
CHRISTIAN: no one knows what the original language means
JEWS: Yes we do. We can read it.
CHRISTIAN: It's lost forever

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 15h

Well this is horrific.

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US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 15h

(kind of)

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 17h

I was going for the latter, and what I wrote *felt* more directly like the latter, but
יש מלאכים
אין מלכים

seemed more grammatically typical for Hebrew.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 21h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 22h

It's times like these that I think about how our Representatives work for us, and about what my boss would do if I just didn't show up to work for a month.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

5/ But here's the even darker kicker.

The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess.

And why?

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody was called an anti-Semite for calling for a ceasefire. Everyone but Likud and Hamas wanted a ceasefire.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 1d

The number of things I want to etch on myself in square script keeps growing.

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OneFein...Bat? Like, for Halloween or whatever? @onefeincat.bsky.social · 7d

One God, No Masters.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7d

No kings except Hashem.

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 1d

This is probably grammatically horrific, but you get the idea

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 1d

It's an awesome store for that demographic! Just not for *my* demographic.

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 1d

כן מלאכים
לא מלכים

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 1d

It's SO hard to find good whitefish outside of NYC.

Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 1d

No, they don't, but from my shopping experience their line is almost exclusively androgynous clothing for AFAB bodies.

Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 1d

Oh nooooooooooo

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · Jul 30

An astronaut staring at the earth saying “wait, it’s all vanity?” And an astronaut behind them is holding a gun to their head saying “always has been”

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 2d

This is a result of activists on the ground and around the world who never stopped fighting for a different reality, even under constant intimidation. We owe it to ourselves to recognize our success, and our power. This must not be made into a personal victory for politicians. (4/6)

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone will attempt to take credit for this, but we must not underestimate our work. This deal is a result of a tireless fight by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and Jews who never stopped refusing our extremist government’s attempts to silence our dissent. (3/6)

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 2d

Now, the warplanes in Gaza are quieting. Families are waiting for their loved ones. This deal is imperfect, but we simply cannot afford to greet the end of the killing and destruction with cynicism. Our lives are on the line. (2/6)

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 2d

Given the coloring, it's entirely possible that the dog on the left in your image is the dog on the right in my image post-transition.

Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 2d

t4t vibes

The painting "Judith slaying Holofernes", by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1620.

A Renaissance painting depicting Judith in an orange silk dress, calmly cutting off the head of a supine, bearded, post-coital Holofernes with a short sword while her maid helps hold him down.

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 2d

t4t vibes

The iconic still from Disney's Lady and the Tramp (1955) showing the Tramp - a shaggy gray mutt with floppy ears - and Lady - a perfectly groomed cocker spaniel - slurping a single strand of spaghetti, about to kiss.

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 2d

Holy yes.

Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 2d

There's only one way to find out

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 2d

They are, and my kid does!