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Gendertreyf librarian, union steward, and lapsed musicologist. 33. מוֹלַדְתֵּנוּ הָעוֹלָם כּוּלוֹ 🏒 Senators ⚾ Mets 🏀 Jazz 🏈 Jets current reads: 🇺🇲 🌙 🇨🇴 🫀 ✝️ 🍒 💀 🧚 🕵️ 🌌 ⛱️

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 25m

Jets pope who supports Winnipeg AND New York

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 3h

just finished it. best ep so far ^^

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 22h

I'm so glad Wario plays for this team now

Josh Naylor in a Mariners City Connect jersey grimacing Wario style

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 22h

Mariners management too! Getting Suarez and Naylor at the deadline is a HUGE coup and more people should be acknowledging it

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 2d

this fucking team

raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 2d

T!!

raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 4d

I've found my people
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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 4d

OR a bialy with orange marmalade

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 4d

OR a bialy with orange marmalade

raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 4d

toasted pumpernickel bagel with salmon shmear. salt bagel if I'm feeling feisty

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 4d

asking lesbian couples "so uhhh which one of you is the green one"

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SensMonster @sensmonster.bsky.social · 5d

The Ottawa Senators are currently undefeated

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 5d

can we extend this logic to rename the Mario Cuomo Bridge to the Mario Brothers Bridge

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 6d

Led to this silliness based on the similarity between the Hebrew word for "frog" and the word for "Spain"
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Vishanti @missdiedra.bsky.social · Dec 26

✡️Tribe, gather 'round for a #Jwitter (z''l) / #Jewsky Aggadah concerning Spanish Frogs 🐸:

A certain man Yirmeyahu asked, "What's the name for frogs in Shemot?" Raz answered and said, "They're different," referring to Spaniards (ספרדים) and frogs (צפרדעים). For Yirmeyahu said, "They are the same."

screenshot of a Twitter thread.

Jeremiah Vance @JeremiahTVance
Oct 25, 2021
I guess you've never read Exodus. Tell me, what's the name for frogs in Exodus?

raz 🌌🔥🏴| רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetefgadol
Oct 25, 2021
What is the point of this non sequitur?

Jeremiah Vance @JeremiahTVance
Oct 25, 2021
Do you have an answer or not?

raz 🌌🔥🏴| רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetefgadol
They're different words you incomparable schlemiel https://x.com/Nakam1492/status/1452873766543847424?t=wuvkoOol2ropCs5yhNES4g&s=19

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 6d

this was a reference to some Jewish Twitter shenanigans from back in the day. There's some ambiguity in the biblical account of the Ten Plagues such that it is unclear whether the plague of frogs was many frogs or one giant frog.

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 6d

RASHI: The wording here is unclear as to whether this is one large frog costume or a horde of many frog costumes.

Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 6d

Enough people willing to shell out $34 for this & we could hit ICE with a biblical plague!

Amazon as for inflatable frog costume, same model as worn by protestor in Portland who’s become a viral celebrity

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 7d

we need a version of "yimakh shemo" for people who aren't dead yet

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 7d

i wouldn't piss on gavin newsom if he was on fire

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 8d

been reading M.D. from the EC Archives. shame the docs who did my brain surgery couldn't relax the way these guys did

a panel from EC's medical drama comic "M.D." two doctors are exiting an operating room. one says to the other, "Nice job, Doctor Huston!" Huston replies, "Thanks! Got a cigarette...?"

raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 9d

scratch a Christian "Kabbalist" and you'll find Judenhass that would make Marcion blush

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 10d

This Day in Labor History: October 5, 1886. Henry George accepted the nomination of the United Labor Party for the mayor of New York City, part of his reform campaign to raise the working class through the Single Tax. Let's talk about this interesting moment!

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 10d

ahem

cover art for Smiley Smile (1967) by The Beach Boys

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 10d

nobody who's ever had to sleep on a bedbug-infested mattress would make these accusations

raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 11d

fwiw he does seem to have owned up
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11d

Noted, and acknowledgement that the casual "Old Testament/New Testament" division can carry the freight of antisemitism, which I suspect was not intended either by the original comment (and definitely not by me), but it's okay to say, whoops, let's not do that again

Jessie Stickgold-Sarah @jstickgoldsarah.bsky.social · 11d

Not to disagree with your point about humans, but the Jewish god, a.k.a. the god of the Old Testament, it’s not actually crueler than the Christian god. We literally just finished a holiday that is entirely about mercy and forgiveness.

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raz | רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.bsky.social · 11d

...no? that's not who the Pharisees were. the Pharisees *were* Jews, one of a few sects that existed at the time (notably, not the sect that had any political power)

that doesn't really address the core problem that referring to bad people as Jews pejoratively is wrong

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