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* Scots Jew hoping to find some community & safe haven * chronically ill, often bed bound, limits to how much stress can subject myself to, which complicates most attempts to socialise incl online * niche joy is Thai 🇹🇭 films & telly; writing a lakorn🤯

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · Jul 25

Locked out of DMs until I find a way to circumvent the UK requirements. Don't use them enough to worry about it much, BUT if you'd like I'm on Signal and I'll share that with those I trust.
What I'd prefer as my actual pinned post below.

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · Jan 20

my current mental health rotation

Kayavine/BEMINOR - welcome #ThaiPop

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSxe...

Welcome feat. Kayavine - BEMINOR [Official MV]

YouTube video by Beminor Official

www.youtube.com

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 19m

Jews don't get to have a homeland because Europeans were every shade of shitty to those living amongst them is quite a take.

As for the rest, vast overstatement of the situation. But that's par for your course. Any way to shift blame onto Jews.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 35m

I found Rogue Male in a curated selection at the central library. It's been years, really need to re-read it. My lingering impression is that it's quietly excellent.
Thanks for reminding me.

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 2h

Scotland has Basil Salty, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang, Sleetwood Mac, Melter Skelter, Sir David Attenbrrr and a tracker map which is ostensibly for planning safe travel.

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 3h

but so rewarding, to know that this very best dog was making life better for someone. like you love it with all of your heart and then part of your heart goes out to help another person.

and then you get a new puppy and new puppies make everything better too.

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 3h

Jews are a people. Judaism is the religion named after us.
Zionism is the position that Jews - as a people - need to have a homeland.

But as you're opposed to religion as a basis for a state, how do you feel about the militant Islamist ideologies of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, etc?

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 19h

See, I think the BBC needed to do a lot more to contextualise this. There’s a reason the term “Zio” is regarded as antisemitic rather than an innocent abbreviation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oxford student arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred at pro-Palestinian protest

The arrest relates to a video in which a man appears to chant

www.bbc.co.uk

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 19h

a keyboard warrior is in my mentions giving a not-exactly hinged example of this just now

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 19h

So from the Balfour Declaration, you're calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
That's as bizarre a leap as the lies you're telling about Zionists and Israel (which is, of course, a multi-ethnic state with a substantial population of Arabs, Druse and others).

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 20h

You literally cited the Balfour Declaration 👏

Anyway. Palestine as an Arab-only identifier only came about post '67. Prior to that it very much included Jews. This is well attested to historically.

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂

well it *is* more likely to be understood decades on than how many Jdramas you rated over 10 stars 😉

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

all of this is excellent but if you need a smile, what a performance of San Francisco Bay Blues by Peter, Paul & Mary
6:26 intro re Jesse Fuller
7:40 song
youtu.be/HJm-RpPk16M

PETER, PAUL AND MARY 1965

YouTube video by Robert Engel

youtu.be

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

if this is what it takes to get my brain to finish this novel i'll do it

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

😘

i accept i'm on a slightly lower rung of course, even though there wasn't much i could do at that point to avoid it. kid's sisters were off in their rooms ignoring me 👍
he was a good kid, helped me with child care in the synagogue when he was older. i hope things have gone well for him

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

the *only* reason I've seen the movie was a kid i was looking after decided to watch it again that day

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Ariel Zellman @arielzellman.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkably, as with every previous ceasefire in this war, Hamas is working hard via continued blatant violations, to encourage Israel to "break" its side of the agreement. 3/3

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

For some "Free Palestine" = Gaza & West Bank.

For Islamists like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine = Gaza, West Bank AND Israel.
It is a call for annihilation of the only Jewish-majority state in the world & putting the land under Arab rule. It has been normalised.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

And when language calling for the annihilation of the only Jewish-majority state in the world is normalised - even if the majority using it think it means something peaceful and lovely - it's a small step towards returning it to its original meaning and getting everyone to go along with it.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1d

Which codifies the idea of ancient peoples (and any of their modern descendants who preserve their traditional history) as irrational and primitive and ultimately kind of incomprehensible rather than as people responding fairly rationally to their environments with the info they have.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

a mountain exploding with fire is a pretty literal description of a volcanic eruption too.
it shouldn't have been difficult to work out what they were talking about.

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sheepchase @sheepchase.net · 1d

The BBC is very good at being sly.

www.jewishnews.co.uk/bbc-fails-to...

BBC fails to tell viewers "Palestinian prisoner" is Hamas suicide bomb plotter - Jewish News

A BBC interview featured the weeping sister of a Palestinian prisoner finding out he was deported. They didn't mention he was a Hamas terrorist behind 2006 bombing that killed 4

www.jewishnews.co.uk

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

Yes - stimulation. Which may also include things to react to and gossip about, but stimulation in the moment.

Bit like short form social media in that.

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JM 📎🟦🪬🎗️🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 1d

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⌨️ @elena_of_judea2.0 - "Israeli “apartheid” on full display. Lucy Aharish, an Arab-Israeli news anchor who tirelessly advocated for the hostages, can’t hold back tears as she receives flowers from Itzik Horn whose sons, Yair and Eitan, are survivors."

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

You're a Zionist then?

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

"Workshopping". I do love the idea of the most middle class people in the world commandeering the college boathouse or whatever to come up with slightly twee demands for a death cult to commit mass murder.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

Define Palestine please.