Just moved to Scotland for my PhD and happy to answer questions! I always mask indoors

It was great to speak today at the IOHA oral history conference in Krakow as part of a leftist Jewish panel, in which we attempted to draw on various aspects of modern Jewish history to oppose genocide in Gaza.

Speaking French with an Anglo brain is like
Husband: the government has fallen
Me: what will happen now
Him: *what will-t-he happen to itself now
Me: there isn't another way to ask that?
Him: what is that who will happen to itself now

I'm don't know very much about plant magic or folk medicine in general, but if you are interested in how deceased ancestors were called on to help heal the living I'm happy to have my brain picked!

I have a website with sources about women religious workers, mostly about women who worked in the cemetery and were paid to speak to the dead pullingatthreads.com

I also recently wrote this summary of my research jwa.org/encyclopedia...

Me, whimsically: you ever imagine the people you love as fictional woodland creatures? Like we could be Mr and Mrs Beaver

Husband, v. serious: You would have to fetch wood. 



Me: ok...



Him: It's A LOT of responsibility being a beaver. They affect their whole environment. You could be a rabbit.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

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If you are over 60 and want to learn or improve your Yiddish, check out these FREE taster courses starting next week with the Workers Circle www.circle.org/ltby-courses...

and in case anyone is wondering what the heck I'm on about pullingatthreads.com/cemetery-mea...

Elul is here, which means it's time to go to the cemetery and call your ancestors

In case you were wondering what to get your kids for Yom Kippur this year, a clever friend and collaborator has turned my cemetery and grave measuring ritual guides into a cute little grave measuring kit, complete with wax to make soul candles 🧵🪦🕯️ pushcartjudaica.com/products/gra...

This is your regular reminder that, under international law, there is no such thing as "arriving illegally" if you are claiming asylum.

Every single time you hear a journalist talk about "illegal arrivals", you are hearing propaganda at work.

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

Extraordinary piece from @simonerzim.bsky.social - searching, tough, honest and with all the receipts. Please share it with anyone you think is ready for a reckoning. The genocide is not only ongoing but accelerating and expanding, this is urgent.

L'accord-cadre US-UE est catastrophique. Humiliation sur humiliation. En plus de dérouler la liste de tous les milliards que l'UE promet unilatéralement aux US, c'est la course à la dérégulation (déforestation, CBAM, CSRD/DDD). A pleurer. Voilà une bonne raison de "tout bloquer". urlr.me/gdzMwV

here's a plain-language explainer for anyone who wanted one:

"How do new stigmas emerge? How do they relate to existing #Stigma? Why are we seeing an emergent devaluation & discrimination of people who have #LongCOVID, given how common it is to have experienced COVID-19?"?

Via @priviligienschrek.bsky.social

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BREAKING NEWS

At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR.

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Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub.

Not one of those men helped her up the stairs.

Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social

"How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download:

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Long covid research coming of age.

If you watch nothing else today please watch this video from the Covid inquiry and consider if you still feel safe handwashing for a predominantly airborne virus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...

The Board of Deputies and various UK Jewish orgs have called a march this sunday, one which is really an anti-peace and anti-hostage demonstration. I felt compelled to write about it: josephfinlay.com/march-of-the...

I can’t keep posting this enough. Bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social