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

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

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

Christian Zionism predates and vastly outnumbers Jewish Zionism

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 14h

If you're not Jewish, you're not part of the "we" that makes any decisions here

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 14h

It's a pretty good Kinks song too

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

You literally responded to them

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 17h

the Mongo Santamaría version is also stunning

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 17h

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

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 20h

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 · 22h

Callooh! Callay!

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 23h

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

Anyway, there are some places where I think he poorly represented European Judaism, but I don't know if it's his fault or Robbins.

It does not capture the extent to which Orthodox Jewish life then was bounded by prayer and ritual

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

Never watched it!

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

Also I'm not sure what was percolating in Jerome Robbins and Tommy Abbott's brains, but the expressionistic poses of the film's fiddler feel like a fever-dream of Jewish movement.

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

I don't think the film's folk art shul (with a scorpion painting!) or bottle dance are period accurate, but damn, they're awesome. A lot of American Jews, knowing very little about their actual European history, basically filled in the blanks with Fiddler, and I ask -- why not this?

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

I watched the documentary about the making of Fiddler and while Norman Jewison (despite his name, not-Jewish) constantly declaring himself an honorary Jew does get a little much, maybe he deserves it?

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

Merkabah originates from the Semitic roots r-k-b, meaning to ride. And unless you're pushing using mystical tools to visit the various Jewish heavens, we Jews already have Merkabah and it's not on the market for weirdo new age appropriators.

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

Dracula is actually about an unhinged English cult poisoning themselves with untyped blood transfusions and blaming the immigrant next door

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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