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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 5h

ברוכה את הויה מתירה אסורים

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3h

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3h

ברוך מתיר אסורים
Blessed are You, who releases the captive.

There should have been an All for All deal two years ago, but here we are--after so much harm, so much annihilation.

Every life saved is a thing of consequence.

May this be the beginning of a new future for all the peoples in the Land.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve seen them q few times after heavy rain. I assume they sleep in the dirt like the frogs do?

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 19h

I promise you can criticize Israel for being a shitty genocidal country without making yourself angry over photoshopped memes & abandoning your critical thinking skills ESPECIALLY WHEN IT TURNS OUT THE MEMES WERE MADE BY NAZIS ON TWITTER trying to push “Jews are cultureless parasites” to leftists

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 19h

I’m sure if you search online you can probably find a Montreal Jew who made a “Jewish poutine” fusion dish with smoked meat & latkes instead of French fries, but that’s not rapacious Jewish colonialism that’s just people who live all over the world putting their own spin on local cuisine

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Ghosts by Emily K 🐸🐸 @posts.by.emilyk.art · 13h

Mehdi Hasan hosts Zeteo on Substack so it's not like he minds making money off of white supremacists

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 7h

They’re home.
אַחֵֽינוּ
כׇּל־בֵּית־יִשְׂרָאֵל
הַנְּתוּנִים בְּצָּרָה וּבְשִּׁבְיָה
הָעוֹמְדִים בֵּין בַּיָּם וּבֵין בַּיַּבָּשָׁה
הַמָּקוֹם יְרַחֵם עֲלֵיהֶם
וְיוֹצִיאֵם מִצָּרָה לִרְוָחָה
וּמֵאֲפֵלָה לְאוֹרָה
וּמִשִּׁעְבּוּד לִגְאֻלָּה
הָשְׁתָּא בַּעֲגָלָא וּבִזְמַן קָרִיב
וְנֹאמַר אָמֵן׃

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you for recognizing him! Even one of my friends who has seen Coco didn't! (Possibly because the character is a child and the skater is a grown man) Encanto and Frozen are my favorite modern Disney, which is why I went to the show.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 16h

Mystery solved!

Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 16h

OH I think it's the kid from Coco??

Movie poster for Coco which features a skeleton and a boy in a red hoodie playing guitar together with a dog

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 16h

OOOOOOOHHHHH!!!! I've never seen that one!

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 17h

Last and never least, everyone’s favorite DustMop. Jimmie

Grown up grey and white floof kitten with kitten side eye

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 16h

He shows up for the first time here in the video. We were all baffled! youtu.be/yu-QNdCxOmM?...

Frozen & Encanto's Magical Disney On Ice

YouTube video by Gift The Magic

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 18h

Notably, people who come to anti-Zionism via this pathway aren’t too keen on Palestinians, the same way that people who support Israel because they’re Islamophobes don’t like Jews much

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 18h

Question for the hivemind: at the end during a number with a bunch of the classic princesses and their princes some character wearing jeans, a red jacket, and a frankly creepy cartoon face came out and the kids went wild, but none of my group, including the one with the 6yo, knew who he was. Help?

Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 21h

Yesterday I saw Disney on Ice: Frozen and Encanto and it was 1) Delightful and 2) Damned impressive from both an artistic and skating perspective.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 18h

Artie

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 18h

Wear a mask when you’re sick! Because as much as people who’s politics mostly align with mine want to believe that Covid is over, it isn’t. Declaring it over for the economy when we had proof of the long term chronic effects was Biden doing eugenics, which paved the way for now.

Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 19h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 18h

LEFTISTS: The moral Jew lives in the diaspora

JEWS: Here are the many foods we developed during our time in the diaspora that pulled from local culture while adapting them to meet Jewish needs

LEFTISTS: Thieves!

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19h

there's a real movement among Ds where the center of the party is shifting on this issue. (Jerry Nadler, too.) that seems a lot more promising to me long term (or short term) than infighting among Nazi assholes.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 18h

People are so fixated on pointing out that anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism that they blind themselves to the extremely obvious antisemite to anti-Zionist pipeline

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19h

saw someone arguing that MTG's anti Israel noises suggest that she's a more reliable moral voice longterm than most centrist Ds, and...like, people really need to acknowledge just how antisemitic she is and what role that plays in her approach to Israel policy. 1

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 19h

No worries, figured it was worth asking the internet and seeing what comes up!

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 19h

I just looked it up and they aren't doing services tomorrow night. Looks really, really pretty though!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 19h

(Oregon, not Maine)

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 19h

Portland MOT friends: my mom is in town and considering going to Simchat tomorrow, anyone got recs? (We're Reform, so def needs to be at least egal)

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