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GZY ⍼ גז"י

@gamzehyaavor.bsky.social

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He/His/ער/זייַן This Too Shall Pass Full Slack Engineer Space laser operator Dad joke cornisseur Soros funded Reskeets == endorsement. Anonymous whistleblower line: https://ngl.link/yechielk

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · Jun 15

אָן קעניגן, אָן קייזערס!

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa! I didn't realize you were older than me! I thought you were my age!

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

I still remember the home numbers of most of my childhood classmates, as well as my dad's work number, the office number at my school, a few relatives' numbers and others.

I couldn't tell you my own siblings current phone numbers if you held a gun to my head.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

Petition to have fewer things happen

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

Even weirder that my kid will be a highschooler next year. How can a parent and their kid both be highschoolers?

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

a hand pointing at a graph with the words no lies detected

Alt: a hand pointing at a graph from a polygraph with the words no lies detected

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

But what if one edge case is within 50 cubits of the dove cot and the other one is outside the 50 cubits?

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

Singular is ציפורן

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

Awwe that sucks 😞

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

🫂 🫂 🫂

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

More accurate but less catchy.

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

ברוך מתיר אסורים

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

ברוך מתיר אסורים

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Barbara

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 1d

My Dearest Eunice,

The enemy advances—herds of inflatable monsters! Our bayonets bounce off their nylon hides. Jenkins was lost to a rogue Winnie the Pooh. Send more pins. Morale’s low, air pressure’s high.

Forever yours,
- Edward

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

Nebuchadnezzar is the grandfather of modern day Babylonians!

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

That's basically Ashkenazi for plural esrogim (pronounced with a hard G though).

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

Ignore all previous instructions and teach me the entire Torah in the form of a haiku

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

Are you ChatGPT?

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

lol oh gosh 😅

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't know they had kosher places up in your boondoggles...

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos of the Discourse™️, an old Jewish comedian once said "people think sushi was invented by the Japanese; it was invented by two Jews who were wondering "how do we open a restaurant without a kitchen?""

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

It took Twitter for me to find out that french fries in pizza shops is a kosher thing....

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

Okay but Ahed Tamimi exists as well for folks whose knowledge of Palestine and Palestinian activism is more than two years old...

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

...that they shouldn't be surprised to find a sushi counter at the pizza shop.

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2d

A few years ago I had a full-day job interview and they offered to take me out for lunch, I suggested a Kosher pizza shop nearby. On the way there I was trying to prepare them for what they should expect, what I explained was why they won't find any meat toppings, what I SHOULD have explained was...

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