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Fan, quilter, knitter, sportsball watcher. In need of a nap. Living in Oregon, yay rain. Mid 50s, married queer, liberal socialist hippie. No kids or pets. Yay sharks. Kofi shop: https://ko-fi.com/U6U469YJ

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · Nov 12

My name is James and I use this forum mostly for happy-making things. This is not the place I do my "make the world better" stuff. Therefore, I mute, block, and don't follow people who harsh that vibe. Nothing personal; use bluesky however you want! I do the same.

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 1d

At least your review is entertaining! I feel like I should have made popcorn before reading it, though.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 1d

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 1d

So excited to see the prices for renewing vehicle registration have gone up this year! I do not have the money for this! I have put it on my credit card and am hoping I get hit by a train!

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 1d

Or good ones, if I actually do have fabric and sourdough starter!

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 1d

...so if I said I had sourdough starter and fabric in my van....

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 3d

This is how I ended up with three pair of size 5 dpns.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4d

For those of you wondering how Salem is doing. She really really loves cuddles and she’s still purrs like a very good engine.

Sound on. Timeline cleanse.

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 4d

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 4d

One thing I miss about tv shows from the 60s and 70s is how people on tv looked like normal people. All in the Family had its opening song sung by people who were just normal people singing, not trained operatic singers.

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 4d

My troublesome pasta opinion is that pasta should never be al dente. I want my pasta soft.

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 4d

My neighbors have a white cat who watches me go by!! It is so cute and I definitely look for it! That kitty is a tiny bit cross-eyed so the poor thing looks like it has no braincell.

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 5d

So easy!! So many recipes claim to be 3 ingredient and are not, but this is!! (Can be, easy to add one or two more things.) I did liquid smoke, salt, and molasses.

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 5d

That is not a fun game!! 0 stars!!

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 5d

One time I went to a new-to-me eye doctor and they wanted to weigh me to get my BMI. To check my eyes. I did not go back.

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 6d

The best thing about turning a 3lb chunk of pork into kalua pork in the slow cooker is that then you have kalua pork.

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 6d

We are already playing that game.

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 10d

This is why you buy six donuts, so that you can properly medicate yourself over the course of a day or two. Like with antibiotics, you have to take the full run even if you feel better.

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 10d

Sometimes you need a medicinal donut.

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 10d

We have to be careful about all kicking on the same side, otherwise it'll just wobble the wrong direction.

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 11d

I would like the world to be on kilter, and not off. If somebody could get on that.

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 11d

#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
Could yall help me repost this over 50x:
WASHINGTON DC 10/16/15 @ Politics and Prose at Union Market
Thank you!

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 11d

Well, now I can't sleep, I gotta be ready to go to work in 2 hours. (I did go back to sleep, eventually, but Not Enough.)

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 11d

I slept for five hours and now I'm awake, do dah, do dah. Tell my brain to go to sleep, oh the doo dah day.

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gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 12d

Most of the video is filler to make it the right length.

gilafied 🎃👻🎃 @gilafied.bsky.social · 12d

I understand that the person posting the video doesn't get 'credit' (and thus paid) unless people are watching the entire video, but fuck that noise.

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