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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3h

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 19m

It's kind of amazing that nobody seems to ask, even as a hypothetical, "what do the people of Gaza actually want". They barely even consider what the PA wants, and it's supposed to be the internationally recognised representative of Palestinians. It certainly hasn't had a seat at the table.

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 11h

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

Opened palimpsest codex (Leiden UL Or. 14236) with Syriac upper text and Armenian undertext. The upper text is written in black and red ink and decorated braided band patterns. There's also a fragment with Arabic on it between the two pages of the opened codex.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 28m

Haha, no, it's a simulation. There's actually a guy with a bunch of toy cars and an iPhone whose job it is to shoot them from above and send the video to you when you're backing up.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 35m

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 38m

It's not like a sharp break though; modern Judaism is called "rabbinic" more because of the loss of the Temple as a focus, not because there weren't rabbis around back then. The Christian scriptures quote at least one famous rabbi: Rabbi Gamaliel, who is also quoted in the Haggadah.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1h

These specific prohibitions include things like carrying items — even trivial items — outside marked areas, going too far from residential areas, and today is taken to include using most powered devices. There are a number of others, but it's a religious definition, not a linguistic one. 2/2

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1h

The "work" thing is a very common misconception. Halacha (the religious code followed by Orthodox Jews) actually prohibits a bunch of specific activities on Shabbat/Shabbos/the Sabbath, although there is indeed a generalised prohibition on "laborious" weekday-like activity. 1/2

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 2h

Interesting. Tell me more about these early Xbox meetings.

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 6h

A story in three parts

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BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social · 2h

Some things I have learned after failing to get people to take action for change over the years.

1) Food and Fun - I used to have meetings with snacks, maybe real food, but focused on planning. I now encourage organizing people to get together around food and throw action planning as the side.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 8h

Was he born with that name? It feels as if an Australian were named Sydney Melbourne; a little too well determined.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 8h

James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social is an easy follow.

James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 12h

In the Independent #OnThisDay 1990: a really interesting feature on the response of Jewish WW2 veterans to the recrudescence of fascism in post-war Britain - the 43 Group and the 62 Group

Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 11h

Nyarlathotep.

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 1d

My new story in the Nov/Dec issue of Asimov’s SF.
Read an excerpt here:

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Story Excerpt 2 - Asimov’s Science Fiction

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 13h

Really not great.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

www.abc.net.au

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Being one of Australia’s most remote and disadvantaged communities, Aurukun’s grocery prices are some of the highest in the country.

Cost of living biting? Meet the community where the weekly shop can cost $1,000

Being one of Australia’s most remote and disadvantaged communities, Aurukun’s grocery prices are some of the highest in the country.

www.abc.net.au

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is literally, without exaggeration, pro-Hamas.

PA condemns Hamas executions as ‘heinous crimes’; Trump shrugs off crackdown

Abbas's office calls for 'restoration of law' in Gaza, PA rights group demands end to 'extrajudicial and arbitrary executions'; US president says Hamas 'killed a number of gang members'

www.timesofisrael.com

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

New polling shows most Australians want to stick with the US alliance, despite holding overwhelmingly negative views towards the Trump administration and harbouring deep worries about the erosion of American democracy.

Aussies no fans of Trump, but see no alternative to US alliance, poll shows

New polling shows most Australians want to stick with the US alliance, despite holding overwhelmingly negative views towards the Trump administration and harbouring deep worries about the erosion of American democracy.

www.abc.net.au

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 14h

So, yes, the Nazis killed lots of people. But they were *obsessed* with killing Jews; it was fundamental to their world view; they comforted themselves as they lost the war that at least they had killed lots of Jews.

Anyway, that's the difference; if you want to learn more I'm sure you can. 5/5

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 14h

There were courses on identifying Jews. Science, art, and literature were classified by how "Jewish" they were. The Nazis collected Jewish artefacts for a proposed museum to commemorate the total annihilation of world Jewry. They kept the death trains running even when they were losing the war. 4/5

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 14h

Aktion T4 ran from 1939–1945 and killed around 300K people across Germany, Austria, occupied Poland and Bohemia-and-Moravia.

In contrast, about 450K Hungarians Jews were murdered in Auschwitz alone in less than 2 months, May 15th – July 9th 1944. Jews were shipped there from all over Europe.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 14h

For instance, you mentioned disabled people. Under Aktion T4 the Nazis killed hundreds of thousands of disabled, elderly, and insane people. But, significantly, the program was only applied to inmates of asylums and hospitals. Tgey didn't go around *looking* for e.g. crazy people living at home. 2/5

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 14h

I hope you're not doing this deliberately, because you're kind of skirting the edge of Holocaust denial.

I promise you that everyone who cares to knows about other victims of the Nazis. That's not at issue. The issue is the difference between Jews and other groups. 1/5

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I think we know.

Border Patrol won’t say why it used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics

The video was live on Facebook and Instagram for two months.

www.motherjones.com

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