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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️

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Level 40+ linguist and trans woman. She/her. Interests: Judaism, human rights, LGBTQ joy, MTG, comics, language, fashion, feminism. Obnoxious fitness affictionado. Fash begone.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✡️ Black Trans Lives Matter.

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · Mar 30

Reposting a thread I had on Twitter.
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Dear trans people who found out about Judaism’s positing of eight genders,
If you think Judaism sounds like a thing that might work for you, that’s cool, you are welcome to inquire, but Jews have a VERY DIFFERENT perspective on applicants than Christianity.

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 1h

What did you do for a Klondike bar?
WHAT DID YOU DO?!

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1h

Well, they keep taking shit and no one says anything too loud because they come down hard, but this time we ran the ball right down the middle for once and they were not prepared.

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1h

It’s called informed consent because you have to know more about what the stuff you want is going to do to you than the doctor.

“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 2h

If there’s one thing I absolutely love about today, it’s this. The rational, decent people have reclaimed the image of the frog for good. There’s so many people hopping around in this fun, friendly, peaceful outfit.

The chans have to be absolutely livid. We took their shit and it’s ours now.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10h

Nobody tell them that Sephardi immigrants brought fish and chips to the UK.

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 16h

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Jess Gill
@jessgillO3

I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Rabbi: There is one consistent theme that runs through the Talmud.

Me: Demons also study Jewish law.

Rabbi: Well, yes, but that’s not what I’m referring to.

Me: Palm trees are scary.

Rabbi: Please let me finish.

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 7h

A million times yes. Though I think the lower magazine section can be skipped.
IYKYK.

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · Sep 13

YES WE ARE

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?

www.nytimes.com

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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 8h

In case anyone needed a list of accounts to block.

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 11h

You would be surprised how often they go around harassing ethnoreligious groups. And blaming us for shit Christians do. It is incredibly tedious.

“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 11h

There are atheist Jews and Buddhists and Hindus who practice. Honestly, if you’re upset about what ignorant Christians do (like me), go and tell off Christians. Leave marginalized communities alone. We aren’t trying to convert you.

“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 12h

Well, that’s sociologically and anthropologically and culturally illiterate, there are so many differences between groups, but you sure do feel confident saying they all have the same problems.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13h

it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone

Free the World @PatriotVerity
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I joined Bluesky 6 hours ago, have not said anything rude or abrasive, and I'm already blocked by over 58,000 people.

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 12h

You’re just wasting people’s time and being disrespectful to those of us who have done the work. People don’t owe you bespoke answers tailored to your incompetence without compensation, and your attitude is frankly unworthy. You lack manners and consideration.

“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 12h

If you say you’re objective but don’t show up to a discussion with any academic knowledge of formal, pragmatic tools to discuss religious phenomena such as sociology, anthropology, oral history, or literary critique, and demand “facts” without having knowledge of formal structure,

“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 13h

You even said that if Christians told you one thing, you were likely to believe the opposite. That is irrational, subjective thinking, not actually taking consideration of facts or formal study to approach them. Your posturing and blindly asserting your objectivity is just obnoxious.

a man with a beard says serious people in front of a purple background

ALT: a man with a beard says serious people in front of a purple background

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 13h

Like, if I said that Judaism centers itself on orthopraxy, consistent behavior in a group, rather than orthodoxy, consistent belief, as Christianity does, then why would you harp on about belief? Because that is your obsession and key argument, that religious people have reckless beliefs.

“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 13h

You’re a belligerent asshole who harasses people using systems you know nothing about, and declare yourself “objective”. Why do you think you get to be objective and no one else does, especially when you don’t know sociology or anthropology or hardly any social science discussing religious practice?

“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 13h

It’s full of jokes, doubts, skepticism, and arguments over which principles take place over others. There are even party’s debating how many genders humans can be. It addresses myth and where we get it from. It’s of crucial sociological importance.
And you haven’t read any of it or heard of it.

“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 13h

Jews doing religious study mostly study Oral Torah, a massive body of work that criticizes and debates the text of Torah, with a focus on pragmatic use in daily life. It is heavily cited in Jesus’s ministry, but with the names stripped off.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_To...

Oral Torah - Wikipedia

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 20h

It’s amusing that you were told by them that the point of religion is to say what’s true, and you just assume that it holds true for Judaism, even if you know your education was flawed.
You wouldn’t be alone in getting a malicious miseducation on the topic. It’s almost a prerequisite for Christians.

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 21h

And I assure you no one is going to punish you for not being sufficiently Jewish or praising Hanuman enough. We expect other people to do their own thing, whatever it is, as long as it isn’t hurting anyone else, we don’t care.
Christianity and Islam are idiosyncratic in their need to be truth.

“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 21h

Like, I have a friend who’s a pandit, a Hindu priest, and he doesn’t actually say he knows his favorite deity exists. He know that the deity’s traits and story appeal to him. And the rites and rituals involving Hanuman bring joy and meaning to him.
Whether it’s true isn’t really important.

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 21h

The point of many religions, and specifically ethnoreligions, is not that they’re true or scientifically accurate or even perfectly coherent, but that they are a thing a community comes together to do as a group and that helps tell people who they are and their community’s history. It’s context.

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 21h

Some ethnicities have a very specific thing that its members share. Like a religion. And you just dismiss and demean tons of cultures and ethnicities because they share a religion.
Some of them aren’t even theistic.
The difference between racism and ethnic bigotry is honestly not that much.

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