PF Anderson
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PF Anderson
@pfanderson.bsky.social
· Jun 19
Germany Plans Global Alternative to PubMed
In the wake of a brief PubMed outage, team launches project to ensure uninterrupted access
www.medpagetoday.com
The good news is that the German government has decided to replicate PubMed/MEDLINE because of a lack of confidence in it's current infrastructure www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... #medlibs
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Can I get 23 more followers by Chanukah? Cuz then I’ll draw another dumb drawing. Which really is just my gift to you.
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Can I get 23 more followers by Chanukah? Cuz then I’ll draw another dumb drawing. Which really is just my gift to you.
I'm getting tired. Going to noodle off a few minutes early. Thank you #ParshaChat peeps, see you next week, I hope!
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I'm getting tired. Going to noodle off a few minutes early. Thank you #ParshaChat peeps, see you next week, I hope!
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It's... not actually at all uncommon for men to rape women and seek to own them afterwards and call that love. #ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It's... not actually at all uncommon for men to rape women and seek to own them afterwards and call that love. #ParshaChat
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Haven't read the whole article, but I find the first few paragraphs unsettling TBH. "As Lyn Bechtel notes, “Rapists feel hostility and hatred toward their victims, not love,”[5] something we see in the story of Amnon, who throws Tamar out of his home after raping her "
#ParshaChat
#ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Haven't read the whole article, but I find the first few paragraphs unsettling TBH. "As Lyn Bechtel notes, “Rapists feel hostility and hatred toward their victims, not love,”[5] something we see in the story of Amnon, who throws Tamar out of his home after raping her "
#ParshaChat
#ParshaChat
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"Cursed be their anger so fierce, And their wrath so relentless. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel." (Etz Hayim translation) 2/2 #ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"Cursed be their anger so fierce, And their wrath so relentless. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel." (Etz Hayim translation) 2/2 #ParshaChat
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So looking at the textual history, it turns out that one reason people's motivations seem so confusing is because of *editing* by editors with conflicting agendas.
#ParshaChat
#ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So looking at the textual history, it turns out that one reason people's motivations seem so confusing is because of *editing* by editors with conflicting agendas.
#ParshaChat
#ParshaChat
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I think a lot about the need for concepts other than reconciliation and forgiveness and repair.
Some things are neither fixable nor forgivable.
#ParshaChat
Some things are neither fixable nor forgivable.
#ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I think a lot about the need for concepts other than reconciliation and forgiveness and repair.
Some things are neither fixable nor forgivable.
#ParshaChat
Some things are neither fixable nor forgivable.
#ParshaChat
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A2 As usual I went to thetorah.com to see what they had, and the textual history article is a dilly 🤯 #ParshaChat. Looks like generations of authors kept revising the story bcuz they didn't like what they thought was the message
www.thetorah.com/article/dina...
www.thetorah.com/article/dina...
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A2 As usual I went to thetorah.com to see what they had, and the textual history article is a dilly 🤯 #ParshaChat. Looks like generations of authors kept revising the story bcuz they didn't like what they thought was the message
www.thetorah.com/article/dina...
www.thetorah.com/article/dina...
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Nobody in the entire story does the right thing. Shechem is a smug little Brock Turner putz, Hamot tries to sweep the whole thing under the rug, Shimon and Levi murder innocents along with guilty, and Jacob only cares about appearances. And Dina the narrative discards entirely
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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A2 On his deathbed, father Jacob says (Genesis 49:5-7), "Simeon and Levi are a pair; Their weapons are tools of lawlessness. Let not my person be included in their council. Let not my being be counted in their assembly. For when angry, they slay men, And when pleased they maim oxen." 1/2 #ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A2 On his deathbed, father Jacob says (Genesis 49:5-7), "Simeon and Levi are a pair; Their weapons are tools of lawlessness. Let not my person be included in their council. Let not my being be counted in their assembly. For when angry, they slay men, And when pleased they maim oxen." 1/2 #ParshaChat
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"If you'd just get surgery to rearrange your face to be more socially acceptable.." #ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"If you'd just get surgery to rearrange your face to be more socially acceptable.." #ParshaChat
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until she is raped, and then all of a sudden it’s a problem for him. Reminded me of the “she’s somebody’s daughter, somebody’s sister” talking point which is somewhat notorious in SA-advocacy circles because it defines value by relation to men
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
until she is raped, and then all of a sudden it’s a problem for him. Reminded me of the “she’s somebody’s daughter, somebody’s sister” talking point which is somewhat notorious in SA-advocacy circles because it defines value by relation to men
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A2: It seems to me that the narrator disapproves of most of what the men in this story do.
While I don't think it was read this way at the time. I think this text could be read as an illustration of the destructiveness of patriarchy.
#ParshaChat
While I don't think it was read this way at the time. I think this text could be read as an illustration of the destructiveness of patriarchy.
#ParshaChat
Q2: Does the narrator of the text seem to approve of any actions a character takes? Do they seem to condemn any? To take a neutral stance towards any? What do you make of this? #ParshaChat
Genesis 34, for #ParshaChat study of Vayishlach:
Sefaria: www.sefaria.org/Genesis.34?l...
Verses also threaded below
Sefaria: www.sefaria.org/Genesis.34?l...
Verses also threaded below
December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A2: It seems to me that the narrator disapproves of most of what the men in this story do.
While I don't think it was read this way at the time. I think this text could be read as an illustration of the destructiveness of patriarchy.
#ParshaChat
While I don't think it was read this way at the time. I think this text could be read as an illustration of the destructiveness of patriarchy.
#ParshaChat
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A2: No one in this story really wins. Everyone would be off with equality and treating women as people. #ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A2: No one in this story really wins. Everyone would be off with equality and treating women as people. #ParshaChat
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Yes, although, I do think it's very challenging on a number of levels to deal with the presence of this text in our sacred scriptures. #ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yes, although, I do think it's very challenging on a number of levels to deal with the presence of this text in our sacred scriptures. #ParshaChat
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In the text, we only see Dinah as having agency before the rape, and then everything afterwards is about men and their violent responses.
What I would really like to see is an interpretation that continues to treat her as a person throughout and after the violence.
#ParshaChat
What I would really like to see is an interpretation that continues to treat her as a person throughout and after the violence.
#ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
In the text, we only see Dinah as having agency before the rape, and then everything afterwards is about men and their violent responses.
What I would really like to see is an interpretation that continues to treat her as a person throughout and after the violence.
#ParshaChat
What I would really like to see is an interpretation that continues to treat her as a person throughout and after the violence.
#ParshaChat
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The thing that disturbs me about that kind of reading is that the text is fairly explicit about it being rape, and something doesn't quite sit right with me about rescuing the story by treating it as consensual. And... #ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The thing that disturbs me about that kind of reading is that the text is fairly explicit about it being rape, and something doesn't quite sit right with me about rescuing the story by treating it as consensual. And... #ParshaChat
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Spreading the word to never talk to cops is always a good idea
Hey guys this was us :)
May 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Spreading the word to never talk to cops is always a good idea
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Hasan Piker was detained by ICE and chose to talk to cops instead of shutting the fuck up.
Do not be like Hasan Piker. Be way smarter.
Never. Talk. To. Cops.
Do not be like Hasan Piker. Be way smarter.
Never. Talk. To. Cops.
May 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hasan Piker was detained by ICE and chose to talk to cops instead of shutting the fuck up.
Do not be like Hasan Piker. Be way smarter.
Never. Talk. To. Cops.
Do not be like Hasan Piker. Be way smarter.
Never. Talk. To. Cops.
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Defaulting to surgical masks in health care settings in 2025 is one of the most dissapointing examples of reluctance to change despite overwhelming evidence.
Even defaulting to KN95 style would significantly increase protection of the most vulnerable.
Infuriating inertia in the HC industry.
Even defaulting to KN95 style would significantly increase protection of the most vulnerable.
Infuriating inertia in the HC industry.
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Defaulting to surgical masks in health care settings in 2025 is one of the most dissapointing examples of reluctance to change despite overwhelming evidence.
Even defaulting to KN95 style would significantly increase protection of the most vulnerable.
Infuriating inertia in the HC industry.
Even defaulting to KN95 style would significantly increase protection of the most vulnerable.
Infuriating inertia in the HC industry.
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It would definitely be a lot worse if they expressed anger at her or blamed her.
That said, it disturbs me that no one asks her if she's ok or what she wants to have happen next. #ParshaChat
That said, it disturbs me that no one asks her if she's ok or what she wants to have happen next. #ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It would definitely be a lot worse if they expressed anger at her or blamed her.
That said, it disturbs me that no one asks her if she's ok or what she wants to have happen next. #ParshaChat
That said, it disturbs me that no one asks her if she's ok or what she wants to have happen next. #ParshaChat
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I totally hear you on that, and that's a reason that one of our starting assumptions in #ParshaChat is that we shouldn't always try to rescue the text.
Sometimes both the plain meaning of the text *and* traditional commentary on it are indefensible.
Sometimes both the plain meaning of the text *and* traditional commentary on it are indefensible.
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I totally hear you on that, and that's a reason that one of our starting assumptions in #ParshaChat is that we shouldn't always try to rescue the text.
Sometimes both the plain meaning of the text *and* traditional commentary on it are indefensible.
Sometimes both the plain meaning of the text *and* traditional commentary on it are indefensible.
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... that her free movement & the women of Shechem will be blamed. This is a setup to "prove" that nothing bad will happen to a woman who Knows Her Place
#ParshaChat
#ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
... that her free movement & the women of Shechem will be blamed. This is a setup to "prove" that nothing bad will happen to a woman who Knows Her Place
#ParshaChat
#ParshaChat
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A1 I notice this time that Dinah feels free enough to go out and see the women of the city of Shechem. The men of her family don't stop her (and there is no record that they went out before her), and she is not afraid to go out on her own. What do we make of this? #ParshaChat
December 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A1 I notice this time that Dinah feels free enough to go out and see the women of the city of Shechem. The men of her family don't stop her (and there is no record that they went out before her), and she is not afraid to go out on her own. What do we make of this? #ParshaChat
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It may not be an exaggeration to suggest that the radicalisation of Twitter into X was intentionally designed to lead to the exodus of significant groups of people in specific networks or sectors (say, academics, creative types) with the goal of weakening those networks in terms of solidarity.
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It may not be an exaggeration to suggest that the radicalisation of Twitter into X was intentionally designed to lead to the exodus of significant groups of people in specific networks or sectors (say, academics, creative types) with the goal of weakening those networks in terms of solidarity.