Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
limited wit & the worst lines in Pundom | za’atar & insulin enthusiast | sporadically @singlesjukebox.bsky.social | MTL expat in Toronto with bagel opinions & T1D | crim appellate law | Jew for a Free Palestine | DuJour means seatbelts | 38🏳️🌈✡️
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Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
· Nov 17
to misquote @kierongillen.bsky.social: I don’t believe in modern love, but do believe in ‘This Modern Love’.
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There's a guy on Twitter who posted about Rob Reiner's perfect run of films and included North. Every time someone calls out North, he says "Not the time, 2 people are dead." It's making me laugh until I cry, and I'm confident Rob Reiner would have found it hilarious.
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
There's a guy on Twitter who posted about Rob Reiner's perfect run of films and included North. Every time someone calls out North, he says "Not the time, 2 people are dead." It's making me laugh until I cry, and I'm confident Rob Reiner would have found it hilarious.
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One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
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one of the only other directors to come to mind with as chameleonic a grasp of cinematic grammar such that he could do almost any genre and do it so well he was beloved by generations after in each one was my beloved robert wise. two bobs, alike in dignity and skill. may their memory linger on.
The thing about Reiner’s early run isn’t just how good it is but also how different it is: This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men
December 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
one of the only other directors to come to mind with as chameleonic a grasp of cinematic grammar such that he could do almost any genre and do it so well he was beloved by generations after in each one was my beloved robert wise. two bobs, alike in dignity and skill. may their memory linger on.
The thing about Reiner’s early run isn’t just how good it is but also how different it is: This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The thing about Reiner’s early run isn’t just how good it is but also how different it is: This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men
this is my type of Chanukah food
December 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
this is my type of Chanukah food
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Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
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I will say that it’s the best possible platform to be reminded what religion I am. Basically the main function of its remaining user base
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I will say that it’s the best possible platform to be reminded what religion I am. Basically the main function of its remaining user base
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A father and son committing an antisemitic mass shooting together is one of the more horrific things that have entered my consciousness this year.
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A father and son committing an antisemitic mass shooting together is one of the more horrific things that have entered my consciousness this year.
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Chag Hanukkah sameach. I’m hoping for a year of so much light that no one—no one—has to be resilient.
December 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Chag Hanukkah sameach. I’m hoping for a year of so much light that no one—no one—has to be resilient.
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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bari weiss currently getting her ass kicked by Nice Bri'ish Boys Make A Cheeky Pie, Right, Sorted, 'at Hits The Spot It Does
December 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
bari weiss currently getting her ass kicked by Nice Bri'ish Boys Make A Cheeky Pie, Right, Sorted, 'at Hits The Spot It Does
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We are called upon to place our hanukiahs outside the front door or in the window; “in a time of danger, placing it on a table will suffice.”
This should not be a time of danger. It must not be a time of fear.
Happy Hanukkah.
This should not be a time of danger. It must not be a time of fear.
Happy Hanukkah.
December 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We are called upon to place our hanukiahs outside the front door or in the window; “in a time of danger, placing it on a table will suffice.”
This should not be a time of danger. It must not be a time of fear.
Happy Hanukkah.
This should not be a time of danger. It must not be a time of fear.
Happy Hanukkah.
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Hello, darkness, you old bitch (it’s 5:06pm what the heck)
December 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Hello, darkness, you old bitch (it’s 5:06pm what the heck)
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The most chaotic spelling of the holiday that starts tonight is "Janice."
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The most chaotic spelling of the holiday that starts tonight is "Janice."
Death toll now up to 16, including a 12 year old.
. ברוך דין האמת
. ברוך דין האמת
Gunmen kill at least 16 people in attack on Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach
The massacre was declared a terrorist attack due to the event targeted and weapons used, said Sydney’s premier.
www.thestar.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Death toll now up to 16, including a 12 year old.
. ברוך דין האמת
. ברוך דין האמת
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BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
cbsn.ws
December 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
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The Trump administration has opened an investigation into Boston’s affordable housing policies, accusing the city of engaging in a “racialist theory of housing justice” that discriminates against white people.
Trump's HUD accuses Boston of engaging in "redlining" against white people
More than 50 years ago, the Trump family faced a similar government challenge for refusing to rent to Black people.
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Trump administration has opened an investigation into Boston’s affordable housing policies, accusing the city of engaging in a “racialist theory of housing justice” that discriminates against white people.
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Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.
Donate to Help EmissaryOfNight Pay Emergency Expenses, organized by Y, Al-Sheikh
I'm a blind writer and analyst who was just recently removed from receiving S… Y, Al-Sheikh needs your support for Help EmissaryOfNight Pay Emergency Expenses
gofund.me
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.
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Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
December 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
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THREAD.
A collection of photographs of birds I have met in the UK countryside.
You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of birds I have met in the UK countryside.
You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.
December 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
THREAD.
A collection of photographs of birds I have met in the UK countryside.
You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of birds I have met in the UK countryside.
You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.
“No, I will not pose for a cute picture. I require a chin scratch. Put down the phone and scritch my ears!!!”
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“No, I will not pose for a cute picture. I require a chin scratch. Put down the phone and scritch my ears!!!”
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The bystander was himself shot by a second gunman while disarming the first. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed and he’s a hero. Unbelievable bravery.
thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
Bondi hero who tackled shooter suffered two gunshot wounds
The hero who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters has been identified as a father-of-two.
thenightly.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The bystander was himself shot by a second gunman while disarming the first. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed and he’s a hero. Unbelievable bravery.
thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...