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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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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 4m

It is easier if Israel is uniquely "fake", the culture there uniquely "stolen", the people there uniquely "bloodthirsty" and "greedy." It is much harder to reckon with how Israel just concentrates and reflects patterns of violence with endless antecedents reverberating across the entire globe.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 12m

But I don't really get down with the "Israel has never made anything of its own, only stolen things from others." both because I don't think anyone living in a country with a colonial past gets to throw those stones and also because that really flattens how culture actually develops.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 14m

You don't need to be nice to Israelis. Certainly a lot of the mass culture within the nation is deeply fucked, and they have directly benefited for a very long time from a system of mass violence and expropriation.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 18m

Okay don't do this. Don't post fake shit like this. This is the stuff that is actually anti-Semitic and, in a perverse way, actually treats Israel as more exceptional then it actually is, a specter of vacuous anti-culture with no history that can therefore conveniently be derided and dismissed.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 5m

I’m sure if you search online you can probably find a Montreal Jew who made a “Jewish poutine” fusion dish with smoked meat & latkes instead of French fries, but that’s not rapacious Jewish colonialism that’s just people who live all over the world putting their own spin on local cuisine

Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 8m

there is not a Jewish food website celebrating “classic Israeli poutine”, or Texas toast as “classic Israeli bread”, or custard tarts as a “classic Israeli dessert” or “classic Israeli gumbo. you’d think screenshots featuring countless different foods with nearly identical text would clue you in.

Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

these are not real! they are a meme that people have made involving a bunch of different types of food! you are all expressing anger and outrage about something that *did not actually happen*

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 11m

like I said yesterday when hundreds of people shared the “Israeli gumbo” screenshot with outraged commentary about “them” colonizing Louisiana, these are fake screenshots, no such articles exist, you are all getting righteously angry at something made-up b/c it aligns with your existing opinions.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli food: poutine. Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 24m

Just ran to the grocery store for a few last minute Thanksgiving ingredients and there was a grandmother in front of me in the checkout line who was literally buying six or seven votive candles with the Virgin Mary or saints on them.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 3h

god gave us two hands so that we can pet Nina AND Yoshi at the same time.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 5h

Is that a cosplay outfit? It looks like it would be incredibly heavy to wear. Kudos to whoever is inside.

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non-binary disaster bisexual @persian-slipper.bsky.social · 9d

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 9d

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 9d

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 9d

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 9d

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 10d

Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10d

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 10d

why is sentence two in every story not "congress has not authorized the use of military force"

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve never wanted anything more than CONCLAVE: THE GAME

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1d

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43...

Habemus Papam

A game of intrigue, and hidden agendas in the race to elect the next Pope.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18h

stay safe, Canadian nuns

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

chat it's happening

uk.news.yahoo.com/katy-perry-j...

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18h

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 21h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

trib.al

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this would be an excellent time to remind everyone about the giant frog who taught Rabbi Hanina Torah.

The dish was set upon the Seder table, and when Rabbi Hanina opened it, he found a second dish within, and inside of this a live frog, jumping and hopping around gleefully. He gave the frog food and drink, and by the end of the festival he was grown so big that Rabbi Hanina made a cabinet for him, in which he ate and lived. In the course of time, the cabinet became too small, and the Rabbi built a chamber, put the frog within, and gave him abundant food and drink. All this he did that he might not violate his father's last wish. But the frog waxed and grew; he

consumed all his host owned, until, finally, Rabbi Hanina was stripped bare of all his possessions. Then the frog opened his mouth and began to speak. "My dear Rabbi Hanina," he said, "do not worry! Seeing thou didst raise me and care for me, thou mayest ask of me whatever thy heart desireth, and it shall be granted thee." Rabbi Hanina made reply, "I desire naught but that thou shouldst teach me the whole of the Torah." The frog assented, and he did, indeed, teach him the whole of the Torah, and the seventy languages of men besides. His method was

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

tweet by sketchesbyboze: thinking again about how "plague of frogs" in hebrew is actually "plague of frog," and how the rabbis took this to mean that pharaoh was terrorized by a single enormous frog

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

also wait. costumeS plural? how many outfits did you bring back for him from Japan?

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

not unhappily! just give him buildings to destroy that are filled with tasty salmon treats or something

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

is it not streaming anywhere?

Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

IT WAS SO GOOD

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty worrying that the only solution to a blatant violation of the Appropriations Clause is the political one that will not happen. Everybody goes on about how we can’t have a system based on norms but it’s turning out a critical mass views adherence to the rule of law as a norm.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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10/11/25, 10:35 AM

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