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Religious Studies & Hebrew Bible PhD student📚/Jewish✡️/ADHD & Autistic🎧/Myth & Religion Nerd🏺/Recovering Attorney ⚖️/Perpetually Sleepy💤 (she/her)

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · Oct 18

A little about me:

I’m an #Autistic #PhD student in #ReligiousStudies, researching myth & ritual in the Hebrew Bible. I was an attorney for 10yrs, until I hit autistic burnout & decided to build a new career around my special interests in myth & religion. Nice to meet you all!

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 7h

She’s already beaten Let’s Go Eevee, & she got her eighth badge in Pokemon Sword yesterday! She is the littlest Pokemon Master :)

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 11h

My 6yo wants me to tell you all that her favorite is Wishiwashi. (It’s tiny, but schools up with other Wishiwashi to make a big, scary form.)

The two forms of the Pokemon Wishiwashi. The Solo form is a tiny blue and silver fish with giant eyes, that always appear to be crying. The School form is a large, angry-looking blue fish made up of hundreds of tiny solo form Wishiwashi.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 12h

Aaaah I know, right?? Big squishy cutie 🥰

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 12h

Golem does explode a little too often for me. If we’re doing ground types, there is only Garchomp for me. His whole body is a mouth for going “CHOMP!!”

The pokemon Garchomp, a navy blue bipedal dragon with a shark tail and torpedo-like extensions on either side of its head. Its front is yellow and red, and it has horns growing on its arms and legs, which gives the combined impression of a giant mouth with teeth.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 12h

Jellicent is in my top 10, for sure :)) Which do you like better, queen or king? I prefer the queen, but the king has a wonderful mustache 😂

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 12h

Waiting for flying eevee, personally :)

Wonder what a fighting eevee would even look like lol.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 12h

1. Charizard. No question. Fire-breathing flying dragon big enough to ride on. What more could I want?

2. Vaporeon
3. Garchomp
4. Gengar
5. Alcremie

But also Jellicent, Sir Fetch’d, & Galarian Rapidash. I like Pokemon, ya know?

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 13h

Name your fav Pokémon.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 13h

One of my biggest disappointments, as a linguist in the US, is that we're gonna have a dictator and we're not even on track to get some kind of reasonable orthographic reform out of it.

(Please do not take this skeet too seriously.)

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 13h

Lol Jews don’t evangelize. Rather keep to ourselves. This is probably some weird Israeli org using diaspora Jews for labor.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 13h

(I’m pretty sure the original image is a satire, but it’s a satire that reflects ignorance about the foodways of diaspora Jews.)

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 13h

My paternal grandma’s family is from New Orleans, & part of the family is still there. Jews live everywhere. We take part in the cultures of the places we live, & transform them as well. We are part of the cultures where we live, not strangers or outsiders.

🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · 16h

What’s weird about this meme is 1) seeing some of the comments conflate Judaism with Israel but also 2) the ignorance of very long standing Jewish communities in the South who have been making gumbo for a long time.

Here’s one family’s recipe for kosher gumbo: jewishsa.org/kosher-chick...

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 13h

Almost done. I spent most of yesterday playing, & finished the main story. Just wrapping up some sidequests & relationships. Then I’ll exorcise this hyperfixation (get bored) & be able to focus on classes again! #AuDHD #ADHD

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 2d

Hades II is currently more appealing to me than reading about ancient Israelite religion. This is one strong hyperfixation! It takes a lot to distract me from mythology! It’s probably only possible because Hades is a mythology-themed game 😂 #Autistic #AuDHD

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

They're cutting religious studies programs so everyone can study tech, just when the tech world increasingly demands religious studies education to understand it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 1d

Like an experimental alt-rock band's third album, RFK's baseless conspiratorial assertion that circumcision is associated with autism takes his prior antisemitic work and extends it in an exciting new direction.

First They Came For Tylenol, Now Circumcisions

The latest stop in the RFK/Trump team's conspiracy-addled rampage against science was an assertion that "circumcisions" may be a cause of au...

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Jewish coded, & it threatens their dicks. They hate & fear it.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 1d

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1d

God is autistic

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1d

Why do you want to eliminate autism? Leave autistics out of this, we didn’t ask to become boogiemen & butts of jokes.

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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing that it needs to be said, but we should listen to autistic people about autism. (And autistic people, like any other group of people, also have a range of perspectives and experiences -- this is just one!) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Autism is not your enemy

It isn’t the misinformation that troubles autistic people the most. It’s the subtext that the world would be better off without us.

www.latimes.com

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1d

You’re going to wipe us out, & you think it’s a kindness. No matter what we say.

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1d

See, you think you know better. You won’t even listen. You have no clue.

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1d

Wanting autistic people not to exist anymore is hate.

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it’s hate. You’ve decided to “cure” & “prevent” us (abort us before birth) rather than learning to live with us as human beings. We really didn’t ask for your “concern,” but you don’t care what actual autistic people want or need. You think you know better.

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RNS @rns.org · 1d

A new ISPU poll to be released later this month, said researcher Dalia Mogahed, shows that American Muslim and American Jewish attitudes toward the war and the rights of Palestinians are indistinguishable when it comes to the war in Gaza.
religionnews.com/2025/10/09/a...

American Jews and Muslims celebrate ceasefire deal, but cautiously

(RNS) — Many expressed relief at the prospect of an end to the two-year war but pointed out that ceasefires have been broken before.

religionnews.com

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V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · 1d

...now I'm wondering if it's really ontological change if archaeology can't detect it in a 1300-year-old sample.

Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 1d

I'm delighted by the news of the discovery of 1300-year-old Christian bread, possibly communion bread, but do wonder about the liturgical implications. Does this belong in a museum or a tabernacle? Is it still Jesus from a religious perspective? www.anatolianarchaeology.net/1300-year-ol...

1,300-Year-Old Communion Bread Unearthed in Karaman: Inscribed “With Gratitude to Blessed Jesus” - Anatolian Archaeology

Archaeologists in Karaman, Türkiye, uncovered 1,300-year-old Communion bread featuring a Greek inscription “With Gratitude to Blessed Jesus”

www.anatolianarchaeology.net

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