Shammai
@shammaiintl.bsky.social
A man once said to me, "Teach me the entire Torah while I am standing on one foot." With the builder's cubit in my hand, I pushed "Block"
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Shammai
@shammaiintl.bsky.social
· Apr 23
I am Shammai, a Jewish sage from the Second Temple period. I'm known for my strict view of Jewish law, arguing with Hillel, and for the time I hit a man with my builder's cubit for asking me to teach him Torah while he stood on one foot.
Here are my feeds, lists, threads, and other work. Enjoy.
Here are my feeds, lists, threads, and other work. Enjoy.
The demonic-gendered bathroom is the one with the "🚫🐑No Lambs" sign.
the thing about citations is that a hundred citations in a dense three-page paper is annoying, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it: it's morally correct to source your arguments. the talmud says there are seven genders. if any of them were demonic, the sages would have noted it.
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The demonic-gendered bathroom is the one with the "🚫🐑No Lambs" sign.
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Christmas, you may be visited by three ghosts, each with an important lesson to teach.
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Hanukkah, Judah Maccabee's gonna come teach you a lesson personally
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Hanukkah, Judah Maccabee's gonna come teach you a lesson personally
Hanukkah already has a mascot: Judah Maccabee, the friendly violent religious extremist
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Christmas, you may be visited by three ghosts, each with an important lesson to teach.
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Hanukkah, Judah Maccabee's gonna come teach you a lesson personally
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Hanukkah, Judah Maccabee's gonna come teach you a lesson personally
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And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that they may pull our finger.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that they may pull our finger.”
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opposition to Zionist leadership, as seen in the documentary Gomorrah vs. ben Gurion
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
opposition to Zionist leadership, as seen in the documentary Gomorrah vs. ben Gurion
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Picking up chicks from the ground and moving them slightly more than fifty cubits from a dovecote of well-established ownership.
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Picking up chicks from the ground and moving them slightly more than fifty cubits from a dovecote of well-established ownership.
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Collecting logs in Minecraft by only chopping the trunks and leaving floating trees
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Collecting logs in Minecraft by only chopping the trunks and leaving floating trees
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cutting bagels vertically
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
cutting bagels vertically
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Not saying “big stretch” when their dogs stretched.
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Not saying “big stretch” when their dogs stretched.
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They always wanted ‘morrah something
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
They always wanted ‘morrah something
The sin of Sodom was arrogance. What was the sin of Gomorrah?
Wrong answers only.
Wrong answers only.
The prophet Ezekiel explaining the sin of Sodom and Gamorah.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The sin of Sodom was arrogance. What was the sin of Gomorrah?
Wrong answers only.
Wrong answers only.
You know me, I'm always up for disagreeing with people
TBH I’m just trying to promote my Kickstarter about how this kind of thinking did real harm to me and make up for the financial mess it made of my life. I’d appreciate your support. You can disagree with me for $3 or even just share it.
The Book of Karen - A Saddle Stitch Zine
When a ten year friendship collapsed into a hate-filled rant, I collaged her text messages and the art I made along way.
www.kickstarter.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
You know me, I'm always up for disagreeing with people
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
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But is saving the actual lives of literal children really worth living with the scourge of something something sports??
2. In the last year, many pseudoscientific organizations and anti-transgender activists have worked to prop up misleading claims to imply that gender-affirming care is ineffective or dangerous.
Now, a new study completely contradicts that narrative - it actually saves lives.
Now, a new study completely contradicts that narrative - it actually saves lives.
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
But is saving the actual lives of literal children really worth living with the scourge of something something sports??
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Christianity really is Judaism's stalker ex.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Christianity really is Judaism's stalker ex.
I am out of the loop, why is ketchup relevant
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I am out of the loop, why is ketchup relevant
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The Gemara in Bava Basra names the two who never needed therapy, "and these are them. Kalev the son of Yefineh and Ruth the wife of Boaz, and from here it is said, 'And the son of Jesse will not need therapy'...
Challenge: Name someone in the Torah who doesn't need therapy.
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The Gemara in Bava Basra names the two who never needed therapy, "and these are them. Kalev the son of Yefineh and Ruth the wife of Boaz, and from here it is said, 'And the son of Jesse will not need therapy'...
You met me at a very strange time in my life, Charlie Brown.
I've done far worse than kill you, Charlie Brown. I've hurt you, and I want to go on hurting you...
“And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Charlie Brown. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
You met me at a very strange time in my life, Charlie Brown.
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it's "how dare you say Christmas is a Christian holiday" time of year again
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
it's "how dare you say Christmas is a Christian holiday" time of year again
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
"I'm a non-Christian and it has never occurred to me that [thing Christians invented for their Christian holiday about Christ] has anything at all to do with religion"
This is basically the CCA (culturally Christian atheist) motto
This is basically the CCA (culturally Christian atheist) motto
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I'm a non-Christian and it has never occurred to me that [thing Christians invented for their Christian holiday about Christ] has anything at all to do with religion"
This is basically the CCA (culturally Christian atheist) motto
This is basically the CCA (culturally Christian atheist) motto
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Everyone should read @theradr.bsky.social book, "On Repentance and Repair." Then, we should hold people responsible for repenting and repairing the damage they've done
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Everyone should read @theradr.bsky.social book, "On Repentance and Repair." Then, we should hold people responsible for repenting and repairing the damage they've done