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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 2h

Two days ago, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality painted over the faces we put up of Palestinian children killed in Gaza by the Israeli government.

So yesterday, we went back and put their faces up again.
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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 3h

Some day the original DC Universe Unlimited will return.

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 3h

The new Crunchyroll Manga app lets you switch seamlessly from anime to manga. Imagine if Marvel had that deal with Disney Plus, or DC with HBO Max?

Marvel And DC Should Take Tips From The Crunchyroll Manga App

The new app allows you to switch seamlessly between Crunchyroll's anime and manga.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, the 2000 election & the 2016 election

Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 6h

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

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Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 4h

They were calling for a unilateral ceasefire and for dismantling Israel altogether, days after October 7th. They tore down posters of hostages.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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OneFein...Bat? Like, for Halloween or whatever? @onefeincat.bsky.social · 6d

One God, No Masters.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6d

No kings except Hashem.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 15h

Wikipedia and TV Tropes have been bad for literature.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 16h

There was one time in 3rd grade when my teacher asked me for my home phone number and I could only remember by best female friend's home number.
Shout out to Misha.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 22h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 17h

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ALT: a cartoon hand reaching out towards a purple object

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 18h

We’re just normal men

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Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 21h

Wanting more housing is apparently a thing you can blame on the Jews now.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 18h

The Israeli government prefers a weakened Hamas in a besieged Gaza, to any alternative administration (including a neo-colonial one run by Blair).
A besieged, impoverished, ruined and unstable Gaza leaves open the prospect of ethnic cleansing and occupation.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h

👇🎯 Joe Biden, who was president during ceasefires in which 100 hostages were released, quite famously never received the same Leni Riefenstahl moment & grading-on-a-curve treatment from major media outlets in 2024. Whatever one thinks of him or Trump on this issue, this is massive goalpost shifting.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 19h

It does make me wonder how much of Asian! Betsy was Jim Lee vs Claremont. Claremont was (being forced to) give his artists more of a say in his plots around that time.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 20h

חג סוכות שמח

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 23h

"Columbus Day:" No one wants it. No one wants to celebrate it. Perfectly decent Monday in October saddled with the name of a rapist.

"Titus Pullo Day:" 100% participation. Wine flows freely. Someone says "THIRTEEN!" and everyone responds. Boring old October Monday turned great fun.

A picture of Ray Stevenson as Titus Pullo from ROME

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a beard and a bandana on his neck is sitting in a car and making a funny face .

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

After two long years being held captive by Hamas, the 20 living Israeli hostages were released and are finally home.

There’s still much work that remains to ensure lasting peace but the hostage release and ceasefire serve as critical steps toward closure and hope for the future.

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 1d

We await the world that the Talmudic blessing refers to: The world to come, when all people will enjoy a world with no war, no starvation, no illness; when swords are beaten into ploughshares, and the nations of the world will study war no more. It is on us to work for and realize that world.

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 1d

As peace returns to the Levant, here is some fun Israeli music asking What does it cost to dream?

יקיר ששון ואריאל זילבר - מה זה עולה לך לחלום

YouTube video by Quarter to Africa

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 1d

This is what we’ve been fighting for, and this is what we will continue fighting for: freedom and safety for every single person on this land.

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M.O.D.O.X. @modox613.bsky.social · 1d

Since we’re on the topic, I find the “food is cultural appropriation“ crowd to be even more insufferable than the “eating meat is worse than the Holocaust” crowd.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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