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Liz Shayne
@lizshayne.bsky.social
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Rabbanit, digital books enthusiast, student of Halacha, accidental creator of curious data viz, knitter, autistic. Talks about all of the above. (she/her)
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I would like the bookstore to send along some extra time to read when I order this many books…
@tkingfisher.com, @koshersoul.bsky.social, @bogiperson.bsky.social,
A stack of six books sitting on their side. From top to bottom: T. Kingfisher’s Snake Eater Bogi Takács’ Song of Spores Angela Buchdahl’s Heart of a Stranger Ilana Kurshan’s Children of the Book Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field, Book III in The Book of Dust Michael Twitty’s Recipes from the American South.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This quote from Daniel Bowman Jr.’s book On The Spectrum hit hard because the voice that says “you’re using autism as an excuse get out of mitzvot” or “if you cared about your rabbinate, you wouldn’t let being autistic stop upu” still whispers sometimes.
And knowing I’m not alone in that helps.
A picture of a page from Daniel Bowman Jr.’s book “On the Spectrum”. “Cue the guilt and shame that says, You aren't made for this world. There's no place for you here, and you are less-than for not being able to make this work. It's your fault. And if you view, as I do, making culture in your community as an act of your Christian taith; it you see the development of a sate, inspiring environment where all are welcome to cultivate the truits of the spirit as expressed in the arts as an act of spiritual discipleship ... well then the voice becomes more ominous: If you were a better Christian, you would do it. Take up your cross. You're selfish. Lazy. Worthless. You're not contributing. You're not serving. Do you even love your neighbor? Much of my life has been plagued by that devil voice, the declarations of internalized ableism-conflating standard neurotypical social behavior with Christian service. And feeling self-hatred because I often wasn't up to it.”
July 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Them: Why is there a rabbit in the haggadah?
Me:
The mocking spongebob meme with the word YaKNeHaZ on top and a small bunny underneath. Yaknehaz is the acronym that tells you the order of blessings with Shabbat and Festivals coincide AND also sounds like the phrase jag den Has in German, meaning hunt the hare. Which is why someone really needs to write the Runaway Bunny Haggadah
March 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
An image of a tweet. The top says “the wizard: I’m a fraud and you’re an enemy of the state now”. Right underneath is a screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Greenwich Mean Time.
January 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I will take basically any excuse to quote the end of Middlemarch, but also…the end of Middlemarch.
From Middlemarch: Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. (This part until the end is highlighted) Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
January 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I tell people what to tell other people to do. Also sometimes I tell other people what to do.
Poorly explain what you do for a job.
December 31, 2024 at 5:12 AM
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Without downloading any new pics how are you mentally?
A frame from the animated movie Hercules of a decidedly singed man holding up a decidedly singed black cat. In the film, his dialogue is “except for old Snowball here.”
November 5, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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While I can’t take on another embroidery project, it turns out there’s ALWAYS time for more knitting.
So I present: the 2024 Book Scarf project! With the first three books already knitted.
Ten half used skeins of yarn, each a different color, next to a scarf with 12 rows already knit in 3 different colors and patterns. There’s also a cardboard swatch card that says which color corresponds to which yarn. A closeup on my swatch card. Each of ten genres had a scrap of yarn attached next to it. The ten categories of books are fantasy (white yarn with confetti dots), Sf/spec fic (grey), romance (mottled purple), contemporary (hot pink), mystery (bright blue), memoir (black), science (dusky pink), history (mottled grey), theory and practice (gold), and religion (deep purple). There’s also a note in the middle that says Print=Rib, Audio=Twisted Rib, and ebook=seed (stitch).
January 10, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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You’re not a coward ‘cause you cowered, you’re brave because the broke you yet broken still you breathe.
A request for the best single line from a song with the silhouette of a guitar neck in the picture.
December 27, 2023 at 12:46 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
The phrase "I always thought I'd grow up to be Belle. Turns out I'm this lady" superimposed over a very stressed animated woman holding two babies and yelling "I need six eggs!"
December 14, 2023 at 7:05 PM
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Update: Mittens accomplished. A Chanukah gift for a Jane Austen fan.
A pair of hand knit mittens with a variegated burgundy background and a diamond pattern in pale pink. In the middle of each mitten is a silhouette style portrait. The two silhouettes are looking at each other.
December 6, 2023 at 9:24 PM
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Also, this citation towards the end:
-Lead with humanity and the basic value of safety; not a listing of atrocities that cause many to turn away rather than engage. - Use precise language in calling out villains. This means always specifying the leadership responsible for atrocities and not impugning all Israelis or Palestinians as a people. -Judge people by their actions, not their identities. - Do show how specific people made choices that led to the immediate and long-standing problems. -Don’t attribute responsibility to abstract concepts – for example, “occupation,” “terror,” or “Zionism.” People cannot organize or take action against ideas; but they can take concrete steps to alter the behaviors of decision makers in power. - Help your audience locate themselves in the story: show how the interests and needs of Israeli and Palestinian people in the region are shared, avoid narrative traps that pit one group against the other, and show how the American government is involved and can be part of a solution.
November 14, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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The fuzzy muppets known (to me) as the Yip yips; describable mostly as chenille puppets with ping pong ball eyes and the words "yip yip" and "uh-huh uh-huh" next to them. They strongly agree.
November 9, 2023 at 2:53 PM
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Reskeet with the fictional character you base your personality around:
Elphaba as played by Idina Menzel (green woman in a witch costume) who, like me, takes questionable fashion advice from my better dressed friends.
August 6, 2023 at 4:08 AM