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Community Planner, AICP. Shammes for the @opensiddur Project. Concerned w/ shared systems/spaces/structures for recreation/re-creation and kind practices that encourage the maturation of emotional intelligence through curiosity, compassion, and creativity

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Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Take a moment to read this, and you will not regret it.
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This has to stop.
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 18/09/2026
The Kennedy Center is made of irreplaceable marble gifted by Italy. Matisse tapestries found throughout were gifted by France. The massive starburst chandelier in the opera hall and the lights along the walkways were gifts from Sweden. The record-breaking stage curtains were a gift from Japan.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 15/09/2026
stripping the planet for parts
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Miss Melancholy @villyne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
gotta bring this energy
Colin Dellow @cldellow • 19h
People always say cyclists need to be more afraid of cars, because in a collision, the car wins.
It doesn't have to be like that. We can _both_lose.
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Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג @gershomg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fear is what's driving the Netanyahu government's settlement frenzy - fear of losing the coming election, fear that despite all their efforts, the settlement project is indeed reversible. My latest @newlinesmag newlinesmag.com/argument/fac...
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Facing Elections, the Netanyahu Government Is Scared — and Reckless
The current Israeli government is the most extreme in the country’s history, and also one of its most durable. But polling numbers consistently show that Netanyahu’s coalition might not win the Oct. 2...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Most current GOP candidates focus on racial gerrymandering and purging African-Americans from the executive ranks of institutions like the military. But one GOP candidate likely to enter the Fla legislature appears to support literal lynching
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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@aharonium@kosmos.social @aharonium.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Really pleased to offer this to other projects that might be using Wordpress, or which might recycle the PHP for other platforms opensiddur.org?p=68930
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בִּרְכַּת כֹּהֲנִים: נְשִׂיאַת כַּפַּיִם | Birkat Kohanim: Nesíăt Kăpăyim hand gesture as displayed in Unicode and CSS (WordPress plugin by Aharon Varady) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַ...
A Wordpress plugin that renders the Unicode character "Vulcan Salute" (U+1F596) together with its mirror image as inline, bidi-safe markup -- in order to display, via shortcode, the traditional nesíă...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Mrs. Tetiana plays the piano in the ruins of her destroyed home Ukraine, August 30, 2026 📹: Iryna Shev/Facebook
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@aharonium@kosmos.social @aharonium.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Before Dr. Yoram Gnat passed away in 2016, he created the Proto-Canaanite font (distributed by the Culmus project). Proto-Canaanite.ttf contained multiple variants of ancient letter forms, unfortunately inaccessible unless you knew how to access them. I've fixed that here: opensiddur.org/help/fonts/
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Hebrew Fonts • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
Download and install our large collection of open-source, Unicode Hebrew fonts.
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Meechy Dorko @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 14/08/2026
this is the funniest political ad i've ever seen
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
they always bring up Israel too. Right-wing antisemites’ number one defense is always “how can I be an antisemite when I support the Jews all going somewhere else”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
Peggy Flanagan: "We need to rip ICE apart and stop from them from terrorizing our communities"
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hard to think of too many twentieth century thinkers who have been as fully vindicated in everything they feared as Yeshayahu Leibowitz.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Today we observe Porajmos (Roma Holocaust) Remembrance Day. on the night of 2–3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma were murdered at the Zigeunerfamilienlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember them and the half a million Sinti and Roma murdered by Nazi Germany and fascist collaborators. Na Bistaren.
Monument to the Memory of the Holocaust of the Romani in Borzęcin, Poland
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MindyGraz @melkleingraz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I used to tell a joke about Orpheus and Eurydice, but looking back, it was not a great idea... #TwinPeaksTheReturn #Cooper☕️🦉🌲🥧🍩🚥🌄
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
if you’re an immigrant and unemployed, you’re a freeloader, but if you’re gainfully employed, you’re stealing someone’s job. They just don’t want these people to exist except as targets for their hatred one way or the other bsky.app/profile/heba...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/07/2026
🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
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ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/07/2026
Fuck this guy forever. Hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest people have already died because of his casual cuts and so many more are doomed. He is one of mankind's most evil figures.
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@aharonium@kosmos.social @aharonium.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Anyone know what might be going on with embedded/shared resources from the @archive.org? Every embedded resource from the IA is returning 400 Bad Request errors. Hopefully it's something we can change on our end...
400 Bad Request returned to opensiddur.org in an embedded iframe to a resource shared through the Internet Archive.
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Book banners, beware the company you keep (though for some, this seems to be the company to which you aspire): “Franco’s regime … deemed [THE STORY OF FERDINAND] … openly pacifist … & banned it until his death. Hitler … termed it ‘degenerate democratic propaganda,’ and ordered that it be burned.”
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Ferdinand the Bull, Reluctant Culture Warrior
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is the most recent letter from hunger/labor striking prisoners at Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, NJ. "We appreciate the support of everyone who is protesting outside the facility. We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON’T GIVE UP!"
Translation from Spanish to English: We, the detainees at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, wish to express our objection to the violation of our rights as immigrant human beings. We, the detainees, are demanding our progressive release, based on the fact that our arrests were illegal; immigrants to this country have the right to await our pending immigration proceedings outside of prison; therefore, we demand to be released on bond or parole so that we may complete our proceedings.

Furthermore, we call for greater efficiency in our judicial processes, as well as greater effectiveness and urgency for those who request and sign their voluntary release; we believe it is unjust to keep people who wish to leave of their own free will in custody for up to three months.

In addition to the unlawful and forced detention of most of us who find ourselves locked up here, there is the inhumane treatment that all detainees in this facility endure on a daily basis. The company in charge (GEO) fails to meet the basic conditions necessary to protect our health and our lives. To their administrative incompetence, we must add the following injustices and irregularities perpetrated by ICE and GEO:

Food containing worms or in a state of decay.

Unresolved issues, particularly regarding the bathrooms, which are in terrible and inhumane condition.

Ventilation problems.Translation from spanish to english: Serious health issues: most people have a persistent flu with phlegm that won’t go away; many have conjunctivitis, urinary tract infections, fever, and coughs.

Medical care issues:

If you're sick, you have to submit a request that takes two weeks to be answered—or you never get a response at all.

Nurses refuse to treat you right away

They only prescribe Tylenol for all ailments

The nurses' exact words: "We're not a PHARMACY"

ICE agents coerce detainees into signing deportation orders

There is no emergency protocol: in cases of falls or attacks, emergency response arrives an hour late

Judges’ rulings are highly questionable; most bond requests are denied without legal basis

Detainees are forced to work, in most cases without pay, or for $1 an hour

We appreciate the support of everyone who is protesting outside the facility. We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON’T GIVE UP!

We ask all relevant authorities for an urgent response and look forward to hearing from them. With the utmost respect, the detainees at the Delaney Hall facility.

God bless you!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Re-upping this thread. And note that you can tell it's not really real because the number of genders in the supposed Talmud list keeps changing.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Kevin González is only 18. He is suffering from stage 4 colon cancer and has days to live. He’s desperate to spend his last moments with his parents, but ICE detained his mom and dad after they tried to seek humanitarian asylum.
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Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"After I die, you can eat my brain, and it will give you power." RIP Ted Turner
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
John Constable. Cloud Study 1821.
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1821, Oil on Paper, Laid Down on Board.
A small painting of rising cumulus clouds, with four small birds flying high amongst them. A thin strip of the green landscape below, suggesting hills & valley.
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@opensiddur@aleph.land @opensiddur.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
📖 ברכה ותהלה | Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923) opensiddur.org?p=65368 (fully transcribed by @aharonium.bsky.social)
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📖 ברכה ותהלה | Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923) is a collection of fifty teḥinot and devotional readings in vernacular English. The work ...
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Bearistotle @gnrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Something I wish these silly pieces would mention is that modern "live off the land" homesteading only rarely works now because of how marginal it is. If 350 million decided to "live off the land," it would be a disaster for everyone, including these people. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
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These Homesteaders Live Off the Land (and Prep for the End of the World)
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is very very big. Like a big deal and massive cuts. These can’t even be seen as budgetary since you don’t get much savings in the context of trillions budget. They want the US out of R&D out of science research.
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@aharonium@kosmos.social @aharonium.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Noticing that @archive.org Book_op is failing before any derive operations can take effect upon uploading new content today. The issue appears to be false positives in an automated virus scan. Getting this on multiple different clean documents. Is this process's "waiting for admin" a lost cause?
WARNING:root:Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/petabox/sw/bin/viruscheck.py", line 389, in retrying_post_multipart
    raise Exception('expected 200, got: %d' % response_code)
Exception: expected 200, got: 204

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/petabox/sw/bin/viruscheck.py", line 648, in 
    main()
  File "/petabox/sw/bin/viruscheck.py", line 633, in main
    vt.mark_if_checked(vt.q)
  File "/petabox/sw/bin/viruscheck.py", line 463, in mark_if_checked
    reports = self.get(list(record_by_sha1.keys()))
  File "/petabox/sw/bin/viruscheck.py", line 439, in get
    (response_code, json_result) = retrying_post_multipart(self.host, 'https://www.virustotal.com/vtapi/v2/file/report',
  File "/petabox/sw/bin/viruscheck.py", line 396, in retrying_post_multipart
    raise
RuntimeError: No active exception to reraise

FATAL ERROR: internal error in viruscheck program, see above
Exception at /petabox/www/common/Util.inc:133: /petabox/sw/task_control/bindfs-nsrun.sh RUN_VANILLA_TASK task_id=5289666839 /var/tmp/ns /24/items/HaggadahOfTheInnerSeder /petabox/sw/work/book_op.php task_id=5289666839 failed with exit code: 1
Command '['/petabox/sw/task_control/task_exec_internal.php', 'RUN_VANILLA_TASK', 'TASK_ID=5289666839']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I do not think "J-pilled" just means "skepticism of Israeli influence."
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Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A very punchable Nazi.
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hopefully her full story will be uncovered. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/24/a...
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Researchers at Art Gallery of Ontario identify painter and subject of 18th-century portrait of Black woman
Curators at the gallery are now piecing together the transatlantic journeys of Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman who travelled from present-day Guyana to Amsterdam and back
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 22/03/2026
If you do a lot of searching on the internet (as I do), this is a really useful article. Multiple things I didn’t know and will use going forward.
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Babs ✨💖 @little-babushka.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A low resolution photo of some flowers in a field and it says “Yeah I’m into BDSM. Bio-diversity supporting meadows”
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Kateryna Holota, a Ukrainian Defender from the Odesa region, died defending Ukraine. She was forever be 22. Kateryna joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2025. Eternal memory and eternal glory to Ukrainian Heroine.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 16/03/2026
While dropping off his kids, federal agents detained an Afghan refugee who served alongside U.S. special forces. He died less than 24 hours later. This is the 43rd death in ICE custody since Trump retook office. We need accountability and justice for all those who’ve died under their watch.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“I want to help people see what it means to be a neighbor and not just read Torah about what kind of neighbor we have to be, but actually get closer to our neighbors… We’re really trying to translate our story into our own obligations.”
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Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג @gershomg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
𝗪𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗴𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻. Things happen that you did not expect. Good commanders know this. Bad ones ignore it. (A brief summary of Von Clausewitz, "On War," Chapter 7, presented as a public service.)
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Yeah. I certainly don't like it. But I'm also fine with it as long as all Dems pledge to support a national redistricting law and reform the Court. But on this front, I agree: it's a classic case of GOP started it; Dems seem to be finishing it.
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@opensiddur@aleph.land @opensiddur.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
הַתְּפִלּוֹת שֶׁל מָרְדְּכַי וְאֶסְתֵּר | The Prayers of Mordekhai and Esther from Divrei haYamim l’Yeraḥmiel (ca. 11-12th c.) opensiddur.org?p=30495 (translated by Moses Gaster, transcribed by @aharonium.bsky.social, and cantillated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social) audio recording included!
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הַתְּפִלּוֹת שֶׁל מָרְדְּכַי וְאֶסְתֵּר | The Prayers of Mordekhai and Esther from Divrei haYamim l'Yeraḥmiel (ca. 11-12th c.) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
The dream and prayer of Mordekhai, and the prayer of Esther, as copied in the medieval pseudo-historical Chronicle of Yeraḥmiel.
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Malachi Ward @malachiward.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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@opensiddur@aleph.land @opensiddur.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Now available in our Hebrew Font Pack: Ilan Elovitz's rendering of the Romm publishing house's "Vilna" typeface opensiddur.org/help/fonts/ A persistent problem in many Hebrew fonts is implementing diacritic positioning logic. If you know how to migrate such logic btw/ fonts, please reach out
A rendering of the ABGAD according to the Hebrew (Ktav Ashuri) script in the "Vilna" typeface used by the Romm publishing house, by Ilan Elovitz
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“The Trump administration is doing Holocaust revisionism to avoid the possibility of empathy for migrants.” www.jta.org/2026/01/27/p...
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‘Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally,’ Trump antisemitism envoy says in refuting Walz’s ICE comparison - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun joined the US Holocaust museum in criticizing Walz.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
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The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Mood in minneapolis right now
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Case For A 100-Justice Supreme Court - www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/t... more original ideas from @mmasnick.bsky.social
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The Case For A 100-Justice Supreme Court
With the current mess that the US is in, there has been plenty of talk of “what comes after” and how to think about the big structural changes needed to prevent another authoritarian fr…
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