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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 3h

terrible move. history tells us the correct play is to abandon the city and defeat your adversaries at sea

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Academic urban legends - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014

Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently,...

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This puts into words a component of my unease in a way I hadn't been able

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

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have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

For instance: this is a Yiddish letter (1 of 5) that Rachel Zusman wrote to her son Moses in the 1560s. They were from Prague, but he lived in Cairo and she lived in Jerusalem. She tries to persuade him to move closer, even saying "may God forgive you that you made me so sad." @theul.bsky.social

A small, badly torn and waterstained corner fragment of a paper folio. About 15 partial lines of Yiddish text in brown ink are visible. The background is blue and a yellow label reads T-S AS 205.53 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AS-00205-00053/1)

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another day, another page from a manuscript unique in world history. This is the "Cambridge Yiddish Codex," the earliest known collection of Yiddish texts (1382 CE). It preserves Jewish homilies, animal fables, and a lost poem of the German epic tradition, "Dukus Horant." It was discovered in Cairo.

Light brown waterstained paper folio with about 20 lines of Yiddish text in brown-black ink, much of which is faded. The background is white and a small red caption reads T-S 10K22 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00010-K-00022/23).

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

The notation system is (apparently) called "Lombardic neumatic notation" and this video is a modern performance of one of Obadiah's manuscripts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxtL...

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Mi Al Har Horev - Obadiah the Proselyte

YouTube video by Mizmor LeDavid

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 05/10/2026

It’s fun when you have a layer of fat over firm muscle, it makes your body like one of those expensive mattresses

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What is Hosha'na Rabba? A thread of indeterminate length. Before we begin, a forewarning: I would like to avoid being the XKCD expert familiarity guy, so if there is anything I bring up which you do not understand and would like to, feel free to ask. It's a weird day with a lot going on

"Hoshana Rabba is second nature to us liturgists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Kol Mevasser and the Yamim Noraim additions."
"And cabbage, of course."
"Of course."

Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*to the tune of "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"* 🎶 Oy, what a day Screaming children give me such head pain I thought I'd never have peace and quiet again What a headache, what a day 🎶

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Ken Mahan @weatherken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The last 2 Octobers delivered massive Northern Lights events across New England & the U.S. Will see see a "threepeat"? We are quickly coming down from Solar Max 25, but the chances aren't zero. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/30/m... #aurora #northernlights #mawx #riwx #nhwx #boston @bostonglobe.com

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And for completeness, let me note that I think it's unlikely that either the Mishnah or the Qur'an borrowed from Schindler's List

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"True horror is seeing something approach" -William Friedkin

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After two long, demoralizing years of searching, I have just verbally accepted a full-time job and I am lucky enough that it seems engaging and interesting. What a lovely way to start the weekend חג שמח ושבת שלום

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It suddenly struck me why I've been mixing up the names of three of my students named Avi, Eli, and Ari. My brain has been jointly categorizing them as "first person singular possessive theophoric names" with no further distinction. I think this says a lot about me...

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also struggling with basic arithmetic around keeping score, which I normally have zero issues with even when I'm playing badly. I'm actually a tiny bit worried.

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A lousy day. Huge impostor syndrome when I inexplicably struggled with a basic 1D kinematics problem; I started mentally drafting a message returning my degree. Capped it off by playing piss-poor badminton, getting in my own head in a way I hadn't done in months, and leaving early. Boo.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When I posted my graphic about ‘to wait’ and ‘wachten’, many people asked if German ‘warten’ – with the same meaning – is related too. Nope! ‘Warten’ has its own huge family: ‘aware’, ‘wary’, ‘beware’, ‘to warn’, ‘ward’, ‘warden’, ‘guardian’, ‘lord’ – and that’s only English! Zoom in for more:

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another #photo for this week's #BlueskyArtShow theme : #golden “Evening Stroll Around the Reflecting Pool” flic.kr/p/2mB9x8d #photosky #photography #EastCoastKin #ReflectingPool #ChristianScienceCenter #BackBay #Boston #night #architecture

Color photo of the Christian Science Center reflecting pool and surrounding plaza at night showing the Mother Church and Colonnade Building illuminated with a golden glow. Boston’s Back Bay skyline surrounds the reflecting pool with One Dalton, the Prudential Tower, and 177 looming in the background.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do you have a favorite skyline

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My thread about antisemitism has turned antisemitic :(

A cropped screenshot showing that the top post in a thread has 14 reposts and 88 likes.

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The Integers, PhD @theintegers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have solved my trade deficit with the grocery store by deciding to starve to death

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

GEFILTE PHISHING

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

First up, a chart of Beit-Arié's classification of Hebrew scripts, to which I have added examples:

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For sure, though I do find that I burn out a bit after teaching that much, especially because I also have two other jobs as well, one of which is also student-facing. I enjoy them but it takes a lot out of me.

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Weirdly, yes. One school meets M/Th, one meets Sun/W, and the last meets Sun/T, so I miss Sunday for the last school but hit all the rest of the days. This potential fourth school is Sun/W but meets later and so in theory I could add it on...

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh yeah, then it sounds roughly equivalent. Across the three schools I do five days a week but no separate programs.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Separate things, yeah. Currently working at three Hebrew schools and also tutoring three b'nei miztvah kids.

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It wouldn't be *too* crazy to work at a fourth Hebrew school and take on three more b'nei mitzvah students, right? Sleep and mental health is overrated anyway...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I feel like a lot of conflict on this website boils down to people not understanding the difference between thinking something works a certain way and thinking that certain way is fair.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ayn Rand stabbed to death by level 2 goblin after rejection of altruism leaves her underleveled due to skipping all the side quests.

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Zhou N_{ly} @astronyooming.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New conspiracy theory: we Jews did 9/11 such that the 25th anniversary would line up on Rosh Hashanah. For reasons.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I really feel that, as someone who finished his undergrad in 2008, that I deserve to experience economic growth at some point. Just to feel something.

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