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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 17h

Fairly sure Larry was cousin to my mother's boyfriend

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 19h

I understand why we say Jews are a tribe, but, boy, is that nostalgia

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 23h

I don't typically see Jews refer to themselves here as Chosen People in a supremacist way -- probably because that's not what it means -- but I do see Christians cite 1 Peter 2:9 all the time on this site and nobody ever gets into a huff about that.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The bizarre audacity of being British and thinking anything you do will help things in West Asia in any way

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me: This is my girlfriend with our dog. My dog: We’re a throuple. Me: We are NOT a throuple.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

John Lennon: Lads, this is our new producer, George R.R. Martin! George R.R. Martin: Two suggestions: sing about dragons and never finish your final album.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me: Another fine day when Simon of Trent, one of the most grotesque medieval libels against Jews, leading to mass killings of Jews, has not come up by some sort of weird Simon of Trent truthers. Now to open social media.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My opinion on the genre of romance novels. I haven't read enough of it to have an opinion, and generally, I think having an opinion about an entire genre is a red flag.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sidney Sweeney occupies such a strange place in the culture wars that I refuse to address her possible conversion to Judaism as anything other than memetic until I see real confirmation.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hebrew Bible: And the Hebrews packed to leave Egypt. Hebrews: Can we bring our cats? Hebrew Bible: I don’t know what that is.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like that the theme of Marvel movies is “villain recognizes actual social ill, comes up with monstrous solution” vs “superheroes who stop him and then never address social ill.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Where do people get the idea that Jews see Jesus as a prophet? I can assure you we do not.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me: You know that scene in Ghost World where Seymour compulsively explains the difference between blues and ragtime to a woman he knows isn't interested? You: Yeah? Me: That's me and everything Jewish.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Policeman: Why did everyone attack? Ballroom attendee: The man in the back told us to. Policeman: Can you describe him? Attendee: His eyes were red as the sun?

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is impossible to understand Dennis Potter without British light jazz singer Al Bowlly, whose music Potter mined obsessively in his works.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a former horse boy, it is almost impossible to dramatically represent a horse in narrative fiction because how do you represent an enormous, ejective animal that will sometimes die of fear because it thought of a bee.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

RIP MightySparrow. I don't know how many people still love calypso, but every one of them is in mourning.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It got me a reasonable accommodation from the University of Minnesota that allowed me to compete my degree after 40 years.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Young Superman: (looking across the river at Gotham) Why does stately Wayne manor have such a huge cave under it?

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is ... unexpectly similar to the version by Monsoon

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE Shake your lulav Shake your esrog

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What would This Old House be like if it starred Gabe Kaplan instead of Bob Villa? I think it would go something like this: (Scream singing) THIS OLD HOUSE your dreams were your ticket out THIS OLD HOUSE is the same old house that you laughed about

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I am platforming this antisemite because he said one thing I agree with" is not a good look

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I like the fact that Sukkot was like a big tent festival in Jerusalem after the harvest. Sort of a Bronze Age farmers' market/Medieval fair/tent city/Wicker Man festival.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's sort of amazing when I see a post that says "Nobody hates the Jews, they are just angry at Israel." No, some people hate Jews. It's a thing. There's even a word for it.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me: Can you not be weird about the Jews on a Jewish holiday? Gentile: Which days aren't a Jewish holiday? Me: There are no days that don't have some sort of Jewish holiday on them.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me: (talking about my pet) That dog is crazy for foot. (Beat) That’s the name of Quentin Tarantino’s biography.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't think there is a wider gap between how much I like the art and how much I dislike the artist than Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI agents connected to long chain instruction relationships with Chatbots trained on hacking in a scenario designed to test their hacking are not "going rogue" when they do some hacking

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Job interviewer: It's very nice to meet you, Mr. Frank -- The monster: (standing to shake his hand). Francis. Francis N. Stein.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You'd do yourself a favor to look up the work of Bok. He's one of the most distinctive fantasy/science fiction illustrators of his era

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Somebody said the ape people on Arthur are Jewish and I thought I was reading a new antisemitic conspiracy theory but I looked it up and it's true

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Creators of the Hulk were like, what if a were-golem?

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Most Jewish groups have something you can be critical of, but most Gentiles don't know enough about Hasidism to offer more than warmed-over antisemitism. There are a lot of weird anti-Hasid slop videos showing up on this site, presenting them as clannish criminals.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Isaiah: Also, Cyrus? Cool guy, a homey. Israelites: We have never heard of this man. Isaiah: Yeah, that's one you're going to have to circle back on.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Diploma just arrived in the mail, almost 40 years to the day after I began the degree

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jewish cast members: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Sean Penn L’shana tova to Ridgemont High

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fans: Why are you bringing that up? He apologized! The celebrity apology: Sorry I pissed you off or whatever

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would say my favorite genre of British children's storytelling is "this perfectly ordinary object will take you somewhere amazing."

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My friend Alabama did not realize that some mythical figures from British folklore came to America and got into a life of crime, and I was like, haven't you heard of street gnome, Alabama?

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Everybody in Springsteen’s Glory Days is like 78 now

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've come to be wary of something I call the "secret anti-bean agenda." This is when someone presents a series of very commonplace and generally useful ideas and then smuggles in something absolutely off the wall.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Like, I was reading about Saul Berlin, an 18th-century scholar who wrote a collection of responsa and credited it to a Medieval rabbi. He took then-modern ideas -- like you can mourn a suicide -- and sent them back in time, bypassing the usual process of Jewish law by constructing a false history.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also it was written by the guy who invented this doll www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx2q...

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Foreigner fires up guitar for "Hot blooded" with all new dinosaur lyrics

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