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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 6h

People are getting upset about this, the headline isn't helping, but the actual story involves a much less controversial use of AI (the translation was done by humans!) - OCR of difficult handwriting! (I suspected as much because Montreal, of all places, has a thriving secular Yiddish culture too)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

seen on my porch this morning

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 23h

even if you take 100% at face value that no one's safeword is being disregarded and that everyone going there knows exactly what is going to happen (a big if), that is clearly a "yes, I am more likely to view you as qualified and hire you if you have sex with me" from an attendee's own mouth.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 18h

the MISHNAH is spiritually israeli. and maybe the yerushalmi. but the bavli, the talmud that people mean when they say talmud without any other specifiers, is profoundly spiritually diasporic

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

whenever anyone says "watching a genocide in realtime," i know that they're one of the people who made a virtue of watching the eqiuvalent of LiveLeak videos and boiled their entire brain

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is not submitting to God's will and being sent on a futile mission of prophecy. This is ordering God to endorse the aggression the speaker has already decided on.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Isaiah volunteered without knowing what would be commanded of him. He was not telling the Lord what to do.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Blasphemy after blasphemy.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

See also: that guy who spent the night of Yom Kippur replying to me about how the Belleville synagogue shooting was justified resistance to Israel and Zionism, and then the shooter turned out to be right-wing former military who thought Jews created COVID.

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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are 8 days left and we are so close to meeting our goal! If this (or any excerpts from any of the other essays) speaks to you, please consider supporting!

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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

james madison wept

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if you take the other side of any of those arguments you are implicitly accepting that there is a real debate here. there is not. the world's richest man let food grain aid rot on shelves for basically no reason that is even remotely defensible.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You want an example of focusing on culture war bullshit instead of warfighting, THIS is it. Hegseth isn't worried about the fact that he's set US policy goals in the Gulf back literal decades, no, he's too busy monitoring soldiers' testosterone levels and reveling in what slurs he gets to use.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026

JCO is the internet's final boss. some days she's making Elon cry in the bathroom, some days she's bodying JD Vance, some days she's being breathtakingly racist, some days she's posting pics of her feet. it's best to just keep a safe distance. LOL

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"We'll make sure that any potential identity thieves can easily determine which mail includes your passport"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have noticed that the obnoxious STEM-lord shit has lead to an equally stupid negative polarization among some humanities types about how the brutish crypto-fascist ape-robots of STEM could never hope to understand the true subtleties of art or theory or whatever

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(fwiw while the printed versions will say 'who saves a life *in Israel*' other versions of the text exist, pirkei d'rabbi eliezer reads 'who saves a life' and various rishonim commenting before the first printing of the talmud also read it as 'who saves a life.')

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

Me pass through earth. Me float around. Me just get Job. Me change from caveman Satan to Cookie Monster Satan.

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

Look we've done the Tanach jokes to death, but "every day until get job" is caveman Satan

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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

theres a Jewish conspiracy to install railings on roofs and balconies

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's funny that one loud camp is (predictably) saying that Mamdani’s antisemitism plan is not Zionist enough, while another is claiming it's (somehow) too Zionist. What both overlook, because neither really care, is the project of fighting antisemitism in NYC on its own terms

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Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

See this would never happen in France because in France one egg is an oeuf

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch

Streamers, wary of both AI and YouTube’s infuriatingly un-transparent hall of mirrors, are not enthused about this new development.

“Ohhh so that’s why ad revenue dropped,” longtime streamer JP "itmeJP" McDaniel said on Twitter.

“I’m genuinely worried that the sheer fact that I’m a lesbian will cause the AI to remove ads,” said Vtuber LuminusRed. “In the past I’ve tested it and confirmed that I get less ad money if I had queer-related tags on my stream like ‘lesbian,’ so I am worried this dumb AI monitoring will mean I no longer get money from ads on Twitch.”

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(this does help make it clear why I am so frustrated by pro-Israel advocates who call allegations of genocide and other war crimes vs. Israel a blood libel. the Blood Libel is a conspiracy with a very specific meaning and history and it is something that still exists today.)

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

anyway, it should go without saying that it is, in fact, extremely easy to condemn genocide and war crimes and ethnic cleansing and apartheid committed by the modern State of Israel without endorsing antisemitic Blood Libel accusations from the Middle Ages as true

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t support all Jews, some of them are This Fucking Guy™️

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not new, but literally every shadow docket hearing, the Supreme Court is reinforcing its illegitimacy. It is not a court. It is not doing the work of a court. In the interest of the rule of law, we need to ultimately abide by its rulings, but there is no future without significant court reform

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☆.melsweets.☆ @melsweets.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

patch ideassss the transcend one speaks to me <3 inspired by various wall graffiti (mostly)

A bunch of doodles of potential patch ideas done in colorful markers. Text on the patches reads (from left to right, top down): "transcend", "it's never too late. we are eternal", "T4T", a small note next to a star saying "trans colors", "hungry? eat the rich", "missing?", "miau?" & "ambiguously gay vampire".

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A "statement of standards" is not an exemption from antitrust law.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This Schmitt and Smith nonsense is designed to confuse certain bilinguals such as myself What next, Koch vs Cook?

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We must secure a divorce so we can marry Erika and have white children

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you think that a society with generous pension provision is essentially stealing money from the working "young" to give to the old, then what exactly makes you different from someone who thinks disabled people are scroungers?

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 29/09/2026

So, fun fact: ever since 1994, and Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" campaign stunt, Congress has had a SERIOUS problem with subject-matter expertise and institutional memory. It's why Congress has such a deep and complicated relationship with lobbyists. 1/

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also “what if there were a lefty counter-billionaire” is maybe sort of interesting but his name is Oliver Queen and he’s also a masked superhero and they’ve been writing stories about the friction between them for like 50 years at this point

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm sorry, but I've never seen a poll question seemingly more designed to allow people to project a preferred meaning onto an insanely predictable result. Yes, this fits with folks wanting revolutionary political action. It also captures classic pox-on-both-houses low info independents.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I generally appreciate this thread and its ideas, but I take real issue with this particular post's ending, because it's not as though bad history hasn't done real harm, either. Bad engineering gets people killed, generally by accident. Bad history has been and still is used to justify murder.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026

Many low income people are in fact stay at home parents because the cost of daycare is so high that their salary if they went to work would not cover it.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Went to the Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band concert in DC with my wife and 5-year-old. It was excellent. Too loud (but in a normal rock concert way), and "Photograph" made me break down sobbing... but it was good.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nothing is inevitable save the increase in entropy. I think we (by which I mean cultural progressivism and tolerance generally, not any exact social, political, or economic model) will win, but it's never safe to take for granted.

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Economy Candy, which has sold sweet treats from the Lower East Side since 1937, typically ships about 30 to 50 packages of Sunkist gems every day, including to upward of 50 synagogues around the country." Great requiem for Fruit Gems:

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Sunkist Fruit Gems, Staple Candy of Bar Mitzvah Tradition, Are Discontinued (Gift Article)

The jelly candies were a staple at bar and bat mitzvahs and other Jewish celebrations for generations.

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This comes from a dumbass website called "He Cheated. Com" which says that trans people have a biological advantage in Chess, disc golf and darts.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Okay, sure, why not. 1995 was a big year for me. These are all really formative for me. Honorable mentions go to Microsoft Minesweeper, Space Cadet Pinball, and Anchorhead. Oh, and Pokemon Blue and Gold.

My 9 Games
The 9 Games That Shaped Who I Am
(Or really, my 9 most formative video games)
Command & Conquer
Torin's Passage
Mechwarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
Battle Beast
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
StarCraft
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Star Wars: Dark Forces

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In French class in high school we listened to Joe Dassin's "Le Petit Pain au Chocolat," and it's been a lurking earworm ever since. One wonderful thing about that song for me is that it has a great example of how idioms both can and can't be translated.

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