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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You could not imagine a more blatant breach of the First Amendment.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Respectfully, what this commentator misses is that much of romance is already algorithmic, even if it is human-generated. Any genre that puts "tropes" first reduces art creation to production and consumption. It is being scripted through you. In this way, JCO is identifying a likeness with AI.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is immensely wise. There is sometimes a rebuff of the premise that pain or trauma ought to be responded to with empathy. But people miss that compassion is not the same as agreement. If the goal is to help someone move forward, care is part of the process of correction.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour all of those impacted by residential schools and continue to advocate for decolonization, decriminalization and decarceration. This day serves as a reminder that the harm caused by residential schools is profound and persists in Canada. (1/4)

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, in Canada, is the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Its watchword is that "Every Child Matters". It serves as a mandate toward inclusion, that ignoring the suffering of certain kinds of children & regarding them as less deserving of care & concern, is inexcusable & cannot be tolerated

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*90% of [the Talmud] is very long and [awesome] arguments about what happens if a donkey kicks a lamp

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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Leave it to @graphicmatt.com to debunk Bradford’s justification for a line-by-line audit of Toronto's budget. Argues any per capital increases can be easily traced to things like opening libraries on Sundays, crisis response teams & improved snow clearing #TOpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Matt Elliott: There’s no mystery behind Mayor Olivia Chow’s budget record — there’s just math

Lately, the leading candidates taking on Mayor Olivia Chow in the race for mayor have taken to referring to the city’s budget like it’s some great cosmic mystery. A riddle

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026

This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.

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Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.

Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unlocking new level of Sukkos (baking a cinnamon, brown sugar, apple, honey sourdough focaccia)

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

sad to see DETROITERS is leaving Netflix on October 15, watch it if you've never seen it and watch it again if you have

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is Mamdani the country's most active and successful proponent of "traditional Western culture"?

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That “(she did)” is the rebirth of the fourth estate

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cannot imagine a better interpreter of this phenomenon

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is an indirect result of the Court’s evisceration of the Constitution. A complete abandonment of the spirit of the law leads to the US President using his extraordinary power to attack & interfere with journalists. This is not the rule of law but of one sick, sad man.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One day, I will figure it* out. * Applying the tune from Leonard Cohen's"If It Be Your Will" to Hineni or Asisi.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What are people's favourite (new?) #Simanim puns, for the #RoshHashanah Seder?

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What is Frazee's theory of "slop"? The issue with Wikipedia, podcasts & blogging is and has been their credibility and reliability. Wiki's crowdsourcing has shown itself to be a good safeguard of the latter (in most subjects), but discomfort with citation correlates with standards characterizing...

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is an important legal point: assault is not merely the application of unwanted bodily force. It includes exerting the *threat* of that force, as well, even if no contact is made.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What's perverse is that this outcome is not inconsistent with MAHA ideology, which evinces suspicion at modern medicine's ability to avoid disease. To it, "health" is nature working without interruption. It is a program of eugenics, in which ppl are made to fight off illness by dint of their health

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

No shade on “Furious”, which I loved, but, despite being a Brooklyn-based NYPD detective, Scoot McNairy’s character sounded like he was from the South Side of Boston. Right? If this was on purpose, I love it. If this was a happy accident, I love it.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Intimate mentorship is replete with potential, both for nurturing and for abuse. It would be a shame to lose the former by dint of failing to address the latter. I wonder if universities have contemplated (or implemented) training for advisors, perhaps via intensives taught by ed faculty specialists

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is the only government agency that should be allowed to use memes

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Josh Matlow @joshmatlow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Doug Ford is sole-sourcing Ontario teachers’ entire classroom supplies fund to an American-owned chain in the middle of a trade war. The Premier has big words and big signs, but he could cancel the Staples deal and open the fund to local Canadian businesses instead.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Interesting (I think) constitutional-conventional question: in King Charles III's capacity as the King of Canada, does he retain his status as the head of the Anglican Church? If so, by implication, does Canada, too, have a state religion? (Or does his status shift to the UCC?) My guess is: no.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He's collabbing with Czarface, a hip hop supergroup. Maybe your priors need updating!

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm confused by this coverage. It's a Czarface album, in which he's the featured collab guest. They've been recording together since the last album. Czarface is a hip hop super group, with immense cred. This is not the correct framing of this story!

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Broke: Canada should join the EU Woke:

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Is there no such thing as public interest standing in American law?

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It was made for me! Th-this is my hole!

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It has two more characters than "you"

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A lot of secular/cultural yidn like to invoke the phrase “Shanda *fur* di goyim”. Is there a dialect where “fur” is the pronunciation of פֿאַר?

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hey, nice economy. Sure would be a shame if something happened to it.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Please stop showing me that AI burrito. I want to puke.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

For any Toronto-skiers, Canadian Stage Company's "Twelfth Night" at Dream in High Park was a sublime theatrical experience. In my experience, it is the rendition that has most treated a Shakespearean comedy as a genuine comedy. The audience was rollicking right along with the lively production.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I agree that the truly pressing political question is whether Woke 1.0 went too far.

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Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Broke: could we? Woke: should we?

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!

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