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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 13h

I’m reading the Wikipedia on textual variants of the Hebrew Bible and many inclusions in the list aren’t even textual variants, they’re just the Septuagint understanding the sentence differently. Take Genesis 4:13. They translate the Hebrew as “My punishment is greater than than I can bear!’

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

conor friedersdorf is the susan collins of ross douthats.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Also like we're five years into a conservative cultural project to keep kids from learning that LGBTQ even exist in the first place.

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 28/09/2026

Challenge accepted.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What's the longest one-part academic article ever published? In law, the longest I could find was a 1996 University of Memphis Law Review that clocked in at 462 pages. John Vargo's "The American Law Institute Adorns a New Cloth for Section 402A Products Liability Design Defects."

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Law schools have figured out the trick here. Just publish articles as long as books and then make them read the full articles. 😌

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How does it feel being the blessed child?

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had the chance of recommending the book of an academic friend who recently passed away to another friend who expressed great personal and professional interest in the idea behind it, and that makes me very happy.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can’t wait to have my AI self teach my class to my AI students, and then report to me the beautiful smiles on their face and just how much they learned.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there’s a viral tweet citing Kol Nidrei and the existence of Marranos during the Spanish Inquisition as proof that Jews are inherently untrustworthy and perfidious so apparently we’re bringing back medieval antisemitism

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love how Judaism has like, 7 new years each year.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Her name is Overton. That’s a bit on the nose.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi.

I know, buddy, you did that during World War II. When the very first thing the British government did was imprison the opposition party, called them Nazis, which they weren't, run by one of the great war heroes of the First World War, Oswald Mosley. Oh, he was a Nazi.
No, he wasn't. If he was a Nazi, he'd be living in Britain, in Germany. He didn't want the war.
And he has been slandered ever since. It's like scary even to defend him. I'm not even defending the guy.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dude, if you rate the etrog and you get a PSA 10, it’s at least $15,000!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.

politico.com

POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

I finished the first draft of my third book, The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic, in January. And I had to let it simmer and get some feedback. And I am ready to push through a major revision and I'm looking at some of the work that needs to be done and it would be **IMPOSSIBLE** with GenAI involvement.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow. Sounds like we should just shut down these companies and stop using it?

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If I’m ever questioned about whether something I wrote is AI, I’m just posting my working folder for the manuscript. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do people realize that defining ethnicity by that of your ancestry makes the answer turn on how many generations back you go? Modern Ukraine used to be inhabited by Iranic people!

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Publishing an academic interview in which I mention a rabbinic tale to make a point about language and knowledge? Check.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sharing from legal expert friends: The ban can’t go into effect without Supreme Court approval, which is expected to allow Ra’am and the Joint List to run but could personally ban Sami Abu Shehadeh, the court being more conservative now than before.

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 23/09/2026

Is this what Zionists mean when they say “Jewish AND democratic”

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones. At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.

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Saralegal @saralegal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite parts of teaching Bereshit to fourth graders was drawing the family tree from Terach through the children of Jacob on the board and watching the kids lose their minds.

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bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות) @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Most of the Torah is just "don't do anything the Patriarchs would have done"

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Challenge Level Impossible: Find a Tanakh Male Lead Who Didn’t Enter Into a Prohibited Marriage

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks to the British Columbia government for showing that ‘progressive’ parties can also be inveterate unprincipled assholes!

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He blamed COVID-19 on the Jews. Then he took his shotgun to a synagogue on Kol Nidre. Conspiracy theories kill. (In this case it only killed the gunman, B''H.)

globalnews.ca

Belleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.ca

The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Are there any English-Hebrew versions of the Tosefta in print?

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When you think about it, the first book was the first audiobook.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026

just want to say that when a politician campaigns on/publicly states transphobic positions it will actually be reflected in policy and is not some sort of 4d chess electoral rhetoric move

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On Yom Kippur, we fast all day in repentance and so we’re commanded to eat a lot the day before to enhance the experience of deprivation. On Yom Kippur, we are also prohibited from having sex all day, in repentance, and so…

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Who by fire and who by GRABBING THE STOVE GRATE SHE WAS JUST COOKING ON??? This is why I never cook. G'mar Chatima Tova! Hope you all avoid being personally victimized by God this year!!

A lipstick mark surrounded by text that reads “who by fire” in collage/ransom font

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Indeed the most horrible manifestation of evil is when it acts in the guise of the good.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you had the mandate to bring the world as close as possible, in the finiteness of your lifetime, to a just and peaceful world, what would you be doing? (Assume that you start with no other other dedicated resources besides your basic needs and comfort beings taken care of.)

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

According to Avot deRabbi Natan, the Menorah, the curtain of the Holy of Holies, and the headplate of the priest are still in Rome. Vatican, what’s up with that?!?

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You know, Avot deRabbi Natan is surprisingly ACAB.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jobs that have no share in the world-to-come according to Avot deRabbi Natan: Copyist, writer (or teacher), the best of healers, judge for his city, magician (or diviner), officer, and butcher

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s fascinating how Avot deRabbi Natan simultaneously builds midrash on the fact that some words in the Torah are dotted, while tacitly acknowledging that they’re just indicating doubtful words whose dots would simply be removed if Elijah were ever to confirm them.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve just come across the single most cursed picture of all time and I need to go offline now.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ah yes, people in rich countries—famously not wrecking the planet.

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