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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 06/03/2025

the story of sodom is that a bunch of greedy rich assholes decided that it was their own brilliance that made them so wealthy rather than god's good graces (sheer luck). when they not only refused to share their abundance and began to punish those who did, god smote them for their wickedness.

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(4) Rabbi Ẓe'era said: The men of Sodom were the wealthy men of prosperity, on account of the good and fruitful land whereon they dwelt. For every need which the world requires, they obtained therefrom. They procured gold therefrom, as it is said, "And it had dust of gold" (Job 28:6). What is the meaning (of the text), "And it had dust of gold"? At the hour when one of them wished to buy a vegetable, he would say to his servant, Go and purchase for me (for the value of) an assar. He went and bought (it), and found beneath it heaps of gold; thus it is written, "And it had dust of gold" (ibid.). They obtained silver therefrom, as it is said, "Surely there is a mine for silver" (Job 28:1). They procured precious stones and pearls thence, as it is said, || "The stones thereof are the place of sapphires" (Job 28:6). They obtained bread therefrom, as it is said, "As for the earth, out of it cometh bread" (Job 28:5). But they did not trust in the shadow of their Creator, but (they trusted) in the multitude of their wealth, for wealth thrusts aside its owners from the fear of Heaven, as it is said, "They that trust in their wealth" (Ps. 49:6).

(5) Rabbi Nathaniel said: The men of Sodom had no consideration for the honour of their Owner by (not) distributing food to the wayfarer and the stranger, but they (even) fenced in all the trees on top above their fruit so that they should not be seized; (not) even by the bird of heaven, as it is said, "That path no bird of prey knoweth" (Job 28:7).
(6) Rabbi Joshua, son of Ḳorchah, said: They appointed over themselves judges who were lying judges, and they oppressed every wayfarer and stranger who entered Sodom by their perverse judgment, and they sent them forth naked, as it is said, "They have oppressed the stranger without judgment" (Ezek. 22:29).
(7) They were dwelling in security without care and at ease, without the fear of war from all their surroundings, as it is said, "Their houses are safe from fear" (Job 21:9). They were sated with all the produce of the earth, but they did not strengthen with the loaf of bread either the hand of the needy or of the poor, as it is said, "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" (Ezek. 16:49).

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

'Did you even say thank you?'

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sánchez. Bezos is in a tight fitting shirt, heart-shaped sunglasses, tight white pants, and a white belt. The shirt has a red, gold, and blue pattern in the style of a kitchen backsplash. Sánchez is in a two-piece, sparkly outfit.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/02/2025

man i am just straight up not interested in people who will be perfectly okay in the next couple years moaning in public over and over and over again that we’re all cooked and doing nothing else. fuck off man! some of us have things to live for

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I have to wonder about the American strategy of spending three decades defunding and mocking the humanities, forcing kids into STEM fields whether they like it or not, and then rug-pulling the entire US science & medical sector because you got mad at women online.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

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wizardry variants kib @kib.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The reason there are so many music snobs is because people desperately don't want to admit that Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego by Rockapella is the best song ever written. But you have to let go of your shame and be free.

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Ami Berger @amiberger.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

DEI shot JR

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Meryl Streep did WHAT.

My aunt Meryl Streep received an order to evacuate on January 8, but when she tried to leave, she discovered that a large tree had fallen over in her driveway, blocking her only exit. Determined to make it out, she borrowed wire cutters from a neighbor, cut a car-size hole in the fence she shared with the neighbors on the other side, and drove through their yard to escape.

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Honestly? I deleted Bluesky off my phone, because after just 72 hours, I could not take mainlining panic and bad news for one single second longer. I'm inclined to recommend that other people do the same. Inhaling every second's worth of depressing, awful shit isn't going to help you or anyone else.

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

George Takei or Dolly Parton. Not that Dolly would ever (directly, I mean).

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hey, just FYI, if you respond to any suggestion of pushing back against EOs or anything else with that, "Nyah, why bother? The courts are already gone," doomer bullshit, I will be blocking you. I categorically refuse to read an endless stream of that weak tea crap for the next four years.

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hahaha, okay, this gave me a much-needed laugh. Hey! Hey, she's dead!

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Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you subscribe to Microsoft 365 Personal, the 40% price increase is a con to upsell you AI. Your old plan and price is still there called "Classic" - but only if you try to cancel. Microsoft should be ashamed if not prosecuted.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 16/01/2025

I would like to give a company 'money' and own an 'item' in exchange Instead of renting or subscribing to it for perpetuity and watching it degrade as I pay more for it every month It is a shocking concept AND YET what if... it could work

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

the incredible thing about US exceptionalism is that the people who think there's no better place on earth and the people who think everywhere else is better at everything are both basically adherents to the exact same mindset, just from opposite sides

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/01/2025

It is key to remember that lots of perfectly nice *not extremely online people* who leftists could form a popular front with *identify as liberals*. These are NOT the same people as the wackos posting terminally dumb and homophobic Resist Lib memes on this website: they’re useful normies.

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Listen, I'm going to be pedantic for just a second. Why, WHY is everyone calling it RedNote? 小红书 translates to Little Red Book. Get it? That's the whole joke, why are we depriving the English-speaking world of what is actually a fairly funny joke, particularly given the context?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/01/2025

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

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2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

Someone on Twitter writes: "Unfortunately die work wear or whatever is a psyop to turn men into women . Cuz why the hell else would he be telling them to dress that gay"

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Real World: New Orleans is wild because the fashions are all very "oh, that's just how people dress today" and then one outfit will start shouting IN THE YEAR 2000

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Perfect example of why Google's AI search is dangerous: A major HIV medication program is ending this month, but Google will wrongly tell you it ended a year ago. So if you're on the program that's about to end, you might wrongly think this refers to some other program & that your access is safe.

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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in our very dumb annual tradition and start 2025 off on the right hoof.

Star Trek Voyager scene. It's a romantic evening on the streets of a charming little town with I'm sure a folksy name like 'Fair Haven' or something. Harold Kim, dressed in an overcoat, leans in with a full heart and closed eyes and kisses a large black and white Holstein cow right on the mouth. Two closed captions are simultaneously present: On Harry's side of the screen the caption reads, "(gasps)" and on the cow side of the screen the caption reads, "(moos)".

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

So pleased to report that just rereading this summary was every bit as infuriating as watching this actually unfold in real time back in 2021.

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Devastated to learn that the Tweet with the masterpiece "Christmas Song Written Like People Write Chanukah Songs" has been deleted, thus depriving me of my annual singing of such lyrics as, "We'll close our celebration/With some transubstantiation/That's a very Christian thing for Christmas time."

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I'm Jewish, I'm not visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve, instead I ruminate over all my failures every day for the rest of my life

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Shout out to all the local Pakistani and Chinese restaurants and their staff who will be working Christmas. As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open." Respect.

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Yet another banger, even if I did get temporarily distracted by Gene Kelly's dancing halfway through.

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This is a great breakdown of the actual, historical context behind this story.

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(((Luxestronk))) @hawkeyepierce.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Actually two courses: Intro to Criminal Justice and Problems in Corrections. Both of my professors, one a former cop, were adamant about ensuring that we understood both our rights and the many ways in which the system is broken, particularly for minorities. Those classes were so formative for me.

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Picard: Computer, tea, hot. Computer: You know Ensign Clarkson in Engineering? Well, rumor is she might be breaking up with Ensign Zortoff because, GET THIS, she might still be in love with her ex!! Picard: *pulling up chair* Tell. Me. Everything.

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ceej @ceej.online · 13/12/2024

MENSWEAR GUY: Furthermore, you’ve neglected to even cut the vents of the shockingly poor-fitting sport coat you’ve, for some reason, chosen to wear to breakfast MAN WHO STILL WEARS A THREADLESS TEE FROM 2003 WITH TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC HOUSES HUGGING UNDER THE TEXT “HOMIES”: haha get his ass derek

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 11/12/2024

The House just passed the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. While I applaud the positive elements of the NDAA, I cannot overlook the hateful language inserted into this legislation—and the dangerous precedent it sets. My full statement ⤵️

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Jeanette73 @jeanette73.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

On the first day of Sukkot (only last month, though it feels like a lifetime ago), an elderly woman knocked on my door. As one of those highly coveted Pennsylvania voters living in the swingiest of swing counties, I’m used to political canvassers. But this one was different.

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