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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 29m

Novel argument: 'Defence lawyer Michael McGrath previously argued that if the recipients of the material did not find it offensive, then no crime had been committed. '"The intention of the [legislation] is to stop the material from being distributed to people who don't want to receive it."'

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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 11h

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 1003: The Orange, by Wendy Cope

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 2h

my god I haven’t laughed this hard in a while

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 58m

Come on. "Something something Down Under", the story cries out for a smutty headline.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 4h

1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

I always loved this picture. She seemed very human here, like someone I could chat over coffee with and get my mind absolutely boggled by her thoughts. Often the “women in stem” seem unattainable in their official portraits or in intense focus. This made her seem like a person.

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🎃🦇👻 Sam Miller 👻🦇🎃 @kaisermiller.family · 13h

This is The Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is the Panama Canal. Now, these sealed chambers that raise and lower ships aren't the kinds of locks that I normally deal with, but if we walk over to the control room, we will find something very familiar on the door...

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 22h

[Kellogg marketing meeting, 1955] Boss: Who has a name for our boring new cereal? Employee: How about “K”? Boss: Hmm. Not special enough. Employee: Alright, hear me out…

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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

is it boardom, it’s boardom isn’t it

Longtime surfers are being diagnosed with this strange condition 🤔 🏄‍♀️ 🤔

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 22h

If you want to know why Jews are suspicious of you when you're just trying to be a well-meaning antizionist gentile, consider that these two things were written by the same man, Guangtian Ha, a (currently suspended) religion professor at Haverford

a passage from an article by guangtian ha that reads:

We make this call amidst growing concern about antisemitism on our campus. Questions have arisen in the context of a number of specific situations, including external influences from Lower Merion, from donors, and from some alumni who are hell-bent on defining the " ways to be Jewish. This, of course, flies in the face of thousands of years of Jewish tradition which is fundamentally based on interrogation, questioning, and truth-seeking. We take these attacks on our anti-Zionist Jewish community members seriously and we understand the real damage the state of Israel causes for the entire Jewish world when it claims to be acting on behalf of all Jews while engaging in horrific atrocities that - truth be told- mirror some of the worst stereotypes of Jews that have been a part of European racism for centuries. We will be clear: antisemitism should be unacceptable at Haverford, but the energy and consideration which some in our administration have granted these bad faith actors suggests otherwise.

a passage from a court document about guangtian ha that reads:

In or about January 2026, through in or about February 2026, defendant GUANGTIAN HA, using X account "America IstLM" posted a series of threatening and harassing messages directed at Victim 1, including the following:
a. "Jew, get the fuck out of my country"
b. "Jew pig, get the fuck out of Lower Merion"
c. "If jews are so special then they should also be placed in special camps and receive special treatments"
d. "LM jews are going to have it big time, jew. Remember this. You scums have had it too easy. Goyim are taking America back, blood-guzzling demons."

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Danny Lavery @dannymlavery.bsky.social · 18h

The hour does not call for less wine, I think. Let’s pit pain against the grape and see which puts paid to which. Let me sleep. Let’s all sleep. Delia’s husband has locked all the doors to the house. I call that surly. I call that churlish. I hope lightning strikes him everywhere. Him and his doors.

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Gabriel Mitchell @gabiamitchell.bsky.social · 20h

My reflections on silence and uncertainty on the 3rd anniversary of October 7th gabimitchell.substack.com/p/107-let-th...

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107: Let There Be Songs

On silence, uncertainty, and October 7th

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

haverfordclerk.com/opinion-a-tr... Shot:

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 21h

I hope he gets 3% of the vote.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 23h

low quality Tolkien discourse: is his depiction of the dwarves as inspired by jews antisemitic high quality Tolkien discourse: by making the Eretz Yisrael analogue explicitly overrun by demons, is Tolkien being islamophobic

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nobody likes being a disappointment to a child. Nobody cares about being a disappointment to an adult. As a certified adult, that's sometimes rough.

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The Disappointment of a Man-Child

Last year, as I approached forty years old, I mused about one of the things I missed most about being a kid -- enthusiasm . Not having it, b...

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bookmarking to read later

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

three years thirty-six months one thousand ninety-six days אַב הָרַחֲמִים שׁוֹכֵן מְרוֹמִים בְּרַחֲמָיו הָעֲצוּמִים הוּא יִפְקֹד בְּרַחֲמִים הַחֲסִידִים וְהַיְשָׁרִים וְהַתְּמִימִים קְהִלּוֹת הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ שֶׁמָּסְרוּ נַפְשָׁם עַל קְדֻשַּׁת הַשֵּׁם. הַנֶּאֱהָבִים וְהַנְּעִימִים בְּחַיֵּיהֶם וּבְמוֹתָם לא נִפְרָֽדוּ. מִנְּשָׁרִים קַֽלּוּ וּמֵאֲרָיות גָּבֵֽרוּ לַעֲשׂוֹת רְצוֹן קוֹנָם וְחֵֽפֶץ צוּרָם.

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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I haven’t been okay and I’m not going to be okay, not tomorrow and not for a while after.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My Judaica publisher told me rabbis keep filling his Talmud margins so I asked how many margins he has and he said he just goes to print and adds wider margins afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding whitespace to rabbis and then his printer started crying.

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Great Tolkien Reread meets "The Uruk-Hai", our first close-up view of Orcs (and our first Merry and Pippin POV chapter). This is an opportunity to talk about how Tolkien humanizes his most problematic invention, and where he stops short. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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The Great Tolkien Reread: The Uruk-Hai

"Merry and Pippin Captured by Orcs" by Inger Edelfeldt Neither Pippin nor Merry remembered much of the later part of the journey. Evil dream...

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Holzman-Tweed (he-suite) @holzman-tweed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Apparently the Greens Europe folks are asking the Greens UK folks for "clarification" because the "Zionism is racism" thing the latter adopted brands support for the "continued existence" of Israel as racist Zionism - which would include the former's long-standing support for a 2-state solution.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's very clear that some people specifically want The Bad Future and are working hard to achieve it.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's one thing to know about intercommunal links between Jewish Europe and North Africa *intellectually*, but it's still thrilling to see it on the page.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reach out to your math friends and offer to get coffee. For real

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You are stronger than you know

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haha yeah @freshfleisch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i’m gonna be real with you, Ignatius Catholic Study Bible. i feel like framing the head of Jesus in a crosshairs with the letters A.I.M. surrounding comes off a little strange.

it’s a zoom on the picture of Jesus on the cover of the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, where Jesus appears to be framed by a crosshairs with AIM written on it

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"New research by the Nautilus Institute found the US military and defence corporations now have access to around 70 per cent of Australia's defence facilities"

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Samuel ✡️ 🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s literally a game for these people, and not even a new one. This post echoes a quote that is over a hundred years old about how people delight in accusing a Jew of theft particularly because they get the joy of watching him turn or his pockets to prove that he hasn’t stolen anything.

If the headline motion is itself racist, the refusal to even pretend to make a carve-out for Jewish members of your own party is perhaps most revealing. Evidently, a majority of Green Party members who voted for the motion and against the amendment simply have little interest in finding an accommodation with Jews.
And I think this speaks to what a lot of people fail to understand. That for Jew-haters, antisemitism is fun. Even better, it frequently forces Jews to play the game of emptying their pockets and patiently explaining why this obviously horrible, racist thing — a slogan, a placard or a burning of ambulances operated by a Jewish charity
— is in fact antisemitic. That, too, is part of the fun.
You don't need to label every antisemitic terrorist attack (and there are horrifyingly many to choose from this year alone) a "false flag" or suggest that "Zionists control the media" to oppose a terrible war or in any way dilute support for Palestinians. You certainly don't have to, as Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories claimed in a recent interview, say that Jews in Nazi death camps were called "Muslims".
I could attempt to explain why they do this. Why so many people believe that Jews, whether stabbed on the streets of Golders Green or murdered in gas chambers, are molecularly incapable of being victims. Indeed, how and why the Holocaust itself is an example of Jewish power and privilege. But that would be to play the pocket-emptying game.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 24/08/2026

How I caused my extremely genteel secretary to explode (in ice-cold fury).

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And if you'd like to hear the Austin Archer song that I talk about toward the end, it's here. youtu.be/YPk-OWfIG4Y

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ALL THE MEN

YouTube video by Austin Archer

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Had you ever heard of husband letters? I hadn't.

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P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 05/10/2026

Mr. @paulluton.bsky.social helpfully clarifies what "Zionism is racism" means to him

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026

In 2010, I sat in on a patrol brief for a BCT in eastern Afghanistan that claimed “pashtunwali revenge” was responsible for why they faced so much violence. When I asked him to remind me why we were in Afghanistan in the first place, the colonel got frustrated and asked me to wait for them outside.

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