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Liz Shayne

@lizshayne.bsky.social
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Rabbanit, digital books enthusiast, student of Halacha, accidental creator of curious data viz, knitter, autistic. Talks about all of the above. (she/her)

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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Subtle Life of Brian joke in this book is much appreciated. Splitters! (Book is Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed)
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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“In Life’s name and for Life’s sake”… The Young Wizards series was absolutely formative to both my tastes in books and my overall sense of morality. (Right up there with Bujold and Pratchett) Also they’re amazing and hold up great even if you are an adult reading them for the first time.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/09/2026
Go read Diane’s books! Seriously, they are the best!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If those who benefited from the status quo had been willing to listen instead of sabotaging the #MeToo movement, we’d be in a very different place right now. Same story w/ BLM and so much more. But it’s not too late to rise in collective solidarity now to create a more possible world for everyone.
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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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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/03/2026
I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...
user abbiistabbii: 
The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I read recently that 20% of all mammals are bats. Statistically, that includes some of your friends.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876
A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.
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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.org · 30/09/2026
Sukkot asks us to spend time in something fragile and temporary—and still call it sacred. Maybe the lesson isn’t that we can make life secure. Maybe it’s that we can still build, gather, and find joy even when it isn’t. 🌿 What is Sukkot asking you to notice this year?
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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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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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This thread, up and down, is really helpful. People learn accountability by being held accountable.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/09/2026
"Over the past three years, a small camp has taken shape [in Israel] that opposes genocide, fascism, and Israeli militarism while also trying to redefine what it means to remain in this place."
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‘The Gaza Holocaust won't be forgotten’: An Israeli musician screams into the void
‘Super Sparta,’ Regev Baruch’s new album, is among the most blunt works of Israeli art since Oct. 7 — using provocation to insist on a different future.
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 29/09/2026
The ongoing obsession with rape at elite schools — because no one gives a shit about rape at some random community college, it’s always about the elite schools — is never really about the (usually female) victims, it’s about the (usually cis male) rapists, and that makes me so tired and so sad.
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Artecie - Cyberspace Drive-In PNGtuber @artecie.net · 28/09/2026
I want websites. I want them useful. If I get the information without actually going to the website, I want it to be because I have set a piece of software to pull it locally or a service to aggregate my specific choices. (I’m a fan of simple sharing like RSS).
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We need to stop calling every autistic person leaving an overwhelming situation “elopement.” Elopement and self-regulation aren’t the same thing. As this term is getting popularised by the influencer crowd, I’m hearing it more and more in spaces I’m in, and being used to describe things it isn’t.
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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
…tiramischwarma??
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Lawrence Shenkin is a mensch and a believer in peace who is being directly, unconscionably, and illegally screwed over by the Israeli government because his menschlichkeit is offensive to those in power, and everyone should know his name
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Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it.
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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A meme template with a top and bottom image; the same person with white skin and wavy shoulderlength hair is in both and looks as if they are in the middle of a conversation.
The meme text says
Top panel: Okay, was anybody going to tell me that there's a John Brown isekai fic
Bottom panel: or was I just supposed to read an extremely thoughtful essay on the socionarrative self myself?
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Halachic Left @halachicleft.org · 25/09/2026
Join us in NYC on Tuesday, Oct 6 for a conversation with @bradlander.bsky.social! Moderated by HL community member and Jewish Currents Associate Editor Maya Rosen. Light kosher dinner will be served. Sign up here! bit.ly/hl-lander
Torah u'Mishpat: Brad Lander on Judaism and Politics
Tuesday, Oct. 6,
6pm
Midtown, NYC

Register: bit.ly/hl-lander

Join Halachic Left for a conversation with former NYC Comptroller and NY-10 Congressional candidate Brad Lander about how Judaism has shaped his politics, and vice versa.

Moderated by HL community member and Jewish Currents Associate Editor Maya Rosen.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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ncarinsights.bsky.social @ncarinsights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In this first-of-its-kind analysis, NCAR provides alternative categories that can be applied to the data to better capture the nuanced reality of antisemitism in America today. Read the full analysis here:
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Counting Antisemitic Incidents: What the ADL Audit Reveals — and Obscures - Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research
The ADL's annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents is one of the most cited reports on the state of antisemitism in the United States
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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 28/09/2026
Yes. Every scene is the best scene. Be thrilled to write it.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026
Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
May everyone on this land be able to live without fear, beneath a roof that protects them, in a home they know will still be there tomorrow. And may this holiday deepen our commitment to the shared safety, dignity, freedom, and belonging of all who live on this land.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Time to re-share my seven minim poster
the seven minim, but instead of it being species, it’s heretics

korach ben yitzhar = techelet (dabba dee)
yoshke the nazarene = not the messiah, a very naughty boy
elisha ben abuya = he’s something else!
anan ben david = orah torah? What’s an oral torah?
shabbatai tsvi = re: the fat of the sin
jacob frank: he sure knew how to throw a party
baruch spinoza = proklos ben philosophos
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
great advice in general but doubly so if you're going to spend any significant amount of time on social media
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hwæt. Wē Eotolwara in ġeārdagum, æþelborenra, wǣ ġefrūnon, hu ða ġeonglingas ġegaf fremedon.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Btw, this should be useful to American politics folks
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On September 27: Join protective presence activists to learn what it takes to build partnership with Palestinian communities in the WB and how to resist a policy of terror together. 💪 FoST: check your email for a separate link to an exclusive Q+A after the webinar www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-bui...
Webinar flyer
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a long but important read. It also shows that individual actions can’t match up to systemic inequalities. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I appreciated this a lot, especially given Rosenberg’s very early antecedents, but I also want someone to…reckon religiously/theologically with what this would mean.
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What I Mean by FREE PALESTINE
There is no one definition
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor
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Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🎯 Takeaways for educators: → AI literacy must train question-asking & answer evaluation, not just "how AI works" → Training metacognition should be a priority: benefits far beyond AI use → An "effortless" AI interaction should be a red flag, not a comfort signal
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So this is happening… We’re more than halfway there and I’m in awe of the other contributors here.
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
arcmag.org/destroy-isra... The space between review and criticism is a fascinating one and this essay ably does both in ways that I found very helpful.
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Destroy Israel, Repair the World | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
He appears on the world stage as a whistleblower, an informer, divulging to ruling authorities the deep, dark political machinations and unsavory behaviors of the Jews. The Jews, he charges, are a peo...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Incest, it seems, was a peculiar fascist fascination." Laura Heins, Nazi Film Melodrama, UIllinois Press, 2013.
Thus, the incestuous fantasies of Nazi cinema actually worked in concert with its hostility to the bourgeois nuclear family; since such scenarios allowed for the separation of motherhood from the male world of industrial and miltiary action. It is remarkable how often Nazi narratives include suggestions of incest or actual consummations of it. They appeared on stage a well as in the cinema: a 1942-43 touring Kraft durch Freud (the state-sponsored leisure Insitute Strength through Joy) operetta, for example, was titled Das Gluck im Kreuzgangwinkel (Happiness in the Cloister Corner) and featured a romance between a seventeen year old girl sna dher 55-year old father. Incest, it seems, was a peculiar fascist fascination. It was certainly one of Veit
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's Monday, so a deeply compromised Kirsten Gillibrand is trying to enable Trump fraud www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Gillibrand privately urges Dems to advance crypto bill
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's posture on the legislation puts her at odds with progressives in her party.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
One of the venues that refused to allow Macklemore to perform is Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, which is run by Hillsborough county. They did allow Kanye to perform even after he released a song called "Heil Hitler" and sold swastika merch. In case you thought this was about antisemitism.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 11/09/2026
Man, I’m so tired. I can’t believe it’s already Thanksgiving break. This semester just flew by. It…it is Thanksgiving break already, right? That’s why I’m so exhausted, right? Right?!?
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1/x On September 11, 2001 Coast Guard Lieutenant Michael Day, aboard the Sandy Hook pilot boat New York, keyed his radio: "All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island." #maritimehistory
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy new year to everyone who celebrates here! Let this year and its curses end and let a new year and its blessings begin.
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