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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1h

Prolly deleting this soon, but: I wish a single other person gave a shit about me. It’s ALWAYS me reaching out, putting myself out there. No one reaches out to me, or thinks of me at all unless I impose myself, & if I impose myself, I become an annoyance. I’m really lonely, ya know? #Autistic

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🎃Meli👻 @mismatched.bsky.social · 6h

It’s not fucking artificial for a diasporic people to have language bonding them together? ????????

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🎃Meli👻 @mismatched.bsky.social · 6h

I try not to “hey this is awful check it out” quote post but this really won’t leave my brain alone. There’s nothing bad or evil or colonialist about Jews around the world speaking Hebrew. Or Hebrew’s punctuation.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 6h

I don't actively disbelieve in God. It's not really an important question for whether I live as a Jew.

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Keegan Osinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 6h

The concept of "wining and dining" theologians and religious scholars is so funny to me

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 20h

People are really fucking weird about Hebrew.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 7h

I’m choosing to focus on his fusion of piyyut & Arabic style. This is a Convivencia class. The other students are by now relatively familiar with the features of Arabic verse. They are primed to see Halevi as merely mimicking.

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 8h

This piece no less, a traditional piece no less 🙄

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 8h

I’m working on a lecture about Yehudah Halevi this week. Medieval Jewish philosopher & poet who wrote Hebrew verse & moved to Palestine at the end of his life. I’ve had to spend a RIDICULOUS amount of time tailoring my lecture to defuse misleading political narratives, both zionist & anti-zionist.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 20h

Antizionist Jew: *posts about problem of antisemitism on the left* Goyish Response: “there are so many false accusations of antisemitism. Which is also a form of antisemitism”

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P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 12/10/2025

Remember the reason for the season! Keep the Boo! in Hoyshane Raboo!

A scan of a woodcut depicting a man in 16th century dress holding a bunch of willow twigs (for ritual use on Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot) under the crescent moon (with a face) facing a shadow form of himself, but headless - showing the folk belief that the night of Hoshana Rabbah predicts one's fate in the coming year, in one's moonlight shadow

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Seleucid Dreamer @smollusk.bsky.social · 23h

can't say I expected a left-wing elected official to mention the Talmud, but this sparking a mass of dipshit Woke Antisemtism is the most predicable thing imaginable

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Amber 🏳️‍⚧️ @transtraingirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"I have a little dreidel, I made it out of... code? 3d assets? godot?" 'Dreidel I Shall Spin' is a roguelite twist on the classic game of dreidel! Play eight rounds against shadowy opponents! Use upgrades and items increase your odds! Play on steam Oct 1st! store.steampowered.com/app/4363700/...

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Dreidel I Shall Spin on Steam

A roguelite game of dreidel.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What is Hosha'na Rabba? A thread of indeterminate length. Before we begin, a forewarning: I would like to avoid being the XKCD expert familiarity guy, so if there is anything I bring up which you do not understand and would like to, feel free to ask. It's a weird day with a lot going on

"Hoshana Rabba is second nature to us liturgists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Kol Mevasser and the Yamim Noraim additions."
"And cabbage, of course."
"Of course."

Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."

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ZL (she/her) @jcw1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jewsky, a request for assistance: Kiddo asked for a "textured" tallit. Something not too heavy bc shul gets hot sometimes, but with plenty for a sensory seeker. He identified our touristy woven blanket as ideal (see image.) The only Judaica shop in our town closed; where should I order from?

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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A thought about rigor in education that is applicable more broadly: rather than lowering expectations because everyone is struggling to exist, we need to make it easier to just exist so that students are better able to tackle schoolwork with intellectual rigor.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ܠܝܬ ܒܒܝܬܝ ܠܚܡܐ. layt b’bayt lachmā. There is no bread/food in my house. I need to buy lunch somewhere, but… ܠܝܬ ܠܝ ܥܕܢܐ. layt li ‘eddānā. I have no time. #Syriac #Aramaic

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 01/10/2026

Got confirmation that me being loud and autistic online is a good thing. I posted on Insta about a disability accommodation I have that is "no same day meetings." I need notice because if I have a planned out day and the executive function to focus, pulling me out of that can destroy my day.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me: Another fine day when Simon of Trent, one of the most grotesque medieval libels against Jews, leading to mass killings of Jews, has not come up by some sort of weird Simon of Trent truthers. Now to open social media.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you read what actually happened, a human being used a computer (trained on documents archived by human Yiddish scholars) to help translate letters. This is framed as “No one can afford to hire a human translator, thank God we now have AI!”

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Yiddish DID survive. Human beings kept it alive, & are STILL NEEDED to understand it! Unfortunately, because people perceive AI as magic, the experts who have this knowledge are losing their jobs, & we aren’t training a new generation to replace them. I can only hope the bubble pops soon.

“Gurbych’s computer cannot replace the people who once spoke the language. In Trueblood’s case, he did more than run pages through a machine. His knowledge of Jewish history and religion allowed him to explain biblical references, religious language and historical details that the computer alone could not provide. The artificial intelligence cracked open the door, but somebody still had to understand what was on the other side.”

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 01/10/2026

Some beautiful but unintended irony in how news outlets are sharing the “AI is helping uncover Yiddish history” story with AI-generated photographs of people who never existed and a letter written in gibberish that is supposed to pass as Yiddish

AI generated image of two hands holding a letter written completely in gibberish, with a photograph of a family that never existed, in front of a laptop with even more gibberish

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Great news everyone, it only took hours and me sitting in silence for awhile but there is now a print available of elliptic curve cryptography www.inprnt.com/gallery/acid...

Illustration on warm blue paper of a tiger coming down a mountain. Among the tiger’s stripes on his back is a family of elliptic curves. To his right is a waterfall and mist and he is framed by bamboo, bubbles and greenish white gold moon. Black ink and gold paint on blue paper

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well it stressed me the f out but I got a video made, here is a peek at a work in progress. The diagram here took forever. Drawing rectangles are really hard actually #mathart

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

די ייִדן זענען מיד.

Screenshot from Youtube video “Yiddish Lesson 5. Beginners Course.” The screen shows white text on a black background reading “The Jews are tired”

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🎃Meli👻 @mismatched.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is deeply annoying to have to go “antisemitism is real, but most of the big names and orgs who talk about it are terrible” to people on every side of every political aisle. Sometimes with different emphasis, I grant you.

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RadiantHostility (he/him) @radianthostility.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Common sense isn't real. It's only ever "what seems obvious to me or what is normative in my immeidate cultural group".

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candlelit gravebird 🕯️🐦‍⬛ @crow.stormsong.org · 01/10/2026

It's weird to be living through the active dismantling of the concept of higher education.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People often miss this. Antisemitism may not be structural in the US today in the way anti-Blackness is, but overcoming the legalism of Judaism for the spirit of love of Christianity is the ur-narrative for so much left politics in the culturally Christian world. We need to guard against it.

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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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Edgar Allan Hoe @dlcrumbdump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

she is me and i am her

apothecary diaries screenshot. maomao is thinking to herself "my ability to learn about things i'm not interested in is below average"

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We went and found the Lego sukkah. It’s in Oak Park, MI, and it was built by Menachem R., with help from his nieces and nephews. During the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, you build a booth and eat meals outside in it. They’re usually made of wood but he got funky with this one!

Twilight photo of a colorful sukkah built out of giant Lego blocks of every color, with a wooden roof with branches across the top. It has an open weave pattern of blocks, with larger openings at the top.
There is a door on one side. It sits in the driveway of a suburban yard.

Color photo of the back of a sukkah built out of giant Lego blocks, sitting in a suburban driveway. It is intensely colorful, with different colors of blocks mingled all together. In some sections there are patterns and in others it is more random.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We all deserve a world we want to live in, and I hope one day we can have that. At least for me, that's the best suicide prevention- fighting for a world where our needs are met and where we feel responsibility for each other's wellbeing. ...It'd also help not to be talked about as if subhuman.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So they say antisemitism isn’t “structural,” which appears to be true at least insofar as average life outcomes are concerned (wealth, health, education etc). But at the level of thought, it is absolutely structuring and continues to be so.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

apropos of this latest round I will just mention that there has been antisemitism on the left since the beginning. the people who invented anticapitalism did so in an environment in which Judaism had been equated with bad economic practices for 600 years already. AND they didn’t know any Jews

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Quick #JewSky give me your favorite Judah Halevi poems, if you have any. I have one week to course-change & lead a class about him, & I need inspiration! #Jewish

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This guy makes me scowl. I need to control my facial expressions. #Autistic

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the guy who kept interrupting to correct me when I attributed the "man was created spherical and cut into male & female halves" story to Plato. He INSISTS it was Aristophanes, the playwright. Y'all, Plato used Aristophanes as a CHARACTER in his Symposium...It's not the real Aristophanes!

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a guy in my class who's a bullshitter. He loves to talk, but he either doesn't say anything or says things that are wrong. I talk too much in class, too...But I'm saying smart, right things. It's different!

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Quick #JewSky give me your favorite Judah Halevi poems, if you have any. I have one week to course-change & lead a class about him, & I need inspiration! #Jewish

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AS THE COW TURNS. COW-WISE. Bous=cow in Greek. Like the "bo" in "bovine."

Diagram indicating "Boustrophedon" text, described as "turn like an ox (while ploughing)." An arrow goes right to left, then curves down and goes back right to left, and so on all the way down the page.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wish we all had this privilege. Generally, as long as we’re hygienic & appropriately clothed, I think we should be allowed to not worry about beauty. Compulsory femininity is exhausting & degrading.

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