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this might be my favorite correlation-not-causation pattern that the LoseIt app has ever inferred (I eat two Pop Tarts before I head out for a long run each Saturday)

[Rod Flanders “iron helps us play!” voice] eating toaster pastries helps keep you on track!

I very much do not EAT less on those days, I simply burn far more

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"... the modern use of the term “antisemitism” to refer exclusively to hostility against Jews distorts its original meaning and erases the Semitic identity of Arabs and Palestinians." This gem is from an early draft resolution of "Zionism is Racism" Green party resolution

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I want - to be clear - to die

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm upset that I'm not more into Green Lung after seeing just how good their t-shirts are, but I'll give them another go now!

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am more tolerant of one-state solutions than quite a lot of people but, without being funny, there is no just One State that is just called Palestine, let alone "a Palestinian State."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms.

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My dad would let me play Doom on his Mac from time to time, but I never learned how to turn the speakers off. I once got so spooked playing it I had to pause and leave the room, but was stuck hearing the creepy music playing all through the top floor of the house

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Helped out with the Branch Cider harvest today and it turns out I like them apples

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What people fail to understand is also that Zionism was not just a plan/ideology for Jews in Palestine, it was also a vision for Jewish *diasporic* identity. Much of Zionist activity has always taken place outside Palestine/Israel and was about communal identity and politics. Hence the attachment.

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Absolutely this! Which also makes any discussion around 2SS difficult because very few people really know what they'd compromise on for the sake of keeping Israel"Jewish"

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My break with Zionism came from realising I couldn't reconcile it with my belief in liberal democracy, but I still tend to call myself a post-Zionist because you otherwise get so bogged down litigating definitions!

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whoah, Big Bang Theory reference?

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unless it turns out that US college history modules might as well just be Advanced Wikipedia, in which case I stand corrected

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, this is a fun example because a module on historical engineering disasters: - could be genuinely useful as part of an Engineering degree - would be almost entirely useless for any History student

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The snarky compromise is that everyone should study Econ 101 to learn about opportunity costs. Nothing bad could possibly happen if you make a generation of students take Econ 101

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Episode 3's also our first proper hint that he resents marrying Skyler instead of Gretchen, which really cemented for me that he's doing this all for himself and not out of desperation for his family

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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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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

>chinese dynasty finally trending on bsky >ask poaster if the dynasty is river or steppe >she doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is river and what is steppe >she laughs and says "its a good dynasty sir" >check poasts >its steppe

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

GEFILTE PHISHING

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/01/2026

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Going back to 2008 to let everyone know Papyrus and clip art laid over a poorly colour-contrasted stock image will someday be seen as respectable effort

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

one of the major features of the old internet was that you were supposed to keep a layer of detachment between it and the offline world

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Something something Lucy finally putting him out of his misery

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've been given an absurdly strong recommendation for the Hawaiian pizza dumplings at Baoyuan Dumplings, and that Siji Minfu is pretty overrated compared to how hard it is to get into

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just came across this insane Wikipedia article about a case I'm surprised isn't more famous – a bonkers attempt by some monks to win a theological debate by faking an apparition of Mary, involving cross-dressing, drugs, a secret crane and an exploding chair, that ended in their public execution. 🧵

"Mary" in Jetzer's cell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetzer_affair#

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My brother's third year kitchen ended up with *four* of them between five people, and they all got used!

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

American has legal complications after landing in England

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Mr President, we cannot allow the Cheese Gap to get any larger! This calls for decisive action and Wisconsin Comté"

Mexico's economy ministry and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative did not respond to requests for comment, though the U.S. agency has previously stated its views on the EU's Geographical Indication (GI) product protection scheme.

"The EU continues to seek to expand its harmful Gl system within its territory and beyond," the trade office said in an April report.

It said that forcing dairy producers outside the bloc to use descriptors such as "imitation feta" or "asiago-style" was costly and unnecessary and contributes to the $1.2 billion U.S. cheese trade deficit with the bloc.

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This one's genuinely detached from reality, though bsky.app/profile/elis...

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Electric Picture Shop, Saltaire, West Yorkshire. The modern car betrays the fact that this photo wasn't taken in the 1980s, but last Saturday.

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

He's heinous, but the 2SS is basically Zionism within stricter borders. Palestinians might or might not support it depending on what concessions they get, but it's deliberately opposed to binationalism

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Insofar as Zionism is just "believing in a Jewish country" he's not exactly wrong, though? It just shows how meaninglessly broad that definition's become in a lot of debates

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Naming a potentially devastating storm after a beloved children’s character is an odd choice

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That's not to say I think it's a wildly useful thought experiment, and most of the answers I can see are good faith, but imagine telling the 2010s internet that art's only valid if nobody disrespected copyright

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Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think *way* too many people assume Zach's come up with this in bad faith, even though SMBC's whole charm is that it's stuffed with weird premises!

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