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

My Grandma Fran was raised in a very pious Dutch Calvinist household. She sent my mother to Sunday school every week, and they went to church most Sundays.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They key to a true “luxury” hotel room is it looks like it emerged from an vintage Ralph Lauren catalog.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Powering through the Smiley-verse. Started with ‘Call for the Dead’ and now partway through ‘The Secret Pilgrim.’ It’s crazy how he starts off like Daniel Craig: British turned great murder detective before becoming the spy everyone now loves properly.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The local Jewish Community Federation held a talk by an Indian Jew about the Jews of India. It was EXTREMELY uncomfortable how, even after the lecture, much of the audience couldn’t understand that they weren’t recent converts, they kept kosher, had synagogues, etc.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A lost John le Carré novel was just found about The Circus, it is called

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“You don’t dress like an old man, you dress like a young man in the 1950s”- my Fiancé

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Maybe my experience is unique but I met my fiancé on Hinge, my last long term GF on Hinge, and the one before that on Coffee Meets Bagel. When I was single *super* single I often had at least one new date every weekend, if not more. I wouldn’t say I was swiping right on everyone either.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I love my fiancé so much. However, she’s learning about antisemitism for the first time, how it exists, and its pervasiveness and its extremely funny. Particularly in the context of her going through the conversion process.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Let’s just say, I encountered someone who had lost 100,000s of dollars betting on obscure Nigerian soccer matches. Not great!

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I always loved my insurance through my employer. Not uncommon I think for attorneys in private practice. Now, as a remote attorney that works 100 miles from the main office, I’m less enamored. It is clearly better, in terms of network, in the home area vs. where I live.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Building off of this, and “worn in, not worn out.” I have been using the same leather briefcase since about 2008.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is extremely true in re: clothing and is somewhat harped on by @dieworkwear.bsky.social And while there are certain menswear brands that make it their thing to be “no fuss stuff identical to clothes from 60 years ago,” i.e. O’Connells, JPress, etc. they’re rare and dying.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This was a *fun* thing to try and explain, repeatedly, to some extremely smart & worldly people in Heilbronn last year.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our mandatory car insurance minimums are way too low and, within a margin of error, “no one” has ever *actually* been prosecuted for driving without insurance. Driving should very much treated as more of a privilege than the right it often is.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Fascinating seeing who AIPAC supports politically now being arguably exactly inverse to that of American Jews as a whole.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It feels insane reading the “Gotham” trilogy or “The Power Broker” and how NYC has been having not dissimilar budget problems and arguments for essentially *forever*.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It was a *morning* when I heard someone in court say “section 8” with a hard “r”.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One of the funniest memes one of my best friends has found is the interminable of WW2 US Army memoirs/letters/diaries where they’re dissapointed that the Danube isn’t blue.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today, for America’s 250th Birthday, I got to watch 63 people from 29 different nations become citizens of the United States of America.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

-Japanese Army instructor preparing levies for Operation Coronet, August 1945

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

As someone who worked in this field for years as an attorney: mandatory minimums are indeed way to low and keeping them so low is an example of slopulism that one should fix. Also, the number uninsured drivers is significantly higher than one thinks and it is never prosecuted.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I don’t fully disagree, but I think it makes less sense in the context of her signing the AWB and vetoing the union bill. We’ll see soon, but the list of signed vs vetoed bills where she offered amendments doesn’t seem to make too much sense to me so far.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

At my last job, I had a company car and this was a factor in why we didn’t go EV. I was routinely putting 50,000+ miles on the odometer a year with daily 4-6 hour drives.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

These quotes from 'DPs' by Mark Wyman and 'The Last Million' by David Nasaw really get at something that @loudpenitent.bsky.social has been hitting at for a while in re: bundism as well as the early history of Israel.

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redjoshuaman.bsky.social @redjoshuaman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

@unavaleable.bsky.social Double Victory Core From Ian Toll’s “The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944”

Nimitz and Spruance often left the office together when the sun was still high in the sky. The two shared a compulsive need for strenuous outdoor exercise, and they often hiked to the top of Makalapa Crater, easily outpacing the much

At home in the evenings, he and Spruance relaxed over weak cocktails-an old-fashioned or a scotch and soda mixed in a tall glass, with a thimble of liquor and lots of ice. The two admirals often ended the evening sitting in armchairs at 37 Makalapa Drive, listening to a classical symphony on a phonograph. Their Filipino steward turned off the lights, opened the blackout shades, and let the night air into the house. Occasionally they discussed the war, but more often they sat in silence. By the summer of 1943, near the end of Spruance's fourteen-month stint as CINCAC chief of staff—a period in which the two men had lived in the same house, worked in adjoining offices, and hiked for miles together most afternoons-each usually knew what was in the other's mind. They carried the weight of responsibility for hundreds of thousands of lives, and for the casualties that would inevitably escalate as the war moved closer to the enemy's homeland. As Nimitz's most trusted subordinate, Spruance would soon be rewarded with the navy's top seagoing command and would lead the bloody campaign westward across the
heart ofthe Pacific

AI-generated Yaoi image of Spruance and Nimitz enjoying one of those sunset evenings over cocktails.

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