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SciFi fan. Amateur baker. Marketing/Comms professional. Jewish. Progressive. Black Lives Matter. Pro-Choice. Pro-Women's Rights. Trans rights are human rights, and gender-affirming care saves lives. Kindness above all else. he / him.

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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A friend living in a red, oppressive state needs help accessing gender therapy / resources for their trans teen. I know there used to be a google sheet with links / info. If anyone has that link, can you pls send it to me? Any advice would be helpful. If you can boost this post i'd appreciate it.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Miami.... Oklahoma.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Driving through Oklahoma. Sign on the median: "Hitchhikers may be escaping inmates." It happens often enough that they had to put up a sign?
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I'm getting over covid. Two weeks ago, I came down with what I thought was the flu, and it rapidly progressed into a chills, high fever, chest congestion, coughing, etc. I have no idea how I got it. I work from home, so I'm not around many people these days, and my kids were not in school. +
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Very much worth reading. Thank you for writing this, @sandyernestallen.bsky.social.
welcometohellworld.com
Who goes transphobe?
by Sandy Ernest Allen It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I ...
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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
pasadenastarnews.com
Artist vows to restore ‘art over hate’ at Pasadena Jewish Temple mural, defaced with antisemitic messaging
Through the weekend, local leaders decried the vandalism on a Pasadena Jewish Temple mural that was meant to be symbol of resilience and hope. It will rise again, despite the anonymous hate.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Jewish Conservative / Masorti movement has issued a 37-page teshuvah (response) regarding intermarriage. Conservative clergy are still prohibited from performing intermarriages. They also want to be dramatically more welcoming. This entire response exists in tension between the two. +
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A suspect is in custody after two men were stabbed on NYC's UWS this afternoon. One of the victims is Jewish. Police investigating as a possible antisemitic hate crime. share.google/Q9Y0ef8VVVXx...
share.google
Suspect arrested after 2 men stabbed on Manhattan's Upper West Side, NYPD says
Police said detectives are investigating whether the attacks constitute a hate crime after two men were wounded in separate attacks near Central Park.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oh Ryanair, don't ever change
irishstar.com
Airline boss says 'things happen' after passenger sucked out of plane window
The Ryanair CEO spoke out after a man was partially sucked out of a plane window during a flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Matzah Baller?
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
神は偉大なり
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
98⁰. Feels like 110⁰ It's only the first week of July. What is August going to feel like?
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The (former) Pfizer building at 235 West 42 in Manhattan has been evacuated. Two columns buckled. Sagging floors. Debris falling to the streets below. It may collapse. I spent a lot of time in that building when I worked with Pfizer. Built in the 60's by Emery Roth, a post-war modernist design. +
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Tonight's movie: The Sheep Detectives. Sheep #1: "This is the church, where someone named God lives." Sheep #2: "Who's God?" "It's a bit confusing, God is a shepherd." "So he could be our shepherd?" "No. Because he's also a lamb." "What?" +
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🧵 I fell on concrete last weekend and badly bruised both knees. Am ok. Limping around. Have an ortho appt next week to check tendons and ligaments. Have been on pain meds. Am reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by @mattdinniman.bsky.social. Fun concept. Creative. Happily distracting. +
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
...and that's when the screaming started.
Text from my daughter: 
"I JUSY WOKE UP AND THERE WAS A HUGE FUCKING BUG IN MY HAIR AND I DONT KNOW WHERE IR WENT BECAUSE IT FELL OFF MY BED"

My reply:

"New phone. Who dis?"
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's a screenshot of a conversation on Twitter. 

markshrime: "Doctor here. Giving an hour-long speech in 107⁰ heat is not recommended"

thisone0verhere: "Shush"

smarken1: "I heard Obama did two hours"
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is one of the more vocal "Vote Blue No Matter Who" guys on Bluesky arguing that electing the misogynistic Nazi tattoo guy is the only way we're gonna avoid fascism. The mental disconnect is morbidly fascinating. The speed at which women and Jews get thrown under the bus is par for the course.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Alexa, what's the weather?" "It's sunny. Temperature is 84⁰ and feels like 98⁰. Today's high will be 94⁰." Wait. What? "During the heat of the day, what will the temp feel like?" "104⁰" "That sucks." Alexa: "Yeah. That's brutal heat. At least you'll know what a pizza in an oven feels like." 😵‍💫
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Let him cook
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Gift link: "The Supreme Court is not saying people don’t have certain rights, just that no courts can help them when those rights are violated." They're using loopholes to strip us of our human rights protections.
theatlantic.com
The Supreme Court’s Era of Meaningless Rights
The Supreme Court is not saying people don’t have certain rights, just that no courts can help them when those rights are violated.
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Ginger @gentlyepigrams.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Love her work with Postmodern Jukebox.
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Climate.us @climate.us · 26/06/2026
We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Via britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
It's a political test. I'm apparently 83% woke, 61% techbro, 70% hopepilled, and 91% davos. My strongest match is Mark Carney, the current pm of Canada.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Tonight's film is Moulin Rouge. It's just me and my daughter tonight. She's never seen it.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My daughter's friends got her a suprise ticket to the Dallas symphony tomorrow to see Back to the Future. The film will show on a large screen with the score played live by Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She tried the movie when she was younger and pronounced it boring. 😁
static.klipy.com
Doc Brown & Marty McFly: 88 Miles Per Hour Quote
ALT: Doc Brown & Marty McFly: 88 Miles Per Hour Quote
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Gift link wapo.st/3QZmR2g
wapo.st
Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.3 billion into the 2026 election
Billionaires and newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk make up the top individual donors.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tonight's movies are Zombieland Double Tap and the anime Your Name. We just finished Zdt. Consensus here is it's better than the first one. I watched Your Name when it first came out. My son's out of town, and my daughter hasn't seen it yet. This is such a beautiful film.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tonight's movie is Zombieland. I've never seen it. My daughter has, though. The opening credits were ridiculously gory. Eisenberg and Harrelson seem like a fun odd couple. +
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Shooting today at a Hilton Garden Inn in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Montreal. A civilian, the shooter and a responding police officer were all killed. The first SPVM officer to be killed in the line of duty in over 20 years. Côte-des-Neiges is a predominantly Jewish neighborhood.
forward.com
Shots fired in Jewish neighborhood of Montreal
Two police officers and one civilian have been injured, authorities report
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Okay, the man is clearly mentally unwell. But Dartmouth? Really? The school that openly admitted they had quotas against Jews from 1931-1946? Whose president in 1945 defended 'em by saying, "Dartmouth is a Christian college founded for the Christianization of its students". That Dartmouth?
jpost.com
Dartmouth rejects antisemitic admissions conspiracy | The Jerusalem Post
The plaintiff, who filed his lawsuit under a pseudonym, claimed that he needs to remain anonymous because it puts his career and life in danger due to the number of powerful Jews around the world.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Paywall free: archive.is/2th6n Years ago, I had a PR client whose daughter loved @thedailyshow.com. He asked us to book him. I said no. During a very long, in-person meeting, I showed him clips of the show. Explained that they made fools out of interview subjects. He still insisted. I said no. +
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” - Marion Barry 🙄 I know expecting journalistic integrity from a @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy reporter is foolish, but the fact that he didn't immediately call this idiocy out is embarrassing.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We watched the end of RoTJ tonight. The verdict on RoTJ: my daughter was underwhelmed. Liked the Ewoks. "Lots of explosions in this one." "Why is everyone dying?" She didn't feel it was a bad movie, but it wasn't the best in the series. We're starting The Force Awakens now.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Of the many things I'd like to chat with Einstein about, Zionism doesn't even make the top 50. Just to be able to hear his perspectives on modern physics would be incredibly cool.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Some good local news. On Saturday, in nearby Frisco, TX, the mayoral race went to candidate Mark Hill. Hill's opponent, Rod Vilhauer, made ugly, fearmongering comments about Muslims and Islam during his campaign. He also compared immigrants to "rats." Hill quoted Vilhauer on his lawn signs. +
dallasobserver.com
Frisco voters reject anti-Muslim, immigrant rhetoric as Vilhauer falls in mayoral race
The losing candidate had likened Indians to ‘rats’ and said Islam is a terrorist ideology.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Tonight's movies are Rogue One and Return of the Jedi. We watched most of Rogue One a couple of weeks ago. My daughter didn't like it at all, so we stopped and watched A New Hope and Empire. We had 30 minutes left of Rogue One to watch tonight and just finished. Rogue One has a very dark +
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
From @lastweektonight.com. (www.instagram.com/reel/DZVKlL0...) One might think, "assuming it's not around Jewish people, probably" would be the most disturbing part of this segment, but nope. @kylec.bsky.social deserves a medal for demanding answers for Colorado voters.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Hahahahahahaha he landed on Mike Bloomberg! #knicks
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I am a Mets fan and loathe the... *spits* ...Yankees. But no one can argue they're a bad team. Evil, sure. Bad, no.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is a fun resource from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social, the Public Domain Image Archive: a curated collection of 11,082 out-of-copyright images, free to browse, download, and reuse. Updated weekly.
pdimagearchive.org
Public Domain Image Archive
Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
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Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Delighted by this new acquisition. A copy of a haggadah published in Amsterdam in 1695. Known simply as the Amsterdam haggadah, it's the first haggadah to incorporate copperplate engravings and contains one of the earliest maps of the Holy Land printed in Hebrew 1/7
An added engraved title page, with the title and publication info flanked by depictions of Moses and AaronAn image of the map, unfolded
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Trees are poems that Earth writes upon the sky." Khalil Gibran Ralph Emerson art
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🧵 A friend reminded me of this today: Years ago, we took our Toyota Corolla in for an oil change. Mechanic told us our flex pipe needed replacing. Parts/labor were expensive. We didn't have $$ to spare, so I took it to our local Meineke shop for an (hopefully cheaper) estimate. +
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Made a batch of garlic mayonnaise. It's currently chilling in the fridge for a few hours to thickener slightly and let the flavors come through. It's easy to make, but i'm still experimenting.
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
.@mcakotp.bsky.social An odd question: are you familiar with Injera? (Gluten-free ethiopian flatbread.) I'm going to pick up some teff flour and start trying to make it.
daringgourmet.com
Authentic Injera (Ethiopian Flatbread)
An authentic injera recipe, the famous Ethiopian flatbread that is the perfect accompaniment to a whole host of dishes!
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I show up at the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. Instead of $10, it's $300. Tech: "your insurance rejected it. We didn't fill it because that's super expensive." He kindly ran it again and it went through properly. I was uninsured in my teens and twenties. The sinking feeling was familiar. 🙁
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