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Hazy sunrise

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Hazy sunrise

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I’ve spent the last few days cataloging our library’s Holocaust books, so any cute pet pictures you have to share would be appreciated

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I’ve spent the last few days cataloging our library’s Holocaust books, so any cute pet pictures you have to share would be appreciated

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Yeah, I’d say that was a pretty notable problem in European civilization

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Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park North Cascades National Park

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There’s no such thing as an “insincere” Nazi salute; they’re all just Nazi salutes. Sincere vs. insincere isn’t a distinction that matters when it comes to Nazis. Much of the original Nazi movement wasn’t “sincere” and that didn’t make it any less real.

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Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park North Cascades National Park

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Reading a story about Pope Francis which mentions that he had been poped back in 2013 and my brain slipped gears for a second. I still think of Francis as “the new pope” and thought Benedict had been pope for longer, but nope. ~12 years for Francis (so far) vs. only ~8 for Benedict. Time is weird.

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Kind of magical to stumble on what I can only assume is an outpost of the Winter Light Festival while out for an evening walk.

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Kind of magical to stumble on what I can only assume is an outpost of the Winter Light Festival while out for an evening walk.

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Unexpected encounter with a star yesterday: the extraordinary beauty of the Rothschild Pentateuch

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Yes, I know how blurbs work, and yes, I know that historians sometimes give their books very straightforward titles. I’m just saying it’s weird to pick up a book and look at the back and read “Praise for THE HOLOCAUST: “

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Dreamt that I was giving a lecture titled “The Physics of Translation” and I woke with a vivid memory of a slide that read: “POLYSEMY = SUPERPOSITION Where ambiguity exists, it is the job of the translator is to avoid the collapse of the wave function. Certainty is a failure of art.”

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Trying to catalogue a library and I just have one very simple request of authors, shouldn’t be any trouble at all: please ensure that your book is about only one (1) subject from the pre-approved list; do not discuss more than one subject or relate your subject to any other subject. Thanks!

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I understand that their computer system doesn’t have a tallit category, but it’s not one of those skinny scarf ones; surely it should count as a whole tablecloth and not just a runner

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Had my tallit dry cleaned and this is the tag it came back with

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Everything is terrible but I leyned Torah for the first time today and that was kind of magical so maybe not everything is terrible

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It’s all a rainy sludgy mess now, but this was a lovely thing to wake up to yesterday morning.

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Everything is terrible but I leyned Torah for the first time today and that was kind of magical so maybe not everything is terrible

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As someone interested in historiography, I love old history books. They can be valuable historical documents in themselves and we can learn a lot from them, so I’m reluctant to remove them from the library collection. But I do sometimes wish I had a PLEASE DO NOT LEARN HISTORY FROM THIS BOOK stamp

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My only contribution to the “audiobooks aren’t reading” discourse is that a lot of people, as always, have clearly got hold of the wrong end of the stick and conceive of writing as the “real” version of language. As if writing is the source and when we speak we’re just saying letters out loud.

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Adding books to the catalog at the library, I came across one that purported to be a historical depiction of life in “Bible times” (first red flag). So I opened it up and came across a description of the Pharisees (second red flag) and hoo boy, (SO MANY red flags)

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Adding books to the catalog at the library, I came across one that purported to be a historical depiction of life in “Bible times” (first red flag). So I opened it up and came across a description of the Pharisees (second red flag) and hoo boy, (SO MANY red flags)

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They picked my street again.

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It’s particularly unsettling when you stumble into one of the roosts at night, unaware. You notice a faint rustling and then look up to find hundreds or thousands of crows perched overhead. And it feels like they’re all watching you.

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It’s particularly unsettling when you stumble into one of the roosts at night, unaware. You notice a faint rustling and then look up to find hundreds or thousands of crows perched overhead. And it feels like they’re all watching you.

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It’s hard to convey the scale of the flocks of crows here in Portland that take over whole neighborhoods to roost every evening. This was toward the tail end, after they’d been streaming past my window for a solid ten minutes and every tree up and down the street was encrusted with crows.

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we are depriving generations of kids of the formative experience of stumbling upon some weird horny sci-fi or fantasy book that was absolutely not written for them, which is the kind of thing that makes reading feel exhilarating, like you are unlocking the grownup world’s fun secrets

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I like to imagine they have one of those old-fashioned portable flasher beacons they can stick on their roof when they’re rushing to the scene of a scroll emergency

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Does the Times regret its contributions to those attacks?

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