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“Whether your relationship with your relative was one you cherished or was fraught with struggle and pain, these days can be transformative and eternal.” What should a mourner do while sitting shiva? This is really good:

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It’s not just me? I love the internet.

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Our friend Bekka’s tiny press gets love from del Toro! 😍

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A Ritual Guide for Abortion & Miscarriage Care This guide provides Jewish ritual context to those who are accessing abortion or experiencing miscarriage. Included are basic scripts, resources, and suggestions.

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3 days: Tuesday 23 September – Thursday 25 September

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A beautiful post, and, what's more, a legitimately helpful one. Even those days when music is beyond me, just a note or two from the harp as I walk past it feels like a tiny grace.

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Another good place to throw your energy, time, or resources.

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And read the 🦋 comments

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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This is the language of honor. "The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up,” Ms. Ortiz said. “I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Yiddish has your back 🇺🇸

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The average person is not on Bluesky, does not follow political news, and has only an impressionistic sense of what different candidates for president intend to do. On top of that, Trump is uniquely skilled at marketing himself to the masses, something he honed well before politics.

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The White House has kept the wire service from covering key events because it refuses to call the body of water between Mexico and Florida the Gulf of America, as the Trump administration prefers.

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A question for all of my creative comrades: I’m trying to design some #swasbuckler worthy kitchen utensils. I’m thinking about 3D printing hilts that will affix to my current tools. Anyone have any thoughts on creative and functional solutions? #3dprinting #maker #DIY #3dmodelling #art #design

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Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Parks Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the Trump administration has blinked. via @jackdolan.bsky.social

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John Mitchinson explores the strangely complex method behind the music of the bells

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A Ritual Guide for Abortion & Miscarriage Care This guide provides Jewish ritual context to those who are accessing abortion or experiencing miscarriage. Included are basic scripts, resources, and suggestions.

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Yes. My characters should be “relatable” only to outliers like me. “Relatable” is not a Virtue.

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US folks: Lambda Legal is hosting a virtual session on passports for transgender, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary (TGNCNB) people. Date is Wed, Feb 26, from 3-4 p.m. ET. Sign up here: support.lambdalegal.org/site/SSurvey...

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Not good news, but needs to be said: Hamas claimed that Israel killed the Bibas children and their mother in an airstrike. Forensic examination of the corpses reveals the kids were murdered and that Hamas didn't even send back the mother, but a random body. Depravity piled upon lies.

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I’m sorry! I’m sorry we failed you, I’m sorry your country failed you, I’m sorry that even in death you don’t have peace! 💔🧡💔 I tried to stay out of it but the last few days completely broke me 😭💔 #Bibas #Bringhomenow🎗️

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“To lose one brewery, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 100 looks like carelessness.”

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Early morning thoughts: so imagine that the Federal government is like a hospitalized older relative who does some stuff you don't agree with, but who you rely on. What Elon Musk's minions are doing is like randomly applying defibrillator paddles and saying they're helping your relative lose weight.

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Writer houseguest @kellyrobson.com gamely let us drag her to Brooklyn Books & Booze reading…where of course she turned out to know lots of people, like @megelison.bsky.social !

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Oh look! It’s my color!

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When a great novelist tells you a true story about her dad, the USA, and vets—you click on through to read it 👇🏼

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I believe the urge I'm feeling is what @erinbiba.bsky.social referred to as the Jewish epigenetic instinct to flee to another country...

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Look I know it's a cliché, but call your fucking reps. They don't get scared unless they hear from an overwhelming number of us all the time. Call them every damn day. Tell them to fight the hell back and protect us from Musk and Trump. It matters and it makes a difference, right now. reps.fyi

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I just donated as well. Every little bit helps.

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Feels like the 🇺🇲 government is trying to erase us. So I just made a small donation to the Internet Archive, the world's largest digital library and home of the Wayback Machine. If you think you'd feel better if you did the same, join me.

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Until this very day, I had no idea that the James Bond franchise was run by a woman named "Barbara Broccoli," and now that I know, all that I want is for them to give it back www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Q: Now do pay attention 007...this may look like an ordinary Pepsi bottle, but you will need to piss in it during your thirteen hours shift in the warehouse, as order fulfillment must take precedence to any bathroom break. BOND (archly): How refreshing. The taste of a new generation, indeed.

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I just hope Amazon puts the focus back on classic James Bond storytelling elements. Like the long history of villains that are grossly wealthy, insecure egomaniacs desperate to validate their fragile egos with wild schemes to control the media, governments, and space itself.

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Oh! Matthew Cheney is here as @melikhovo.bsky.social His piece on books to do with Bloomsbury & Shakespeare's queerness is terrific, and provided me with many fine quotes upstream, as you shall see 👀

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“They read a novel for the story & poetry for ‘a criticism of life’…They… don’t understand [literature] & it bores them unless there’s something indecent in it to tickle their pruriency or something ‘good’ to tickle their lickerish sense of moral responsibility.” — Leonard Woolf (1902)

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My beloved Detroit Rebbe has been very ill, and needs us now:

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This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

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my milkshake brings them all and in the darkness binds them is this anything

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Free COVID tests shipped to your home will still be available, at least for a day or two. One set of 4 free tests per household address. If you have not done this, do it now. Covidtests.gov shipped by USPS, free.

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Now that he’s called himself a king can we finally get movement on Section 3 disqualification?

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