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jewishreader

@jewishreader@sfba.social

Nerd. Teacher. Religious Studies PhD. San Francisco. This bio is raising many questions that can be answered by my username ;)

Permanent #ceasefire now. End the occupation. Bring the hostages home.

Profile pic: a woman with short brown hair holding a tuxedo cat. Header pic: the Spa #F1 track.

Born #Hoosier. #HotSauce aficionado. #politics, #food, #popculture, trans allyship, #sports, #photography, many RTs. Maintains a 12k link #Pinboard archive.

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jewishreader, to SF
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Holding random American Jews responsible for the Israeli government's actions is antisemitic.

https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/smitten-jewish-owned-ice-creamery-vandalized-tagged-with-pro-palestinian-graffiti/

jewishreader, to random
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CW: Covid, Long Covid, health-related disability

Really important piece in the Times (gift article) pulling together lots of research that has been fought for over many years by patient (in both senses) advocates:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/health/viral-infections-autoimmune-covid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B00.AFnK.pxaI-7YwW5MC&smid=url-share

jewishreader, to photography
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Fiddled with every slider on this one, which is unusual for me. Still not sure about it. Think it's ok.

jewishreader, to PCGaming
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Folks are pissed over the headline "The Producer Blames Simplified Plot On Americans' Inability To Follow Complex Storylines" and I'm like...yes? That's exactly what happened?

They did the first season with the [SPOILER] different timelines[/SPOILER]

which was a great idea. Yet viewers and even many reviewers (!) freaked the fuck out and said it was too complicated.

jewishreader, to random
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BRING BACK THE YOU COWARDS. It's not like Amazon doesn't have the money to keep funding it.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
The last three books are set when everyone is old, anyway, so it's perfect!

jewishreader, to random
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🎵 Dear Non-Jews: You can fight against the oppressiveness of the Israeli state, and work toward the liberation of the Palestinian people, or even think that Israel shouldn't exist as currently constituted, and still acknowledge that Palestine was the historic homeland of the Jews as well as the historic and current homeland of Palestinians. That is just a fact of history and does not commit you to believe anything about the current state of Israel. And it makes many Jews, including many non-Zionist Jews, feel respected around you. Thank you.🎵

jewishreader, to random
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I would encourage anyone flirting with the 'theory' that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays to consider that it is based on the deeply classist assumption that no one with Shakespeare's background would have been able to accomplish what he did.

jewishreader, to random
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Please consider donating to your instance! It's a good way to demonstrate that you value what you get on Mastodon and want it to continue!

jewishreader, to random
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I can't believe so many people on both the left and the right need to hear this, but Hamas does not equal Palestine or all Palestinians.

jewishreader, to history
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Here's a strange question for my fellow : I'm trying to track down a photo of a primary source, a newspaper advertisement from the that says "Richmond Has Fallen, And So Have Our Prices." I had it saved but it got destroyed in computergeddon '23 and now I can't retrace it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

jewishreader, to random
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Even if Hamas had been using the hospital as a command center, it would have been incumbent upon the IDF to figure out how to get them out without committing war crimes. 'They're using human shields, therefore it's their fault when we make the active decision to kill the shields' is not, in my opinion, a morally defensible position.

jewishreader, to random
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Did you know that New York has a Girl Scout troop for scouts housed in shelters?

https://www.girlscoutsnyc.org/en/discover/girl-scouting-nyc/troop-6000.html

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Let us all celebrate the death anniversary of Christopher Columbus, a man who was such an asshole he was jailed for mistreating Native Americans in the 15th century.

jewishreader, to random
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As a Jew, I am free both to strongly criticize the ADL for its Israel policies and to believe it should not be the target of antisemitic abuse.

jewishreader, to random
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Dear Bosses of the World: If no one is getting the work you assigned done, consider whether the work you assigned is stupid.

jewishreader, to random
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Chag Pesach sameach, everyone who is celebrating!

jewishreader, to random
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If it's OK that your preferred candidate took power in a coup and enacted the rules you wanted by fiat, then you are not actually interested in equality.

jewishreader, to books
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If you are reacting to the Penguin/DOJ case, as someone pointed out elsewhere: don't believe what a corporation says in an antitrust hearing about being Just A Smol Little Guy. They are massively incentivized to act like they are less successful than they are.

jewishreader,
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In other words don't immediately jump to Books Never Sell Any Copies Writing Is Dead We're All Doomed.

jewishreader,
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Also also, maybe don't trust a viral piece of commentary about books and publishing that mentions the concept of a 'Netflix of books' and doesn't once mention libraries (if you know, you know).

jewishreader, to random
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I'm pretty baffled by the people who leave negative reviews on litter boxes being like 'my cat wouldn't use it!' Have you met cats?

jewishreader, to animals
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Charlie would like you to contact his LAWYERS because he was kept out of the bathroom this morning while his mama was showering, which is clearly a HATE CRIME.

jewishreader, to random
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Gift link: Jewish protesters arrested at Gaza border trying to bring in food:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/world/middleeast/rabbis-arrested-gaza-israel-border-starvation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU0.7Wat.riZP9Ed8gRo4&smid=url-share

jewishreader, to random
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Work is paying, so I ordered an Arnold Palmer with lunch to confirm that I still don't like Arnold Palmers.

sanae, to random
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I'm trying to find a good non-paywalled source, but it sounds like it will now be the case in the US that coal power plants have to either close down or capture most of their CO2 (lol) in the next 10ish years?

If this happens, this seems like pretty good news. The two biggest climate change issues are transportation and fossil fuel based electricity. Closing coal (and natural gas) power plants is harder for individuals to influence politically but it's just as important

jewishreader,
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@sanae https://apnews.com/article/power-plants-coal-natural-gas-biden-epa-5c96ca146e7f70b47806beb4bc3713e6

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