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Against the current.

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The letter צ goes so hard. She’s beautiful, she makes a great noise, she’s perfect.

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noticing as I learn different languages I tend to think using the shortest word from any of those languages, so for example instead of "this is" or "dette er", I'll just automatically think "c'est"

So my proposal is a creole of every language in which we find the shortest syllabic way to say every single word and speak at maximum efficiency

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plagues history and global epidemiology as an autistic special interest was already a heavy topic but not a day goes by I dont briefly recall drunkenly telling people at the bar in autumn 2019 “yeah the next pandemic will probably be a coronavirus and we’re due for one”

if they remember that i have to wonder if they think they met the devil at the club that night

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Passover Haggadah from Germany, written by Abraham Sofer in 1756

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People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I've ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn't know that musicians had schedules that we could see

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I am so passionate about the ocean all of my problems would be solved if I was just dropped in the middle of the ocean. Unfortunately that would create a new set of problems but I think I could deal

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horseshoe crab teabags

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🐙 Daily Cephalopod Fact: 🐙

Dumbo Octopus: The name "dumbo" originates from their resemblance to the title character of Disney's 1941 film Dumbo, having two prominent ear-like fins which extend from the mantle above each eye. Dumbo octopuses are the deepest living octopuses known, with some specimens captured or observed at hadal depths (20,000 to 36,000 ft) below sea level.

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While most fish cannot regulate their body temperature (known as being ectothermic), basking sharks were recently discovered to be able to (known as being endothermic) which was previously thought to be exclusive to apex predators such as the basking shark's relatives: the mako and great white shark.

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one shrimp two shrimp red shrimp blue shrimp

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the “there is only one solution” chant bs going around is so horrifying and I refuse to believe that these people aren’t aware of the implications

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The Jewish Woman

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I'm pretty sure Avraham failed the test

like if I was given a test and the person giving the test very obviously told me that I was wrong and not to actually do the thing, I would assume I failed the test

also, that's about where the torah switches focus from Avraham to Yitzchak. There were no more tests after that, his story just kind of ends. His next big task is to just marry off his son and that's it he's done.

Like, I really don't think he passed that test I think he failed for refusing to question God for giving him a very unreasonable task.

And it's not like others haven't been rewarded for questioning or even fighting authority

like Yaakov is very definitely rewarding for tricking his Dad cause like right after it says he has a dream where God basically told him good job you will have many descendents. Then later on he literally fights an angel and it's a good thing cause he got renamed Israel as part of a blessing and now we're B'nei Israel

And Moshe definitely questioned authority that was like his whole thing. And even beyond Pharoah, he also had to reason with God to get them to not kill everyone.

Even Avraham that time he convinces God to not kill everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah if there are ten good people. There aren't but Avraham's questioning and reasoning with God is portrayed as a good thing.

Also, Judaism is generally very supportive of questioning authority and child sacrifices are very specifically banned in the torah, so It makes no sense that Avraham passed the test because he would've obeyed God even to kill his child. Like that moral is pretty inconsistent with the rest of the Torah.

so I definitely think Avraham failed that test.

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i love making art

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If you are a proponent of the land back movement, but you are opposed to any and all solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that involve Jewish people living in the Levant (even 100% peacefully alongside other indigenous peoples), then you are an antisemite.

Why? Because you’re either denying Jewish indigeneity or you’re making an exception to your beliefs in order to deprive Jews of a right you willingly grant to others.

If you’re opposed to the land back movement at large, but have made an exception specifically for Jews returning to the Levant, then you presumably only support our right to return as a means to some other end, not on principle. If that other end is removing us from your country or using us as pawns to fulfill some kind of messianic prophecy, then you’re an antisemite.

Advocating for the creation of a Palestinian state does not require you to be antisemitic. Wanting Palestinian civilians to be safe does not require you to be antisemitic. You are choosing to be antisemitic when you could, instead, simply choose not to be.

I don’t know how to make this any simpler.