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@mishonmars.bsky.social

Telling Mars rovers what to do since 2012. Planetary scientist. Steelers fan. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Andy Rivkin@asrivkin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not only is it correct to consider matzo to be bread, IT'S EXPLICITLY CALLED "THE BREAD OF AFFLICTION" JUST BEFORE THE FOUR QUESTIONS.

Page from a Passover seder haggadah saying: "Maggid - Retelling the Passover Story Raise the tray with the matzot and say: This is the bread of affliction that our fathers ate in the land of Egypt. Whoever is hungry, let him come and eat; whoever is in need, let him come and conduct the Seder of Passover. This year [we are] here; next year in the land of Israel. This year [we are] slaves; next year [we will be] free people. The tray with the matzot is moved aside, and the second cup is poured.(Do not drink it yet). Now the child asks "Mah Nishtana?" What makes this night different from all [other] nights?"
Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People angrily insisting that El-Sayed using the phrase “break bread” re: sharing a meal with Jews at Passover was ignorant or offensive or insincere is a peak combination of assholes going out of their way to find something to get angry about & some Jews having weird illiteracy about Judaism.

@mishonmars.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy 14th Landiversary to NASA’s Curiosity rover!! It’s a team of scientists that make discovery after discovery while training new scientists at all times, and a team of engineers that have overcome every challenge on the road to keep us exploring! Ever higher, Curoisity!

Partial cheeky self portrait of the Curiosity rover.
maura quint@mauraquint.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2mo ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"

The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.
victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 2mo ago

art is conversation, and i get that if you don’t have the language to interface with it its really frustrating to feel like you’re missing something. but as someone who really fucking enjoys both wilson’s and nolan’s treatments of the odyssey i wish she could see what his version is doing

dame@dame.is · 2mo ago

i would like your help with an experimental social art project this post is the project the goal of this post is for it to receive ZERO likes, and only receive *replies* or *reposts* if it receives any likes, i will immediately turn off replies, thereby sealing and finishing it this is take #10

dame@dame.is · 7mo ago

i would like your help with an experimental social art project this post is the project the goal of this post is for it to receive ZERO likes, and only receive *replies* or *reposts* if it receives any likes, i will immediately turn off replies, thereby sealing and finishing it this is take #9