other day me and a friend were walking to the docks and i made a quip about us 'sitting by the docks of the bay' and they had NEVER heard this song and i was *stunned*

moms and bubbes are great for asking for cooking advice 😅

in biblical hebrew (and modern hebrew) the moon is masculine יָרֵחַ but in rabbinic hebrew it’s feminine לְבָנָה (lit. “she who is white”) meanwhile the sun is feminine no matter what, even though the biblical/modern hebrew שֶׁמֶשׁ looks like it’d be masculine. rabbinically it’s חַמָּה (lit. “she who is hot”)

The true war on Christmas, inshallah

in Indian English it goes by the Hindustani name gul mohar, itself from the Indo-Persian گل‌مهر gul-muhr ‘mohur flower’. the mohur (from the Persian مهر muhr ‘seal’) was a gold coin worth around 15 silver rupees, minted in India from the 16th to the 20th century. 6/6

“transfem representation on wiktionary (fork found in kitchen)” is now itself, recursively, transfem representation on wiktionary!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ bsky.app/profile/toom...

ariel@toomuchpiano.bsky.social · last mo.

transfem representation on wiktionary!! (fork found in kitchen)

working on my own list.

ariel@toomuchpiano.bsky.social · last wk.

i was drilling my Arabic by going through this old list of “conlang syntax test cases” and they’re just woefully Anglocentric. “the kitten jumped up”. you can’t even say that in Spanish; Borges did a whole interview about it cofl.github.io/conlang/reso...

*wokely* bluesky has BOTH an antisemitism problem AND an islamophobia problem

i need a way to mute specific things. not an entire acct. just reskeets or whatever

oh nice i got my autographed copy of a collection of mystical jewish anarchist trans/queer poetry by someone i took a class from. will post excerpts at some point

...certain feelings are more apparent

windows xp background

Grise l’Indécis@wildobliquities.bsky.social · 6h ago

field studies

every interview with jews in iran i’ve read feels like this

Woke up with visions of the person I'd meant to grow into by now

Give me Diagrammatical Behavioral Therapy, where we don't really change your life at all but at least we make some killer flow charts about it

maimonides nutz@maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 6h ago

Forget Dialectical Behavioral Therapy give me Diabolical Behavioral Therapy — where your therapist helps you think of the worst possible thing you could do in a situation and then encourages you to do it

You may not understand the significance of the second part if you aren't familiar with the connotation of "judeophile" on the edgy left of Twitter

פינחס יוסף מונד@pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 8h ago

"Abd el-Yahud" and "judeophile" my neighbours are calling him, so that's nice

youtu.be/qwedmKPlbz0

Ayonha

YouTube video by Hamid El Shaeri - Topic

youtu.be

Highly recommended! Jewish radicalism shaped by life on the borderlands of empire in Europe and North America

Nathan Ellstrand@nellstra.bsky.social · yesterday

Forthcoming book from @nyupress.bsky.social: Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles by @lucecaroline.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147983835...

WIRED@wired.com · 9h ago

Joe Kent says that he and other anti-Donald Trump MAGA figures have formed a new movement. They want Tucker Carlson to run for the presidency in 2028. www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

motherfuxking SKULL FANG (Data East, 1996) ??????

fuck tungsten and fuck you

Standing planetarily ( ? )

scribble dump

Hebrewsky is threading about Ben Gvir's idea of having a moat full of alligators around the prisons for Palestinians (stricken down by the HCJ, on animal cruelty grounds). So far the winner is the post suggesting a moat full of Ben Gvirs and appointing an alligator as minister of police.

Oded@oded.bsky.social · 15h ago

תגידו, זה דל״פ לרצות שבאמת יקימו את תעלת התנינים בכלא קציעות? זה קצת מגניב לא?

不眠症の夢

people now dont get it you would smoke like 4 bowls of straight swamp dirt and go "man im so high right now dude" because you'd enjoy watching winamp visualizer back in the 00s. nowadays you take a vape hit of some shit called femboy sweat and suddenly youtube videos are scary and you cant stand up