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I initially read this as "librarians love me for some reason". It was funny at the time.
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Libertarians love me for some reason, why have none of them offered me $80k to be a bitch for a weekend
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I remember reading somewhere that kosher/halal laws are much less about the laws themselves and much more about the group identity they foster. I imagine the obscurity of Catholic mass fulfills roughly the same function.
What you're saying makes a lot of sense to me.
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I think fundamentally there is an us v them mentality built into Judaism that exists independently of antisemitism. A lot of traditional Jewish practice — especially keeping kosher — is about a forced insularity that separates Jews from non-Jews.
I just read a quote that said that the brain is "a machine for jumping to conclusions" and I don't know why but this feels so true.
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I know, right? I wouldn't have thought that a show about the "bureaucracy of evil" could be so compelling and yet here we are.
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I’m finally watching Andor again after a three week break (my viewing companions had COVID) and my god it’s so good, it’s seriously way too good to be a Star Wars (sorry but it’s true)
It's egg nog season, motherfuckers!
I did a zoom presentation today and one of the audience took a screenshot of me talking. I looked pretty crazed. I'd be fucking terrified of me.
Sunset over Point Sainte Charles and Saint-Henri
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I'm not sure what it is about this that rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's the condescension or the "learning is beneath me" vibe I get.
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Absolutely no billionaire can do anything to get me to download “Mastodon” and join a “server” whatever in God’s fuck that is.
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Not sure the Mastodon move is gonna be permanent and I am still On Here, but I'm also over there at jill@journa.host
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One of the funny things about Mastodon being “too hard” is that it reminds me that all of the internet used to be hard
Does anyone else imagine that the earworm currently ringing in their head as they walk on the sidewalk is actually part of the soundtrack in the movie of their life?