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my grandmother met trump decades ago at a mar-a-lago new year's party (and was quite disgusted by him and the whole experience), courtesy of her cousin the journalist turned trump cheerleader (although his old natsec obsession did peek through after the mar-a-lago documents thing).

13.03.2026 04:34 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty sure you're actually a Mormon asset because you're using ancestry's newspaper service.

12.03.2026 15:34 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Am I doing this right

11.03.2026 16:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

me when the president I work for named Jed Bartlett's daughter is being harassed and I have to get involved (alert the secret service)

11.03.2026 16:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'll be honest I think this might be evidence I have been sitting at my gate in the airport too long without really doing anything. Luckily I am boarding quite soon.

10.03.2026 15:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

had a vision:

Oy oy oy belts, my various belts.
They hold up my pants
That are slightly too
Loose around my waist.
Oy oy oy belts, my various belts.
No thanks to the suspenders,
I'll stick with my belts for now.

10.03.2026 14:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I do think there is a weird amount of knowledge about things like nusach differences among some of the other people on here, but with this specific question I probably should've just tagged you lol

10.03.2026 14:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Probably not but you never know.

10.03.2026 14:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My basic understanding of nusach belz is that it's basically nusach ashkenaz but has some things changed in a more nusach sefard way, but as to what I am never really sure.

10.03.2026 14:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ok I think I know the answer to this, but I could not confirm it after searching the internet for a bit so I am coming to bluesky. In the weekday amidah, does nusach belz say דעה בינה והשכל or חכמה בינה ודעת? My assumption is the first, but the second could be used as a deviation from ashkenaz.

10.03.2026 14:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

That is to say, I have no reason to believe that this dictionary is comprehensive, especially regarding older forms, and Wiktionary could just not have the entry.

10.03.2026 13:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A cursory look at a random online pa dutch dictionary and Wiktionary would say no, but it's possible.

10.03.2026 13:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When my family was visiting France and saw my mom's exchange student friend/pen pal, she said she was going to be in New York sometime soon after and would love to see us in Pittsburgh. When we informed her that it would be a long drive, she just asked how long the train ride was (hint: longer).

10.03.2026 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A weird meme presumably made by a racist that reads:

RACIST
A MADE UP WORD BY LEON TROTSKY IN 1927
WORD WAS USED TO BROWNBEAT ALL DISSENTERS OF THE COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY

STILL USED TO THIS DAY IN THE WEST TO SHUT DOWN ALL NONCONFORMISTS

A weird meme presumably made by a racist that reads: RACIST A MADE UP WORD BY LEON TROTSKY IN 1927 WORD WAS USED TO BROWNBEAT ALL DISSENTERS OF THE COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY STILL USED TO THIS DAY IN THE WEST TO SHUT DOWN ALL NONCONFORMISTS

(I'm not entirely sure which racist made this claim first, but it was very popular to joke about how dumb it was back when twitter was twitter)

09.03.2026 06:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Actually he only invented the word "racist" to render debate impossible, this is a very important distinction.

09.03.2026 06:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Jim Priest is my new favorite name

05.03.2026 20:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This was actually a pretty convincing troll account until now

04.03.2026 19:51 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

lol

04.03.2026 19:50 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Not to be a bitch but after watching this video I have concluded this bird seems dumb as hell. Don’t dig around in your own torso, pull out one of your own feathers, drop it, and then look at ME like “What happened.” Like do we NEED a tall duck?

27.02.2026 06:27 👍 1441 🔁 137 💬 0 📌 0

Yekkish -> Conservative supersessionism is probably someone's actual ideology

23.02.2026 21:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Yekkish customs live on (kind of; not their nusach) thanks to the brave soldiers of the conservative movement (the only example I can think of is many people keeping three hours before eating milk after meat).

23.02.2026 21:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Many have been calling it The Arabic Republic of Iran

20.02.2026 22:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

But I don't remember his dorf having a name in the stories, and Anatevke being a shtetl would be wrong anyway because he lived in a dorf.

20.02.2026 18:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He never lived in Boyberik iirc, that's just where his customers from Yehupets had their summer homes.

20.02.2026 17:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

We are rapidly approaching the day when the government is Marco Rubio changing hats every few seconds to order around Big Balls.

20.02.2026 00:38 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yeah I'm not sure if it's fair to read it this way or not, but it certainly seems consistent with the kind of thing I have seen before. It's probably some combination of that and some kind of abstract, general discomfort with the admission of apartheid for a lot of people. In this case, I can't say.

18.02.2026 19:25 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think it's a weird way of viewing the world where "apartheid" is what happened in South Africa, so anything else resembling apartheid South Africa is just "apartheid-like?"

18.02.2026 19:16 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's probably all the ones that need some kind of expansion, but if anyone is curious about others I can try to continue the thread.

03.02.2026 01:04 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

English now being the lingua franca of the world has no bearing on that, the prestige of English has not somehow replaced the prestige of Hebrew in any sense.

03.02.2026 01:04 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

9. Among whom? The article seems to imply that (Classical) Hebrew should be the prestige language of society in the way English is today, but even if you just take it to mean among Jews, this makes little to no sense. Hebrew didn't stop being the prestige language in the diglossia of the Jews.

03.02.2026 01:04 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0