Avishai ✡️ Weinberger

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War Machine:

Close enough, welcome back Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

Just FYI if you get stabbed with a thing, don’t remove the thing

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the "which do you like better, these three sentences from AI or from a classic" reminds me of the Pepsi Challenge. People genuinely did prefer Pepsi for one sip, because it's sweeter. But they strongly strongly prefer Coke overall, because no one wants sickly sweet for an entire bottle

A poster’s political alignment does not in itself signify the trustworthiness of their information

Neither you nor they are immune to propaganda

Man, the sheer number of people confidently espousing batshit conspiracy theories because they saw them shared online by people on their “side”

It’s so genuinely worrying

This movie whips

The world is a shitstorm but I feel it's important to acknowledge that #WonderMan is really good and actually manages to accomplish something that most streaming series don't, which is that ever episode is distinct and its own perfect little story. Anyway, back to hell...

Kinda related, Pet Sematary 2. LOVE it.

"״הוֹדַע אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַם אֶת תּוֹעֲבוֹתֶיהָ״ נִקְרָא וּמִתַּרְגֵּם. פְּשִׁיטָא! לְאַפּוֹקֵי מִדְּרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר. דְּתַנְיָא: מַעֲשֶׂה בְּאָדָם אֶחָד שֶׁהָיָה קוֹרֵא לְמַעְלָה מֵרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר ״הוֹדַע אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַם אֶת תּוֹעֲבוֹתֶיהָ״. אָמַר לוֹ: עַד שֶׁאַתָּה בּוֹדֵק בְּתוֹעֲבוֹת יְרוּשָׁלַיִם צֵא וּבְדוֹק בְּתוֹעֲבוֹת אִמֶּךָ. בָּדְקוּ אַחֲרָיו וּמָצְאוּ בּוֹ שֶׁמֶץ פְּסוּל. The Tosefta continues: The section of: “Make known [hoda] to Jerusalem her abominations” (Ezekiel 16:2) is read and translated. The Gemara comments: This is obvious. The Gemara answers: This is needed to exclude the opinion of Rabbi Eliezer, who held that this chapter may not be read as a haftara, as it is taught in a baraita: There was an incident with regard to a certain man who was reading the haftara in the presence of Rabbi Eliezer, and he read the section of: “Make known to Jerusalem her abominations.” Rabbi Eliezer said to him: Before you examine the abominations of Jerusalem, go and examine the abominations of your own mother. The Gemara relates that they examined his lineage and found him to have a stain of illegitimacy. His mother had engaged in illicit sexual relations, and therefore he was of questionable lineage."

The Talmud has the original "yo mama" joke. (Megillah 25b:9)

Disgusting Islamophobia from a sitting member of Congress.

This hatred does not belong anywhere in American society – and it certainly does not belong in the halls of Congress.

I think a lot of people maybe don’t realize there are only <16m Jews on earth

Just saw someone say that Stalin shouldn't count as a leader with a massive death toll because he only killed Nazis and maybe this is a good time to start drinking for the evening.

(I agree that killing Nazis is not bad, I just have issues with the claim that Nazis are the only folks Stain killed.)

Thinking about Biden’s initiatives to increase the production of electric vehicles, and Trump’s initiatives to roll that back

Almost as if Carter was right and we needed to kill our dependence on Petroleum.

STDs are timeless

I need to show you this ad I saw in a subway station last night

Oh now it’s the department of defense

Should the U.S. have taken military action against Iran? (Among MAGA) 🟢 Yes: 90% 🔴 No: 5% NBC poll | 2/27-3/3

Every single time:
1. Trump does something hawkish on foreign affairs
2. Breathless stories are written about MAGA being mad and schisming, quoting the same three people (Tucker, Bannon, Greene)
3. Polls show that MAGA Republicans support Trump's move 160%-3%

Thanks for the excellent moderating and banter!

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Chuck and Clay

Me with Michal!

Me with Chuck!

Had an excellent time with @inkasrain.bsky.social at @twistedspinebooks.bsky.social’s Conversation With @chuckwendig.bsky.social And @claymcleod.bsky.social in celebration of the paperback version of Wendig’s The Staircase In The Woods!

(whew that’s a lot of with’s, at’s, of’s, and @‘s)

(bunch of memes about muscles) “Do you want to get JACKED???” over a 💪 Text Ari at 878-212-0064 for a personalized workout program!!! only $25 (barter also accepted!) DISCLAIMER: Ari is not (yet) a Certified Personal Trainer.

I have never seen a better flyer in the wild. Every part of this is better than the last

Tucker Carlson’s saying the Iran attacks are secretly being orchestrated by Chabad

which, in addition to being a scarily dangerous claim to make, is a deeply fucking funny idea

If you’re in a theater with good sound you’re in for something

hahahaha yes yessss let’s fucking go

Undertone

Let’s tone it up

How to win in November

@yair-rosenberg.bsky.social has been a consistently reliable expert commentator on US-Israeli matters such as these

The Real Reason Trump Went to War Trump has called for sending American forces to Iran since 1980. He finally has, and must own the consequences.

“Believing that Trump was somehow a ‘peace president’ devoted to American restraint, as some credulous commentators claimed, required ignoring everything he’d said before he was president and everything he’d done after he became president.”

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

There are new photos of me accusing people in my family of abducting me because it certainly wasn’t Mr Bean

@nicklutsko.bsky.social