P. Y. Mund

Ubercool.
Toxin-antitoxin systems were discovered 40 years ago in E. coli, and later on in many genomes including in euks.
Now the 1st TA system is reported in the mouse genome!
It affects embryo killing. Amazing distribution of a simple yet efficient genetic system
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I love it when my blocklist searches accidentally bring up sane people. It's like catch-and-release fishing.

A discussion of my blocklist beginning this conversation makes it more fun

Well that's a visual I didn't have lol, but yes, that's only a slight elaboration on the (as usual) terse Talmudic account

What are indigenous Jews, especially as opposed to Ashkenazim, @sagehiker.bsky.social?

So the Talmudic tradition (based on presumed etymology - ‘pe‘or’ is ‘uncovering oneself’) is that Pe‘or was worshipped by ritual defecation in the direction of the idol

Oh yes, same here

Yaakov Shapiro was one of the intestines in this digestive process, I suspect.
It stinks of him.

Just saw a mutual somewhere (lost the post scrolling) say something along these lines, so here's my expression of solidarity

As a religious non-Zionist Jew: who in God's name asked you for your opinion of who is or isn't Jewish, @jdgunderson.bsky.social?

While 'Palestine' as a name has roots in (even before) the very broad era of the Bible, writ large, the word "Palestine" does not appear in any conventional translation of any Biblical Canon

Seth is Platner's (Jewish) stepfather's son from a previous marriage
— me, one of the people that researched this phoniness to exhaustion

(I'm catching up on a backlog of BE mentions to find fans to block, if you're wondering where this reply is coming from)

The problem with this theory (and tbc I despise BE and Platner) is that BE is remarkably consisr in his hate for veterans and Platner in particular

I mean it would be very funny if Platner is a fan of someo who wants him dead, but it's not likely, I think?

Rabboisai, @/stek-02 is ripe for reporting for ban evasion confessed proudly in bio

(this is a prolific Badempanada defender and antisemitism enjoyer)

Oh me too, I mean just from the denunciations you find you get an idea

Your bio says "Not down with Nazis".
As I've demonstrated (search my feed for her surname), Susan Abulhawa supports literal Nazis.

Fix one or the other, @maryjomuser1954.bsky.social

Oh yeah, it's inhumans of capitalism, search that term on bluesky for just a sampling of the deranged things they've endorsed

TIL, because Talmudic tradition attributes a very different type of evil and worship to the same deity... (I assume the Wikipedia article gets to it)

From what I remember from Twitter, that red/white hand account is a significant vector of evil

I was today years old when I learned that Malay {surat} 'letter' is NOT a loan of Arabic سورة (sūra) 'chapter in the Qur'an' (etymology unclear but appears to be native)

acd.clld.org/formsets/30029

You may hear “shoo” in West Yorkshire, or “hoo” in the northwest Midlands.

But London chose “she,” so we're stuck with it.

As a result, one of the most common words in English is a mystery nobody can fully explain.

For a stretch of medieval England, “he” and “she” were the same word.

The two words started out separate: Old English “hē” (he) and “hēo” (she). But around 1100, they merged into identical “he.”

In parts of England, they stayed that way.

But not in the dialects that became Standard English.

המדובר מוכר לי, הוא שונא ישראלים (ולא רק), רק שהוא מתנגד עוד יותר להגדיר יהודים, אפילו במובן מילולי, כ־diaspora

Still works for me?

Chabad is a very expensive family of operations and is also at the mercy of capricious governments worldwide. Ergo, Chabad wheedles donations and protective ties out of any persuadable individual or institution.

Thus Chabad in Russia flatters Putin, while Chabad everywhere else despises him.

Anyone who thinks Chabad has been infiltrated by oligarchs because of their connections with oligarchs fundamentally doesn't get what Chabad is doing around rich people and it's very simple if you aren't looking for deeper conspiracies.

My own general stance is explained here:

I get all my new from know about world

Mishnah Berurah only covers certain areas of quotidian halacha though... and nothing quite like it exists for the rest of halacha (there are excellent imitations but they're all more advanced in their target audience)

The greatest convenience for blocklist moderation is that bigots attract equal and opposite bigots.