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"״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)

Screenshot of CBR's summary of Hawkeye 11.

Yep!

There was a great Hawkeye in that mode.

Erin's reporting is, as always, impeccable.

What many may not know, however, is that once a license is issued, the holder has a property interest in that license that is protected by the 14th Amendment.

This goes back to Bell v Burson (1972).

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He's just Keynes.

I may have a stroke.

Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”

A PROTESTant.

I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

"snackrifice in the hands of a hangry god" is sending me. Thank you for this gem of a thread.

A smiling headshot of the Undertale character Papyrus.

spiders be like
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I haven't even checked out yet. I'm gonna get another sweet sweet dopamine hit when I do, and yet another one each time a package arrives 😁😁😊🥰

I mean, intellectually I understood that it's only a matter of time, but it didn't really feel both certain and imminent until I put the cart together.

I've added snap bracelets and glow sticks and now there's a whole nother surge of joy imagining handing them out to my neighbors in the streets and everyone being so happy together ❤️

I knew it would feel good, I did NOT understand HOW GOOD.

Would you like some happy brain chemicals? Because I figured out a hack the other day: I filled an online shopping cart with the party decorations I want to stock in anticipation of that happy day we're all looking forward to. Confetti. Balloons. Silly little hats. Try it. It feels so fucking good.

Inter-title card from the Moroder edit of Metropolis (1927) which reads: 'The year is 2026, a Dickensian "best of times, worst of times," where total oppression and manipulation of the masses is wielded by the unquestionable power of the few.'

I am so unhappy for one of my favorite movies to be right today..

New Year. Same Me.

Enby Christian here. Feel free to dm!

Talk therapists only want one thing and it's discussing.

Please help if you can. They need big donations. I don't know who to reach out to to get them. My own parents gave €3k two weeks ago, at the time more than enough to cover evacuation costs, but costs had tripled by the time the money arrived. It wasn't enough. I have nothing to give. Please.

DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE TO TARSHISH

Seconded

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Pretty Drosophila melanogaster for a White guy.

A giant hairy black tarantula on a orange dead leaf faces the camera. Beneath it is a tiny frog, also facing the camera, and the impression one gets is of a spider defending a tiny pet frog and it's adorable.

Some tarantulas keep frogs as 'pets'.

The frogs eat ants & other small bugs that might attack the eggs or young spiderlings of the tarantula & the tarantula provides shelter in their burrows.

What's more: the tarantula will attack predators that might threaten the frog.

(📷: Emanuele Biggi)

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.

Turns out Booker wasn't actually trying to fillibuster, he just had more of a comment than a question

A yoke is not a hobble
that keeps a beast from wandering
nor a bridle for a master to steer with.

A yoke drags a plow.

Would you have me walk unfettered
or plant behind me?

I'm the MC in this one!! And I assure you, you're gonna have the best six minutes of ... well of Ripley's life, anyway.

Pretty wild we thought a piece of paper was gonna protect us for as long as we did. Now it's the era of the MAGA carta.

Musk’s website, DOGE, leaked classified government information to the entire world. NOFURN [Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals] information on their website about the [intelligence community] headcount has prompted a scramble as people check whether their information has been accessed.