Adina M. Yoffie
@adinayoffie.bsky.social
Academic editor, History PhD, Jewish Studies expert; adinayoffie.com.
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Adina M. Yoffie
@adinayoffie.bsky.social
· Oct 23
BlueSky, especially mutuals: it's been fun to be back the last few days, but I'm going to try to take another approximately month-long break. I really was less anxious & slept better during the last one. Have fun, be careful, & link to my editing services is in bio. 😍
My Thanksgiving food take that no one asked for: The sweet-potatoes-with-marshmallows-on-top dish is gross. It is way too sweet to be anywhere near turkey, mashed russet potatoes, green beans, etc. There is cranberry sauce. Serve it for dessert if you want, but wouldn’t you rather have pie?
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My Thanksgiving food take that no one asked for: The sweet-potatoes-with-marshmallows-on-top dish is gross. It is way too sweet to be anywhere near turkey, mashed russet potatoes, green beans, etc. There is cranberry sauce. Serve it for dessert if you want, but wouldn’t you rather have pie?
This week, I have leaned that: 1) even more men, especially Boomers + Gen X, respect women even less than I thought & combine that with ignorance of the workings of institutional misogyny; 2) even more leftists/Zohran bros than I thought don’t care what their Jewish supporters consider antisemitic.+
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This week, I have leaned that: 1) even more men, especially Boomers + Gen X, respect women even less than I thought & combine that with ignorance of the workings of institutional misogyny; 2) even more leftists/Zohran bros than I thought don’t care what their Jewish supporters consider antisemitic.+
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November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I am living proof that Rebecca is, once again, correct.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I am living proof that Rebecca is, once again, correct.
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Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
Baller!
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Baller!
Good analogy!
My grand unified theory of suburbia is that camera doorbells are like SUVs, they provide an illusion of security while making you more paranoid
“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Good analogy!
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
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“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
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it both rules and sucks that isaac chotiner continues to run circles around basically the entire media class using a unique genetic superpower known as "object permanence"
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
it both rules and sucks that isaac chotiner continues to run circles around basically the entire media class using a unique genetic superpower known as "object permanence"
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
I read the first 50-ish comments w/o seeing many stories on the hilarity that ensues (if you’re lucky) when part of the family keeps kosher to at least some extent, and the rest of the family definitely doesn’t. People in my family are pretty good cooks, but I’ve got lots of lore re: kosher stuff.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I read the first 50-ish comments w/o seeing many stories on the hilarity that ensues (if you’re lucky) when part of the family keeps kosher to at least some extent, and the rest of the family definitely doesn’t. People in my family are pretty good cooks, but I’ve got lots of lore re: kosher stuff.
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It's tomorrow across the pond, but today in the USA we're over $36,000 thanks to 250 good people who've mashed the "Donate" button: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Sending cheers now to contributing editor Toby Buckle, who only writes bangers for us, such as the one published a year ago last week:
Sending cheers now to contributing editor Toby Buckle, who only writes bangers for us, such as the one published a year ago last week:
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
It's tomorrow across the pond, but today in the USA we're over $36,000 thanks to 250 good people who've mashed the "Donate" button: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Sending cheers now to contributing editor Toby Buckle, who only writes bangers for us, such as the one published a year ago last week:
Sending cheers now to contributing editor Toby Buckle, who only writes bangers for us, such as the one published a year ago last week:
And I just got even madder when I realized that these are some of the same people who agreed with Summers’ 2005 comment that intelligence is genetic, not driven by and unequal environment and stereotypes. YOU GUYS DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW.
Not new, but I am enraged at the fact that Larry Summers’ colleagues have no idea how misogyny works. Imagine it’s your job to teach teen and 20-something women, & you don’t understand how someone who believes that a woman could never be his intellectual equal might treat women badly.
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
And I just got even madder when I realized that these are some of the same people who agreed with Summers’ 2005 comment that intelligence is genetic, not driven by and unequal environment and stereotypes. YOU GUYS DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW.
Not new, but I am enraged at the fact that Larry Summers’ colleagues have no idea how misogyny works. Imagine it’s your job to teach teen and 20-something women, & you don’t understand how someone who believes that a woman could never be his intellectual equal might treat women badly.
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Not new, but I am enraged at the fact that Larry Summers’ colleagues have no idea how misogyny works. Imagine it’s your job to teach teen and 20-something women, & you don’t understand how someone who believes that a woman could never be his intellectual equal might treat women badly.
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Do I know anyone at like WIRED or some other venue that would be interested in a pitch for this?
With 2026 around the corner, I wanna pitch a like 3-5k word feature on the Telecom Act of 96 and what's happened to music and media in the 30 years since then, that's also kinda filtered thru my experience as a music writer who is also class of 96.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Do I know anyone at like WIRED or some other venue that would be interested in a pitch for this?
Hahahahahaha! (I have no desire to watch that stupid fucking show for the same reason.)
It's an ancient Yiddish curse:
"May your television show live up to its name"
"May your television show live up to its name"
I need a button to tell Netflix that I absolutely do not want to fucking watch Nobody Wants This because I have zero interest in consuming media produced by goyim that hate Jewish women and they keep pushing it at me RELENTLESSLY and I get angry every time I see it pop up and I can’t stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hahahahahaha! (I have no desire to watch that stupid fucking show for the same reason.)
Yes
Oh, but see Pharisee is an antisemitic slur. Jews are Pharisees. I don't actually care if you think it's a "metaphor." JEWS ARE PHARISEES. The tanaaim are the Rabbinic ancestors. When you make a whole thing about how Pharisees are the bad guys, you are being ANTISEMITIC.
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Yes
I thought I was going to be an academic, but I graduated into the Great Recession, then I thought I was going to be a tutor, but dealing w/ the kids’ parents 😢. My father is the most anal person re: grammar (complimentary), and I’m a good writer, so now I’m an academic developmental & line editor.
I thought I was gonna be an academic but then day care was too expensive and for the month or two we paid for it, our baby screamed nonstop whenever we left her there for as long as we were gone and we were all so miserable and clingy and wrung out that I quit academia and became a caregiver.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I thought I was going to be an academic, but I graduated into the Great Recession, then I thought I was going to be a tutor, but dealing w/ the kids’ parents 😢. My father is the most anal person re: grammar (complimentary), and I’m a good writer, so now I’m an academic developmental & line editor.
Kelly attracts all the freaks at their highest freak setting (I have forgotten the name of his previous opponent and have no intention of remembering it, but remember that guy?) because he is a super manly man by MAGA standards but is a Dem. Breaks their freak brains.
Setting aside for a second the lunacy and authoritarianism surrounding the Trump/Hegseth threat to court martial Mark Kelly, it is also politically moronic. No military court or jury would uphold this, and you only do Kelly a tremendous favor by making him more popular than ever.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Kelly attracts all the freaks at their highest freak setting (I have forgotten the name of his previous opponent and have no intention of remembering it, but remember that guy?) because he is a super manly man by MAGA standards but is a Dem. Breaks their freak brains.
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hey on Mondays we try and post something about the Middle Ages, the study of the Middle Ages, the work we're doing, the work others are doing, and more. You can subscribe for free.
We liked this study that used multiple disciplinary models to make an argument about biodiversity ca 500-100.
We liked this study that used multiple disciplinary models to make an argument about biodiversity ca 500-100.
Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
buttondown.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
hey on Mondays we try and post something about the Middle Ages, the study of the Middle Ages, the work we're doing, the work others are doing, and more. You can subscribe for free.
We liked this study that used multiple disciplinary models to make an argument about biodiversity ca 500-100.
We liked this study that used multiple disciplinary models to make an argument about biodiversity ca 500-100.