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Spooky Anarchic Squid

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Alabama, fines & fees, harm reduction, access to healthcare; kids, dogs, nature, culture. Jewish. Future founder, Center for the Study of Boring Minutiae. Actively fearful of the Mariana Trench.

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · Jan 10

In a postage stamp of a town at the southernmost tip of Appalachia, a minister and self-described anarchosocialist operates Alabama's only Narcan vending machine. I wrote about his lifesaving work in this, my first piece for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social.
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The Only Narcan Vending Machine In Alabama

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 4h

it is true that sometimes all of BlueSky melts down over a Thing but the heart of the matter is much more likely to be “everything is a crab/cabbage/mountain lions” than some type of woke

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 9h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 6h

Unlocked a core memory of being terrified of a character whose terrifying characteristic had to do with he ate clams?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 7h

I make an effort to be a contributing member of the community. I chopped 9 kajillion onions for the food festival and I staffed the tchotchke room, which is the most disorganized and miserable spot at the annual treasure market. But I guess my Israel politics mean those things mean nothing to him.

Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 7h

On Rosh Hashanah, one of of the most prominent members of my shul pointedly refused to make eye contact with me as he walked with the Torah procession shaking hands with everyone else. To him, I suppose, I’m don’t belong there bc I am not Zionist. It shouldn’t, but it hurt my feelings.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h

The US Jewish right is a 30% minority of the community that tries to draw boundaries that exclude most American Jews, so as to portray themselves as the majority. They’d rather rule over a smaller community than work for influence in a larger one.

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 7h

Nationalism is such a powerful corrupting force that here we have Jews protesting outside a synagogue, presumably because they consider it insufficiently Zionist.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 14h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 7h

people who feel they don’t need to reckon with the ways religion and religious people are complex, but who have strong and certain opinions about believers and are as entitled and obnoxious in sharing those as they believe all religious people are about the same.

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 7h

This is the third version of this conversation I’ve encountered on here in 2 days. It’s people who have lived as religious and/or ethnic minorities in the American South, where we do ourselves a favor by developing a nuanced understanding of majority culture and beliefs, vs

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 8h

I won't use any organizing energy opposing the criminalization of feds, but I really think people should be focusing on restorative initiatives for victims / communities first. We already saw the results of Jan 6 prosecutions---they're already back on the streets.

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 8h

While I think ICE agents should face criminal charges for their kidnapping of immigrants, they should face long, and perhaps lifetime, prison sentences for anything like this involving kids. An ICE agent willing to do this is not someone who should be out among society even after Dems retake power.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

Bari Weiss is a smart and competent person, skilled at marketing herself and her endeavors to wealthy and influential people. She simply chooses to use these capabilities in service of causes that I find abhorrent. I fundamentally do not share the values that I believe her actions show she has.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13h

United States Congressman calls for the deportation of all Muslims from the US.

All Jewish groups should join together to denounce this.

Tweet from Congressman Randy Fine: "Muslims calling for the destruction of Israel — after the peace deal.

It was never about Gaza.

Why did the UK allow these demons in?

We must ban Sharia in the United States and deport them ALL before this becomes us.

Religion of peace."

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 15h

Well, enjoy that part if you can. I bought a copy of War and Peace 2 months ago because I decided only an asshole would allow herself to reach middle age without reading it. Now it’s staring at me, judgmentally and unread, from my bedside table.

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 17h

I like The Lord of the Rings a lot but we need more bite sized swords and sorcery fantasy TV/movies. Willow is the platonic ideal of lightweight high fantasy, and Dungeons and Dragons (2023) is its spiritual successor. But overall the field seems very thin 🫤

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 16h

Ugh. Get well soon (?)

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for this. You’re right. I am repelled by my own cynical non-response to reporting about the ceasefire and releases. I think I’m exhausted from all the complex feelings and facts and having to explain history and culture and generational trauma over and over for 2 years. But you’re right.

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 17h

And that also means if you are crying with joy and relief at the possibility of the hostages coming home, you take that relief and you work to offer it to every Palestinian family unjustly separated from their loved ones.

The only way forward is together. Please, let's hold humanity together.

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 17h

...because of course there are thousands of Palestinians held without charge by Israel. Some folks are going to rage about the focus on the hostages.

And this is where humanity comes in.

These 20 human beings deserve life.
So do 2 million Gazans.

Let's work for a world where everyone is free

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 17h

It seems increasingly likely that tomorrow the remaining Israeli hostages will be released from Gaza.

This is a really important moment to lean into humanity, folks.

Each of these people has been through hell, and I'm worried that there are going to be people scorning their release... (1/)

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.

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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton. Simply the best. What a loss… may her memory be a blessing.

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 1d

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Did Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’ Really Cause a Riot?

Used for a ballet performance in Paris, “The Rite of Spring” caused a riot and became one of the most famous scandals in music history.

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 1d

Paris. 1913. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 1d

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

I mean this is simply a reflection of the eternal truth that protests are very good and the people who run protests are very bad

Muninsdad @muninsdad.bsky.social · 1d

The people running the no kings protest near me spent the entire run up to the election saying no one should vote for Kamala and that trump wouldn't be a fascist.

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