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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 1d

If you have a good paying job or money, it is unethical to accept "friend discounts" from people with less than you.

(I buy art from my artist friends. I always pay full price. I just hired someone to teach me mandolin. I insisted on no discount.)

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite thing about reading "The Twisted Ones" is that it ended up on my reading list and I forgot all about it. When I picked it up I looked and went "Kingfisher? I've been meaning to try her romance...."

Needless to say, I was not prepared for what happened. It was great.

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 2d

Same. I'm celebrating my niece's bat mitzvah. It's important to still be celebrating the joyful occasions of life too.

But yes, several of us were talking about the protests we're missing today.

salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 3d

Not my best, but I didn't have much time to write it.

Higgledy-piggledy
Offensive Poetry
Published to my tiny
Follower flocks.

Posting through very strict
Mental filtration means
I'm never subject to
Ludicrous blocks.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 4d

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 4d

What a bunch of solipsistic kettle logic.

I’ve never thought of Israel as an aspirational home.

My identity as a Jew is contiguous with Ashkenazi culture. In Yiddish, Bundism, and tikkun olam.

Hen Mazzig
@henmazzig.bsky.social
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Jews were violently expelled by those who hated us from Israel, but many of us never left. So much of Jewish culture is based on our desire to return home.
Jewish identity is rooted in the land of Israel. To deny that is to deny the core of our beings
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 3d

I feel unloved. No one has added me to any blocklists yet ...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5d

Jewish law & Bible scholarship don't think the word in the 10 Commandments for "steal" is about, like, shoplifting.

Look at eg Genesis 40:15, Exodus 21:16 , Deuteronomy 24:7--

the commandment is not to steal people. Don't kidnap.

Though you shouldn't need the Bible to teach you that. #AbolishICE

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 5d

My freshman year roommate didn't listen to music. It was one of the weirdest things I've experienced with a person.

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 8d

If it weren't for the surcharge, we'd have put our last car on a card. Ah well.

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 10d

A friend is doing a kickstarter to publish her next book. I've read several of her novels before and they are great.

Check it out!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Summoner: Two Anthologies of Paranormal Romance

Summoner and Summoner v2.0 are paranormal romance anthologies about a demonic phone app and the sexy chaos that follows.

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 14d

I'll put on Rammstein's "Dalai Lama" in your honor. (It's a retelling of Der Erlkonig for air travel.)

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 16d

Sure. Go for it. But if that's what you learnt, it doesn't support the "Old Testament God = Vengeful" thing you were defending before.

Please listen when someone (especially from a minority) says "Hey, this language/story has been used to spread hate about us."

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 16d

Let's see, "The God Jews worship is vengeful and so cruel an entire new religion needed to be created to save people from that God." What does that say about Jews?

Anyway, our God never condemned people to eternal damnation. You want vengeful and not forgiving? That's the definition of it.

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 16d

Also, until we have evidence to the contrary, let's please assume the best of the poster. He's simply saying something society has said for centuries. People need the chance and space to learn.

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 16d

While I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, formulating the "Old Testament God" as vengeful (in contrast to the "New Testament God") is a fundamentally antisemitic way of looking at things.

This view is one at the heart of lots of antisemitism and supersessionism over the years.

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 16d

I am one step closer to achieving a dream I've had for almost fifteen years ... A combined Erdös-Bacon number!

salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 17d

Mazel tov!

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 17d

I am perversely proud to discover that @postingtreyf.bsky.social has been labeled "Rude" at the account level by Bluesky, but if you, like me, have that label set to "Hide", you're going to need to change that if you want Jewsky's self described "vulgar id" back on your skyline.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17d

Better late than never but I was on npr

To atone this Yom Kippur, you must drop your lizard. Yes, lizard

It's Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Many will take time to reflect on the past year, asking how they could have done better. And, maybe, how they can put down their lizard.

www.npr.org

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 22d

Giving them their 👑s

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 23d

*This* is my family tradition!

salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 24d

Just finished "Foundryside" by Robert Jackson Bennett and really enjoyed it. I wish I knew *how* it ended up on my reading list but *shrug*.

This book has a beautifully developed system of magic and does a great job looking at how people exploit each other.

I strongly recommend it

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salusasecondus.bsky.social @salusasecondus.bsky.social · 24d

I was wondering about that...

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