(And for those who are not Jewish: a small touch is to give in multiples of $18 rather than rounding to the nearest $5 or $10, because 18 is the number associated with life.)

I went to look and the synagogue's website does have a donation option: www.bethisraelms.org I've donated with a note that it's for fire recovery and I encourage others to do so as well!

(Letting you know so you can be braced for it, and because some of the headlines and link card snippets are not clear there were no injuries. Two Torah scrolls were destroyed and several were damaged, but the one that survived the Holocaust is fine because it was in a glass case.)

Bob Weir loved music and gave his entire life to it. 78's a good age, though from where I'm at now it doesn't sound like enough. But he left something behind that will never stop giving people pleasure and comfort. That's a legacy to cherish. You stayed 61 years on the road, Bob Weir. Rest now. 4/4

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

In all seriousness, when Daniel Perry shot and killed Garret Foster in Austin in 2020, we figured out who Perry was and we were watching his social media posts get deleted in real time WHILE he was allegedly in APD's custody. Fortunately we archived them in the Wayback Machine before he did it.

A lot of replies here (obviously from people not already aware of The Discourse on this point) were genuinely confused variants on "But why, they're right, that's a valid concern." Let me leave a short thread for future readers explaining why that stuff is always unwelcome on here. (1/n)

i had eight hours of sleep and stayed off twitter and my depression went away