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Rafi

@therafischwartz.bsky.social

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Co-owner: Discourse Blog. "One blogger" - The New York Times. Found at various points of time in: Rolling Stone, Mic, GOOD, Heeb. Splinter was a good website. I'll have the soup. www.discourseblog.com

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wolf pupy @wolfpupy.bsky.social · 2h

loud sound warning

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 2h

For whatever reason my guys kept hyping up broly as a HUGE deal when they first forced me to watch with them, and then when I finally got to the movie I was like “wait, he’s just a guy?”

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 2h

I see andy ngo was at the White House today. On the day my little sister died, ngo mocked her, and sent his Nazi followers to a private memorial page to harass my elderly family members. i will never make peace or reconcile with these evil people or their moron voters and enablers

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 2h

Buddy, he's got, like, grandkids and shit now. There's time travel. There's a "Broly". It's wild

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 2h

(we’re gonna watch some shirtless anime guys scream at each other next)

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 3h

My kids - constitutionally allergic to any tv that doesn’t have shirtless anime guys screaming at each other - are absolutely SEATED for this PBS doc on Krakatoa.

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly, it's the first time I've ever seen someone heckle one of these goons to the point where they actually look hurt

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 4h

Bart Simpson telling Lisa that you can "pinpoint the moment where his heart breaks"

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 5h

oh, absolutely. Felt like the a rare instance of Chrichton being like "shit, i've actually got a genuine phenomenon on my hands here, I gotta do SOMETHING" after the first one became the hit it did

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 5h

I'll be honest, I don't think I've seen it since it first came out. Maybe it's more fun to watch now!

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 6h

Eli

Jay Arnold @jayarnold.bsky.social · 6h

If I say “the valley” what valley do you immediately think of

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 6h

okay but the second one with the TRex in suburbia genuinely stinks

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 6h

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
@CRXSSF4DE
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 6h

Hand delivered

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 6h

hang on, say more about this alleged hamburger

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 7h

My buddy David's dad Jeff, who would walk past the TV every time i went over *specifically to watch MST3K* and without fail would ask "what're you boys watchin'? Boobs and schmeckles?"

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 7h

also i had to use speech-to-text to find them because unlike pretty much every other commercial on television, including local ads, the ones from DHS are not closed captioned

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 7h

Like, if you're writing this on a shul, you're not serious about any sort of social justice, you just want to scare and hurt Jewish people at their place of worship.

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 7h

checkmate

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 7h

I don't even LIKE Temple Israel, and yet!

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 7h

I'm Rafi, though

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 7h

If you're spray painting threats on a synagogue, you're not helping anyone's cause. You're just an antisemite.

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 7h

Very cool and chill to find at a local shul the week after Yom Kippur.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

Temple Israel defaced with antisemitic graffiti

Parents dropping children at Temple Israel's daycare Wednesday morning found the building defaced.

www.kare11.com

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 8h

What’s nice about our geographic neck of the woods is that winter often decides for you

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 8h

The way I’ve become a “these shoes aren’t doing my back any favors” guy without even realizing it.

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