@aharonium@kosmos.social

Yeah. I certainly don't like it. But I'm also fine with it as long as all Dems pledge to support a national redistricting law and reform the Court. But on this front, I agree: it's a classic case of GOP started it; Dems seem to be finishing it.

הַתְּפִלּוֹת שֶׁל מָרְדְּכַי וְאֶסְתֵּר | The Prayers of Mordekhai and Esther from Divrei haYamim l'Yeraḥmiel (ca. 11-12th c.) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ The dream and prayer of Mordekhai, and the prayer of Esther, as copied in the medieval pseudo-historical Chronicle of Yeraḥmiel.

הַתְּפִלּוֹת שֶׁל מָרְדְּכַי וְאֶסְתֵּר | The Prayers of Mordekhai and Esther from Divrei haYamim l’Yeraḥmiel (ca. 11-12th c.) opensiddur.org?p=30495 (translated by Moses Gaster, transcribed by @aharonium.bsky.social, and cantillated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social) audio recording included!

Cologuard - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

Or skip the prep and just do a cologuard. Painless, efficient, fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu12...

A rendering of the ABGAD according to the Hebrew (Ktav Ashuri) script in the "Vilna" typeface used by the Romm publishing house, by Ilan Elovitz

Now available in our Hebrew Font Pack: Ilan Elovitz's rendering of the Romm publishing house's "Vilna" typeface opensiddur.org/help/fonts/ A persistent problem in many Hebrew fonts is implementing diacritic positioning logic. If you know how to migrate such logic btw/ fonts, please reach out

‘Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally,’ Trump antisemitism envoy says in refuting Walz’s ICE comparison - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun joined the US Holocaust museum in criticizing Walz.

“The Trump administration is doing Holocaust revisionism to avoid the possibility of empathy for migrants.” www.jta.org/2026/01/27/p...

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

Mood in minneapolis right now

The Case For A 100-Justice Supreme Court With the current mess that the US is in, there has been plenty of talk of “what comes after” and how to think about the big structural changes needed to prevent another authoritarian fr…

The Case For A 100-Justice Supreme Court - www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/t... more original ideas from @mmasnick.bsky.social

Two men in an old Western town. On-screen credit that reads "Created by Rod Serling."

Sat 1/24: “Rod Serling’s Existential TV Western: The Loner”

After “Twilight Zone,” six-time Emmy winner Rod Serling returned to primetime with “The Loner” (CBS, 1965–66). Join us for three Serling-penned episodes starring Lloyd Bridges, Tony Bill, Brock Peters and Dan Duryea. Free! ucla.in/3NqEoyj

nancy 5: the new adventures of sluggo

“You cannot worship a Savior on Sunday who was crucified by a violent State, while the rest of the week acting as a violent agent of an unjust state force who is killing and targeting Americans according to hate,” added @angeladenker.bsky.social, author of Disciples of White Jesus.

and... we're back up
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Milk, a symbol of neo-Nazi hate The U.S.-based white supremacist movement that calls itself the “alt-right” has recently embraced milk as a symbol.

The reason it seems nonsensical is because it’s a white supremacist dog whistle. An article from *2017* on the topic: theconversation.com/milk-a-symbo...

More unpleasant web host shenanigans today after what should have been a normal auto-renewal for the project website of @opensiddur.bsky.social so unfortunately, opensiddur.org is down until matters outside our control are sorted.

This guy is all of us right now.

“The UN report shows clearly that nowhere in Ukraine is safe: More than a third of the civilians who were killed or injured were located in areas far from the front lines when Russia attacked them.”

If this person who burned a synagogue had cited the Quran in defending their antisemitic attack, we'd be reading dozens of news stories about Islamic extremism. Since he cited the Book of Revelation, the media really needs to connect this to extremist forms of white Christianity.

A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

The financial instability of The NewsHour is a civic crisis. PBS’s flagship nightly news broadcast can’t fund a weekend broadcast or keep its last bureau — Phoenix — open.

Lady Liberty murdered by fascists

"Fuckin' bitch."

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.”

So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

“U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III wrote that the facility is “infested with mold” that eats through brick and metal, drips from ceilings, and falls from air vents.”

For anyone wondering just what we're excited about: www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeli...

Thanks @self.agency. A developer took a look, recognized the issue, and suggested a solution. It works! Confidence restored. שבת שלום ומבורך

Corrected "Active Intent Link" to "Action Intent Link"

Some characters passed via Active Intent Link to New Post published as raw HTML entities · Issue #9623 · bluesky-social/social-app Steps to Reproduce I made some social sharing buttons for our site using the Active Intent Link documentation as a guide. Our site uses Unicode text to support multiple, bidirectional languages (RT...

Some characters passed via Active Intent Link to New Post published as raw HTML entities (Bluesky issue #9623)
github.com/bluesky-soci...

Some characters passed via Active Intent Link to New Post published as raw HTML entities · Issue #9623 · bluesky-social/social-app Steps to Reproduce I made some social sharing buttons for our site using the Active Intent Link documentation as a guide. Our site uses Unicode text to support multiple, bidirectional languages (RT...

Hopefully, I've written this issue up well enough to merit a response:
github.com/bluesky-soci...

Action Intent Links | Bluesky Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

I think the issue may be how Bluesky processes text received via so-called "Active Intent Links." There's some limited documentation here docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... I'll post an issue to their Github but I never heard a follow-up from the last issue I posted there re: Active Intent Links <shrugs>

Using the word “faith” as a synonym for religion, which so many people do without even thinking, reifies a post-Enlightenment culturally Protestant idea of what constitutes religion.