Joshua Blanchard

I'm curious what you actually do when you encounter a piece of work you suspect is partly or entirely AI-generated, but the student insists it isn't.

Whoahhhh this site is still here. Very awkward!

Whoahhhh this site is still here. Very awkward!

The Firefighting Fire Sale After U.S. Forest Service layoffs, will for-profit contractors protect you from wildfires?

🚨SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has just imposed a $1 limit on firefighting officials' credit cards, blocking them from buying emergency firefighting supplies & travel to wildfires.

Trump has fired 3,400 forest service employees ahead of wildfire season.

Maybe, but tweets are not good examples of that.

I love logging into this website once a week to check in on its demise.

Embarrassing confession: in the presence of trusted confidants, I still make "that's what she said" jokes.

People issue death threats with energy and authenticity. How dare you cheapen their truth with a joke?

It's pretty nice interface-wise, but too bad there is a 100% chance it will go the way of Mastodon and Threads.

But where would I go? @scottjshapiro.bsky.social has the words of eternal life.

Masturbation & Sexual Health, & Halacha: Is There a Conflict? Episode 1 - Intimate Judaism While male masturbation is unequivocally prohibited under Jewish law, this prohibition often creates serious conflict and guilt in the religious and private lives of young Orthodox men, with serious l...

You can find out more about that here: www.intimatejudaism.com/masturbation...

The halakhic position on circle jerks is actually quite clear.

Oh, interesting! Curious what your hot take is on Bava Metzia 59a.

The replies to this are amazing - just a bunch of people reveling in their epistemic-political suicide.

Have these people never read Abraham Joshua Heschel?

"It is better, the Talmud insists, to throw oneself alive into a burning furnace than to humiliate a human being publicly."

It's now deleted. Could you ask them to put it back up so I can report?

There is simply no way you can defeat Brianna Wu.

Trump’s Israel Instincts Don’t Matter In his second term, as in his first, Trump may criticize Netanyahu—but his advisors will outmaneuver him to ensure that Israel enjoys a free hand.

To understand how Donald Trump might approach Israel in his second term, @peterbeinart.bsky.social revisits the revealing memoirs that his advisers wrote about his first: jewishcurrents.org/trumps-israe...

@scottjshapiro.bsky.social did you watch the big game?

BREAKING: Donald Trump nominates Matt Eberflus for Secretary of Time Management
#Bears #Lions #MAGA #trumpappointments

Thank you. I signed up to Bluesky to find out what comedy specials were available. Watching this space going forward.