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@tikvahchai.bsky.social
* Scots Jew hoping to find some community & safe haven
* chronically ill, often bed bound, limits to how much stress can subject myself to, which complicates most attempts to socialise incl online
* niche joy is Thai 🇹🇭 films & telly; writing a lakorn🤯
* chronically ill, often bed bound, limits to how much stress can subject myself to, which complicates most attempts to socialise incl online
* niche joy is Thai 🇹🇭 films & telly; writing a lakorn🤯
Pinned
Locked out of DMs until I find a way to circumvent the UK requirements. Don't use them enough to worry about it much, BUT if you'd like I'm on Signal and I'll share that with those I trust.
What I'd prefer as my actual pinned post below.
What I'd prefer as my actual pinned post below.
just shy of 2 pm and i feel like it's past time for bed
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
just shy of 2 pm and i feel like it's past time for bed
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November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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They *could* just ask for a ride in the TARDIS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPKg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPKg...
DWO - Doctor Who Cast & Crew '500 Miles'
YouTube video by Doctor Who Online
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
They *could* just ask for a ride in the TARDIS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPKg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPKg...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
SNOW!!! Woke up to grey skies but SNOW 🌨️
Which means I don't dare go out.
Ice from when it thaws/refreezes + seizures from the cold = damaging falls. Pretty much guaranteed even with good German boots & walking sticks 🫤
But there's now a layer of insulation on the roof and the snow is pretty 😍
Which means I don't dare go out.
Ice from when it thaws/refreezes + seizures from the cold = damaging falls. Pretty much guaranteed even with good German boots & walking sticks 🫤
But there's now a layer of insulation on the roof and the snow is pretty 😍
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
SNOW!!! Woke up to grey skies but SNOW 🌨️
Which means I don't dare go out.
Ice from when it thaws/refreezes + seizures from the cold = damaging falls. Pretty much guaranteed even with good German boots & walking sticks 🫤
But there's now a layer of insulation on the roof and the snow is pretty 😍
Which means I don't dare go out.
Ice from when it thaws/refreezes + seizures from the cold = damaging falls. Pretty much guaranteed even with good German boots & walking sticks 🫤
But there's now a layer of insulation on the roof and the snow is pretty 😍
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I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.
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📣 We need your help! There's 5 days left to reach our fundraising target for our project to decarbonise the Museum! 📣
Thanks to Avivia Community Fund and the Friends of Royston Museum, every donation now goes further!
🌱 Please help us cross the finish line by donating online: buff.ly/ABYWU44
Thanks to Avivia Community Fund and the Friends of Royston Museum, every donation now goes further!
🌱 Please help us cross the finish line by donating online: buff.ly/ABYWU44
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
📣 We need your help! There's 5 days left to reach our fundraising target for our project to decarbonise the Museum! 📣
Thanks to Avivia Community Fund and the Friends of Royston Museum, every donation now goes further!
🌱 Please help us cross the finish line by donating online: buff.ly/ABYWU44
Thanks to Avivia Community Fund and the Friends of Royston Museum, every donation now goes further!
🌱 Please help us cross the finish line by donating online: buff.ly/ABYWU44
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Why do they use photos from other place places?! Who is behind the scenes pushing out this propaganda?!
Via @rebitzman.bsky.social
Via @rebitzman.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Why do they use photos from other place places?! Who is behind the scenes pushing out this propaganda?!
Via @rebitzman.bsky.social
Via @rebitzman.bsky.social
The three things I am watching are a very loud very raucous very silly Thai comedy, a not that scary yet haunted house series, and movies. None of which are suitable for this close to bed.
I should probably stop thinking about this before my brain decides it needs lakorn 🤔
I should probably stop thinking about this before my brain decides it needs lakorn 🤔
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The three things I am watching are a very loud very raucous very silly Thai comedy, a not that scary yet haunted house series, and movies. None of which are suitable for this close to bed.
I should probably stop thinking about this before my brain decides it needs lakorn 🤔
I should probably stop thinking about this before my brain decides it needs lakorn 🤔
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
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7. VIP Back Entrance To Hobbit Waitrose.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
7. VIP Back Entrance To Hobbit Waitrose.
'feels like' temperature not forecast to go about freezing until Saturday. that means seizure trigger weather so i'm stuck indoors with my only interactions being social media spaces who have no use for me except as an audience or cast as a villain so others feel good about themselves.
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
'feels like' temperature not forecast to go about freezing until Saturday. that means seizure trigger weather so i'm stuck indoors with my only interactions being social media spaces who have no use for me except as an audience or cast as a villain so others feel good about themselves.
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Qatar has poisoned an entire generation with propaganda. The next Democratic POTUS should cut off all diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar. The damage that’s been done will take decades to fix, if at all.
It's amazing.
We used to document radicalized extremists from Y'all Qaeda to Al Qaeda and now we have an entire generation (Gen Z) that is brainwashed to believe and support Hamas.
The same Hamas funded by Qatar.
Same Qatar that's funding the genocide in the Sudan.
We used to document radicalized extremists from Y'all Qaeda to Al Qaeda and now we have an entire generation (Gen Z) that is brainwashed to believe and support Hamas.
The same Hamas funded by Qatar.
Same Qatar that's funding the genocide in the Sudan.
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Qatar has poisoned an entire generation with propaganda. The next Democratic POTUS should cut off all diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar. The damage that’s been done will take decades to fix, if at all.
"Living for yourself doesn’t mean acting selfishly. It means acting with integrity, even when no one is watching."
Trying to work out what this means for me, especially as we go into the dark months when the neighbours stay inside.
Trying to work out what this means for me, especially as we go into the dark months when the neighbours stay inside.
"Who are you living for? Are you living for your work? For your children? For your parents? For fame or fortune? Or are you living for Hashem?
But if you say Hashem – what does that actually mean?"
More from my bshert at shorturl.at/BPVUH
But if you say Hashem – what does that actually mean?"
More from my bshert at shorturl.at/BPVUH
Chayei Sarah And the Day You Were Needed
Living for yourself doesn’t mean acting selfishly. It means acting with integrity, even when no one is watching.
shorturl.at
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Living for yourself doesn’t mean acting selfishly. It means acting with integrity, even when no one is watching."
Trying to work out what this means for me, especially as we go into the dark months when the neighbours stay inside.
Trying to work out what this means for me, especially as we go into the dark months when the neighbours stay inside.
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"Who are you living for? Are you living for your work? For your children? For your parents? For fame or fortune? Or are you living for Hashem?
But if you say Hashem – what does that actually mean?"
More from my bshert at shorturl.at/BPVUH
But if you say Hashem – what does that actually mean?"
More from my bshert at shorturl.at/BPVUH
Chayei Sarah And the Day You Were Needed
Living for yourself doesn’t mean acting selfishly. It means acting with integrity, even when no one is watching.
shorturl.at
November 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"Who are you living for? Are you living for your work? For your children? For your parents? For fame or fortune? Or are you living for Hashem?
But if you say Hashem – what does that actually mean?"
More from my bshert at shorturl.at/BPVUH
But if you say Hashem – what does that actually mean?"
More from my bshert at shorturl.at/BPVUH
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Sorry, I know this was a while ago, but I'm still upset about it. They literally edited a video of a High Holiday sermon to make it sound like she said the opposite of what she really said, and then pretended it was about Zionism to get people outraged for clicks.
Keep an eye out for this: There's deceptively edited video floating around Instagram & TikTok which appears to show a rabbi speaking in favor of human sacrifice and saying "some need to die for the world to flourish."
In fact, she is reading a post by R. Tali Adler which decries that very attitude.
In fact, she is reading a post by R. Tali Adler which decries that very attitude.
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Sorry, I know this was a while ago, but I'm still upset about it. They literally edited a video of a High Holiday sermon to make it sound like she said the opposite of what she really said, and then pretended it was about Zionism to get people outraged for clicks.
Angry internet atheist: All religion is a death cult.
Jewish narrative tradition:
Jewish narrative tradition:
Jewish stories are like: one time an OLD MAN walked into a shul and he had a GLASS EYE and
everyone threw BANANA PEELS at him but GUESS WHAT? That man was actually ELIJAH THE PROPHET
everyone threw BANANA PEELS at him but GUESS WHAT? That man was actually ELIJAH THE PROPHET
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Angry internet atheist: All religion is a death cult.
Jewish narrative tradition:
Jewish narrative tradition:
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10,000 dead in a few days, and the Yale Daily News calls it genoc
no wait
*touches earpiece*
I'm being informed that the term this time is "mass killings"
Huh. Interesting.
no wait
*touches earpiece*
I'm being informed that the term this time is "mass killings"
Huh. Interesting.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
10,000 dead in a few days, and the Yale Daily News calls it genoc
no wait
*touches earpiece*
I'm being informed that the term this time is "mass killings"
Huh. Interesting.
no wait
*touches earpiece*
I'm being informed that the term this time is "mass killings"
Huh. Interesting.
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walk today was a mistake
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
walk today was a mistake
trying to stick to my walking habit (just around the neighbourhood) as long as possible, but getting cold-weather dressed for it has used up so much of my energy i'm having a sit down before i've left
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
trying to stick to my walking habit (just around the neighbourhood) as long as possible, but getting cold-weather dressed for it has used up so much of my energy i'm having a sit down before i've left
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Today I am in Nagarkot, Nepal. From here, the Himalayan range to the north is clearly visible. Come and visit Nepal and return home feeling in harmony with nature.
#Nepal #Visitnepal #Trek #Trekking
#Nepal #Visitnepal #Trek #Trekking
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Today I am in Nagarkot, Nepal. From here, the Himalayan range to the north is clearly visible. Come and visit Nepal and return home feeling in harmony with nature.
#Nepal #Visitnepal #Trek #Trekking
#Nepal #Visitnepal #Trek #Trekking
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Support that depends on how ‘not angry’ I sound isn’t support—it’s control. I am not performing. I am healing. I face unimaginable suffering every day. I endure violent misogyny that seeks to break me. I will not apologize for my anger or my survival.
November 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Support that depends on how ‘not angry’ I sound isn’t support—it’s control. I am not performing. I am healing. I face unimaginable suffering every day. I endure violent misogyny that seeks to break me. I will not apologize for my anger or my survival.