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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer
@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social
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Traditional-egalitarian neo-misnagdic liturgical maximalist. Yes, I'm the one who made that steamed hams megillah. איהו/ליה (that’s he/him in Aramaic)
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Humpty Dumpty: When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean. Neither more nor less. Alice: I wonder what all those words you just said meant. Maybe you're telling me I can have all your stuff! Humpty Dumpty: What!? No! Alice: Your car, too? Gosh, thanks!
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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See I was wondering if someone would say that to which my response is I saw this post on Tumblr and it gave me a headache

The purpose of language is to communicate. Calling a group of vultures a committee is obscurantist
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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is it thursday yet?
a passage from a ProPublica newsletter: We tried hard to get in touch, but Newby declined multiple interview requests and even had a reporter escorted out of a judicial conference to avoid questions. Eventually, the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director, Matt Mercer, responded, writing that ProPublica was waging a "jihad" against "NC Republicans," which would "not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever."
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The scene from the movie “Starship Troopers” where a blond aryan looking fuck says “I’m from Buenos Aires” Along with the supertitle “Germans in 1946”
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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reed vs cedar (taanit 20a)
[Rabbi Yohanan elaborates:] Ahijah the Shilonite cursed [the Jewish people] by [comparing them to] a reed: "For the Lord will smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water." Although it seems to be a curse, this verse is actually a blessing.] Just as this reed stands in a place of water, and its shoots replenish [themselves when cut], and its roots are numerous [for a plant of its size], and even if all the winds in the world come and blow against it, they cannot move it from its place, rather, it sways with them [until] the winds subside, and the reed [still] stands in its place, [the same applies to the Jewish people.] However, Balaam the wicked blessed [the Jews] by comparing them to a cedar, as it is stated: "As cedars beside the waters" (Numbers 24:6). Just as this cedar does not stand in a place of water, and its shoots do not replenish [themselves], and its roots are not numerous, [Balaam wished that the same should apply to the Jewish people. Furthermore, while it is true that] even [if ]••] all the winds in the world blow against it they will not move it from its place, once the southern wind blows [against] it, it uproots [the cedar] and turns it on its face.
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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guy saying “understandable. have a great day.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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source: this very stable and sane post from the man who has the nuclear codes
Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorized "AUTOPEN," within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect. Anyone receiving "Pardons," "Commutations," or any other Legal Document so signed, please be advised that said Document has been fully and completely terminated, and is of no Legal effect. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Deut. 7:6-7
For you are a people holy to YHWH your God; [it is] you [whom] YHWH your God chose for him as a treasured people from among all peoples that are on the face of the ground. Not because of your being many-more than all the peoples has YHWH attached himself to you and chosen you, for you are the least-numerous of all peoples!
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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a handshake meme calling both Sgt. Schultz from “Hogan’s Heroes” and Mike Johnson (R-LA), Speaker of the House “incompetent Nazi buffoon who screams ‘I saw nothing! I know nothing!’”
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I am part of the problem here
"I think my imagination's broke. Lemme try and think up the Most Imperialistic Thing Ever. Umm... calling... yourself... American... Yup, it's busted alright. I'm gonna go... place."
December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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mashed this up on imovie in a few minutes inspired by a post in WGMFEF
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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got this email today in response to my post about how "remigration" is a nazi term, and i have some questions

to start: three million? since when?
Hello Isaac. Did you really post this on Facebook? I sincerely hope not. This doesn't seem like something a believer in almighty God would say or believe. No political party or President can ever be equated to the Hitler Nazi regime which exterminated 3 million Jewish people and tried to eliminate the entire race. If someone tried to impersonate you with this post, God knows it's just wrong and evil. God bless. Bob
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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sorry, writer. although i assume zemeckis was in on it
So, Bob Gale-writer of Back to the Future Part II and man who helped predict the IMAX theater and the self-checkout line— in these past few months, were you thinking what we're all thinking? "We thought about it when we made the movie! Are you kidding?" he says. "You watch Part II again and there's a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there's a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there's one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah." Of course, in the movie, Biff uses the profits from his 27-story casino (the Trump Plaza Hotel, completed in 1984, is 37 floors, by the way) to help shake up the Republican Party, before eventually assuming political power himself, helping transform Hill Valley, California, into a lawless, dystopian wasteland, where hooliganism reigns, dissent is quashed, and wherein Biff encourages every citizen to call him "America's greatest living folk hero." "Yeah," says Gale. "That's what we were thinking about."
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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“hey look it’s human pet guy” with pointing wojak
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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pointing wojak with the text “hey look it’s human pet guy”
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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yitzhak rabin with the elder scrolls morrowind text about how with is death the thread of prophecy is severed
December 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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see also Y. Demai 1:3:11, where R. Pinḥas ben Yair also demonstrates his understanding of Grice's maxim of relevance to politely make it very clear to Rebbe that his attempt to get rid of the shmitta was some grade-A kfira. Translation in the alt-text
Rebbe [Judah the Prince] sought to permit the sabbatical-year [reasoning that sabbatical prohibitions were no longer necessary in a post-Temple era]. R. Pinḥas ben Yair went up to him. He [Rebbe] said to him [R. Pinḥas ben Yair], "How's the grain doing?" He [R. Pinḥas ben Yair] said to him [Rebbe], "The wild-endives [non-domesticated and thus irrelevant to the sabbatical prohibitions] are doing great." "But how's the grain doing?" He said, "The *wild-endives* are doing *great.*" And Rebbe know that he didn't agree with him.
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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stop. get some help.
batman breaking a gun labeled “religious antisemitism” saying “This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.”
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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cat about to knock a glass off a table. cat is labeled “US electorate.” table is labeled “American global hegemony”
December 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Berakhot 28a
Yehoshua. When he reached Rabbi Yehoshua's house, he saw that the walls of his house were black. Rabban Gamliel said to Rabbi Yehoshua in wonderment: From the walls of your house it is apparent that you are a blacksmith, as until then he had no idea that Rabbi Yehoshua was forced to engage in that arduous trade in order to make a living. Rabbi Yehoshua said to him: Woe unto a generation that you are its leader as you are unaware of the difficulties of Torah scholars, how they make a living and how they feed themselves.
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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xkcd comic about a guy talking about how “digital data never depreciates” while the data depreciates
December 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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I've said before that sometimes the Gemara's logic and reasoning seems like an Ace Attorney game up to and including "Almost Pesach means it wasn't Pesach!"

I want a printing of the daf where the phrase מתקיף ליה is written in this font
the Objection! bubble from Ace Attorney
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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carolers singing Good King Wenceslas and a guy responds “King Wenceslas massacred my people”
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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edited screenshot that reads: GOP Rep. Don Bacon: “I don’t think”
November 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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fun fact: even though the Cinnabon company does not exist in Israel, it still serves as a general term for cinnamon rolls
a cinnamon roll with a label reading סינבון מאפה קינמון וקרם מסקרפונה Sinabon - maafe kinamon v-krem maskarpone Cinnamon - cinnamon and mascarpone cream pastry
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM