Isabel 🔸️
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במקום שאין נשים תשתדלי להיות אישה
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Seems trivial to say, but learning a foreign language so often illuminates my native English. Just today, by thinking how a Czech word for the 'primrose' plant (prvosenka) resembles the word for 'first' (první), I then realised that 'primrose' is likewise the 'prime-rose'.
September 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Seems trivial to say, but learning a foreign language so often illuminates my native English. Just today, by thinking how a Czech word for the 'primrose' plant (prvosenka) resembles the word for 'first' (první), I then realised that 'primrose' is likewise the 'prime-rose'.
Surely not??
Entry:
חֹ֫רֶב
n.m. dryness, drought, heat
- dryness
- drought
- parching heat
חֹ֫רֶב
n.m. dryness, drought, heat
- dryness
- drought
- parching heat
May 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Surely not??
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"The scientists were holding a press conference.
They often did this and were often ignored. The public was sick of novel findings."
Feeling crabby? Anneke Schwob (and several scientists) have the cure! This week on hex, "Carcinisation" is hilarious, strange, wonderful and very timely! Go read! 🦀
They often did this and were often ignored. The public was sick of novel findings."
Feeling crabby? Anneke Schwob (and several scientists) have the cure! This week on hex, "Carcinisation" is hilarious, strange, wonderful and very timely! Go read! 🦀
Carcinisation by Anneke Schwob
The scientists were holding a press conference.
They often did this and were often ignored. The public was sick of novel findings. They couldn’t figure out why anything the scientists told them mat...
hexliterary.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"The scientists were holding a press conference.
They often did this and were often ignored. The public was sick of novel findings."
Feeling crabby? Anneke Schwob (and several scientists) have the cure! This week on hex, "Carcinisation" is hilarious, strange, wonderful and very timely! Go read! 🦀
They often did this and were often ignored. The public was sick of novel findings."
Feeling crabby? Anneke Schwob (and several scientists) have the cure! This week on hex, "Carcinisation" is hilarious, strange, wonderful and very timely! Go read! 🦀
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Here we are. #FiveYearsOn from the first day of the full British lockdown. I woke up at 5.30am today without intending to, just as I did five years ago today. On that day I stood on the front step of my flat and watched a fox saunter across the road. I was very frightened.
all the replies here are helpful and fascinating.
it is incredibly clear to me now that while it might have felt like there were good decisions to be made, really whether you had good lockdowns or horrible ones was basically down to luck.
#FiveYearsOn
(camel case is better for accessiblity)
it is incredibly clear to me now that while it might have felt like there were good decisions to be made, really whether you had good lockdowns or horrible ones was basically down to luck.
#FiveYearsOn
(camel case is better for accessiblity)
I would really really love to hear other people's notes/strong memories about the specifics of this. I feel like we were all in such trauma that the memories have vanished fast, leaving a blanket of "oh god yuck awful" which isn't helpful for understanding how it's affected us.
#fiveyearson
#fiveyearson
March 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Here we are. #FiveYearsOn from the first day of the full British lockdown. I woke up at 5.30am today without intending to, just as I did five years ago today. On that day I stood on the front step of my flat and watched a fox saunter across the road. I was very frightened.
i love rabbinically mandated quiet listening storytime <3
March 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
i love rabbinically mandated quiet listening storytime <3
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📣 boo 📣
📯🪇הָמָ֟ן🪇📯
March 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
📣 boo 📣
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naming a purimborn daughter Tirtzah, after the shulchan aruch
February 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
naming a purimborn daughter Tirtzah, after the shulchan aruch
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I wrote up a post about how we hugely improved the write performance for Bluesky's timelines/following feed.
If you want to learn more about how we did it, check it out.
Some nuggets in there about embracing imperfection in some parts of a system to scale better.
jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...
If you want to learn more about how we did it, check it out.
Some nuggets in there about embracing imperfection in some parts of a system to scale better.
jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy Timelines
By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing s...
jazco.dev
February 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I wrote up a post about how we hugely improved the write performance for Bluesky's timelines/following feed.
If you want to learn more about how we did it, check it out.
Some nuggets in there about embracing imperfection in some parts of a system to scale better.
jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...
If you want to learn more about how we did it, check it out.
Some nuggets in there about embracing imperfection in some parts of a system to scale better.
jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...
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Almost all livestock in the United States is factory-farmed
February 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Almost all livestock in the United States is factory-farmed
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Nearly half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture.
Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
February 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nearly half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture.
Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
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In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day
February 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day
i am absolutely charmed by this
Prayer in the event of a sluggish Internet response, by Aharon Varady (@aharonium.bsky.social) opensiddur.org?p=59908
Prayer in the event of a sluggish Internet response, by Aharon Varady • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
A prayer for a friend who needs prompt and useful data in response to their Internet queries. . . .
opensiddur.org
February 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
i am absolutely charmed by this
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If we can make maternal deaths as rare as in the healthiest countries, we can save 275,000 mothers each year
February 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If we can make maternal deaths as rare as in the healthiest countries, we can save 275,000 mothers each year
i love you chickpea flour
October 4, 2023 at 9:44 PM
i love you chickpea flour
[orthodox voice] ah, rain... it makes women of us all
October 2, 2023 at 4:49 PM
[orthodox voice] ah, rain... it makes women of us all
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woman who is granted access to the innermost secrets of the torah because of her fervent prayers, repeating hundreds of thousands of times "baruch atah hashem, lamdeini chukecha"
but in fact she just was very bad at brachot
but in fact she just was very bad at brachot
September 18, 2023 at 9:57 PM
woman who is granted access to the innermost secrets of the torah because of her fervent prayers, repeating hundreds of thousands of times "baruch atah hashem, lamdeini chukecha"
but in fact she just was very bad at brachot
but in fact she just was very bad at brachot
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If you, too, require an extra nerdy version of Ishay Ribo's Seder ha-Avoda with annotated lyrics linked to all their classical sources, I made one.
trmarvin.org/the-unbearab...
trmarvin.org/the-unbearab...
The Unbearable Darkness of Being: On Ishay Ribo's Seder ha-Avodah | Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Ishay Ribo's remarkable, melancholy version of the Seder ha-Avodah, the piyyut recited in the Amidah of Musaf on Yom Kippur, traces a theology of teshuvah.
trmarvin.org
September 10, 2023 at 10:21 PM
If you, too, require an extra nerdy version of Ishay Ribo's Seder ha-Avoda with annotated lyrics linked to all their classical sources, I made one.
trmarvin.org/the-unbearab...
trmarvin.org/the-unbearab...
i am just saying
September 7, 2023 at 8:26 PM
i am just saying