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Salty
@salth2o.bsky.social
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Likes to cook.
Loves the ocean.
Born in NYC.
Lives in Portland.
Soccer fan, mostly US.
Secular Jew.
Hates fascists.

If you’re not raising your middle finger from a clenched fist, I have to question your commitment to the messaging.
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salth2o.bsky.social
1-0, Charlie Browns take the lead!

#fccincy #columbuscrew #MLS #mlsplayoffs
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Reposted by Salty
museum.of.emilyk.art
The election of Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor has exposed a gulf between the younger and older generations of American Jews. I made this zine to explore a significant part of that divide.

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A smartphone shows a social media post of people waving Palestinian flags. At the center it says "(Anti)Zionism, Social Justice, and Jewish Gen Z by Emily K." ANTI-ZIONISM AND SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HAVE GROWN AMONG LEFTIST AND LEFTY JEWS, ESPECIALLY AMONG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 30. AND YET, JEWISH KIDS WERE AND STILL ARE GIVEN A JEWISH EDUCATION THAT IS BROADLY "PRO-ISRAEL." image: Jewish people at a protest carrying signs that say “Free Palestine” and “Boycott Divest Sanction.” I THINK THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS AT PLAY, AND NO, I DON'T THINK TIKTOK IS TO BLAME. MILLENNIALS AND ZOOMERS GREW UP IN A SYNAGOGUE CULTURE THAT HAS, IN MY EXPERIENCE, DONE A SUBPAR JOB TEACHING JEWISH HISTORY. MY OWN JEWISH EDUCATION SKEWED HEAVILY TOWARD ASHKENAZI/EASTERN EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES, MADE STORIES OF OPPRESSION AND THE HOLOCAUST A CENTRAL POINT OF OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND GLOSSED OVER THE COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. Image: an online chat between two friends. Amir_S: Just heard from my Dad. My cousin was killed in the Gaza strikes.. Hannah: Oh my god.. I'm so so sorry Amir_S: My uncle is stranded in the West Bank because his work permit was revoked. He can't get to the funeral, if they can even have one THIS KIND OF EDUCATION LEAVES A VOID OF KNOWLEDGE TO BE FILLED, OFTEN BY FREE-FLOWING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. AND WHILE I DON'T THINK SOCIAL MEDIA ITSELF IS A CAUSE OF THE SHIFT IN YOUNG JEWISH ATTITUDES, THE FACT THAT WE ARE MUCH MORE ONLINE THAN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS HAS DOUBTLESSLY AFFECTED OUR VIEWS. FOR ONE THING, IT IS EASIER THAN EVER TO TALK DIRECTLY TO PALESTINIANS. GEN Z HAS NEVER KNOWN AN "UNDERDOG ISRAEL.” MILLENNIALS AND GEN Z WERE BORN INTO A WORLD WHERE NOT ONLY DOES ISRAEL EXIST, IT'S A MIGHTY NATION WITH ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED MILITARIES IN THE WORLD. IT HAS THE UNSHAKING BACKING OF THE UNITED STATES FINANCIALLY AND POLITICALLY, AND HAS RECEIVED LITTLE - IF ANY - PUSHBACK FOR THEIR ACTIONS. BOOMERS REMEMBER THE SIX DAY WAR AND THE YOM KIPPUR WAR, TWO CONFLICTS THAT WERE A REAL THREAT TO ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE. MILLENNIALS REMEMBER THE 2ND INTIFADA, IN WHICH HUNDREDS OF ISRAELIS WERE MURDERED BY TERRORISTS. MANY OF US REMEMBER PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN'S ASSASSINATION. BUT GEN Z ONLY KNOWS AN ISRAEL WITH AN ENTRENCHED RIGHT WING GOVERNMENT MORE INTERESTED IN UPHOLDING AN UNJUST STATUS QUO THAN ACHIEVING TRUE PEACE. GAZA HAS BEEN UNDER BLOCKADE SINCE 2006. THE OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK STARTED DECADES BEFORE THAT. THEY'VE ONLY KNOWN AN ISRAEL AT ODDS WITH THEIR BASIC MORALS. Image: Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Ayalet Shaked with right wing coalition logos surrounding them. Above them is the word "HaLikud." BACKLASH TO THE STATUS QUO OF JEWISH EDUCATION. I REMEMBER FEELING EXHAUSTED BY HOW THE HOLOCAUST WAS MADE A CENTRAL PART OF MY JEWISH EDUCATION. WHEN JEWISH JOY WAS INCLUDED, IT WAS USUALLY FRAMED AROUND SURVIVAL - MOST OFTEN FROM AN ASHKENAZI PERSPECTIVE. WHERE WAS THE JEWISH JOY THAT CAME FROM WITHIN? WHERE WAS THE BRILLIANT, OFTEN HUMOROUS, TALMUDIC EPHEMERA THAT MADE US SO UNIQUE AS PEOPLE OF SCRIPTURE? WHERE WAS THE MYSTICISM SO CAREFULLY GUARDED BY OUR ANCESTORS? IF ALL WE KNOW IS OPPRESSION, THEN THE SAFEGUARD OF ISRAEL MUST BE DEFENDED AT ALL COSTS. JEWISH YOUTH ARE TAUGHT TO SUPPORT ZIONISM NOT AS A COMPLEX POLITICAL MOVEMENT, BUT AS PART OF THE EXISTENTIAL STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WIDER WORLD'S ANTISEMITISM. SO WHEN THEY LEARN FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT THE NAKBA, AND THE HARSH REALITIES OF LIVING UNDER OCCUPATION, ZIONISM MORPHS FROM A MOVEMENT FOR THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF AN OPPRESSED PEOPLE TO AN OPPRESSIVE, RIGHT WING IDEOLOGY THAT WAS ALWAYS INVESTED IN ETHNIC DISPLACEMENT. Images: Nazis torment religious Jews in the shtetl by mocking them and cutting their beards.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
salth2o.bsky.social
Finally got around to watching the original Cloverfield movie.

Should have just called it the Blair Kaiju Project.

#movies #scifi #kaiju #cloverfield
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted by Salty
zig.computer
Yassferatu
landbeforetim.bsky.social Timchat Torah @landbeforetim.bsky.social · Oct 25
Nosferatu if he slayed
October 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
salth2o.bsky.social
Ok, restarting this account after it got appropriated by a nefarious and testy associate. Apologies to anyone offended by posts from this account name over the last few months.
October 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM