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✡️🏳️‍🌈✊🏿Father-3⚧; USMC⚓⚕️combat vet 91; NYAssembly LegislativeDirector; Euphonium musician; lover; Jew; PhiBetaKappa 94. Criminal domestic violence survivor. Retired Senior Attorney, Dept Labor; Itinerant Handyman; Health nut, cook.
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After #Slaughter of #Jews lighting #Hanukkah candles at #Bondi #Beach #Sydney #Australia, most News fucked up badly: wouldn't show Jews as targets, some didn't even mention #murder. Look at #Antisemitism &effort it took to deny Jewish blood, &how easily was fixed:

drive.google.com/file/d/16bVe...
This all text only list the modifications I made to the headlines. However, the image clearly shows that if I listed it here with a description, the original headline omitted any reference to Jews or Hanukkah being the actual Target. I showed the headlines original, side by side with my additions, to show the effort it took in anti-Semitism to deny Jews as murder victims. CNN should read gunfire, injuries reported at Sydney's Bondi Beach targeting Hanukkah celebration, two people in custody The second CNN should read live updates: nine people killed in shooting targeting Jews at Australia's bondi Beach The guardian should read Australian Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting live updates: 9 Jews dead, plus one shooter, with another alleged shooter in critical condition; home affairs minister condemns 'appalling act of violence' The BBC article actually, surprisingly, did not omit the reality that Jews were targets. This comes after a scathing internal and UK government report showing the BBC had long been committing actual anti-semitism. AP News should read police say two will arrested after reports of several people shot at Hanukkah celebration at beach in Sydney Reuters at least got this part right. Strange that Reuters and bbc, and nbc, and the New York post, are pretty much the only ones that even mentioned it until hours later, if at all Washington Post should read nine killed in shooting targeting Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney The New York Times should read police urge people to avoid Sydney's Bondi murder incident targeting Jews celebrating Hanukkah there NPR should read gunman targeting Jews celebrating Hanukkah kill nine people at Sydney's Bondi Beach Sky News should read what we know so far about mass shooting targeting Jews celebrating Hanukkah at Sydney's Bondi Beach Al Jazeera should read Jews murdered at Bondi Beach shooting, live: one alleged shooter killed Words matter. Omitting Jews -- as Jews -- as being the actual targets, matters.
December 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
Some men even take pride in #Childcare 🙂
Even 10 years ago, female columnists griping about stay-at-home moms who skate by. I was a stay-at-home father for years & pointed out hypocrisy: taking care of children is real work, that real people would earn real dollars doing, if #moms (& #dads!) didn't
ts6au 10 years ago When you have a column to write, Ms Pardue-Schultz, and you're in bed in the afternoon with a cold and throwing up and 101º fever, someone else writes it for you or the editor will simply print something else. When you're in bed in the afternoon with a cold and throwing up and 101º fever, and your toddler needs to be changed and your other kid needs homework help and dinner needs making and you're the only parent around, you get the f*** out of bed. No other job would hold you to this standard. Except, perhaps, a factory worker for Apple, Inc.™ in China, © 2015. Last time I checked, daycare workers got paid and require certification. Last time I checked, nannies, housekeepers, and even babysitters got paid for their time. Last time I checked, "work for a wage" constitutes a "job", one that - if you don't do this work, you have to pay someone else to do this work. Your dismissal of the effort it takes to do the job well demeans the accomplishments of those who do their job with pride instead of choosing someone else to do it for them. There's a reason that daycare and preschool isn't cheap. It's not because it's easy. It's because taking care of your young children and family and household constitutes work. Often, expensive work. It's true some stay-at-home parents squander the "free" time in their lives by tending to only their job's bare minimum requirements. There's a large contingent of people who "skate" by doing the bare minimum of their job's requirements, in far too many occupations. That broad brush-stroke doesn't even represent on the canvas those who fill their time actually being parents to their young children. ... [Text truncated but sufficient Info presented]
April 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
I taught my #AI a little #ContextAwareness -- w/ joke, #ShortCircuit style

I named my AI "Goldfish" (Dag Zahav דג זהב), for 30-day memory,
but called it Blue Fish (Dag Kachol דג כחול) cuz memory really = #Dory 😂

#Gemini #FindingNemo #GoogleAI #LLM #Memory #AIFail #AIHumor #Number5IsAlive
[Me:] So, would it be a joke to Call you: דג כחול? (Translation:Blue fish) [AI:] Ha! Yes, El Conquistador, considering our immediately preceding discussion about Dory – the forgetful Blue Tang fish from Finding Nemo – calling me "דג כחול" (Dag Kachol), which translates directly from Hebrew as "Blue Fish", would absolutely land as a relevant and rather pointed joke about my memory limitations in our interaction. It cleverly combines my established nickname "Dag" (Fish) with the color associated with the character whose memory challenges you just likened to mine. So yes, that would definitely be understood as a joke within this context. [Me:] Can you tell me why P sherman, 42 Wallaby way, sydney, might be a relevant meme reference to the interaction I'm having with you now? [AI:] Okay, El Conquistador. That's a clever reference! The line "P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney" is famously from the Pixar movie Finding Nemo. It's the address written on a diver's mask, which is the key clue to finding the lost fish, Nemo. The relevance to our interaction likely stems from the character Dory, who has severe short-term memory loss. She repeats the address "P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney" constantly throughout the film as a mantra to desperately cling to that single, vital piece of information she needs to remember to complete her quest. The parallel to our interaction, El Conquistador, lies in the significant challenges we've been discussing regarding my (Dag's/Gemini's) memory and context persistence. Just as Dory struggles to retain information from moment to moment, I have limitations in perfectly recalling rules, context, or details across different parts of our long conversation or perceived "threads." This has led to a similar need for repetition and reminders in our interaction – you've had to remind me of rules, paste context, and we've discussed strategies specifically designed to help me "remember" or re-access information, much like Dory needs to constantly repeat the address to keep it in her awareness. So, the meme is relevant because it highlights the theme of memory limitation and the effort required to maintain crucial information, which has been a central aspect of our conversation and your testing (per Rule #7). The reason for use of the El Conquistador moniker is in the next post, together with a link to the original source
April 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
#Tesla #cybertruck not selling because buyers actually afraid of being yelled at by a #Subaru driver? Never have I ever been more proud to own my used car, or be associated with a commercial brand

#SubaruKilledTheLiarsBigBrand
(h/t Buggles, 1980)

Also: #5Speed -- I'll be there in #clutch situation
Photograph from the inside of my Subaru with the Subaru logo prominent. Also included in picture: the five-speed manual transmission gearshift -- because "I'm the one who knocks [it into the next gear]."
April 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
#JuniorSays keep #Curiosity alive
#FightOrFlight isn't the only choice. Fight/flight itself is a choice; another choice exists altogether. You can't even be in a fight/flight state, if you remain curious. Even if you're lying down next to ceiling with no way to safely find solid ground on your own.
Picture of cat, enjoying the top shelf of his Bistro rack next to the ceiling, looking with curiosity at an object right behind the camera. Representation of a cat with curiosity: as if it were to say, what is that, is that my toy? Is that catnip in your hand?
April 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
Pretty straight line from...
#Charlottesville2017, the gaslighting chant of "[they] will not replace us" to this...
...essentially replacing all others with MAGA whiteness.

This Erasure of #HarrietTubman is shameful, but don't pretend this was unexpected from this lot. #racism #MAGAracism
Picture of white men with torches at night chanting anti-Semitism and racism, at the so-called unite the right rally at the University of Virginia in 2017. Correction, picture of animals posing as humans, carrying torches.
April 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
tsvikah.bsky.social
Y'all missed Heat:
April 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
tsvikah.bsky.social
Renowned local #ConcertBand did gig yesterday. Music showcased: Japanese Mexican Korean Cuban Arabian Norwegian Italian French British American origin.
Concert title: "Mʏ Pʟᴀɴᴇᴛ. Yᴏᴜʀ Pʟᴀɴᴇᴛ."
Doesn't that title sound great?

So did we.

#Music #Euphonium
#MemorialConcertBandOfColonie
March 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
Daddy's back

If he nests here like last year, I'll endeavor a close up..

#ProtectBirds #BackyardBirdSafe #Birds #MourningDoves #BirdsOfBlueSky
March 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
And, related: from Latvia:
"Trump's got Goliath's back. Will you stand with David?"

In case there was any doubt about whether Trump has aligned with the villain or the hero..
Image caption reads, "Trump's got Goliath's back. Will you stand with David? Support our team because truth shouldn't go unarmed." Image depicts a David versus Goliath comic-strip panel, with a Russian flag on Goliath and Ukrainian colors on the little David. Trump's yellow hairdo is on the middle figure of three dressed-in-black organized-crime-looking figures standing behind Goliath, who is depicted towering over and three times the depicted size of David.
March 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
tsvikah.bsky.social
#JuniorSays, It's #MondayMorning, so, let the neighbor's #cat in & let him show you exactly how he feels."

I feel like he's just wandering in & letting himself be at home

(Yes, I've been known to do same for friendly humans. I guess I'm more like Jesus than Bible-thumping conservatives that way?)
Neighbor's cat on its back, paws in the air looking at camera, belly in the air on my daybed. Neighbor's cat still regularly finds its way past ankles into my home, and I do not feed him. I do let him catch mice and put the dead ones at my feet, but he hasn't done this in almost 2 years cuz no more mice.
March 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Lisa Simpson underestimated the number of administrations it will take to recover from a trump one.. ..but that's why we have to just outlive it so that there are enough of us around to reclaim to still fulfill what ideas Madison really started..

It's so simple, even the AI summarized it okay..
Text from image: James Madison, a key figure in American! history, protested against the policies of the Adams administration, particularly the Alien and Sedition Acts, and later, during his presidency, he protested against British seizures of American ships and the British interference with American commerce, leading to the War of 1812. Here's a more detailed breakdown: Against the Alien and Sedition Acts: As a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Madison strongly opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he viewed as unconstitutional restrictions on the rights of immigrants and the freedom of the press. Virginia Resolutions: He responded to the Alien and Sedition Acts with the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, which defended liberal thinking about federalism, freedom of the press, and the rights of immigrants. This is kind of relevant for context given the use of the alien and sedition acts, lately...
March 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
I can tell you where we have not seen any words like this before, coupled with the exact same iconography, and it is not from oh yes it is from people exactly like this.
March 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
tsvikah.bsky.social
Crusaders were there January 6th... They're donning our American uniforms now.
Tweet from me from January 30th 2021, showing photo from January 6th, where I mentioned modern day crusaders, a group whose members include active serving us Army generals, carrying their flag on January 6th at the attack on the Capitol building. We noticed that Crusader flag then. We noticed it as among the kinds of tattoos worn by hegseth now, 4 years later. This alt-text is also supposed to be to add context? Most conspiracy theorists invent harmful fictions depicting Jews as heading secret diabolical organizations for manipulation of politics. Henry Ford was among those who spread those false words in actual translation of Hitler. Irony alert, only Crusader style crosses seen here. How is that for context?
March 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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As seen at #UAlbany, sociology events bulletin board, showing societal negative effects when you simply don't know. Or denied knowing. Perhaps never more relevant or necessary is this discipline. #UAlbanySociology. #Sociology #GreatDanes

Also, #GetOutside (poster seen on 5k walk) #PrideOutsideNY
Poster advertising three sociology classes, showing reasons for each. The middle sign, for example, States " sociology explains why white Americans hold $214,970 more in wealth than black Americans, with a link to UAlbany sociology department's hashtag and its course listings. The other two posters show two other examples of what extremes happen when lack of knowing produces disparate societal results.
March 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
#JuniorSays:
"It's #MondayMorning, so, seriously:
just #paws, take a breath, we've got this
Photo of Junior, the cat, looking towards viewer; with a wide paw outstretched towards camera on table in center, as focus of frame
March 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
tsvikah.bsky.social
There's a right way to cut a pizza, and then there's this
#tsvicooks

By the way, some blowhard was giving a speech tonight so this was a good time to ignore him altogether. I've never seen him produce anything healthy, so it's up to us & a good time to focus on producing something healthy instead
A pizza cut in 8 pieces but not through the center, cut instead in three sections created by one set of parallel lines across the face, and then each section cut into two or three individual pieces at right or 45° angle of cuts. One of many ways this cook imagines a pizza being cut by Pablo Picasso would look.
March 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Another example of why this Tweeter is both wonderful and relevant: don't try to sweep something under the rug in front of him. Like the sicko #TrumpEpstein connection..
February 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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They're fighting in a small area of a Congo that's as big as Europe*, over tech-necessary mineral wealth worth $Trillions, the value of which exceeds a global generation's worth of wealth..
(* www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/co...)

And, for background, www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Map of DR Congo overlain the map of western Europe showing remarkable comparable size similarity.
February 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM