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122.01/ Week one-hundred and twenty two, November 12-18, 2022, thread begins here.
Week 121 below.
Hey, Twitter is still here. Nice to know.
Week 121 below.
Hey, Twitter is still here. Nice to know.
122.03/ The first #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight of 5783 is the classic grim crime thriller "Batman"... actually, sorry, it's the camp classic "Batman (1966)". Why? Because it's referenced so often by later comedies & it's part of their education, of course.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1…
121.01/ Week one-hundred and twenty one, November 5-11, 2022, thread begins here.
Week 120 below. Who knows how long I'll get to keep doing this, sigh.
Week 120 below. Who knows how long I'll get to keep doing this, sigh.
121.02/ Good metaphor.
However, to me, it feels like 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, waiting for the power to go out.
However, to me, it feels like 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, waiting for the power to go out.
121.03/ This is what I mean. There's a completely preventable, maliciously negligent, technology collapse coming soon.
105.01/ Week one-hundred and five, July 16-22, 2022, thread begins here.
The #ThreeWeeks begin here as well, sorry.
Week 104 below.
The #ThreeWeeks begin here as well, sorry.
Week 104 below.
105.02/ Wait, hold on, the longest hottest fast day - #ShivaAsarBiTammuz - is #NationalIceCreamDay?! This is both irritatingly annoying... and religiously satisfying. We get extra credit for the fast!
nj.com/food/2022/07/n…
nj.com/food/2022/07/n…
105.03/ Gotta hand it to #ShivaAsarBiTammuz this year, it's getting its money's worth because I'm feeling really terrible. Excellent quality, consistent results. A well-crafted day of affliction. 5 stars on yelp and/or five yelps.
84.01/ Week eighty-four, February 19-25, 2022 thread begins here.
Week 83 below.
Week 83 below.
84.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight put off a night because of social obligations. Monday is a legal holiday so we will hopefully have movie night tomorrow night.
84.03/ Couldn't be happier, or prouder, as a #Steelers fan to see they hired Brian Flores to be a senior coach. The team gets top notch talent and they take an anti-racist stand. And, as seen below, it earns respect from players:
78.01/ Week seventy-eight, January 8-14, 2022, thread here.
Week 77 below.
Week 77 below.
78.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight, John Woo's "Paycheck"
Why? (1) Underrated sci-fi action mystery, (2) we saw Mission:Impossible 2 wks ago and it's sequel is by Jon Woo... but it's terrible while this movie is great and almost the same genre
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_…
Why? (1) Underrated sci-fi action mystery, (2) we saw Mission:Impossible 2 wks ago and it's sequel is by Jon Woo... but it's terrible while this movie is great and almost the same genre
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_…
78.03/ Only silver lining to a Cowboys win: a scorigami!
1/ I try to find the balance of compassion & truth/justice - with a determined bias for the former - but that's nearly impossible in wartime - and I've said many times: we are in a #ColdCivilWar. See: the insurrection, gun nuts, the RedHat driven passive genocide via COVID, etc.
2/ I despair for those who think we're at peace - which is the majority of Americans - but they can be helpful resources because they want "normal" again and the RedHats are anything but. The insurrection showed that.
3/ But those who know it's war & claim they consider RedHats the enemy yet attack the Democrats from the Left are baffling to me.
There are only two options right now, but they seem to think there's a third which the Dems are against so there's "no difference" between the big 2.
There are only two options right now, but they seem to think there's a third which the Dems are against so there's "no difference" between the big 2.
1/ Since the beginning of the #TrumpCrisis, I've had ever increasingly difficult #YomKippur davening because of the burden I feel to act as a 'sanegor' (defender) for my community and for the Jewish world at large.
(This is in addition to the vast ways I need to improve myself)
(This is in addition to the vast ways I need to improve myself)
2/ I'm not a gadol, a posek, or anything close to a tzadik. But after seeing so many rebbeim & gedolim openly support Trump (ym'sh), erase women from Jewish life, and encourage anti-vax shtuyot, I considered the tenuous possibility that I would need to act as a communal sanegor.
3/ With the established leadership descending into avoda-zara (DJT), shefichat-damim (COVID denial) & arayot (dehumanizing women), I needed to step up - out of safek-nefashot - and use all of my halakhic, rhetorical & philosophical ability to devise kappara for the Am Kadosh.
56.01/ Week fifty-six, Aug. 7-13, 2021, thread begins here.
#ChodeshTov everyone! Happy #Elul, the "deep breath before the plunge" (as Gandalf says).
Week 55 thread is below.
#ChodeshTov everyone! Happy #Elul, the "deep breath before the plunge" (as Gandalf says).
Week 55 thread is below.
56.02/ Excellent shibboleth action here from Rabbi Ruttenberg, in a benevolent, non-murdery, way, of course.
56.03/ Honored with #haftara yesterday but it had been so long since I last did one that my eyesight has gotten bad enough that I was juggling a mask, fogged glasses, & the too small print of even a full-size Artscroll. And why did Yeshayahu have to make up so many weird words?!
53.01/ Week fifty-three, July 17-23, 2021, begins here. #TishaBeav today, so no real greeting. May next year, we have a fleishig #9Av
I've been making these organized threads for a year. Fitting that anniversary should be on the saddest day of the year.
Week 52 below:
I've been making these organized threads for a year. Fitting that anniversary should be on the saddest day of the year.
Week 52 below:
53.02/ To listen to music today, I have the leining of #Eicha on a loop. One source is the Eidut Mizrach version from Mechon-Mamre:
mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt3201.htm
Direct link:
mechon-mamre.org/mp3/t3201.mp3
&
Ashkenaz via Virtual Cantor:
virtualcantor.com/tbav.htm
Direct:
virtualcantor.com/Eicha1.mp3
mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt3201.htm
Direct link:
mechon-mamre.org/mp3/t3201.mp3
&
Ashkenaz via Virtual Cantor:
virtualcantor.com/tbav.htm
Direct:
virtualcantor.com/Eicha1.mp3
53.03/ Thread from yesterday, #TishaBeav, on some thoughts about the day.
51.02/ This is exactly right. Thread.
51.03/ Rabbi Regan is 100% right. I describe this as "banning straws" activism - something that doesn't solve a systemic or even immediate problem while actively hurting others. As a bonus, the straw-ban helped the company's bottom line.
46.01/ Week Forty-six, May 29-June 4 2021, begins here.
Week 45 below:
Week 45 below:
46.02/ Attempting the "Not starting every email/tweet with the word 'so' challenge." This is comes after "Not starting every etc with 'well'"
I understand this is common for academics. In my observation: "well" is to state your hypothesis, "so" the next step in analysis.
I understand this is common for academics. In my observation: "well" is to state your hypothesis, "so" the next step in analysis.
46.03/ I just spent hours writing a thread and for some reason the screen skipped and I lost everything. It's hard to explain how destructive this is. First time it's happened and now I will know to continuously back up writing in a side document. But I'm mildly perturbed.
44.01/ Week Forty-four, May 15-21 2021, begins here.
[note: Forty should have a 'u' in it, no? English is a weird language.]
Week 43 below:
[note: Forty should have a 'u' in it, no? English is a weird language.]
Week 43 below:
44.02/ So many people I assumed were motivated by greed (for money, abstract resources) and/or power are actually driven by ego. This discovery required a major retooling of my understanding of moral philosophy
e.g. during the #TrumpCrisis people risked their lives just for ego
e.g. during the #TrumpCrisis people risked their lives just for ego
44.03/ Long thread about 'fear' (45 Posts)
43.01/ Week Forty-three, May 8-14 2021, begins here.
Week 42, May 1-7 2021, below:
Week 42, May 1-7 2021, below:
43.02/ Sunday was wonderful but exhausting. It was my daughter's Bat Mitzvah and we turned it into a celebration for her two grandmothers on #MothersDay as well. It was socially distanced, highly zoomed, and amazing. But I'm wrung out like a sponge.
43.03/ Top notch:
1/ Welcome to the Cypess Weekly Thread Index Thread.
I implemented the long thread concept in July 2020 in order to have an easy system to access my weekly writing.
Week 1, July 18-24 2020, 10 posts:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371275…
I implemented the long thread concept in July 2020 in order to have an easy system to access my weekly writing.
Week 1, July 18-24 2020, 10 posts:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371275…
35.01/ Week thirty-five, March 13-19 2021, begins here. Last week's thread is below.
35.02/ An accurate thread of Ashkenazi culture on #Passover. [Hint: we rabbis haven't forbade potatoes yet. But don't provoke us]
35.03/ Thread about #PiDay, Albert Einstein and the movie IQ. Because, of course
1/ My list of favorite women to follow in honor of #InternationalWomensDay
For reference, here are my lists for 2019 & 2020. Since then I've added more (and taken a few off).
For reference, here are my lists for 2019 & 2020. Since then I've added more (and taken a few off).
2/ This year I want to spend time highlighting voices - in no particular order - that I consider crucial weekly reading (I print out threads to read over Shabbat b/c during the week I'm working so for me the best time for reflective Twitter is when I can't do other melakha)
3/ I've mentioned before that I use thread-readers often - how else could I read over Shabbat - but some of my favorites don't allow access. But I'm putting on this list those who I find valuable enough that I *would* thread if it was available.
32.01/ Week thirty-two (Feb. 20-26) thread begins here. Week 31 - which was broken into three pieces like Gaul - is linked below:
32.02/ Well put. The key difference is whether they can treat people, any person, as having equal humanity no matter their abilities/background and not as a collection of specific identities.
32.03/ The GOP & 'conservatives' seem to lack empathy & an ability to imagine others having a different mindset from their own. They don't care about right vs wrong, only Us v. Them, so they assume we're the same. Their mentality is insulting but revealing
31.52b/ This is a continuation of the week 31 (Feb. 13-19) thread which is getting too big for stable threading. This is an experiment for this week: to split a thread when it gets to 50 or so.
Part one is here:
Part one is here:
31.53/ I've been thinking the same thing (not so well put, of course). How did Skype become the fax machine of this tech crisis?
31.54/ This is good to see! I'm glad the effects are empirically demonstrated.
It's nice when virtue is demonstrably effective. Social science for the win!
It's nice when virtue is demonstrably effective. Social science for the win!
28.01/ Week twenty-eight, January 23-29, starts here. Week 27 (Jan. 16-22) is below.
28.02/ One of my largest lists "News2016," started early in the #TrumpCrisis, has this tagline: "Started for the 2016 election, persists until Trump (ym'sh) is gone"
I don't want to delete the valuable list but I'll change the name/tag to honor my promise
twitter.com/i/lists/757955…
I don't want to delete the valuable list but I'll change the name/tag to honor my promise
twitter.com/i/lists/757955…
28.03/ My 14yo son's idea for fixing the "worst rule in sports" aka the #NFL #FumbleTouchbackRule: it's a touchback but retained by the offense. So the ball is placed on the opponent 20, but the down is retained.
27.01/ Week twenty-seven starts here, Jan. 16-22, 2021. Last week's thread is below
27.02/ I was just teaching my children about the wonders of my childhood toys, including the one time I got for my birthday a Lite Brite and the amazing Shrinky-dinks.
27.03/ Played "Lawyers, Guns & Money" for my 11yo daughter who thought it was hilarious & suggested we change rock, paper, scissors to those 3
rock = guns (weapon) 🔫
paper = money 💵
scissors = upside-down for 2 feet (lawyer is a type of person, no?) 🤦🏽
rock = guns (weapon) 🔫
paper = money 💵
scissors = upside-down for 2 feet (lawyer is a type of person, no?) 🤦🏽
26.01/ Week twenty-six, Jan. 9-15, 2021, begins here.
Last week's thread is here:
Last week's thread is here:
26.02/ Maggie H reports: "I asked for comment from the WH on the chants to hang Mike Pence. 'We strongly condemn all calls to violence, including those against any member of this administration,' said Judd Deere, a WH spokesman" & I love this response:
26.03/ Dr. Perry is right on the money here:
25.01/ Thread for week twenty-five, Jan. 2 to Jan. 8, 2021, begins here.
Week 24 thread was here:
Week 24 thread was here:
25.02/ We've been blaming 2020 for our troubles, but maybe it's b/c it was the Year of the Rat? Acc. to chinesenewyear.net/zodiac/rat/ "In Chinese culture, rats were seen as a sign of wealth and surplus" and if that doesn't describe 2020, what does? (P.S. I was born in a ratty year)
25.03/ This is about the can-opener guy and, yes, he's abusive but strangely proud of it showing us that the AITA topics are possibly not as made up as we assumed.
I pray that when DJT is deposed & disposed these people will feel stigma again.
I pray that when DJT is deposed & disposed these people will feel stigma again.
20.01/ Nov 30, 2020: Week 20 thread will start here. For those who are looking for previous weeks (narrator: nobody was), here's 19:
18:
17:
and the big one
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and the big one
20.02/ I was this years old when I learned that many families use Thanksgiving as the official "kick off" for Xmas season, and that's why eschewing it (this year) is esp. hard.
I've also heard people say T-giving is the "Holidays" for "Happy Holidays"... ah, no. It's Hanukkah
I've also heard people say T-giving is the "Holidays" for "Happy Holidays"... ah, no. It's Hanukkah
20.03/ I just donated to the Internet Archive, the world's largest digital library and home of the Wayback Machine. Join me and chip in what you can! archive.org/donate?iax=ctx…
15.01/ From last night, about the newest COVID outbreak from within the White House. As I've said before, the core value of Pence/GOP is anti-expertise, which leads to their self-destruction
15.02/ #Steelers @ Titans is the game of the week and as the picture below shows, nearly everyone in the 50 states will get to see it except... me in Jersey. But I'll get to listen to the game on my laptop, 10-70 seconds behind (why?!) #HereWeGo 
15.03/ @Dameshek is (basically) my age and we were both kids in Pittsburgh at the same time so we have the same abject fear of Mr. Yuk.
