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או֜מצװײיִק, דאָלוי פּאָליציי, they/them/zey Very Serious Political Economist

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trying to figure out if the yiddish word for bussy would be shmuchus or tushke

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Solomon, right before writing shir ha-shirim:

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there’s been a years-long, pretty successful push in pdx organizing spaces to make everything masked - even outdoor events, oftentimes. to paraphrase micah bazant, our movements can’t afford to lose anyone’s wisdom, energy, and solidarity bc our spaces are inaccessible

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i have like 3 zoomer comrades i check in with regularly about this lol

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i would LOVE to play a survivalcraft game set in scavenger’s reign

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we would be a looot better off if the % of ppl getting updated covid vaccines (~20% last fall) was the same as ppl who get flu vax (~50%)

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recently got an icebreaker question “if u were christ what would ur blood & body be for sacrament” and now i have my answer

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there are 2 general answers to the contemporary Jewish question (how can Jews live well amongst other peoples?) and tablet is fiiirmly on the side of ‘try to cater to power in the hopes they will grant us privileges’ i guess

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what. the. fuck.

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it is just a funny moment having been raised with the deeply-ingrained lesson that when things get bad, we should get out if we want to survive. how do we know when the tipping point is?

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i think about this a lot, as someone pretty committed to fighting incipient fascism AND as someone literally only here bc my ancestors fled their homes again and again over the course of centuries, including in living memory. while those who stayed and fought were killed. so.

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Organize. If you need help figuring out how to approach that work, how to keep at it, or why collective action is our best hope in catastrophic times, remember that we wrote a book for you. ❤️

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idk i think it’s fine for people to experiment w different tools to craft a relationship that works well for everyone involved

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controversial take but at its core the substantial difference between this and tools that a lot of queer organizer-types use in relationship conflict (ie RADAR, self-facilitated containers, applying organizing principles) is that these are monetized

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and when religious orgs that provide social services say they ‘don’t receive federal funding’ you can bet that they get pass thru funds from the state, county, or city

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the shelter system in Oregon is run by a literal mafia of Community Action Agencies that have designated territories, no interest in changing the status quo, and jealously guard their lucrative govt contracts. and those are the ‘good ones’

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the reason we don’t know who the 36 tzaddikin are at any given time is bc they’re just napping!!

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spinning silver is sooo good, it contains so much! a lil peek into Jewish social reproduction! meanie ice elves! navigating patriarchy! evil demon possession! shabbos! just a really great read

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hahaha real Dies The Fire energy

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worse things could happen, considering the spontaneous armed road blockades that sprung up during the 2020 wildfires

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i can ID w this. reminds me of sth @cassieceleste.bsky.social wrote, paraphrasing: ‘if i was born 10 yrs earlier i might’ve never transitioned & if i was born 10 yrs later i’dve transitioned in teens/early 20s’

would i be able to have a fulfilling life as a guy? probs. am i happier now? absolutely

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It’s like a very long epic fantasy series but there are multiple species/societies that are very fleshed out, some of which have had very stable cultures for millennia. Written by an archaeologist/anthropologist. Lots of interactions between growing empires & nomadic groups, esp in later books

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Oregon has a combined Covid/influenza/rsv wastewater dashboard! I love it and check it every week when it’s updated to assess risk

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I did not read all of the quoted thread but I feel like there are elements of this in the Malazan Book of the Fallen

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The Moroccan historian Abdellah Laroui periodizes the 9th-13th centuries as a time of empire building & 14th-15th cents as fragmentation, until Ahmad al-Mansur (1578). IMO the 'contiguousness' is one of the biggest political history debates. If of interest, his book is free at the internet archive

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hm i wonder which groups of people are gonna be disenfranchised by this

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by Moroccan monarchy do you mean that there was at least one person who claimed to be the sultan? bc the Alaouis have only ruled since the mid-1600s. which is also a long time! but there has not been a continuous monarchy since the Idrisids

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tempted to Post Through my own messy relationship but concerned that people will think i’m participating in The Discourse

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i love this and it gave me a headache lol

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my high school chemistry teacher told us a very bad joke that goes: a person gets pulled over by a cop on the highway. they realize they were speeding and decide to dip. as the cop starts walking up, the driver pulls out around them and shouts out the window “c u, copper”

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fr tho with our financialized economy - global securities are valued higher than annual global GDP - shifting regulatory mechanisms is the primary way to create new free inputs for generating wealth. at a macro-scale, the double movement of our time is the struggle around financial regulation

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unfortunately you need 2 bingos to enter into the raffle and i have not been playing strategically

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hot tip for ppl playing pdx book week bingo: mother foucalt’s is NOT participating but WILL still stamp ur sheet with a big ass stamp

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fun fact about me, the last national service thing i did was umuganda and i got to briefly meet Paul Kagame lol

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the purpose of compulsory national service is nation building. so one can see why it’s appealing for right-wing leaders who are seeing the collapse of national consciousness. anything that gets built or done thru that labor is a secondary outcome

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strong ‘when a college sophomore takes IPE 201 and reads Friedrich List for the first time’ energy

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tatouine is much nicer than star wars led me to believe

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maybe not my best idea as 2 mins after i leave my house i recall someone threw piss on me last time i did js

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wearin a cute lil outfit to go do jail support 🥰

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(at the monty python Bridge of Death) bridgekeeper: a phd student does qualifying exams in political ecology, infrastructure studies, and agrarian political economy. WHAT is their academic discipline? me: shit

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hydrosocial cycle is alive and well i see lol

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i seem to recall there was some tie between dams in the PNW and aluminum production that was important for military aircraft production? hence boeing in WA? is that dated or just the wrong causality path

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for ex in Oregon a number of local police/sheriff depts don’t reliably report crime data to the FBI. that would pull down OR’s ranking in their methodology regardless of any empirical reality

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i looked at their methodology briefly. if i had to guess, their “hate crime score” is 1) garbage; 2) heavily weights places where queer ppl report hate crimes to local law enforcement; 3) systematically pulls down states w (relatively) good legislative protections

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post-ww2 european leadership (and US military commanders!) preferred to leave Jews in concentration camps over letting them into their countries. to me that gives weight to Sherene Seikaly and Max Ajl's argument that EU Jews could only *become* European once they were outside of Europe (in I/P)

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not generally taught in US ww2 history but close to 200k polish jews did go back to Poland from the USSR. then there were a number of pogroms in Poland post-shoah from 1945-46, so many went to DP camps in Germany - often former concentration camps. the last Jewish DP camp didn’t close until 1957

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trying to explain ‘mameleh’ to goyishe leatherdykes

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