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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social |
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Rabbi/award-winning author.
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Moira Donegan
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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...
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Steve Silberman
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Exactly this.
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wishda
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You could argue that’s already happening on TikTok. I’ve also seen other people commenting on how surrealism’s all over the place again too.
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Andromeda Yelton
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For the same reason: I am 100% convinced that in a decade, when the people who were kids when covid hit grew up, we are going to end up with new art forms as they find the old ones are insufficient to their expressive needs.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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So, I'm trying something here. In full transparency, if you're wondering, are there spicier texts under the cut? The answer is absolutely, entirely yes.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Yeah, truly don't care about the motivations for people who pass laws that help people anymore. Do the thing. I don't care why. Just do it. Work out your moral compass on your own time. Better more people in it because everyone's humanity matters. But more useful action > more actionless good intent
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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The link can answer that q for you
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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❤️
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Just stumbled on this Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture, ca. 1865. Thought today was a great day to share an image of white men abolishing slavery arranged in a shape Georgia O'Keefe would recognize.
Happy 4th! Burn the white supremacist heteropatriarchy!
npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...
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MsSolo đź«–
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And the reason the UK adopted coal so early is because we decimated our forests to build war ships in the early days of colonisation. And having adopted coal so early helped lead to the industrial revolution (much better for furnaces and engines than wood) which enabled the full on British empire.
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Alison Smaalders
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British food has a reputation for boiling everything to death in part because they were one of the earliest countries to adopt coal as a cooking fuel. It's far hotter than wood and hard to "turn down", so water was used to moderate the cooking temperature.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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So, I'm trying something here. In full transparency, if you're wondering, are there spicier texts under the cut? The answer is absolutely, entirely yes.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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! (Prince --> the disability thread underneath)
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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!!!!!!!!!!
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Guillaume Babey
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Lots of Renaissance paintings that have strange proportions or forced perspectives were Altar pieces, where you would see them at a high angle. These compositional tricks were meant to compensate for that angle view.
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Weyodi OldBear
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"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" hits different when you realize it was written by the child of a survivor.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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it was all about what color shoelaces you had in your boots/Docs when things were getting swirly in the pit at shows
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Guillaume Babey
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Western art history mostly stems from Vasari's "Lives", which was primarily political propaganda to prove modernity in art originated in Tuscany, as to please Vasari's patron and protector, Cosimo di Medici, on his quest to become Duke. Academic interest in art was political from the get-go.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Certainly some of it for a Black Womanist Christian theologian to take on. Though I'm sure there were plenty of things to write for plenty of lanes and I bet you woulda done something amazing, had capacity allowed.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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To say nothing of the punk / post punk bands that had explicit 3rd Reich references as everyone that gen tried to process
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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đź’Ż
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Chinese blue and white porcelain was developed for export to Western Asia and initially catered to an Islamic artistic taste, hence its visual complexity, vegetal/floral patterns, and color palette.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Irony in the UK - it’s facts
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Guillaume Babey
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Impressionism and social realism wouldn't have emerged the way they did without the technological inovation that was tubed paint. It facilitated outdoors painting, natural and urban observation, and therefore a new focus on everyday subjects compared to classical painting bound by the workshop.
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Historical Marker Ahead
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Anpanman, a beloved children’s character in Japan who is an anthropomorphic piece of bread with red bean paste, was born out of the deprivation its creator felt in a WWII prison camp. So, why Anpanman’s superpower is others eating a slice of him to gain strength museum.anpanman-acm.co.jp/sphone/en/
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Jeremiah Avery
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I enjoyed that anecdote by Freddie; especially the part about how Sid backed down and left after someone stood up to him.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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lol jinx !
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Alex Cruikshanks
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Side-note, but one thing that should be on a Dem legislative agenda is formally codifying academic standards for what can legally be called a university and have the authority to grant valid qualifications. Make it clear that Bob Jones, Liberty, etc are vanity grift organisations and nothing more.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Not common enough
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Benjamin Boles
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Less well known is that the Clash were also basically a manufactured boy band, created to compete against the Pistols.
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Lili Yochana
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The heavy metal sound was created because Tony Iommi lost two fingertips working in a factory and had to downtune his guitar
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Yup. My PIL and Smiths-listening 14yo self are FURIOUS (the adult’s not so happy either)
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Evan Kirshenbaum
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Baseball umpire signals are also believed to be due to deaf players, though which nineteenth century player is responsible is disputed. (Some of the signals, especially "safe" and "out" are transparently taken from ASL.)
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Elana Levin
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Early in the UK punk scene punk shows used to spin reggae between bands. So punk bands started playing covers but it didn’t gel till Specials founder Jerry Dahmers brought a Prince Buster record to practice & said “this is uptempo so it’s gonna work better”. Hence 2nd wave ska apple.co/44Sq8TI
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Emily K
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Jews invented manga.
Ok not so simple, but "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka's narrative style was profoundly influenced by Milt Gross's "He Done Her Wrong," one of the earliest examples of what we now call the "graphic novel."
(scholarly paper here) media.wix.com/ugd/aa7d16_7...
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Emily K
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Virtually every piece of modern comics/animation can be traced back to the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-women theater that - while not explicitly queer - absolutely is part of queer culture. "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka based his characters on the way performers stylized their make-up.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Dave
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To add to this. Hiberno-English is one of the few versions that has the habitual "be" - to differentiate between transient and permanent states. The only other one, afaik, is AAVE. The thought is that Irish immigrants taught this to Black Americans as they interacted very often with each other.
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Dave
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Not sure if this counts, but the reason folks in Ireland speak English a bit differently (not just accent, but syntax, etc.) is because colonialism destroyed our native language (almost). What you're hearing is English words but Irish language grammar and syntax.
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Ele Willoughby
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The Victorian mauve fashion craze came about following Queen Victoria & Empress Eugénie's choice of mauve fashion because an 18yo undergrad chemist William Henry Perkin discovered what became the 1st synthetic organic dye when cleaning black sludge after a failed attempt to make quinine for malaria.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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No, let’s do this properly: The Sex Pistols were a boy band that was formed in order to sell clothing. Look it up.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Here’s the post in which I do a close text study of the Southern Baptist Convention’s abortion resolutions, 1971-2009. You see not only the shift in what they preach, but how they preach it—and why. Once, SBC said abortion was a “purely private matter between a woman and her doctor.” Go figure.
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Joseph Brassey
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Frank Herbert wrote Dune because he was terrified of JFK. Specifically because the public adulation and feverish love that would later be called the Camelot mythology around the Kennedys frightened the hell out of him. It inspired him to write a book deconstructing the myth of the hero leader.
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Susan Bridges
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Also George Lucas wrote Star Wars because he desperately wanted to make a Flash Gordon movie and he couldn’t get the rights. If you watch the Flash Gordon movie that was eventually made, you can definitely see the influences.
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Kate Tuttle
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Westerns being about returning soldiers who try and often fail to re-integrate into peaceful communities after seeing and taking part in gruesome and unfathomable violence.
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Erika Fawcett
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Beer making likewise was women’s work until it was clear money could be made. It makes me snicker everytime I see a toxic masculinity style beer commercial.
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Gregory Crosby
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And it’s obvious now that many a century ago didn’t fully get it—the “roaring 20s” looks like a great deal of repression of trauma. A lot of current “post-pandemic” culture now feels like the same sort of denial.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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YUP SAME
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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All the parts that aren’t just pure neurodivergent rabbitholing
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Seán-Patrick Burke
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This is a pretty obvious / already talked about one, but STAR WARS is space Vietnam.
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