Good Tuesday everybody. Volume 1 Issue 14 of World Blind Herald is here, with a featured from our own Itto Outini on Amy Pedid’s Unibility project. https://www.worldblindherald.com/the-heroine-with-a-thousand-interfaces-amy-pedid-tells-a-story-of-a-world-that-can-work-for-us-all/
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@Imoptimal @weirdwriter You already can implement AP on WPCom. https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/17/making-the-social-web-a-better-place-activitypub-for-wordpress-joins-the-automattic-family/
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@Beatlesandworms I hope you get to spend the rest of the day inside with a warm blanket and comfort food.
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@atfarnum Yes the struggle is definitely real.
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@fastfinge @BorrisInABox @Kaliah I've worked full time in an office, and will never go back to that. Not without a whole lot of money that no one is ever going to pay me for working in an office.
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Final purchases for Pesach, it’s crazy out there. — with Denise, John, William
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One of the reasons christian literalist ways of interpreting Jewish texts is often asinine is that paleo and biblical era Hebrew did not have vowels. It had root consonants, and the interpretation of a word depended on context, not text. And each set of consonant roots has a WIDE range of interpretations.
Take the word chametz – one interpretation is leaven (yeast), but the root itself means puffed up or inflated, as well as harsh, vinegar, oppressive, and distasteful, and so on. Each root has a full circle of meanings depending on the vowels and tense *you* choose to insert, as well as the topic of the surrounding text – each root of those words also having a wide range of meanings. And those vowel insertions are man-made, not scripture. Not “god’s word.”
Men’s interpretations.
Literalists cherry pick what interpretation they want, and insist that is “THE” meaning, when it is no such thing.
https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/clearing-out-how
#Mazeldon #Hebrew #Passover #Chametz #linguistics #spirituality
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@chris @daljo628 @jan This entire thread. I noticed the vibe at WCUS in Nashville and was disappointed, but also completely prepared to start identifying as a fucking problem if the people bringing that vibe with them start causing trouble for other members of our community with diverse backgrounds/characteristics. And yes that includes the trans members and the neurodivergent members.
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@pinkyfloyd I mean OK it should be surprising, and maybe I'm just overly cynical, but it's just not.
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@pinkyfloyd It doesn't make any sense, until you realize that there's just nothing Trump can do to lose those votes. Literally nothing.
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@pinkyfloyd This is unsurprising. Also, I do not want to hear from Republicans ever again about how criminal conduct on the part of politicians or their children is bad. Not after Trump and his kids.