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Thus an idiotic but fun text D&D 10-day campaign comes to an end. May THE rest in piece.

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Thus an idiotic but fun text D&D 10-day campaign comes to an end. May THE rest in piece.

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You took 14 damage from the BugBear's Javekin.
You fell unconscious and couldn't find the strength to get up.
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[TombStone idon] Here lies THE, the Tiefling Sorcerer
[icons and numbers of character stats]
[skull of death icon] 96 [clock icon] 10 days, 13:47

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"What's on your mind?" asked the girl.

The white-clad man she adressed this question to was sitting across her, on the other side of the force-field. He set his eyes on her, looking at her tenderly, conveying his compassion, his sadness, his longing, without words. He sipped his tea.

She just sat there, looking at him expectantly, waiting for him to speak. In the end, he said:

"You are. You will probably be, for the next 10 years until your next visit."

She cried, then picked up her own tea from beside her and sipped.

The guard approached from the side entrance, catching her attention silently. "How much time left?" She asked.

"40 seconds."

"Thanks. Donny, I love you. See you again in 10 years."

She hurried to her spaceship, fastened her seat belt, then sat inside, crying until the spaceship left the isolated Asteroid. Her tea was left on the visiting porch, half unfinished.

#MicroFiction #SmallStories for #MastoPrompt #sip

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"What's on your mind?" asked the girl.

The white-clad man she adressed this question to was sitting across her, on the other side of the force-field. He set his eyes on her, looking at her tenderly, conveying his compassion, his sadness, his longing, without words. He sipped his tea.

She just sat there, looking at him expectantly, waiting for him to speak. In the end, he said:

"You are. You will probably be, for the next 10 years until your next visit."

She cried, then picked up her own tea from beside her and sipped.

The guard approached from the side entrance, catching her attention silently. "How much time left?" She asked.

"40 seconds."

"Thanks. Donny, I love you. See you again in 10 years."

She hurried to her spaceship, fastened her seat belt, then sat inside, crying until the spaceship left the isolated Asteroid. Her tea was left on the visiting porch, half unfinished.

#MicroFiction #SmallStories for #MastoPrompt #sip

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@vinxi67
I wish Trump a long, uneventful life, either in jail or in the privacy of his home, far away from any access to mainstream media or to any kind of politics.

(This is a sort of paraphrase on Fiddler On the Roof's "May God bless the Czar and keep him far away from us")

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@vinxi67
I wish Trump a long, uneventful life, either in jail or in the privacy of his home, far away from any access to mainstream media or to any kind of politics.

(This is a sort of paraphrase on Fiddler On the Roof's "May God bless the Czar and keep him far away from us")

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The Generation of the Wilderness

The Rabbis argued in Bet Hamidrash
About the generation of the wilderness
Do they have a share in the World to Come?

"במדבר הזה יתמו ושם ימותו"
Hashem said in His Holy Torah:
In this wilderness they will perish
And there they shall die!
"They shall perish" refers to our own world
"And there they shall die" refers to the world to come
This is what Rabbi Akiva said;
Said Rabbi Eliezer
They enter the world to come!

It is thus stated:
Gather unto me
My pious ones
Who had made a covenant with me over a sacrifice.
The generation who suffered for Hashem
In Egypt and in all travails
Through heat and cold, hunger and thirst
Is not that the greatest sacrifice?

Said Rabbah, the grandson of Channa, in the name of Rabbi Yochanan:
שבקיה רבי עקיבא לחסידותיה?!
Oh, Rabbi Akiva!
How could you
Abandon your piety!

This is what Hashem said to His prophet, Jeremiah:
Go and call out
In the ears of Jerusalem
And say: "I remember for thee
The piety of your youth
The love of your nuptials
Your following after me
Through a wilderness that cannot be sown."
Now, argued Rabbi Yochanan:
If others enter through their merit –
They, themselves, all the more so!
(TB Sanh. 110b)

#Parsha #Parshah

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The Generation of the Wilderness

The Rabbis argued in Bet Hamidrash
About the generation of the wilderness
Do they have a share in the World to Come?

"במדבר הזה יתמו ושם ימותו"
Hashem said in His Holy Torah:
In this wilderness they will perish
And there they shall die!
"They shall perish" refers to our own world
"And there they shall die" refers to the world to come
This is what Rabbi Akiva said;
Said Rabbi Eliezer
They enter the world to come!

It is thus stated:
Gather unto me
My pious ones
Who had made a covenant with me over a sacrifice.
The generation who suffered for Hashem
In Egypt and in all travails
Through heat and cold, hunger and thirst
Is not that the greatest sacrifice?

Said Rabbah, the grandson of Channa, in the name of Rabbi Yochanan:
שבקיה רבי עקיבא לחסידותיה?!
Oh, Rabbi Akiva!
How could you
Abandon your piety!

This is what Hashem said to His prophet, Jeremiah:
Go and call out
In the ears of Jerusalem
And say: "I remember for thee
The piety of your youth
The love of your nuptials
Your following after me
Through a wilderness that cannot be sown."
Now, argued Rabbi Yochanan:
If others enter through their merit –
They, themselves, all the more so!
(TB Sanh. 110b)

#Parsha #Parshah

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@rabbijill
Replace Trump with Bibi -- the whole reason for me avoiding TV in favor of Radio in the last couple of years in a nutshell

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@rabbijill
Replace Trump with Bibi -- the whole reason for me avoiding TV in favor of Radio in the last couple of years in a nutshell

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And when all is said
And all is done,
I lie in bed
Listening to Don
Reading Alistair
Both McLean
At the ceiling I stare
My glasses I clean

Sleep evades me
Refuses to fall
I think of Amy,
And the Fame of Hall.

Get up and make
A small coffee and cake
A shower I take
At the desk I sit
And write my thoughts

#poetry #poem #microPoem

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And when all is said
And all is done,
I lie in bed
Listening to Don
Reading Alistair
Both McLean
At the ceiling I stare
My glasses I clean

Sleep evades me
Refuses to fall
I think of Amy,
And the Fame of Hall.

Get up and make
A small coffee and cake
A shower I take
At the desk I sit
And write my thoughts

#poetry #poem #microPoem

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This year, unlike previous ones, when I felt a bit guilty for not actively supporting or even attending the annual Pride Parade in my city, this year I felt well-represented.

A young Rabbi, who is a great-grandson to Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, who was the Sefarpdi Chief Rabbi of Israel for many years and considered by most religious Sefardi Jews worldwide their spiritual leader, and is himself a prominent local figure and an educator, went out of his way this year to speak up on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community and their rights, including their right to publicly parade in my city, Jerusalem, a right which is heavily under attack by the religious residents.

I sent him some words of support (via a political group he seems affiliated with, in hope he receives them).

Shabbat Shalom!

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This year, unlike previous ones, when I felt a bit guilty for not actively supporting or even attending the annual Pride Parade in my city, this year I felt well-represented.

A young Rabbi, who is a great-grandson to Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, who was the Sefarpdi Chief Rabbi of Israel for many years and considered by most religious Sefardi Jews worldwide their spiritual leader, and is himself a prominent local figure and an educator, went out of his way this year to speak up on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community and their rights, including their right to publicly parade in my city, Jerusalem, a right which is heavily under attack by the religious residents.

I sent him some words of support (via a political group he seems affiliated with, in hope he receives them).

Shabbat Shalom!

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Queen of the Meadow
#Cats #catsofmastodon

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Queen of the Meadow
#Cats #catsofmastodon

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Cat crouching in the meadow, staring at camera

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No matter how fast I try to work on this new project and how much time I devote to it, I keep lagging behind. I think I may have given an overoptimistic estimate for its completion. Oh well.

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No matter how fast I try to work on this new project and how much time I devote to it, I keep lagging behind. I think I may have given an overoptimistic estimate for its completion. Oh well.

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@betsybookworm
Duolingo has for Arabic the phrase "Talfazi fi asadi," (sorry for transliterating it in English as I don't have Arabic installed for my keyboard), which means "My TV is inside my lion"

I don't own a TV set and never had, but now at least I know where to look for it!

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@betsybookworm
Duolingo has for Arabic the phrase "Talfazi fi asadi," (sorry for transliterating it in English as I don't have Arabic installed for my keyboard), which means "My TV is inside my lion"

I don't own a TV set and never had, but now at least I know where to look for it!

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Michael Walzer's The Struggle for a Decent Politics:

Is liberalism an ism like all the other isms? I think it once was. And then the dragons arrived.

#HashtagGames #TheDragonsArrived #OpeningLines #AmReading #reading #books

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Michael Walzer's The Struggle for a Decent Politics:

Is liberalism an ism like all the other isms? I think it once was. And then the dragons arrived.

#HashtagGames #TheDragonsArrived #OpeningLines #AmReading #reading #books

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Let's try this. Give me the opening line of a book, but add "and then the dragons arrived."

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@kbroman
Lucky you. I so envy you. (In a good way)
I wish I could wear such a shirt without all my neighbors thinking I totally lost my mind

@paulywill @kvndy

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@kbroman
Lucky you. I so envy you. (In a good way)
I wish I could wear such a shirt without all my neighbors thinking I totally lost my mind

@paulywill @kvndy

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@a_rival_to_amazon
I used to be like that. I barely worked, and hated myself for that. And I have almost no real-life friends.

Talking to an outsider who sympathises was what helped me. My work discipline slightly improved, as did my self-esteem, gradually, over time.. Not dramatically and not at once.

I cannot promise you anything or advise you, as you are not me and all people are different, but perhaps something similar may eventually work for you. We can only hope.

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@a_rival_to_amazon
I used to be like that. I barely worked, and hated myself for that. And I have almost no real-life friends.

Talking to an outsider who sympathises was what helped me. My work discipline slightly improved, as did my self-esteem, gradually, over time.. Not dramatically and not at once.

I cannot promise you anything or advise you, as you are not me and all people are different, but perhaps something similar may eventually work for you. We can only hope.

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#Weekend #Poll:

If you could choose freely, would you rather be:

(Please feel free to answer the poll, comment, boost etc.)

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#Weekend #Poll:

If you could choose freely, would you rather be:

(Please feel free to answer the poll, comment, boost etc.)

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@xenophora
In my humble opinion, the "chosen people" means "chosen to serve." The being chosen means you can choose to lead a holier-than-average life and be closer to God, by accepting more parts of His instructions and tips for a better life and lead others by example. This is the interpretation I have been taught as a Jew. I try to justify the trust God had placed in me and my people.

@skye @jessmahler

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@xenophora
In my humble opinion, the "chosen people" means "chosen to serve." The being chosen means you can choose to lead a holier-than-average life and be closer to God, by accepting more parts of His instructions and tips for a better life and lead others by example. This is the interpretation I have been taught as a Jew. I try to justify the trust God had placed in me and my people.

@skye @jessmahler

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@jessmahler
The verse in Deut. 14:1, "You are sons to the Lord your God" (בנים אתם לה' אלהיכם ) comes to mind in this context.

@skye

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@jessmahler
The verse in Deut. 14:1, "You are sons to the Lord your God" (בנים אתם לה' אלהיכם ) comes to mind in this context.

@skye

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@jbond

Seems like someone has a political and financial interest in maintianing the conflict between the brexit and the good friday agreement, in order to profit politically and finnacially from the conflict.

This would hardly be the first or only case in history of conflicts maintained by interested forces (My own country, #israel, comes to mind in more than one context).

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@jbond

Seems like someone has a political and financial interest in maintianing the conflict between the brexit and the good friday agreement, in order to profit politically and finnacially from the conflict.

This would hardly be the first or only case in history of conflicts maintained by interested forces (My own country, #israel, comes to mind in more than one context).

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Run away in slow motion
#Plunge into the ocean
And swim

Even if you despair for a while
Hold fast to that isle
Of hope and support

That lighthouse on the horizon
Is a beacon calling
When the waves are appaling
And strive to bring you down

Pull up and soar
Row on with that oar
Plunge, then rise
Back up and shorewise
Dry land awaits ahead.

#MastoPrompt #SmallPoems #Poetry

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Run away in slow motion
#Plunge into the ocean
And swim

Even if you despair for a while
Hold fast to that isle
Of hope and support

That lighthouse on the horizon
Is a beacon calling
When the waves are appaling
And strive to bring you down

Pull up and soar
Row on with that oar
Plunge, then rise
Back up and shorewise
Dry land awaits ahead.

#MastoPrompt #SmallPoems #Poetry

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@jaaaarwr
First we take manhattan
Then we take Berlin

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@jaaaarwr
First we take manhattan
Then we take Berlin