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"I already have a dictator at home" (No need for a national one)

--(Courtesy of @nlb)

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"I already have a dictator at home" (No need for a national one)

--(Courtesy of @nlb)

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I already have a dictator at home, no need for a national one

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@CheRosach
This works for so many other leaders around the globe. Putin, Trump, Bibi Netanyhau, to name just a few.

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@CheRosach
This works for so many other leaders around the globe. Putin, Trump, Bibi Netanyhau, to name just a few.

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"What's on your mind, Nahum?"

He/she/it lay on the pine-needle bed beside me, in the meadow of Shrinewood, on Ganymede. This was our yearly date--the Full Moon of August, as seen on Earth--and the time was 3 AM.

"I need to write an assignment," I said, "and this time I need to write about you... this seems so awkward."

"For starters, stop talking about me in Triple-gender," she murmured. "Of course I'm non-binary, like everyone else on Runeworld, but you may use the Poet's license to simplify things. Just choose the pronoun you are most comfortable with."

"Ok," I said to her. "Now... where do I start?"

"With a physical description," she replied, "as much as there is such a description when it concerns people like me."

I looked at her, a long, measured stare. She was humanoid, totally translucent and transparent except for a bare outline. She was naked, hairless, and without genital charactersitics. She looked... alien, but so intimately close...

She smiled. "That's a good start. Now, describe our typical date."

I go out to the outskirts of my neighborhood, an abandoned place, which serves us as a rendez-vous, and wait for her. She arrives in her spacecraft, which is as transparent as her, and I join her. The ride to Ganymede lasts between 10-30 minutes. I never asked her about the mechanics of Space travel.

We arrive on Ganymede around 10 PM, at the Interdimensional Spaceport, and walk to the Transition booth. She presses the buttons and chooses our destiny: one of the many meadows in Shrinewood. She places the "Do not Disturb" metaphysical signs around us and we start our picnic.

After we rest, we discuss my writing, and she gives me ideas. As an alien, she has a unique, fresh perspective on our local politics and customs...

"But not about sex," she interrupted me.

"That's why I never write about that," I smiled at her.

#QuillsQuest #MurmuringMuses #AuthorsOfMastodon #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
#MicroFiction

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"What's on your mind, Nahum?"

He/she/it lay on the pine-needle bed beside me, in the meadow of Shrinewood, on Ganymede. This was our yearly date--the Full Moon of August, as seen on Earth--and the time was 3 AM.

"I need to write an assignment," I said, "and this time I need to write about you... this seems so awkward."

"For starters, stop talking about me in Triple-gender," she murmured. "Of course I'm non-binary, like everyone else on Runeworld, but you may use the Poet's license to simplify things. Just choose the pronoun you are most comfortable with."

"Ok," I said to her. "Now... where do I start?"

"With a physical description," she replied, "as much as there is such a description when it concerns people like me."

I looked at her, a long, measured stare. She was humanoid, totally translucent and transparent except for a bare outline. She was naked, hairless, and without genital charactersitics. She looked... alien, but so intimately close...

She smiled. "That's a good start. Now, describe our typical date."

I go out to the outskirts of my neighborhood, an abandoned place, which serves us as a rendez-vous, and wait for her. She arrives in her spacecraft, which is as transparent as her, and I join her. The ride to Ganymede lasts between 10-30 minutes. I never asked her about the mechanics of Space travel.

We arrive on Ganymede around 10 PM, at the Interdimensional Spaceport, and walk to the Transition booth. She presses the buttons and chooses our destiny: one of the many meadows in Shrinewood. She places the "Do not Disturb" metaphysical signs around us and we start our picnic.

After we rest, we discuss my writing, and she gives me ideas. As an alien, she has a unique, fresh perspective on our local politics and customs...

"But not about sex," she interrupted me.

"That's why I never write about that," I smiled at her.

#QuillsQuest #MurmuringMuses #AuthorsOfMastodon #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
#MicroFiction

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@littlemiao
This sounds bad. All I can say is "Oy a brokh." May your heart find the joy you need.

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@littlemiao
This sounds bad. All I can say is "Oy a brokh." May your heart find the joy you need.

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I'm still a bit depressed about the chapter in Yesterday's Weekly Portion of the #Parshah discussing the event traditionally called The Medianite War.

At face value, just reading the description in #Scripture, it seems there no actual fighting on the Medinite side. It was a plain massacre.

Further reading seems to indicate that the fighters, especially the low-rank army commanders, felt guilt about their part in this atrocity and offered the choice part of their loot (the ladies' jewelry) to the Holy Sanctuary's Treasury.

However, at a casual glance at the Classical Commentators of this chapter I noticed none of them sharing this interpretation. They offer other explanations for the Atonement offer. A bit disappointing for me.

#Parsha #Torah

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I'm still a bit depressed about the chapter in Yesterday's Weekly Portion of the #Parshah discussing the event traditionally called The Medianite War.

At face value, just reading the description in #Scripture, it seems there no actual fighting on the Medinite side. It was a plain massacre.

Further reading seems to indicate that the fighters, especially the low-rank army commanders, felt guilt about their part in this atrocity and offered the choice part of their loot (the ladies' jewelry) to the Holy Sanctuary's Treasury.

However, at a casual glance at the Classical Commentators of this chapter I noticed none of them sharing this interpretation. They offer other explanations for the Atonement offer. A bit disappointing for me.

#Parsha #Torah

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@pizad_sura It may help you reach bigger audience by tagging: #Catsofmastodon #Caturday

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@pizad_sura It may help you reach bigger audience by tagging: #Catsofmastodon #Caturday

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@littlemiao
#Caturday begins Friday afternoon and ends Sunday at dawn, or Tuesday if you happen to be an Amshinover (#niche #joke )

More seriously, Caturday is a mindset, not a date

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@littlemiao
#Caturday begins Friday afternoon and ends Sunday at dawn, or Tuesday if you happen to be an Amshinover (#niche #joke )

More seriously, Caturday is a mindset, not a date

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Thomas Friedman, NYT:

"I have no doubt that the U.S. president will arm the Israeli president with the message — out of sorrow, not anger — that when the interests and values of a U.S. government and an Israeli government diverge this much, a reassessment of the relationship is inevitable.

"Such a reassessment based on U.S. interests and values would be some tough love for Israel but a real necessity before it truly does go off the rails. That Biden is prepared to get in Netanyahu’s face before America’s 2024 election suggests that our president believes he has the support not only of most Americans for this but of most American Jews and even most Israeli Jews."

Knowing how these thing usually work, I think I am justified in assuming that, in this case, this is actually Biden speaking through Friedman.

https://www. nytimes.com/2023/07/11/opinion/netanyahu-israel-judiciary.html
#Israel #USA #Israeli-american #InternationalRelations #Politics

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Thomas Friedman, NYT:

"I have no doubt that the U.S. president will arm the Israeli president with the message — out of sorrow, not anger — that when the interests and values of a U.S. government and an Israeli government diverge this much, a reassessment of the relationship is inevitable.

"Such a reassessment based on U.S. interests and values would be some tough love for Israel but a real necessity before it truly does go off the rails. That Biden is prepared to get in Netanyahu’s face before America’s 2024 election suggests that our president believes he has the support not only of most Americans for this but of most American Jews and even most Israeli Jews."

Knowing how these thing usually work, I think I am justified in assuming that, in this case, this is actually Biden speaking through Friedman.

https://www. nytimes.com/2023/07/11/opinion/netanyahu-israel-judiciary.html
#Israel #USA #Israeli-american #InternationalRelations #Politics

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@whitey
I have absolute zero sympathy for Putin, but all along I shuddered to think what could happen if the more-nazi guy succeeded in his coup and seized control of Russia's nukes. Sometimes an evil but responsible leader is better than an irresponsible and cynical one.

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@whitey
I have absolute zero sympathy for Putin, but all along I shuddered to think what could happen if the more-nazi guy succeeded in his coup and seized control of Russia's nukes. Sometimes an evil but responsible leader is better than an irresponsible and cynical one.

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Green Robot

What I really want,
is a blue flower.

A flower to wear in my shirt,
A rosé wine to sweeten my nights,
And a small green robot to keep me company.

#MicroPoem

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Green Robot

What I really want,
is a blue flower.

A flower to wear in my shirt,
A rosé wine to sweeten my nights,
And a small green robot to keep me company.

#MicroPoem

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@kat@simcha.lgbt
Today is Friday and it's 13:33 here. I need to do shopping (mostly soft drinks). I already bought a cheescake for Kiddush and a potato kuegel for Shalosh Seudot (the 3rd Shabbat small Afternoon meal), and pure natural Orange Juice.

I am invited over for the first two Shabbat meals, so I only eat the 3rd one at home. (I live alone, with a roommate who always goes away for Shabbat to family relatives).

On Shabbat I usually go to the Synagogue for all the services, and discuss Torah insights with my hosts and their families at the first 2 Shabbat meals. We also sing Zmirot, and sometimes I get to sing one of my own Chassidic tunes.

I spend most of the Shabbat reading books (physical ones, as I don't use computers or the phone on Shabbat). I also have magazines I've not finished reading yet.

I also read the Parshah at home, Twice the Scripture and Once the Targum (the Aramaic Onkelos Translation), as is halakhically prescribed. It gives me a chance to practice my knowledge of the traditional Scriptural cantillation chant.

May God bless you and may you have the best Shabbat experience!

#SimchaShabbat #Shabbos #Shabbat #Mazeldon

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@kat@simcha.lgbt
Today is Friday and it's 13:33 here. I need to do shopping (mostly soft drinks). I already bought a cheescake for Kiddush and a potato kuegel for Shalosh Seudot (the 3rd Shabbat small Afternoon meal), and pure natural Orange Juice.

I am invited over for the first two Shabbat meals, so I only eat the 3rd one at home. (I live alone, with a roommate who always goes away for Shabbat to family relatives).

On Shabbat I usually go to the Synagogue for all the services, and discuss Torah insights with my hosts and their families at the first 2 Shabbat meals. We also sing Zmirot, and sometimes I get to sing one of my own Chassidic tunes.

I spend most of the Shabbat reading books (physical ones, as I don't use computers or the phone on Shabbat). I also have magazines I've not finished reading yet.

I also read the Parshah at home, Twice the Scripture and Once the Targum (the Aramaic Onkelos Translation), as is halakhically prescribed. It gives me a chance to practice my knowledge of the traditional Scriptural cantillation chant.

May God bless you and may you have the best Shabbat experience!

#SimchaShabbat #Shabbos #Shabbat #Mazeldon