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Today is a day of widespread pain and miserable stomach cramps. Thanks a lot, chronic illness exacerbated by shifting hormones…
🔖 Read What is Jewish Spirituality?
Mystics have their experiences, but what matters is what they learn from them…
🔖 Read The Eight Genders in the Talmud.
Super interesting discussion of how halakhah handles things that don’t fit a binary.
🍿 I’m about 30 minutes into Disney’s Disenchanted and while it definitely doesn’t have the magic of Enchanted, Amy Adams is still a gd delight and I think if you’ve ever had postpartum depression or anxiety you’ll totally get Giselle’s feelings.
🍿 Watched Eve’s Christmas.
This & Back to Christmas have similar premises.
If I woke up to discover I’d had a successful second chance at romance but missed the time between when I traveled back to make the change & the present, I’d be sad.
Because I’m Extremely Online, I joined Hive with the username kimberlyhirsh. Because I’m an IndieWeb person and they have no API at present for me to syndicate to, I’ll have to manually syndicate & so will likely lurk/reply more than I post.
Finished reading: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚
I loved it so much. And I’m still pretty confused but that’s okay. 💀
Okay, I have enough people still hanging out on Twitter to stick around, reactivated syndication.
Via @toddgrotenhuis on micro.blog -
Introduce yourself with five video games 🎮:
- Final Fantasy VII
- Dragon Age Inquisition
- Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy
- Professor Layton and the Curious Village
- Return of the Obra Dinn
Turning off Twitter syndication from my blog. Still syndicating to Tumblr (@kimberlyhirsh) & Mastodon (@kimberlyhirsh@indieweb.social).
I have spent the past 3 hours online shopping for Christmas presents. I have bought ONE gift. But I’ve rejected hundreds, so… Yay?
It really makes me happy to introduce to you Maddie Priebe’s Rainbow Connection Tarot (major arcana only), the most perfect fan artist’s tarot I’ve ever seen. @HistoryMuppet @ToughPigs
My first tweet, from December 2, 2008, is super on-brand for me: “QUESTION: What term(s) do academia use to refer to video games?”
Didn’t get any replies but after almost 14 years I can confidently say academia often uses the term “video games.”
Today’s @750words playlist: Music for Writing in a Haunted Mansion curated by Sarah Chavez. 🎵
The Muppets is (are? I’m sticking with is) my oldest fandom and I cycle away from them but I always come back so hi, time for me to reinvigorate my muppets obsession, welcome. 🐸🪕🌈
I have a newsletter! It emails you all my posts for the week on Fridays!
Big last day of the WB Bronze nostalgia with all the farewell tweets tonight.
A helicopter was just flying low and loud too close to my house and I’m very glad it seems to be gone now.
I just backed A Book About the Magic of Foraging Pigments & Making Art on Kickstarter.
💬📚 “We give the people we mother our bodies, and what they will recall is our presence and heat, our animal closeness.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
💬📚 “I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and transformative.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
💬📚 “Those who mother are the sanitation workers of bodies— handling the refuse, the filth and putrescence, living in the stink.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
For Garbes, mothering is a type of care work not reserved exclusively for parents.
Want to read: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚
Thanks for the rec, @agilelisa!