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EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]

EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net
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Vigilance and compassion

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Heartbreaking: The best person you know just made a terrible point.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide books are fun for kids. But you’re right about Musk.

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Yes, anyone with a github account should do this.

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Yes absolutely this needs to happen. This will be hugely helpful for establishing accountability for people who upvote awful posts.

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Me to half of the D&D players I’ve had to put up with.

JUST LET ME FADE TO BLACK, PERVERT! You’re making the other players uncomfortable.

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Doubling the character limit to 280 was the moment the twitter platform jumped the shark. Eliminating the character limit entirely was the beginning of the end. Similarly, TikTok’s biggest problem has always been that videos are too long. Limitation breeds creativity.

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The old Jewish conception of the afterlife is Sheol, a dark subterranean cave where we all go upon death. Gehinnom is also described as a place of spiritual purification where the wicked are punished and atone for their sins for no more than 12 months, and without punishment on the Sabbath. It’s unclear whether this is a place within Sheol, a separate place, or a literal actual valley west of Jerusalem into which people were exiled to atone for their sins.

As a kid, my Rabbi described it as something akin to a re-education camp where the wicked and greedy are brought to justice and begun down the path of redemption by way of labour and education on how their actions harmed others. Once their sentence is up, they either live on in remorse among the rest of us in Sheol, or their soul is destroyed if they are not remorseful.

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