if jews controlled the world then the egg prices would not be like this before pesach

Will never forget being in my Judaism course at university, where the professor brought in a reform rabbi to present to the class. But it was actually himself.

To separate the two spheres of his life- the spiritual and the academic- he would rapidly switch between wearing a kippah and a slap on bow tie.

So it was a three hour lecture of him slapping on a kippah to extrapolate "This is how I as a rabbi instruct my congregation in the mitzvot." Then yipping it off, clipping on the polka dot bow tie and continuing- "So here we can examine reform's approach to the 613 commandments, influenced by Abraham Geiger-"

My Hebrew professor (took Hebrew for my foreign language requirement, because fuck it I already knew the aleph-bet) is a conservative rabbi and a linguist. Class discussions could get intense. Good guy, good rabbi. Love it when rabbis are so scholarly they can't stay out of academia.

I took Hebrew back as a wee undergrad and it was taught by a retired rabbi. First day of class he saw my last name on the roster and there was a very distinct pause as he went “…I know this name… are you related to (my dad’s name)?”

Upon getting confirmation that yes, he did indeed name my father there was another pause and he goes “I used to babysit him… he was such a little shit.”

And then proceeded to go into the syllabus while I laughed my ass off.

today we are going to learn about horses

horse fact 1: horses are partially exoskeletal

horse fact 2: horses are partially trees

horse fact 3: got frogs in em

these are all the facts we have about horses.

OP that's not even a full horse. You've literally only looked at the feet.

maybe one day we will be brave enough to lift our eyes and look, trembling, at the rest of the horse. not today, though. today, these are all the facts we have about horses.

tribute to jerboas

lot of people are going to be sent careening three posts down their dash and crashing into a brick wall because of this post

@darkersolstice

French vintage postcard

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

this post has re-wired my brain in the best way

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Happy Trans Day Of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️💪🏻🫡

A scallop hits da bricks. Filmed in Norway. From The Norwegian Fjords: Life in the Twilights (2018).

whatever. go my scallop

Full Video: Riekko mukana hiihtoreissulla, Tolkuton Willow ptarmigan included in ski trip

For the love of god, PLEASE UNMUTE!!!

ptarmigan: [in a deep, croaking voice] awow awow awow awow awow awow awow. awow. awow. awow… awow… bup bup bup bup bup bup. pow. pow. pow.

Eyebrows,,,,,,,,,,,,,…….

Just wanna take a moment of appreciation for what I saw at my local Barnes & Noble today

my mom is playin fuckn animal crossing in real life

she got this painting for $75 in an old case at an antique market shes been going to for years, and she thought it looks really beautiful, so she sent an email to a local art center to have it appraised

and now she has an art conservator in her emails making a plan to have her come bring it in to be appraised as a genuine Hokusai wood block print from over a hundred of years ago

thats so fucked up to me. my mom went fuckin shopping at Crazy Redd's

no joke, she got it at an antique market. but she didnt even buy the painting. she bought a bag that the painting was in, cuz she's an artist.

when she got home, the bag fell over, and the painting fell out. into the lap of an unsuspecting small town idaho girl (my ma) (that's how she described it).

movie shit.

UPDATE:

it was NOT AN ORIGINAL, but it is a 19th century reproduction.

so she's gonna keep it and have it restored, which means eventually IM going to inherit it, which is cool because i think it looks cool and would love to hang it in my home B^]

thatbemeqq

video is mildly funny but this comment killed me

the two fundamental truths of historical and contemporary mankind: