Counting the seconds for the first posting about the Mossad.
@dorongold
Psychotherapist and Wellness Educator Once Upon A Time Lawyer Recipient of the Ontario Bar Association's inaugural Orlando Da Silva Award for Improvement of Mental Health in the Justice Sector (he/him)
Counting the seconds for the first posting about the Mossad.
The most troubling aspect of social media - the electronic exponential disseminator of information - is that it normalizes, glamorizes, and monetizes the worst of humanity. Most decent people can simultaneously decry medical insurer malfeasance while also decrying vigilante murder. But not out here.
You all will know I have been kidnapped or bodysnatched if I ever use the word aggravated to mean irritated.
Reminder:
Self-righteous β righteous
Squiggle on left with caption βMy anxietyβ. Similar squiggle on the right but with Christmas lights added, with caption βMy anxiety in December.β
I realize that as I build my Bluesky community, Iβm drawn less to βresistanceβ accounts, and more to humanity accounts. Resistance is important but humanity is essential.
I case anyone was wondering, @mcuban.bsky.social reads his replies. He also apparently counts and categorizes them. I, for one, admire that kind of dedication.
It was my pleasure to be interviewed for this excellent piece. (Paywall)
www.law360.ca/ca/articles/...
Go with me on this: Ozark = Breaking Bad + Schittβs Creek.
βIt's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.β β Lena Horne
So, my master plan was to drastically reduce the negative energy I absorb by reducing my news/social media intake. I'm doing it successfully. What am I doing instead? Ah, there's the rub. I'm binge-watching shows like Ozark and Disclaimer, about murder, betrayal... I guess I'm doing this in stages.
You're of the left? I wouldn't have thunk it given, you know, that whole old testament thing.
The ultimate queen, Sade, has brought me to tear many times throughout my life, including during the two glorious opportunities that I had to see her perform live. Today, she made me cry again. I discovered that's she released a new song dedicated to her trans son, Izaak. youtu.be/IFMmnMjFiPk?...
Man, I love watching my 10 Y.O. daughter's neural pathways forming as we interact. Her sense of humour and wit is forming and I see it in her ever more sophisticated replies and jokes. It's glorious.
I was tired so Apple Intelligence decided to save me the time required to read your reply by interpreting it for me π
You really want God following what you're posting when you know Yom Kippur is coming and he has books he writes in?!
Okay, enough with the echo chamber nonsense. If creating a platform that doesn't tolerate Nazis and transphobes amounts to creating an echo chamber, let me be the first to say...
Best thing I've seen all day. Daddy teaching baby girl a "Word of the Day" and she's a little too smart. Being a girl dad is the best thing ever. www.tiktok.com/@austingeter...
Welcome to the 'hood!
Love this post! β€οΈ
Has it really been decided that we're calling posts on Bluesky "Skeets"??!! Really? People, is that the best we can do? I feel like I'm gonna have to yell "Pull!!" before each post.
Some may be inclined to dismiss these feelings because they insist that Jews are privileged whites, not entitled to fear of oppression. Some may immediately say "what about Gaza?" I ask you to be open enough to not invalidate my experience simply because others' traumas matter to you (and me) too.
π―description of my experience. As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I would hear from my father that antisemitism is alive & that neighbours can turn on you & everything can be taken away in an instant, & I didn't believe him. Old news I thought. Until Oct. 7 & the aftermath.
youtu.be/-RFwzg8fxy8?...
For my fellow Canadian #lawsky folks, if you hadn't heard about this incident, @stevevladeck.bsky.social's piece here is both fascinating and a cautionary tale for members of the profession on this side of the border. I'm not confident that Doug Fords' "like-minded" judges will behave any better.
It's a secret power we all have.
I so desperately want this to be true. I think it is, but it's being tested as never before.
For this place to truly be a healthy community, we're gonna need to find a way to block the truly toxic accounts while tolerating or even engaging with the civil but woefully misinformed (subjective) accounts. The rub is that most of us have way too low a bar for what or whom is "toxic".