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em@babka.social
<p>anarchist mezuzah<br />baker of breads, drinker of tea, collector of siddurim, worrier and tinkerer, balancer of parentheses</p><p>migrant in hamburg</p><p>this is a jewish-normative account, but feel free to ask for context if you don't know what's going on.</p>
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Met a local yid in the Hamburg S-Bahn yesterday thanks to no longer hiding my yarmulke. He timidly said "shalom" and I sorta ignored him, thinking, "I'm late for selichot and I don't feel like dealing with philosemitic German people right now" and then he said it again and somehow indicated he's also Jewish. We had a nice chat for a few stations, and wished each other a good year. Positive experiences definitely outweigh the negatives so far. But more than any...
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my team at work will literally do anything to avoid having a daily standup and using the kanban board correctly.
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Lag b'omer? I hardly know 'er
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tempted to take a sick day to just sit in a room and sing tehillim 148 over and over until shabbos comes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1wWhzGEecA
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Went to a concert of my partner's favorite musician, and when I handed my stuff over to the coat check, they gave me a ticket for when I get my stuff back, the number was 5786 #mazeldon
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I'm at a Jewish conference and I still feel like an alien! Except for when we're davening I just don't feel like I belong anywhere.
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i am very obviously arguing with a coding agent via my colleage as the intermediary, and i want to throw my laptop out the window.
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working on a charoset pie idea
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I'm sorry but this is inappropriate. Some people have been traumatized and stigmatized due to Linux. You cannot force it on their feed.
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Pesach 1 and 2 are the first aliyot I'm repeating since having learned to leyn, and I'm happy to report that some stuff is retained over the year, and it is significantly easier to re-learn than to learn the first time.
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Kren made me cry, I feel ready for pesach now.
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Doing plumbing work is like an escape room where you can't use the bathroom until you solve the puzzle.
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our new place has enough rooms that partner and i can both have our own offices, and neither office is a kitchen or our bedroom.
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Chametz Sameach everybody