A medieval Judaeo-Arabic spell for breaking up a couple: take a dog hair and a cat hair, burn them, and say, "Just as these two [will never come together], X and Y will never come together until the Day of Resurrection." geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

Awesome presentations in this year's Assn JewishLibraries conf in beautiful Philly! From comm archives to large digital infrastructures, from 'canonical' to LGBTQ activist materials, and lots of inspiring exchanges btw colleagues from well-funded orgs & volunteer-run ones #AJLcon22

Sadie, Sadie the Rabbi Lady Was a Revolutionary Jewish Drag Queen heyalma.com/sadie-sadie-th…

I was extremely disappointed at the level of misinformation about ebooks in the public library in today’s Marketplace #MarketplaceTech report. The Internet Archive lawsuit is an important tech story, but their public library angle is completely wrong. 1/

last one for today <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Beloveds, I'm absolutely devastated to share that my beloved friend & movement member Jaylanee has been evicted with her kids & needs emergency aid. They need to be out in 24 hours & it's freezing. I'm heartbroken. Please donate if you can & PLEASE RT❤️ gofund.me/d0702399

I think the craziest thing I experience on a regular basis is unknown people running into my office looking for help for things not related to my department, I try to help them anyway, and then they leave before I can give them the answer.

Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine by Jen Angel is available PM Press pmpress.org/index.php?l=pr…

friend: hey can we reschedule i dunno if im down to go bowling tonight me, having reconstructed my entire being around the concept of going bowling at 7 tonight, watching my world shatter before me: yeah its nbd

Check out this fun list of Jewish horror movies that Adam, as the world falls down 🏳️‍🌈 put together. Really different movies in terms of how Jews and Jewish lore is presented. I'll fess up, I haven't seen most of these and really need to. Anyone have some good ones to add to the list?

While spoons are not explicitly mentioned in the book of Esther—nor indeed, in the entire Hebrew Bible—for the attentive reader, their hidden, providential presence can be discerned at work behind the scenes.

I’m so sad to see homosaurus targeted here because of the friends there who will receive violent threats because of this, but it’s not surprising that the project — an essential piece of library and public health infrastructure — would be the recipient of this shit.

This is the future the atheists want!

I was notified by the curriculum committee at USC that my undergraduate syllabus for a new course in Disability Studies (entitled ‘Disability, Embodiment, and an Ethics of Care’) needed to delete ‘disability’ from the title, because it “was not about disability.”

Yesterday, an org we ally with had an overflow of holiday donations, so me and a homie took on some of that work. It was fucking miserable. I'm so glad our collective only takes donations from friends and trusted folks, because: