Ami Berger

@AmiBerger
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On Substack: being Jewish in a broken world. https://amiberger.substack.com/p/tikkun-olam
Tikkun Olam

Being Jewish in a broken world.

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tfw you start the coffeemaker and then sit down to do your puzzle until the coffee's ready but then it doesn't beep when it should and you go to see what's wrong and you forgot to put the water in and your first instinct is to scold the coffeemaker
My latest on Substack: what a long strange social media trip it's been. https://amiberger.substack.com/p/half-life-a-social-media-journey
Half-life

A brief history of social media

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So I started a Substack and I'm not really sure what I'm doing, but here's a thing I wrote about my childhood home, which doesn't exist anymore except in my dreams.https://amiberger.substack.com/p/homage
Homage

Green shag carpet, Depression-era tar paper, and hallway roller skating: a tribute to my childhood home.

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every once in a while it just hits me like a freight train that Donald Trump should be in jail and the fact that he isn't is such absolute bullshit the end

My great-great-grandparents: we are going to be murdered in a Russian pogrom, we must flee our Ukrainian village in the dead of night and escape to America to start a new life with nothing but our wits and the clothes on our backs.

Me: trying to stir this jar of natural peanut butter is going to kill me *sob*

now that the House Republicans have themselves a Speaker, I'm planning a "Witcher: Blood Origin" binge this weekend just so I don't lose my tolerance for monsters and brawling and high-pitched screeching
All joking aside, my wish for 2023 is that it's just slightly less terrible than 2022. The bar is low, friends. Happy new year.
I just remembered that one of my goals last New Year's was "spend less time on Twitter" so MISSION ACCOMPLISHED BITCHES
My faith tradition doesn't really do the whole heaven/hell thing but just on the face of it I don't think Barbara Walters and Pope Benedict are going to the same place.