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Hi folks. This account will go dormant now as I move to another
place. Not that there's anything wrong with this place, but it's
getting quite big and I feel like it makes sense to do my part
to keep things small and distributed. I'll also take this chance
to do some gardening of the following and follower lists so won't
be using the automated migration tool. Don't worry, I'll check
in here now and then to collect the messages. 73s.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nh6Hf5_ZYPI
This aired on SNL once in 1998. I wonder how many people got fired for it.
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it's almost ምህላ #sigd!
CW: mentions of food, fasting, and anti-black racism
this year sigd sundown tuesday 22 november – sundown wednesday 23 november
sigd is a beta israel (ethiopian jewish) holiday, 50 days after yom kippur. it's a time of communal self-examination and collectively recommitting ourselves to torah, mirroring the individual self-examination of yom kippur and the 50 day distance between pesach and shavuot
while this is a beta israel holiday, ALL jews are explicitly invited and encouraged by beta israel qessotch (religious leaders) and rabbis to observe. the beta israel position is that sigd was a holiday celebrated by all jewry in ancient jerusalem, regrettably forgotten by us outside the beta israel community; but fortunately preserved by them for our collective benefit
just as the beta israel community has adopted many customs from rabbinic judaism such as celebrating hanukah and laying teffilin, those of us in non- beta israel jewish communities are implored to make this a two-way street of cultural exchange and mutual respect, preserving and honoring the beta israel contribution to wider jewish life and practice. read more about that here:
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Is-world-Jewry-ready-for-another-holiday-381276
sigd customs include wearing white; a half-day fast beginning at sunrise; ascending a mountain to ritually commemorate receiving the torah at mount sinai; reading psalms and liturgy on the mountain; and descending the mountain to break fast at midday with dabo (an ethiopian crumbly bread), dancing, and revelry
(reminder that you are obligated to NOT fast if it would cause you physical or psychological harm! there are alternatives to food-and-water fasts, such as caffeine fasts and technology fasts)
@opensiddur have an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the yontif (holiday):
https://aleph.land/@opensiddur/109380513763133305
the word ምህላ (sigd, or סיגד) means "prostration" or "supplication" in ግዕዝ (ge'ez an ancient ethiopian liturgical language) and in imperial aramaic (סְגֵד)
some of the central themes of sigd are the rebuilding of the temple and an end to exile. we'd be remiss not to mention the racism and violence beta israel jews — and those of their descendants who were coerced into converting to christianity, pejoratively called falash mura — face both when trying to immigrate to israel, and after they arrive there.
no borders!
no nations!
መልካም የስግድ በዓል!
חג סיגד שׂמח!
happy sigd!
@fomm @marcelweiss @evan @cwebber @erincandescent @tsyesika @Annbass @lehors
Some thoughts related to this written in 2016/2017, when AP was almost but not quite done, and mastodon interest in AP was early:
https://dr.amy.gy/chapter6#considered-harmful
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[x] Software choice
Downside of fediverse:
[x] Software choice
I run Honk ( software that is currently only reachable by the internet archive https://web.archive.org/web/20220924163856/https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk )
The upside to honk is it's amusing and compact code base, the downside to honk is it's amusing code base.
To help myself and promote the wonders, have this handy meme to help you understand how honk differs from the competition
Andrew (Television Executive)
Sophie Jane
די ראָזעווע פּאַווע pink peacock
Mathew Ingram
https://rhiaro.co.uk/
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