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name | age | sexual orientation | pronouns | living on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, and reclaimed land of the Jewish people.

[askjumblr]

I work with caring for animals at a scientific institution and I care for many snakes. My father insists they're cursed by Hashem and completely evil inherently.

I am very much aware of the serpent in Judaism, as I am an Orthodox Jew. However I follow the belief that all animals are cared for by Hashem and even the snake's curse was still not a complete condemnation as the legless body allowed snakes to hunt a different type of prey.

I have been looking for more positive or nuanced rabbinical opinions or insights on snakes, the literal animal not the symbolism of the serpent. Does anyone have any recommendations for this? Not looking to cancel out the negative image snakes have, but rather for deeper interpretations on this complex issue. I just don't believe that just because the Serpant was cursed in Gan Eden it means that every snake ever forever is evil.

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[turbomitzvah]

I have a ball python as a pet and she is the loveliest and sweetest girl so I'm also interested in where this goes. I absolutely refuse to believe they're evil, also snakes eat rodents so in that way they can serve the same purpose as cats!

[mossadspydolphin]

I feel like this is the kind of thing Rabbi Slifkin would have brought up at the Biblical Museum of Natural History if it were a widely held opinion, but I remember nothing of the sort. I got to hold Cuddles the python, though.

[turbomitzvah]

do we have pictures of Cuddles the python? for science?

[mossadspydolphin]

From the museum website

So much snek

[creature-adjacent]

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

[questionablepastries]

[deltagalacticdaydreamer]

[jewishpangolin]

More like:

[empyreal-lore]

*looking at the OC I crafted with my own hands* what the actual hell is her problem

[qillermeme]

[i-can-kazoo]

Being in a goyish environment is so stressful sometimes because yall have a completely different vocabulary for clothing expectations. All i know is shlumpy, normal, chulamoyd, vort, friday night, shabbos, weddding guest, and wedding host. If your dress code doesnt fall into one of those categories I simply will not have an outfit to wear.

[andthepeople]

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

[lamignonette]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

⚠️sweetiepie located

[divorceddadrock]

Anyone remember Dumb Ways To Die. Like they really made a 3 minute long music video of cute cartoon characters killing themselves in humorously fucked up ways solely as an elaborate PSA about being safe around trains and then made a fucking series of mobile games based around it and we all just let them. Will kids today ever understand how fucking legendary that was. Will they ever know.

[miss-nerd-alert]

We must preserve this for future generations.

[senatortedcruz]

I hate Elon musk so fucking much

[senatortedcruz]

Exactly!!!!!

[ofwings]

Are you single?

do these look like the posting habits of someone experiencing romance

[memecucker]

[bobthebenevolentpirate]

Been trying for like 20 min to find anything that supports this claim and cannot, so uhhh I’m gonna maybe skip incorporating this into my belief system

[zinderant]

So, Spanish Wikipedia cites a source from Muy Interesante, which itself cites the Institutio Nacional de Antropología e Historia, where a roundtable discussion about Maximilian of Habsburg featuring historian Salvador Rueda and writer Héctor Zagal is mentioned. Both are inaccessible now but archive.org has them. The 'knew how to speak Nahuatl' part is still dubious. The page quotes Zagal about Maximilian's "interés por aprander náhuatl", so he was interested in learning it, not he had learned it.

So, if this fact sounds fake, that's probably because it is.

[cali]

this is how they used to have sex back when everyone was smooth down there and when metaphors weighed more than truth or logic

[2productive]

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

[ceausescue]

lotta royal children through history have been murdered for no reason other than their birth. but yknow, counterfactually they could be pampered and wealthy their whole life for no reason other than their birth. so its not that raw a deal basically

[heidelbro]

How is it always time to go to work

[sailorsally]

facts.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

jellyfish have to be kept in a round tank because if they're in a tank with corners they'll get stuck in them. I think that's beautiful. god's stupidest little plastic bags (affectionate)

[tectonicarthur]

Also when being bred in captivity(this is done at my work and my job is to teach people about it) to get them to reproduce from the polyp stage of life, we have to intentionally cause them enough stress to reproduce but not enough to harm them. Lately we’ve done that by cleaning their habitat extra well, makes them think the word is ending