Rafi

@rafil

Not a journalist anymore. Not big on bluesky. Nothing of note to say. Recent Canadian.

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Bluesky

Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir rafil.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Rafi@rafil· 11d

Look at my dog man. I’m cooked

A poodle is curled up like a comma on a dog bed in a wooden crate. His long snout rests on the bed and he looks up at the camera with soulful eyes.

Rafi@rafil· 11d

This bit from a NYT video pretty much sums up what’s happened to a segment of the American Jewish community in the last three years www.nytimes.com/video/us/ele...

An activist speaking to the Ann Arbor city council says “Gaza has lived under a brutal occupation for 75 years”

A middle aged Jewish woman says “It really just felt about me as a Jew”

Rafi@rafil· 12d

Oh we’re in danger www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/t...

“Investors who witnessed the dot-com crash remained wary of history's repeating itself. In the early 2010s, they warned of a bubble among mobile apps with no revenue. Then came fears over "unicorn" start-ups that were valued at $1 billion or more, followed by nonsensical crypto projects and, eventually, the overlapping
investment manias of 2021.“

But none of those moments led to a major crash. Charles Hudson, an investor at Precursor Ventures, said the 2021 frenzy taught him that investors got little credit from sitting things out in bubbly times. Some investors made lots of bad, silly bets in 2021, but their backers did not punish them for the excesses. The lesson, he said, was to keep investing, even when things
felt overheated.

Rafi@rafil· 15d

Not ideal

Rafi@rafil· 20d

nominative determinism

This bench is, no shit, dedicated to the memory of “Mary L. Sit.”

Rafi@rafil· 21d

This is so weird man. Her big brother just died

Darline graham announces her committee assignments

Rafi@rafil· 22d

Not only should this be illegal but if you have ever put down a deposit a vehicle like this you should lose your drivers license, right to vote, and right to bear arms, and be ineligible to take out bank loans or credit cards.

“Do we deal with mobsters? No,” Burton said. “Do we deal with the cartels? Absolutely not. We don’t deal in cash, so that’s another big factor. The other thing to remember is that these are defensive vehicles. It’s not like we’re putting rocket launchers on them.”

Then again, not everyone wants to blend in. Karyn Kobayashi, a former producer in the entertainment industry, owns a Rezvani Tank: a street-legal, $350,000 behemoth that comes equipped with ballistics armoring, electrified door handles, a ramming bumper, thermal night vision and gas masks. She paid extra for side windows that go down.

“I need to be able to hit the drive-through at In-N-Out Burger,” Kobayashi said.

The vehicle is a monster. If Optimus Prime from the Transformers and a Jeep Wrangler had a baby, it would be the Rezvani Tank. Kobayashi, who is 5 feet 7 inches tall, says she feels like a Tyrannosaurus rex whenever she drives it.

“If we make a wrong turn and we’re caught in some sort of protest, I feel safe,” she said.

Rafi@rafil· 22d

"his clients include a rising number of American car owners" is almost a tautological statement about any company that modifies cars and has customers

Screenshot of photo from article. An older dude stands in front of car chassis trying to look tough in badly-fitting clothes. Caption: Mark Burton, the chief executive of Armormax, said his clients include a rising number of American car owners.

Rafi@rafil· 26d

Maniacs

Rafi@rafil· 27d

This portion of my wife’s instructions for our dog sitter reads like handling instructions for Hannibal Lecter

• If he is excited when you walk in the door, it's best to NOT greet him immediately.
Stonewall him until you can get him outside. He has a habit of tinkling the second you start to pet him.
• Bribe him with treats whenever it is convenient. He does nothing out of the kindness of his heart.
• He will find and eat any sock. Keep your socks behind closed doors or in a sealed laundry receptacle. Other items he's known to destroy include:
• Earbuds
• Paper products of any kind
• Bubble wrap
• Twist ties
• Any food left on the table. Don't leave it unattended.
• He would love to play fetch with you but he understand how. Mostly, we just end up playing tug with the ball.
• He is allowed to invite himself onto furniture except for the beds. If you want him to sleep with you in the guest bed, that's fine.
Contact info:

A sweet, innocent little fuzzy brown dog

Rafi@rafil· 27d

also lmao at this AI-ass response

Dear Liel,

Thank you—this is exactly the kind of pushback that makes a piece better, and you have put your finger on its weakest sentence. You are right that frozen is the wrong word, and I will cut it. Israeli culture is awash in Jewish life: Ribo turning a few lines of Yoma into one of the biggest hits in years, Ben Ari selling out arenas, Benny Lau’s Tanakh project and his Sapir chairmanship, Sivan Rahav-Meir drawing thousands of secular Israelis week after week. I know that landscape and I love it.

Rafi@rafil· Jul 10

first try

"The 4th Of July is obsolete now that we have wall street"

Rafi@rafil· Jul 6

he still seems to like me today after being strapped to my back for four sweaty hours yesterday

A medium sized brown poodle lies on my chest

This time the poodle is on a bench next to me

Rafi@rafil· Jul 6

Took the dog on his longest bike ride ever yesterday. He mostly seemed to enjoy it but was *infuriated* that they allow deer in the woods and may have made me slightly deaf in one ear about it

Rafi@rafil· Jun 29

Left to right: Anthony Davis, Steph Curry, Draymond Green, LeBron James

James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and Clint Eastwood in a promotional picture for the 2000 film Space Cowboys, wearing astronaut jumpsuits

Rafi@rafil· Jun 26

Rafi flexes his cozy living room and the haunted-doll stare of his poodle Babka. If you look closely there’s a desktop computer tower next to the TV

Rafi@rafil· Jun 24

AOC‘s gotta find DAC day one and pull one of these

Rafi@rafil· Jun 11

From a whatsapp groupchat thread:

MY MAYOR MUSLIM
MY BAGELS JEWISH
THE REBBE'S ALIVE
KNICKS IN 5

Rafi@rafil· Jun 5

truly what is the point of this shit if it’s going to be this wrong lol

Rafi@rafil· Jun 5

dropping the religion of the founding fathers, atheism, and probably the UU is *wild.* nonenof this is okay obvi but these are three deeply-rooted American religious perpectives

DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths
From Military's Recognized
Religion List

This restructuring of faith codes, which help identity service members as well as the military in planning for appropriated religious coverage to include them, has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various wiccans

Rafi@rafil· Jun 4

I am free www.82-0.com/share?id=1bG...

Rafi@rafil· May 16

Extremely dark subject matter but this comment - “sadism requires consent” - made me laugh. The kinksters simply must be stopped

Rafi@rafil· May 15

“There’s not cameras where Tom is.”

The Mystery of a Congressman's
Absence Deepens

Representative Thomas Kean Jr. last voted in Washington on March 5, citing a medical issue. An appearance planned for late May has been canceled.

Members of Mr. Kean's team were seated conspicuously in the third row, watching as the Democrats took turns weighing in on their boss's mysterious absence. Afterward, his chief of staff, Dan Scharfenberger, reiterated a now familiar explanation. "He's dealing with a personal health condition, and he'll be back soon," Mr. Scharfenberger said
in an interview. When pressed on the nature of the health condition and why Mr. Kean had not been seen in New Jersey or in Washington, Mr. Scharfenberger said, "There's no cameras where Tom is.”

Rafi@rafil· May 3

It’s great how every search engine now has a feature up top that will routinely confuse and lie to you

Rafi@rafil· Apr 25

Well, they got him. This is how I learn the scanners are on a delay

Rafi@rafil· Apr 15

there is an actual DJ

Rafi@rafil· Mar 3

Shout out to my MIL for showing up to the anti-ICE protest, even she did bring this utterly baffling homemade sign

Woman at anti-ICE protest with face digitally obscured holds up sign reading “WE BELONG TO THEM”

Rafi@rafil· Feb 21

I'm not talking about the Verge article, which I haven't read because I do not pay for Vox Media stuff these days. I'm talking about...whatever this is

screenshot of the current exchange between Eoin Higgins and Will Stancil

Rafi@rafil· Feb 20

this room

a woman stands in an space-age computer storage room, holding a wheel of magnetic tape and looking at refrigerator-sized data readers

Rafi@rafil· Feb 11

what