@Mar_Musa

Islamicate historian w/@open_iti, Orthodox Christian, dad, agroecologist, upholder of Gustav Landauer thought 🌻

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New essay out today on the long deep history of subjectivity, technologies of communication and of the self, and the surprising loop-backs of our world of digital lives and AI agents into that of the Paleolithic, link below:
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Thing was still smoking this morning, we were headed up to church when we saw the smoke and for a bit I was worried something near downtown was on fire then I remembered Chattanooga Burning Man was last night lol
Appodlachia
@appodlachiaOct 25
They opened a gate to Oblivion in Chattanooga last night
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Racism is first and foremost an evil against one's neighbor, but it's also a type of self-harm, a vulgar denigration of the spirit, an internal hollowing out the effects of which upon the racist are truly pathetic
Oilfield Rando
@Oilfield_Rando19h
Went to a pumpkin patch in a bigger town. 200 million deportations. Minimum.
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Most depressing but also least surprising aspect of today's Gospel reading (the story of Lazarus and the rich man) is the (unnamed) rich man recognizing Lazarus and knowing his name but only because suddenly he found the poor man formerly at his gate potentially useful to himself
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The rich man even in the torment of Hades automatically thinks "insofar as the poor and marginalized exist it's to serve MY needs," though at least in his second request he tries to instrumentalize Lazarus to warn his brothers, a slight progression from his initial reaction
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Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹 retweeted
Zaid Jilani
@ZaidJilaniOct 25
Abdul Sayed has never supported Islamism or advocated for any kind of violence. But here’s Eli Lake wearing a tshirt of Menachem Begin who led a Zionist militant group that bombed the King David Hotel, killing almost one hundred people.
Eli Lake
@EliLakeOct 24
Does the left understand how ridiculous it looks to claim anti-Sayed Democrats are more loyal to Israel than America, while simultaneously claiming that any inquiry into El-Sayed’s very real links to the Muslim Brotherhood is an unwarranted attack on his patriotism?
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Making apple cider, eat a potluck meal with stuff from the garden, feeding the pigs, watching the steam train roll by- you can still do all this stuff folks you just have to put a little work into it
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Life is beautiful and the core of my political project really is to defend the beauty of life against the forces of capital and state that would seek to extirpate it
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It's fun to think about how if instead of devoting vast resources and human intelligence to the most dystopian life-negating shit imaginable we had spent the capital of industrial modernity on building socially vibrant life-affirming worlds centered on human dignity and value
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@jackOct 23
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The miniatures in the 1180 Coptic Gospel BnF Copte 13 must surely rank among the loveliest and most charming in all medieval art yet my sense is they're barely known even among scholars of the period; here are a couple water-centric examples:
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Here is Christ being arrested, with Arabic captions and, following a practice common in Islamicate book culture, Judas' face has been deliberately defaced:
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This material *really is* from the 12th century, and it's so much more wonderful and meaningful than AI could come up with
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Two illumined pages from a gorgeously rendered Coptic Arabic Old Testament (partial- up to Chronicles) produced in Ottoman Egypt in 1760, that multicolored calligraphy is just wonderful (CAJS Rar Ms 166)
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Your guess is as good as mine lol
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We really have become pretty inured to the fact that about thirty percent, give or take, of the American electorate has completely smashed their moral compass and vacated all ethical commitment, there is literally nothing their dear leader could do that would shake their support
David Marcus
@BlueBoxDaveOct 23
Trump is quadrupling down on the Vivek ad. And Ohio MAGA voters will love it.
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It's really deeply bad on many levels and because we're now so used to it and don't think we quite grasp how big and pervasive the problem is
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This opening page from a 19th c. manuscript copy of the Fenqīthō, a Syriac Orthodox monastic breviary, held in the Mor Sharbel Church in Midyat, Turkey, has a rather contemporary art feel thanks to the scribbles later users have added:
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Link: w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/v…
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That's right Eugene, centuries ago the ancestors of today's Palestinians planted olive trees because they knew that one day their descendants would need to harvest olives from those trees while cameras were rolling, the foresaw it all
Eugene Kontorovich
@EVKontorovichOct 23
The whole olive harvest campaign is theater based on some Western fantasy of what natives are like. Palestinians are a highly urbanized population, and those harvesting olives in remote fields have planted them as political prop, not an agricultural activity.
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Talk about playing the long game! Personally I probably would have taken some other measures to resist Zionist appropriation of my descendants' lands but then I cannot peer into the future centuries ahead so
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My ancestors traveled up from the Ottoman Balkans to the British Isles and commenced to irritate the English Parliament so much that they passed four successive acts trying to restrict them but it didn't work
Alexander 𖤓 Nietzschean Vitalist
@UbermenschMindMar 17
Replying to @AndromedaPip
My ancestors defended Vienna from Islam and charged down the Kahlenberg mountain on horseback against the Ottomans, what did yours do?
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