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@bryceyoungquist @DissidentKitty that book, by the way, would spread across the Arab world into what is now Spain. Sometime in the 12th or 13th century CE it made its way to a young man called Fibonacci, who was influential in spreading it across Europe and reviving the mathematical tradition on the continent which had been dead for well over a millennium.

@DissidentKitty fun trivia: the two words are closely linked

Mohammed Al-Khwarizim was the writer of the book titled On Restoring What Has Been Separated Into Parts. bit of a clunky title, so people truncated it to On Restoring: Al Jabra.

so thinking about things like he did, in the anglosphere, became Al-Khwarizimic

So, yes, there was an Al Gorithm, and his name was Mohammed, and yes, he wrote the book on algebra

@DissidentKitty Aldeberan, Altair, Altinak, and a whole bunch of bright star names also originally from arabic

blaring alarm at the power plant: WARNING. CATASTROPHIC FAILURE. GENDER CRITICAL.

me: no aleksandr you can't go in, there's too much gender!

aleksandr, sacrificing himself to close the gender valves and save us all: прощай брат

@DissidentKitty You would be a naughty person if you downloaded PDFs and EPUBs of books illegally on https://b-ok.org

Holy shit. Someone named Isabel Fall took "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" as a writing prompt and produced one of the most fabulous cyberpunk, post-human, trans-human mindfucks I've read in a long time. This is extremely my shit

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fall_01_20/

@DissidentKitty also if you need textbooks you definitely shouldn't pirate them from https://librarygenesis.net/ because it would be bad for capitalism

the trove is very good for finding rpg rule books. big fan

https://thetrove.net/Books/

people who think whiteness is a just a benign ethnic categorization are like those folks who insist that the confederate battle flag is about "heritage not hate"

no substitute for irl queer and trans community tbh

i need to remember this and how good it makes me feel to just be surrounded by ppl who get it