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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

If you can't make your own genders, store bought is fine