@DissidentKitty Al-Khwarizmi was, without doubt, one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived.
@DissidentKitty Algol, zenith ('zamt' originally, followed by some misspellings), nadir (anti-zenith), too.
@DissidentKitty Aldeberan, Altair, Altinak, and a whole bunch of bright star names also originally from arabic
@DissidentKitty as far as I know, the Phoenicians brought them to Egypt
@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
magic: the gathering
also, the best combo is immortal coil + elixir of immortality to instantly die
@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
anti-Semitism, Harley Quinn tv show
@SuperCee love how a Jewish character, from an art form pioneered by Jews, is now being used to push blatantly anti-Semitic messages.
hey fun historical fact, did you know Reagan hated unions so much, he fired 11,345 air traffic controllers in the US to break their union, and also banned them from working gov't jobs for life.
magic: the gathering
much as i'm aware it's possible for any infinite loop to force a draw, i don't really want to make a deck that does so without at least one piece of the loop being an automatic win- or lose- con. which really limits possible decks i could run this way. which is convenient, because all the possible combinations now fit in a single wub deck
its pretty friggin epic to realize that your very existence as a mixed person is considered an act of genocide by a non zero amount of people
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own