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Fursa Sa'ida فرصة سعيدة
Literally "Happy chance," but it means "Nice to meet you" in Arabic. The appropriate response is "Wa ana as'ad,"--literally "and I am happier," but basically, "the pleasure is mine."
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JESUS CHRIST WHY ARE WASPS HIGHER ON THE LIST THAN PRISONERS
PRISONERS AT LEAST HAVE THE CAPACITY TO SIT POLITELY AND CONGRATULATE YOU WASPS ARE THE PHYSICAL INCARNATION OF METATRON’S DICK FUCKING YOU IN THE ASS WITH NO LUBE
PHYSICAL INCARNATION OF METATRON’S DICK FUCKING YOU IN THE ASS WITH NO LUBE
I cannot even….oh god it got better
…I’m about to head down to NYC to be a bridesmaid and I REALLY HOPE THE KRAKEN IS INVOLVED
(btw this means it’s basically gonna be y’all and the queue for most of the next week. i’m sure you’ll survive somehow. feel free to fill my ask box with longing laments.)
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Hello to all my new tumblr pals from the ‘Pin! I hope I do not drive you batty with my usually infrequent but occasionally spammy posting habits (I post 90% of the time via the queue, but if I’m actually online I reblog as I go).
Hi ‘Pinners!
I am loving my dash full of ‘Pinners reblogging ‘Pinners.
I am a more active ‘Pinner on tumblr than I am on the ‘Pin.
I jut automatically follow any Pinners and it has yet to be a bad decision.
This is all true. Pinners make the best tumblrs.
More Pinners? More Pinners! (I am sort of a lapsed/former Pinner, but I say I still count.)
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“When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years old and watching TV and I didn’t see any Asians on television. And you turn on Star Trek and there’s this Asian guy not chopping anybody up. He’s honorable, a helmsman of a spaceship, and it was a big, big deal for me to see that and have a role model.”
John Cho (x)
The only Asians I remember seeing on mainstream TV when I was a kid were Sulu on Star Trek, nameless Asians loading trucks in the background or dying on MASH (which was all about funny lovable white US Americans waging war on Asians), and the “ancient Chinese secret” Calgon laundry detergent commercial.
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Was the same when I was a kid. That moment of seeing George Takei not being overly-stereotyped when I was a kid was a powerful one. I think the only place I had really seen other Asians on the screen was finding the rare (because I was a kid in mountains, far from the rest of the community) movie that had Asians in it. Unfortunately, a lot of those were the “white guy learns martial arts, beats up Asians because ‘Merika” type movies. Which, of course was not TV. They were still the “Asian other” just as in MASH backdrops. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that Sulu always has a special place in my heart. Star Trek helped me get through some bad emotional spaces as a kid, and I think part of what made it welcoming was having POC, especially George Takei ( since I’m JA too, and the other Asian American actors who came later), represented on screen in positive and whole characters, with names instead of “Solider #1, Henchman #4, Ninja #18”.
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(Proper) representation matters.
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“One leading opposition figure said: “The northern front hasn’t just gone dormant; the northern front has gone commercial.”
From The Guardian on Syria’s new oil industry:
The EU decision to lift Syrian oil sanctions to aid the opposition has accelerated a scramble for control over wells and pipelines in rebel-held areas and helped consolidate the grip of jihadist groups over the country’s key resources.
Jabhat al-Nusra, affiliated with al-Qaida and other extreme Islamist groups, control the majority of the oil wells in Deir Ezzor province, displacing local Sunni tribes, sometimes by force. They have also seized control of other fields from Kurdish groups further to the north-east, in al-Hasakah governorate.
As opposition groups have turned their guns on each other in the battle over oil, water and agricultural land, military pressure on Bashar al-Assad’s government from the north and east has eased off. In some areas, al-Nusra has struck deals with government forces to allow the transfer of crude across the front lines to the Mediterranean coast.
As a result of the rush to make quick money, open-air refineries have been set up in Deir Ezzor and al-Raqqa provinces. Crude is stored in ditches and heated in metal tanks by wood fires, shrouding the region with plumes of black smoke, exposing the local population to the dangers of the thick smog and the frequent explosions at the improvised plants.
Heating oil, diesel and petrol is condensed in hoses running from the tanks through pools of water and sold across the north, as far as Aleppo. The remaining crude is shipped by road on tankers to Turkey.
There’s a lot more at the link, all of it horrible. Reason #5980316 why proxy wars are a fucking disaster.
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WOMEN’S LIB RALLY 1982
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“One leading opposition figure said: “The northern front hasn’t just gone dormant; the northern front has gone commercial.”
From The Guardian on Syria’s new oil industry:
The EU decision to lift Syrian oil sanctions to aid the opposition has accelerated a scramble for control over wells and pipelines in rebel-held areas and helped consolidate the grip of jihadist groups over the country’s key resources.
Jabhat al-Nusra, affiliated with al-Qaida and other extreme Islamist groups, control the majority of the oil wells in Deir Ezzor province, displacing local Sunni tribes, sometimes by force. They have also seized control of other fields from Kurdish groups further to the north-east, in al-Hasakah governorate.
As opposition groups have turned their guns on each other in the battle over oil, water and agricultural land, military pressure on Bashar al-Assad’s government from the north and east has eased off. In some areas, al-Nusra has struck deals with government forces to allow the transfer of crude across the front lines to the Mediterranean coast.
As a result of the rush to make quick money, open-air refineries have been set up in Deir Ezzor and al-Raqqa provinces. Crude is stored in ditches and heated in metal tanks by wood fires, shrouding the region with plumes of black smoke, exposing the local population to the dangers of the thick smog and the frequent explosions at the improvised plants.
Heating oil, diesel and petrol is condensed in hoses running from the tanks through pools of water and sold across the north, as far as Aleppo. The remaining crude is shipped by road on tankers to Turkey.
There’s a lot more at the link, all of it horrible. Reason #5980316 why proxy wars are a fucking disaster.
BRITTICISMS: NOTED: In a report on a series of “flash mobs” downtown yesterday...
NOTED: In a report on a series of “flash mobs” downtown yesterday night, a police officer said, “Chicago is closed. Time to go home.” There are two kinds of flash mobs; the Chicago kind are never pleasant. Summer arrives and so too does the “terror.” Chicago and State becomes not just a train stop, but a means of confrontation, a clashing of the two cities. There is public Chicago and everywhere else, the parts of the city in which people live, but are rarely acknowledged. This of course is more than city structure. It is the further divide of a city of divisions. The “haves” and the “have nots” does not seem accurate enough. “Chicago is closed” he said, as if this part of the city is only open for a few, as if this part of the city is a store, a box, a secret that is locked away for those who are worthy of knowing it. Every year they ask, “Why do they do this? Cause trouble, cause noise, cause presence?” It seems like a subconscious occupation of space, a desire to swoop in fiercely, to stand out with righteous deviancy and angst. Occupy Chicago. They are “doing something.” It is not good or safe or pleasant or welcome, but it is something.
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statue of the poet al-mutanabbi on mutanabbi street; baghdad, 2012 (via zagros.os)
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