Agreed

A Maronite school textbook dated 1913. Our schools were teaching our Syriac language until 1943, when President Bechara Khoury gave up our independence and offered Lebanon to the Arab League.

To understand the nature of Druze ‘asabiyya, one must return to the 19th century and the Druze revolt against the forced conscription imposed by Egypt’s Ibrahim Pasha, a revolt that helped unravel his ambitions of integrating Syria into the nascent Egyptian state. When asked how

Where are the Nestorian creatives? The Donatist philosophers? The Arian historians?

Can you turn off the auto-translate thing?

Spent five years writing my little internet novel about a guerrilla conspiracy in NYC, partying & unrequited love—hardest, weirdest, most rewarding process of my life. Out in Spring 2027

“I wanna tell you about this broad. We understand that she had sex six times in one night with Ben Gurion.” [another FBI agent whispers in his ear] “Oh, I got that wrong. I meant Ben Bella.”

🇱🇧 After reportedly receiving $12M from a Gulf state, Walid Jumblatt and his appointed sheikh Sami Abi al-Mona, are imposing books in Druze schools that teach Islamic prayer, fasting and Ramadan, practices completely alien to the Druze faith. This is a clear attempt to Islamize

Technique for a man who ejaculates quickly (to delay): He should occupy his mind away from the woman and sexual desire by thinking about something from his worldly affairs. — al-Imām al-Suyūṭī [d. 911 AH]

It's easy to talk, it's hard to carry the burden. This guy can't bench his own body weight, let alone carry the weight of leading the most important city in the world.

#NewRelease Handbook of Rasulid Yemen (13th–15th Centuries CE) Daniel Martin Varisco. De Gruyter 2025 degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… ias.academia.edu/DanielVarisco

Die Kunst der Fuge

"WASP establishment" was term for a subtype of mid-century elite management, as opposed to Northern Ethnic factions, southerners, etc. Does not include all Protestant Whites or "Old Stock", acronym distinguished one group of non-representative patricians from other elite factions

Cool map

The aesthetic theory of a frigid nun consecrated to the Amerikaner Atheist Church who thinks Star Wars is the pinnacle of beauty lol Republican Fran Lebowitz - not that the original Fran is much better lol