Pigs in a Blanket Fort

Tina, 35, fkn tired. PFP by Exhalcyon

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Resources For Those Interested

Mainly for writing Yusef, but also because they’re interesting

Books: 

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes - Tamim Ansary

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes - Amin Maalouf

The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives - Carole Hillenbrand

The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades - Paul M. Cobb

A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period - Jamil M. Abun-Nasr

Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past - Firas Alkhateeb

Islam: History, Religion, and Politics Paperback – Tamara Sonn

Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past - Firas Alkhateeb

Moorish Spain - Richard Fletcher

The Rebel and the Imām in Early Islam: Explorations in Muslim Historiography - Najam Haider

The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon - Hussein Fancy

The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education (Princeton Studies on the Near East)

Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic to Postcolonial Times (Library of Middle East History)

An Apocalyptic History of the Early Fatimid Empire - Jamel Velji

The Almoravid and Almohad Empires - Amira K. Bennison

Islamic Imperialism: A History - Efraim Karsh

The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire - Amira K. Bennison

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More Resources - Online/Free Options

Websites/downloadables:

The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, Angeliki E. Laiou, Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (click download to access full text)

The Islamic View and the Christian View of the Crusades: A New Synthesis

Revival: The Muslim Response to the Crusades

Islamic perspectives on the Crusades: Past and present

Understanding the Crusades from an Islamic perspective

Changing perspectives on the Crusades

Islamic Heritage Project, Harvard

Internet Islamic History Sourcebook

Yale University Library Near East Collection

Islamic and Middle East Studies - McGill

please reblog to signal boost! 

[pigsinablanketfort]

Reblogging again to get this going. I'm upset to report that the OP had to deactivate his account because of assholes who saw fit to bully and harass him as well as send him death threats. 🤬 they should be reported!

[scribefindegil]

Tips for baking with brain fog

Brain fog in the kitchen can mean anything from forgetting an ingredient to accidentally skipping a recipe step, plus much more. Here's how to bake successfully, even when you're feeling foggy.

A useful article from King Arthur Flour (my beloved) on baking while disabled.

[capt-coffeebitch]

This genuinely might make me cry. I already deeply appreciate King Arthur for making the best GF 1 for 1 flour. And having good recipes. But an article posted by them from someone with disabilities about how to do the thing even with disabilities? That’s just genuinely lovely. I know that my bad there is low, but it’s low for a reason and hopefully stuff like this can continue to raise that bar for disabled people like me.

[ilsa-fireswan]

I love to see this! Another of my favorites is the baking with arthritis post.

Tips for baking with arthritis and other hand-related chronic pain

With some changes to techniques, a careful selection of kitchen tools, and tips from fellow bakers, the joy of baking can live on.

[ilsa-fireswan]

Check out this great addition from the notes!

[image text: @system-splintered says: My grandmother started having severe memory issues a couple years before she passed, and her husband laminated her recipes and got her whiteboard markers so she could mark off things she did. It let her bake for a lot longer than she would have been able to otherwise. End.]

[cricketcat9]

if anyone needs it ☝🏼💖

[rowlfthedog]

[hn-nico]

long time no see

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[tanadrin]

would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.

[jadagul]

https://xkcd.com/2567/

[tanadrin]

fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything

[bigscaryd]

Quick put an animal book in front of him and ask him what this guy is

[nordenflycht]

there's an xkcd for that also

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[velvetvexations]

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

[velvetvexations]

So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

[iconuk01]

Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

[xiaq]

When I was a professor I fucking LOVED teaching this comic. You can read the full thing here (and please read the letters to the editor at the bottom as well—including a message from Ray Bradbury).

[lemonscribs]

Enby thresher shark 💛💜

[lemonscribs]

Pride sharks! Happy pride month :D more super cute pride flags themed sharks coming soon 👀

[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[liminalweirdo]

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

[mckitterick]

the notes on this are toxic - to help clear up any misunderstanding, here’s the actual science paper:

Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three dec

in short: brains are brains

[ninjaofkaos]

Momma poss always brighten my day

[cursedpossums]

unrestrained summer fun

[cursedpossums]

every year around late may, without fail, this post starts getting notes again . and my little wet raw chicken breast of a brain gets puzzled. because i forget that summer is , in fact. a yearly event

[talesfromthecrypts]

“They said they wanted a vampire relationship with no age gap”

“No age gap??!?!?”

“And no non-con elements”

“NO NON CON?”

“And no coercion or otherwise manipulative behaviors”

“Joe they want a vampire with NOTHING”

[dowereallyneedthis]

“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

[myfootyrthroat]

The “+” in LGBTQ+ is for math.

[dowereallyneedthis]

It’s literally been years since anyone added something slightly clever or original to this post, so I would like to congratulate you and maybe even bestow some kind of award. I don’t have anything to give you though

[moran-with-a-g]

It was simple addition, really.

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolor [insta]

[hug-your-face]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

[sexhaver]

lmfao the Scots in town for the World Cup have made a pilgrimage to Boston's world-famous Cop Annihilating Slide

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[viralfrog]

[cameoamalthea]

Things to do with your twin