Razan

MA in Medieval Studies | Interested in languages and walkable spaces

[same at on the other app @colleenawilson]

This is one of the best answers I’ve ever seen

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Young Israeli shepherds…who come for a sense of adventure.”

What an absolutely insane way to describe terrorism and occupation.

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

oh my god it worked

[Eva Basilion @EBasilion]

Marjorie Taylor Greene. Wow.

[Razan @Rznzn]

@Civixplorer Southern Iraq and northeastern Arabia should be Nestorian, at the very least

[Razan @Rznzn]

@psychicautomata Southern Iraq and Kuwait in particular should be Nestorian, the Kingdom of Al-Hira (the Lakhmids) was Christian despite being a Sassanid client state

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Which means they have just deleted important archival evidence of the genocide.

[Razan @Rznzn]

@MerickRoger @Hk9290 @MorbidKnowledge That’s just an excuse. These are important, lifesaving medications so governments around the world subsidise them, while the U.S. lobbying system prevents pharmaceutical companies from being regulated.

[Bryan Johnsontown Massacre @DuncanAStuart]

Probably the correct take on “AI can solve math now”

[Razan @Rznzn]

@UhIDunnoMan @Tastelessmodel @syntaxinmywalls I had a professor lament about this: how some peoples become disconnected from their heritage because of colonialism, but Ataturk’s policies led to Turkey inflicting that level of disconnect to itself (e.g. changing the alphabet and becoming unable to read their old records).

[Matthew Petti @matthew_petti]

Palestine is the laboratory on the frontier of nightmare police states, no doubt about it

[Wagner Koop @WagsKoop]

Genuinely crazy how this was said in real time before it happened, as it happened, and after it happened, and it has taken two entire calendar years on god’s green earth for someone involved in this campaign to flatly acknowledge the plain, simply legible reality of it.

[Razan @Rznzn]

@bgnzky @hekwoys It also has اجنبي which may start with “a” but that’s more of a signifier of an adjective/noun describing a person (e.g. احمر، ابيض، etc)

[Wally Rashid @wallyrashid]

Mamdani can’t stop the sale of West Bank lands happening in synagogues. He can’t. He has to abide by state and federal law.

Mamdani literally spearheaded the Not On Our Dime Act to prohibit nonprofits from selling West Bank lands. It hasn’t passed yet, but it’s still in the NY assembly committee waiting for a vote.

If you want to help Palestine then learn what’s actually going on and how to effectively advance change.

What Mamdani can do is at least have part of his research team keep track of these sales and share any state violations to the AG. I put together a proposal for this and shared it with his office. These are things we can actually leverage by acting effectively. It’s reaching a point where I think some people are actually acting in a self defeating manner.

[𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟 💾 @reset_by_peer]

Everyone in the AI field is a genuine antisocial freak proudly bragging about how they hate having any kind of emotional bonding moments with their closest family and would rather be interacting with them indirectly by prompting Claude.

[ُ sushi ibushi 𖣂 @svhibe]

flag goes so hard i almost liked a hate tweet

[Razan @Rznzn]

@Ferocactusemory @JuwayriyyahAlam Islam’s very core is that being righteous is what gets you to heaven, not what ethnicity you are or what family you descend from.

People come from different cultures so that they’d learn from each other, not to use it to claim that they’re better than others based on race.

[Imad🌿 @lbnBattuta]

An interesting shift between medieval and modern Muslim societies is how they viewed divorce.

In the 1400s MENA, it was common. In Cairo, around 30% of marriages ended in divorce. People remarried without social stigma, many even multiple times.

Today it's often stigmatized.

[Terminally Online Leftist 🥂 @terminallyOL]

"safe" isn't wonderful because it's a technical marvel. "safe" is wonderful because you can understand the intent behind it. this is why art is better than a prompt.

[Siri Srinivas @pjux]

I used to think it was meaningful that the college cardinals voted for an American pope in 2025. Beginning to realize they may have found it much more meaningful that their spiritual leader ought to have a math degree.