SunAtEight

Retweets equal full-throated endorsements and death on a hill. Building my new project. Announcement will follow soon

[Woland 🇵🇸 @stendhalist]

Let me shock you more. 1901 Ottoman painting by Osman Hamdi Bey. It shows a woman on a Quran lectern (so she is literally displacing the Quran) with Islamic books & the Quran at her feet. It was painted and exhibited during Abdulhamid II's reign, the famously conservative Caliph

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

Okay you guys aren't gonna believe this but this five dollar vintage Gospel of John sex book from 1949 I found at a Half Price Books is actually kinda good

[Solomon Svehla @scsvehla]

Today, Bishop Kym Lucas became the first known female Bishop to preside over the Byzantine Divine Liturgy. This is how TEC does development of doctrine and practice within the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church!

[🇵🇸i have never heard of philosophy @dimitripilled]

The avg person—even the avg educated person—does not get how fucking weird most writing from 200+ years ago can be

[SunAtEight @SunAtEight]

For some reason I'm on some list to get Turkish spam follows.

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

Mel is stealing Elmer Fudd valor here. You can spot the guilty look on his face. He knows he's erasing the great Arthur Q. Bryan from history. You can hear it in every syllable of his half-assed, fraudulent Elmer-speak.
https://t.co/WUmWT5KrHw

[SunAtEight @SunAtEight]

@hmkherman @HappyThurifer The 1979 BCP Psalter goes with the same approach to Psalm 1:1 that the NRSV does, so an NRSV/NRSVue pairing would be the closest. The RSV uses "thou" to address God amidst relatively contemporary English, while the 1979 BCP Rite 2 does not, so that would be another clash.

[Angela ⟢ @luxangelae]

resurrecting this after Pope Leo’s encyclical 😂

[Florian Bogel ☭ ★🌹🌹🌹 @BogelFlorian]

Das Chinesische Volk, oder besser Temu, versorgt mich mit Waren, die meinem Einkommen entsprechen. Neuerdings senden sie Appelle auf Deutsch auf ihren Verpackungstüten mit.

[SunAtEight @SunAtEight]

It seemed very fitting that there was a Spar in Qingdao, even if Spar is actually Dutch.

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

theyre doing socialism in spar now

[Alan Smithee @AlanSmithee1987]

"Taming the Dragon—China and the Soviet Union jointly investigating and preparing for the comprehensive use of natural resources in the Heilongjiang River Basin" (Manhua, 1956)

[Woland 🇵🇸 @stendhalist]

Zionists think they're slick for finding out a lady in Mamdani's Nakba post has Bosniak roots yeah that's the point dipshits there's always been immigration to the Arab World (Aleppo was 12% Armenian in 1920s!) & they assimilated into society, not plot to steal our land like you

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

During my interview last year, she accused me of bringing up the issue of “hostages” and “prisoners,” even though she herself had asked me to clarify my social media posts. Today, she is accusing me of lying “extensively.”

The audacity.

The first question I should have asked was: controversial according to whom?

Controversial to those who refuse to see Palestinians as human beings. To those who label every Palestinian a “terrorist” or a “barbarian.”

When I was abducted, I was blindfolded, handcuffed, beaten, and sexually abused. So why do you and others believe we have no right to question the language used by both our oppressors and journalists like you?

Why is an Israeli automatically called “a hostage” and “a victim,” while a Palestinian is reduced to “a prisoner” or “a killed terrorist”? And when Palestinians are women or children, they are described as “human shields.”

What on earth is the criterion?

What makes one person a “hostage” and another merely a “prisoner”? What makes one life worthy of grief, outrage, and endless headlines, while another is erased through language designed to dehumanize?

Who decided that Palestinians do not deserve the same language of humanity?

Anyone who understands English can see who is actually distorting my words.

My point has always been clear: why are Israelis called “hostages” while Palestinians are denied the same humanity and moral urgency? Why is that so difficult to understand?

Yes, this is about language. That is what the conversation was and still is about.

As survivors and witnesses of a genocide, we have every right to challenge the language, narratives, and double standards used by governments and journalists to justify or normalize war crimes.

I trust that people and history will deliver a far more honest verdict on this exchange.

Meanwhile, we will never give up our right to speak the truth, share our stories, and fight for our fundamental rights.

[SunAtEight @SunAtEight]

Passing by the Maoist daʿwa stand.

[Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Podcast @GPCRPodcast]

@tongbingxue As a fellow historian, would you be willing, in good faith, to listen to my podcast and engage with an opposing viewpoint (i.e. a Marxian but nuanced study of the CR)?

(I love your account btw and deeply admire your great commitment to preserving old Chinese photography!)

[Emperor Shun @EmperorShun1]

In the 8th century, you are a Christian missionary who has arrived in Tang Dynasty China.

Chinese child: I know! You’re a Buddhist monk from Persia.

[Hov Nazaretyan @HovhanNaz]

Soviet-era Armenian book covers designed to mimic foreign scripts: Georgian, Perso-Arabic, Chinese, German

[donaldparkinson🇵🇸 @donaldp1917]

Traverso on Karl Radek as the ultimate “rootless cosmopolitan”:

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

I once asked a fluent Gaelic speaker from Lewis what he thought about its survival as a community language long-term.

‘When was the last time two teenagers lost their virginity speaking nothing except Gaelic?’ he replied. I thought it a marvellous (if worrying) response.

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

After he won the Pulitzer Prize, Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha was invited onto MSNBC where he was promptly interrogated about why he wasn't doing more to humanize the people slaughtering his family members in Gaza.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

First Draft. Have just bound the manuscript of my forthcoming book ‘The Madness of Cars’