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[໊໊ @juniorkingpp]

the fact the US used the full force of the federal government to eliminate the Black Panthers while the KKK is still running around tells you a lot about this country

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Zionist in English: "We are the victims."

Zionists in Hebrew:

[David @dqveed]

Her NAME is Eva Ramón Gallegos!!!

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

An Arab scholar in 1011 was placed under house arrest in Cairo for 10 years. He used the time to invent the scientific method, prove how vision actually works, and write a 7-volume book that Newton studied 600 years later.

I read about him last night and could not stop thinking about it.

His name was Ibn al-Haytham. The book is called the "Book of Optics."

The textbook story names Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes as the founders of modern science. All three of them came 600 years after Ibn al-Haytham. All three of them studied his work directly or through Latin translations. The man who actually invented the scientific method was working alone in a single room in Cairo while Europe was still in the Dark Ages.

Here is the story almost nobody tells you.

He was born in Basra around 965 CE. By his 40s he had a reputation across the Arab world as one of the most original minds alive. Then he made the mistake that almost killed him. He claimed publicly that he could regulate the flooding of the Nile. The mad caliph al-Hakim of Cairo summoned him to Egypt to do it.

Ibn al-Haytham took one look at the river and realized the project was impossible with the technology of his era. The caliph had executed dozens of scholars for less. So he faked madness. The caliph believed him and put him under house arrest in his own home in Cairo for the next 10 years.

Most people would have lost their actual mind. He used the time to invent science.

Before him, knowledge worked one way. You quoted authority. If Aristotle had said it, it was true. If Galen had written it, it was correct. The role of a scholar was to memorize and defend the ancient Greeks. I

Ibn al-Haytham broke this completely. He wrote a sentence in the Book of Optics that quietly destroyed 1,400 years of intellectual culture. "The seeker after truth," he said, "is not the one who follows his natural disposition to trust the writings of the ancients. The seeker after truth is the one who suspects them, questions them, and submits only to argument and experiment."

That single sentence is the foundation of modern science. He wrote it 600 years before the European Renaissance.

The second thing he did was build the actual machinery of experimentation.

He insisted that no claim about the physical world was acceptable until it had been verified by an experiment anyone could repeat. He gave detailed instructions for every experiment in his book. He told his readers, in writing, not to take his word for any of it. Build the equipment. Run the tests yourself. Verify or destroy my claims with your own eyes.

The third thing he did was use the method to overturn one of the most settled questions in physics.

The Greeks had taught for centuries that vision worked because the eye emitted invisible rays. Ibn al-Haytham proved them wrong with a darkened room, a small hole, and a wall. The first camera obscura. He showed that light from the outside world enters the eye, the exact opposite of what every Greek thinker had taught.

Two hundred years later his book was translated into Latin in Spain. Roger Bacon cited him. Kepler cited him. Galileo's work on the telescope was built on his optics. Newton's foundational work on light rested on his framework.

Walk into any physics department today. Ask who founded the scientific method. Almost nobody will say Ibn al-Haytham.

The man who invented the way humanity actually knows things did the work under house arrest, with no funding, no laboratory, and a paranoid caliph next door waiting for an excuse to kill him.

He did it anyway. Most of the world is still pretending it was someone else's idea.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Israel will be prosecuting 2 members of the Gaza Flotilla has 'Hamas terrorists'.

This carries the death penalty.

Their crime? Bringing food to starving children.

[🇾🇪 ميكا 𐩣𐩺𐩫𐩱 @MikaBriki]

"it's because hijab is a symbol of oppression" corsets, high heels, makeup and many others are also viewed as a tool of oppression and objectification, but somehow you guys only have a problem with hijab.

[нεя 🍉 @kleponklepon]

@ThiaBallerina

[Thia is with … 😏✌️💋🔥 @ThiaBallerina]

He’s been elected six times. SIX. Times. It’s not just Netanyahu. It’s Israel.

[PHM @Johener11]

@AnnaBenezra

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

@AnnaBenezra We all know what happened on Oct 7

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Fighters who came in on paraglides with light weapons were not physically able to cause this kind of destruction. It’s simply impossible.

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

In which episode do they explain how this happened

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

when we rebuild ill do this:

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

This is a family in Gaza. A man with no legs and his daughter with one arm.

[Minnie @saintdutchess]

Chain mail as a hijab oh this is tewwww good.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

"When I was in prison, we talked about how lucky we were to have a white passport. Palestinians don't have that privilege. They get lost in the system-beaten, tortured, raped, disappeared. We heard their screams at night. And I believe the Israelis wanted us to hear."

[sofie ☭ @darlingube]

you can go vegan, boycott AI, fast fashion, and plastic and only take the bus for the rest of your life and the US military will undo it all in like 30 minutes because they want Venezuela's oil

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

A good question!

*checks date*

Oh I see.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Global Sumud Flotilla activist Sena Polat refused to sign a document stating “I entered Israel without permission, I accept to be deported,” and therefore has not been released.

Sena Polat has started a hunger strike in the prison where she is being held unlawfully.

We stand in solidarity with this brave woman.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Israel couldn’t stop killing Palestinians - not even for 24 hours.