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been posting about ??? erm idk ….. my descent into madness primarily…… whatever i Freakin feel like ! yep
mutuals if you’re gonna break the mutual softblock me please
some of my old ass yttd writing/theories/meta is under the cut idk if it’s any good cuz i’m not bothering to check but it’s there
its nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and 5 beers and a head injury and jacking off and killing myself cant fix
The past is a grotesque animal
And in its eyes you see
How completely wrong you can be
was talking to my mom about how white people ignore the contributions of poc to academia and I found myself saying the words "I bet those idiots think Louis Pasteur was the first to discover germ theory"
which admittedly sounded pretentious as fuck but I'm just so angry that so few people know about the academic advancements during the golden age of Islam.
Islamic doctors were washing their hands and equipment when Europeans were still shoving dirty ass hands into bullet wounds. ancient Indians were describing tiny organisms worsening illness that could travel from person to person before Greece and Rome even started theorizing that some illnesses could be transmitted
also, not related to germ theory, but during the golden age of Islam, they developed an early version of surgery on the cornea. as in the fucking eye. and they were successful
and what have white people contributed exactly?
please go research the golden age of Islamic academia. so many of us wouldn't be alive today if not for their discoveries
people ask sometimes how I can be proud to be Muslim. this is just one of many reasons
some sources to get you started:
but keep in mind, it wasn't just science and medicine! we contributed to literature and philosophy and mathematics and political theory and more!
maybe show us some damn respect
I'd like to give a few examples.
🧪The man known as the father of chemistry (or alchemy, our teacher said both are used for him), Jabir ibn Hayyan. He wrote a book named Kitab al-Kimya, "kimya" means chemistry, and the word chemistry originated from that as well. He invented aqua regia, he had the first chemistry lab, discovered the methods of refining and crystallizing nitric acid, hydrogen chloride and sulfuric acid, and discovered diethyl ether, citric acid, acetic acid and tartaric acid. He developed the "retort" and literally introduced the concept of "base" to chemistry.
📐The father/ founder of algebra, Al-Khwarizmi. He wrote a book called Al-Jabr and the word "algebra" comes from "jabr". He presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. One of his achievements in algebra was his demonstration of how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square, for which he provided geometric justifications. He introduced the methods of "reduction" and "balancing". The word "algorithm" literally comes from his name. He also produced the first table of tangents.
📐Biruni, who proposed that the radius be accepted as a unit in trigonometric functions and added secant, cosecant and cotangent functions to it. He made many contributions to astronomy that are too detailed for me to write here because this is long enough already, but for medicine, he managed to make a woman give birth by C section. He wrote Kitabu's Saydane which describes the benefits of around 3000 plants and how they are used.
🩺The father of early polymeric medicine, Ibn Sina. His books, The Law of Medicine and The Book of Healing were taught as the basic works in medical science in various European universities until the mid-17th century. He discovered that the eye was made up of six sections and that the retina was important for vision, performed cataract surgery. He performed kidney surgery, diagnosed diabetes by analyzing urine, identified tumors, and worked on diseases such as facial paralysis, ulcers, and jaundice. He used "anesthesia" in surgeries, invented instruments such as forceps and scalpels to remove catheters and tumors. He was the first physician in history to mention the existence of microbes, at a time when there was no microscope. He made contributions to so many fields: astronomy, physics, chemistry, psychology (he suggested treating patients with music).
🩺Al-Zahrawi wrote Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices. The surgery chapter of this work became the standard textbook in Europe for the next five hundred years. He pioneered the use of catgut for internal stitches, and his surgical instruments are still used today to treat people. He did so much work in surgery that I can't write them all here. The first clinical description of an operative procedure for hydrocephalus was given by him, he clearly described the evacuation of superficial intracranial fluid in hydrocephalic children. He was also the first physician to identify the hereditary nature of haemophilia and describe an abdominal pregnancy, a subtype of ectopic pregnancy that in those days was a fatal affliction, and was first to discover the root cause of paralysis.
✈️Abbas ibn Firnas devised a means of manufacturing colorless glass, invented various planispheres, made corrective lenses, devised an apparatus consisting of a chain of objects that could be used to simulate the motions of the planets and stars, designed a water clock, and a prototype for a kind of metronome. He also attempted to FLY, and he did fly a respectable distance but forgot to add a tail to his wings and didn't stick the landing.
Women also became scholars in the Islamic society. An example would be Maryam al-Ijliyya, who was an astronomer and an astrolabe maker, who measured the altitude of celestial bodies with the astrolabes she made. Another example would be Fatima al-Fihri, who founded the oldest university in the world, the University of Qarawiyyin.
Baghdad was the dream place anyone in academia now would want to go, it was a peaceful place of inclusivity and research. So many scholars advanced so many fields of study. Ibn al-Haytham invented camera obscura (and pinhole camera), Ibn al-Nafis was the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of blood, father of robotics Ismail al-Jazari invented the elephant clock and his list of contributions to engineering are so long that I can't write them here...
These are just a few examples, of course. I hope this encourages people to do research on this topic more. I even added some emojis to make this more fun to read.💁🏻♀️
I’m like maybe halfway through tlou1 is it worth it tô play the second game at all? I’m leaning towards not trying because 1) due to a lot of things I now refuse to watch sequels unless I either 100% trust the author OR am just that desperate for new content and 2) I saw you complain abt it só my first impression wasn’t good kfjfjdjdjdjsj. Still like, thought I should ask!
wellllllllll i would say no >_< ive heard the gameplay of it is good but . man i have so many complaints about the story. and tbh one of my criticisms about it is in fact that it is an incredibly long game that takes a very long time to tell its story and (imo) even by the end of this game it really doesnt do a lot with ellie's character that has allowed her to grow and expand past the guilt she ends the first game with. so much time is spent trying to justify itself and it doesnt even do that good of a job at it ngl. so i'd say if ur hesitant about it the length of that damn game is probably a fair deterrent. also frm what i remember u said u got tlou1 for free so i would say it would probably be better to avoid spending money on the series altogether bc neil druckmann is a shitty person Tbh. if anything watch a playthrough of specifically the museum scene and go Wow this is so awesome i cant believe this is the only part of the game that exists ever and then dont interact with any of the rest of it. #myadvice
eating dirt. idk. thinking about ellie always running. getting her moments of solace with riley when the two of them are free from fedra school. asking the soldier who always bails her out when she gets in trouble to take her with him and him refusing because he already has a family he needs to look out for. the brief blissful minute when she kisses riley and the two of them are so close to getting out together going sour just as they're about to clear the scaffolding and taste the morning air. only making it out of the qz when riley's body has gone cold. running from joel because she knows he'll have to follow, because the weight of the world is on her shoulders and because surely she has to mean something to him. chasing the fireflies across the country for months and then waking up having fled from them, unconscious while joel ran with her in his arms and whispered "we're okay, we're okay, we're okay" because she did end up meaning something to him after all. running away from joel 3 years later, still knowing he'll follow. swearing that if he lies to her again she'll disappear, knowing that's the threat that will hit home. running down an endless flight of stairs to a locked door that never quite opens. restless after joel's death because, just as it's always been, there's nowhere she can run where he won't follow. determined to die alone to prevent dina from suffering the way she did on that basement floor. she's scared of ending up alone. acknowledging that joel wouldn't have done what she did, that he'd have stayed in jackson and looked after his loved ones, but all ellie's ever known how to do is run. cornering a boar in a dead end only for it to scream in an all too familiar manner. she's still running down those stairs. leaving the farm knowing dina won't follow because all she's been doing there is running in place anyway. returning, having been stripped of the notion that someday she'll finally reach wherever she's been trying to go. leaving behind a guitar that no longer sounds right and disappearing into the grass, still endlessly moving forward.
your online pets are worried about Y2K
wait wait wait mutuals rb this with a description of ur voice
