Amir

The man has an excellent understanding of the strains of Islamic scholarship, how they interact and what's important to them spirituality and how that affects their worldy advocacy.

His book on the Syrian Ulema is so good I've even heard teachers in various Islamic schools recommend it.

The Syrian Islamic Council The establishment of the Syrian Islamic Council may be an important step toward the goal of consolidating a moderate Islamic axis within the opposition in the face of the large Salafi military faction...

I was reading this piece as a refresher on the formation of the council given the recent news of it's dissolving and I was like "Woah this is really well written" then I looked at the author and it was @thomaspierret.bsky.social.

Of course it was.

carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Same stuff with large parts of the Arab spring, documentation of regime abuses etc

It's a travesty

Ayyyyy you joined us on Bsky!

Then there was the Total War game about it and the translated films played on TV sometimes, so definitely has a cultural western touch point but I wouldn't expect the average person to know about it

The most popular reference in the West I think would probs be the video game series Dynasty Warriors which was my first introduction to it

It's a meme online to reference such lines from the game as "Do not pursue Lu Bu" (knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-lu...) many don't even know the source novel tho

Bottom image is AI from a viral TikTok horror story

bsky.app/profile/lear...

We have clear evidence that it is fake not just from the videos inconsistencies but also the original source of the video on TikTok - see the below thread

bsky.app/profile/lear...

You've got me man, ordering now. Excellent thread.

Yes it's from this TikTok account (bottom right)

I'm afraid it's true. The video is an AI fake from TikTok. We have ample examples of the brutality of the regime without needing to spread AI fakes!

bsky.app/profile/mrdu...

This image is not real, the image is from a TikTok AI Horror story video

www.tiktok.com/@sanzaruu

Pens pens, I love my inky pens.

Currently reading! Finally, a return to Agatha Christie after picking one up from my mum's shelves a decade and a half ago.

Definitely a beautiful cover. #BookSky

There are a heck ton of improvements coming with the Feb 24 and Nov 24 versions specifically for allowing different kinds of ordering on Android with Haiku, definitely something to look forward to. 🙂

I'd say it'd be between Epic and Cerner depending on how well the IT team configured the build of the EHR.