Farmehr Amirdust

Cover of Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant, The Devil’s Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.

For some time now, historians — and medievalists in particular — have been concerned with how right-wing extremists, jihadists, and other radicals attempt to exploit history for their ideological purposes.
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Had my fair share of sun for the whole year in 2 hours walk.

Next year, I’m going topless.

Happy Pride, Montreal!

That’s a wrap for this week-back next week working from office and sharing more updates on Bluesky.

I did a photo shoot.

It wasn’t as bad as I thought.

I liked the result.

I should’ve shaved.

Transition teaches you things about yourself you didn’t know to expect.

Nly scnd to th kl pch. Ts th ansstrl fd, jst gtto lve it.

Getting my professional photo taken — the horror.

Corporate life isn’t built for those of us with body image anxiety.

Honestly, neither is life.

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One mst nt spl th ygrts on ghymhs

An Enormous Plasma Wall Captured on the Sun.

A pencil sketch of a barn owl.

It is international owl awareness day! I love owls. I’ve yet to see one in the wild. I’ve been fortunate to hear them hooting at night while on holidays in England and France.

#BirdArt #Drawing #TradArt

Npe

This is what #PierrePoilievre and #CPC had planned for 🇨🇦. Getting rid of our public broadcasting. No objective voice. No facts. Just an endless stream of right wing propaganda, creating an alternate reality. An informed voter is the sword of democracy. Therefore truthful info has to be subverted.

Translating Speculative Fiction into a Language with Many Dialects - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association by J. D. Harlock. Though Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is taught all over the Arab world, we only use it as a formality. It’s difficult for speakers of Arabic dialects to understand others without know...

This week on Planetside… Perspectives in Translation continues with “Translating Speculative Fiction into a Language with Many Dialects” by @jdharlock.bsky.social.

Arabic translation is never one-size-fits-all. Here’s how to balance dialect, meaning, and speculative imagination in translation.

Can’t find a sugar-free cold beverage in this city.

Such hard life.

Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles If any discussion of medieval medicine gets going, it's only a matter of time before someone brings up leeches.

Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles

I paid like $16 for 3-4 month worth of testosterone injections.

Androgel is going to cost me $150 per month after insurance.

I can’t see a better reason for the pharmaceutical companies to discontinue any injectable testosterone.

Outrageous!

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Trying to see some Montreal landmarks in 2025.

Progress is slow.

Need that promotion just about now.
Need IRCC to process my case faster.
Need to hear back from GrS Montreal.

Not necessarily in that order, but will take the promotion first if no other choice.

Discover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Thinking” If you've read one work of Hannah Arendt's, it's probably Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of the eponymous Nazi official — and the source of her much-quoted phrase 'the banality of evi...

Discover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Thinking”

We love the Em Dash - what is wrong with you?

Relentlessly avoiding the nosy couple from our apartment building who ended up on the same bus as me.

One: I don’t like giving them a reason to talk loudly in public.

Two: They’ve been giving me weird stares since I transitioned. Like I have a secret I’m supposed to spill.

I don’t owe you shit.

At this point, I have lived and am living through the same hell twice—once in Iran, once in North America.

It’s the kind of nightmare you wake up from only to find you’re still dreaming it.

Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!

Your 🚨final reminder🚨 that we have a new Murderbot short story coming out right here at Reactor, tonight after the season finale! Okay ty enjoy hehe

#Murderbot

Transitioning gave me my mind back. I feel more like myself in my body every day.

But most importantly, it gave me back my male friendships—something that defined my childhood, but was taken from me by social norms and gender segregation.

Is there a micro-blogging platform for academic snippets that doesn’t punish low effort?

I prep too much and then ghost my own ideas.

Haven’t written in hand and in Farsi for so long that I had to take a minute and think. My answer is the first option.

Bus driver is blasting Metallica’s Unforgiven — somehow makes this heat a bit more bearable.

Summer, you can leave now 🫠