As is typical of al-Maʿarrī's style, this poem revolves around a pun. ṣumta means "you fasted" and ṣamitta means "you were silent", both being spelled with the same Arabic letters: صمت.
أَصْمَتَ الشُّهُورَ فَهَلَّا صَمَتَّ * وَلَا صَوْمَ حَتَّى تُطِيلَ الصُّمُوتَا يُلَاقَى الْفَتَى عِيشُهُ بِالضَّلَالِ * وَيَبْقَى عَلَيْهِ إِلَى أَنْ يَمُوتَا
—On fasting—
🌘
You fast the sacred months —
so fast from talking: a true fast.
We draw our first breaths in error
and continue misguided to our last.
— al-Maʿarrī (Syria, d. 1057)
To be honest in that video it sounds deaffricated to [muʒtaˈbɒː] but maybe that's a Dari pronunciation
It's like the English j, [modʒtæˈbɒː] — it's the first word in this video
youtu.be/6fXIcOFzFxY?...
Well it's inspiring you to novel cartographic content so you're getting something out of the suffering
Another night of bad sleep Mark?
٢٨٥ — إِذَا ظَلَمْتَ مَنْ دُونَكَ فَلَا تَأْمَنْ عَذَابَ مَنْ فَوْقَكَ
No. 285
Arabic proverb of the day:
"If you oppress those below you, don't feel secure from the punishment of Him who is above you."
idhā ẓalamta man dūnaka fa-lā taʾman ʿadhāba man fawqaka
Gemini said Cosh @voshmosh · 21h What made you quit? Ive been thinking about pulling the trigger myself Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings · 21h I found everyone was a miserable scold. Even innocuous posts would elicit really deranged responses and the timeline was full of people saying incredibly dumb and annoying things constantly. The vibes are super bad.
🤔
"Well, I've been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet
Had my head stoved in, but I'm still on my feet"
(Lowell George)
every time i look at instagram, i feel like im the only adult who doesn't know how to make money
Conspiratorial Templa... @mynameh... · 9h What level of chess is it when you neglect to fill up your strategic oil reserves before starting a war that shuts down oil production worldwide, so you have to buy oil at an inflated price from your enemy who then uses those funds to back the enemy you just needlessly attacked? 526 | 4.1K | 21K | 364K
A wide-angle, eye-level shot shows a snow-covered field behind a chain-link fence during a snowfall. A small black sign attached to the fence is inscribed with the white text "B L E A K / S M A C K / H A I K U / D A N E R" in a hand-painted style. The background features railroad tracks, utility poles, power lines, and distant industrial buildings and trees, all partially obscured by a heavy gray sky and falling snow.
bleak
smack
haiku
Lol
Yeah translation is 💀
Kind of feel like rereading Brave New World these days
A high-angle view through the branches of evergreen trees looking down onto a snow-covered park path. The foreground features a dirt trail covered in pine needles, transitioning into a white, snow-dusted landscape with sparse bushes and a small leafless tree.
They're both females actually 🙃
I can't wait for Spring! 😀
The landscape here in #Colorado comes alive with color & light, always making for great photography. This was taken using a Tamron 150-600mm lens & a Puffin Pad for stability.
I hope you enjoy it! 📸
---John
#NaturePhotography #Denver #LandscapePhotography #Photography
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#apod 2026-03-05
Total Lunar Eclipse over Tsé Bit'a'í
Image Credit: Satoru Murata;
Text:
Keighley Rockcliffe
(NASA
GSFC,
UMCP,
CRESST II)
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260305.html
I've got some Kimp content!
They're doing this at my kid's school this week
Excerpt of a book: "And in the poetic treatise of John of Garland, the Morale Scolarium, of 1241, the author highlights the worldliness of the student body: "If you are a real scholar you are thrust out in the cold. Unless you are a money-maker, I say, you will be considered a fool, a pauper. The lucrative arts, such as law and medicine, are now in vogue, and only those things are pursued which have a cash value". John of Garland's censure is typical of the many condemnations of medieval students by a minority of enlightened critics who sought to keep alive educational notions that transcended the short term and the immediately consumable."
...so, uh, I guess we've been fighting this trend at universities for a little while now? 😅
الشَّيءُ يَبْدُؤُهُ في الأَصْلِ أَصْغَرُهُ ... وَلَيسَ يَصْلَى بِكُلِّ الحَرْبِ جَانِيهَا والحربُ يلحق فيها الكارهُونَ كما ... تدنو الصِّحَاحُ إلى الْجَرْبَى فَتُعْدِيهَا
—On War—
🐪
Things begin small —
and the one who starts a war is not
the one who burns in it.
War draws in even those who oppose it
like a mangy camel
makes the others sick.
— anonymous, from the Ḥamāsah of Abū Tammām (d. 845 CE)
Broccoli stalk time for Chimp
Har har
Plus five minutes is way too long for most Japanese teas.
Isn't that the way everyone makes black tea, you pour boiling water on it? That's how Arabs and the British do it. For green tea it shouldn't be boiling though.
نَقِّل فُؤادَكَ حَيثُ شِئتَ مِنَ الهَوىما الحُبُّ إِلّا لِلحَبيبِ الأَوَّلِكَم مَنزِلٍ في الأَرضِ يَألَفُهُ الفَتىوَحَنينُهُ أَبَداً لِأَوَّلِ مَنزِلِ
Chase after love all you like,
you love your first
beloved forever.
We pass on this earth
through so many places —
it's always the first home
we long for.
— Abū Tammām (d. 845)
Oh you ordered tea? Here's a lukewarm little teapot and a bag of Lipton knock yourself out
Yet another international norm America ignores.
