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rabia_elizabeth

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Aka rabia.elizabeth on Metafilter as of February 2023. Sheydem-tants is my old handle.

GenX, US citizen, now living in #Andalucia, Spain. #Muslimah, occasional writer of fiction and blog posts on #Islam, editor, translator.

Currently learning Arabic, very slowly. #ActuallyAutistic .

Expect some cat and food related posts! #AmWriting #Writing #AmQuerying #Editing #Translation #Castellano #Islam

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rabia_elizabeth , to Japan
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I find I can't stomach most fiction anymore, especially anything written since about 1990. But Vanessa Chan's "The Storm We Made" is a powerful exception. Minutely and lovingly observed and the emotional punches it delivers are all earned and deserved.

It's set in in the 1930s during the British colonial period (when it was still called "Malaya") and the wartime occupation of the 1940s, and its principal characters are Malay and Japanese. So right away that sets it apart from anything I've ever read before.

What's more, most of the principal characters from whose points of view we see the story are women and girls.

It is so rare, in language fiction, to have a glimpse into the dynamics of when it's not practiced by a Western state.

The is beautifully narrated by Samantha Tan, a woman of ancestry.

Would love to hear thoughts on this book.

@bookstodon

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@Gilliosa @bookstodon I have, long time ago, too lengthy for me to read more, but I very much liked Anna Karenina.

rabia_elizabeth , to palestine group
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A steadfast youth of Balata, , relays a strong message following the occupation’s invasion of the camp, which saw fierce armed clashes.

“Everyday there are clashes, every time they they invade every week there are [IOF] special forces, but we are going to remain steadfast, no matter what they do and whatever they are going to do, they can kill a generation but another generation will replace them, they kill martyrs and another generation will rise to replace them. They can bomb, do what they want but we will remain steadfast and we are going to defeat their faces.

I send a message to the Arab world who allowed for Gaza to die and be killed like this, while you stand there and watch them just for the sake of money. The Arab governments are standing idly just for money.

Tomorrow, money won’t cut it for you.

You are better off standing with than the money. Tomorrow on the day of judgement you will be judged for everything you did to Gaza.”

@palestine

Slender boy age 10 or 11, black hair in buzzcut, light brown skin, wearing short-sleeved black shirt with white stripes on shoulders, delivers a message from a city street, closed metal store door in background, bicyclists riding by.

Miro_Collas , to palestine group
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Gaza’s mass graves: Is the truth being uncovered? | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/11/gazas-mass-graves-is-the-truth-being-uncovered

"More than 500 bodies have been recovered with Palestinian officials saying several of them showed signs of mutilation and torture amounting to war crimes."


@palestine

rabia_elizabeth ,
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@EdwardCam285 @Miro_Collas @palestine as expected. Most of the EU is against Islam just as the predecessors of the member states were a millennium or so ago.

rabia_elizabeth , to bookstodon group
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Help me, Fediverse!

Around 2018, I read a popular (and excellent) book about cognition and many other things. It highlighted the insidious effects of GPS on the navigational capacity of the human brain.

It posited that human ability to navigate is so critical to our cognition that our gradual loss of that ability thanks to "helpful" technology could have untold effects.

Does this sound familiar to any of you bookworms?

@bookstodon

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@deirdresm @bookstodon I think this was it. Thank you.

rabia_elizabeth , to Islam group
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Folks who are going on are advised to get things ready in event of their while on pilgrimage. Getting things ready this way is good practice, for any adult in any event.

So I find myself telling my emergency contact guy here in Spain about all the folks who likely would want to hear about it when I die. First time I do this particular task.

(The formal estate stuff is just about all sewn up, thank God. But there is the matter of emotional needs.)

I'm and have never been able to sustain most human relationships. Even so, there's a small number of people who I think would want to know.

@actuallyautistic @death @islam

rabia_elizabeth OP ,
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@ratcatcher @actuallyautistic @death @islam it's really kind of you to take an interest. God bless you.

The handover of the social media accounts is a puzzle. I don't know if I'll work out a good method prior to my departure for Hajj on May 30,, but God willing I will have done so before I actually depart for Parts Unknown.

rabia_elizabeth OP ,
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@ratcatcher @actuallyautistic @death @islam that sounds reasonable. And that safe place already exists, so I can simply add a new envelope.

rabia_elizabeth , to israel group
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If anyone here wonders whether is consistent with orthodox , Torah Jews has you covered. (The answer: a resounding NO.)

They're on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/torahjews?igsh=ZDJ3OXdpaWtpdDVt.

Also on X.

@palestine @israel

rabia_elizabeth , to Media Industry Discussions
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If I could yell a rave review from the rooftops it would probably be about Roy Mottahedeh's "Mantle of the Prophet." It's both a personal biography of a and a general history of ancient and modern.

I don't know how Mottahedeh achieved the intense level of detail in his physical descriptions. He himself did not grow up or spend a ton of time in Iran. And his primary biographical subject was speaking to him as a middle-aged man, with childhood memories decades in the past. But I believe he relayed the personal account honestly, without fabrication, and the same goes for his interview subjects.

I bought a copy nearly 40 years ago and my blinkered USian twentysomething brain couldn't get past go with it. This despite several Islamic history courses which I'd enjoyed immensely, including a seminar on .

58 year old me is relishing every word. Probably helps to be .

@bookstodon @histodons

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@ratcatcher @bookstodon @histodons no, but I'm familiar with the general outline of 20th century history in Iran.

rabia_elizabeth , to editors group
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, what is your publication's officially stated tolerance for AI-generated content in article submissions from authors?

0% ? 5% ? 25 % ? Something else?

And are you authorized to reject submissions for if an article exceeds that percentage?

@editing @editors @writingcommunity

rabia_elizabeth , to ActuallyAutistic group
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Martha Wells writes about creating an character that does not want what the humans want... and, unsurprisingly, about later-life diagnosis.

Cc @marthawells

Via @metafilter

@actuallyautistic

https://www.metafilter.com/203313/That-vast-astonishing-multiplicity-of-vision

rabia_elizabeth , to ActuallyAutistic group
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hi @actuallyautistic .

Does anyone else deal with their organ systems working slower than normal, slowing to a crawl at times?

Wondering if this is connected somehow to and .

When my son was born, I had what's called an "inactive ." Pitocin took care of that right quick.

Now my system is super slow, especially post . Gets worse if I'm physically inactive or fasting for more than one day at a time, both of which behaviors will cause slowdown afaik.

Food digesting slowly, signs of undigested food in poop, intestinal gas, smell of undigested food in my sweat. Dry skin, hair, nails too.

Other than HCL and digestive there's no reliable, safe treatment afaik. I am not .

But when I think back, these symptoms have been showing up for a couple of decades. They didn't start suddenly with menopause.

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@rabbit74 @actuallyautistic that's interesting. I've now heard a few anecdotes about autistics and slower-than-expected organ function.

rabia_elizabeth , to ActuallyAutistic group
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Learning when to bury your eyes in your mobile to avoid unhealthy contact with Certain People: core life skill and one of those evasive maneuvers I had to learn in adulthood.

Anyone else come to STRATEGIC social avoidance tactics later on in life?

@actuallyautistic

rabia_elizabeth OP ,
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@Adventurer @actuallyautistic That's what I did today.

rabia_elizabeth OP ,
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@thepoliticalcat @actuallyautistic I suspect if I'd asked my mother how to avoid the (rare for me) pesky erstwhile suitor, for example, she would have advised me. But I got so little attention from men that the question didn't arise. Friends once had to coach me through it step by step at a party when I was in high school.

rabia_elizabeth , to palestine group
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Today, the spring equinox, is Mother’s Day in our Arab World.

Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers of Palestine. Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers of the wounded. May healing overflow you.
Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers of the prisoners. May freedom bloom over you.
Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers of the martyrs.

We honor the women who raised their children to become bearers of the flags of liberation. Here’s to the who carry their children twice: once in their wombs, bringing them to life, and once on their shoulders after their martyrdom.

To the pride of our nation and the crowns of our heads: We kiss your noble hands and hope that with each passing day, we may be worthy of the sacrifices you’ve made for us, despite knowing very well that we may never be. Until then, we’ll keep chanting, with each rising martyr:

يأمّ الشهيد نيّالك،
يا ريت إمّي بدالك

“O mother of the martyr, I envy you! I wish my mother was in your place!”
May we be worthy. @palestine

Illustration of young woman wearing white scarf, red shirt, and blue skirt, brandishing a Palestinian flag overhead, her young son at her left holding on to her skirt. Red flowers are at their feet and background is black. Arabic script appears at the top of the image. Colors are deeply saturated and the red predominates.
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    • apodoxus , to Religion group
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    @religion

    Hey monotheistic people, does your conception of ever give you an emotional feeling of safety? I'm asking specifically about the psychological effect here.

    rabia_elizabeth ,
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    @apodoxus @religion all the time. Only happened to me after I converted to Islam, however.

    rabia_elizabeth ,
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    @apodoxus @religion I went from Catholic to Buddhist to agnostic-leaning-atheist. I reverted to Islam almost exactly two years ago and it's here I'll stay, God willing. For the first time in nearly 60 years of living, I feel like I have a reason to be here.

    rabia_elizabeth , to yemen group
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    Irony flags flying...

    🇾🇪 Vice President of the Media Authority, Nasr El-Din Amer:
    —
    The first victory achieved by America and Britain is the removal of blue checks from the [Twitter] accounts of state leaders in Sana'a. As for the [Yemeni] Armed Forces, rockets, drones, and all military capabilities, they have not reached them.

    It turns out America is a force that should not be underestimated, brothers.

    @palestine @yemen

    rabia_elizabeth , to India
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    I'm finally digging into Kipling's "Kim" via the audiobook narrated by Simon Vance. It's a delight, as long as you keep firmly in mind that it's a product of its cultural time.

    It's billed in Everand as a "coming of age tale," but given that teenaged Kim has a scarily accurate understanding of the way the "adult" world works from the outset of the story, I don't think it's a bildungsroman at all. It's more like a hyperrealistic pilgrimage novel.

    Yesterday I learned that infamous double agent "Kim" Philby apparently got his nickname from the novel, which made me think immediately of another novel that contains a bildungsroman AND like "Kim" is a story: Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

    Good bookend novels, I think.

    @bookstodon

    rabia_elizabeth , to palestine group
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    Zionist ex-minister of "defense" Moshe Dayan once said, "We control Gaza by day, and Guevara controls it by night."

    Today, we remember Guevara of Gaza, Mohammed Al-Aswad, on the 51st anniversary of his martyrdom.

    Born in Haifa in 1946, Guevara joined the Arab Nationalist Movement as a youth before later joining Al-Sa'iqa and then the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in its early years. When he was 13 years old, the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara visited the Gaza Strip, touring several refugee camps.

    After carrying out many armed operations, zionist forces imprisoned Mohammed in 1968 and released him in July 1970. They did not know that Mohammed was the famous "Guevara" that all talked about at the time. Training and educating fighters, he was the commander of the PFLP in .

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    @palestine @israel

    rabia_elizabeth , to palestine group
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    Shared on the Resistance News Network:

    ⚪️ Mujahideen Movement:
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    • We congratulate the "Homesh" qualitative operation, which resulted in the injury of many zionists.
    • This qualitative operation comes as part of our people's response to the ongoing genocide against and the aggression against Al-Quds and the West Bank.
    • This qualitative operation constitutes a new and powerful security blow, reflecting the fragility and failure of the zionist security system.
    • The enemy must realize that our people's resistance is steadfast and will not succeed in breaking its will and its quest for liberation. It should expect more heroic acts from our people and their free revolutionaries.

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    @palestine @israel

    rabia_elizabeth OP ,
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    • We call for the blessed month of to be an opportunity to escalate confrontation and uprising against the criminal enemy and its settler gangs, and to engage in the battle to defend the people, the land, and the sanctities.
    • We renew the call to our militant cells and resistance factions to intensify their strikes against the forces of the fascist enemy in response to the ongoing genocide against our people.

    Palestinian Mujahideen Movement
    Media Office
    Saturday, 28 Sha'ban 1445
    Corresponding to March 9, 2024

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    @palestine @israel

    rabia_elizabeth , to palestine group
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    Is on your mind? Help keep alive by donating a few meals during .

    @palestine

    https://baitulmaal.org/masjid-al-aqsa-iftar/

    rabia_elizabeth , to ActuallyAutistic group
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    with planning and ... Anyone else?

    Recently I managed to step in very stinky metaphorical cow flop while engaged in said obsession, and am wondering how to Stop Scheming.

    @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity

    MissConstrue , to Random stuff
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    How good am I at avoiding thinking about difficult things when I don’t want to? This good.
    I give you the most time consuming, ridiculous, sunny-side up eggs you have ever seen. Yes, that is a savory meringue. Yes, I AM the queen of avoidance! .

    rabia_elizabeth ,
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    @MissConstrue those are gorgeous

    rabia_elizabeth , to Podcast
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    Help me find media that features whose emotional effect is the equivalent of a quiet mechanical keyboard!

    I adore the French TV series "Astrid et Raphaelle" for many reasons, one of them being the quiet precision and crisp with which the actors speak. Astrid is of course the best example, but many of the other actors speak the same way.

    Where can I find other TV shows, , or where people speak that way? Is it a French thing?

    Some requirements:

    • No explicit sex or preoccupation with violence
    • Can't be bleak or depressing
    • If in a language other than English, subtitles will need to be available

    @tv @film @actuallyautistic

    rabia_elizabeth , to law group
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    If you, a small business owner or an individual, are contracting with an established business with officers, and you're in the :

    Make sure their signatory is an officer of the company, someone authorized to enter into on behalf of the company. Alternatively they can give you a signing authority letter signed by an officer.

    Otherwise they can wiggle out, and guess who's the loser. You might be able to claim that the person who signed had apparent authority to bind the company, but I wouldn't risk it.

    Alhamdulillah that I learned that on one of my less interesting but ultimately worthwhile jobs.

    @law

    rabia_elizabeth , to Random stuff
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    TIL you can use Draw to edit ! You won't get a slick commenting function, but you can add text boxes to margins.

    And you can use drawing objects like white rectangles to mask errors in text, over which you can add text boxes with corrected text.

    Then simply export back to PDF.

    I abhor what has become, so any way I can avoid using their ecosystem, I do.

    @libreoffice

    rabia_elizabeth , to ActuallyAutistic group
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    Yesterday I realized that, Insha Allah, it will be FIVE YEARS in July that I've lived in the speaking world.

    I wish I could tell you that I'm fluent. I'm not, especially not in conversation, where we folks tend not to thrive even in our first language.

    But I do feel very comfortable here nonetheless. The area feels more like home than just about anywhere I've lived in the last three decades.

    Of course much of the ease has to do with on my part. I was happy to make the move; it wasn't forced on me by harsh economic or political circumstances.

    Any other auties living in a place where your first language isn't the one most commonly spoken? How's it going?

    @actuallyautistic

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    @olena @actuallyautistic I've had a similar experience with most people here. In general people here and in Central / South America and Mexico are simply seem kinder and calmer than folks in the US, although maybe not to each other all the time!

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    @globcoco @olena @actuallyautistic interesting. I find different cities here to have such different vibes. For example, I'm very comfortable in Madrid, not quite as much so in Barcelona.

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    @globcoco @actuallyautistic oh goodness, I've heard about the autónomos ! I'm on an NLV, which is far easier.

    rabia_elizabeth OP ,
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    @yourautisticlife @actuallyautistic oh wow! Which state do you live in?

    rabia_elizabeth OP ,
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    @olena @actuallyautistic all of the hugs. The frequent kindness of people here definitely contributes to my feeling at home, Alhamdulillah. Reminds me of the rural US where I grew up 50 years ago.

    rabia_elizabeth , to spirituality group
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    "The hadj is unique among Islam's five pillars. Declaration, prayer, fasting, and alms share an ethical basis. The hadj went beyond them, past society. Its significance is as a turning point, a rite of passage accomplished on two feet. I especially admired the way the sweat and the symbols flowed together.

    By an act of imagination and exertion, a spiritual rite of some duration fulfilled a private quest. For all its public aspects the experience was intensely personal. By giving the pilgrim a chance to choose his moment, it provided a service missing in the West since the days of the medieval palmers: it offered a climax to religious life."

    Michael Wolfe, "Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca," 1993

    @islam @spirituality @religion

    rabia_elizabeth , to palestine group
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    For a counterpoint to the popular narrative of disorganization and impotence in the , follow Resistance News Network on Telegram.

    @palestine @islam @yemen

    https://t.me/PalestineResist

    rabia_elizabeth , to AcademicChatter group
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    Asking @histodons and @academicchatter especially:

    Are master's and Ph.D. students simply not taught that articles for online publication need strong structure ... meaning a series of headings that make sense and inform the reader at a glance of what the article seeks to convey?

    And that you should be merciless when it comes to your own wordiness? Give Cousin It a haircut, for Pete's sake!

    In general I think no one is taught to make their writing of service to a specific reader.

    I'm grateful I learned that in my tech communication master's back in the nineties, because I don't think it's common knowledge.... or part of the usual academic pedagogy either.

    What do other folks think?

    @writing

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    @NorCallover @histodons @academicchatter @writing that's an interesting distinction and it makes sense.

    rabia_elizabeth , to ActuallyAutistic group
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    Today I'm giving in to my inner five year old. I call it Grade School Day. The responsible "grownup" tasks will be kept to a minimum, God willing.

    I'm kicking off grade school day with an episode of "Astrid et Raphaêlle," a show with an protagonist that I'm enjoying quite a bit.

    The lead actor is not autistic, but she did spend a fair amount of time with autistic folks to prepare for the role. Her choices re: physical manifestations of autism seem a bit telegraphed, but perhaps it's better for watchers to have some typical traits underscored.

    I'm grateful just to have an autistic woman protagonist on the small screen with whom watchers are invited to identify or empathize.

    @actuallyautistic has anyone seen "Astrid et Raphaêlle" ? What did you think?

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    @anomalon @actuallyautistic I was so pleased to see Actual Autists in that peer group! And like you I very much enjoy seeing the relationships between the two principal characters evolve.

    rabia_elizabeth , to ActuallyAutistic group
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    A social event I was iffy about just cancelled due to weather.

    So relieved: I have reading and study to do that I'm really looking forward to.

    Who else is happily avoiding social time this weekend and what are you doing instead?

    @actuallyautistic

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    @modulux @actuallyautistic it counts especially if you'll be spending the time doing something you prefer

    rabia_elizabeth OP ,
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    @crashglasshouses @actuallyautistic I've been there. Hugs if you want them.

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