I don’t actually mind people asking my ethnic background in general. Curiosity is a good thing. It’s just this particular way of doing it that annoys me.

And they also didn’t credit me. Which also sucks but happens all the time. In this case I am too amused to be annoyed though.

Hope to hear your take on the colossal dump Indiana just took on the 1A.

Mocking the French is our birthright

We don't need a repeat of the "dis-orientalism" catastrophe whose effects haunt zines and the like to this day.

Examples of such signs include: use of pre-Khalilian meters (or else of genre-inappropriate meters like rajaz in a serious Qaṣīdah), words that make sense in context more based on inscriptions or dialect data than on Ibn Manẓūr, and even (on one occasion at least) different gender roles.

Hoping for the day in 20 years when I am talking to someone who is now 7, and tell them (as someone who remembered the Cuban missile crisis once told me) "you'll never believe how close we came and to what".

To find new people to argue with?

The best shot for unfucking this mess is for the court to later do what they did with Rahimi and go “oh shit wait, that’s clearly insane, time for a retcon. No no we didn’t mean what we clearly said we meant because obviously we’d be insane to mean that.” I am not holding my breath

Culture bundling. It’s not the guns per se; it’s the cultural bundles that come with the guns and with gun control. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1213-white-productive-gun-debate-20151213-story.html