Zaid Humaimidi
zaidka.bsky.social
Zaid Humaimidi
@zaidka.bsky.social
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October 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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its wild how slippery objective consensus reality is right now
September 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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#New on #OCIANA, perhaps the first rhymed Dhofari text: an expression of weeping out of lovesickness, themes in Safaitic and in Jāhilī poetry.

'here, he has wept; in him is much weeping; because of his excess love (صبه), he is silent'

Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
September 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Commodore's CEO Peri Fractic is off to the factory in order to oversee the production line of the Commodore 64 Ultimate. Expect a lot of pictures, videos and updates in the coming days.

There is still time to secure one of the first batches over at commodore.net

#WeAreCommodore #C64 #Commodore64
September 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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We'll keep this short: Part 3 of our "Let's buy Commodore" series drops tomorrow at 9am BST (UK time). More updates, more insights behind the whole process, more Commodore 64 Ultimate awesomeness! #WeAreCommodore #Commodore64 #C64 #RetroComputing #RetroGaming
August 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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I find this delightful.
August 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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My "Shader Programming Disguised as Picross" game "Replicube" is 20% off as part of the Steam "Automation Fest" going on this week! Grab it at its lowest price yet!
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July 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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We've been sleeping for 30 years. Please excuse us. Now, the best-selling home computer ever is back. Unplug The Chaos. Return To The Pixel. #wearecommodore www.commodore.net
Home | Commodore
www.commodore.net
July 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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a free (limited) version of Replicube that runs on the web is in the works and almost ready!
June 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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The war on empathy is a war on democracy

www.theframelab.org/the-war-on-e... lol
The War on Empathy by Musk, Trump, and Evangelicals
Why do Republicans hate empathy?
www.theframelab.org
May 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Easy choice.
March 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"New" Publication!

This paper I presented in 2016, pretty sure I handed it in by 2017... but now it's finally out.

I would have probably written it a bit different today, but it's still I think an interesting article with fun observations! 🧵
March 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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💯 RFK Jr. approved!
March 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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He was a few months ahead of himself.
March 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Just announced! On April 12 I'm holding a 1-day workshop at the Arab British Centre, where we'll be having fun using abjad numerals and writing them in unusual Kufi styles. Details in here: www.arabbritishcentre.org.uk/courses/joum...
When letters were numbers: the Abjad numerals - 1 Day Course with Joumana Medlej - The Arab British Centre
Joumana Medlej is back at the Arab British Centre with a new course open to calligraphers and artists of all levels (including beginners!). In this one-day workshop you will learn all about the Abjad ...
www.arabbritishcentre.org.uk
March 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.
March 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Must Watch. @rachelmaddowshow.bsky.social on Trump and Putin. Scary.
'Who's that good for?': Maddow connects the dots on Donald Trump's behavior toward Russia
YouTube video by MSNBC
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March 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday.

That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas...

It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
February 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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‎A common prayer to the gods in the pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions is sm‘ l-y “give ear to me”, so samī‘ “hearing (of prayers)” is an expected divine epithet. This Hismaic txt attests the name: ‘abdu-samī‘ “slave of (the one who) hears” anticipating the Islamic name عبد السميع.
February 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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One of the great Arab tribal confederacies of the 1st mil. BCE is Qedar, attested in cuneiform and biblical sources, but absent from Arabia's epigraphic record, until now! See #OCIANA for the 1st first attestation of this group in #Taymanitic!

Esk. 20: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
January 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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This is ABSOLUTELY factual! Musk’s gesture WAS compared to a Nazi salute or a fascist salute. Musk DID deny any meaning behind the gesture. Musk’s argument appears to be with reality.
January 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Trump just withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.

The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.
January 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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I did a thing. youtu.be/4H4sScCB1cY
I'm Suing Honey
YouTube video by LegalEagle
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January 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The final ERA5 temperature data are now in. 2024 was the warmest year on record. Thanks humans! 🔥
January 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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A hero's welcome for Raghid Ahmed Al-Tatari, Syria's longest serving political prisoner. A former military pilot he was imprisoned by Hafez Al Assad in 1981 for refusing to bomb civilians in Hama. He was recently freed.
December 27, 2024 at 8:53 PM