a block from my house this morning

Pistachio tree overload

Just noticed that Antakya was accidentally omitted in Redhouse’s original version of the dictionary. Everyone makes mistakes 🤪

from Judith Tucker’s Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt but seems relevant to this whole trad wife phenomenon today

caught these little fighters making something out of nothing while mountain biking yesterday

Found this in NYU Abu Dhabi’s Akkasah archive today, tentatively titled Gearheads of the Ottoman Empire, 1883ish

umm… babe, you’re the president of the same university that tried to revoke Momodou Taal’s visa for standing against genocide.

Visiting now - and it appears they’ve taken down Barack and Michelle Obama’s portraits at the National Portait Gallery.

completely unbothered in aya sofya

convenient typo

yaşasın Osmanlı İmparatorluğu

1928 air conditioned trains!

happy wednesday from bernie

we’ve made it to a new stage of desperation

They’re all imperfect, but what’s your favorite map projection?

I’m tied b/w the Waterman Butterfly and the Dymaxion. Any recs from real-life geographers welcome, I’ve got 0 expertise.

Dymaxion by Tobias Jung (based on Natural Earth II by Tom Patterson)
Waterman by… Steve Waterman

Hi there! I’m a longtime lurker on the other site making my foray into posting publicly. Interested in

Ottoman history - ports, railroads, informal economies, and labor
cats
historical fantasy
running
trails, mountains, backpacking… all that jazz
NUMTOT
free Palestine
medieval art memes
ABBA