Ramsey Nasser @nasser@friend.camp

might fuck around later and title my autobiography "It's Not a Game, It's an Experience"

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it seems like she's regressing... she's very scared outside and it's hard to get her off the block at all anymore. at the same time she's really happy and playful at home, so idk?

I don't know that I've ever seen an American politician acknowledge the displacement of Palestinians like this ♥️✊

true story: I want to use the face app very badly... but I don't want to give them my data 😔

she figured out how to climb up on the couch!

not gonna lie i tear up a little every time i see this scene

today is the date in one of my favorite music videos of all time!

2019
CAIRO CITY
Fifty years after Apollo 11

The Cairenes attend a world, interplanetary event:
The launch of the first Arab spaceship.

The Pan-Arab Alliance sends two astronauts to the moon.

Date:
2019.07.21

Their Mission:
"Get It Right"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPPYhAISKPI

started my day picking fights with capitalists on birdsite why did i do that

doing that thing where i hear a song for the first time and i listen to it on repeat until it dissolves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjRaKId4Rps

really enjoying working on this game

still thinking about this exchange i saw in a jp morgan chase bank in carrol gardens where a cute little blonde boy was reaching for a bowl of lollipops and his mom kept saying "no. honey, no. those arent organic." and in that moment i felt very far from the mountains of lebanon

this can sometimes have a funny inverse effect: I have a friend who is from Yemen, and we both make an effort to speak in a way that the other can understand (eg I don't use French words with him) BUT as we get more comfortable with each other, there's this tendency to relax back into our actual respective Arabic dialects, and then suddenly it gets hard to understand each other!

different spoken arabics are very different and can be mutually unintelligible! it's a source of a lot of humor, and Lebanese in particular is funny to a lot of people because of how gentle it is and how much it borrows from Syriac and Aramaic and French. generally, when talking to Arabs from other countries it's polite to temper your dialect, but when me my sister talk it's wholehog full throttle Lebanese. not the first time that hasn't even registered as Arabic to someone ✌️

so it turns out the cashier at the coffee shop by my studio is originally Egyptian! yesterday she told me that she noticed I was speaking "a Middle Eastern sounding language" with someone at the coffee shop the other week (I was there with my sister) and I responded by saying I was Lebanese and that we were speaking Arabic. she looked at me quizzically and asked "that... was Arabic?" 🤣

there's a story on NPR about how a teen white nationalist was radicalized and then deradicalized by contrapoints and it's good and important... but I can't ever shake the discomfort that brown kids who get radicalized in exactly the same way just get hunted and killed and never get a radio redemption story like this

lara sent in final art for the intro and... fuck... its so good... i cant even deal with it... im motivated to step my shit up so i dont make her art look bad with the rest of the game!!!

i am seriously concerned about ilhan omar's safety

she's 80 pounds and very strong. she's missing a bunch of teeth but not the important ones. she's not gentle out of obligation or an inability to be mean -- she could shred me if she wanted to no problem -- but its just who she is. big lazy playful pup, gentle as a butterfly.