Sufyan Abbasi

@sufy

Just trying to survive climate change and late stage capitalism. Posts, likes, and thoughts are my own. AWU-gler working on Earth Engine he/him | | sufsters@ on that one site we don’t talk about anymore

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Sufyan Abbasi@sufy· 17d

I found this card rifling through the bulk bin and I was floored when I found it. Haste and untap in green? White border card? Only 1 mana and pays for itself when attached to a mana dork??

Instill Energy (1 green mana)

Enchant Creature

Target creature can attack the turn it comes into play on your side.

0: During your turn, untap target creature Instill Energy enchants.
Use this ability only once each turn.

Illus. Dameon Willich
© 1995 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. All rights reserved.

Sufyan Abbasi@sufy· Mar 28

When you see a character/card design that speaks to you, it short circuits your brain and you just HAVE TO BUY it. For example, when I saw Saheeli Rai in the Living Energy precon, I bought it as my first precon and made a deck as a love letter to Ghirapur, Kaladesh, and the Arabian Nights.

The Magic the Gathering card: Saheeli, Radiant Creator, depicting a brown woman in a dancing pose with various chrome flourishes, flower petals, and purple/blue swirling

Card text reads:

Legendary Creature - Human Artificer Whenever you cast an Artificer or artifact
spell, you get 4 (an energy counter). At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay 4 4 4. When you do, create a token that's a copy of target permanent you control, except it's a 5/5 artifact creature
in addition to its other types and has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end
step.
4/4
M 0003
DRC • EN ERNANDA SOUZA
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Sufyan Abbasi@sufy· Feb 7

If I ever became president/dictator elect, I would have that sacred, Indigenous site painstakingly restored to its former glory. It was one of the most beautiful mountains I’ve ever seen: www.nps.gov/moru/learn/h...

Mount Rushmore before it was adulterated.

Sufyan Abbasi@sufy· Feb 1

It’s real, just compression artifacts from the video being recorded off of a live stream. You can see Mayor Maloney next to Councilmember Wang when the video zooms out (their profiles linked below) www.alhambraca.gov/297/City-Cou... And the clock matches this picture from the Colorado Boulevard.

Council chambers presented by the Colorado Boulevard: https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/alhambras-ice-resolution-draws-criticism-being-watered-down/

Screenshot from the video, depicting the boy in the orange hat and the same council chamber as the room next to it.

Sufyan Abbasi@sufy· Jan 10

The Straw Hat flag is a symbol of joy as the dominant factor of their resistance. They don’t really take a hard stance on anything, except for overcoming any threat to joy (and by proxy, freedom). But the manga is chockfull of flags which have deep symbology at play, see alt text:

Sun Pirate flag from One Piece. A pirate flag depicting a bright red sun (full circle, and flames around it).

The formerly enslaved Fishmen pirates in One Piece cover their slave branding with this symbol, alongside other non-enslaved members of the pirate crew, to render their status indistinguishable from each other.

Sufyan Abbasi@sufy· Dec 21

Here’s a useful math fact that you’ll never use! You only need 37 digits of pi to measure the circumference of the known universe to an accuracy of the width of a hydrogen atom. As in, all the digits you can memorize is probably good enough. I’ll also throw in a Ramanujan for taste:

Ramanujan’s approximation for pi

1 over pi = 2 root 2 over 9801 times the summation from k = 0 to infinity of 4k factorial times 1103 + 26390k divided by k factorial to the fourth power times 396 to the 4k power

Sufyan Abbasi@sufy· Dec 4

Is this the origin of the “monopod” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopod...

In a 2025 article, Karl Brandt proposed that the legend of the Monopod may have been inspired by the remains of thresher sharks with the elongated caudal fin resembling a single giant foot. The long-held belief, dating at least as far back as Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, that every land animal had a counterpart in the sea, and vice versa, may have contributed to the legend.

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Sufyan Abbasi@sufy· Nov 24

Truly! I highly recommend Fremont Coffee Roasters in Seattle… their coffee and latte art is next level: