APERTURE @APERTURE_SC

Opposition movements usually exist to manage dissent, not channel it. Every system that generates losers also generates a class of people whose entire identity, income, and social capital is built around representing those losers without ever actually threatening the system. The NGO. The opposition party. The activist intellectual. The protest organizer. Their incentive isn’t resolution. Resolution ends the job. Their incentive is legibility i.e turning raw rage into acceptable, processable, non-threatening political theater. Something that can be quoted, funded, platformed, and ultimately absorbed. The tells are consistent across contexts: they’re always more hostile to radical flanks than to the actual enemy. They spend more energy policing the movement’s tone than confronting power. They’re fluent in the language of urgency but structurally committed to gradualism. And they cultivate access to institutions they claim to oppose because access is the product they’re selling to their base. The group spirit gets professionalized, then domesticated. The most destabilizing movements in history, early Islam, the Haitian Revolution, certain labor insurgencies weren’t managed by a professional opposition class. They were driven by people with nothing to lose and no career in dissent to protect. The system doesn’t fear your protest, what it fears is your indifference to the protest’s legitimacy.

Ils font des crédits, voyagent h24 et tout leur réussit » : Le grand paradoxe du Riba. Explications en dans les 4 prochains tweets 👇🏻

SM @sm_mch

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@imjustgirl22 Salem je suis totalement contre , juste je me demandais comment ça se fait que tous les gens que je connais qui ont fait riba ont une vie heureuse, des enfants, ils voyagent h24, pas de pb de santé particulier

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“Allah will bring you what you love, in the way He loves.”

L’imam qui fond en larmes quand il évoque les musulmans qui utilisent leurs parents pour les tourner en dérision sur internet… wow Il a dit « Ils humilient ceux qu’Allah a demandé d’honorer. »

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 🖊️🧵 From an Islamic perspective, the fundamental weakness of modern democratic systems is that morality, legislation, and truth ultimately become vulnerable to shifting public opinion, political interests, lobbying pressure, wealth, media influence, and the desires of dominant groups. What is considered morally acceptable today may be condemned tomorrow, and what was once viewed as destructive can become legally protected simply because enough political power or cultural influence supports it. Islam approaches governance from an entirely different foundation. In Islam, ultimate sovereignty does not belong to the masses, corporations, monarchs, or political parties. Ultimate authority belongs to Allah جل جلاله alone, the One who possesses perfect knowledge, perfect justice, and complete wisdom over His creation. Human beings are not considered independent legislators above divine guidance, but rather trustees who are accountable before Allah جل جلاله for how they govern, judge, and exercise authority. This is one of the reasons many Muslims argue that Islam offers a superior moral and societal framework compared to secular democratic systems. Under Islam, principles of justice are not supposed to fluctuate according to financial lobbying, media manipulation, electoral convenience, or pressure from powerful interest groups. The ruler and the ordinary citizen stand equally under divine law. Even the highest authority in an Islamic system is ultimately answerable before Allah جل جلاله and cannot legitimately legalise oppression, corruption, exploitation, or immorality simply because it becomes politically advantageous. The early Islamic generations understood leadership as a burden of accountability rather than a pathway to status, wealth, or celebrity. The Khulafa رضي الله عنهم feared oppression intensely because they understood that authority was an amanah entrusted to them by Allah جل جلاله. Umar ibn al Khattab رضي الله عنه famously feared being questioned even about a neglected animal under his care because of the immense weight of responsibility attached to leadership in Islam. By contrast, modern political systems often incentivise short election cycles, public relations management, partisan loyalty, donor influence, and preservation of political careers. Politicians may promise one thing before elections and govern entirely differently afterwards, whilst still remaining protected by party structures, lobbying networks, and institutional alliances. Islam also places heavy emphasis upon social justice and collective responsibility. Wealth is not viewed as an unrestricted instrument of domination over society. Mechanisms such as zakah, prohibition of riba, obligations toward the poor, inheritance laws, and strict warnings against exploitation exist to prevent wealth from concentrating indefinitely amongst elites whilst the wider society suffers deprivation. The Quran repeatedly condemns arrogance, economic oppression, dishonesty in trade, corruption, and rulers who abuse power over people. At the same time, Islam does not call towards chaos, vigilantism, or emotional populism. Islamic governance is rooted in justice, consultation, knowledge, mercy, accountability, and preservation of societal order. The objective is not simply political power, but establishing a society that safeguards religion, life, intellect, family, dignity, and wealth according to divine guidance. Many Muslims therefore argue that the crisis seen in many modern democracies today is not merely economic or political, but spiritual and moral. When societies detach themselves from revelation and make human desire, profit, or ideology the highest authority, instability eventually emerges because human beings themselves are limited, biased, and vulnerable to corruption.

Pure ignorance, notice how the person frames submission to God as the obstacle to justice which implicitly frames secular humanism as the solution. What these idiots don’t know is justice without divine grounding has no ultimate foundation. History has shown what “fixing the world” without God looks like. 20th century should have answered that.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ The most blood spilled in human history came from movements that removed God from the equation entirely; French Revolution, Soviet Union, Maoist China, Nazi Germany. Secular utopians killed more people in 100 years than religion did in 1000. Come back to me about ‘fixing the world.’​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ They always assume the Enlightenment framework that fixing the world is the human’s job, unaided, through politics and rationality is the default correct one which is not a neutral observation Islam literally mandates wealth redistribution, outlaws exploitative interest (riba), and commands believers to stand firm for justice even if it’s against their own selves or families. The religion literally gave you a blueprint to a have peace on earth & the afterlife is exactly what stops people from accepting this broken world as the final score. When you believe there is ultimate, unavoidable reckoning for every atom of oppression, you don’t sell out the oppressed for a promotion. You don’t bow to tyrants because the pension is good. That moral stubbornness is precisely what the powerful have always hated about believers

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The test of a man is to control his sight and the test of a woman is to resist not being seen, because men are eager to look and women are eager to be seen.

Breakdown #Houdini

Yuki Ito @Yuki_1t0

a week ago

渓流の水中の泡をCGで作りました #Houdini

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Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله said: "If you reflect on the seven that Allah will shade under the shade of his throne the day there's no shade except his shade; you'll find that they only reached that by disobeying their desires." روضة المحبين ١/٤٨٤

Democracy only spread because it was the best system for producing compliant trading partners. A democracy has elections. Elections require parties. Parties require financing. Financing requires capital. Capital has interests. So by design, every democracy in the world has a built-in mechanism that ensures the people with money have disproportionate access to the people with power. You don’t need to bribe a dictator and hope he stays in power. In a democracy, you just fund both candidates and own the outcome regardless. This is why US spent the Cold War toppling democracies that elected the wrong people Mossadegh in Iran, Allende in Chile, Lumumba in Congo and replacing them with dictators who were more “stable.” Stable meaning: predictable to capital. The genius of it is the aesthetics. Democracy looks like self-determination. It has flags and anthems and moving inauguration speeches. People will die for it. But the operating system underneath is remarkably friendly to concentrated wealth arguably more so than overt authoritarianism, which at least makes the power visible. The most honest political scientists will tell you: what actually spread after 1989 was markets. Democracy was the packaging. And the packaging worked so well that the people inside it genuinely believe they’re free which is the final, most elegant feature of the system. A cage you can’t see is the strongest cage ever built.

渓流の水中の泡をCGで作りました #Houdini

Aïdkum Mubarak 🤍 en ce jour de fête, je vous invite à profiter un maximum de cette journée qu’Allah nous a offert arborez un sourire radieux et profitez pleinement de ces moments précieux avec vos proches, vos familles, vos grands et petits frères et sœurs ainsi que vos parents car ces instants partagés sont de véritables trésors qui enrichiront vos cœurs à jamais mes pensées vont également en ce jour aux personnes qui célèbrent ce jour seuls et qui peuvent être amenés à ressentir un sentiment de solitude et de peine, qu’importe le lieu où vous vous trouvez sachez que vous n’êtes aucunement seuls, la communauté du Prophète Muhammad ﷺ vous soutient et ne vous oublient aucunement à travers leurs invocations ; ayez la certitude que tôt ou tard Allah vous remplacera ce sentiment de solitude par un sentiment de proximité réconfortante à travers le biais d’un entourage qui dépassera vos attentes en terme de bonheur et de réconfort pour votre personne ayons également une pensée particulière pour nos frères et sœurs opprimés, notamment en Palestine, qui vivent ce jour de fête dans la difficulté, ne les oubliez aucunement dans vos Douعas pour finir, je vous souhaite à toutes et à tous énormément de bonheur et je profite de ce jour pour vous remercier pour votre bienveillance, votre gentillesse, votre attention quotidienne à travers vos partages de mes tweets et vos sollicitations à mon égard en public comme en privé le Prophète ﷺ nous enseigne que celui qui ne remercie pas les gens ne remercie pas Allah c’est donc un honneur pour moi et je remercie Allah ainsi que vous-même de me permettre d’être une cause de Kheir à votre égard nous ne sommes que de passage et un jour ou l’autre, il ne restera rien de nous, si ce n’est certaines bonnes œuvres que nous aurons laissées derrière nous par la volonté d’Allah j’espère alors que ce message à votre égard en fera pour ma part partie et que ce dernier sera source de joie et réconfort pour une partie d’entre vous qu’Allah vous protège et vous préserve يَقْبَل الله مِنَّا وَمِنْكُم

Atami Kaihourou Hotel by Kengo Kuma, Atami, Shizuoka, Japan, 1995

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selecto @teille2selecto

a week ago

Homme ou femme ne vous exposez jamais sur les reseaux والله que tot ou tard vous le regretterez Et j’vous parle même dans le cas où vos awra sont couvertes J’connais personnellement des gens à qui ont a fait du sihr avec ce qu’ils ont trouvé d’eux sur internet Preservez vous

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اللهم يا سامع كل شكوى يا شاهد كل بلوى يا عالم كل خفية ونجوى، أنت ترى ما لا نرى وتسمع ما لا نسمع وتعلم ما لا نعلم، اللهم إن إخواننا المستضعفين في غزة والشام واليمن وبورما وفي كل بقعة من بقاع الأرض ينامون على الجوع ويستيقظون على الخوف ويحملون من الألم ما لا تحتمله الجبال، اللهم أنت الذي قلت وقولك الحق ولا تحسبن الله غافلا عما يعمل الظالمون، فيا من لا يغفل يا من لا ينام يا من لا يخفى عليه ظلم الظالمين خذ بحق المظلومين من الظالمين، اللهم فرج عن المحصورين فرجا عاجلا وارفع الحصار عن الجائعين ورد الغائبين الى اهليهم سالمين واشف جرحى المسلمين وارحم موتاهم واكرم نزلهم، اللهم إن الاطفال يموتون ولم يذوقوا من الدنيا الا المحنة والامهات تدفن اولادها بأيديها والآباء يقفون عاجزين امام ما صنعه الظلم، يا رحيم يا رحمان انت ارحم بهم من امهاتهم فارحمهم رحمة تسع جراحهم، اللهم اجعلنا اهلا لنصرتهم ولا تجعلنا ممن يرى الظلم فيسكت ويسمع الاستغاثة فينام وايقظ قلوبنا قبل ان يوقظها العذاب، اللهم في هذا اليوم الذي تباهي فيه بأهل عرفة ملائكتك لا ترد دعاءنا ولا تخيب رجاءنا واجعل هذا اليوم بداية نصر للمستضعفين وبداية هلاك للظالمين يا قوي يا عزيز يا منتقم.

交差点を3DCGで作った

I had access to Japanese design twitter for a brief moment and it was beautiful

Hey @MontagueMont, I think it’s time we dust off some old stuff and get back to work.

I am cooking.

no more having to open photoshop to create alpha textures from photos artofpilgrim.github.io/levels/ same process i use in photoshop: Black and White adjustment + levels but now in the browser