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<description>Writing by Salieri</description>
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<title>Introducing Pactful</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/pactful/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/pactful/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Introducing Pactful. We live as consumers in a brutal capitalist society. We take for granted the talabat rider that delivers your food, the barista who works in the cafeteria of your office, or the c</description>
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<title>Disco Elysium, and the Voices I Already Had</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/disco-elysium/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/disco-elysium/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>I finished Disco Elysium yesterday, and I'm writing this before the game settles, because I suspect that once it settles it will pretend it was always part of me and do that weird thing media does wit</description>
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<title>Two Games That Broke My Brain</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/blue-prince-wanderstop/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/blue-prince-wanderstop/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>In games, (and maybe in life in general) I'm not a patient person. Never have been. I find the fastest path through everything, optimize my routes, min-max whenever possible. I don't skip cutscenes th</description>
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<title>الحملة اللي فكرتنا إيه معنى الأمل</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/mamdani-hope/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/mamdani-hope/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>هقولكوا الحقيقة—لحد قريب جداً، أنا ماكنتش أعرف إن مدينة نيويورك عندها عمدة أصلاً. يعني أكيد جوايا كنت عارف إن المدن عندها عُمد، بس الموضوع ماكانش فارق معايا خالص. بعدين حملة ظهران ممداني اللي سيطرت عل</description>
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<title>For Those Who Come After</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/expedition-33/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/expedition-33/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Embedded within our short existence, I find nothing quite as cruel as the loss of a loved one. Whether it be a death, a divorce, a falling out, a breakup, or a gradual slipping away, we find ourselves</description>
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<title>The Tunnel Without a Light at the End</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>It has been a couple of weeks since my graduation and a while since I wrote pretentiously on Facebook so please, hear me out for this one. I have always been a &quot;light at the end of the tunnel&quot; person,</description>
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<title>إيه اللي بياكلوه؟</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/delicious-in-dungeon/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/delicious-in-dungeon/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>جزء من الـ reflection بتاعي لـ2024 هو تحديد أفضل عمل فني شفته والمعيار السنادي بالنسبالي كان ايه هو أكتر حاجة شفتها بتجاوب سؤال مثير بالنسبالي. ليه؟ من أفضل الحاجات في الفانتازي عموما هي إنها بتاخدنا </description>
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<title>الهوس، والولد اللي قاعد جنب التلاجة</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/obsession/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/obsession/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>الهوس (obsession) في رأيي لطالما كان المحرك الأول للانجازات في تاريخ البشرية، الشغف ممكن والdiscipline ضروري، لكن اللحظات اللي بتدخلك لل flow state هي لحظات الهوس، ساعات من حل مسائل أو ساعات من الرسم </description>
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<title>The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/house-in-fata-morgana/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/house-in-fata-morgana/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>&quot;The road to hell is paved with good intentions&quot; - this perfectly encapsulates the essence of &quot;The House in Fata Morgana.&quot; As someone with a niche for intense media consumption, I found myself struggl</description>
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<title>ليه بو برنام هو فناني المفضل</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/bo-burnham/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/bo-burnham/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>ليه بو برنام / bo burnham هو فناني المفضل في الوقت الحالي؟ نقطتين: 1. كتير في حياتي مريت بالشعور بتاع وأنا بتفرج على فيديو يوتيوب أو ريل على انستجرام لانفلونسر معين وهما بيعملوا حاجة معينة ,اقول لنفسي</description>
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<title>Love Transforms Us Little by Little</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/love-transforms/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/love-transforms/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Love has the power to transform us little by little. In fact, this incremental change is one of the fascinating features of love when put in the context of transformative experience. Smiling at a new </description>
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<title>النهاردة قابلت تيم مودلين</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/tim-maudlin/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/tim-maudlin/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>النهاردة قابلت تيم مودلين على زووم، أشهر (وغالبا أحسن) فيلسوف فيزياء حي في الوقت اللي احنا فيه. طريقة كلامه سهلة وأنت عارف هو بيقول ايه كويس (أو يمكن عشان قريت اجزاء من كتبه). سألته لو هو فاهم شعور أن</description>
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<title>&quot;Was&quot;</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/was/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/was/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>&quot;Was&quot; must be the most lovely word in the English language. It tells you everything you need to know about our ingenuity as a species. If you look up smallpox today, often the first two words of the d</description>
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<title>Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/stone-walls/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/stone-walls/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a quoted essay whose author I could not identify. Stone walls do not a make a prison nor iron bars a cage To be completely free, or to do something of your own free will, it is essential</description>
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<title>احنا عايشين في سلام وهمي</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/imaginary-peace/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/imaginary-peace/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>احنا عايشين في سلام وهمي. بقالنا سنين بيتم تغذيتنا بشعارات عن الحب والسلام؟ كان فين الكلام ده أيام كل حركات الاستعمار اللي اتعملت؟ ودلوقتي مع أي محاولة لأي شعب أنه يرفض النظام الحالي دول الاتحاد الأور</description>
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<title>What Do I Want?</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/what-do-i-want/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/what-do-i-want/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>What do I want? I guess I want to be at peace with myself. I never really feel like I'm doing enough. I'm never really like settled. I guess I want to solve myself. I want to understand myself. Um, so</description>
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<title>أقدملك الـdoomer</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/doomer/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/doomer/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>أقدملك الـdoomer. الوجه اللي بيمثل كتير أوي من الشباب في جيلنا الحالي (أو Gen Z زي ما بيتسمى أونلاين) وبالنسبالي، الشاب المصري اللي أنا جزء من انعكاسه بقى هو الـ doomer ده دلوقتي. حاليا، مفيش سبب يخلّ</description>
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<title>All Is Ablaze</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/all-is-ablaze/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/all-is-ablaze/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>The age-old truth persists: life embodies suffering, a painful existence as the prevailing norm rather than an exception. Maturing equates to grappling with this agonizing reality. Inevitably, cherish</description>
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<title>النضج العاطفي</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/emotional-maturity/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/emotional-maturity/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>من الحاجات اللي أنا اتعلمتها متأخر في حياتي هي النضج العاطفي، القدرة على تقبل ضعفك كإنسان، سواء ذكر أو أنثى، وتقبل ضعف الآخرين العاطفي، أن غالبا محدش بيغلط فيك لأنه مشخصنها معاك بل بسبب نقص عاطفي ما ع</description>
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<title>Bite My Heart, But Don't Bite My Bread</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/bite-my-heart/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/bite-my-heart/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>The problem with development efforts in third-world countries is that if they are genuinely serious, they often focus solely on the economic and possibly the social aspects, while completely neglectin</description>
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<title>What If the World Were as We Wish It?</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/what-if/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/what-if/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>God, maybe, or no God, or a final Theory, or the end of all theories. The promise that tomorrow things will hurt less than today. Beyond language, beyond reason, towards the place where everything mus</description>
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<title>Love, a Fickle Mistress</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/fickle-mistress/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/fickle-mistress/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Love, my friends, is a fickle mistress. It promises joy and fulfillment, yet often delivers only misery and suffering. We cling to it, despite its cruelty, because we believe it to be the only thing t</description>
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<title>أغنية &quot;سلام&quot; والإنسان الفاشل المعاصر</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/salam-mousa-sam/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/salam-mousa-sam/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>أغنية &quot;سلام&quot; لموسى سام أكتر أغنية بتمثل حالة الإنسان الفاشل المعاصر، ومن أكتر أغانيا المفضلة. الأغنية بتبدأ بموسى وهو ببوصف حالة العالم: أنا عايش جوا عالم مليان حاجات غلط فمتقوليش إنت هايف عشان عايز إ</description>
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<title>A Dance Outside of Choice</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/a-dance-outside-of-choice/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/a-dance-outside-of-choice/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>A montage of mornings in bed with coffee and the sun shining through the curtains, realizing that this night out of all the nights of your fragmented existence wasn't spent alone, it was spent with th</description>
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<title>المشي بالليل</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/insomniacs-after-school/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/insomniacs-after-school/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>بمناسبة الساعة اللي اتسرقت مننا النهاردة، المشي بالليل ده تجربة فريدة من الطراز الأول. بالليل الواحد بيمشي بيتعرف على حاجات مختلفة كل مرة، وهو مستمتع بالموسيقى اللي بيسمعها وبعيد عن كل الناس. في المشي</description>
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<title>هل أنا قلتلك قبل كدة إني عايز فلوس؟</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/money/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/money/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>هل أنا قلتلك قبل كدة إني عايز فلوس؟ مين مش عايز؟ ايوا، مش معنى إني واعي وذكي وبائس وكل الكلام ده إني مش بحتاج إني آكل واشرب والبس في بعض الأحيان اللي بقرر أخرج فيها، الوعي مش ببلاش يا عزيزي. بس ايه مق</description>
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<title>What Is Love</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/what-is-love/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/what-is-love/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Perhaps within a love ballad blasting through some grocery store speakers, a pulsing nostalgia emerges from your mind, reminding you of what was once our song. Maybe in a third-grade classroom, static</description>
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<title>قواعد اللعبة وقواعد الواقع</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/rules-of-the-game/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/rules-of-the-game/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>وانا صغير كنت مهووس باللعب اللي بتخليك تمثل انك شخصية تانية، مهما كانت الشخصية دي، انت بتبدأ حياة جديدة ملهاش علاقة بحياتك ولا مشاكلك ولا ذاتك المحرجة اللي بتخليك مش عارف تنام بليل. اللعب اللي الفرق ب</description>
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<title>الناس الواعية والناس العادية</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/two-kinds-of-people/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/two-kinds-of-people/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>بدون أي إهانة، طول عمري كنت شايف أن فيه نوعين من الناس، وكنت بتريق مع أصحابي دايما على النوع التاني كما لو كنا شايفين نفسنا طبقة أرقى فكريا في المجتمع، النوعين هما الناس الواعية والناس &quot;العادية.&quot; النا</description>
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<title>ليس في الإمكان أبدع من هذا العالم</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/ghazali-best-of-all-worlds/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/ghazali-best-of-all-worlds/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>الإمام الغزالي قال: &quot;ليس في الإمكان أبدع من هذا العالم.&quot; ودي بالنسبالي حاجة مثيرة للتعجب أنك تفكر أن عالمنا ده، بكل بشاعته، هو أفضل حاجة ممكنة كان الله -سبحانه وتعالى- ممكن يخلقها. هل فيه عجز ما من ال</description>
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<title>The Desire to Simply Not Exist</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/to-simply-not-exist/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/to-simply-not-exist/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>I think that a rarely discussed but commonly felt desire is to simply not exist. This should, of course, be distinguished from its far more violent and permanent cousin, an act that admittedly still h</description>
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<title>إذن السفر</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/travel-permit/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/travel-permit/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>امبارح حصلي أكتر موقف بيثبتلي أن البلد دي هتفضل عايشة في الپيروقراطية العمياء للأبد، لأ ومش مصالح حكومية، أعتقد كلنا تخطينا المرحلة دي وبقت أمر واقع خلاص. أنا كان المفترض اسافر أمريكا خمس أيام، عشان أ</description>
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<title>مفهوم الوجود عند ابن عربي</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/ibn-arabi-circle-of-being/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/ibn-arabi-circle-of-being/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>كشخص درس الهندسة، مفهوم الوجود عند ابن عربي مثير للاهتمام للغاية في تميزه. إن ابن عريى على خلاف الفلسفة الإشراقية. المتأثرة بالأفلاطونية المحدثة-لا يرى الوجود بنية خطية هابطة من «الواحد» أو «الأول»، و</description>
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<title>Great Work Takes Years to Bake</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/great-work-takes-years/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/great-work-takes-years/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2023-04-06 because it said something I could not. I love &quot;2001: A Space Odyssey&quot;. It's the first serious film I ever saw. My dad showed it to me</description>
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<title>Happy Families Are All Alike</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/happy-families/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/happy-families/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>The novel Anna Karenina begins with the line: &quot;Happy families are all alike. All unhappy families are unhappy in their own way&quot; I've always loved that line because it isn't just about families. I don'</description>
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<title>I Am You and You Are Me</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/everything-is-connected/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/everything-is-connected/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>There's something strange brewing in the air, it's as if the world had collectively experienced a bad trip and we are now in the process of trying our best to pretend it never happened. Presently, we </description>
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<title>الشافعي والعقل الناقل</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/al-shafii/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/al-shafii/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>مؤخرا أثناء دراستي لقانون الشريعة الإسلامية، سقط تحت يدي كتاب نصر حامد أبو زيد: &quot;الشافعي وإعادة تأسيس الأيديولوجية الوسطية.&quot; فيها اكتشفت حاجة، أو عيب غريب عمري ما ركزت فيه في طريقة تعاملنا مع السُنة ا</description>
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<title>The Michelangelo Effect</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/michelangelo-effect/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/michelangelo-effect/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Why do some relationships allow us to flourish? While others drive us further from who we'd like to be? According to the Michelangelo effect, romantic partners have the capacity to sculpt each other t</description>
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<title>Oliver and Agatha</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/oliver-and-agatha/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/oliver-and-agatha/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2023-02-14 because it said something I could not. Oliver wakes from a horrific dream, a joke set in a bar with talking animals. Oliver lives on </description>
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<title>Getting Past an Unrequited Crush</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/unrequited-crush/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/unrequited-crush/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>To get past an unrequited crush is to realize that the crush and the actual person you have a crush on are not the same. In this sense, one needs to separate themselves from the pursuit both in recogn</description>
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<title>مدرسة أثينا</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/school-of-athens/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/school-of-athens/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>أعظم الأعمال الفنية على الإطلاق، مدرسة آثينا أو School of Athens لرفاييل. اللوحة دي بالنسبالي بتمثل كل ما هو عظيم في الاكاديميا البشرية، بيجمع فيها رفاييل كل اللي أثروا في تاريخ العلم والفلسفة حتى عصر</description>
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<title>Being Sad for No Reason</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/sad-for-no-reason/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/sad-for-no-reason/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Being sad for no reason is almost impressive, given the insane amount of things there are to feel sad about. It often strikes sometimes on a holiday morning or on a Wednesday evening when I finish all</description>
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<title>On Your Deathbed</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2023-01-20 because it said something I could not. People tell you examples of other people who made it and say they were in your place one day. </description>
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<title>This Action Will Have Consequences</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>“This Action Will Have Consequences.” Coming back to origins this winter break, I wanted to play the old role of a detective again. That led me to Life is Strange, or LiS, which I entered believing I </description>
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<title>The World Needed a Goth Girl Icon</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Good grief! Wednesday Addams has proven how the world needs a goth girl icon so much. She’s the living image of dark academia, a social media aesthetic inspired by old English boarding schools and Ivy</description>
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<title>How I Met Your Mother</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>I finally finished &quot;How I Met Your Mother,&quot; or himym for short. It was a journey I enjoyed every moment of it. One of the things that make &quot;How I Met Your Mother&quot; so special is its lovable and relatab</description>
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<title>Falling in Love in a Dream</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Have you ever fallen in love with someone in a dream? Just now, I fell in love in my dreams. For a few brief moments, I roll around confused and with thoughts racing towards the future; it is the midd</description>
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<title>Be Yourself, or Be Loved</title>
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<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/be-yourself-or-be-loved/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>'If you want to be loved, you need to be yourself.' This piece of advice offered in slightly altered forms depending on whether one is seeking romantic love, success, or friendship feels like a big fa</description>
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<title>Nothing Can Ever Ruin This</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2022-12-11 because it said something I could not. You meet at a party. You're both young, probably teens. You find excuses to hang out and prete</description>
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<title>Happy Birthday, Past Me</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Happy Birthday, past me, from the alone future you. And I think during that, will I like my future self? Will we share the same dreams, and would either of us want to? Will he dread the very idea of m</description>
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<title>The Loss of a Loved One</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/loss-of-a-loved-one/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Embedded within our short existence, I find nothing quite as cruel as the loss of a loved one. Whether it be a death, a divorce, a falling out, a breakup, or a gradual slipping away, we find ourselves</description>
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<title>Manic Pixie Dream Everything</title>
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<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/manic-pixie/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Our look at love is very messed up. The very ambiguity of love is seen as a gateway to exploitation. This is apparent in the gender differences that define love. This naturally leads to some level of </description>
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<title>الجهل نعمة</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/ibn-rushd-and-the-crowd/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/ibn-rushd-and-the-crowd/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>الجهل نعمة، ناس كتير بتقول الجملة دي رايح جاي عمال على بطال، وهي صحيحة مية في المية في رأيي. بعيدا عن هبد الوعي قاتل والكلام ده، إلا إني كطالب فلسفة من وقت للتاني بصطدم ببراهين واثباتات تخلّي أجدعها ش</description>
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<title>Beauvoir and the Ethics of Love</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/beauvoir-ethics-of-love/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/beauvoir-ethics-of-love/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Relationships can be tricky. Many spend their days dreaming about finally meeting that so-and-so who will justify their existence and fill that hole in their heart. Most of our media is characterized </description>
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<title>معضلة القنفذ</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/porcupine-dilemma/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/porcupine-dilemma/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>في الشتا الشديد، القنافذ بتواجه paradox سماها شوبنهاور &quot;معضلة القنفذ&quot; وهي أن من البرد القوي، القنافذ بتعوز تقرب من بعضها عشان تحتمي من البرد وتتدفى ولكن بمجرد ما تقرب، الشوك اللي ما بينهم بيخليهم يأذو</description>
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<title>Late-Night Walks</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/call-of-the-night/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/call-of-the-night/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Late-night walks present a unique experience every time. Engrossed in your music, away from everyone and all people. In those lonely night walks, there is an eerie sense of freedom that the night sky </description>
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<title>ظاهرة الـLiterally Me</title>
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<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/literally-me/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>مثير للاهتمام حاجة ظهرت آخر كام سنة، بس واضحة بشكل عالي السنادي هي ظاهرة الـ Literally Me و الـ Sigma Male خصوصا بين الشباب اللي في سني والفئة اللي فوقينا حبتين. الظاهرة دي بتضمن شعور بالانتماء لشخصية</description>
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<title>ديكارت وتسليمه لمنطق التفكير</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/descartes/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/descartes/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>النقطة دي هي اللي بتخلّي ديكارت عمره ما كان عقلاني بالنسبالي, هو آه قدر يشك في قرارات كينونة كل حاجة لكن تسليمه لمنطق التفكير مزعج. عمنا ديكارت تعامل مع كل حاجة كما لو كانت سلة تفاح فاسد وهو محتاج يفض</description>
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<title>It's Not Desiring the Fall</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/terror-of-the-flames/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/terror-of-the-flames/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>You awake one day with a sense of dread, at first pinned on the common annoyances of work, unaware of the descent you'll experience over the next few months; the sleepless nights, the lack of joy, the</description>
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<title>The Only Noble Desire</title>
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<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/end-of-desire/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2021-12-22 because it said something I could not. The only noble desire is for the end of desire. Few are brave enough to admit this. Look to th</description>
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<title>The Badr Is Always Right Foundation</title>
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<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/always-right-foundation/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Have you ever been wrong about something? Of course, you have, you microcephalic addlepate. Why you probably don't even realize that I just called you a moron! It's sad really, but there is hope. I'm </description>
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<title>There Is Yet Work to Be Done</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/philosophy-still-has-work/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2021-09-18 because it said something I could not. If you think philosophy has no purpose anymore, that's fine, but it did once. There was a time</description>
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<title>Katawa Shoujo</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/katawa-shoujo/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/katawa-shoujo/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>I am usually not a fan of writing reviews nor reading them anymore. Yet, I need to give a quick shoutout to this Visual Novel. Katawa Shoujo, or &quot;Disability Girls&quot; is an indie bishoujo-style visual no</description>
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<title>Ideas Turn Up as Little Embers</title>
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<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/little-embers/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2021-07-07 because it said something I could not. In my experience, ideas do not turn up fully formed, anyway – they usually come to you as litt</description>
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<title>God Emperor of Time</title>
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<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/god-emperor-of-time/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2021-06-28 because it said something I could not. You steer humanity now. There have been leaders and thinkers and sages throughout history, but</description>
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<title>The Hanged Man</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>I have always wondered about The Hanged Man. He is hanging upside-down, viewing the world from a completely different perspective, and his facial expression is calm and serene, suggesting that he is i</description>
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<title>There Is No Sense in Common Sense</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>People consider alcohol to be wrong and unacceptable, yet cigarettes or junk food are completely fine. All of them are equally devastating, but one of them is deemed to be faulty by society’s standard</description>
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<title>She Is Beautiful</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>She opened a song. A Mozart if I remember well. “Would you like to dance?” She said while her breathtaking golden hair flew behind her. “Absolutely,” I said. She held his hands and led him to dance. T</description>
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<title>The Nihilist Waltz</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2021-06-06 because it said something I could not. &quot;Go on&quot;, the old woman said. &quot;Drink a little.&quot; &quot;What is it?&quot;, he said. &quot;This, is the indulgenc</description>
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<title>Morning Comes, and You Wake</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/the-coffee/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/the-coffee/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Morning comes, and you wake. Your first awareness is of boundless misery. You long for some kind of caffeinated beverage so you can be miserable faster. You leave your place of dwelling and go to the </description>
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<title>Just Keep Worrying</title>
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<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/keep-worrying/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a monologue by Exurb1a, which I posted on 2021-05-29 because it said something I could not. So, you're worried about a thing, are you? Might be a bill you can't pay, might be a job inter</description>
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<title>He Never Woke Up Again</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/he-never-woke-up/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>He was once getting ready to sleep, and he put his head on his pillow, pulled his blanket, and then closed his eyes. Then nothing, eternally. He never waked up again, never lived again, never put his </description>
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<title>Innocent, Pure Eyes</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/innocent-eyes/</link>
<guid>https://salieri.observer/writing/innocent-eyes/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>When I was younger, I thought the world is a very simple place. Everything has a right way to be done with, if you did it, you would achieve anything. Everyone must be treated as if he's better than y</description>
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<title>My To-Do List After Thanawaya</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/after-thanawaya/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Oh hi there, I've written my &quot;To-Do list&quot; to the things I want to do after Thanawaya. The problem is I'll probably procrastinate and won't do any of them because I'm a pompous asshole, so please, remi</description>
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<title>The Absoluteness of Rules</title>
<link>https://salieri.observer/writing/absoluteness-of-rules/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Not my words: a translated light-novel passage. When one comes across a yet unopenable door in an RPG. Have you ever thought this? 'If I could use magic, I should easily be able to blast through', or </description>
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