Live your life in such a way that decent people don’t rejoice in the news of your death.
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Aijaz Ansari
@aijaz@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Manager and Architect at Gogo Business Aviation.
Also @QuranMemorizer and @Quran_Reflect iOS apps. Volunteer as Mosque Security Director and teach coding to Black Youth at Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers and Scientists. (CABPES)
Director of Technology at Muslim Youth for Positive Impact (MYPI)
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This picture is hilarious because the words “Meat ball” were transliterated into Arabic. The resulting Arabic words (ميت بول) were then interpreted (incorrectly) as Arabic, THEN translated into English. The first word “Meat” can be misread as the Arabic word for “is dead”. The second word “ball” is how an Arabic speaker would pronounce the name “Paul.” Therefore, the English description of this dish is “Paul is dead.”
I am coding a pared-down version of JIRA for non-profits AMA