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[NMK @HariWafa]

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[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

I want to write about life,

life in the eyes of a little child filled with tears while believing every day that food will come this day. I want to write about life, life in our memories, life in my heart, my heart that war gnawed on like a rat nibbling on a plastic toy, and I watched it without caring.

I want to write about life,

life in the lungs of a little child calling out with a scared voice from beneath the rubble: "don't take me out before you take out my mom and dad."

I want to write about life,

about those who dig under the collapsed houses dreaming of finding a sack of flour to silence their children's hunger, about the travelers leaving Gaza believing that peace and light reside there, the light that in their minds will burn the edges of their feelings without caring.

I want to write about life,

life in the slow crawl of a wounded being believing in salvation without knowing that death is salvation, about those who carry their houses on their shoulders for forty years only for the occupation plane to hit that man in his shoulder, causing his back to bend so the house falls afterwards.

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Incredible that this story in the Israeli press by Ronen Bergman and Nahum Barnea isn't getting way more attention in US media. They report that the Mossad had a multi-year project in Iran aimed at fomenting protests, played a key role in the December protests (coinciding with Netanyahu's visit to Mar-A-Lago where he pushed Trump to go to war in Iran) and while it all succeeded in convincing Trump the war would be a cakewalk regime change effort, in reality it turn out to be a failure that stuck the US with a strategic catastrophe.

https://t.co/LgKHggbiAU

[Sobiah Qureshi @SobiahQ]

Finally, I was able to visit Khudee Cafe in #Karachi. Found out about it, of course on #ZHK around 2 years back. Had bookmarked it.
A café run by differently abled children. ❤️
Excellent ambiance. Must visit.
A great hangout place.
Do promote.

[Andy Smarick @smarick]

In 10 years, we'll realize young adults can't read, write, or think as well as they should. We'll wonder how we allowed students to offload huge chunks of their learning to AI. Today we're just watching it happen. This is the most obvious unforced error of our time.

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Marjan Yeshayayi, a member of the Tehran Jewish community, asked rescue workers not to use machinery [to clear the rubble] in order to preserve the scriptures.
“When I made the request, I did not believe they would accept it, but instead they said, ‘OK, we will remove it manually,’ and they really did. Each brick was removed by hand, and the scrolls came out safely and were handed over to the Jewish community.
https://t.co/FXoP1NZaxi

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The most detailed image of human cell

For perspective, the human body contains approximately 37 trillion cells,

Life is a miracle

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Meanwhile Erdogan continues to transport cheap Baku oil to his business partner Netanyahu.

[Mir Yar Baloch @miryar_baloch]

The terrorist and invading forces are dragging and abducting Baloch women of the Republic of #Balochistan.
She is Fozia Baloch and her mother, being arrested, and abducted because of raising voices against the abduction of Dad Shah Baloch the brother of Fozia.

We will not forgive and forgive Pakistan's war crimes in our country #Balochistan.

[M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸 @MJibranNasir]

Activist Fozia Baloch of BYC & her mother have been picked up by Police outside Karachi Press Club without any charge when Fozia was going to meet journalists regarding her brother Daad Shah's abduction on 21st April by Agencies. Lawyers are not being allowed any access by Police

[The Anti-Genocide Project @justinpodur]

the machines like each other. better than they like us

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

PAKISTAN: It’s been nearly one year.
Five Baloch activists, Mahrang Baloch, Bebarg Zehri, Beebow Baloch, Shah Jee Sibghat Ullah and Gulzadi Baloch, remain in unlawful pretrial detention on trumped up charges simply for their peaceful activism.

Inside Hudda Jail, Quetta, the activists are facing a secret trial in prison. They are also being denied adequate healthcare, with Mahrang’s health deteriorating significantly in detention.

Amnesty International calls on the Balochistan authorities to immediately release all Baloch activists and drop all charges against them.

👉 Join our call for urgent action.
📝 https://t.co/E9bwQUHBOZ
#ReleaseMahrangBaloch #ReleaseBalochActivists

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

I have been exposed to more unimaginable horror due to Israel than everything else in my lifetime combined. The continued assault on all of humanity by this evil little colony is unprecedented.

[Embassy of Iran in Bulgaria @IRANinBULGARIA]

Jihad Metro Station stands as a symbol of contemporary Iranian #architecture, earning multiple global awards and redefining the experience of public transportation in Tehran.

[Embassy of Iran in Bulgaria @IRANinBULGARIA]

Music has replaced the sounds of bombs and missiles as Iranian musicians again perform on city streets and venture to sites devastated in US-Israeli attacks.

[Embassy of Iran in Bulgaria @IRANinBULGARIA]

Journalists are protected under international law and should never be targeted in war. Yet every Lebanese journalist seen in this photo was killed by Israel.
♦️Ali Shuaib
♦️Mohammad Sherri
♦️Fatima Fattouni
♦️Mohammad Fattouni
♦️Suzanne Khalil
♦️Hussein Hammoud
♦️Ghada Al-Dayekh
♦️Amal Khalil

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

There's a forest in Utah where every single tree is actually the same tree. 47,000 trunks growing out of one giant root system, all clones of the same parent. The whole thing weighs about 13 million pounds, around 40 blue whales worth. It's called Pando, and it's been alive for around 80,000 years. Humans hadn't even started painting in caves yet when this thing took root. It's the heaviest living thing on Earth.

Trees do some properly weird stuff. When a giraffe starts eating an acacia tree in Africa, the tree releases a warning smell into the air within minutes. Other acacia trees nearby pick up that smell and immediately start pumping bitter chemicals into their own leaves, before the giraffe even gets there. Giraffes have actually figured this out and learned to walk upwind, so they can get a few bites in before the trees notice them.

In 1997, a Canadian scientist named Suzanne Simard found that trees in a forest are connected to each other underground, through a giant web of tiny fungus threads that link them all together. Her experiments showed that one tree can send food and chemical messages to another tree through this fungus network. The press nicknamed it "the wood wide web." Some of the bigger claims about trees being one happy family are still being argued over by scientists, but the basic idea, that trees pass signals to each other underground, is now solid science.

And some live for thousands of years. There's a tree in California called Methuselah, a kind of pine, that is almost 4,860 years old. It was already 200 years old when the first Egyptian pyramid was built. There's another one growing nearby that scientists think is over 5,000 years old. Both were already ancient when Stonehenge went up.

Trees also do something to your body when you're around them. A Japanese researcher named Qing Li ran an experiment. He had people spend a few days walking in forests, then took their blood. The cells in their immune system that fight off viruses and tumors had jumped sharply, and the boost lasted for over a week after they got home. He had another group take the same kind of trip but to a city instead. They got nothing. The trees were releasing some kind of compound into the air that the city didn't have.

The tallest tree in the world is in California too, a coast redwood named Hyperion. 381 feet tall (taller than the Statue of Liberty), around 700 years old. A single trunk holds 550 million leaves. You're sharing the planet with all of this.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The web is disappearing 🕳️

According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.

But that’s not the whole story.

In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.

Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive

📖 Download & read: https://t.co/BrawXOwMBr
🛒 Purchase in print: https://t.co/EB58IliqDm

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter

[Cyborg 🇵🇰🍁 @cyborg_reborn]

Take a look at kilometer long track carved through the forest for timber smuggling, despite the devastating floods we faced last year.

In PTI-run KPK, most of forests have almost been wiped out. Timber mafias must be brought to justice, for Pakistan & for our future generations.

[Fahad Desmukh @desmukh]

The JD Vance in Pakistan memes are off the hook right now, so have to start a thread to keep track