Mustapha Umar

[Mustapha Umar @Mustaphabari]

#Expo2020 bout to begin, I’m excited 😍🥰

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Dr. Yerima @Ad_Yerima]

I served the federal government for 10 years and left the civil service at GL 14 - CONMESS 04. And you know how much my monthly pension is - 74k and those that wait until retirement and left at GL 17 - CONMESS 07 are collecting around 125k monthly as pension.
This is the job security that you are been promised. Young men and women run while you can there’s nothing in the civil service unless if you’re aiming to pilfer which is becoming almost impossible to reach that level
A word is enough for the wise

[Daniel Regha @DanielRegha]

The lack of concern when there's insecurity crisis in the North, compared to reactions when it happens in other regions, is truly sickening.

[Mustapha Umar @Mustaphabari]

@NGRPresident @NigeriaMFA @Ojukwu_Bianca https://t.co/LMyWM9Sx7B

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world - the ancient city of Tyre - designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its incredible historical sites. This is what it looks like today following multiple Israeli airstrikes.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

جندي اسرائيلي حاول ضرب واعتقال رجل فلسطيني أثناء صلاته بالناس ولكنه توقف عن ذلك فور مشاهدته لكاميرا تقوم بالتصوير

لذلك نقول ..فضحهم ونشر جرائمهم شيء مهم للغاية

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

Hi Hamid,

I am Yusuf. I came across your mountains post from yesterday 25/4, and it stopped me completely. I decided to push myself to the limit and implement your formula from scratch, pixel by pixel, as a personal mathematical challenge.

After careful study of the image, I have successfully identified and understood 12 of the 14 mathematical objects:

✓ F(x) — color compression to [0, 255]
✓ N_s(x,y) — fractal noise with 6^5 * 5^(-s) frequency scaling
✓ E(x,y) — fractal envelope as a 50-term weighted sum
✓ Z_s(x,y) — layer occlusion product
✓ S(x,y) — sky value
✓ R(x,y) — layer depth value
✓ T(x,y) — distance to mountain center
✓ B(x,y) — slope angle via arctan
✓ A(x,y) — layer brightness
✓ H_v(x,y) — final color channel for v = 0, 1, 2
✓ Coordinate mapping: x = (m-1000)/600, y = (601-n)/600
✓ The full N_s structure

The two I cannot read precisely enough from the image are:
✗ J_s(x,y) — the mountain shape indicator
✗ K_v(x,y) — the lighting kernel

I can see the general structure of both. J_s uses a double exponential with cosine products and E(x,y)/1000 in the exponent, and K_v sums 50 terms of (91/100)^s weighted by cosines involving T, B and v. But the exact coefficients inside the ridge shape term of J_s and the cosine arguments of K_v are too dense to read at the resolution I have.

What I am currently seeing in my attempts: the layering and occlusion work correctly and the fractal texture E renders as expected, but without the exact J_s the mountain silhouettes are wrong. Peaks appear at incorrect positions and the snow and rock boundary does not match your image.

This is purely a personal challenge. I am not doing this for any commercial purpose.

Could you point me to where the full formula is published, or share a higher resolution crop of the equation panel from that post? Even just confirming those two functions would be enough to complete the implementation.

Thank you.

Yusuf

[Dr. Yakubu Sani Wudil @yakubwudil]

I would like to express my profound appreciation to all those who have celebrated this great milestone with us in one way or another.

May the knowledge acquired continue to be useful to humanity, Ameen…🌹

[ilmfeed @IlmFeed]

A new flotilla is heading to Gaza ⛵️🇵🇸

[GHANA CHRONICLES @_GhChronicles]

“We were told by Western media that girls in Iran were not allowed to go to school.”

[𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 @HaramainInfo]

Tahajjud Time in Makkah
12:45 AM

[Daniel Regha @DanielRegha]

In the last 12 to 24 hours, recent headlines report that:

1. Bandits invaded Digare community, Bauchi State.

2. Bandits ambushed travelling passengers in Kogi State, while shooting the driver.

3. Bandits tortured a captured NYSC member.

4. Bandits invaded and abducted many people in Kogi State near Government Technical College.

-Bauchi is a Muslim State, Kogi is partly a Muslim state, and the corper being tortured pleaded in the name of Allah, (For the sake of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), please help me. Please help my life).

Again, this is the holy month of Ramadan; Now tell the public why bandits will be attacking and torturing people at this time, since a lot of you want to link the insecurity crisis to just Islam, instead of just addressing them terrorists that are affecting us all. Kindly explain.

[UpScrolled @realUpScrolled]

WHAT!!! One MILLION!!! 🤯🤯🤯 YOU did this.

Our founder @issamhijazi shares why he built UpScrolled - and what's next.
"This is yours. We're just building it."

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Ras al-Auja is gone.

Today, the last houses were dismantled.

1000 people ethnically cleansed by Israel.

This is Zionism.

[Hon. Red Pen ❗️ @Minikothe3rd]

Breaking News: A court has just issued an arrest warrant for the DSS officer (a Fulani man) accused of abducting a minor Christian girl, forcibly converting her to Islam, repeatedly raping her until she became pregnant, and then performing a procedure on her at the DSS hospital in Abuja because, due to her young age, she could not give birth naturally.

Ooops !!! Sorry I got it the other way round, it’s actually a Christian IBO DSS officer named Ifeanyi who Kidnapped a Muslim girl named Walida Sani, converted her into Christianity and committed all those atrocities, that outrage you felt, I hope you maintain it, this must trend, and justice must be served.

[pharm-artist 💊🧑🏼‍🎨 @caramel__queen_]

my most recent Artwork. 🥰

I wrote this calligraphy in quiet reflection. each line an act of remembrance, each curve shaped by faith.🙃

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Don’t forget Gaza

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Hamas wanted the ICC to investigate it's own people for any crimes commited on Oct 7, but Israel refused the request. Israeli historian and professor Avi Shlaim.

[Assim Alhakeem @Assimalhakeem]

The population of Gaza have been exterminated in one of the worst genocides in modern history and you ask about my views about Hamas??

Get a life man and grow up!

[Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso @KwankwasoRM]

I have noted with increasing concern the heightened pronouncements on Nigeria by President Donald Trump. This follows his designation of Nigeria as a “country of particular concern.”

It is important to emphasise that our country is a sovereign nation whose people face different threats from outlaws across the country. The insecurity we face does not distinguish based on religious, ethnic, or political beliefs.

The United States should assist the Nigerian authorities with better cutting-edge technology to tackle these problems, rather than posing a threat that could further polarise our country.

The Nigerian government should also consider appointing special envoys from its distinguished diplomats to engage the American government. Additionally, it is necessary to appoint permanent ambassadors to represent Nigeria’s interests on the international stage.

To my fellow countrymen, this is an important moment where we should emphasise unity of belonging over division.

God bless Nigeria. - RMK

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Hind Rajabs words on a mobile phone as Israel was murdering her.

‘“I’m not talking because every time I talk blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it.”