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[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

I'd be much obliged if you gave my band's new album a few streams. We're pretty good at what we do.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

@DStrungk This story is consistent with what I know about Saudi Arabia, but I have not personally verified its details.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

Tragic

[toyin tomato 🍅🍅 @Damigold2222]

For those of you who are still being mislead by the fake news of the execution in Saudi.

Here is what really happened. Now judge it yourself.

Nazrul Islam and Sithi Akter, two Bangladeshi nationals employed as cleaning workers for the Bin Laden Group in Mecca, became romantically involved while commuting to work. Nazrul lived in a residential villa in Hayyal Iskan, while Sithi resided in Batha Kuraysh.

In May 2023, the two engaged in illicit relations in a secluded stairwell room between Gates 85 and 87 of Masjidul Haram. Nazrul had asked an Indian acquaintance to stand guard downstairs, but the friend secretly recorded the encounter on video.

Later, when the Indian national attempted to make advances toward Sithi and was rejected, he leaked the video online.

The video quickly went viral, prompting immediate intervention by Saudi authorities, who successfully apprehended all three individuals.

The Indian national received a 20-year prison sentence for recording and distributing the footage.

Nazrul Islam and Sithi Akter were detained immediately following their arrest in May 2023.

Nazrul had originally arrived in Saudi Arabia from Bangladesh between November 10 and 13, 2022. Following his arrest in May 2023, he remained incarcerated throughout a lengthy three-and-a-half to four-year judicial process leading up to October 2026.

Throughout this period, official protocol dictated that the Saudi government notify the employer (sponsor) rather than foreign government authorities.

Various rumors circulated online falsely claiming that the individuals were pilgrims performing Umrah or that the charges stemmed merely from public displays of affection.

While the defendants were unmarried, the severity of the legal outcome was not solely based on the act of zina (adultery). Because the offense took place within the sacred precincts of Masjidul Haram, the court determined that they had severely violated the sanctity and honor of Islam's holiest mosque.

Consequently, senior judges of the Supreme Court handed down the death penalty as an exemplary punishment aligned with Quranic principles and the Sunnah.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

When my daughter was young, I had a can of "monster spray." Gets ride of the monsters. Spraying some of that under the bed, in the closet, etc., worked like a charm.

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

trying to build this skill when dealing with young kids

please share any similar anecdotes or tactics that have worked for you

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

@dissproportion But on the bright side, they’re also not still calling you a good baby.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

@qweryt4820 @cafreiman We should replace income taxes with user fees if anything. All a new tax would do is give politicians another way to raise the overall tax burden and the size and scope of the state.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

Good god. We’re doomed.

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

47% of American undergraduate students believe that the Soviet Union had a better economic model than the United States.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

One important lesson to learn from this is that it’s important to be smarter, better educated, and more eloquent than your opposition.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

This is a pretty good rhetorical technique.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

College professor left completely stumped after @KaiSchwemmer started talking in Spanish after the professor said he welcomed mass migration.

Schwemmer: Would it be an issue if every city spoke a different language?

Professor: No.

Schwemmer: "Entonces sería bastante difícil si estuviéramos hablando, entendernos, porque nosotros no podemos entender lo que estamos diciendo y no podemos alcanzar tener respeto mutuo."

Brilliant.

[Oren Barsky @orenbarsky]

@CJPME @CalgaryOpera "Art is political"?

Then rent your own stage.

Nobody paid for Tosca to hear a baritone's take on Gaza.

Calgary Opera got it right. Enough with artists who think every stage is theirs to hijack.

And that's before we even get to the opinion itself.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

“You don't see advocates of reason and science clogging a street in the belief that using their bodies to stop traffic, will solve any problem.”

— Ayn Rand

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

I guarantee that not a single Zionist is rioting in France.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

@DavidDack Who had more fun? Who avoided injury most effectively? Who is more likely to come back and race again another day?

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s scientific research is…odd.

Arab mothers who engage in “interethnic mating” have worse birth outcomes than those who mate with Arab men?

Also: Genetics, black race, and interracial mating?

Why research this?  WTF?

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

If the election bots could please stop spamming my phone, that would be great.

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

@NotMaryAnnObv 😆😆

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

@texasrunnerDFW 54% is only slightly better than a coin toss--assuming the extra 4% is "real" and not just random variation. Active investing only beats homeownership half of the time? The case for owning a home is even better than I realized.

[Voices of Liberty @VoLDaily]

“Every socialist is a disguised dictator.”

— Ludwig von Mises

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

@YossiBenYakar @travelingclatt @TeamYouTube @OfficialSaharTV This sucks--I watch your channel all the time.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

A queer film festival in Switzerland has decided not to screen Tell Me Everything, a story about a young boy discovering his father is queer and the evolution of their relationship.

Why? Because it is Israeli.

I'm sure a group of Free Palestine activists will see this and insist that no, it has nothing to do with identity, but with the filmmakers' support for Israel's war with Gaza.

Except the festival demanded that Moshe Rosenthal "declare his stance towards the current Israeli government." He did. He said that he does not support the government, he does not finance the government's policies, and he does not make films that promote the policies of the Israeli government.

That wasn't enough.

When Free Palestine tells you they are fine with "good" Jews, know they are lying. They were always going to boycott a queer story showcasing Israeli Jews.