Rshad

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[☔ @Whotfismick]

how life feels when nobody knows where you are or what you're up to

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Dostoyevsky never fails to hit hard:

“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”

[alya (follow limited!!) ⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆♱⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺ @alya_stfu]

reading this book as a kid genuinely changed my brain chemistry, i still believe this to this day

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

I realized nobody actually knows what they’re doing. Everyone is just figuring it out as they go . You don’t need permission, qualifications, or expertise -you can just do things.

[Gentle Man @Gentle_masc]

Yoga decreases cortisol.
Walking decreases cortisol.
Hugging decreases cortisol.
Laughing decreases cortisol.
Gratitude decreases cortisol.
Journaling decreases cortisol.
Being kind decreases cortisol.
Meditating decreases cortisol.
Time in nature decreases cortisol.
Helping others decreases cortisol.
Slow breathing decreases cortisol.
Getting sunlight decreases cortisol.
Listening to music decreases cortisol.
Limiting phone use decreases cortisol.
Petting your dog/cat decreases cortisol.
Getting enough sleep decreases cortisol.

[History Defined @historydefined]

Duncan Hamilton was disqualified from the 24 Hours of Le Mans over a technicality in 1953.

He went to a bar, got drunk, and was informed shortly afterward that he had been reinstated.

During the race, he reportedly drank brandy during pit stops, struck a bird at 130 mph that broke his nose, and still went on to win.

[justin banh @JustinBanh]

I made a titantron for Stone Cold Steve Austin out of paper

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

"IF YOU ARE SO SURE BURN THE SHIPS"

The quickest way to attract what's meant for you is to express yourselt so honestly and be so delusional that everything fall in the right place on its own.

If you burn the ships, you can't go back home, so you won't have any option other than to win the war. And even if you sink to the bottom.
Then don't come back up without the pearl.

If you really believe in what you're doing then just prioritise that thing and forget everything else, just remove all the noises. you can start to feel how magnetic you attract your goals in life. And always ask yourself "Am I being true to myself or to the projections I've made?"

[Ken @ruffleseed]

Oatmilk its just a pinch of oat, sugar, canola oil and bunch of stabilisers, emulsifiers and water.

Its 10x cheaper than milk but people willing to pay 3x more cos its hip haha

[AQMAL Tak Laku 🥹 @Ruvik_86]

Untuk User Mercedes,
Any model,
Theres this one workshop in Melawati yang aku personally recommend.
Fully Malay Owned,
Technicians pun Mostly Malay,
and the best part,

bukan jenis ketuk,
kalau boleh pakai lagi, dia ckp xyah tukar,
kalau nak tukar siap ada options

cont..

[Ooi Beng Cheang @luxentX]

Sad to hear the passing of a legend in the newsroom. Karam is one of those people you will remember meeting. He always wore the tv3 vest and had a beard. The one thing I've always admired about him was his technical skills.

In the newsroom, he was the only reporter who edited his own story. Mind you, in early 2000's this was done on a Sony beta editing deck. This was not an easy technical skill to learn, I literally had reporters under me cry when I asked them to do it. Reporters would just write the script then leave it to the visual editors to put the visuals together. For Karam, he knew his visuals best and insisted on editing it.

Seeing him doing it gave me the confidence to do it too. It was passable enough so that the editors let me edit my own stories eventually. I've always loved the production part and editing visuals the old school linear way was hard but rewarding.

He would wear wellington boots for protection and comfortable clothes (hence the t-shirt and vest). Sometimes he would come back from assignments and I remember him walking past my place with his boots covered in mud.

The TV3 vest back then was actually quite useful in storing all those large beta tapes and my notebook I had to carry around. Over time, the tapes became sd cards and we didn't need it.

My one regret was not taking up his offer to go for drinks. Thanks for the lessons Datuk Karam.
https://t.co/CifL7IU2t0

[✧˖ @colditioner]

Ramen master eating instructions is the most iconic eating scene in cinematic history

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

These two are so funny.

One of them initially moved to Israel but decided to return to Afghanistan, only to find the other one had stolen his land. They then started a petty complaint war, writing to the Taliban and accusing each other of various crimes.

They annoyed the Taliban so much that they were both put in prison, but later got kicked out because they would not stop loudly arguing with each other from across the jail and they were driving everyone insane.

[Dua_hub @dua_hub]

6 outdoor activities inspired by the Quran

1. Stargazing (50:6)
2. Camping (16:80)
3. Sailing (16:14)
4. Birdwatching (16:79)
5. Gardening (6:99)
6. Beekeeping (16:68)

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your body has an enzyme that can stop your cells from aging. You produce it as an embryo, and then your body shuts it off. On purpose. Because if your cells kept using it, they’d never stop dividing, and that’s literally what cancer is. About 85% of human cancers work by switching this enzyme back on.

Lobsters never switch it off. Ever.

They produce this thing, telomerase, in every single organ their entire lives. A 1998 lab study found it running in their liver, their heart, their muscles, everywhere. What it does is simple: every time a cell copies itself, the tips of your DNA fray a little, like the ends of a shoelace losing its plastic cap. Telomerase rebuilds those caps. In your body, most cells can’t do that, so they wear down and eventually die. That’s aging. Lobster cells just… keep going.

And here’s the part that messes with me. They actually get more fertile as they age. A 1-pound female carries about 8,000 eggs. A 9-pound female can carry over 100,000. The grandmother in this video is hauling 70,000–80,000 eggs. In almost every other animal, reproduction slows down and stops as the body breaks down. Lobsters flip that completely. The older they get, the more babies they can have.

They do still die. Just not from aging. Lobsters grow by cracking out of their entire shell and building a new one from scratch. Imagine doing that every year or two, and each time it costs more energy because you’re bigger. Eventually the molt itself is what kills them. Exhaustion. Or infection while the new shell is still soft. The oldest one anyone’s found, a 20-pound male named George, was about 140 years old when he got pulled up off Newfoundland in 2008. PETA got involved, and he was dropped back into the water near Kennebunkport, Maine.

This female getting released isn’t random feel-good content, either. Maine has made it illegal to keep egg-bearing females since 1872. When a fisherman catches one, he cuts a V-shaped notch into her tail flipper before tossing her back. That notch makes her permanently off-limits, even years later when she’s caught again without visible eggs.

A 2018 study found that V-notched females produce 9 times more eggs over their lifetime than unmarked ones. And the survival odds for lobster babies are terrible: out of every 50,000 eggs, maybe 2 make it to a size you could legally catch.

One big, old, egg-loaded female like this one is worth more to the species than thousands of younger lobsters combined.

[Tamale @256Rootyherman]

*when the Judge starts to speak as if he is on your side

Lawyer. Stupid client

[Ushar Daniele @ushardaniele]

Ay yo DBKL didn’t have to go this hard with their raid photos but they did???

@DBKL2u

[Remi @Miss_Oluremi]

SIGNS OF A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT PERSON:

1. Talking to Themselves:
Average people often look for others to validate their thoughts.
Intelligent people can think through problems by talking to themselves, almost like holding a private meeting in their mind.

2. A Unique Sense of Humour:
Their jokes are often clever and layered.
Not everyone understands them because they rely on deeper thinking rather than simple humour.

3. Strong Observation Skills:
They notice details quickly and analyze situations fast.
A classic example of this trait is the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

4. Learning From the Past:
They don’t dwell on regret.
Instead of saying “I wish I hadn’t,” they focus on the lesson and move forward.

5. Open-Mindedness:
They listen when others speak, especially if there is value in what is being said.
They are less likely to be swayed by manipulation or empty rhetoric.

6. Limited Negativity:
They avoid unnecessary negativity.
Instead, they think through possible problems in advance and plan accordingly.

7. Determined, Not Stubborn:
They stand by their ideas but are willing to listen.
If communication doesn’t solve the issue, they simply walk away.

8. Comfort With Isolation:
They often enjoy quiet time alone, sometimes listening to instrumental music to focus and think clearly.

9. Managing Anxiety:
Many intelligent people experience some level of anxiety, but they learn how to manage it rather than letting it control them.

10. Intentional Loneliness:
Their solitude isn’t about sadness.
They spend time alone to reflect, think, and reconnect with themselves.

11. Personal Obsessions or Collections:
They often have a strong interest in something, whether it’s collecting items or deeply engaging in a particular hobby.

12. Strategic Reading:
Instead of reading everything word-for-word, they focus on the parts of books that contain the information they actually need.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Quran. Leviticus. The Jewish dietary laws. Certain Hindu texts. The Zoroastrian religious code.

Different traditions. Different geographies. Different centuries. All with some version of the same instruction: the pig is unclean, problematic, prohibited, or at minimum theologically uncomfortable.

The conventional explanation is hygiene. The hot climate. The disease risk. Trichinosis. The lack of refrigeration. This gets taught so frequently that it has achieved the status of obvious, which is usually a sign that you should look at it more carefully.

Here is the problem with the hygiene explanation.
The pig is not uniquely dangerous in a hot climate.
Shellfish are significantly more dangerous at ambient temperature than pork, and yet shellfish prohibitions are far less universal. The hygiene theory would predict that all dangerous-in-heat foods would be religiously prohibited in hot-climate traditions. They are not. The pig gets singled out with a consistency that the hygiene theory doesn't fully explain.

Here is what the pig has in common across all the contexts where it gets prohibited that no other animal shares:

The pig is the poor person's animal.

The pig eats scraps. Household waste, kitchen refuse, the inedible margins of everything else. It requires no grazing land. It requires no surplus grain. It can be kept in an urban courtyard, a village alley, behind the poorest household with nowhere to graze a cow and nothing to feed a sheep. It converts what everyone else throws away into high-quality fat and protein with an efficiency that no ruminant approaches.

The pig democratises meat.

A peasant family with no land, no capital, no access to grazing rights, can keep a pig. The pig costs nothing to maintain beyond attention and the scraps that would otherwise be lost. By autumn it is large and fat and represents a significant nutritional resource: lard, salt pork, preserved cuts, that will carry the family through the winter.

The cow and the sheep require land. They require feed. They require capital investment that only people with resources can make. They provide multiple commodities: milk, wool, traction, offspring, that increase in value with the scale of the herd. They are the animals of the wealthy and the pastoral powerful.

The pig provides none of those commodities except meat.

But it provides that meat to anyone.

A religious prohibition on pork removes the animal that the poor could keep and directs consumption toward the animals that the wealthy control. It reframes the most democratic food animal in the pre-industrial world as a moral transgression, and in doing so, it takes the nutritional resource that required no wealth to access and declares it off-limits.

The poor can no longer keep their pig and call it food. They keep their pig and call it sin.

The wealthy continue to keep their cattle.

The religious law and the class interest produce exactly the same outcome. Whether that is coincidence or design is a question I will leave you to answer for yourself.

But I will note that it happens a lot.