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[່͏ ͏ ͏͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ @oorangeugladd]

hold on bro the trees are speaking to me

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Little 🐑: come I'll show you my brother.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I still think about those little checkout cards glued inside library books, where you could see the ghost trail of everyone who had borrowed the book before you.

[A. @ayeshascam]

@artbookstea Sounds lovely! Will try it out must

[jason @morecjjj]

Water is a drink whose flavor is its temperature.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Your childhood experiences are never your fault, but your adult responsibility is to heal from them so you don't damage every person who tries to love you.

[komolika @Ichanpyaari]

misogyny wrapped in glittery paper:

> beauty with brains
> motherhood is a blessing
> wife material
> girls mature faster
> woman's biological clock is ticking

[Shamyl Rizwan Awan @thatsadshamyl]

It’s absolutely terrible what Imaan Mazari (and Hadi Ali) are being subjected to. Those that have imprisoned them will never come close to these principled human rights defenders who would always stand with the marginalised, oppressed and voiceless. Terrible fascist state.

[Disgruntled Cyber Warrior @lilmisskhawaja]

90% of ppl watch a woman get killed and their instinct is hmmm how can we teach better self defense to our daughter

How about you realize our sons and brothers and cousins could very well turn out to be these monsters and perhaps we need to focus energy THERE.

[ad 🐞 @matarchawal]

men like him arent just given a space to ‘intellectualise’ their deeply disturbing thoughts, but theyre enabled by the society its so scary that this isnt an isolated event

[𓂀 AvTheSurgeon𓁿 @Avalldar]

Nature teaches which I often say.
& this here is an example of how evil trauma is because we have an example of trauma based devolution : what once rendered elephants strong & potentially dangerous for natural potential predators in their environments, is gone because of poachers, leaving them more vulnerable than ever.
Their genome tried to adapt to the worst threat & succeeded, but in turn it made them vulnerable to threats they were supposed to be protected against.
Trauma causes nonsensical disregulation to the point that coping sometimes just makes everything worse. Downward spiral.

[🔻Doom Scromitariat🔻 ☭ @DoomScrollingML]

I love how Twitter will have ppl with usernames like "FruitBytheFootjob69" and their analysis of geopolitics contains a level of understanding that Atlantic staff writers have nightmares about.

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

We need art now more than ever. There’s a reason we turn to books, music, movies, and poetry in difficult times. Because someone took their pain and turned it into something beautiful. Art is how we process, survive, and connect. A world without art isn’t a world at all.

[Sadaf @artbookstea]

I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me... the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself.

- Anaïs Nin

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Can Gen-Z bring change to Pakistan too? Fascinating to see a sensitive Pakistani voice mirror the same concerns as Gen-Z in India:

https://t.co/QvMKfaXUpR

[Ammar Rashid @AmmarRashidT]

Am personally very uninterested in all the moralistic handwringing about 'deals' & 'NROs' re: IK & PTI that will be the subject of much feverish speculation in the coming days/weeks. For one, I think its far from a foregone conclusion at this early stage & in any case, every aspect of Pakistan's existing political economy is also downstream of some political settlement from the past, so it wouldn't be anything historically unusual.

I am more interested in what a potential new political settlement (in the sense of a broad-based agreement on rules and rent distribution between a wide range of political & institutional factions, like in the 18th amendment) will mean for Pakistan & its people.

We are currently in a situation where various elite factions are at odds with each other & locked into conflict with competing interests & possibly shifting alliances, with growing realization about the unsustainability of the existing political-economic status quo. I think such a situation is actually a good opportunity for having concrete debate about what the parameters (or reform priorities) of a new political settlement could look like (rather than just who gets to be in power).

Personally, I'm interested in what a new political settlement could mean for:

a) Economic management
b) Fiscal policies & distributive arrangements
c) Security and counter terrorism strategy
d) Devolution of powers and resources to grassroots levels
e) Bureaucratic reform
f) Industrialization, productivity & national productive capacity

There are certainly legitimate reasons to be sceptical about this fractious political conflict resulting in better, pro-people outcomes, rather than just continued political crises or a reshuffle of faces.

Nonetheless, think it would be a mistake for those interested in structural change in Pakistan to miss this opportunity to try and index a concrete reform agenda into the current factional infighting among our ruling elites.

[Meditations in Color @MeditateColor]

The sea isn’t blue simply because it reflects the sky. Water itself absorbs longer red wavelengths more strongly, leaving blue to travel farther. Depth amplifies the effect, turning one ocean into a whole spectrum of cobalt, Prussian blue, teal and midnight.

[. @sailorsRest1]

Peristyle Garden

Thr Greco-Roman world had it's own famous garden too. The Peristyle Garden was usually constructed in the court yard of large villas surrounded by limestone or marble columns.