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nagbabasa lang..taz magmi-miron minsan

[CathyF @cathyf79]

habang tumatagal...nare-realize ko...ung nagtatawag ng bobo rito sa Twitter/X...parang di rin naman ganun ka-talino

[Aadil Brar @aadilbrar]

China is deleting citizen videos of the Nepal-Tibet flash flood, and the ones being taken down are from its own side of the border.

A glacial collapse on 26 August sent a debris surge down the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli system. Nepal now reports 469 dead and roughly 1,000 missing. In Tibet’s Gyirong County, official figures are 3 dead and 558 missing.

Local and CCTV clips of the mudslide hitting Gyirong Port, the main China-Nepal crossing, circulated briefly on Weibo and Douyin. AFP and others verified the location. Those videos were then removed.

What remains inside China is state media: Xi’s instructions, rescue mobilization, and limited geographic detail. Footage from the Nepal side is unrestricted and everywhere. Unofficial video from Tibet is not.

This is the standard information-control pattern in a tightly managed region. It also leaves a thinner, more independent picture of where people are trapped and how severe the Tibetan-side damage actually is.

[Liza @Li33aaa]

men happened

[Mang Inasar  @Mang_INASAR]

TANDAAN, NO TO

ROBIN PADILLA
ALLAN CAYETANO
PIA CAYETANO
IMEE MARCOS
CAMILLE VILLAR
MARK VILLAR
LOREN LEGARDA
BATO DELA ROSA
BONG GO
JINGGOY ESTRADA

DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM EVER!👊

[CathyF @cathyf79]

@AugustoSan3453 @newswatchplusph di na...mukhang contributory nga raw china hydro projects dun sa flash flood sa nepal-tibet border e
https://t.co/VF6jhQO92d

[Arun Pudur @arunpudur]

⚡SHOCKING - Days before the China Occupied Tibet and Nepal Floods, vlogger shares massive hydro projecrs that China was working on Nepal side.

Non stop blasts, lack of safety and complete disregard for environment norms.

China built 100s of dams in same way in occupied Tibet.

[Arun Pudur @arunpudur]

⚡SHOCKING - Days before the China Occupied Tibet and Nepal Floods, vlogger shares massive hydro projecrs that China was working on Nepal side.

Non stop blasts, lack of safety and complete disregard for environment norms.

China built 100s of dams in same way in occupied Tibet.

[Tex-Mex Patriot @rojawi]

Dolly Parton was super rich. Yet no one hated her because of her wealth. Because she didn't use her wealth to bend rules and buy politicians to get more wealth. No one hates rich people. They hate greedy people.

[CathyF @cathyf79]

@_lonewolf____ di naman mandate ng opisina niya yun...kya nga nagkaleche-leche fund management ni sara dahil di dapat humahawak ng confi funds OVP at DepEd

[CathyF @cathyf79]

@inquirerdotnet maganda ung pic, malinis, good vibes, ok ung angle mukha syang nasa seat of power (presiding officer's chair?), ung bagsak nung ribbon dramatic sa shoulders, may sinunod na photographic composition....it's a 9.5/10 pic for me

diko binasa ung artik, mukhang paid dahil MIA sya

[CathyF @cathyf79]

@MyBuensuceso @mvn_dn hahahahaha...napanood ko yan....di na realize ni robin pag gumamit ng alias taz may kadikit na pera gets na scam agad yan...naturingang nago-online selling asawa niya e susku

dinikit sa mga bayaning walang kinalaman sa pera ung mga alias 🤣...dimunyu e

[CathyF @cathyf79]

@nat_unyell @Mkkayyyyyy hahahahah....susku ung nathaniel parang gina acosta level10

[𝓜⁷ 🥢🐱🐈‍⬛ @Mkkayyyyyy]

During one of the campaign rallies, I was the one who handled her hotel accommodation arrangements. I was honestly expecting her team to request that we block the entire floor for security, so I even told my team to block it and upgrade her to the highest room category. Kasi ganun usually with other politicians. Yung iba nga 3 floors blocked pa ang gusto.

But her staff said “No need, she doesn’t want that. She just wants a decent room to sleep in”

Girl in my 10 years in the industry, I’ve had the chance to assist her accommodation 3x already, and she has never changed. Sobrang down to earth and humble talaga

[Nutribun Republic @NutribunRep]

Imagine being Heidi Mendoza, so respected in auditing and fraud investigation that the United Nations makes you Under-Secretary-General, pero sa sarili mong bansa, talo ka sa eleksyon kay Robin Padilla. Hindi brain drain ang pinakamasakit. Brain rejection.

[🇺‌ 🇳‌ 🇴‌ 🤓 @_MIGZ29]

😶

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

My daughter asked me what games I played on the tablet when I was a kid, and I told her I used to yell into a fan to sound like a robot.

[Smart Science @SmartScience]

Sweden is officially trading screens and tablets for physical books and handwriting to reverse a decline in reading skills.

Once at the forefront of hyper-digitalized learning, Sweden is engineering a dramatic pivot back to the basics in its classrooms. Concerned that an overreliance on digital tablets and screens has eroded reading comprehension and foundational writing skills, Swedish education officials are investing heavily in traditional printed textbooks.

The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.

Experts point out that while technology was championed to level the playing field, its unrestricted use has instead led to shorter attention spans and reduced retention among younger learners.

Scientific evidence strongly supports this retro transition. Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language—cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.

Furthermore, reading from a printed page provides critical spatial cues that aid comprehension, unlike digital screens that often subject students to cognitive fatigue and constant distractions. While computers and tablets remain valuable tools for research and collaboration, educators worldwide are watching Sweden's massive reinvestment in physical books as a potential blueprint for a more balanced, science-backed approach to modern schooling.

source: The Guardian. Switching off: Sweden says back-to-basics schooling works on paper.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[Alex Abaño @sheergrace]

hindi na daw po allowed ang ganitong comment, please retweet

[Sann @san_x_m]

No rain fell in Rasuwa in Nepal this morning. The river still rose and swept away everything in its path. Here is why.

At 8.37 this morning, near the Nepal and China border, instruments picked up strong shaking. Early reports called it an earthquake of magnitude 4.4. The United States Geological Survey has now corrected that. There was no earthquake.

A huge block of ice and rock broke off a mountain and crashed into the valley. The impact was so heavy that it registered like an earthquake of magnitude 5.2. The landslide made the shaking. The shaking did not make the landslide.

That ice and rock fell straight into the Lhende Khola, a small stream that feeds the Bhote Koshi river. It blocked the stream fully and made a wall of ice, rock and mud across it.

The water behind that wall kept rising. Then the wall broke.

What came down was not water. It was mud, boulders and ice moving together. Video from the Rasuwagadhi border post shows the whole crossing vanish in under a minute. Timure and Syafrubesi were hit next. The surge then reached Bidur in Nuwakot and went on to Devghat, more than 100 kilometres downstream.

Police in Bagmati province have confirmed at least 95 dead in Nepal. China has confirmed 3 dead in Tibet with 265 missing there. The Nepal Tourism Board says nearly 400 travellers are missing, including 105 Indians and 37 people of Indian origin, many of them returning from the Kailash Mansarovar route. About 430 megawatts of power generation has been damaged. Bihar has put its districts along the Gandak on alert.

Now the part that matters for anyone living below a Himalayan river.

The same stream did the same thing 14 months ago. On the 8th of July 2025 the Bhote Koshi flooded with no rain. Nepal found that a glacial lake in Tibet had drained in a few hours. Scientists had already marked this basin as one of the most dangerous in the Himalaya for such floods.

These floods give no warning. No rain, no cloud, no alert, because the weather is not what causes them. Ice that stayed frozen for thousands of years is now loose enough to fall.

So remember this. If you are near a mountain river and the water suddenly drops for no reason, or you hear a low roar from upstream, do not stand and film it. That is a blockage forming or breaking. Move up the slope, away from the river, at once. Do not run along the bank. The water is faster than you.

Clear weather is no longer proof that a Himalayan river is safe.

[Marshall Mathers @Eminem]

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.