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[dea @deannahalim]

So we got married yesterday! @taqizulkifli 💛

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Seven hours. All children.

[moku @mokudesuka]

Unprocessed : Padi
Uncooked : Beras
Cooked : Nasi
Overcooked : Bubur
Compressed : Ketupat
Sticky: Pulut

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

People respect you more when they don't see you often. Even parents. Trust me. It's strange how distance rearranges love, how absence restores what closeness erodes. When people are deprived of your presence, they start seeing you clearly again, not through habit but through awareness. Proximity dulls perception. Space sharpens it. That's just how the human mind works.

[Rumail Abbas @Stakof]

Our president, leader of the Republic of Indonesia, watches the poor eat their meal.

He does the watching from a lavish setting, his own plate stacked with expensive food.

Poverty as an evening's entertainment.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A dog failed his service dog exam, and was later seen at a train station carrying the reason why.

People at the station couldn’t stop staring when the dog walked onto the train with a stuffed elephant held proudly in his mouth.

At first, everyone thought it was part of his training.
But his owner started laughing and explained the truth.

The dog had been training to become a service dog, but during one of his final tests, he kept getting distracted by an elephant plushie nearby. Instead of staying focused, he tried to steal it like it was the only thing in the room that mattered.

That was the moment he failed.

But his owner said he couldn’t be mad. The dog had tried his best, and even if he wasn’t meant to be a service dog, he was still loyal, gentle, and full of love.

So before they left, he bought him the elephant toy.

That night, the dog didn’t pass the exam, but he still went home with the person who chose him anyway.

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

A factory owner in Ashulia, Bangladesh, wanted to build a mosque for his workers. He gave the commission to a Bangladeshi architect. Not an imported name. Not a foreign firm. A local architect who understood the land, the climate, and the culture she was building for.

In 2025, Time Magazine named it one of the greatest places in the world, the first Bangladeshi building to ever appear on that list.

The entire structure is one material. One colour. Pink-pigmented concrete, perforated with small rectangular voids that filter light into the prayer hall the way hanging lanterns did in old mosques. A dome floats unsupported over the circular prayer space. The high plinth references the Bhiti, the earthen mound that Bangladeshi homes have been built upon for centuries in the deltaic floodplain. The building knows where it comes from because the architect did.

Across Africa, clients with the same resources make a different call. Foreign firms. Imported aesthetics. Buildings that could exist anywhere. The brief gets fulfilled. The opportunity gets wasted.

Trusting a local architect with his mother’s name just made global history. That should mean something to us.

Zebun Nessa Mosque, Ashulia, Bangladesh 🇧🇩 | Studio Morphogenesis | Lead Architect: Saiqa Iqbal Meghna | 6,060 sq.ft | 2023 | 📷 Asif Salman, City Syntax

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Disney paid a 13-year-old $15,000 an episode while selling $100 million in merchandise with her face on it. She never saw a dollar of the merch money.

Hilary Duff made $975,000 total for 65 episodes of Lizzie McGuire. The show's dolls, sleeping bags, notebooks, and Kohl's apparel line generated over $100 million in revenue for Disney. Her cut of that: reportedly zero. The movie grossed $55.5 million worldwide. She got $1 million.

Then Disney tried to lock her in. They offered a primetime ABC spinoff at $35,000 per episode and a sequel for $4 million plus 4% of gross. When her mother pushed for better terms, Disney gave them 24 hours to accept and then pulled the entire deal.

Her mom's quote: "Disney thought they'd be able to bully us into accepting whatever offer they wanted to make, and they couldn't. We walked away from a sequel. They walked away from a franchise."

She was 16. Most child stars who walk away from their franchise at 16 don't come back. The list of early-2000s Disney kids who maintained stable careers, stable finances, and stable public lives is brutally short.

Duff did seven seasons of Younger. Wrote novels. Raised three kids. Stayed out of tabloids for a decade. Then in late 2025, she dropped a comeback single. Her "Small Rooms, Big Nerves" warm-up shows sold out instantly, marking her first headline concerts in over a decade.

The Lucky Me Tour starts June 2026. Seven countries. 47 North American cities. Madison Square Garden. Red Rocks. The O2 in London. She added second nights in LA, New York, Toronto, and London because the first dates sold out too fast. Her husband produced the album.

The math that sticks: Disney made $100 million off a teenager and paid her less than $2 million total. Twenty-five years later she's headlining MSG and they're still selling Lizzie McGuire reruns.

That hallway walk on JHud's set is 25 years of receipts arriving at once.

[اسد @zarathustra_3]

Bill Maher: I don’t believe in God.

Me: cool.

Bill Maher: Israel was promised 3,000 years ago.

Me: by who?

Bill Maher: by God.

[💀(‏بلقيس)💀 @nolongerskek]

Abusers as well.

This man has stabbed his girlfriend in 2017, was not convicted because allegedly, he took up a lawyer and she withdrawed her report.

Yesterday, he STABBED another woman IN THE NECK with a pen. He is married with kids with someone else.

[H’s mom @aiishadahir]

Did you ever wonder… why it’s called Surah Al-Baqarah —The Cow?

This is the longest chapter of the Qur’an that contains law, justice, fasting, economy, identity…

WHY A COW?

[Halal Nation @HalalNation_]

‘If you are grateful, I will certainly give you more.’

Quran 14:7

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Stanning Dua Lipa has really never disappointed me lmaoooo

[En Júpiter @En_jupiter_]

“Mi papá solía enfadarse tanto cada vez que mi mamá compraba una taza (las colecciona) y su nuevo novio literalmente le construyó una pared para mostrar su colección, esta es la razón por la que no hay que conformarnos con menos de lo que merecemos”

[Happy Captain @EODHappyCaptain]

Curse the person who put the back pain Relief on the bottom shelf:

[Lucas 🦇 @vlucasrocha]

cada membro da família ficou responsável por tirar fotos focadas em uma cor e esse foi o resultado

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Harvard scientists ran a simple test. They put adults under blue light for 6 hours one night, then under green light at the same brightness the next. Blue light pushed their bedtimes back by 3 hours. Green pushed them back by 1.5. And in kids, the same lights hit about twice as hard.

The reason comes down to a tiny patch of cells at the back of every human eye. These cells have one job. They tell your brain whether it is day or night. They wake up most when light hits a very specific shade of blue, the same shade phone screens and modern bulbs are loaded with. When those cells fire after dark, the brain stops making melatonin, the chemical that pulls you toward sleep.

Red light barely sets off those cells at all. A 2025 study from the University of Zaragoza put people under red lamps and blue lamps for three hours at night. Under blue, their melatonin stayed scraped to the floor. Under red, it climbed back up to more than three times higher. Same brightness. The color did all the work.

Children get this worse than adults. Two reasons. Their pupils are bigger, so more light gets in. And the lens inside a kid's eye is still glass-clear, where adult lenses slowly yellow with age and filter blue out naturally. A 10-year-old's body clock is roughly twice as sensitive to evening light as a 45-year-old's. A bedside lamp that feels harmless to a parent can be wrecking a kid's sleep clock at the same time.

Then there is the lag. Once the brain catches a dose of blue light, the wake-up signal it sends out keeps echoing for 3 to 4 hours after the lights go off. So a kid on an iPad at 9pm can still be wired at midnight even if you took the iPad away at 9:01.

Modern LED bulbs and screens are tuned to roughly 6500 Kelvin. That is sunlight at noon. Old incandescent bulbs sit around 2700, mostly red and yellow with almost nothing in the blue range. To a human eye, a red-lit room is just about as close to no light at all as you can get. The brain reads it as nighttime.

The fix is boring. Use warm bulbs at 2700 Kelvin or lower in any room a kid spends evenings in, switch off phones and tablets two hours before bed, and if a night light is needed for bathroom trips, make it red or amber. The science was pinned down to the exact color of light back in 2001.

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

Several bank accounts belonging to Padini Holdings have been frozen by the MACC as part of a money laundering probe.

The fashion retailer said the affected accounts are not used in daily operations and that it continues to have access to other banking facilities.

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The actor playing the charming romantic lead in 13 Going on 30 had the left side of his face completely paralyzed two years before they shot it.

Mark Ruffalo was 33 when he woke up from a dream telling him he had a brain tumor. No symptoms, just an ear infection. He was on set with Gandolfini and Redford for The Last Castle. He told the cast doctor about the dream anyway. The CT scan came back: a mass behind his left ear the size of a golf ball. Acoustic neuroma. Benign, but it had to come out.

His wife was nine months pregnant with their first kid. He didn't tell her. She had the doula, the birth plan, the hot tub ordered. He carried the diagnosis alone for weeks until after she gave birth.

Going into surgery, the doctors told him there was a 20% chance the left side of his face would stay paralyzed. He told them: "Take my hearing. Let me keep the face. Just let me be the father to this kid."

He woke up completely deaf in his left ear and the entire left side of his face frozen. Couldn't close his left eye.

Two years later he showed up to play the romantic lead in a Jennifer Garner movie that required everything brain surgery had just tried to take from him. The smile. The warmth. The comic timing. A goofy Thriller dance in front of a crowd. He almost quit during the rehearsal. Garner has told that story publicly. He stayed.

The movie opened 22 years ago today. $22M in week one, $96M+ worldwide. That same year he also shot Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Collateral, and We Don't Live Here Anymore. Four films in twelve months from a guy who had just learned to use his face again.

He went on to four Oscar nominations and the Hulk.

The romantic comedy nobody takes seriously was the comeback film of an actor who had to relearn how to smile.

[Ray Youssef @raythewarchief]

They kept him alive just long enough to rape him as many times as they could..

120 days, 4 months in a rape dungeon. This is how they treat the best of humans