FyaD

“When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet”.

[ilence @Hilenceee]

A retired whore setting standards is crazy.

[History Daily @HistoryDailyyy]

*The sheep will spend its entire life fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd.*

— African Proverb

[Words For You @_Wordsforyou11]

“The highest form of peace is having no desire to be seen, validated or understood by anyone.”

— Epictetus

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

If they wrote it to make money, don't read it.

@naval

[pingu @pingu4ll]

you can’t discuss the ocean with a frog
it only knows the pond

[redrum @griffisu]

explaining to a female what she did wrong is like trying to have a serious conversation with a 5 year old

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“People underestimate how long it takes to win big. You struggle for 10 years. Eventually, in one day, you achieve more than you did your entire life. Be patiently aggressive.”

— Patrick Bet-David

[Wayward🧸 @Hustleorbeg7]

No one gets more angry than a woman getting accused of something she actually did.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Metacognition, the ability to think about your own thinking, is considered the highest form of intelligence.

[🎞️ life_laps_official]

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit today about AI that said, “AI is data, and data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I genuinely need to sit with the weight of that for a while.

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?

For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir,  which according to the UN,  amounts to torture and which  is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health. 

He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.

The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.

He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.

Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive  medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.

Yet those orders are being defied.

This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.

He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and  include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.

His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls. 

I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not  intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father. 

@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court;  restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.

Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government  to please now do the right thing.

[m̃ @hexesandspell]

AUTHENTICITY feels almost rebellious in an era of performative kindness and show-off culture.

[Yesjulz @YesJulz]

When someone initiates a difficult conversation with you, that is an act of love.

[Pablo 🎱 @supuypweza]

A hot girl doesn't cheat. A horny girl doesn't cheat. A girl with constant access to male attention cheats the most.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Pakistan government to challenge Imran Khan hospital move, says law minister https://t.co/q2H6N3fcN8 https://t.co/q2H6N3fcN8

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

brain-rot videos literally suppress activity in the parts of your brain responsible for cognitive control, the systems that help you resist impulses

fascinating

if used properly, short-form video seems almost perfectly designed as a cyberweapon: capture attention, weaken cognitive control, then control what millions of people see next and what they will impulsively act on

good thing nobody would ever build something like that lol

[Offend_no_one @offendnoone]

Your ex is somewhere telling a new guy how bad you were and he smiling like he won the lottery.

Two clowns one circus.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Watching short-form videos deactivates key brain regions for cognitive control.

Your “stop” button goes offline.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Source: https://t.co/uGnIBSvqaI

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: Study finds that short-form video content such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube shorts deactivate cognitive brain regions.