Jahabar Sadiq

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[Effi The Source Saharudin @1Obefiend]

Why are people glazing Malaysia lately with number of tourists increasing? Because of vids like this. But seriously Singapore, Thailand and Bali better. There’s nothing to do here. Brunei is more exciting. True story

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

The Yogis of the Khyber Pass

Strange as it may seem today, Peshawar was once one of the great centres of Yoga in the world.

[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

A BBC journalist handed his hole, by this gentleman.

More of this please!
Articulate ✔️Eloquent ✔️Truth✔️

Turn it up!

Fuck israel & #FreePalestine

#israel

[Aisehman @Aisehman]

GenX has lived through the recession of the mid-1980s, the Asian financial crisis in the late-1990s, the global financial crisis of the late-2000s, kleptocracy in the mid-2010s, and Covid in the early 2020s.

For the class of 1965-1980, getting knocked back repeatedly has been par for the course.

https://t.co/PaKo1TmCKJ

[Jahabar Sadiq @jsadiq]

Photographer Spends Ten Years Capturing Black Cowboys and Cowgirls Across America | PetaPixel https://t.co/nFoCSZC7ax

[Aisehman @Aisehman]

The Undang of Johol’s company got a government contract for TuJu last year.

Before he and others rebelled against Yang Dipertuan Besar Tuanku Muhriz recently this year.

But Anwar is siding with Tuanku Muhriz as Yang Dipertuan Besar.

Messy.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is probably the single best Two minute clip I have seen in a long time.

Anderson Cooper, who is gay, making fun of how gay Donald Trump is.

And I will repeat. There’s nothing wrong with being gay. The problem is hypocrisy.

[Aisehman @Aisehman]

Is it safe to release him?

Tak kisahlah dia cucu arwah Ketua Menteri Adenan Satem ke, cucu A bin B ke, is it safe?

That’s all that matters.

[Jahabar Sadiq @jsadiq]

https://t.co/ULJQTebBEU

[Amar-Singh HSS @DrAmarMOH]

Fiery Minivet (Pericrocotus igneus) female, Perak, Malaysia, Oct 2026. What colour are the forehead, lores and eyelids in the female Fiery Minivet (Pericrocotus igneus)? #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Perak #Malaysia #birds #nature #wildlife @Avibase @orientbirdclub @IndiAves @Team_eBird

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In December 1958 the Polish embassy in Beijing refused to let the sparrow killers onto its grounds, so the Chinese surrounded it with drummers and kept the drums going for two days until every bird sheltering in the garden had dropped dead from the air, and the diplomats cleared them up with shovels.

That is how thorough it was. The campaign had been running since the spring. Every village, school and factory was turned out with gongs, pans and firecrackers to keep the sparrows flying until their hearts gave out. Nests were torn from eaves, eggs smashed, chicks killed, and children went through the fields with slingshots and were paid by the bird. The dead came in by the basket, strung on wires, piled on carts, and the totals went up the chain as a harvest. Something close to two billion sparrows in two years. The embassy garden was the last place in the capital with birdsong in it, and the drums got that too.

A zoologist called Zhu Xi had told them before it started that a king had tried this and lost. Frederick the Great of Prussia had put a bounty on sparrows in the 1740s to save his grain and his cherries, and the sparrows went, and the caterpillars they had been eating stripped his orchards to the stalk, and the king cancelled the bounty and paid to have sparrows brought back from neighbouring states and let loose. The whole episode was in the library. The ministry had a figure for what a sparrow ate and no figure for what it did, and a man with the second figure was told to sit down.

The locusts arrived on schedule. Then the grain borers. A sparrow takes a few grains from a field in autumn and feeds its chicks nothing but insects all spring, and with the sparrows gone the insects had the rice and the wheat to themselves. The counties with the most sparrows to lose saw their grain fall the furthest, and the rice and wheat that had been holding the country up went down together.

That was 1959, and the state took its grain quota anyway, on the harvest that had been reported. What was left in the villages was not enough, and the famine that followed over the next three years is the largest in human history: tens of millions dead, the estimates running from fifteen million to forty-five, whole counties in Anhui and Sichuan where the living could not bury the dead. The sparrows were one cause among several and the economists who have gone back to the county records put the bird's share at something over two million people, with another four hundred thousand never born. Two million, from a campaign against a thing that weighs an ounce.

By 1960 the ornithologist Tso-hsin Cheng, who had been cutting open dead sparrows and counting the insects in their stomachs, got the bird struck off the list and bed bugs put in its place. There were almost no sparrows left in China to pardon. So the government did what Prussia had done two centuries before: it bought a quarter of a million sparrows from the Soviet Union and shipped them east in crates, to be released into a country that had drummed every one of their relatives out of the sky.

The animal that does the invisible job is always the one on the ledger as a cost. Take the sheep off a chalk down and the orchids are under scrub in twenty years. Fence the cattle off a Welsh hill and the bracken takes it. Empty a savannah of its herds and the grass goes to fire. All of it written down, all of it in the library, all of it available to the next committee with a figure for what a cow eats.

Beijing paid Moscow for the birds in hard currency. The men who had said so in 1958 were still not allowed to say so in 1960.

[Michael Vatikiotis @jagowriter]

On Day one of Ubud Writers Festival Indonesian writer and filmmaker Dhandy Laksono presents a history of repression in Indonesia going back 400 years!

[Jahabar Sadiq @jsadiq]

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[Aisehman @Aisehman]

Aik, mano poie muko Johol?
😭😭😭

Semalam ado, hari ni dah takdo.

Sapo punyo kojo ni?

Osah mada eh. Bungko.

[Jahabar Sadiq @jsadiq]

@jannahtesl @azmanrocks 😂

[Jahabar Sadiq @jsadiq]

@KlutzyKucing Alhamdulillah. Semoga dapat haji yang mabrur.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Miko Peled is asked if he will condemn Hamas and the Palestinian resistance. Here is his response:

[MR 🇲🇾 @maliqueredzuan]

Ziarah almarhumah Tun Dr Hasmah di Pusara Negara.

23 hari berlalu.

Sentiasa dalam ingatan.

Semoga damai di sisi Rabbul jalil 🤍

[Thevesh @Thevesh]

Dari segi "data sovereignty", apa yg PM kata mmg betul. In general, Malaysia is totally dependent on external providers for industry-grade mapping services due to decades of under-investment into developing our own tech.

However, anyone saying to use Tuju as a replacement has obviously never used Tuju in their life (mmg pun, PM x bawa kereta sendiri kan).

1. Tuju does not have live traffic data. This alone is a total dealbreaker, period.

2. If we're talking about actually replacing Waze, the key is the DATA. Key components are:
- The basemap (peta Malaysia dgn lat/lon yg tepat bagi semua alamat)
- Live traffic information (need critical mass of users sharing their live location)
- The optimisation layer (processing all the data to give users the fastest route)

From a data perspective, Tuju is a 0/10 app. Tak percaya, pergi dig sendiri - Tuju themselves are using Google Maps API underneath.

Since Google owns Waze, this is pretty hilarious and shows that whoever advised PM knows nothing about it 😂

3. In terms of UI/UX quality, Tuju is maybe a 3/10 application at best. I've seen better navigation apps vibecoded by 12yo students.

However, are we surprised? Malaysians mmg dah biasa dah - apa² pun mengenai GovTech, biasa mmg je laut dari segi implementation. Tuju is just the latest in a long line of 🤡

All in all, just another day in the life of a user of Msian gov apps.

[Aisehman @Aisehman]

Memula terkejut gak benda macam eksploitasi seks remaja bawah umur boleh terjadi kat negeri macam Perlis.

Lepas tu aku teringat kes DNAA ahli Parlimen PAS dari Arau, dan rasa terkejut aku terus hilang.