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[🇧🇩🌺🔻 Ujala/উজালা | সব নিপীড়িত মানুষের মুক্তি @shimmeringolds]

YOU HAVE TO POWER DOWN YOUR PHONE TO NOT LET IT PLAY. IT WILL BYPASS THE SILENT MODE AND STILL PLAY. IF YOU HAVE A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/SAFETY PHONE OR HAVE AUDITORY SENSORY ISSUES PLEASE POWER IT OFF TOMORROW DURING 2 PM EST, 1 PM CDT, 11 AM PDT, AND MORE.

[manny @mannyfidel]

i cannot breathe WHAT is he talking about

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

North Mesa, Phoenix, Arizona experienced heavy rain and winds in the 120-160 km/h range last night

[📹 John Rodriguez]

[. @naledimashishi]

She was responsible for the deaths of over 100 children because she practised surgery on them without a license. This framing is absolutely wild

[Did Not Request or Buy Blue Checkmark @UjuAnya]

Not helping HBO advertise that documentary by quoting their tweet. Just wanna inform y’all Renee Bach is a serial killer who murdered 100s of children in Uganda pretending to be a medical professional. And she got away with it, because she’s a white woman who killed Africans.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In the West Sahel, farmers recover degraded land and prevent desertification by digging half-moon holes. Also called “zai pits”, the ditches capture scarce rainwater and direct it toward growing plants, helping reforest the edges of the southern Sahara
https://t.co/4pOeT0cKY9

[@marcusfitzsimons.bsky.social Woke Green Socialist @MarcusFitzsimon]

I cannot POSSIBLY be any clearer (as someone who worked in IT managing some of this country's biggest databases)

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANYONE PROVIDE PICTURES OF THEIR PASSPORTS OR DRIVING LICENCES

ESPECIALLY NOT

to databases outside the GDPR

THREAD:

[ᓅᑎᓂᑐᒫᑲᐣ @cedarsageskoden]

People are being really ignorant so I’m gonna lay it out easily.
It’s 100% climate change. In the late 90s / early 00s the winters stopped being cold enough to kill off the red pine beetle, which started leaving forests of dead trees visible all across the OK. Basically tinder.

[Kᴇʙʙ » || TADC + DELTARUNE SPOILERS || @_ItsKebb]

She reminded me of how embarrassed I was about my own interests at that age. Even though it was completely normal for me to be interested in those things at that age! Idk it just made me sad

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Young people: The GOP is floating an amendment to raise the voting age from 18 to 25. Vivek Ramaswamy is openly promoting it. They’re scared of your votes and want to silence you. Act appropriately in 2024.

[kemi @kemimarie]

we just supposed to act like a hurricane in california is normal?

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

I’ll never forget: in grad school, I took a disaster communication intensive, because I wanted to get into NGO/Nonprofit work, and the lecturer was asked, how do you know who takes point/gets the funding in a disaster and he answered with

“Whoever gets there first.”

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

If you’re looking for more ways to support folks in Lāhainā and on Maui, I hope you’ll consider donating to these local organizations that are providing direct support on the ground: https://t.co/BvyE6YkBUy

[Robert Littal BSO @BSO]

Michael Oher always hated the Blind Side movie and now comes to find out his “loving parents” were allegedly scamming him the whole time because they saw he could be an NFL player. Movie portrayed him as mentally slow because that helped the white savior plot and helped Sandra Bullock win an OSCARS