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[Mohamed Iqbal @MI70977]

The “Comet of the Century” quite clearly visible in the Western sky this evening. Alhamdullilah.

C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas.

The last time it was visible from earth was 80,000 years ago, during the age of the Neanderthals.

[Jake Warren @TheJakeWarren]

FIFA being spineless over USA policy interfering with the WC is grim, if not surprising

In 1966, The UK didn’t recognise North Korea and almost didn't let them in

FIFA was clear deny visas to a qualified team and lose the tournament

That principle has mysteriously disappeared

[Mohamed Iqbal @MI70977]

@askrapidkl Masallah ini bukan sahaja membahayakan penumpang, ketidak tentuan servis menyusahkan perancangan & pengendalian urusan harian. cc @anthonyloke

[Mohamed Iqbal @MI70977]

@askrapidkl Tren laluan Kelana Jaya masih mengalami ‘sudden braking’ dan isu teknikal.
Pukul 6:50 ptg tadi semua penumpang di arah turun di stesen Damai dan menaiki tren2 lain.

[Othell Yarwyck @bigbrovar]

Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)

Just silence.

[Mohamed Iqbal @MI70977]

@khalidkarim No more device use sir, just download the app “Unifi TV 2.0” and sign in to access to Unifi TV - on the TV and on your devices. A bit of patience required initially to navigate it. All the best.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Global food price inflation is accelerating:

Thailand's white rice prices surged +20% in May, the biggest monthly increase in data going back to 2008.

This benchmark used for Asian rice prices has surged +26% since April, to ~$480 per ton, while Chicago rice futures prices jumped +15% last month.

Rice is a staple food for over half the global population, estimated at 3.5 to 4 billion people.

Prices are expected to rise even further with fertilizer prices experiencing more pressure, as rice is a fertilizer-intensive grain.

Nitrogen fertilizer prices in Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines have soared up to +50% since the start of the Iran War in February.

Food price pressures are intensifying globally.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

According to data from the World Bank, the share of the population living in extreme poverty ($3/day PPP) is now higher in the United States than in China.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

On 20 February 1939, thousands of Nazi supporters rallied in New York City, waving German flags and Nazi symbols, and cheering Nazi speakers, as a Nazi genocide raged in Europe.

On 31 May 2026, thousands of Zionist supporters rallied in New York City, waving Israeli flags and Zionist symbols, and cheering Zionist speakers, as a Zionist genocide rages in Palestine.

If you can condemn the former, but not the latter, it’s time to consider your own racist complicity in the Holocaust of our time.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City.

These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today.

🧵

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders

For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has

On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundreds of thousands of refugees ended up homeless in Gaza

[David (Hata.io) @hata_david]

I’ve been saying this for years, Malaysia is quietly becoming the regional hub for regional and global business due to Malaysias lower cost of talent that is equally competitive to Singapore

Malaysia Boleh 😬

[Mohamed Iqbal @MI70977]

@syahir Not good for local banks who need these instruments to hold as Tier-1 HQLA for liquidity reserves. Alternative HQLA classes including cash will increase their cost.

[KucingKerongKuantan @KlutzyKucing]

There is a serious policy contradiction that ordinary Malaysians can see immediately. We are told to reduce petrol consumption to ease the nation’s subsidy burden, yet at the same time the transition pathway away from petrol is being made more expensive.

A serious energy transition cannot succeed by moral persuasion alone. People do not shift because they are told to “save fuel”. They shift when the alternative becomes practical, affordable and reliable.

The real challenge for policymakers is not choosing between fuel subsidies or EVs. It is designing a transition that protects rakyat purchasing power while gradually reducing fiscal leakage and carbon dependency.

[Sami Hamdi سامي الهاشمي الحامدي @SALHACHIMI]

A Muslim and two Jews were stabbed in Golders Green, but the Muslim was erased from media coverage. A mosque that was previously a synagogue was targeted in an arson attack, but the fact that it is a mosque is being erased from media coverage with outlets still insisting on referring to it as a synagogue.

Muslims have been on the frontline of protecting Jews for centuries from before even the Spanish Inquisition, and continue to be on that frontline by order of Allah Himself. The renowned Jewish historian Avi Shlaim told @jalalayn's @thinking_muslim that "it cannot be said there was systematic anti-semitism during the centuries Muslims lived with Jews".

European attempts to erase the Jews entirely were thwarted consistently by Muslim communities who felt compelled by the teachings of Islam to intervene to rescue the Jews; be it the Ottomans under Bayezid II who sent ships to evacuate them from Spain, or the Muslims of Sarajevo who saved and preserved the Haggadah, or the Muslims of Palestine who lived for centuries in peace with the Jews until Zionism emerged to corrupt the harmony and co-existence.

Muslims do not have an anti-semitism problem and refer to Jews (and Christians) as Allah Himself referred to them: "the People of the Book". So, what are media outlets trying to insinuate by correctly recognising the diminished cognitive faculties of a criminal on the one hand, but selectively referencing his victims on the other?

What is the aim here in round-the-clock coverage of one heinous crime, and a poorly covered second crime, but no mention of other heinous hate crimes that are no different save that the victims are of a different faith?

As a Muslim, my traditions are clear. Jews are safe in every area they find Muslims as they have been throughout history by order of Allah the Almighty and his beloved messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him, and his predecessors Jesus Christ, and Moses), irrespective of the narratives that advocates of hate, genocide, and selective journalism are pushing.

Crime has no faith. Crime has no race. Bless the Christians hiding the Muslims from Israeli soldiers in Lebanon. Bless the Muslims who saved the Jews from persecution. Bless the Jews who stand tall and proud in solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians.

Let us be advocates of good against those of hate, and let every individual criminal face justice for their individual crimes.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

If you are fortunate to be with elderly parents, then this is golden advice

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

‘They massacred Arab babies’

Headline in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, 1948.

This passage stands out:

Jews saw their opportunity. Men of the army of Zion attacked Deir Yassin at 10 a.m. that day.

They easily overcame the opposition. They killed 20 Arab defenders, and entered the village, tossing grenades into houses.

They killed old men, women, and children with bayonets. For three hours the slaughter went on.

Babies were killed in front of their mothers. Mothers’ throats were slit. Some were beheaded.

A group of men and women—some of the women obviously pregnant—were lined up and shot. The bloodlusting Jewish soldiery desecrated the bodies of pregnant mothers with knives.

When they had murdered 264 villagers, the Jews called a halt. They rounded up four truckloads of survivors of all ages and both sexes, tossed the bodies of the dead into the village well, and drove off with the survivors.

The victorious Jews drove the survivors through Jewish areas as exhibits of victory while Jews spat upon them. The parade continued, with breaks, for two days.
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Every Zionist accusation is a confession.

Zionism is Jewish supremacism. The bloodlust is baked in.

#EndJewishSupremacy
#DismantleZionism

[Islamic Scientific Heritage @IslamicSH_]

✨You’ve seen this in every math class:

sin(a ± b) = sin a cos b ± cos a sin b
sin(2a) = 2 sin a cos a
cos(2a) = 1 − 2 sin²(a)

🚨But did you know these formulae came from a Muslim scholar 1000 years ago?

Meet Abū al-Wafā al-Būzjānī, the genius who shaped Trigonometry. 📐

Abū al-Wafā Būzhjānī (d. 998) was a Persian Muslim mathematician and astronomer from Khorasan. Born in Būzjān (near Nishapur, Iran), Būzhjānī showed early brilliance in mathematics and geometry.

He later moved to Baghdad, then the heart of the Islamic Golden Age, a city of scholars, libraries, and observatories.

In Baghdad, he became one of the leading scientists of the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Ḥikmah). Here, he studied Greek works like Euclid and Ptolemy, and expanded them far beyond their original limits.

📐 His Contributions to Mathematics:

He established several trigonometric identities such as [sin(a±b)] in their modern form:

{sin(α ± β)= Sinα Cosβ ± Cosα Sinβ}
{sin(a + b) = Sin(a)Cos(b) + Cos(a)Sin(b)}
{Cos(2a) = 1-2sin²(a)}
{Sin(2a) = 2Sin(a) Cos(a)}

He compiled tables of sines and tangents at 15° intervals, introduced secant and cosecant, and explored the relationships between all six trigonometric lines. His work made both mathematics and astronomy quantitatively precise.

He also studied geometry, arithmetic, and number theory, writing detailed commentaries on al-Khwārizmī and Diophantus.

Some sources suggest that he introduced the tangent function, although other sources give the credit for this innovation to al-Marwazi.

🌌 His Work in Astronomy:

Abū al-Wafā designed and built a wall quadrant, a large, fixed instrument used to measure celestial altitudes with remarkable accuracy.

This invention influenced later observatories across the Islamic world.

His masterpiece, Kitāb al-Majisṭī (“The Almagest”), improved upon Ptolemy’s astronomy, described planetary motion, and developed mathematical methods for finding the Qibla direction, the direction of prayer. 🕌

In 997, he participated in an experiment to determine the difference in local time between his location, Baghdad, and that of al-Biruni (who was living in Kath, Uzbekistan).

Their result was astonishingly accurate, within about 1 hour of modern calculations. ⏱️

[H’s mom @aiishadahir]

The longest ayah in the Qur’an isn’t about Jannah.
Not about Hellfire or the grave
Not about Dajjal.

It’s about… A LOAN