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[James Bird @hollajamesbird]

just want to give a shoutout to my dad who has run the fourth team at the local cricket club for something like 15 years.

before today, they’d lost 22 games in a row and consist of, usually, a 75 year old wicket keeper, two 60 year olds, couple of fifty year olds, a handful of teenage girls and boys, and then some odd bits and bobs like me who play once a year.

my dad messaged me this morning whilst I was on my way up to wolverhampton to say that he’d been ill overnight so would be captaining from the shade of a tree whilst drinking lots of fluids, but ended up umpiring for an hour and fielding the whole time. he couldn’t pick me up from the train station, so Ben the vice captain did, who can’t really walk anymore, and he sent me this:

Morning Jamie hope ur well. U have the misfortune of being picked up by me today. Let me know how your train is doing and I will be outside station as u exit. Look for a metallic blue Renault kadjgar being driven by gimli from the Lord of the rings ....wearing a blue cap.

anyway, we lost in the final over today but my dad still moved himself into a catching position and took a catch two balls later, and we batted together for a couple of overs. our two opening batsmen were a 73 year old and a 50 something year old, and our opening bowlers were a 13 year old boy and 17 year old girl.

cricket at highest level can be disappointingly upper class and archaic, so disappointingly, but at a grassroots level like this it’s so fulfilling. not sure any other sport in the world can have such a wide demographic of people playing in a single game.

anyway, that makes it 23 lost games in a row. win soon come.

[krishnan @namaskarum]

Eid Mubarak! ❤️
When the prayers started, I felt I might get something magical. I walked in, and nobody was there to stop me. I crouched in the corner and didn't have to wait much for this shot. 1/60 sec; f11; ISO 2500; DM for prints.
#eidmubarak @Fujifilm_India

[krishnan @namaskarum]

@AndyManganelli @TheStudio I can't wait to see the next one!

[krishnan @namaskarum]

@lakshmi_u Xxcdc

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

My 2 litmus tests for whether or not a stranger is a good person:

1: They put the shopping cart back where it belongs

2: They stand a few feet back from the airport baggage claim until they see their bag, instead of cutting in front and blocking people's view for no reason

[krishnan @namaskarum]

This shows how disappointing the administrative departments are, even at the levels of @AIIMSRDA. I hope Dr. Anjali gets her deserved seat and the appropriate authorities take strict action against wrongdoing.

[Anjali Chandola @chandola_anjali]

GROSS INJUSTICE meted out to me by AIIMS DELHI!
I am AIIMS rank 4 in the INI-SS exam for Jan 2023 session.I have been wrongfully denied admission to AIIMS Delhi and my alloted seat has been given to someone else.Please help
@PMOIndia @MoHFW_INDIA @mansukhmandviya @AIIMSRDA

[The AIDEM @the_aidem]

Ear to the Ground is a special feature by The AIDEM that reports on offbeat field reports on people’s lives and livelihood issues.

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[Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures]

The stories behind some of our top photos of 2022 https://t.co/SMOXZEmjnh

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Of all the reasons to get "canceled" for, a reading list is my favorite 🤣 Thank you for that ❤️

I'll continue reading & re-reading great books and sharing stuff I love with the world.

PS: Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing for them to fail.

[george @StokeyyG2]

Mbappe really said:

[Trendulkar @Trendulkar]

Mbappe in the 1st half 🥱

Mbappe in the 2nd half 🧯

[José Miguel Polanco ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @josepolanco10]

December 18, 2022. 34 year old Leo Messi will win the World Cup and become the greatest player of all times. Check back with me in 7 years.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

This morning I was reading a book where I came across a former canteen manager named Surajmal Jaipurwala. And got to know something that I had wondered about for a long time. And therein lies a story, not just in the tale of Surajmal, but in how it was unearthed.

[Joseph Zucker @JosephZucker]

Oh my god

[Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast @WVFRM]

We sat down with @hasanminhaj to talk about the future of tech and things got real!

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[Prajwal @prajwalmanipal]

In September, @samrahattar , a new reporter in our office found there was a complaint against the NGO that is now in the centre of large-scale electoral fraud. We investigated this for weeks and published the first story on Nov 16. Thread.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

In a bold, unprecedented move, players and coaches of Iranian basketball team Canco removed their headscarves for a group photo in defiance of the Islamic Republic's hijab rules, and posted the photo on Instagram with the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom".

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

It took 300,000 years to get to 1 billion but only 218 years to go from 1 to 8.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

The amazing Carl Sagan's birth anniversary. And what better way to remember him than this quote, perhaps my favourite quote ever, inspired by this picture taken of our planet from a spacecraft 6 billion miles away.
"“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

You certainly don't have to like everybody. But when you HATE a person or a group of people, you've gotten swallowed up by human craziness. These can help snap you back into reality.