Khalil A. Cassimally

Ironic handle | I write threads about Mauritius | I write about work stuff on LinkedIn | Head of Audiences at The Conversation | Bylines: @guardian @sciam 🔴🌹

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#Mauritius has a secret. One that scientists only recently uncovered.

Buried deep beneath Mauritius is the remnant of an old, turbulent world …

𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚

Traces of Mauritia still exist in Mauritius today – on our beaches 🧵⬇️

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@nadiirgm Between first and second parking areas. But only when the sea is calm (otherwise they just break off). And the sea hasn't been calm for three months 😔

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Ocean forests are collectively larger than the Amazon!

There are tiny ones around #Mauritius (e.g. Flic en flac).

Globally, they cover between 6 million and 7.2 million square kilometres of seabed.

📷 National Marine Sanctuaries/flickr

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@Amit_88_ 👀

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@jzrproductions_ Pyjama FC!?

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😶

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Seychelles opposition leader Patrick Herminie charged with witchcraft https://t.co/B12AoioNOv

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@MariCLMurphy Honestly, this is the one thing that's making me feel a bit better after that shambles in London

[Exequatur @Lucie008]

#Mauritius: Anjalay Coopen was shot by the police #OTD in 1943. She was among the Belle-Vue-Harel Sugar Estate's workers who went on strike, requesting better pay & #work conditions. The other victims of the shooting were Kistnasamy Mooneesamy, Moonsamy Moonien & Marday Panapen.

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@rogerlorton Thanks for sharing

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Boris can kindly f— off, thank you very much.

#chagos #mauritius

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@Hamish_M The absolute melt

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@micr_wlee @NatureGenet 🎉🎉🎉

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@yurit0s This for new customers only or existing ones as well?

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@MariCLMurphy Hahahaha, brilliant

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@allyhan6 Such a pain! But then by the end they gave me three months free and I was corrupted 🙈

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This is so funny.

What comes around goes around.

[Bonnie Tsui @bonnietsui]

“Swimming is the reset button,” Pallace used to say. “Swimming starts the day again.”

-Ann Patchett, “Tom Lake”

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@fortelabs Spotted in Mauritius

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The most epic penalty shootout I've ever watched

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OMG FOOTBALL WHAT #FIFAWWC

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The UK is full of shit. A story in four parts.

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@BeneRousseau Yes! Low tide

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European tourists coming to #Mauritius to get away from the heat.

The new normal is weird.