Rabab

[Rabab @Rababku]

Sedihnyaaaa 😭😭😭

[KinG £ @xKGx__]

🚨🗣️ Hossam Hassan on Palestine:

“By the way, the Palestinian children you are leaving to die love football. They wear Barcelona, Real Madrid and Argentina shirts.

They love you and they love football… but you are leaving them to die.” 💔

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Incredible Egyptian goal is disallowed because of a foul far away, then same situation a few minutes later and goal for Argentina not disallowed! No VAR, nothing? FIFA again looks like a corrupt joke, playing favorites for stars.

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

Egypt is in our hearts forever. All of Gaza is rejoicing—and this isn't because the Egyptian national team is like our own, but because it is truly our national team.

[Verønica 🦉 @RootGr0ves]

Que poco se ha hablado de que la ciudadanía de Albania paralizó el país y quemó la casa del presidente porque le dio permiso a la sionista hija del Trump para construir un hotel de lujo en una isla protegida. Ahora después de 10 días tuvieron que revocar el permiso.

[dev @freeallpenguins]

i rewatched life of pi after a decade and you're telling me this mf ATE HIS MOTHER AND MADE UP THE TIGER BS TO COPE????

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

C. S. Lewis’s Letter to Tolkien upon First Reading The Lord of the Rings:

My dear Tollers—

Uton herian holbytlas indeed. I have drained the rich cup and satisfied a long thirst. Once it really gets under weigh the steady upward slope of grandeur and terror (not unrelieved by green dells, without which it would indeed be intolerable) is almost unequalled in the whole range of narrative art known to me. In two virtues I think it excels: sheer sub-creation—Bombadil, Barrow Wights, Elves, Ents—as if from inexhaustible resources, and construction—the construction Tasso aimed at (but did not equally achieve) which was to combine the variety of Ariosto with the unity of Virgil. Also, in gravitas. No romance can repell [sic] the charge of ‘escapism’ with such confidence. If it errs, it errs precisely in the opposite direction: the sickness of hope deferred and the merciless piling up of odds against the heroes are near to being too painful. And the long coda after the eucatastrophe, whether you intended  it or no, has the effect of reminding us that victory is as transitory as conflict, that (as Byron says) ‘There’s no sterner moralist than pleasure’ and so leaving a final impression of profound melancholy.

No doubt this is increased for me by the circumstances in which I heard most of it for the first time: when there was great danger around us but, in me at any rate, a happier heart than now. But that only accounts for a small part of my total impression. I am sure it is in itself a great and hard and bitter book which, though I love it, I shall never open without a certain shrinking. It will rank, along with the Aeneid as one of what I call my ‘immediately sub-religious’ books.

Indeed (unexpectedly) the general aroma seems to me more like the Aeneid than anything else, in spite of your Northernness. This is partly because both (a.) Are so often sylvan (b.) Have strategy, as distinct from mere combat, (c.) Suggest an enormous past behind the action.

All the alliterative verse I liked.

Of course this is not the whole story. There are many passages I could wish you had written otherwise or omitted altogether. If I include more of my adverse criticism in this letter that is because you heard and rejected most of them already (rejected is perhaps too mild a word for your reaction on  to least one occasion!) and even if I now convinced you on any point, the conviction would, I take it, be too late to bear fruit. And even if all my objections were just (which is of course unlikely) the faults I think I find could only delay and impair appreciation: the substantial splendour of the tale can carry them all. Ubi plura nitent in carmine non ego paucis offendo maculis.

I congratulate you. All the long years you have spent on it are justified. Morris and Eddison, in so far as they are comparable, are now mere ‘precursors’.

The mappemound [sic: mappemundo=”map of the world”] is, as you warn me, now inaccurate. But on a rather different point—do you mean the Shire to be so large?

I miss you very much

Yours

Jack Lewis

[Rabab @Rababku]

😭 rindu laki

[Melody Lyons @melodymlyons]

When you get engaged, you think you’re about to spend the rest of your life with your best friend. It’s partially true. More likely, you will be spending most of your days apart and reconvening as two very tired souls in the evening. And much of your efforts in marriage will be spent trying to steal time from your obligations to spend it with your beloved.

Wrongly considered, it can be a persistent grief. Rightly considered, it can become a grand romantic adventure. Either way, I find that I often miss my husband. And my hope for his eventual retirement has nothing at all to do with a life of ease but with a deep and simple desire for his presence.

[FreeMalaysian @FreeMsian]

All ASEAN members are complicit in the persecution of Rohingyas, the world's most persecuted community. They are complicit because they allowed Myanmar to enjoy ASEAN privileges without accountability to their crimes against humanity.

[LPC @landpalestine]

Iran arrives at World Cup wearing pins of 168 schoolgirls killed by the United States

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I came across a theory that AI is starting to make more mistakes because the internet is increasingly polluted with AI slop. The idea of AI cannibalising itself into obscurity is one of my favourite things ever. I hope it is true and I hope it becomes impossible to fix.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[The Summer Haiqal Died @HaiqalHimbo]

Grouping billionaires/multi millionaires with regular workers in the T20 is 100% on purpose. It lets the elite use people who are barely making their 50/30/20 budget work as human shields whenever someone starts criticizing the rich.

[Rabab @Rababku]

@HaiqalHimbo Spot on.

[Rabab @Rababku]

@winnie4prez My 3rd woke up every 2 hours until he was 2.5 y/o!!! He drove me crazzyyyyy. Once he stopped breastfeeding he still woke up to ask for plain water. I was sleeep deprived up till he’s 3 y/o I’d say

[Rabab @Rababku]

@winnie4prez BUT, the good news is aftr the baby finally sleeps thru the night & u’ve survived tht period of extreme sleep deprivation, 4-5 hours of deep sleep feels https://t.co/L2M7U7GVlH’s so much easier to wake up at 4/5am fr tahajjud. Now u make up for for tht lost times/fajrs I guess….

[Rabab @Rababku]

@winnie4prez I get so frustrated at some point abt this. I asked an Islamic preacher “I want to get closer to God through having children but I feel even more distant than ever. I cant even get up for fajr!” idk I hv no solution at this moment just qadha’ I guess

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

Some women need rest, some need help, some are truly struggling, but there is also a broader cultural sickness here, where women are taught that joy in the home is simple-minded, that delight in one’s children is unserious, and that the only respectable way to do motherhood is half-medicated and counting the hours until bedtime, or until the husband gets home, and I do not know about you, but this is not how I want to live, this is not what I want my testimony, my memory and who I am to be carried onto the story of my children’s lives. This is a miserable way to exist, and it is not the only option available.

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

This is a picture of my father and mother in our home garden, taken on May 22, 2022. I captured it while feeling that I would one day miss this place, its warmth, and the beauty of that moment. I don’t know where that feeling came from, perhaps the winds of a sorrowful future were already whispering through the space.

My longing for those moments defines my being, my very essence. Maybe my life resides in small moments, watering the flowers with my mother, having breakfast with my parents, the gentle struggle as my mother wakes me for work, the playful arguments between my younger siblings over the last olive on the plate, and so many more.

The occupation has robbed us of these precious moments. You may see them as insignificant, but to me, they were my whole, simple life.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

1) putting a Black face on a criminal empire.
2) dismantling and destroying utterly the most prosperous and stable African nation that promised the greatest leap in African independence and prosperity.
3) assassinating American citizens without charge or trial
4) bombing weddings
5) presiding over the greatest (at the time) killing by drone campaign the world had ever seen.
6) being Israel's bitch (like every president before and after him since the turn of the 20th century, with the exception of JFK).