Anas Rahman

[Namma Karnataka Weather @namma_vjy]

Gosh, just look at the appalling SST of Kerala and Karnataka coastline. Its at +0.2 to -0.5c from normal.

No way this can initiate any Vortex or UAC off shore. Its the happy image which come about after a satisfying Monsoon in November or December.
Our bad time, its surfacing in Core July Month.
Ideally should be at +0.3c to +1.0c.

North Konkan and adj Arabian sea is a bit better at [0 to 0.7c].

Note:
This anomaly plays a huge role in the 700-500 and 850 setup/convergence/trough.
As it stands would ensure again better rains across Mumbai and near by areas in the next round.

The most sought after IOD is at -0.16. Its at neutral levels, far from +iod level of +0.4c. IOD continuing its indifferent performance.

"ಕೆಟ್ಟ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೆ ನೆರಳೂ ಕೂಡ ದೂರ ಸರಿಯುತ್ತದೆ"
"Keṭṭa kālakke neraḷū kūḍā dūra sariyuttade"

Literal Meaning: When the times are truly dark, even your own shadow steps away from you :(

#SWM2026 #KarnatakaRains

[Saloni @salonium]

Could malaria have been eradicated worldwide in the 1960s?

Three years ago, when I wrote a history of the malaria vaccine, I described the Global Malaria Eradication Program, launched in 1955.

It aimed to eradicate malaria with DDT and other highly powerful insecticides worldwide... except in sub-saharan Africa.

Although malaria elimination succeeded in much of the world, including Europe, North America, Australia, and much of Asia, “all sub-Saharan African countries had been ‘excluded from the eradication programme, for physical, economic and developmental reasons complicated by high endemicity and prolonged transmission factors’” as the WHO noted in 1957.

But why?

In a brilliant new video, Justin Portela goes much deeper into the history than I'd ever known.

I highly recommend watching it. https://t.co/G9bpzTcy8Y

[Seema Chishti @seemay]

A very fine piece from @kthaparoffice - what the dangerous comments on passports from GOI tell us + no apology about Sunali Khatun’s family being illegally pushed to Bangladesh from GOI.

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

Famines were ubiquitous in India, until they weren't. What changed? The best explanation is the railroads built by the British colonizers. Improving market access meant that local income was less responsive to local productivity shocks. 1/

[Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers]

It did this while also making no impact in government spending.

I think there's a good case for DOGE as the least effective initiative in US history.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

IDF "soldiers shot a 16-year-old boy and then ran over his body with a tank, mutilating it.

"a 15-year-old boy holding a white flag — and his brother who came to his rescue, as well as their mother — were shot by .338-caliber Israeli sniper rounds from 200 meters away"

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

A United Nations’ independent commission has found that Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children.

Commission chair Srinivasan Muralidhar described the “systematic killing and harming of children” including since the so-called ceasefire was declared in October 2025.

On 5th December 2024, Amnesty released a report determining that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza – a genocide that continues today.

Our report demonstrated that Israel carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, including children.

Children should never be the cost of conflict. Justice and accountability now.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

we only know about a fraction of Israeli atrocities because Palestinians know if they speak out they’ll punished, arrested, tortured or raped to death

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An independent U.N. commission said that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide.

The commission said it found a pattern of behavior that reflected a strategy to destroy the future of Palestinians. https://t.co/SndPKA1jDL

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

If this surprises you, you probably didn't know Ben Gvir was at a wedding where they danced to the hit Israeli song "Ali Is On The Grill", which celebrates the burning alive of an 18-month-old Palestinian child, while stabbing his picture

[🔴All India Weather @allindiaweather]

The Arabian Sea is remarkably calm. This is the critical region for the progression and onset of the monsoon across West and South India. If the Arabian Sea remains dry, it will affect rainfall across India.

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

0.3% of the water consumed by US golf courses last year

[Meer Faisal @meerfaisal001]

The 2023 raids and ED case against NewsClick came after a New York Times story that helped fuel a crackdown on the newsroom. The result: a media organization dismantled and dozens of journalists thrown out of work.

Yesterday, the court has quashed the FIR against NewsClick and its editor, calling the case a “gross abuse of law”. But the bigger question is who holds the NYT accountable for its role in demolishing a newsroom at a time when independent media in India is already gasping for breath under the Modi government's tightening stranglehold?

I wrote then about NYT’s shameful role in undoing a newsroom doing vital, critical work. Read if you haven’t.

https://t.co/pSJKKI7vmG

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Raghu Karnad @rkarnad]

A legendary scene from modern history, shot from an unfamiliar angle. Try to spot the familiar hero.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Esta es la madre del chico palestino autista Eyad Hallaq, gritando de dolor después de que el tribunal de "Israel" absolviera al soldado sionista que asesinó a tiros a su hijo en Jerusalén.

A pesar de la evidencia gráfica y de las declaraciones de la profesora, "Israel" absolvió al asesino de su hijo y lo dejó sin castigo, as�� es la justicia en el apartheid sionista contra los palestinos.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

A girl in Vietnam entered a clothing store but kept missing the saleswoman because they moved at the exact same moments.After about a minute, they finally bumped into each other in a funny “glitch” moment 😂

[kache @yacineMTB]

>the models aren't better than a human expert!
>the models need human intervention!
>the models are more expensive to run than humans! (you are here)

[owl @owl_posting]

its easy to start believing that the bulk of scientific innovation is coming from private institutions, but a surprising amount of insane research is being created at academic labs that remain obscure because everybody involved is too busy to write a position paper on the subject that is legible to laymen and too offline to get those laymen to even try to read it