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[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[Nathan Covey @nathan_covey]

Officially 1 month since I switched to a flip phone.

- Everyone is more severely addicted to their smartphones than I thought. Once you have a dumbphone, you'll frequently find yourself as the only person in the room not on their phone. It's not just teenagers, it's parents and adults of all ages. It's like everyone is stuck in a trance. 75+ year olds might be the only exception.

- All the objections I previously had for getting a dumbphone have turned out to be overblown and/or solvable. My iPhone addiction had fed my brain excuses to not do this earlier. If you really want to make the switch, you can.

- I've felt embarrassed to pull out my flip phone in public at times, for fear of being different or drawing too much attention to myself. But I have learned to just own up to it. Most people end up saying something like "Oh, I probably should do that too."

- I am using my brain more. Even though my flip phone has Waze, I find myself memorizing maps and roads. I'm more bored and get lost in my thoughts. I'm using paper and pen more. Increased desire for tangible things > digital things.

Overall, it has been a great experience and I plan on never going back.

[Idris @7signxx]

"France gathered 400 Muslim scholars and beheaded them. In 1917 AD, during the occupation of Chad. In 1852, when France entered the city of Laghouat in Algeria, it killed two-thirds of its population in a single night and burned them alive.

France occupied Algeria for 132 years. In the first 7 years after their arrival, the French eliminated 1 million Muslims, and in the last 7 years before their departure, they eliminated 1.5 million Muslims. The French historian Jacques Gorky estimated that the total number of Muslims killed in Algeria from France's arrival in 1830 to its departure in 1962 was 10 million.

France occupied Tunisia for 75 years, Algeria for 132 years, Morocco for 44 years, and Mauritania for 60 years. When France entered Egypt during its famous campaign, French soldiers on horseback entered mosques and raped free women in front of their families. They drank wine in the mosques and turned them into stables for their horses.

It is strange to see some people boasting about and defending French civilization, forgetting all its dark history. This is France; remind them of its history.

🔻When France entered the city of Aghwat (Laghouat) in Algeria in 1852, it burned two-thirds of its inhabitants to death in just one night.

🔻 France conducted 17 nuclear tests in Algeria between 1960 and 1966, resulting in an unknown number of deaths estimated between 27,000 and 100,000 and the effects persist to this day.

🔻 When France left Algeria in 1962, it left behind 11 million landmines more than the total population of Algeria at the time.

🔻 France occupied Algeria for 132 years. In just the first seven years of their occupation, they massacred one million Muslims, and in the last seven years, they martyred another 1.5 million Muslims.

🔻 France is the fourth largest holder of gold reserves in the world, with 2,436 tons of gold stored at the Bank of France, even though France has no active gold mines.

🔻 In contrast, Mali one of the world's largest gold producers with 14 official gold mines has no gold reserves of its own.

©current_news_report

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@XMaysara @Safiyyah_Datti I don’t think so but it would be nice to at least touch the Kaaba once after travelling all that way

[anna @annakatherines_]

Just occurred to me this is the first time in my lifetime I can remember a billionaire funding a valuable public works project. Andrew Carnegie funded like 2000 libraries alone lol

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Japanese barberry is the invasive shrub that throws gasoline on your local tick population.

This popular landscape plant from Japan, sold at garden centers for decades, creates the cool, humid microclimate ticks thrive in. Its dense thorny thickets also shelter white-footed mice, the main reservoir for Lyme disease bacteria.

Connecticut researchers found that an acre of forest with Japanese barberry averages 12 times more Lyme-carrying ticks than an acre without it.

If you have it, pull it. New York and Connecticut have banned its sale. Several more states list it as invasive. Native alternatives like inkberry, winterberry, or chokeberry do the same landscape job without raising tick populations or starving local birds of the food they need.

A pretty shrub from Japan isn't worth all the tick drama.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom.

Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six).

Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only.

This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths.

One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it.

The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes.

Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@Adambinks @Ryanair Had this exact issue today. The man made us look at it from the side and it was sticking out over the metal bit. It’s nonsense tho cos that bag fits perfectly into the overheads so just another scam

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@sergiowct @Adambinks @Ryanair Super annoying. Had to pay £33 extra today on top of the £20 I’d already paid for this leg of my trip :/

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@LokiNiner @MrJamesBarwick @Texas_jeep__guy How will you bring it all back?

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@mutethebotznow @danbite @uaivito A mobile phone

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@dimvji @Devin_Moore2 Are you sure you didn’t just give up?

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@DataJuggler007 @Degenteel_ Burning the planet for a joke that’s not even funny

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@FrankF639800 @mmintey_ By this logic straight people who have sex outside of marriage are facing eternal hell too. Interesting.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs"

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@JohnSmithRm9 @GraceRandolph Is it actually a good show? Hadn’t heard of it till now

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@PopBase The cia won

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@loveiceprincesz The plural of fish is fish.

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@BatemanDiaries @k1rallik Precisely

[Victor 🍉 @rome_786]

@khiageneral She has in the past