Prathap Nair

@prathapnair at the place where the sky is blue.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

Given the Hindutva’s propensity to destroy stuff outright or claim them as Hindu sites, neglect is a lesser evil.

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[pier luigi pinna @pierpi13]

Gioggia Meloni visita un poverissimo paese della Basilicata e chiede al sindaco quali siano le tre priorità per rilanciare la zona.
«La prima è l’ospedale: c’è, ma mancano i medici».
Lei tira fuori il telefonino, parla per un paio di minuti e poi annuncia:
«Fatto. Entro una settimana arrivano i medici».
«La seconda è l’acqua: c’è, ma una miniera a monte ha inquinato le falde».
Lei riprende il telefonino, altre due parole, e dice:
«Fatto. Entro un mese le falde saranno bonificate e la proprietà risarcirà gli abitanti».
«E la terza?» chiede lei.
«La terza sono i telefonini» risponde il sindaco.
«Qui non prende niente».

[Patricia Eguino @PatriciaEguino]

To Olympian David Hearn’s legal team: I took the following photos and videos of the Reflecting Pool on June 19th - same day that Hearn was arrested - and I saw that the pool sealant/liner was already peeling in multiple places.
I’d be willing to testify.

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

She’s just another psychotic billionaire. On a holiday weekend. Amidst all this worldwide suffering, the ultra-wealthy still have no compunction. Unreal.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Over the last 1000 genocidal days, Israel killed a child every 52 minutes.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Swiss farmers planted flowers between their crops and watched pest damage drop by over half. The UK is now running the same trial across 15 farms. The reason this works is embarrassingly simple.

A Swiss study on winter wheat found that fields with wildflower strips had 40 to 53% fewer leaf beetle pests than fields without. Crop damage dropped 61%.

The mechanism is simple. Wildflowers feed hoverflies, lacewings, parasitic wasps, ladybugs, and ground beetles. Those insects eat the aphids, beetle larvae, and caterpillars that farmers would otherwise spray for. A few meters of wildflowers hosts an unpaid pest control crew that would jump at the chance to whoop some aphid ass.

In apple orchards where no insecticides had been used for five years, plots with wildflower alleyways had 9.2% damaged fruit. Control plots without flowers had 32.5%.

The UK is now running a five-year trial across 15 farms placing 6-meter flower strips through the middle of fields, not just at the edges, because the beneficial insects can't reach the center of a large field otherwise.

This works the same way in a backyard vegetable garden as it does on a commercial farm. Plant native flowering species near your tomatoes, beans, and squash. The pests still show up, but the predators show up too.

Study doi: 20151369

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

The US + Israel hit 307 Medical Facilities in Iran in 40 days. They deliberately target them because they are used to help the sick + wounded. And the EU of the famed 'European Values' said nothing...

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

We are now debating the dietary habits of mythological characters.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

When do we start calling this a holocaust?

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

You must reject this mentality with every fiber of your being

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years, what do we see? ... we see the wealthiest country in the history of the world -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

For everyone who’s asking when will be performing in Mumbai. I’d need 145 MLA’s,
7500 Crores, ED, EC, CBI, A Party Symbol & Court Judgement…
If anyone has any leads let me know
😂😂😂

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

No, it reconstructs hospitals bombed by Israel, literally.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Some of us warned that this was the goal in October 2023 but we were told it was about the hostages. It was never about the hostages. It was always about conquest and ethnic cleansing.

[Jayant Bhandari @JayantBhandari5]

He is the son of one of the world's richest people, yet he is seeking blessings from a new Indian cult leader. This is exactly why I feel pessimistic about India: even its educated people don't have a moral or rational compass—their superstitions are only getting worse.

[N. Hara @nikash_hara]

I was hurt and surprised to discover that this column looks almost identical to the piece I published on 6/22 for @thejuggernaut.

My piece isn’t something you'd easily find online: it took days of archival work & conversations with researchers.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

In the past hour, the Trump admin has deleted their web page that recommended setting thermostats between 75-78 during heat waves, and 85 if you are not home, after the GOP learned that Mayor Mamdani was urging New Yorkers to follow White House guidance.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

This is the best way I’ve seen an insurgent candidate handle the “does Israel have a right to exist” shibboleth so far. It’s embarrassing how many times she asked. I hate the media.