If all you've got to do today is find peace of mind, come here, you can have a piece of mine. (Profile Illustrated by godson at age 11)
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Sometimes I worry that it was ill-advised to devote my entire life to writing at the precise moment when everyone decided to abandon literacy.
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Jun 13
Israel flattened Beirut in 1982.
No Hamas. No Hezbollah. No October 7 to point to then.
Just 17,000 dead Lebanese and Palestinian civilians.
Even US president then Ronald Reagan, who armed Israel, called Begin furious after seeing a photo of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off and said “It is a holocaust”.
They killed so many innocent people that the survivors had no choice but to pick up weapons.
Then Israel had the audacity to keep using “Self-Defense” excuse every decade.
Israel didn’t stumble into endless war. Israel built it. Brick by brick.
Own it.
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Na'a retweeted
Jun 13
“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.”
— Hubert Reeves
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Romeo & Juliet & Oyen
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Pure joy.
Jun 6
A woman adopted a dog.
But she was told that her puppy was still at the shelter.
So she also adopted the daughter so they wouldn't be separated, and reunited them.
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Jun 5
The New York Times accidentally revealed the moral bankruptcy of capitalism.
China is making breakthroughs in cancer drugs, clinical trials, biotech research, and life-saving medicines.
The first American reaction is not:
“How many patients can this save?”
It is:
“Will this threaten U.S. dominance?”
“Will American biotech lose its edge?”
“Will Big Pharma struggle to keep up?”
That tells you everything.
In a sane world, better cancer drugs would be a human victory.
In Washington’s world, even medicine becomes a battlefield the moment China helps people live.
China’s biotech rise is not just about winning.
It is about responsibility to a massive patient population that cannot wait for American monopolies, American prices, or American permission.
Cancer patients do not care about U.S. dominance.
They care about staying alive.
And that is exactly why China cannot leave this field to America.
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Reminds me of another country.
Near me. Very near.
Tip of my tongue.
Singapore has no minerals. Japan was bombed to rubble in 1945. Vietnam was at war for decades. All three built cities with parks, public squares, functional public transport, and green urban spaces that serve their people.
Walk through Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Douala, or Kinshasa and find somewhere to sit that is not a shop, a bar, or a church. You will not find it.
These cities sit inside some of the most fertile, green, tropical land on earth. And somehow every trace of it was designed out of the urban experience. No parks. No shade. No public squares. Nowhere a person can simply exist without spending money.
The geopolitics argument runs out when you look at who recovered from worse and built better. We are collectively and embarrassingly disorganized and we need to start saying that out loud.
Change does not start with governments. It starts with enough people refusing to accept this as normal. Share this if you agree. Talk about it. Demand better from your city.
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The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
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And yet perhaps an equally large percentage of people in power (globally) will support or at least acquiesce to Israel every time.
Jun 1
🚨 JUST IN:
Israel has become the most hated country at 97.55% according to global polls.
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Na'a retweeted
Jun 1
🚨 JUST IN:
Israel has become the most hated country at 97.55% according to global polls.
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We can’t even manage water under normal circumstances.
We are inviting disaster if we proceed with this ambition.
Jun 3
Malaysia wants to become a regional hub for AI & data centres. A data centre can use up to 25.5 million tonnes of water annually. This amount can support 300,000 people every single day.
Nothing can replace our freshwater ecosystems once they are destroyed & drained.
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Donald Trump and FIFA is like a marriage made in Corruption Heaven.
The World Cup may never recover.
In this age of Arseholes Unmasked, we are seeing many Iconic International Institutions fall apart.
The World Cup, Hollywood, The UN, the EU… the list will undoubtably grow.
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Na'a retweeted
May 30
my cat has been ramming his head into my boobs a lot lately and i've read stories about how pets sometimes warn their owners of cancerous tumors using the same method so i went to the doctor and got checked and found out that my cat is just a pervert
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