As a kid I first heard about cystic fibrosis in a Reader's Digest that my grandfather subscribed to. One of those tragic, inspirational kid dying memoirs. It's so wonderful that within my lifetime that narrative will be obsolete.

“Fact that you are finding these new species just shows that we have not even scratched the surface of the different types of species found in Nicobar,” said an ecologist. scroll.in/article/1089... The upcoming project worried her since “these sightings have happened exactly where it is coming up.”

The silencing of activists continues. India govt is in effect saying opposing fossil fuels going against Indian interests. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/m...

OK finding mainstream normies talking about Heated Rivalry is as jarring as when white people started talking about RRR.

Meet Vijayrajamallika, from Kerala, whose poetry in the Malayalam language is on Kerala state's school curriculum. Her labour of love with trans and intersex communities is inspiring. She's an intersex person herself (discovered it at 32 years of age). Trans/queer poets will salvage us from doom.

My great-grandmother once made all her kids wear all their gold jewellery as they were leaving the house after my great-grandfather died. His brothers ended up taking all the other property.

This is a really horrifying and important story from @article-14.com on the ongoing mass disenfranchisement of Indian voters by the fascist BJP regime.

The orca She destroyed the yacht Yes YES The orca is free

I wear a hat upon my hed It is a fish and it is ded All the other girls in my pod Say how it sets off my hot bod And when we hunt the yummy seals They admire me before they squeal Coz I'm the baddest bitch afloat oh wait there goes a boat

About to join a meeting with the head of an org who fucked up so badly the project is almost doomed. And the worst part is not going to be having to smile at his non-apology. It's going to be having to sit through the 20 minute lying he will do about how wonderful a thing he did in 1991 was.

Historian and retired professor from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Janaki Nair on her incarcerated students, Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam

This image is from Birzeit University in the West Bank which was raided by Israel today using live ammunition and tear gas. Over 40 people were injured, mostly students. More than 8,000 students are trapped inside. But it’s controversial to talk about scholasticide.

You need to first request your archive, this takes time so do it now. Then you need to use a tool like that developed by @luca.run to delete your DMs, media, posts and whatever else on there 2/ github.com/lucahammer/t...

PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/

Just had the realisation that a large chunk of the world does not know how another large chunk of the world wakes up every day to have the make the decision as to whether their boobs are going to look like ice-cream cones, breadloaves or hills for the next twelve hours.

As climate change and urbanization intensify flooding in Rwanda, the hilly capital of Kigali has pushed nature-based solutions, reshaping 18,000 acres of degraded wetlands, planting native species to filter and slow runoff and enhancing biodiversity.

Just had the realisation that a large chunk of the world does not know how another large chunk of the world wakes up every day to have the make the decision as to whether their boobs are going to look like ice-cream cones, breadloaves or hills for the next twelve hours.

Maduro’s wife showed up in U.S. court with visible injuries and bandages after what her lawyer calls “significant injuries during her abduction.” Possible rib fracture. Kidnapping dressed up as “law and order.” Unconstitutional. Dangerous! #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/Asrfw4rnhQB2...

“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

While the victims of floods and landslides in Himachal Pradesh battle uncertainty, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress, lack of questions on mental health care allows for authorities’ inaction.

The judges who denied bail to Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam have granted custom exemption to Adani Power. Yep, that's the great Indian judiciary. 50 years ago, the judiciary once commented that the Indian police is an "organized gang of criminals." Today, they're a competitor for the same phrase.

Just to remind everyone that the BJP organised a pogrom in Delhi, killed a large number of Muslim citizens, and then framed charges against Muslim students to throw them in jail without any convictions. For FIVE YEARS Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam have been denied bail so Amit Shah won't lose face.

Nearly six years in prison with no trial and no bail for peaceful protest, framed by the state for a state sanctioned pogrom against their own minority population. Our courts dance to the tune of the regime.

Humpback whales can tell the difference between mammal-eating killer whales and fish-eating killer whales and will go out of their way to disrupt the hunts of the former, going so far as to fight them for hours or give seals a safe ride on their own bodies.

would lay bare the entire facade of manufactured cases in the Delhi riot, thereby officially making this riot a classic case of a BJP riot. (3/3)

and some lucky ones are even ministers in the current Delhi government, while Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam are made to take all the fall. Further, Umar and Sharjeel are also unable to secure bail because granting them bail,... (2/3)

To break it into simple words, they're Muslims, and they must spend 8-10 years in jail without being guilty of any crime. The Delhi riot has been a classic case of a politically manufactured riot by the BJP. The actual accused have been garlanded, moving up the Sangh ladder,... (1/3) #UmarKhalid

We all suspected this but it’s incredible to see a systematic study on the automation of caste bias in GPT-5. The harm is immense, especially when we consider India is already OpenAI’s second largest market. Screenshots of findings that will haunt me below www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

NEW: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, and Spain issued a joint statement on Jan. 4 condemning the unilateral military actions carried out in Venezuela, warning they violate international law, the prohibition on the use of force, and the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity...

One thing I feel like I'm not seeing mentioned enough is that the entire world needs this oil to stay in the ground, not be extracted and burned by a powermad colonial empire, further polluting the ecosphere and exacerbating the climate crisis, thus ensuring even more needless death and suffering.

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments. One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

The latest death toll is already above 80, with Cubans making up nearly half of that number.

Mohammad Jawed spent 21 months in jail for no crime. While hospitalised, bulldozers demolished his family home—now a pattern of extra-legal retribution against #Muslims across #BJP-ruled states. First essay in Harsh Mander’s 6-part series article-14.com/post/the-hou...

Belgium and the US colluded to overthrow and assassinate Patrice Lumumba in the DRC, keeping Mobutu Sese Seko in power for almost 50 years even while he massacred Congolese people and hollowed out the state. But hey - he was a “capitalist”, amirite?

Guatemala was a brand new democracy, until they tried to reform the use of their land, which was heavily controlled by the United Fruit Company. The US overthrew their democratically elected leader and left Guatemala in chaos. The resulting civil war lasted 30 years and killed hundreds of thousands.

Iran was a secular democracy, one of the oldest sovereign governments in the entire world, until we nationalized our oil, which was mostly controlled by the British. The US overthrew our democratically elected leader and replaced him with the Shah, who tortured and murdered thousands.

And the reasons are always the same. Chile was the most stable democracy in Latin America, until they nationalized their copper, which was mostly controlled by American corporations. The US overthrew their democratically elected leader and installed Pinochet, who tortured and murdered thousands.

Libya. Iraq. Iran. Afghanistan. Laos. Vietnam. Haiti. Hawaii. Puerto Rico. Panama. Cuba. Guatemala. The Philippines. El Salvador. Bolivia. Mexico. Ecuador. Honduras. Nicaragua. Chile. Venezuela. I could go on and on. What do these nations have in common?

From Palestine to Venezuela: We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis. Read our full statement: loom.ly/0PcQonE

Studying the contemporary histories of Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia will make you incapable of looking at diamonds with anything but hatred and contempt.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum calls on the United Nations to step in to stop Trump. She says Trump broke article 2 of the charter of the United Nations.

Yesterday, Reuters unveiled a report in which they discovered that Israel re-purposed armored personnel carriers into truck bombs, loading them with up to 3 tons of explosives and then using them to destroy residential buildings in Gaza.

Former world-destroying evil empire's vestigial remnant clinging lamprey-like to the flank of the current apex world-destroying evil empire for dear life.

Uses that justification for sanctions Sanctions cause suffering- double down and blame suffering on “dictator” Use the wealthy expat community who lost access to asset they want to back them up in the press Invade

The US- Identifies an asset it wants Can’t get said asset at price it wants Backs rival political parties- doesn’t work Starts funding rebel groups- doesn’t work but leads to clampdowns by government Uses its networks of human rights orgs to point and yell dictator….

I wrote a follow-up to my essay on the Bondi shooting. sakr.substack.com/p/arming-the...

More ways in which colonial India persecutes Kashmiris in India-Occupied Kashmir.

Timothy C. Roth, a member of Maryland's 'Task Force Turtle' (TFT) snapped this photo of a female common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) emerging from brumation in a dry lake mudhole with 18 lbs of dirt & grass on her back. TFT tag these animals with radio transmitters to track movements.