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सेब पे मज़े से एक दिन मैंने पत्थर मारा, सोचा था उसका फल मीठा होगा प्यारा… सेब मुस्कुराया, कहा “ज़रा ठहरो भाई!” लौटाया पत्थर, जो सीधे माथे पर आई… . …सेव का पलटवार (The Apple Strikes Back)

Eight American murals that made their buildings impossible to ignore. A giant gorilla offers his hand in New Rochelle. Abraham Lincoln sits in a …8 American Murals Worth the Detour

Source: US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts | Cuba | The Guardian

Eleven walls for people whose work is easy to overlook. A quarry worker looks out over Aberdeen. A lamplighter reappears in Doetinchem, a Singapore mural recreates a Chinatown hairdresser, and an elder in Portugal passes on craft knowledge. Across these eleven works, artists turn working lives—past and present—into public memory. LoveComment↗Share  “The Quarry Worker” — By Martin Whatson in…

Source: Legally or not, the U.S. government is controlling global access to the world’s most powerful AI – UPI.com

Iron-air batteries can store energy for up to 100 hours (roughly 4 days), making them a good choice to store utility scale renewable energy. Europe …Europe is getting a 1 gigawatt hour iron battery system

Eleven walls for people whose work is easy to overlook. A quarry worker looks out over Aberdeen. A lamplighter reappears in Doetinchem, a Singapore …The People Who Keep Cities Going (11 Photos)

Le autorità delle Filippine hanno fortemente criticato, definendolo “razzista”, un cartone animato che dicono rappresentare il Paese come una scimmia timorosa costretta da Usa e Giappone a contraddire la Cina sulle sue rivendicazioni sul Mar cinese meridionale. Nel video una scimmia che indossa abiti con i colori filippini viene spinta e diretta da braccia con le bandiere di USA e Giappone su un…

At the beginning of this year, I found myself on a cruise ship, joining a sunrise yoga class on the top deck at 5 am. Of everything the instructor could have said that morning, it was as if one sentence was created so it could travel all the way to find me: “place your hand on your chest, enter this year with a strong heart.“ At the time, it sounded beautiful. Poetic. Now, as we cross more than…

Their forest was gone. The trail led down the Mississippi. In Thomas Dambo’s story, three troll brothers wake to find that humans have cut down their forest and floated the timber to Clinton, Iowa. Dambo turns that tale—and the city’s sawmill history—into The Tree Thieves: three giant reclaimed-wood trolls and a hidden installation unlocked with the symbols on their necklaces. Source: Three Giant…

It takes both sunshine and the rain, To paint a rainbow on sky’s domain… But souls can show a brighter sight, A rainbow made from our inner light… . No VIBGYOR its seven colours brings, But seven C’s on their hopeful wings… Compassion, warm as morning’s glow, Where seeds of love and mercy grow… . Collaboration, like streams that twine, Turning strangers on roads into thine… Courage, like the…

Source: Tuesday’s Mix Of Memes | beetleypete

I was 20 years old at the time, and wondered what the hell was happening to the music industry. It also made it to number one in Ireland, New Zealand, and Belgium, plus number 5 in Australia. Canada liked it enough to get it to number 8, and I think America was spared having to hear it at all. Source: Songs I Don’t Like (23) | beetleypete

Source: Weekly Wisdom 21 July – MiddleMe

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FDA/Taylor Farms: This looks like blatant corruption: Taylor Farms donated $1 million to a pro-Trump group, hired a former Trump official, met with administration officials to challenge the FDA’s findings, and then announced that the agency had reversed itself. We do not have confirmation of this just yet, and I am working to confirm it right now. Here’s what happened: In March 2025, Taylor…