Mubassir Rahman
@mubassir.bsky.social
Peeling the layers of the human mind with books..
Up most nights to make sense of the cruelty all around us..
Happily married, 90's kid, running enthusiast, Bangladeshi, wannabe Buddhist, loves music
Up most nights to make sense of the cruelty all around us..
Happily married, 90's kid, running enthusiast, Bangladeshi, wannabe Buddhist, loves music
A rural village path in #bangladesh glittered with #flowers
#nature celebrating when no one's watching...
#nature celebrating when no one's watching...
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A rural village path in #bangladesh glittered with #flowers
#nature celebrating when no one's watching...
#nature celebrating when no one's watching...
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Note to self:
Sometimes sacrifices don't work. And that tells you: You needn't change yourself for others or anything.
Keep your dreams safe! Keep those 'cloudy blue afternoons & evening lights' alive!
Sometimes sacrifices don't work. And that tells you: You needn't change yourself for others or anything.
Keep your dreams safe! Keep those 'cloudy blue afternoons & evening lights' alive!
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Note to self:
Sometimes sacrifices don't work. And that tells you: You needn't change yourself for others or anything.
Keep your dreams safe! Keep those 'cloudy blue afternoons & evening lights' alive!
Sometimes sacrifices don't work. And that tells you: You needn't change yourself for others or anything.
Keep your dreams safe! Keep those 'cloudy blue afternoons & evening lights' alive!
Tonight's to my cousin Sadia!
She had schizophrenia and was struggling with mental health! Last week she went missing and we found her in a morgue today.
Rest well and in peace my dear sister! This world was cruel to you. Rest well! Will look out for you in the skies!
She had schizophrenia and was struggling with mental health! Last week she went missing and we found her in a morgue today.
Rest well and in peace my dear sister! This world was cruel to you. Rest well! Will look out for you in the skies!
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Tonight's to my cousin Sadia!
She had schizophrenia and was struggling with mental health! Last week she went missing and we found her in a morgue today.
Rest well and in peace my dear sister! This world was cruel to you. Rest well! Will look out for you in the skies!
She had schizophrenia and was struggling with mental health! Last week she went missing and we found her in a morgue today.
Rest well and in peace my dear sister! This world was cruel to you. Rest well! Will look out for you in the skies!
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New Nature article: all carbon intensity reductions (good!) have been offset by economic growth.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
It's almost like perpetual growth is the root cause of, instead of the answer to, our global predicament.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
It's almost like perpetual growth is the root cause of, instead of the answer to, our global predicament.
Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment
Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...
www.nature.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
New Nature article: all carbon intensity reductions (good!) have been offset by economic growth.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
It's almost like perpetual growth is the root cause of, instead of the answer to, our global predicament.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
It's almost like perpetual growth is the root cause of, instead of the answer to, our global predicament.
Reposted by Mubassir Rahman
I don't think it's even up for debate that artists have done FAR more for humanity than politicians could ever dream of doing.
October 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I don't think it's even up for debate that artists have done FAR more for humanity than politicians could ever dream of doing.
Months back I visited a monastery in the south-east. Other Buddha statues were on the alter.
But this one was on the side standing in the dark, yet smiling!
They turned on the light for me so that I can take a photo. But I liked the Buddha in the dark. On whose smile shadows recite mystery chants.
But this one was on the side standing in the dark, yet smiling!
They turned on the light for me so that I can take a photo. But I liked the Buddha in the dark. On whose smile shadows recite mystery chants.
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Months back I visited a monastery in the south-east. Other Buddha statues were on the alter.
But this one was on the side standing in the dark, yet smiling!
They turned on the light for me so that I can take a photo. But I liked the Buddha in the dark. On whose smile shadows recite mystery chants.
But this one was on the side standing in the dark, yet smiling!
They turned on the light for me so that I can take a photo. But I liked the Buddha in the dark. On whose smile shadows recite mystery chants.
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Today would have been George Floyd’s 52nd birthday. He should be here celebrating with his loved ones.
October 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Today would have been George Floyd’s 52nd birthday. He should be here celebrating with his loved ones.
Watched a melancholic movie - Aftersun!
Life's not always good to us and sometimes we have nowhere but emptiness to return to. And while we withdraw ourselves we become memories!
Life's not always good to us and sometimes we have nowhere but emptiness to return to. And while we withdraw ourselves we become memories!
October 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Watched a melancholic movie - Aftersun!
Life's not always good to us and sometimes we have nowhere but emptiness to return to. And while we withdraw ourselves we become memories!
Life's not always good to us and sometimes we have nowhere but emptiness to return to. And while we withdraw ourselves we become memories!
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"It is the first time scientists have declared that Earth has likely reached a so-called "tipping point": a shift that could trigger massive and often permanent changes in the natural world."
Politicians' inaction in the face of the climate crisis is undermining our planet's ability to support life
Politicians' inaction in the face of the climate crisis is undermining our planet's ability to support life
World's coral reefs crossing survival limit - experts
The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced.
www.rte.ie
October 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"It is the first time scientists have declared that Earth has likely reached a so-called "tipping point": a shift that could trigger massive and often permanent changes in the natural world."
Politicians' inaction in the face of the climate crisis is undermining our planet's ability to support life
Politicians' inaction in the face of the climate crisis is undermining our planet's ability to support life
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"The Torah’s most repeated command is to love the stranger because we were strangers."
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl shares her experience on the phone with the gunman of the 2022 Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis in an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir.
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl shares her experience on the phone with the gunman of the 2022 Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis in an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir.
‘I Love Death More Than You Love Life’
The terrorist at the synagogue
bit.ly
October 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"The Torah’s most repeated command is to love the stranger because we were strangers."
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl shares her experience on the phone with the gunman of the 2022 Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis in an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir.
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl shares her experience on the phone with the gunman of the 2022 Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis in an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir.
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We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
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Globally, 80% of people want their countries to take stronger climate action, and over half think about climate change daily or weekly.
Far from being split, humanity is largely united on wanting to do more.
But how can we help move the needle? Find out: go.wri.org/climate-choi...
Far from being split, humanity is largely united on wanting to do more.
But how can we help move the needle? Find out: go.wri.org/climate-choi...
October 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Globally, 80% of people want their countries to take stronger climate action, and over half think about climate change daily or weekly.
Far from being split, humanity is largely united on wanting to do more.
But how can we help move the needle? Find out: go.wri.org/climate-choi...
Far from being split, humanity is largely united on wanting to do more.
But how can we help move the needle? Find out: go.wri.org/climate-choi...
Note to self:
Your peace is sacred! Protect it!
Your peace is sacred! Protect it!
October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Note to self:
Your peace is sacred! Protect it!
Your peace is sacred! Protect it!
The meaning of life is to find your gift,
The purpose of life is to give it away.
- Picasso
The purpose of life is to give it away.
- Picasso
October 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The meaning of life is to find your gift,
The purpose of life is to give it away.
- Picasso
The purpose of life is to give it away.
- Picasso
Even devils get tired of carrying broken souls like mine!
- Dostoevsky
So they hand you over to silence.
- Camus
- Dostoevsky
So they hand you over to silence.
- Camus
October 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Even devils get tired of carrying broken souls like mine!
- Dostoevsky
So they hand you over to silence.
- Camus
- Dostoevsky
So they hand you over to silence.
- Camus
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Can AI and robotics help us in many ways? I am not a Luddite — I believe they can.
But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.
I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.
But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.
I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.
SEN SANDERS: AI must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos invest billions in AI and robotics that could eliminate millions of jobs while increasing corporate profits at workers' expense.
www.foxnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Can AI and robotics help us in many ways? I am not a Luddite — I believe they can.
But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.
I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.
But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.
I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.
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"You have it in your power to make a difference. Don't give up. There is a future for you. Do your best while you’re still on this beautiful Planet Earth that I look down upon from where I am now."
Those were Dr. Jane's last words, as released by Netflix.
Photo: Katherine Holland
Those were Dr. Jane's last words, as released by Netflix.
Photo: Katherine Holland
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"You have it in your power to make a difference. Don't give up. There is a future for you. Do your best while you’re still on this beautiful Planet Earth that I look down upon from where I am now."
Those were Dr. Jane's last words, as released by Netflix.
Photo: Katherine Holland
Those were Dr. Jane's last words, as released by Netflix.
Photo: Katherine Holland
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
History repeats.
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"My biggest concern is that we are starting to see changes cascading through different parts of the Antarctic environment" - Dr. @edoddridge.bsky.social
#ClimateEmergency
youtu.be/Lwn329y7-AI
#ClimateEmergency
youtu.be/Lwn329y7-AI
Emergency in Antarctica as fears grow that we passed a tipping point
YouTube video by New Scientist
youtu.be
October 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"My biggest concern is that we are starting to see changes cascading through different parts of the Antarctic environment" - Dr. @edoddridge.bsky.social
#ClimateEmergency
youtu.be/Lwn329y7-AI
#ClimateEmergency
youtu.be/Lwn329y7-AI
Broken dreams are piling up!
- running a Marathon in the Olympics
- climbing mount Everest
- crossing the Atlantic on a ship
- publishing a book
Feels very sad that I am nowhere close to these..
- running a Marathon in the Olympics
- climbing mount Everest
- crossing the Atlantic on a ship
- publishing a book
Feels very sad that I am nowhere close to these..
October 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Broken dreams are piling up!
- running a Marathon in the Olympics
- climbing mount Everest
- crossing the Atlantic on a ship
- publishing a book
Feels very sad that I am nowhere close to these..
- running a Marathon in the Olympics
- climbing mount Everest
- crossing the Atlantic on a ship
- publishing a book
Feels very sad that I am nowhere close to these..
#dream
After a gruelling few days of mountain climbing, jungle trekking, more climbing, and finally cave climbing, we came to the cave of humans.
Legend says this is where the secret of life is. A stairway of 1000 rock steps, spiralling twice, leads to a cavern wall of 30 meters.
After a gruelling few days of mountain climbing, jungle trekking, more climbing, and finally cave climbing, we came to the cave of humans.
Legend says this is where the secret of life is. A stairway of 1000 rock steps, spiralling twice, leads to a cavern wall of 30 meters.
October 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
#dream
After a gruelling few days of mountain climbing, jungle trekking, more climbing, and finally cave climbing, we came to the cave of humans.
Legend says this is where the secret of life is. A stairway of 1000 rock steps, spiralling twice, leads to a cavern wall of 30 meters.
After a gruelling few days of mountain climbing, jungle trekking, more climbing, and finally cave climbing, we came to the cave of humans.
Legend says this is where the secret of life is. A stairway of 1000 rock steps, spiralling twice, leads to a cavern wall of 30 meters.
Jane Goodall was a gifted human being!
Her love & respect for other species is something rare these days.
She inspired thousands to conserve nature & avoid destroying this planet's ecosystems.
Her departure is saddening but we must continue what she started!
My love, respect, & gratitude!
Her love & respect for other species is something rare these days.
She inspired thousands to conserve nature & avoid destroying this planet's ecosystems.
Her departure is saddening but we must continue what she started!
My love, respect, & gratitude!
October 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Jane Goodall was a gifted human being!
Her love & respect for other species is something rare these days.
She inspired thousands to conserve nature & avoid destroying this planet's ecosystems.
Her departure is saddening but we must continue what she started!
My love, respect, & gratitude!
Her love & respect for other species is something rare these days.
She inspired thousands to conserve nature & avoid destroying this planet's ecosystems.
Her departure is saddening but we must continue what she started!
My love, respect, & gratitude!
Reposted by Mubassir Rahman
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91