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I was video-ing an amazing series of stacked stones at an SFO pier circa 2K and a guy walks up saying "My work. If you like it could you give me some $?" I ask him how would I know he did it. He said "I'm tired now but you try this-" and stood a broom stick on its brush end .. which I just couldn't!
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I was video-ing an amazing series of stacked stones at an SFO pier circa 2K and a guy walks up saying "My work. If you like it could you give me some $?" I ask him how would I know he did it. He said "I'm tired now but you try this-" and stood a broom stick on its brush end .. which I just couldn't!
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Mohammad, 6, and his mother are happy to receive essential winter clothes from UNICEF and partners. This will help shield them from the cold temperatures in Gaza.
To keep families like theirs safe, the ceasefire must last and there needs to be a surge in aid.
To keep families like theirs safe, the ceasefire must last and there needs to be a surge in aid.
December 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Mohammad, 6, and his mother are happy to receive essential winter clothes from UNICEF and partners. This will help shield them from the cold temperatures in Gaza.
To keep families like theirs safe, the ceasefire must last and there needs to be a surge in aid.
To keep families like theirs safe, the ceasefire must last and there needs to be a surge in aid.
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mirakamdar.substack.com/p/a-christma... My latest for Mixed Borders on Substack. This one's dear to my heart.
A Christmas Tale: How a plant connects me with my women ancestors, and the West's imperial past
Every December, my Christmas cactus, grown from cuttings handed down for four generations, blooms. How this exotic plant came to my home in rural France is quite a story. Can I keep it alive?
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December 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
mirakamdar.substack.com/p/a-christma... My latest for Mixed Borders on Substack. This one's dear to my heart.
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In West Kalimantan, the Iban protect strangler fig trees believed to house spirits, sparing them and small vegetation “islands” when clearing fields.
Research finds figs as abundant as in old-growth forests. These refuges act as wildlife corridors, showing belief can safeguard biodiversity.
Research finds figs as abundant as in old-growth forests. These refuges act as wildlife corridors, showing belief can safeguard biodiversity.
Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo
When a young boy went missing near his mother’s rice field in Indonesian Borneo, the entire village searched for him. After nearly a day, he was found near a large strangler fig tree. The boy…
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December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
In West Kalimantan, the Iban protect strangler fig trees believed to house spirits, sparing them and small vegetation “islands” when clearing fields.
Research finds figs as abundant as in old-growth forests. These refuges act as wildlife corridors, showing belief can safeguard biodiversity.
Research finds figs as abundant as in old-growth forests. These refuges act as wildlife corridors, showing belief can safeguard biodiversity.
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Cases from Nepal show degraded land can regenerate when locals enforce grazing bans, curb logging, and patrol forests—no costly tree-planting needed.
Native species rebound within years, suggesting community-led protection and natural regeneration are more effective and sustainable.
Native species rebound within years, suggesting community-led protection and natural regeneration are more effective and sustainable.
Grassroots forest protection succeeds where planting drives fail in Nepal
NAWALPUR, Nepal — At 75, Hasta Bahadur Sathighare Magar says he still remembers the time when the slopes above his village in the rural municipality of Rupsekot, in central Nepal, looked dead. Dust…
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December 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Cases from Nepal show degraded land can regenerate when locals enforce grazing bans, curb logging, and patrol forests—no costly tree-planting needed.
Native species rebound within years, suggesting community-led protection and natural regeneration are more effective and sustainable.
Native species rebound within years, suggesting community-led protection and natural regeneration are more effective and sustainable.
26 December West Bengal
AIUTUC aligned ASHA Workers Union in W Bengal is on strike today. They will appeal to the CM of West Bengal for improved work conditions said Secretary Ismat Ara Khatun. A continuous work stoppage has been called across the state by the West Bengal ASHA Workers' Union to…
AIUTUC aligned ASHA Workers Union in W Bengal is on strike today. They will appeal to the CM of West Bengal for improved work conditions said Secretary Ismat Ara Khatun. A continuous work stoppage has been called across the state by the West Bengal ASHA Workers' Union to…
26 December West Bengal
AIUTUC aligned ASHA Workers Union in W Bengal is on strike today. They will appeal to the CM of West Bengal for improved work conditions said Secretary Ismat Ara Khatun. A continuous work stoppage has been called across the state by the West Bengal ASHA Workers' Union to press for various demands. There are approximately 65,000 ASHA workers, from the hills to the coast of West Bengal.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
26 December West Bengal
AIUTUC aligned ASHA Workers Union in W Bengal is on strike today. They will appeal to the CM of West Bengal for improved work conditions said Secretary Ismat Ara Khatun. A continuous work stoppage has been called across the state by the West Bengal ASHA Workers' Union to…
AIUTUC aligned ASHA Workers Union in W Bengal is on strike today. They will appeal to the CM of West Bengal for improved work conditions said Secretary Ismat Ara Khatun. A continuous work stoppage has been called across the state by the West Bengal ASHA Workers' Union to…
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While Jewel Sheikh's co-workers and family members alleged that he was attacked on suspicion of being an undocumented immigrant from Bangladesh, the #Odisha Police denied this.
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#westbengal #migrantworker
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#westbengal #migrantworker
December 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
While Jewel Sheikh's co-workers and family members alleged that he was attacked on suspicion of being an undocumented immigrant from Bangladesh, the #Odisha Police denied this.
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#westbengal #migrantworker
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#westbengal #migrantworker
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The widespread festive embrace of this time of year, though Christ wasn’t even born in December – and what we are all celebrating is actually the Winter Solstice – is a brief but heartening moment.
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Divya Aslesha ✍️
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Divya Aslesha ✍️
December 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The widespread festive embrace of this time of year, though Christ wasn’t even born in December – and what we are all celebrating is actually the Winter Solstice – is a brief but heartening moment.
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Divya Aslesha ✍️
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Divya Aslesha ✍️
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READ: Palestinian Christians released a powerful new document calling Zionism "a theology of racism and ethnic supremacy" that has produced genocide. The document demands churches worldwide repudiate Zionist theology. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/what...
‘What is the Christian word in the face of genocide?’: new Kairos Palestine document calls for repudiation of Zionism
“What is happening [in Palestine] today is the true face of Zionist ideology . . . turning Palestinian existence into an unbearable hell,” declares the recently released Kairos Palestine document, “A…
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December 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
READ: Palestinian Christians released a powerful new document calling Zionism "a theology of racism and ethnic supremacy" that has produced genocide. The document demands churches worldwide repudiate Zionist theology. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/what...
www.youtube.com/live/0H5-kl1... #Bengali @bengali_convo@a.gup.pe @bengali_convo@chirp.social @bengali_convo@lemmy.ml
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December 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Bangladesh's Largest Temple Town
The Wonders of Puthia
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December 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025.
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025.
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
cobrapost.com/blog/press-r... Murugappa group - Cholamandalam finance #India
PRESS RELEASE : COBRAPOST INVESTIGATION LOOTWALLAHS: QUESTIONS ABOUT CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN INDIA
PRESS RELEASE : COBRAPOST INVESTIGATION LOOTWALLAHS: QUESTIONS ABOUT CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN INDIA
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December 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
cobrapost.com/blog/press-r... Murugappa group - Cholamandalam finance #India