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This is horrific to witness! I’m in shock looking at this. My entire family and close relatives and childhood friends all live a few kms from this and I was woken up by their frantic messages about multiple threat alerts. We grew up marvelling at what the Jubail Industrial plants achieved. This madness needs to stop immediately and better sense must prevail! My heart weeps for the place I’ve called home all my life🇸🇦.. #IranWar

أستاذ جامعي لبناني يدرّس طلابه عن بُعد… وخلال المحاضرة، يبدأ القصف الإسرائيلي، وتفقد إحدى الطالبات والدتها التي قُتلت بسبب الضربة.

1400 people. This is the equivalent of roughly 3 fully loaded giant A380 planes crashing on the same day with no survivors. Entire families wiped out. Absolutely horrific.

A medical doctor, his wife, and three children - among the over 1400 people in Lebanon that Israel killed or injured in a single day today.

What a country !! Took a loan from the IMF, then stopped a potential World War, also attacked Afghanistan, talked ceasefire with China, then became a Global Peacemaker, also stood with Iran, then condemned attack on KSA, then negotiated with Trump while the nation watched PSL.

Apart from the fact that we seem to have been saved from madness and disaster, it’s a big hats off this evening to #Pakistan.

With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes. Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days! @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @SecRubio @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions @drpezeshkian @mb_ghalibaf @araghchi

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

@AlaqeelIman الحمد لله! Been up all night worried about my parents and family in nearby Dhahran and family in Jubail near the affected area. May our security forces keep us safe, as always.

حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل دعاء النبي ﷺ قائلاً: "اللهم مزّق مُلكه" اللهم اننا ندعوك بدعوة نبيك وحبيبك محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم اللهم مزق ملكهم ، وشتت جمعهم ، وأبد جندهم ، واحصهم عددا ، ولا تقم لهم دولة ، ولا ترفع لهم راية ، وكل من أعانهم علينا يارب العالمين 🤲🏼

After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.

Found this interesting vox pop of young people in Tehran. Not sure of the exact date, but it’s definitely pre #EpicFury. Respect to the Man-on-the-Street creator, don’t know who he is, but damesh gharm #iran #iraniansinanutshell

Hyphenated. Non-hyphenated. The irony.

somewhere in Shiraz, Iran; sometime before Epic Fury, before #iranwar It’s a quintessential #Iraniansinanutshell scene, depicting crowd singing and dancing g, accompanying musician performing a super popular super sentimental super nostalgic song g called Sultan of Hearts

Tonight’s #pinkfullmoon over the #London Canary Wharf skyline and briefly crowning One Canada Square tower

@ksaexpats My home ❤️

Al Khobar 🇸🇦

Germany is celebrating the late Queen! A special stamp marks what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday on 21 April. It honours her legacy and work towards reconciliation between the UK and Germany.

Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.

People who moved abroad alone in their 20s, handled all docs, bank account, visa, tax, jobs, accomadation, and culture difference These people fear nothing anymore

This weekend, we welcomed @Official_PIA's first arrival back at Heathrow. With direct flights between Heathrow and Islamabad and Lahore from Terminal 4, this route brings important connections back for travellers, families and communities across the UK and Pakistan.

Not to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'