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BJP MLA was insisting that the Water was Clean. The People of Jaipur CHALLENGED him to Drink the Dirty Water supplied by his Own Govt. He Refused and Ran Away.

@mistressdivy Society is a trap, a set-up designed to fail and agonize.. I teach my kids moral science and at the same time expect unfairness from others and prepare to deal with it..

So I work at a men’s divorce law firm, and I see this all the time. Guys get such a bad rap when they end up divorced, especially middle-aged with kids. People love to mock their appearance on dating apps or joke about “divorced dads” like it’s funny, but it’s honestly pretty cruel. These men have usually just gone through brutal battles.. in court, with their ex, financially drained, emotionally exhausted. Many have lost a ton of money, time with their kids, and their sense of stability. Now they’re trying to pick themselves back up, put themselves out there, and find someone who actually values them as a person.. something their ex maybe never did. It’s not desperate. It’s resilient. Starting over after divorce isn’t easy, especially when society acts like you’re damaged goods or a punchline just because you’re a middle-aged dad trying to date again. Cut them some slack. A little kindness and respect goes a long way when someone’s rebuilding their life. Respect to all the divorced dads out there grinding through it. You’re not alone ♥️

@timesofindia Aaj yaqeen ho gaya duniya mein bhagwan hai..

The #Allahabad #highcourt has observed that a husband's obligation to maintain his wife continues even after his death and the widow can claim maintenance from her father-in-law. More details 🔗toi.in/_Aqblb

@aakashgupta One can avoid plastics to a great extent at home but can't help if hsi groceries and staples come packed in plastic containers/packaging.. milk, etc.. plastic free world is impossible

Sperm counts in Western men dropped 52% in 40 years. The rate of decline is accelerating. And the mechanism traces back to something in every kitchen, every bottle, every takeout container you've ever touched. Dr. Shanna Swan at Mount Sinai analyzed hundreds of studies and found sperm concentration fell from 99 million per milliliter in 1973 to 47 million by 2011. She updated the research in 2022. Before 2000, the decline ran about 1% per year. After 2000, it jumped to 2.6%. Testosterone levels are falling at the same rate. Miscarriage rates rising at the same clip. The mechanism is now well-documented. Microplastics accumulate in testicular tissue and directly attack Leydig cells, the cells responsible for producing testosterone. They trigger oxidative stress, downregulate the enzymes that synthesize testosterone, and disrupt the entire hormonal signaling cascade from brain to testes. Multiple mouse studies show dose-dependent testosterone collapse after just 28 days of exposure. Swan's projection shows the sperm count trendline reaching zero by 2045. A young woman today at 25 is less fertile than her grandmother was at 45. And the exposure is transgenerational. The chemicals you absorb affect the germ cells in your children and your grandchildren. Swan just released a Netflix documentary where five couples with unexplained infertility eliminated plastic exposure for 12 weeks. Three got pregnant. One chef cut plastic out of his life and his testosterone hit 1200 with zero medical intervention. 8 billion people are running the experiment in the other direction, every single day, and the results are compounding at 2.6% per year.

Sleeper cells that secretly track interfaith couples, Instagram surveillance, police visits: I track a 3-year-long Hindutva vigilante movement in Maharashtra which birthed a new law in Maharashtra to regulate religious conversions. For @Article14live article-14.com/post/late-nigh…

@anishmoonka Wait till you find out about religious symbolism.. the biggest opium ever made

The diamond engagement ring was invented by an ad agency in 1947. Before that, only 1 in 10 American brides got one. The company behind it, De Beers, was worth $9.2 billion three years ago. Today that number is $2.3 billion, and its owner is trying to find a buyer. In 1940, diamonds were a luxury for the rich. Nobody proposed with one unless they had serious money. De Beers had a warehouse full of diamonds and no customers, so they hired NW Ayer, an ad firm out of Philadelphia. A copywriter named Frances Gerety came up with four words: “A Diamond is Forever.” NW Ayer paid Hollywood studios to write diamond proposals into movie scripts. They planted stories in gossip columns about which rock some actress just got. They invented the “two months’ salary” rule, the idea that a man should spend two months of income on a ring. None of that existed before. It was all marketing. By the 1990s, 8 out of 10 American brides wore diamond engagement rings. Then De Beers did it again in Japan, going from 5% to 60% in 14 years. Advertising Age called it the greatest advertising slogan of the 20th century. They were right. The whole business ran on one trick: make diamonds seem rare. De Beers controlled most of the world’s supply but only released a small amount each year. That artificial shortage kept prices sky-high. And the “forever” in the slogan had a second job: if nobody resells their diamond, supply stays tight and prices stay up. Lab-grown diamonds blew that apart. You can now grow a diamond in a lab that is the same thing, atom for atom, as one pulled out of the ground. Costs 80–85% less. In 2019, only 6% of engagement rings in America had a lab-grown stone. By 2025, that number was 61%. That’s from The Knot’s annual survey of 10,000+ newlywed couples. People are buying bigger rings (1.9 carats on average, compared to 1.6 for mined) and keeping the savings. De Beers saw this coming. In 2018, they launched their own lab-grown jewelry brand called Lightbox, priced at $800 per carat. The idea was to make lab-grown look like cheap costume jewelry so people would still pay a premium for “real” diamonds. Prices tanked 90% anyway. By 2025, American grocery stores were selling lab-grown diamond rings for $200. De Beers shut Lightbox down last May. Since 2023, De Beers has lost nearly $7 billion in value. It lost over $500 million in 2025 alone and has about $2 billion in diamonds sitting in storage that nobody is buying. Its parent company, Anglo American, is now in what they’re calling “advanced discussions” to sell off the whole thing. A 137-year-old company, dumped. The greatest ad campaign ever made convinced a planet that a common carbon crystal was worth two months of your salary. The product that’s killing it just proved you can grow the same crystal in a factory for pocket change.

A newborn sperm whale can’t swim. It starts sinking the second it’s born. If nobody pushes it to the surface, it drowns in mile-deep water. On July 8, 2023, a sperm whale named Rounder went into labor off the coast of Dominica. Researchers from Project CETI, a $33 million AI initiative out of MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern that’s trying to decode whale language, happened to be there doing routine fieldwork. They had drones in the air and underwater microphones running. What they captured over the next six hours just got published in two papers, one in Science and one in Scientific Reports. Eleven whales gathered at the surface before Rounder even started delivering. Her mother, Lady Oracle, was there. So was her daughter Accra. Three generations in the water. But the wild part: half those whales belonged to a completely separate bloodline that normally keeps its distance from Rounder’s family. On a typical day, these two family lines split off to hunt in different areas and rarely cluster together. For the birth, they all converged before labor started. The unrelated family somehow knew it was coming. The delivery took 34 minutes. Sperm whale calves come out tail-first with their flukes still folded from the womb. They haven’t developed the oil-filled organ in their heads that helps adult whales float, so the moment they’re born, they’re dead weight in the ocean. Every adult whale in the group, related and unrelated, started taking turns pushing the calf up to breathe. They kept this rotation going for three hours. When a pod of pilot whales (known to be aggressive toward sperm whales) and a large group of Fraser’s dolphins showed up during delivery, the adults formed a wall around the newborn until the threat passed. The underwater audio is where it gets interesting. CETI’s microphones picked up the whales changing their vocal patterns during the birth. The click-based sounds they use to talk to each other shifted at specific moments, and vowel-like structures appeared in the recordings. This builds on what CETI found in 2024 when they ran machine learning on over 8,700 recorded whale calls and discovered sperm whale communication isn’t a basic 21-sound code. It’s a system of about 300 distinct sound combinations, with the whales adjusting rhythm and timing in real time, speeding up and slowing down the way a musician does mid-performance. A 2025 follow-up from UC Berkeley found these clicks also contain vowel patterns, something scientists had assumed only humans could produce. Sperm whales carry the largest brain of any animal on the planet. About 9 kg. Roughly six times heavier than yours. The evolutionary analysis in the new Science paper suggests this kind of cooperative birthing goes back over 36 million years, to the common ancestor of all toothed whales. The calf was spotted a year later, swimming with its family.

Iceland switched on the biggest air-cleaning machine on Earth. In May 2024, a facility called Mammoth began operations in Iceland. Built by Swiss company Climeworks, it’s designed to remove up to 36,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year – 10 times more than its predecessor, Orca. The process is called direct air capture (DAC). Giant fans pull in ambient air, and specialized filters trap CO₂ molecules. That CO₂ is then mixed with water and pumped deep underground into basalt rock formations, where it slowly turns into solid stone through a natural mineralization process. And it’s all powered by Iceland’s geothermal energy, meaning the entire system runs on clean, renewable power. The captured CO₂ is stored by Climeworks’ partner, Carbfix, which developed the underground injection method. Over time, the gas reacts with the rock and becomes part of the Earth – locked away for good.

@Tejusurya_ Hahaha brilliant

Big Breaking: Authorities accidentally ban PM’s account after old tweets oh him criticising the government resurface.

@baldwhiner Tried, but it keeps 'falling'

anyone try coin porotta?

@1vinci6le Doesn't look like it's communally charged.. it's good old funny Twitter from 2011/12 times when it was mostly funny and intriguing.. we had hashtags roasting current topics and leaders.. it was really entertaining and amusing back then.. we need to bring back those times again.

The kind of hatred this society has towards women is really unimaginable. New drivers are generally nervous & look the people mocking her in comments. Cha. 🤦‍♂️

@the_hindu @jagritichandra The heat is turning up and we are too distracted to notice.. We just hear Sab Changa Si as if something magically will correct itself and bring things back to normal..

JUST IN | IndiGo raises fuel surcharge to upto ₹ 950 for domestic travel and upto ₹ 10,000 for Europe travel. - reports @jagritichandra

@ggganeshh To understand the magnitude, that's 1,60,000 notes of Rs. 500 or around 1600 bundles.. each bundle is approx 1 inch thick.. if you stack them one over the over in a single tower, IT WOULD BE FCKING 133 FEET TALL.

A raid at the house of a mining officer in Odisha has uncovered 8 cr in cash.... 8 cr in cash....OMG And pidis keep crying that there is no Amritkaal

I can't breathe. 🤣🤣🤣

@drunkJournalist This deserves the biggest eye roll ever

One Quick Question - If Raja Raghuvanshi has come back alive, will his wife and wife's lover be released now 🤔

An Indian Mom Describes GenZ and their "Dead Look" 😂😂

@Delhiite_ We seriously need to deal with this acute perversion and sexual violence on war footing.. this is at pandemic proportions and just getting worse by the day..

Pannalal, a married father of two, allegedly broke into his niece's (relatives) home, held a knife to her throat, raped her, filmed it, and blackmailed her into silence for two years... until she became pregnant. Arrested. 📍 Sarnath, Varanasi, UP

@mrjethwani__ This is insane.. the level of obsession with cameras is at the scale of a clinical disorder.. we seriously need to have him get psychologically evaluated and cleared..

The megalomaniac made his commando stand behind the electric pole so he wouldn’t appear in the frame.🤦🏻‍♂️