Sadiya Couper

@ScotRail , not ideal today at all! Train packed, we are in here like sardines! Took the train from Dunf city to Haymarket, the 8:05, it is so bad people are standing in the toilet. This is 3 carriage, surely at peak hour we need ones with more carriages & especially mid week!

@StHonorable Austrian 🇦🇹 or Australian 🇦🇺? Very different countries and continents. That first sentence. But nonetheless it’s a very cool story! Love the traditional wear!

Rob Bentele shares the story of his Australian father and a Black woman mother. He says his father was a young Austrian man, his dad was back packer traveling the globe. He met his mom in the rural areas of Matubatuba called eMakhambane. He paid Lobola in 1986, they got married and lived in a Caravan at their family homestead. His sister and him were born into true rural Zulu culture. Eventually, they moved to Empangeni but they still would go home every chance they got.

A tiny Karoo town is about to become South Africa’s next billion-rand export story. Prieska. Population ~14,000. The middle of nowhere. In the 90s, the IDC poured R130 million into pistachios there. Climate was perfect. Vision was huge. By 2011 they called it a failure, sold the equipment, and walked away. Two farmers refused to quit. The Mullers spent 15 brutal years mastering what institutions couldn’t: pollination, varieties, processing. They built Karoo Pistachios and the Desert Emerald brand. Last year: 20 tons. Next decade target: 60,000 tons. South Africa now chasing 5-8% of the global market. Selling at R613/kg, and rising fast as Iran stumbles. Lesson for every deep-pocketed investor: The biggest opportunities aren’t where capital flows. They’re where capital gave up. Conviction beats committees. Every. Single. Time. The Mullers didn’t invent pistachios. They just refused to bury a dream everyone else abandoned.

Catholic Church site in Edinburgh to be sold after nearly 200 years bbc.in/4ucTg3R

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly." The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal. When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience." Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable. When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates. I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped. The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault." I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology." Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident. Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize." I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time." They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again." I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes. © 6IX. @BSAT_Properties

Sir David Attenborough arrived at Royal Albert Hall for his 100th Birthday Celebrations 🎈 📹 At Horse Guards

If you're having a bad day, here's the exact moment that Charlie Brown adopted Snoopy 75 years ago.

A baby elephant takes a tumble… and the whole family comes running. That’s what real protection looks like 🐘❤️

For classical music lovers 🎼 Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach at Riga Cathedral is pure magic. Played by Liene Andreta Kalnciema, the cathedral’s acoustics turn every note into living sound in space. Baroque power + sacred resonance = music you don’t just hear, you feel. ⛪🎶

Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata becomes something almost otherworldly in the hands of Igor Levit. There’s a rare kind of stillness here—where every note feels like it’s breathing, and silence speaks just as loudly as sound. A deeply emotional, almost cinematic interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven’s timeless Moonlight Sonata, as performed by Igor Levit.

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Me this morning waking up and realizing we dodged Armageddon! Mambo Italiano compilation 💃🇮🇹

In South Africa, elephants raided a broken truck carrying oranges. While the drivers were repairing the vehicles, the big-eared giants managed to "unload" the cargo from the truck.

Another self entitled tourist in Kruger at a lion sighting…When cautioned about getting out of the car he pulled the middle finger accompanied by “Fck you”.Luckily he was stopped at the gate and paid R2500 fine. #KrugerIdiots

Her name is Alison Botha. After 28 years in prison, her attackers were granted parole. The public outrage was so massive that the government reversed it and sent them back. On December 18, 1994, Alison Botha was kidnapped outside her apartment in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Two men raped her, stabbed her 36 times in the abdomen, and slit her throat 17 times. Her intestines spilled out. Her windpipe was exposed. They left her for dead. Botha held her head onto her body with one hand and pushed her organs back in with the other. She crawled to the road, where a veterinary student named Tiaan Eilerd stopped and kept her alive until paramedics arrived. Her surgeon said he had never seen anyone survive such injuries in 16 years of practice. Both attackers were sentenced to life in prison. After 28 years, they were paroled in 2023, sparking national outrage. In 2025, the government reversed the decision and sent them back. Botha became a motivational speaker, author, and mother of two. She has shared her story in over 30 countries.

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Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity.