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اونی که گفت بزن، ایرانی است یا اینی که روز دوم است رفته نیروگاه برق دماوند و دارد تار می‌زند که شاید این نیروگاه زده نشود و مردمش بی برق نشوند.‌ قضاوت با خود شما. وطن من اثر استاد مشکاتیان #علی_قمصری #StopWarOnIran #NoWarCrimesInIran

Imagínate estar perdido en el bosque escuchando esto

By chance, bird keeper Liz happened upon Orville, our 7-year-old male Temminck’s tragopan, performing a full courtship display! Orville was named after Orville Redenbacher because he pops (like popcorn) straight up in the air if anyone gets too close. He’s done that ever since he was a juvenile. For tragopans, it is the male that primarily performs these elaborate courtship displays to attract females. Here, they do so by inflating their blue and red throat lappets or bibs, and the blue, horn-like projections above the eyes to appear more vibrant. The display includes bowing, fanning tail feathers and finally, he would hide behind rocks or logs, before approaching the female. The display also includes whistles and low-booming sounds. Quite a performance!

Please note that the Israeli ambassador to Italy does not say that the picture is fake. He simply does not like what the media is showing about his country, which perhaps explains why Israel has killed hundreds of journalists. This is not an opinion; this is reality.

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam on Israel: "I swear to god there's some people out there just ready to kill and go across borders and take over land that doesn't belong to them, and they should get the fuck out. We don't want to give them our taxes to drop bombs on children. No more!"

The first recorded appearance of a cat in Japan is described arriving as an imperial gift, written down on March 11, 889 AD by 22-year-old Emperor Uda on his diary:

"Israel es un loco, no se salió con la suya en Irán y está en un estado de locura catatónica, destruyendo Líbano por venganza. Hace años dije que Israel es un estado lunático, pero hoy digo que también su sociedad es lunática". Norman Finkelstein, profesor judío antisionista, sobre cómo "Israel" es una banda de genocidas psicópatas que quiere destruir Líbano, en venganza por no haber podido destruir Irán.

This video is both heartbreaking and life-inspiring. A film crew tries to film the destruction caused by US/Israeli bombing at an apartment complex in Iran. One of the tenants, an old man whose apartment has been almost completely shattered, insists on inviting the film crew in and offering them something to eat. "We have only come to film, we don't want anything," the crew says. But the old man insists on at least offering them oranges and apples. Ultimately, those who come out victorious from conflicts are those who retain their dignity. Who never let war make them lose their humanity and self-respect. Who, even in the worst of situations, insist on upholding sacred traditions and beliefs, including that of hospitality. That's what makes a civilization indestructible. Please remember this video and do your best to forget the videos of the lost souls dancing and cheering on the streets when their countrymen, women, and children were being killed by "democracy and freedom" bombs.

#Voces | El fotógrafo colombiano Juan Jacobo Castillo registró en el departamento del Putumayo a los primates más pequeños del mundo. Con apenas 12 centímetros de largo y menos de 150 gramos de peso, estos diminutos animales pueden caber en la palma de una mano. Durante su recorrido, Castillo observó familias de entre 4 y 10 individuos, documentando su vida diaria y la forma en que cuidan a sus crías entre las ramas del bosque. La especie está catalogada como Vulnerable por la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN) debido a amenazas como la deforestación, la pérdida de hábitat y el tráfico ilegal de fauna. Por ello, expertos insisten en la importancia de educar sobre su valor ecológico y proteger los ecosistemas donde habitan.

The journalist who took down Harvey Weinstein just spent 18 months investigating Sam Altman. And what he found out is genuinely insane: The people who built OpenAI went on record saying he can't be trusted with the future of humanity. A Microsoft executive even compared him to Bernie Madoff. This isn't just some hit piece. It's 100+ interviews, secret memos, HR documents, Slack messages, and private notes that had never been seen before. Here's everything you have to know about Ronan Farrow's investigation: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist and CO-FOUNDER, compiled 70 pages of internal evidence against Altman. Slack messages. HR files. Behavioral analysis. The word at the top of his list of Altman's "consistent patterns": lying. He sent the documents as disappearing messages because he was "terrified" someone would find them. They became legendary in Silicon Valley. Insiders just call them "the Ilya Memos." Dario Amodei, another co-founder who left to start Anthropic, kept his own private notes. One line: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself." Paul Graham, the man who RECRUITED Altman to run Y Combinator, told colleagues Altman had been "lying to us all the time." Multiple YC partners had complained about Altman's behavior by 2018. He was effectively forced out in 2019 despite publicly claiming for YEARS that he left voluntarily. Former board members described him as "unconstrained by truth." And the investigation found that Altman reportedly lied to the board about obtaining safety approvals for some of ChatGPT's most controversial features. That's the man running an $852 billion company with 900 million weekly users and a Pentagon contract. But here's where this gets really crazy: The New Yorker investigation dropped on Sunday. SAME DAY, Altman publishes a 13 page policy paper proposing robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day workweek. The most ambitious social policy document in OpenAI's history. Dropped within HOURS of the most damaging article ever written about him. That's not coincidence. Monday: Elon Musk files a court motion demanding Altman be REMOVED as CEO. He wants the for-profit conversion completely unwound. Then Friday at 3:45 AM: a 20yo throws a Molotov cocktail at Altman's San Francisco mansion. It bounces off the house. Lights the gate on fire. An hour later, same guy shows up at OpenAI HQ threatening to burn the building down. Police arrest him on the spot. Nobody was hurt. But within hours, Altman posts a photo of his husband and 1yo child on his blog. Writes that he hopes the image "might dissuade the next person." Then blames the New Yorker article for making things "more dangerous" for him. In 5 days, Altman went from the target of the most devastating investigation in tech history to the sympathetic father whose family was attacked. Now anyone who criticizes him has to do it in the shadow of a firebombing. The New Yorker spent 18 months building the case that Altman is dangerous. Altman turned it into the reason HE'S in danger. And none of this changes what Farrow actually found: - The co-founders don't trust him - The former board doesn't trust him - The chief scientist documented 70 pages of evidence and was too scared to send them through normal channels - Paul Graham says he was lied to - A Microsoft executive put him in the same sentence as Madoff The trial starts in 16 days. If Musk wins, the for-profit conversion gets unwound and Altman is removed. If Altman wins, the man that every person who helped build OpenAI has publicly warned about gets permanent, unchecked control of the most powerful AI company on Earth. Either way, one thing is now undeniable... The people closest to Sam Altman are the ones screaming the loudest warnings. And this week proved he knows exactly how to make sure nobody listens. Peak manipulation.

@omgblog OMG Tomer was kidnapping Palestinian girls when he was in the IDF This man is absolute scum. x.com/i/status/20428…

"In the middle of the night, you enter a family's house, you're not aggressive, but the family doesn't let you take their 18-year-old daughter easily" In a 2016 Ynet interview, Tomer Capone, Israeli star of The Boys series, casually admitted to taking part in the abduction, beating, looting and harassment of Palestinians during his years in the IDF. Screenshots are Google-Translate'd. Source in the following tweet.

The NYT just published the inside story of how Trump decided to go to war with Iran. His CIA director called Netanyahu’s pitch “farcical.” Rubio called it “bullshit.” Vance warned it would cause regional chaos and gut the munitions stockpile. Caine flagged the Hormuz risk. Wiles had doubts. The one guy who was all in: Hegseth. Trump dismissed all of it and gave the order anyway. No intelligence consensus. No strategic agreement. Just a president who got a sales pitch from a war criminal and bought it.

She nailed it. But MAGA clowns gobble up anything Trump feeds them!

an explanation of how things went down. Iran won more than a war. they won people's hearts and imaginations.

En 1981, un humorista actuaba en el Casino Viña del Mar, Chile. Antes de iniciar su show le avisaron que el dictador Pinochet iría a verlo. "Nada de chistes de militares", le recomendaron. El humorista era Eugenio, como buen catalán, arqueó la ceja, dijo "vale, tio" y contó éste.

Walid Khalidi recently passed away at the age of 100. He was one of the greatest historians of Palestine to have ever lived. In 1984, he published, "Before their diaspora: a photographic history of the Palestinians, 1876-1948." Sharing a few gems from the collection of Palestinians from the late 19th & early 20th century: archive.org/details/before…

This exchange is the entire conflict in two minutes - An Israeli woman worries about her son and his dog in a safe room during Hamas rocket attacks. Randa Abdelfattah responds that Gazans have no safe rooms, no escape from Israel's 14-year blockade, and no protection from US-funded Israeli weapons

Ghoncheh Habibiazad has responded to why she included a supposed quote from an "Iranian" who said he wants Iran to be "levelled" and nuked, then removed the quote after I pointed it out. She blocked me, which violates BBC social media policy. This is career-ending journalistic malpractice. The BBC must immediately fire her for failing to uphold the most minimal, basic journalistic standards.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 They want to be us so bad. That tree is older than your filthy parasitic “state,” which incidentally has uprooted over 1.5 million olive trees since 1967 alone. rootless genocidal colonizers cosplaying indigeneity of Palestinians.