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In a heartbreaking and tragic scene, my friend's father was trying to help one of the injured when Israel bombed the area, killing him and everyone else there. He died trying to save others.

Didn't even wait a day for the dehumanization

A cancer specialist said she’d experienced patients “completely unprompted” asking her not to document something because they “didn’t want that information to be visible to a foreign company that isn't based in the UK”.

Yesterday in our hospital in west london there were 6 women who presented after unprovoked attacks just because they were wearing Hijab. One had serous life changing facial injuries. One was attacked by dogs (intentionally) All hospital staff who wear Hijab had to ask family members to come and take them home safely or pay for very expensive Taxis. Are we living in Gaza. Why was this hate march and violence allowed by @ShabanaMahmood

Professor Rayaz Malik at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar has developed a 2–3 minute eye scan that uses AI to analyse nerve fibres. It can detect dementia at least three years before symptoms and diabetic neuropathy up to five years earlier, allowing early intervention.

About yesterday in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. A picture louder than millions of words.

There is a structural divergence emerging between UAE and lsrael Netanyahu doesn’t need the UAE anymore the way he did in 2020. The Accords are signed, the economic infrastructure exists, the normalization is a fact. The diplomatic ROI of protecting Abu Dhabi’s image is now lower than the tactical ROI of using the relationship as a signaling tool toward other audiences: Congress, the American Jewish establishment, Arab publics he wants to demoralize. The information networks aren’t monolithic. What looks like a coordinated burn might partly be different Israeli factions, Likud hardliners, settler-aligned media, security establishment types each pulling in directions that happen to collectively damage UAE positioning. Nobody sat down and said “let’s burn MBZ.” But the aggregate output looks like it. Where it gets interesting is the UAE knows this is happening. MBZ is not naive. So the question becomes what’s Abu Dhabi’s response threshold? They won’t go public with grievances. But you might see quiet signals: reduced intelligence sharing, slower economic follow-through on Accords commitments, more permissive stance toward voices that were previously suppressed. This is what happens when a relationship was built purely on transactional alignment with no ideological or civilizational foundation. The moment incentives shift, the network frays. Qatar and Turkey built relationships with Iran, with Hamas, with the Brotherhood — that have depth precisely because they weren’t purely transactional. The Abraham Accords were always a mile wide and an inch deep. You’re watching the inch.

some of the worst of british society right there.

“Whoever is concerned about the Hereafter, Allah will place richness in his heart, bring his affairs together, and the world will inevitably come to him. Whoever is concerned about the world, Allah will place poverty between his eyes, disorder his affairs, and he will get nothing of the world but what is decreed for him.” Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Inventing your own deen now

This is the most important image of the 21st century to date. Study it. Never forgive. Never forget.

As our Palestinian brethren mark the 78th solemn anniversary of Nakba, we remember the enduring suffering and displacement of the Palestinians from their homeland since 1948. On this solemn occasion, Pakistan reaffirms its unwavering solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters. We demand an immediate end to the oppression, occupation, and violence being perpetrated by Israeli occupation authorities against Palestinians. Pakistan also reaffirms its resolute support for the creation of a sovereign, independent, viable, and contiguous Palestinian State based on pre-June 1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.

Erdogan is called out for betrayal of Palestinians over Turkey’s open oil market linked to the Azeri pipeline, from which Israel purchases oil. Then what about Iran cozying up to India despite attacks on Iranian ships in Indian waters and India’s record in Kashmir? Is that not a betrayal of our Kashmiri brethren too?

This study found that mothers carrying boys showed a significantly larger increase in breast volume as early as the first trimester compared to those carrying girls. What’s wild is that the researchers found the difference was so distinct, breast volume increase was actually a more reliable predictor of the fetus's sex than many traditional physical "signs" combined. By the 32nd week, the volume difference between mothers of boys and girls in the study was a massive 141.32 ml. Since male fetuses require more energy and accumulate mass quicker, the maternal body physically scales up to keep up.

A new report shows Muslims in the UK are becoming younger and more educated, with growing numbers entering professional careers as demographic shifts reshape Britain’s Muslim population aje.news/y2vsqd

This is the second time Israel has put a target on the UAE. First, it was a month ago, when Israeli media, probably including the state media, published the news of the UAE carrying out strikes in Iran during the war. UAE-Israel arrangement reminds me of the Fatimid collaboration with crusaders during the First Crusade. Despite the entire rampage from Antioch to the siege of Jerusalem, the Fatimids believed that the spoils would be split after the 'reshaping of the region', but hegemonic struggle leaves no room for such arrangements. Netanyahu's desire for the throne has no space for political consideration of the UAE's regional sensitivities and posturing. This is a lesson for all those who believe that the Abraham Accords is a traditional normalization. It's a subscription to an order where only Tel Aviv defines the terms.

lets do more of this and less gambling apps. this is what startups should be all about.

After 1857, the British viewed Urdu as a language of resistance and Muslim political consciousness. They censored the Urdu press, shut down newspapers, surveilled and arrested writers and scholars, and deliberately fueled the language divide to weaken anti-colonial resistance.

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix. What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses. The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there. The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body. PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%. A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

Sometimes you'll hear Pakistanis say that there was a coherent geographic unit consistent w/ modern Pakistan that was created by the mountains & Indus River basin that long predates the Mughals, British India, or even Islam. This is a good historical example for that argument.