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From the New York Times:

An 1890 Queen Anne Revival house in Salt Lake City, an 1872 brick townhouse in Savannah and a 1938 Spanish-style home in Albany.

The small Caribbean island is struggling to deal with environmental and economic damage from algae inundation

The daily English lessons that Shabana [not her real name] attends are the highlight of her day. Taking the bus in Kabul to the private course with her friends, chatting and laughing with them, learning something new for one hour each day - it’s a brief respite from the emptiness that has engulfed her life since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

In another country, Shabana* would have been graduating from high school next year, pursuing her dream to get a business degree. In Afghanistan, she and all teenage girls have been barred from formal education for three years.

Now even the small joys that were making life bearable are fraught with fear after a new law was announced saying if a woman is outside her home, even her voice must not be heard.

“When we got out, we’re scared. When we’re on the bus, we’re scared. We don’t dare to take down our masks. We even avoid speaking among ourselves, thinking that if someone from the Taliban hears us they could stop and question us,” she says.

The BBC has been in Afghanistan, allowing rare access to the country's women and girls - as well as Taliban spokespeople - reacting to the new law, which was imposed by the Taliban’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada.

The law gives the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Ministry – the Taliban’s morality police - sweeping powers to enforce a stringent code of conduct for Afghan citizens.

[Four midwives] had been identified by a non-governmental organisation as being behind the murder of baby girls in the district of Katihar where, under pressure from the newborns’ parents, they were killing them by feeding them chemicals or simply wringing their necks.

Hakiya Devi, the eldest of the midwives I interviewed, [said] at the time she had killed 12 or 13 babies. Another midwife, Dharmi Devi, admitted to killing more - at least 15-20.

It is impossible to ascertain the exact number of babies they may have killed, given the way the data was gathered.

But they featured in a report published in 1995 by an NGO, based on interviews with them and 30 other midwives. If the report’s estimates are accurate, more than 1,000 baby girls were being murdered every year in one district, by just 35 midwives. According to the report, Bihar at the time had more than half a million midwives. And infanticide was not limited to Bihar.

Refusing orders, Hakiya said, was almost never an option for a midwife.

“The family would lock the room and stand behind us with sticks,” says Hakiya Devi. “They’d say: ‘We already have four-five daughters. This will wipe out our wealth. Once we give dowry for our girls, we will starve to death. Now, another girl has been born. Kill her.’

“Who could we complain to? We were scared. If we went to the police, we’d get into trouble. If we spoke up, people would threaten us."

A good article in which the author researched how Twitter's algorithm pushed people interested in history into alt-right content.

Quote: "Adhering to my guidelines to follow accounts suggested by the algorithm, I clicked the “follow” button. This was the first time I was recommended content adjacent to alt-right and "manosphere" ideology. Prior to that, it was all history related. After “liking” approximately 100 Tweets, however, I saw that the accounts suggested to me were becoming increasingly political, and I was specifically being recommended accounts run by internet political commentators – as opposed to professional politicians or journalists. I cannot definitively call this observation evidence of being led down an alt-right pipeline, but it was interesting to note that those were the types of accounts suggested to me by the Twitter algorithm."

I'm currently wondering what to do if my favourite recipes go offline or if my mom's special traditional dish where i have the recipe in written form gets lost. Do you have a (preferably FOSS) app to store such recipes? I'm currently trying Cooky which is FOSS but is difficult to use for cooking: you can't really group cooking steps well and when cooking a recipe you can only view one step at a time unless you're editing the recipe. I like however that you can tag the dishes so it's easier to find specific stuff like vegan or spicy dishes.

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The original was posted on /r/nosleep by /u/GeneralP123 on 2024-09-11 05:08:18+00:00.

If you ever see a man that looks like a Gandalf rip-off holding a "Gift Or Curse" sign, just turn around and pretend you didn't notice him.

As random as this advice sounds, it will save your life if you choose to follow it.

I wasn't so lucky, no one was there to tell me to just avoid the odd eighty year old wizard, instead I chose the wrong option and gave in to my curiosity.

You see, months ago I just finished work and was walking back home, but then an unusual sight caught my attention, standing right next to the nearby grocery store was a frail old man with an incredibly long gray beard wearing a cheap blue wizard robe and a matching pointy wizard hat, when I say cheap, I mean it looked like something a kid would buy at the costume store for Halloween, it definitely wasn't something I'd expect a man that looked to be well into his eighties to be wearing.

More importantly, his shaky hands were holding a small wooden sign, "Gift or Curse" was written on the sign in big red letters.

I couldn't resist, so I immediately walked up to the man and asked "So, are you providing a service?"

The man instantly responded "Oh I wouldn't say it's a service, you have to pay for a service, what I'm offering is free!" he said with a cheerful tone.

"Alright, I'm interested, tell me more." I said, genuinely curious.

The man put the sign down and calmly said "What I'm offering is a game, you can choose to play it or you can just walk away, naturally, if decide to give it a shot and play the game, you will either win or lose, if you win you will get a great prize, but if you lose you will receive an equally great punishment."

"Perfect, so can you tell me what those prizes and punishments are?" I asked.

The old man smiled and said "The prize is the ability to see warnings of the future, the punishment, however, is the ability to see creatures that exist far beyond the mortal plane."

"Yup, he's definitely crazy" I thought to myself.

The old man reached into his right pocket and showed me a plastic card, "Certified Wizard" was written on the card.

The so called "Certified Wizard" winked at me and said "As you can see, I'm a real wizard, my game is real as well, best part about the game is the fact that it's completely luck based, just shake my hand and I'll know if you won or lost, think of me as a human slot machine."

I was stunned by his confidence, he was telling me insane things, yet he seemed to be so clear-headed and coherent.

The strange man offered me a handshake, curiosity got the better of me, so I accepted it, his grip was surprisingly strong, but he almost immediately let go of my hand.

Calmly, he said "It's done, now you can figure out if you're a winner or a loser!"

Before I could even think of an acceptable response, he quickly grabbed the sign from the ground and walked away, as soon as I blinked he was gone.

I didn't know what to think, was I just too tired after a long day, so I hallucinated a wizard out of sheer exhaustion?

I wish that was the case, instead I quickly realized what happened was undisputably real, even worse, I thought I lost the game.

I decided to ignore the whole experience and just go home, but for some unknown reason I had an urge to look behind me.

I turned around, about ten feet behind me was an odd creature, it's body was that of a mangled and twisted human being, it's face was horribly disfigured and covered in dozens of bloody wounds, it was missing one of it's eyes while the other one was bulging and bloodshot, the creature's jaw looked like it was shattered by a sledgehammer, blood was dripping from it's scarred mouth, it's tongue was hanging out of it like a dead earthworm, the creature just stood there, frozen in place, staring at me with it's barely functional eye.

I almost vomited as soon as I saw it, so I quickly averted my gaze, based on the reactions of the people around me, I was the only person capable of seeing the creature.

Days passed after this incident, the creature would appear randomly when I least expect it, sometimes I would see it in the mirror standing right next to me, but more commonly I'd see it in the corner of the room, just standing there and staring at me like it always does.

The creature, even though harmless on paper, was destroying my mental state, I couldn't even sleep without seeing it in my nightmares.

My last encounter with the creature was the most meaningful one, It was an average day like any other, I was just about to cross the street, but before I could do that I received the all too familiar urge to look behind my back, as soon as I did, I unsurprisingly saw the creature once again which in turn caused me to walk away as fast as I could, completely disregarding the fact that I was crossing the street at a red light.

I don't even remember the car that hit me or how painful the hit itself was, but I do remember waking up in the hospital, feeling like every inch of my body went through a meat grinder.

Later on, the doctor explained to me that I was lucky to be alive, the truck that hit me has left my body in an almost unrepairable state, It would be easier for me to list the parts of my body that aren't fractured, because there's very few of them left.

As soon as the doctor let me take a good look at myself in the mirror, the only eye I had left twitched as I slowly realized that I didn't lose in the wizard's game, after all.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2746839

The motion, introduced by Andrew Wallace MP in the lower house of the Australian parliament called out China’s systematic cultural assimilation of Tibetans. It affirmed the Tibetan people’s rights to freely choose their economic, social, cultural, and religious policies without external interference. It highlighted the right of religious communities to select their own leaders, including the reincarnation of the next Dalai Lama, without Chinese government intervention.

While moving the motion, Representative Wallace stated, “The Chinese Communist Party is not content with simply trying to wipe out the culture of Tibet and Tibetans; they also want to remove their religious background. The CCP wants to control who will become the successor to the Dalai Lama. Australia’s parliament stood in solidarity, united by the convention that we cannot remain silent in the face of evil.”

Susan Templeman MP, Co-Chair of Parliament Friendship of Tibet, seconded the motion, urging Chinese authorities to release the Panchen Lama and reiterating Australia’s stance against interference in selecting the next Dalai Lama. Dr Daniel Mulino- MP and Hon. Dr David Gillespie- MP also spoke in support, highlighting the forced assimilation of Tibetan children and suppression of religious and cultural practices in Tibet.

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In response to these concerns, the Australian Parliament called on China to re-engage with representatives of the 14th Dalai Lama to establish genuine autonomy for Tibetans within China, repeal discriminatory legislation, end arbitrary detention and family separation programs, remove restrictions on Tibetan culture and language, and allow access to Tibet for independent human rights observers.

The motion also referenced recent international developments, including United Nations reports on the assimilation of Tibetan children through residential schools, the European Union’s resolution on the forced abduction of Tibetan children in December 2023, Canada’s resolution supporting Tibet and the United States ‘Promoting a Resolution to Tibet-China Act’ passed in June 2024. The motion reaffirmed Australia’s concern over China’s assimilationist policies, which include forced labour programs, the coerced separation of Tibetan children from their families, detention for peaceful political expression, and the suppression of religious practices.

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Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight. If you haven’t already, now is a great time to do your research on the issues at hand and the stances these candidates take on the topics that matter to you the most. As a voter, I make sure to watch and read everything I can about their proposed policies and plans for this country.

Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site. It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter. The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth.

I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them. I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos. I was so heartened and impressed by her selection of running mate @timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman’s right to her own body for decades.

I’ve done my research, and I’ve made my choice. Your research is all yours to do, and the choice is yours to make. I also want to say, especially to first time voters: Remember that in order to vote, you have to be registered! I also find it’s much easier to vote early. I’ll link where to register and find early voting dates and info in my story.

With love and hope,

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