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🔗 The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive

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The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive was launched to collect various documents including identification papers, official records, letters, diaries, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films, and audio recordings that were under threat of loss, damage, or confiscation. Such items were digitized and made widely available on a website open for users inside Palestine and abroad in Arabic and English, to shed light on the different aspects of Palestinian life, history, and legacy. A visitor can browse the Archive through exploring the different collections offered by hundreds of Palestinians to be safely saved for future generations. One can also navigate the website through topics that summarize many aspects of Palestinian life such as culture & arts, resistance & struggle, displacement & diaspora, social & organizational movement, everyday life, education & extracurricular activities, women, and others.

🔗 What is Textmode?

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Textmode is a broad term for art made with a monospaced font on a uniform grid.

Textmode encapsulates art like ASCII, ANSI, PETSCII and many others which have their own specific restrictions.

🔗 Peek - an animated GIF recorder

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Very useful!

Peek makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. It was built for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g. for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports. With Peek, you simply place the Peek window over the area you want to record and press "Record". Peek is optimized for generating animated GIFs, but you can also directly record to WebM if you prefer.

🔗 The hidden potential of bicycles

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This is far more the case in poorer countries.

The average modern person, by one calculation, spends more than 1,600 hours a year to pay for their cars, their insurance, fuel and repairs. We go to jobs partly to pay for the cars, and we need the cars mostly to get to jobs. We spend four of our sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering the resources for the car. Since the average modern American, by one estimate, travels 7,500 miles a year, and put in 1,600 hours a year to do that, they are travelling five miles per hour. Before people had cars, however, people managed to do the same – by walking.

🔗 The Melbourne treemail phenomenon

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"Dearest Golden Elm", wrote one correspondent earlier this month, "I finally found you! I see you every day on my way to uni, but I had no idea of what kind of tree you are. You are the most beautiful tree in the city and I love you."

About 3,000 emails have been sent to individual trees in the last two years. This didn't start out as an exercise in sentiment, but a hard-headed attempt by Melbourne city council to manage an urban forest in decline - as a result of drought, by 2009 40% of the 77,000 trees in Australia's "garden city" were struggling or dying.

🔗 Ireland’s smoking ban 20 years on: how an unheralded civil servant triumphed against big tobacco

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Proponents suspected – but could not prove – that the group was a proxy for the tobacco industry. It responded by enlisting support from health boards, the Asthma Society, the Cancer Society, academics and unions that represented hospitality workers forced to breathe secondhand smoke.

“A really significant coalition emerged that was bigger than the tobacco industry and vintners combined,” says Young.

🔗 Mona Chalabi on storytelling, the power of data, and covering Palestine

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It’s funny how a lot of people viewed me as a rigorous journalist on every other topic. And when it came to this, all of a sudden there was this disbelief in my method of research. There was this suspicion that all of a sudden it wasn’t rigorous. I think that really, really speaks to the very, very, very deeply entrenched biases that exist around this subject.

🔗 The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like

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Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we’ve been featuring their efforts to make their vast collection of cultural artifacts freely accessible online. They’ve released not just digitized works of art, but also a great many art history texts and art books in general. Just this week, they announced an expansion of access to their digital archive, in that they’ve made nearly 88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”

🔗 US plan for temporary pier in Gaza a "glaring distraction"

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"The US plan for a temporary pier in Gaza to increase the flow of humanitarian aid is a glaring distraction from the real problem: Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military campaign and punishing siege. The food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed by people in Gaza are sitting just across the border. Israel needs to facilitate rather than block the flow of supplies. This is not a logistics problem; it is a political problem. Rather than look to the US military to build a work-around, the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry points that already exist.

🔗 Doctors Without Borders urgent update on #Gaza to UN Security Council

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Christopher Lock, the organization's representative, discusses the ongoing crisis in Gaza, where over one million people are trapped and living in fear of a ground invasion.

He shares a personal account of a recent attack on an MSF-marked building housing MSF staff and their families, resulting in fatalities and injuries. The speaker condemns the pattern of attacks against humanitarian workers and infrastructure, such as hospitals, which is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence.

The situation in Gaza has led to the systematic destruction of a health system that Doctors Without Borders have supported for decades. The humanitarian response is inadequate, with limited space, medicine, food, water, and safety available.

Lock urges the UN Security Council to take effective action to address the conflict in Gaza, adopt a …

🔗 ‘Massacre’: Dozens killed by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aid

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More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.

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People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way. Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area.

“We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” said one witness.

Proxied link: https://tinyurl.com/4anfw93f

🔗 Downpour

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Downpour is the best way to make games on your phone. Collage together photos, drawings and text, and then connect them into an interactive story. It's genuinely quick and easy to use — you can make a game before your tea has gone cold.

Once you've made a game with Downpour, what then? You can share it with your friends inside the app, or post the link for anyone to play.

🔗 جزيرة القرد لعبة لا تعاقب اللاعب

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لعبة «جزيرة القرد» توفر عالمًا خياليًا يمكن أن يهرب إليه اللاعب بضع ساعات، قصة فكاهية يعيشها اللاعب ولا تضع أمامه عقبات مستحيلة، فالأمر لا يختلف عن قراءة رواية خفيفة ممتعة قد ترغب في العودة إلى قراءتها مرة أخرى بعد حين، ودومًا ثمة شيء جميل في العالم الخيالي للقراصنة يجذبنا إليه.

🔗 Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again

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The Palestinians, facing down the most powerful countries in the world, left virtually alone even by their allies, have suffered immeasurably. But they have won this war. They, their journalists, their doctors, their rescue teams their poets, academics, spokespeople, and even their children have conducted themselves with a courage and dignity that has inspired the rest of the world. The young generation in the western world, particularly the new generation of young Jewish people in the US, have seen through the brainwashing and propaganda and have recognised apartheid and genocide for what it is. The governments of the most powerful countries in the western world have lost their dignity, and any respect they might have had.

🔗 The extraordinary diversity of Brassica oleracea

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The wild plant is a weedy little herb that prefers to grow on limestone outcroppings all around the coastal Mediterranean region. It is a biennial plant that uses food reserves stored over the winter in its rosette of leaves to produce a spike of a few yellow flowers at the end of its second summer before dying. Those nutritious leaves make its domesticated derivatives important food crops in much of the world now. Enterprising farmers over the last several thousand years contributed to domesticating several distinct lineages of B. oleracea, each amplifying different parts of this wild plant to produce several vegetable varieties, or cultivar groups or subspecies (“ssp.”): kale and collard greens (ssp. acephala), Chinese broccoli (ssp. alboglabra), red and green cabbages (ssp. capitata), savoy cabbage (ssp …

🔗 الابتزاز الإلكتروني يدفع فتاة إلى الانتحار في مصر

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⚠️ تحذير محتوى خطير - تفاصيل طريقة انتحار

انتشرت خلال الأعوام الأخيرة ظاهرة الانتحار عن طريق "حبة الغلة"، خصوصاً في القرى والأرياف، وهي مبيد حشري يستخدم لحفظ القمح من الفساد والتسوس، ويتم تداولها على نطاق واسع وفي المحال التجارية وليس الجمعيات الزراعية والعيادات البيطرية فقط.

ونظراً إلى سوء استخدامها وتداولها بين الأطفال بسهولة أصبحت أسرع وسيلة للموت المحقق والانتحار، خصوصاً أنه لا يوجد مضاد حيوي يوقف مفعولها، فهي بمجرد نزولها في الجسم أو المعدة تتنج سموماً تسمى "غاز الفوسفين" شديد السُمية وهو غاز لا يوجد علاج أو ترياق مضاد له، فـ500 ملليغرام من هذا المركب كفيلة بقتل إنسان، ولك أن تعلم أن القرص المتداول 1 غرام أي ضعف الجرعة القاتلة.

يتم استيراد "حبة الغلة" القاتلة من الهند والصين، واسمها العلمي "فوسفيد الألمنيوم"، وتباع في محال المبيدات الزراعية والصيدليات البيطرية …