The ‘alho’ part is Portugese for garlic.

To ‘weed out non-believers’, Gangotri temple will make panchgavya consumption a must While the Gangotri Mandir Samiti has, for the first time, mandated consumption of panchgavya—a mixture of cow urine, dung, ghee, milk and curd—for entry, Yamunotri will remain open to all.

(Panchgavya: a mixture of cow urine, dung, ghee, milk and curd)

A painting of a dancing Sufi on fire.

A painting in The Phoenix Library, the first library to be rebuilt in Gaza is by Aseel. Stunning.

Here’s the link too the library’s fund raiser. chuffed.org/project/firs...

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window Saul Bellow writes to Martin Amis

Also:

[L]osing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn’t know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you’re picking up the pieces.
~ Saul Bellow, in a letter to Martin Amis.

This comment from a Reddit discussion says it well. www.reddit.com/r/Assistance...

Happened to my best friend, a chronically early-to-everything person who is constantly exasperated with chrono-optimistic me, particularly when we have travelled together. I have never let her forget it.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.

Your chats and emails from your previous jobs may be up for sale.

gizmodo.com/failed-compa...

‘What’s your favourite channel?’
‘The Strait of Hormuz.’

A brown spider poised on a green leaf.

A spider poised on a leaf.

A spider poised on a leaf.

Lockdown-era garden photography.

On this day in 2021.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Also, @saliltripathi.bsky.social might know someone.

I have a journalist friend who works in HK. Will check with him.

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If you’re looking for someone to hold accountable, look at those with real power not at someone who tried to be a voice for us when the world chose silence.
We don’t need more blame we need to stay alive.

HiPOD: Intersecting Channels near Olympica Fossae

This region is covered in vast lava flows. The collapse pits here may be collapsed lava tubes or where overlying rock “drained” into voids created by extensional faulting.

More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045091_2045
#Mars #science #NASA

Amazon seeks environment nod to establish data centre near Taloja The company has applied to the State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) for an environmental clearance | Mumbai news

‘Once operational, the centre will need 473 Mega Watt of electricity per day. […] This is expected to generate 8 kiloliters of mineral rich wastewater which is usually discharged to avoid damaging equipment.’

#BomSky #IndiaSky

We instruct the jury to convict.

It's very strange. Here's what happened.

1.) A Palestinian guy called Mahmoud From Gaza was using code scripts to mass post his fundraiser, because he is a software engineer.

2.) He bought some old accounts from a site for a dollar or two.

3.) Liberals and Zionists caught wind of this.

If we dont fund the IDF, then Israel will go on a killing spree against their neighbors, launch pogroms across the West Bank, commit genocide in Gaza, occupy chunks of Syria and Lebanon, bomb Qatar, and finally launch The Big One against Iran. By funding them, we have prevented this nightmare.

An intricate black and white illustration of a crane sticking its head underwater to talk to a bunch of frightened and startled looking fish, while a crab lies on the bottom.

Here's the highest res copy of the illustration I found.

I love this illustration so much.

After a bit of googling (I could have saved myself the trouble if I read the comments): The artist is William Heath Robinson. Published in 1897 to illustrate "The Cunning Crane and the Crab," in the book "The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India."

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF ebook cover with Drummer Boy

Delisted all our ebooks from #Draft2Digital out of solidarity, after they imposed the much-maligned maintainance fee on small self-publisher accounts.

You can buy our ebooks on our website. It works out better for us and for our authors anyway.

www.blaft.com/collections/...

And it’s not even Navratri.

A tiny bird with brown wings and upperbody and white underbody, a dark streak around the eyes which curves back around the head down to the throat. It has a small break.

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#HowMyGardenGrows #Burb

That should have been 1999–2000. Sorry.

In the course of my working years, which started in the late 80s, India went from a country where you could wait years to get allotted a landline to over a billion sim cards in circulation.

Sorry, I got on my soapbox and stayed there too long. I will stop now.

… our government banned it (along with many other China-based apps) in one of our episodes with China.

…dropped their initially huge billing to cheap enough for people who had never had a landline to buy them. The market boomed. That is an essay on its own!
As smartphones became more popular and cheaper (China-made phones) Tiktok was big with the folx not comfortable with English, but …

… TV journalists, politicians, business people. There was a lot of pressure to be on that platform. It left out the folx who weren’t English-literate, but with the size of our population, there were enough punters from those who were.
Around the same time, cellphones, which came in around 1990–2000…