“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anyone could ever want to own.”
Andy Warhol.
(“I sit with my coffee at my mother’s old desk, and at last I understand. The race may not be to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, and these, she says, are the reasons to fight.“) – Reasons to fight by Daphne Caruana Galizia [x]
How our home delivery habit reshaped the world by Samanth Subramanian [x]
The 2017 College Grad Who Got Attacked by a Horde of YA Authors Had No Idea What She Was Getting Into by Ruth Graham [x]
Bill Gates Goes After Warren on Wealth Tax, Won’t Commit to Backing Her Over Trump: Voting for Whoever’s ‘More Professional’ by Joe DePaolo [x]
A Slime Mold Called Le Blob by Justine Dees [x]
Our Faith & The Men Who Break It by Sana Saeed [x]
The Instant Pot Understands The History Of Women’s Labor In The Kitchen by Bee Wilson [x]
Keanu Reeves is being called a hero just for dating a woman (almost) his own age. How depressing by Amil Niazi [x]
Pakistan among worst countries for internet freedom: report by Ramsha Jahangir [x]
Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston: ‘A lot of guys think every woman wants to sleep with them’ by Hadley Freeman [x]
‘We lay like corpses’: Bangladesh’s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out by Lucy Lamble [x]
Method acting can go too far – just ask Dustin Hoffman by Michael Simkins [x]
Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition by Carolyn Y. Johnson [x]
An exhibit at Karachi Biennale was forcibly shut down. Does public art not belong to the public in Pakistan? by Aiman Rizvi [x]
The Man Who Feeds Ants by Muhammad Hanif [x]
The Seven Signs You’re in a Cult by Boze Herrington [x]
Please Stop Asking Me Why I’m Not Having Children by Lauren Strapagiel [x]
What happened? Sam Jordison on the best and worst of the Booker Prize experience [x]
The Hidden Challenges for Successful First-Generation Ph.D.s by Bailey B. Smolarek [x]
One Night at Mount Sinai Aja Newman went to the emergency room for shoulder pain. Her doctor was a superstar. What’s the worst that could happen? by Lisa Miller [x]
Bernardine Evaristo: ‘These are unprecedented times for black female writers’ [x]
How to find the little-known ‘kill switch’ that lets you use Facebook with the maximum amount of privacy by Jim Edwards [x]
Without My Mother by Genesia Alves [x]
What It’s Like Living in One of the Hottest Cities on Earth—Where It May Soon Be Uninhabitable by Aryn Baker [x]
How Dadaji Became a Feminist by Prachi Gupta [x]
Pakistan Wants You To Know: Most Pink Himalayan Salt Doesn’t Come From India by Diaa Hadid and Abdul Sattar [x]
Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays by Todd Feathers [x]
Tiny Love Stories: ‘She Is Not a Mistake’ [x]
Stories About My Brother by Prachi Gupta [x]
After Sabeen is a story about two women who lifted each other up by Zoya Anwer [x]
In locked down Kashmir, women have to manage without sanitary pads by Gulzar Bhat [x]
On Climate Week, revisit the Attabad Lake tragedy by Haneya Zuberi [x]
The Man Who Got Drunk Without Alcohol by Ed Yong [x]
The Falling Man by Tom Junod [x]
The Women in My Family Had to Be Good With Money by Dena Landon [x]
A Story of a Fuck Off Fund by Paulette Perhach [x]
When “Peanuts” Went All-In on Vaccinations by Maki Naro and Matthew Francis [x]
The #MeToo Backlash [x]
A sisterhood of superheroes by Nuzhat Saadia Siddiqi [x]
Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us by Gabrielle Jackson [x]
Waiting for the Monsoon, Discovering a Brain Tumor Instead by Rod Nordland [x]
Informality and taxation by Muhammad Ali Jan [x]
‘Derry Girls’ creator on the hit show bringing Northern Ireland together by Meredith Blake [x]
Why did I leave Google? A thread. by Jessie [x]
The Guardian Newspaper Has Lost Two Trans Employees Over Its Reporting On Trans Issues by Patrick Strudwick [x]
Ice Arch, 1982. Snow Sculptures
Where would you eat if you didn’t have long to live? by Jay Rayner [x]
No Logo at 20: have we lost the battle against the total branding of our lives? by Dan Hancox [x]
America Has Never Been So Desperate for Tomato Season by Amanda Mull [x]
In a Ravaged Kashmir, One Woman’s Fight to Give Birth by Zubair Sofi [x]
Outrage in Pakistan over abuse of child domestic workers by Saba Karim Khan [x]
By: Wassim Toukebri
‘I Am More Afraid Than I Have Ever Been’: A Personal Account From Kashmir by Qurat ul Ain [x]
I’m Latino. I’m Hispanic. And they’re different, so I drew a comic to explain. by Terry Blas [x]
You’re Either Team Pulao or Team Biryani by Maryam Jillani [x]
India Annexes Kashmir and Brings Us Back to Partition [x]
A small village in Bahria fights for its life by Naziha Syed Ali [x]
OMG: Sabyasachi and Other Mer-“chants” of Wedding Melodrama by Supriya Nair [x]
Craving Freedom, Japan’s Women Opt Out of Marriage by Motoko Rich [x]
How to eat well while living under siege by Laila Elhaddad [x]
Hello. I have just what you wanted – a thread on teeth and being poor and depression: by Jon Torsch [x]
The Fraught Culture of Mourning by Rachel Vorona Cote [x]
The Crane Wife by CJ Huaser [x]
Why childhood sweethearts no longer measure up – and six other ways dating has changed by Emine Saner [x]
Why France’s forests are getting bigger [x]
Tiny Apartments and Punishing Work Hours: The Economic Roots of Hong Kong’s Protests by Alexandra Stevenson and Jin Wu [x]
Does Samina Peerzada’s talk show normalise the dark side of celebrity culture? by Aaisha Salman [x]
‘I was shot in the face six times and survived’ – Waleed Khan (APS Attack Survivor) [x]
From Lovable Brute to Aggressor How “Stranger Things” Turned Jim Hopper Into an Abuser by Rebecca Long [x]
When Did You Realize American Health Care Was Broken? by Katie Heaney [x]
The Battle to Separate Safa and Marwa by Rachael Buchanan [x]
عمان اب پاکستانی بلوچوں کو نوکریاں کیوں نہیں دے رہا؟ – Sahar Baloch [x]
An anecdote by Anthony Breznican on Nick Ut and the impact photos of human suffering should make on us [x]
The Importance of Photographing Women in Sports by Laura Mallonee [x]
How a small Turkish city successfully absorbed half a million migrants [x]
Indian Women Are Never Taught How To Be Alone, And That’s A Problem by Kavitha Rao [x]
What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane by William Langewiesche [x]
18 of the Best Synonyms for ‘Lazy’ [x]
Higgs boson and Comic Sans: the perfect fusion by Patrick Kingsley [x]
Burning Your Mouth to Spite Your Heart by Noah Cho [x]
Why You Should Tell Your Co-Workers How Much Money You Make by Tim Herrera [x]
‘Bread is practically sacred’: how the taste of home sustained my refugee parents by Aleksandar Hemon [x]
How to Draw a Horse by Emma Hunsinger [x]
For working class people like me who move into middle class worlds, the fear of debt is always there by Jasmine Andersson [x]
One of my favourite Twitter threads on healthcare by Mary Robinette Kowal [x]
Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by Max Read [x]
The Muslims Who Don’t Fast During Ramadan by Katie Jane Fernelius [x]
Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change by By Jack Nicas, Natalie Kitroeff, David Gelles and James Glanz [x]
Uncovering Pakistan’s secret human rights abuses by By M Ilyas Khan [x]
Who Do You Belong To by Emily Lackey [x]
Letter from Karachi: For a place in the shade by Kevin Shi [x]
The Unimportance of Being Centrist by Kala Kawaa [x]
Medical Investigation: How Did 494 Children In 1 Pakistani City Get HIV? by Benazir Samad [x]
It’s always sunny in Lala land by Osman Samiuddin [x]
Why do so many mediocre men rise to the top? by Olive Burkeman [x]
How women and minorities are claiming their right to rage by Soraya Chemaly [x]
Nike Told Me to Dream Crazy, Until I Wanted a Baby by Alysia Montaño [x]
Your House Is My House, Pakistan’s Rich Say to Its Poor by Mohammed Hanif [x]
Alex Wellerstein created a website where you can enter different combinations of places and nuclear bomb sizes to see the possible casualties, radiation, fallout and injuries with approximate scientific data. [x]
What Happens to Women’s Ambitions in the Years After College by Hana Schank [x]
The Dothraki Deserved Better From Daenerys by Danny Heifetz [x]
When Did Popculture Become Homework? by Soraya Roberts [x]
Emotional Baggage – inside the toxic work environment at Away by Zoe Schiffer [x]
Naqeebullah Mehsud’s wife speaks out for the first time by Mirqadana [x]
Inside the world of intimacy coordinators, who choreograph sex scenes for HBO, Netflix and more by Travis M. Andrews [x]
Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden by Melanie Hamlett [x]
AirPods Are a Tragedy by Caroline Haskins [x]
Cow to consumer: Beyond profit for Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation by Deepak Ajwani [x]
Everyone has got it wrong in the Ramadan-Ramzan debate. And no, it’s not about Wahhabism by Rizwan Ahmed [x]
Pakistan: where the daily slaughter of women barely makes the news by Mohammed Hanif [x]
How Trees Calm Us Down by Alex Hutchinson [x]
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over by Taylor Lorenz [x]
A thread on the instances when other state institutions trying to hold the army & intelligence agencies accountable have thrown up their hands in frustration by Tabinda Khan [x]
The Extraordinary ‘Cookbooks’ Left Behind by Prisoners of War and Concentration Camp Victims by Rohini Chaki [x]
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