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五點多爬起來洗澡，去 7-11 買早餐，看到了傳說中的南亞店員，教我怎麼用自助咖啡機。
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Appreciation
Tell people when you like something
about them, their art, their laugh,
their style, their energy, their voice,
their way of being in the world, Don’t
assume they already know, or that it
won’t matter. You have no idea how
far a few honest words can go. You
might be the reason someone smiles
today, or the reason they keep doing
what they love. Appreciation costs
nothing, but it can rebuild confidence,
fuel creativity, and remind someone
that they matter.
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Progress by Samuel Miller McDonald, 2025
A History of Humanity's Worst Idea
Progress is power. But our modern story of progress is a very dangerous fiction. In the pursuit of progress, of growth and expansion, we have levelled cities, flattened mountains, charted the globe and ushered in a new geological epoch unique in our planet's 4.5-billion-year history.
Displaced Gaza families struggle as winter storm hits
After a night of relentless rain, Arafat al-Ghandour and his wife, Nour, finally exhaled in relief as the morning sun emerged, if only briefly, over the soaked displacement camp.
The couple, parents of five, live in a worn tent riddled with holes. They spent the night battling water pouring in from every direction.
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Arafat, 39, shares the cramped space, no larger than eight square metres (86sq feet), with 15 family members, including his elderly parents, his sister and her family, and his brother’s wife and children. The conditions, he says, are inhumane.
“All night I was plugging the holes with rags and plastic bags,” Arafat said.
In the early morning, the family hurried to spread their drenched clothes, blankets and belongings in the sunlight to dry.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/displaced-gaza-families-struggle-as-winter-storm-hits
Fake-Checking: A Journalist’s Guide to Deepfakes by Andrea Hickerson et al, 2025
Designed to help journalists keep pace with the rapid evolution of deepfakes as well as integrate ‘fake-checking’ methods into their routine reporting practices, this book offers a concise and accessible guide for reporters navigating this evolving challenge.
Palestinians struggle with flooding after heavy rain hit the Abu Marhil camp in the Az-Zaytun neighbourhood.
Photograph: Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu/Getty Images
Chong Kal, #Cambodia
A family cram on to a tractor as they flee deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along a disputed border area.
Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Bireuën, #Indonesia
Residents clamber over debris to cross on a newly built bridge connecting Aceh and North Sumatra after flash floods at Peusangan River.
Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images
Amecameca, #Mexico
People carry images of the Virgin of Guadalupe during the pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe through Paso de Cortes.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
The #Vatican, Vatican City
Pope Leo XIV receives an inflatable crucifix offered by visitors from the Italian island of Ventotene at the end of the weekly general audience.
Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images
今日はアップデート祭りか。 
Apple、Apple Musicやポッドキャスト、ゲームアプリの機能を強化し、ロック画面のLiquid Glassの不透明度を上げ下げできるオプションやAirDropコードを追加した「iOS/iPadOS 26.2」を正式にリリース。 | AAPL Ch.
https://applech2.com/archives/20251213-ios-26-2-25c56-now-available.html
Apple、暗い場所でビデオ会話中のユーザーの顔を明るく照らすエッジライト機能を追加した「macOS 26.2 Tahoe」を正式にリリース。 | AAPL Ch.
https://applech2.com/archives/20251213-macos-26-2-tahoe-25c56.html
Desperate Gazans pull iron bars from rubble to construct tents and scratch out a living
As winter bites in Gaza, displaced Palestinians set out every day to homes destroyed by Israel. There they rip out iron rods from the walls and use them to prop up their flimsy tents or sell to scratch out a living in an enclave that will take years to recover from war.
How can societal collapses of the past guide us in these uncertain times
We're living in unusual times, with political history being made every week, the seemingly imminent collapse of a certain global super power and serious existential crises, or just crises, on the horizon. "Once you pull on the thread of collapse, the entire tapestry of history begins to unravel" writes Luke Kemp. So what can we learn from looking at the collapse of past societies?
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/luke-kemp-goliaths-curse/105319500
｢蓄電｣世界で急拡大、米カリフォルニア州の主力電源に 揚水より安価 - 日本経済新聞 ｢蓄電｣世界で急拡大、米カリフォルニア州の主力電源に 揚水より安価 - 日本経済新聞 https://share.google/w0nwYcEsSC0N3eNxL
CBT For Dummies, 4ed by Rob Willson & Rhena Branch, 2025
Easily understand how to apply the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to your own life.
CBT For Dummies is the gold standard guide to the gold standard form of psychotherapy. This proven treatment helps with common emotional problems like anxiety, depression, panic, and social anxiety.
Israeli attacks on journalists
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Israel has killed at least 246 journalists and media workers since the start of the war in October 2023.
Of that, 59 were directly targeted and killed by Israeli forces in what CPJ describes as murders. Most of the victims were Palestinian journalists and media workers reporting in the Gaza Strip, the group says.
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Israeli attacks on journalists
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Israel has killed at least 246 journalists and media workers since the start of the war in October 2023.
Of that, 59 were directly targeted and killed by Israeli forces in what CPJ describes as murders. Most of the victims were Palestinian journalists and media workers reporting in the Gaza Strip, the group says.
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Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country, according to a recent report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
The single deadliest attack in Gaza was a “double-tap” strike on a hospital in the south of the enclave on August 25, in which five journalists were killed, including Al Jazeera photographer Mohammad Salama.
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Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country, according to a recent report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
The single deadliest attack in Gaza was a “double-tap” strike on a hospital in the south of the enclave on August 25, in which five journalists were killed, including Al Jazeera photographer Mohammad Salama.
Reuters news agency video journalist Issam Abdallah, 37, was killed in the Israeli attack on a group of reporters working in southern Lebanon on October 13, 2023, that also injured six others, including US citizen and AFP news agency journalist Dylan Collins.
Rights groups have said the journalists were deliberately targeted, which amounts to a war crime.
Flooded tents in Gaza
Palestinian children wade through water in Gaza City
Children walk through a waterlogged alley at a makeshift camp sheltering displaced Palestinians after heavy rains in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City [AFP]
A woman looks out from her tent at a temporary shelter, amid deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along a disputed border area, in Surin province, #Thailand.
REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
Displaced Palestinian children stand next to a puddle in a tent camp on a rainy day in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.
REUTERS/Haseeb Alwazeer
A message the reads ‘Let them be kids’ is projected onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge to mark a law banning social media for users under 16 in Australia in #Sydney, #Australia. REUTERS/Hollie Adams
A man drives a yellow car next to a pool of water in the as-Saftawi neighbourhood, west of Jabalia in northern Gaza, on December 10, 2025 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
Displaced Gaza families struggle as winter storm hits
Families face flooded tents, sewage, extreme overcrowding, and deepening hardship amid ongoing displacement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/displaced-gaza-families-struggle-as-winter-storm-hits
Sometimes you read about old technology, get to the end of the sentence, and have to read it again because it sounds so completely ludicrous you can't quite believe it actually worked.
Anyway Eidophor projectors are what they used for Apollo Mission Control.
You must live at all costs,
Grow through bitterness little by little,
Start everything from the very beginning,
Look for signs of God in the little things.
If your day is painted black,
If the morning is angry and prickly,
You must live, cook porridge for breakfast,
Water the flowers, and believe in the best.
In the most hopeless troubles,
Keep breathing—and it will become easier.
Sometimes just one step is enough,
To straighten your shoulders again.
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Alesya Sineglazaya
You must live at all costs,
Grow through bitterness little by little,
Start everything from the very beginning,
Look for signs of God in the little things.
If your day is painted black,
If the morning is angry and prickly,
You must live, cook porridge for breakfast,
Water the flowers, and believe in the best.
In the most hopeless troubles,
Keep breathing—and it will become easier.
Sometimes just one step is enough,
To straighten your shoulders again.
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Alesya Sineglazaya
おはようやで！
Aceh Tamiang, #Indonesia
Remains of uprooted trees surround the Darul Mukhlisin Islamic boarding school and mosque after flash floods in North #Sumatra
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip
A man clears water from his tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians after heavy rain.
Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP
Displaced Palestinian children attempt to clear rainwater from a flooded tent.
Photograph: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
New Delhi, #India
A sheep in a sweater wanders near the shrine of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya on a cold winter morning.
Photograph: Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters
Takachiho Gorge, Miyazaki (Japan) by ScoobyGabrielle
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisdmoyer/
via t-a-h-i-t-i
Free Bus Program in Iowa City Has Reduced Traffic and Pollution
Some of the improvements Iowa City has seen since implementing this program include:
•Buses are on time 13% more often
•Less crowded streets
•An 18% increase in bus ridership over pre-pandemic levels (most locations are seeing only 85% the bus use as pre pandemic)
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via hope-for-the-planet
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•24,000 metric ton decrease in CO2 emissions (equivalent of 5,200 cars)
•Drivers and passengers report less friction on buses and a more pleasant riding experience
All this was paid for by a 1% increase in utility taxes and increasing downtown parking costs from $1 to $2. So far the program has been a resounding success and is being renewed for an additional year.
via hope-for-the-planet
Free Bus Program in Iowa City Has Reduced Traffic and Pollution
Some of the improvements Iowa City has seen since implementing this program include:
•Buses are on time 13% more often
•Less crowded streets
•An 18% increase in bus ridership over pre-pandemic levels (most locations are seeing only 85% the bus use as pre pandemic)
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via hope-for-the-planet
Leopard and Her Cub by rarecollection.ch
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rarecollection-ch/
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Tiger in White by Bridgena Barnard
https://500px.com/photo/20062833/tiger-in-white-by-bridgena-barnard
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This is equally true in the #biotic environment (the “#biosphere”), consisting of microorganisms, plants, animals, and the human body; in #abiotic (lifeless) environments, such as the #geosphere, the #lithosphere, the #hydrosphere, and the #atmosphere; and in the entire #ecosphere, comprising ecosystems composed of biotic and abiotic elements in complex interrelationships. Such ecosystems, large and small, for all their components, also interact in intricate mutual relationships.
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Moreover, this chemical diversity (“#chemodiversity”) indicates the richness of the spatial and temporal variations and changes—the amounts, types, and states of all the particles and substances in Nature—from elements and atoms, through molecules and compounds, to composite mixtures, solutions, and materials.
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Furthermore, changes in matter and energy that occur in different times and places, alongside interactions between different substances and transitions between different forms of energy, sustain all the systems and processes in the #Universe.
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This is equally true in the #biotic environment (the “#biosphere”), consisting of microorganisms, plants, animals, and the human body; in #abiotic (lifeless) environments, such as the #geosphere, the #lithosphere, the #hydrosphere, and the #atmosphere; and in the entire #ecosphere, comprising ecosystems composed of biotic and abiotic elements in complex interrelationships. Such ecosystems, large and small, for all their components, also interact in intricate mutual relationships.
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These particles and substances are constantly moving and changing their states and shapes, decomposing, and being created by means of a variety of physical processes and chemical reactions—as part of #biogeochemical cycles, while absorbing and emitting energy in various forms.
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Furthermore, changes in matter and energy that occur in different times and places, alongside interactions between different substances and transitions between different forms of energy, sustain all the systems and processes in the #Universe.
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Preface
The world we live in is made up of innumerable particles: elementary particles, atoms and molecules, and a multitude of substances with different and diverse properties: natural and synthetic substances, organic and inorganic compounds, and pure and composite materials. All of these are found in outer space and on Earth, in the air, in water sources, and on land, as well as in plants (“flora”) and animals (“fauna”).
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These particles and substances are constantly moving and changing their states and shapes, decomposing, and being created by means of a variety of physical processes and chemical reactions—as part of #biogeochemical cycles, while absorbing and emitting energy in various forms.
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