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Jul 25
Chronic stress isn't just "in your head." High cortisol physically ages your cells faster than alcohol or smoking. It ruins your sleep, thins your hair and kills your drive.

​Here are 7 evidence-based habits to drastically lower your cortisol.

1. ​Drop your room temperature
1. DROP YOUR ROOM TEMPERATURE

A warm room keeps your nervous system semi-awake. Cool rooms force deep NREM sleep, where cortisol clears. If I don't get this right before a heavy Internal Medicine OPD day, my cortisol stays spiked all shift. Stress relief starts at night.
2. GET NATURAL LIGHT FAST

Within 30 mins of waking, get outside. Daylight hitting your eyes is the most powerful signal to regulate your circadian rhythm. As a resident, catching that morning sun anchors my cortisol surge so it drops naturally by the end of my clinical day.
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Jul 25
1/ On the somber Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av (July 23, 2026)—as we mourn the destruction of our ancient Temples—a tragic stabbing attack shook NYC. A visibly Jewish man in a kippah and an Asian man were targeted in an assault accompanied by shouts of “Allahu Akbar.” 🧵 Image
2/ Speaking out against NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s failure to take accountability for the violent antisemitism stoked by his nonstop anti-Israel rhetoric, I shared commentary on public safety. The reaction wasn't a policy debate; it revealed how toxic online hate has become.
3/ The response fell into predictable, hostile patterns:

- Hostile Deflection: Shouting down a domestic hate crime with "What about Gaza?", celebrating the violence ("Good"), or minimizing the Jewish targeting because an Asian man was also hurt.
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Jul 25
> works for a pro asylum charity

> complains when asylum seekers are put in your area Image
None of these pro-asylum groups are going to survive contact with reality.

The Government aims to close all asylum hotels by 2029, but this will only be achievable if they are moved into HMOs, military barracks and social housing, which are more spread-out.
The reason there is never any 'consultation' is because none of these areas actually want asylum seekers.

Even Rachel Millward, of the Green party, the most pro-asylum party in Britain, complained when her area was receiving asylum seekers. Image
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Jul 25
Every German teacher tells you to watch German shows.

Almost none tell you which ones, or when.

After years of teaching and testing, this is the list that works.

The only German watchlist you'll ever need.

A thread 🧵🎬 Image
The method behind this list:

🟢 A1 🔵 A2: learner content only. Your ear is not ready for native speed.
🟡 B1 🟠 B2: real German TV, German subtitles on.
🔴 C1 ⚫ C2: no subtitles, dialect included.

Los geht's 👇
Nobody tells you this part.

Subtitles, by level:

A1: German audio, English subs
A2: German audio, German subs
B1: German subs, pause less
B2: German subs, then rewatch with none
C1: none, first watch
C2: none, plus dialect
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Jul 25
Looks like @kroger is looking to eliminate thousands of US-based jobs by 2028 and offshore them to a new facility in India.

If this is your primary grocer, you might consider looking for a new one. Image
Kroger is in the midst of several massive recalls, btw. I got Listeria from pasta salad from their deli last year and haven't been back since. Looks like I made the right call.

@kroger Image
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Jul 25
1/ It's time for another purge of the Russian army, along the lines of Stalin's Great Purge of 1937, says Russian warblogger 'Two Majors'. He castigates the army's culture of shifting responsibility and performative work for its systematic failures in Ukraine. ⬇️ Image
2/ The Russian army's bureaucratic culture has created a "system of reports, legal squabbles, and endless shifting of responsibility in military affairs". However, he says, it "has outlived its usefulness and is directly damaging the military sphere of the Russian Federation."
3/ "You can fulfill all the demands of senior staff and immediate superiors, receive awards, and be in good standing, while being an outright scoundrel when it comes to defending the country.
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Jul 25
Few days ago had a long chat with a MSME entrepreneur during a journey.
Sharing some details
➡️ Very hard to hire even unskilled workers
➡️ due to some projects coming in adjacent industrial area rates hv doubled from Rs 450 to 900/ day
➡️ I said its Rs 23400/month then how r
others paid. He said engineers 15K, diploma 12.5K
➡️ Asked him why doesn't he hire from backward districts of state, he said they don't like working away from home
➡️ labour from Jharkhand, Bihar, Oddisa, UP was much admired for their skills. We're hv they vanished.
➡️ He said there is developmental work happening in every part of India, big infra projects in every region
➡️ So workers r preferring their own states
➡️ for the remaining work force there is huge competition among industries to pull them.over their side
➡️ co with big pocket
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Jul 25
Alan Cumming should focus on selling tickets to his half-empty productions & not taking everything his pal Sturgeon tells him as gospel.

1. GRR was not passed "unanimously"

2. Women were opposed to it before Covid. Our rights matter.
thetimes.com/article/bb364f…
3. We aren't focused on toilets, we care about women's safety in prison, hospitals, rape crisis. Women cannot exist in a world where our safety & dignity are compromised.

We should be past the point where we sacrifice everything for male demands.
4. And yes, you silly little man, we read the Bill. Although it's quite clear that you didn't and haven't read the ruling of the Supreme Court.
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Jul 25
ANECDOTE : 1322

DURING A "MUFTI DUTY" in Bombay, after meticulous Efforts caught a Guy, who was doing FRAUD of about 25 Lac.

Took him to a Police Station of Bombay, for Statement Recording and FIR (All Peaceful, In MUFTI, With an ALLIBI Occupation)

Met PI with couple of (1)
(2) with a Co-Worker (who was actually working in that Organisation), We presented all the information and regular process of Police Station started.

The CULPRIT, 20 Years Old's Father was called at that P.S.

Now, I was the Prime Complainant and had done almost all the "job"
(3) So, This Guy's Father came, along with some relatives to P.S Complex and enquired some stuff and they pointed to me.

I was outside the Police Station, making some calls; The Guy (Father) came and fell on my Feet in front of everyone, begging that I withdraw the Complaint
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Jul 25
Nolan’s The #Odyssey is closer to a remake of #Gladiator than an adaptation of Homer

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey reproduces the events of Homer, but replaces Homer’s protagonist with a fundamentally different kind of hero. /1
In psychological and moral terms, Matt Damon’s Odysseus is much closer to Maximus in Gladiator than to Homer’s Odysseus.

The key difference is what war, deceit and collapse of order does to the hero.

/2
Maximus is an honourable, serious and morally robust soldier whose world is destroyed by betrayal and the collapse of his life's meaning: family, duty, Rome and his moral order. The film asks what remains of such a man after the world has violated the principles by which he lived
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Jul 25
@ShamashAran Link to original tweet.



While I think I like a lot of what you have to say than what he does (and that's why I'm following you), I really can't support you, when you support the idea of rigging a hearing through the use of dirty tricks.
@ShamashAran Yes, I deleted that and reposted it, just to shake a few trolls. One of whom tried to be "clever" by building his reply around an informal logical fallacy ("begging the question.")
@ShamashAran More or less. He tried to argue that rigging the outcome of a hearing in order to determine whether or not somebody was here illegally was acceptable because the accused were here illegally.

Um, no. That's the issue that the hearing is supposed to resolve.
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Jul 25
SitRep - 24/07/26 - More Wildberries on fire

An overview of the daily events in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Overnight and early morning, Ukraine struck another three Wildberries hubs in Russia.

REPOST=appreciated

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