Sean Murthy

Pakistani business owner convicted in Iran-backed plot against US politicians | AP News A Pakistani business owner who tried to hire hit men to kill a U.S. politician has been convicted in a trial that showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil.

Why Iran needed to be bombed:

/s

apnews.com/article/assa...

#Iran #Pakistan #assassination #news #guilty #sarcasm #excuses #rationale

Cool. Thanks for explaining. Is this video publicly available (or downloadable for tlme)
so I can share it with people (school teachers) who don't use Bluesky? 🙏

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

Yesterday www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

A white high rise building with lots of windows with a storefront with blue signs (in Gujarat, Hindi, and English), looking across from a wide street. A car and some rickshaws parked on the far side of the street. Also a few pedestrians.

Aug. 12 2024. IIRC I risked my life a bit taking this picture in #Ahmedabad #Gujarat #India. 😅

#photography #amateur #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

White text on black, one part circled in green; another part circled in red. Circled in green: Maybe Ms. Noem should consider a similar route, using her newfound freedom to tell the public how she really feels about what she was asked to do and defend in Mr. Trump’s name. Circled in red: She might even claw back some of that self-worth she gave up along the way.

🟩 Yes, she should.

🟥 Nope, not happening. Not on the left; not on the right.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

#NYT #opinion #KristiNoem #Noem #politics

A black line drawing with black text annotations on green background, showing an overhead view of the White House complex, comparing the proposed changes to the East Wing with what was before the wing was demolished.

"The president’s East Wing plan upends the symmetry of the White House"

The obvious solution is to tear down and rebuild the West Wing to match.

(Just you wait and watch.)

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#WhiteHouse #strategy #EastWing #renovation #NYT

Hospital. *n*. A place one goes to to become a patient, mostly through the process of waiting long hours in a crowded lobby teaming with patients.

#sarcasm #truth #definition #hospitals

PRIMARY TEACHERS! This "disappearing rainbow" works because of the way light is refracted and totally internally reflected - the same phenomena at play in the making of a real rainbow. It's a demonstration you can use to explore / explain rainbows to your students. More in the link below.

Just arrived at a #clinic and waiting in the lobby for the doctor to arrive. Already got a text asking feedback on the experience at the clinic.

I don't think it's because they're eager for my #feedback. Unless it's 5 stars, which they might get only before I actually experience anything here. 🙄

Why can't your nose be 12 inches long?

Because then it would be a foot.

🥁

Interesting. I have an example of a more drastic and unfortunate change:

bsky.app/profile/smur...

Black text on white background: Barbabella has maintained for months that Trump is healthy, writing in December that he “remains in excellent overall health.”

The patient could keel over and this doctor would probably still (be required to) say “the patient remains in excellent overall health.” 🙄

us.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

#health #sarcasm #USA #honesty #ethics

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

1 out of 10 men. 1 makes a sexual joke at a woman, 2 laugh, 3 fake a chuckle to fit in and 4 stay silent. None of them speak up. Later nine of them still believe they're the "good guys" But from the woman's perspective the laughter, the silence, the looking away, it all creates the same environment. So when women say "most men are the same" this is what they mean: not that every man harasses women, but that most men help protect the system that does.

Offerings into #fire along with sacred #Hindu chants at "riksamhitaa yaaga" ☝️

(turn on sound to hear the chanting)

#photography #amateur #Udupi #India #video

A brick firepit with burning fire inside, a wooden tripod scaffolding over the firepit. The top of the wooden poles are decorated with yellow mums. A copper pot hangs on the inside at the top of the scaffolding. Smoke bellowing from the firepit. Priests sit and stand around the pot. Onlookers line by a wall in the background. A colorful mandala on the floor in the foreground.

A colorful mandala on a floor. A plate filled with rice at the center, a coconut on the rice, a blue folded cloth on the coconut, a folded white towel on top, and then a string of yellow flowers. Flowers and other auspicious items around the mandala.

A brick firepit with burning fire inside, a wooden tripod scaffolding over the firepit. The top of the wooden poles are decorated with yellow mums. A copper pot hangs on the inside at the top of the scaffolding. A thin line of liquid (ghee) flows from the bottom of the pot onto an open wooden straw and from the straw into the firepit. Smoke bellowing from the firepit. Priests sit around the pot. Onlookers line by a wall in the background.

Same day & place ☝️, conclusion of 9-day "riksamhitaa yaaga": offerings to #fire while chanting "rig veda" (ancient #Hindu scripture).

Superb ambience—colors, smell, sounds, objects—followed by heavenly food.

PS: Zoom in to #3. Video 👇

#photography #amateur #FotoMontag #photoMonday #Udupi #India

I think this pillow works better as a cat's belly. 🐈

Too #squishy.

#comparison

the Doomsday Algorithm, created by mathematician John Horton Conway, is based on the last day of February

in 2026, that's a Saturday

then we know that April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), and December 12 (12/12) are all on Saturdays this year

neat, eh?

1/2

Beautiful diagrams from a circa 17th-century copy of Muslim polymath Ismail al-Jazarī’s *Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices*, originally published in 1206: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arabic-machine-manuscript

Son of last shah of Iran welcomes death of Khamenei The US president has called for regime change following a massive US and Israeli attack, which prompted an unprecedented wave of retaliatory strikes by Iran. Follow for live updates.

Reza Pahlavi of 2026 Iran seems to have the energy of Ahmed Chalabi of 2003 Iraq.

An American puppet who turns out to be a dud on deployment.

www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

#Iran #succession #leadership #puppet

Bengaluru suicide: Woman dies after astrologer’s prediction Bagalagunte case: A 27-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide after an astrologer predicted her partner’s short lifespan. Police suspect distress over horoscope matching and rituals may have led to the tragic incident.

"Woman dies by suicide after astrologer predicts lover’s short lifespan"

What a travesty. The details in the report suggest things are way worse than what the headline conveys. 😢

www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat...

#news #suicide #India #astrology

Black text on white background: Trump added that “heavy and pinpoint bombing” of the nation would continue throughout the week or “as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD.”

"The bombing will continue until peace prevails."

He actually said that.🤦‍♂️

www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

#Iran #bombing #war #Israel #USA #MiddleEast #contradiction

Can Gucci make luxury AI? | CNN Gucci’s new designer Demna embraces the technology, with uneven results.

"Can Gucci make luxury AI?"

Tell you what, Gucci can and will slap its name on AI and call it luxury.

Same as with most luxury items. 🤑

us.cnn.com/2026/02/27/s...

#Gucci #luxury #AI #glasses #branding

Repost this 👇. Other things can wait.🙏

6 hours and only 12 reposts? This video needs a million reposts. Now. 🙇‍♂️

ELOQUENT AND ICONIC‼️

Black text on light Yellow background showing a dictionary entry for the Sanskrit word कृष्ण (Krishna, on the left) with the following English meaning: m. black (the colour) or dark-blue (which is often confounded with black by the Hindus)

Just a dictionary (Monier-Williams) casually saying about 15% of the world's population is sort of color blind. 🤭

sanskritdictionary.com?iencoding=de...

#dictionary #definition #Sanskrit #Krishna #colors #black #blue