For 2 Hours, a Soccer Match Offers Palestinians a Rarity: Joy
The national soccer team made it to the knockout stages of the Arab Cup for the first time, uniting fans from Gaza to the West Bank to Cairo to Arab cities in Israel.
Dec. 12, 2025
In Gaza, nearly 50 men, teenagers and boys made their way through a stormy night and muddy, flooded streets to a makeshift cafe in a tent on the outskirts of Khan Younis, where a technician worked frantically to get the game’s livestream playing on a big TV powered by solar panels and batteries, and the cafe’s owner fed cardboard boxes and paper scraps into a fire to make hot drinks and heat the room.Ismail Nasser al-Din, 20, sat dripping wet, clutching a Palestinian flag. He said he had lost his brother, a cousin and a friend in the war. “I hope our team will win,” he said. “We need any reason to laugh, enjoy and get some relief.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/world/middleeast/palestine-soccer-saudi-arabia-arab-cup.html
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Students organized a protest action in front of the European Commission building in Sofia under the title “NO to funding the genocide in Gaza!”
The initiative is of young people from different universities and is connected to an international campaign against Israel's participation in European scienceBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Ski resort acknowledges reports of bear sightings, as predator tops kanji pick
Scientists say this year's surge in maulings is being driven by a fast-growing bear population, a bad acorn harvest and a falling human population.The Japan Times
Zig compiler is north of 1 million lines
$ wc -l (find src/ lib/std/ lib/compiler -name "*.zig" | grep -v "test.zig")
1,058,435
That's if you include the standard library. Without:
$ wc -l (find src/ lib/std/zig lib/compiler -name "*.zig" | grep -v "test.zig")
706,021
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event: How to watch John Cena's final match for free
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WWE Saturday Night's Main Event: How to watch John Cena's final match for free
Watch John Cena's final match on WWE Saturday Night's Main Event this weekend for free -- here's how.Uncrowned Staff (Engadget)
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San Francisco considering changes to Public Works code that requires tree planting
San Francisco city officials are hoping to give builders the option to pay a fee instead of planting the required trees.Luz Pena (ABC7 San Francisco)
Turns out Lurie's tree thing is a lot worse! It would remove the ability to appeal tree removals, too.
Without this, there would be hundreds fewer trees along 24th St right now. Here's me watering one with Mission Verde, a community group that cut a deal with the City to replace ficus being cut down. There was no budget for watering new trees, so volunteers agreed to handle the watering instead of just having no trees. An appeal made this happen.
sfgov.legistar.com/Legislation…
City and County of San Francisco - File #: 251211
Title: Ordinance amending the Public Works Code to allow development projects to satisfy street tree planting requirements through payment of an in lieu fee or providing alternative landscaping; exempt accessory dwelling units from street tree planti…sfgov.legistar.com
The House has voted on a bipartisan basis
to restore labor rights to
1 million federal workers
after Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year,
in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members.
In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon,
the House passed the "Protect America’s Workforce Act",
which would nullify Trump’s ordersin March and August to exempt workers at dozens of agencies from collective bargaining rights.
The bill passed with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting “yes.”
The bill simply nullifies the order
and says that collective bargaining agreements — known otherwise as union contracts — in effect before the order will be restored.
truthout.org/articles/house-pa…
House Passes Bill to Undo Trump Order to End Federal Workers’ Bargaining Rights
The bill passed with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats to vote “yes,” in a rare rebuke to Trump.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
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Hoya UT-073 Flowering - All For Gardening
Got a small cutting about 7 months ago and it's been growing like crazy.Gardener (All For Gardening)
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