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3 Feb 2026 2 minute read 9 comments Melina Mehr
A video has surfaced — released after two days — showing security forces unleashing widespread, direct gunfire on protesters in Tabriz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vHZTdRGvzg Unarmed protesters standing defiant against armed security agents...
2 Feb 2026 4 minute read 6 comments Investigator515
As we’ve explored the different pieces of technology that have influenced our world, you might have noticed a bit of a pattern. There are plenty of “work” focused bits of technology that made the cut, while leisure equipment plays a lesser role. This...
2 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Trent in leather coat which is probably quite hot in the Sahara Like Ice-T, Trent Reznor has always displayed a preternatural gift for networking. Before he’s even formed the eventual band that made him famous, for example, his previous outfit, of...
2 Feb 2026 4 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr
Day five of the blackout and all I have left is writing. Today marks the second full day that our internet has been completely severed. Yesterday I went to a friend’s house and — according to satellite channels — NetBlocks confirmed that nationwide...
1 Feb 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
My heart couldn’t bear it. I sent several messages—and then I learned the words that stopped my breath: “My sister had been shot” That night, when I finally reached home, my calls to my sister met only the same cold, mechanical voice: “The subs...
31 Jan 2026 1 minute read 2 comments lowededwookie
Today was a trip that I’d wanted to make for a long time but I’ve never really had a chance to do so. Now I’ve got my own ride I can explore when and where I like… after work. Today’s trip was Lucy’s Gully. I’ve never been up this road but I’m quite...
30 Jan 2026 3 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
I can't believe it! We haven't had internet for three long days now! I'm going crazy. We can't even text each other. Phones, laptops, electronic devices seem so useless at this point... Damn it!... Let me at least share the rest of my story here... t...
29 Jan 2026 3 minute read 20 comments Melina Mehr
Today marks the second day of the total nationwide internet blackout in Iran, and everything has basically come to a standstill—life itself feels frozen. Shops are shuttered, the city has sunk into an eerie silence, and here I am, deciding to wri...
27 Jan 2026 2 minute read 8 comments Melina Mehr
Right now, as I type these lines, we have no internet. Not even SMS reaches each other. Our only bridge to the outside world — and to one another — is landline calls between people still inside the country, checking who is still breathing. Let th...
27 Jan 2026 2 minute read 2 comments rah
If recent years have shown us anything it is that underneath the veneer of becoming more civilised much of humanity is still barbarian at heart. Man's inhumanity to man is a continuous blot on our species and the Holocaust more than anything is a tes...
