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Israel’s culture minister vows to defund ‘Israeli Oscars’ after film about Palestinian boy wins big | CNN Israel’s minister of culture has vowed to cut funding for the country’s film academy and its annual awards show after a movie about a Palestinian boy’s dream of seeing the ocean won big.

Nothing scares the Israeli government more than Jewish-Palestinian partnership.

In this case, it’s a movie by a Jewish-Israeli about a Palestinian boy from the West Bank trying to make it to Tel Aviv to see the sea for the first time: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...

Hi! I make indie horror comics.
If you like terrifying and rotten black & white horror comics you should check out my work

I sell my work in print here: erikapriceart.bigcartel.com

And I have a patreon where I post pages and process images from my new series, Worms www.patreon.com/erikapriceart

The "blue headed snake mushroom" (Mycena subcyanocephala), a tiny, pale blue mushroom found in the tropical regions of Taiwan. 🔵🍄

It is among the smallest known mushrooms in the world, with a cap height of approximately 1 mm.

#mushroom #nature #science

So cute! 🥰

Natural Rainbow Iris Agate 🌈

Iris Agate is a unique type of thinly sliced Agate that exhibits a rainbow effect when held up to the sun or a light.

Photo by Sugar Studio Crystals

#Minerals #Crystals #gems

Fluffy clouds birthday to you!

If you see anyone on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or X with my photos, please report the profile or let me know so I can report the profile.

It started in Cambodia. I actually moved out of Cambodia because of how creepy it was. However, I feel like the same thing is happening to me in Malaysia now.

It has come to my attention that there's someone pretending to be me on Facebook (I know of this through my ex-colleagues). I'm not sure how, but someone/something has been stealing my photos in order to create a smear/hate campaign against me.

Dear friends and stalkers, if you see anyone on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram or X with my photos, please do let me know. I'm NOT on any of those social media sites.

Fuck you, YouTube.

Popular free VPN caught spying on users Researchers find Chrome extension taking hidden screenshots.

A popular free VPN has been accused of spying on its userbase after security researchers observed it taking non-consenting screenshots of user browsing activity.

Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

From drunk signings to hidden nukes, 5 secrets about Singapore’s separation from Malaysia A new documentary, Separation: Declassified, revisits one of Southeast Asia’s most dramatic political divorces, with assassination plots to personal betrayals revealed in declassified documents and eyewitness accounts.

From drunk signings to hidden nukes, 5 secrets about Singapore’s separation from Malaysia - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/separation-declassified-documents-singapore-malaysia-agreement-signing-british-secrets-5312751

Memories of a golden age - Mekong Review In the face of funding cuts and growing oppression, Cambodian reporters cling on to hope through memories of a golden age of journalism

“What we witness today is a struggle to stay ‘hopelessly hopeful’,” Mech Dara says. “Even when there’s no reason to believe things will improve, we can’t help but cling to this diminishing hope.”

Former PM Hun Sen played golf today, noting that since the armed clashes with Thailand, he has been drinking coffee twice a day—once in the morning and once in the evening—with no sugar.

Just read that again: AI tech bosses are choosing not to have children because they don't think the world will be around much longer.
WHY are we inviting this monstrous tech into all levels of education? Why are we blithely going along with Big Tech as it tells us we cannot do without AI?
WHY?

"Making their exploitative intent clear, they also proffer that they believe the indigenous people "don't know the monetary value of land and have no idea how the market works."

Print in blue and white looking up to a large bird flying in tbe sky which is in a space between the canopy of a forest

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman #WomensArt

🐦An unusual way to fight garbage was invented in Sweden

Magpies pick up cigarette butts and wrappers, drop them into a special container, and in return get a tasty reward.

The cities stay clean, and the birds get a treat.

The many eyes of a pineapple 🍍

Sorry not SHE but IT

Cambodia’s digital surveillance is silencing government critics Private phone calls and social media posts are being used against individuals

For citizens, such intrusion provides a sinister reminder of the dark days of Pol Pot’s murderous regime.

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event | Science | The Guardian

Displaced and dispossessed, Cambodia’s ethnic Cham fishers struggle to survive PHNOM PENH — Mao Man, a 65-year-old ethnic Cham fisher in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh,  says he isn’t sure how many times he’s had to relocate in his life, but he thinks he’ll be evicted again b...

At first, they tried to resist. But guards came and destroyed their belongings with knives, and beat members of the community, Mao said, forcing them to float out onto the river in stormy weather.​​​

“This is not just the revival of a plant, it’s the resurrection of a cultural ecosystem,” said Meera Sharma, a Delhi-based environmentalist. “When nature heals, it revives everything it once nurtured – livelihoods, traditions, biodiversity."

Artist Svetlana Petrova, who decided to add her big ginger cat to some iconic paintings to create some fun artworks #WomensArt