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Audiocast News in Bangladesh

For the first time, Trust News 24 presents an online news channel with radio. If you prefer listening to reading, then trust that News 24 is what you're looking for. You won't have to scroll down and read the whole article to know the daily news. There's a radio section on the top-right side of the menu bar. If you play Radio RS, you'll be able to hear every blog story as a live radio. This will help you to consume your precious time. You can listen to this live radio while driving or doing household chores. Here you can find categorized, authentic, and latest news.  We update our news with current affairs, and our reliable sources provide the latest updates both locally and globally.

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Robert and Shaima

Radio script So here we are another week and another script, below is a sketch that I wrote for a radio show competition. The characters are from my (hopefully soon to be aired) comedy show ‘Fish ‘n’ Chips. The prompt for the competition was ‘love’, and the sketch is focused on Robert and Shaima Khan’s wedding anniversary. FADE IN:          SCENE ONE. FX:       POTS AND PANS BEING WASHED IN…

[f1ghtsoftly]

All The Women’s News You Missed This Week

2/3/25-2/10/25

The world braces for the end of USAID funding, which will have particularly devastating consequences for women and LGBT people. Gov. Hochul, of New York, moves to protect doctors who prescribe abortion pills out of state. Rugby director fired in Fiji over homophobic comments about female players. Trump bans transgender women from female sports, NCAA changes policy in response. A Saudi graduate student is released after being jailed for tweets supporting Women’s Rights. In a horrific incident of male violence, prisoners in the Congo broke free from jail to commit mass atrocities against their female inmates.  

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Action Steps: 

PETITION: Decriminalise Abortion  (UK) 

CONTACT: Congressman Robert B. Aderholt (AL-04) introduced the Protect Funding for Women’s Health Care Act in the House of Representatives Wednesday.  

You can contact Robert here and share your thoughts, especially if you live in Alabama’s 4th District (northwest AL.) 

BOYCOTT:  We cannot cheer on Afghanistan’s cricket team when Afghan women are being silenced (UK) 

Reproductive Rights: 

WATCH: New York Gov. Hochul signs bill shielding doctors who prescribe abortion pills 

Rape crisis centers see funding delays amid Trump administration spending upheaval

Trump Reinforces the Hyde Amendment, Making Reproductive Rights More Precarious  

Lawmakers debate new constitutional amendment banning abortion in Missouri 

Women’s Rights: 

How USAID freeze could be the most catastrophic for women and girls 

Christian Nationalist Wesley Todd Doesn't Want Pregnant Women Serving In Office : "That's Stupid"

Taliban raids and suspends Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station

 Cuny graduate school rolls back pregnant students’ protections after Trump letter

NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About ‘Women in Leadership’ From Its Websites: Report

LGBTQ: 

Impact of Executive Order Pausing U.S. Foreign Aid on LGBTQI+ People

Trump signs order banning transgender women from female sports

NCAA changes transgender athletes policy after Trump ban

Uganda’s LGBTQ community faces anxiety and uncertainty after U.S. aid freeze

Fiji rugby director fired for women's team 'gay problem' remarks

Rejected elsewhere, these LGBTQ Jews find love and acceptance in the Connecticut woods

The transgender care fight targets more adults as Georgia and other states weigh laws

Argentina’s president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18

Women in the News: 

WATCH: Protesters torch ex-Bangladesh PM's home 

Doctor accused of criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine is convicted and given over 5 years in prison

I will not stop working, Anna Wintour tells King

 Rebuilding my home in Gaza as Trump wants me to leave

Seven women among Seanad Éireann nominees

Search of house for missing woman ends

Philippines feud escalates as lawmakers vote to impeach vice-president 

Male Violence: 

More than 100 women raped and burned alive in DR Congo jailbreak, UN says

Woman's deepfake betrayal by close friend: 'Every moment turned into porn'

Black women face high domestic violence rates, but stigma keeps many silent, support groups say

In Bangladesh, Islamists Are Stepping up Actions Against Women

New allegations Diddy sexually assaulted minor in nightclub

When is Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial and what is he charged with?

Sexual violence against children in Haiti rises by 1,000%, UN says

Man furious over dating app rejection breaks into Pennsylvania home steals woman’s pug and kills it in a rage 

Anglican Church in South Africa admits failures in handling of sexual abuse claims

Celebrity butt-lift injector who left women with sepsis exposed by BBC 

Mumsnet targeted with child sexual abuse images

'His hands were everywhere' - women accuse surviving Fayed brother of sexual assault 

Play-fight claim dad jailed for murdering daughter

Five sentenced to death in Nigeria over 'witchcraft' murder

Neil Gaiman's ex-wife denies trafficking allegations

Women Getting Justice??

MoJ apologises for prisoner early release letter

Senator opens inquiry into US Center for SafeSport’s hiring of investigator charged with sex crimes

Southport families 'try to find light in the dark'

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni lawyers spar during first court hearing 

S Africa church apologises over exposing children to risk from abuser

Historic book of town's witch trials to be displayed 

Arts and Culture: 

Why was Taylor Swift booed at the Super Bowl?

Memoir by former prime minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, to come out in November

Serena Williams crip walks at surprise Super Bowl appearance 

Movie Review: ‘Kinda Pregnant’ is kinda good

Christie Brinkley has a memoir out in April. Yes, it’s called ‘Uptown Girl’

‘Wicked’ star Cynthia Erivo is feted as Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

Anora star Mikey Madison: Oscar talk is 'overwhelming and amazing'

Apple Cider Vinegar: How Instagram wellness guru Belle Gibson faked cancer – and caused a scandal

'She thought of herself as the Queen of America': Why Mary Todd Lincoln became the US's most vilified First Lady

EMMY to represent Ireland at Eurovision

Women Fighting Back: 

Who is Luisa González? The leftist politician who is again vying for Ecuador’s presidency

 ‘Woman, life, freedom’: the Syrian feminists who forged a new world in a land of war

Don’t Want To “Bury My Child”: Mass Support For Mom Who Burst Into School To Threaten Bully

Meta veteran who spent 15 years at the firm is suing it over a ‘toxic pattern’ of silencing women: ‘I can show what happens when we want more masculine workplaces.’

Saudi authorities free doctoral student initially sentenced to 34 years for tweets, activists say

A mother pleads for Britain’s help in freeing son from Egyptian prison, one day of hunger at a time

Feminist Wins: 

South Africa mourns pioneering female nuclear scientist

Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed (UK) 

Feel Good Stories: 

WATCH: Stranded astronaut calls extended stay 'opportunity' to share space life 

'Music is the secret to reaching 105' 

Opinion: 

Why Even a Few Women At The Top Feels Like ‘Too Many'

Sorry, Lily Collins, but when people outsource childbirth, their motives really count

Why I Stopped Using They/Them Pronouns After 13 Years

As always, this is global and domestic news from a US perspective covering feminist issues and women in the news more generally. As of right now, I do not cover Women’s Sports. Published each Monday.

[harrisonarchive]

Press conference, July 27, 1971. Footage courtesy of AP.

“The war had been going on for a bit, and I had hardly even heard of it, so he fed me a lot of newspaper articles about it. He was saying, “I’m going to have to do something to help. Attract a bit of attention to it, raise a bit of money, much more than I could make doing my own concert, maybe like ten or twenty thousand dollars.’That for him was like doing a big one. And so I got involved. The priority was to attract world attention to what was going on. It wasn’t so much the money because you can feed somebody today and tomorrow they will still be hungry, but if they are getting massacred you’ve got to try and stop that first of all.I said, ‘Okay, I’ll go on the show and I’ll get some other people to come and help. We’ll try and make it into a big show, and maybe we can make a million dollars instead of a few thousand.’ So I got on the telephone trying to round people up. We pinpointed the days which were astrologically good, and we found Madison Square Garden was open on one of those days — 1st August.” - George Harrison, Raga Mala “George Harrison was a very powerful and influential man, and a good friend of Bangladesh. I was in the war, fighting on the front against the Pakistani Army. We had only a one-band radio and that was for getting information from the outside world. After liberation, we came to know that a concert for Bangladesh had been held in Madison Square Garden. That concert acted like a catalyst. The U.S. government did not support Bangladesh, but we got the people’s support, and that concert helped a lot.” - Mahbubul Alam, Los Angeles Post Examiner, December 5, 2013 “George Harrison brought the attention of the world to what was happening in Bangladesh during the independence war because of his concert on behalf of the country in New York in 1971. Without his effort, much of the suffering endured by the Bangladeshi people at the time would have gone unnoticed. Millions were killed, made into refugees or raped.” - Masood Sobhan, BBC, December 11, 2008 “We felt the magnitude of this act of private individuals reached so many people and moved the whole Bangladesh tragedy into the public consciousness before even the governments were willing to face up to it. The world was looking on in stunned horror, not doing anything about it, when Ravi and George drove it into their minds, particularly the young people’s. Why, they even inspired us to get… to work. You should have seen how what they did affected even the people at UNICEF." - Paul B. Edwards, New York Post, June 2, 1972, via UNICEF Archives (x)

[joyride-time]

How Old is Bang DuPree? Timeline Speculation

Bangladesh DuPree is a character we’ve got a decent amount of background info about. She is the daughter of a deposed and now dead pirate queen who was out on a solo trip when her group’s attempt to keep Zeetha captive and sell her as a slave went lethally wrong. Afterwards she signed up with Klaus as the right monster for the right job, and has been having a good time despite the Empire not giving her any more information on who destroyed her fortress. Klaus assigned her to spend some time with Gil in Paris, they became friendly, and the last bit of pre-canon info we have is that she is the one who destroyed Moloch’s squad.

One thing we don’t know is how old she is. I think that’s fine: the timeline has a lot of moving parts and nailing things down without thinking them through carefully can have awkward results. But I like to guess.

Zeetha has been wandering for three years at the start of canon. Tarvek took Tinka from the Circus three years precanon. Book 2 states that Bang has been working for Klaus for three years. This makes Klaus sending Bang to Paris with Gil one of the very first things he ever ordered her to do.

Secret Blueprints is supplemental material that isn’t necessarily accurate, but it states that Bang led the pirates for two years, and it’s the only statement we have about this.

This isn’t quite enough information to tell Bang’s age, but we do have some other information: her family! She actually has a named brother, Deathwish DuPree and an unnamed but onscreen father. Deathwish is her older brother, but he’s not visibly aged. And her father left her mother ten years ago (2.5 years after canon starts): the way that Bang is upset about it, it feels like she was a kid when that happened. And her mother seemed to still be in control of her country at the time, since he refers to the pressure of monarchy to explain why he left.

I’ll set the minimum age as 22 at the start of canon, since there’s in-universe speculation about whether Gil and DuPree banged or not and that’s Gil’s age in the books.

This makes her personal timeline at the youngest look like:

14 years old = Bang’s father abandons her and her mother.

1? years old: Deathwish leaves his family behind, possibly because of amnesia.

1? years old: The people of Bang’s island city rebel, deposing them. Her and her mother begin gathering resources to retake the throne.

17 years old: Bang’s mother dies. Bang becomes leader of her pirate crew.

19 years old: Bang returns from a solitary trip to find her fortress completely destroyed.

19 years old: Bang meets Gil in Paris and hangs out with him for an undisclosed amount of time

22 years old: Bang kills most of Moloch’s squad under the Baron’s flag. She also sees the time windows and informs Klaus of this. Canon happens.

23-25 years old: Mechanicsburg is timestopped. Bang sticks close to Gil through his early years of Baroning,

25 years old: Bang is informed that Zeetha is the one who destroyed her fortress. She quits working for Gil temporarily and leads Agatha’s expedition to Rat Island. She seems to have rejoined the Empire after Rat Island.

I always felt like Bang was a little older than Gil, but looking at when her father left, I think her being the same age works. It does make her a young pirate queen, but Europa seems to look at competence more than age when it comes to these things.

If anyone has any relevant info from the radio show they’d like to share, I am very curious to hear it!

[ghostaholics]

I had a dream about your enemies with benefits ghost x reader where the reader had a cryptic pregnancy. She kinda just doubled over in pain randomly and BOOM. Baby.

HE'S A LETHAL PERFECTIONIST TO THE CORE: rigid expectations impressed upon everyone; it's what makes him a first-rate soldier – grit factor and an appetite for excellence in everything he does.

(The thing is, Ghost doesn't make mistakes.

Of course, there's a first time for everything.)

It's chaos walking in Bangladesh, guerrilla warfare against an AQ cell weaseled away in Dhaka because the shiteheads have business with the organized crime bosses here. It's a city jam-packed with civilians, innocent lives. No open-fire allowed. A place like this means guerrilla warfare. Hit-and-run tactics. God knows he's not trying to start an international incident by blowing up half the bloody capital.

Cloak-and-dagger: they're picked off one-by-one. It takes a full day. A mess to be cleaned up, and he does it exceptionally well.

Ghost doesn't get any reports outside of the mission until he relays his total kill count.

"Good work," Laswell radios in. "We need you on the first flight to Oslo."

He lets out a slow exhale while jumping into the driver's seat of the vehicle he commandeered a couple blocks over. Time to make his way to the airport, then. They need his back-up. He knows what that means. But he's not going to think about the fact that the rest of the One-Four-One are there for a completely different ops and whether things have gone south if they're calling him in. He was supposed to be their fallback plan. "Everything solid?"

"It's Mav."

His grip around the steering wheel tightens. If he starts speeding through the streets, then he doesn't notice, too tuned in to the conversation at hand. "Fill me in."

"Landed herself in the hospital."

Again? Christ. It's the second visit in six months. He was there for the first one. Damn near had to stop the bloody doctors from calling out her time of death. Fuckin' tossers.

"What's the damage?"

"Well—"

"Alive?"

"Yes," she says quickly.

"Then quit beating around the bush. The hell's wrong with her?"

"All in one piece. Just get here when you can."

Right, so no helpful answers from the Station Chief. And Ghost tries to contact the others, but gets the same fucking silence. Not Price, not Gaz, not even Soap who always answers just to take every opportunity over the comms to blather about anything and everything in real time. He's not sure why he's being kept in the dark like this, but it's definitely putting him on edge.

The only other message he receives from Laswell: Oslo University Hospital. He'd combed the website for information in between stoplights. It'll do, he supposes. Their services don't seem subpar, which at any rate sounds far better than fucking Moscow; he still gets sick thinking about it.

So he checks in, gets his visitor badge. It's a whole ordeal that takes a lot longer than he likes. They tell him what floor, what room. That's the Gyneacology and Obstetrics Wing. He triple-checks, making sure nothing gets lots in translation; doesn't sound right to him, but he'll tear up the place later if they gave him the wrong directions. He memorized the hospital layout already; it'll take him approximately three minutes utilizing the right staircase, or seven minutes if he wants to take his sweet-fucking-time with the elevators.

"Our gift shop is around the corner," they tell him in a thick Norwegian accent before he makes his exit.

Odd.

She doesn't like flowers or cards or sentimental things anyways. Calls them impractical. Would rather hoard his jackets or other belongings of his that she finds useful, so the gift shop would be a waste.

When Ghost finally gets to where he needs to be, 2 minutes and 45 seconds later (skipped every other step just to shave off time), he finds everyone sans Mav waiting outside the room. It's not a happy reunion, despite Soap's grin. Everyone's intact, nobody's dead or anything that would excuse their silence during his trip from Bangladesh. Ghost is extremely unimpressed with their lack of communication and promises that he'll deal with their sorry arses later before shoving his way through the door.

—only to be met with the sight of her sitting up in bed, a tiny newborn bundled in her arms.

... whose fucking baby is that?

And when his eyes snap up to hers, she's glaring at him with a positively seething look that could kill.

[conductor-on-grn]

some more Ray propaganda for you fellas :]]]]

i made this collage for him recently!!! under the cut i go more into detail about it because i love thinking and thought processes.

@tf2occontest

some annotations:

1) that's his name! fun fact: i got the clip from the same image as quote 2 i think it is?

2) this is a quote from hit Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451.

3) when Ray got with their now partner, the title track of this album is something he sent anonymously to them. it reminds me a lot of their relationship and how it came to be. :]

4) if i remember right they've given people glow in the dark stars before.

5) i got this from a poetry book about London. it's sheet music for a choral piece! i can't remember exactly which off the top of my head, sorry.

6) i just thought this radio looked neat.

7) this is also a quote from hit Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451. i think this and quote 2 are both Montag but don't quote me on that.

8) this is the Stanley Parable Adventure Line™. i remember early into Ray's askblog life someone compared him to the Narrator. i'm fairly sure this is because the two are brits.

9) obligatory Electric Light Orchestra joke.

10) these three things are assorted London Underground memorabillia. Ray is a big fan. i am aware they're a stereotypical train-loving autistic.

11) this is an old saying/poem about London that's a recurring motif in 1984! (i bet you thought i was going to say Fahrenheit, weren't you?)

12) Ray was originally called Tungsten because i created him for a periodic table based media i made up in my head at 13. the only other remnant of that era is Ari, who also has a blog where you can pester them. i retconned this lore later so that "Tungsten" was a high school nickname instead of a chosen one.

13) i think here i wanted to make a statement about hope? and how they're optimistic about people? i'm not too sure myself don't quote me on this either.

14) this background is books. because he reads. i am fairly sure this is obvious considering everything else on the collage.

15) Ray is very in tune with British culture, and feels more connected to this than that of Argentina or Bangladesh like his parents. there's a little bit of a cultural disconnect there, which is something i sometimes struggle with myself, though to a lesser extent.

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that was a. wall of text my apologies. anyway i hope you learned a bit more about my guy today !!!

[buymobilebd]

The TCL Onetouch 4021

The TCL Onetouch 4021 is a budget-friendly feature phone available in Bangladesh. Here's a brief overview of its price and key features:

Price TCL Onetouch 4021 price in bangldesh : BDT 1,600

Regular Price: BDT 1,760

Discounted Price: BDT 1,599 (at some online stores)

Key Features Display: 1.77” QQVGA Display (128x160 pixels)

Camera: 0.08MP Digital Camera

Battery: 1030mAh Li-Ion Battery

Memory: 4MB RAM and 4MB Internal Storage (expandable up to 32GB via microSD)

Connectivity: Dual SIM, Bluetooth, FM Radio

Other Features: Torch Light, QVGA Video Playback

The TCL Onetouch 4021 is designed for simplicity and reliability, making it an ideal choice for those seeking a straightforward and dependable feature phone.

Would you like more details about this phone or any other models?

[lboogie1906]

Abdul Kareem “Duke” Fakir (December 26, 1935 – July 22, 2024) was a singer. He was a founding member of the Motown quartet the Four Tops (1953-2024).

He was born in Detroit. His father was a factory worker who came from what is now Bangladesh. He attended Pershing High School, where he played basketball, football, and ran track. He first met fellow band member Levi Stubbs through neighborhood football games. Attending a variety show featuring the Lucky Millinder band, the band announced a talented young singer who he recognized as the boy he played football with.

They invited Payton and Benson to join them at a party hosted by the Shahrazads. They decided Stubbs would take the lead and they would back him up. The group began rehearsing together. They gave themselves the name “The Four Aims”. At their first recording session with Chess Records, it was suggested that they change their name to avoid confusion. Their musical director Maurice King suggested the name the Four Tops.

They became one of the biggest recording groups of the 1960s, with 14 charted hits through the early 1980s. They are listed at #77 in Billboard magazine's “Top 100 Artists Of All Time”. He was a guest on the “Not My Job” segment of the NPR radio show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me broadcast. He was featured in an Associated Press Q&A article and video in which he discusses his memoir called I’ll Be There: My Life With The Four Tops, and musical based on his life and the story of The Four Tops.

He controlled the Four Tops intellectual properties and was responsible for assembling the touring version of the band that would carry on the group’s legacy. He continued to tour with the group until less than a month before his death.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and the Grammy Hall of Fame, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and was included in the Billboard magazine Top 100 Recording Artists of All Time.

He lived with his second wife. He had four children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild as of 2016. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 2.25

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Dominican Republic)

Big Bang Theory Day

Colt Revolver Day

Commedia dell’Arte Day

Coronado Day (Mexico)

Cuddle Day

Dag van de Revolutie (Day of Liberation and Innovation; Suriname)

Dance of the Secret Places

Day of Liberation and Innovation (Suriname)

Deinonychus Day

DNA Discovery Day

EDSA Revolution Day (Philippines)

Februaristaking (Netherlands)

George Harrison Day

Gray Day (Scotland)

High Five Day

Imam Ali Day (Iran)

International Cochlear Implant Day

Ireland Reads Day (Ireland)

Meher Baba Day

Memorial Day for the Victims of the Communist Dictatorships (Hungary)

National Banking Act Day

National Day (Kuwait)

National Don't Utter a Word Day

National Masturbation Day (Poland)

National Radio Day (Thailand)

National Reparations Awareness Day

Peace Memorial Holiday (Taiwan)

People Power Day (Anniversary of EDSA Revolution; Philippines)

Pistol Patent Day

Revolution Day (Suriname)

Russian Warship GFY Day

Quiet Day

Sister Wendy Day

Six-Shooter Day

16th Amendment Day (US)

Soviet Occupation Day (Georgia)

Time of the Old Woman begins (until March 4)

Tristan da Cunha (a.k.a. Queen’s Day, Saint Helena)

Women’s Day (Ukraine)

World Bookmark Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day

Let's All Eat Right Day

National Chocolate-Covered Nuts Day

National Clam Chowder Day

National Muffin Day

Tastykake Day

Nature Celebrations

Deinonychus Day

Italian Buckthorn Day (French Republic)

Musk Rose (Unpredictable Love; Korean Birth Flowers)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Choiseul Province Day (Solomon Islands)

Flag Day (Bangladesh)

Kuwait (from UK, 1961)

Pigeon Island (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Texas Independence Day Celebration, Day 1 (of 2; Texas)

4th & Last Tuesday in February

Digital Learning Day [4th Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tell the Truth Tuesday [4th Tuesday of Each Month]

Teriyaki Tuesday [Last Tuesday of Each Month]

Thai Tuesday [4th Tuesday of Each Month]

Transformation Tuesday [Last Tuesday of Each Month]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

World Spay Day [Last Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning February 25 (4th Week of February)

International Energy Week (thru 2.27)

Festivals On or Beginning February 25, 2025

Ayyám-i-Há (Baha’i) [thru 2.28]

Cerknica Carnival (Cerknica, Slovenia) [thru 3.5]

IFMA Fundamentals Seminar (Chicago, Illinois]

Iowa Hawkeye Farm Show (Cedar Falls, Iowa) [thru 2.27]

Maha Shivaratri (Hinduism US)

Weekly Holidays beginning February 25 (4th Week)

Peace Corp Week [thru 3.2]

Telecommuter Appreciation Week [thru 3.2]

Feast Days

Æthelberht of Kent (1st Christian Anglo-Saxon King) [current date]

Anthony Burgess (Writerism)

Bd Robert of Arbrissel (Christian; Saint)

Burke Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Calixto Caravario (Christian; Saint)

Caesarius of Nazianzen, Physician of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás (Positivist; Blessed)

Dance of the Secret Places (Shamanism)

Day of Mut (Mother Goddess; Ancient Egypt)

Elizabeth Fedde (Lutheran Church)

Ethelbert of Kent (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Fflur (Celtic Book of Days)

Feast of the Blessed Regina Marriam of Vattalil (India)

Feast of Montu (Egyptian Falcon-Headed War God; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Feast of the Stinky Butts

Festival of Ptah (Ancient Egypt)

Gerland of Agrigento (Christian; Saint)

Hare Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Hermie (Muppetism)

Jacques Philippe Caresme (Artology)

John Roberts, writer and missionary (Christian; Saint)

Kitano Baika-sai (Plum Blossom Festival; Kyoto, Japan; Shinto)

Louis Versiglia (Christian; Saint)

Maria Adeodata Pisani (Positivist; Blessed)

Media Hiems I (Pagan)

Octopus Enjoyment Day (Pastafarian)

Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Victornius and six companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Virgil (Positivist; Saint)

Walpurga (Christian; Saint; she was canonised on 5.1 c. 870 and Walpurgis Night is celebrated 4.30) [Crops]

Wendy Beckett (Christian; Sister) [Art]

Wenchang Wang Day (Chinese God of Literature)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 28 (Yi-Chou)

Day Pillar: Wood Ox

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Close Day (閉 Bi) [Inauspicious]

Holidays: None Known

Secular Saints Days

Sean Astin (Entertainment)

Jim Backus (Entertainment)

’Sister’ Wendy Beckett (Art)

Anthony Burgess (Literature)

Enrico Caruso (Music)

Mary Coyle Chase (Literature)

Giuseppe De Nittis (Art)

George Harrison (Music)

Neil Jordan (Entertainment)

Tea Leoni (Entertainment)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Art)

Ralph Stanley (Music)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [9 of 53]

Premieres

Baby Hold On, by Eddie Money (Song; 1978)

Belle Epoque (Film; 1994)

Be Up to Date (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1938)

Boat Builders (Mickey Mouse Disney Cartoon; 1938)

Bobby Bumps at the Dentist (Paramount-Bray Pictograph Cartoon; 1918)

Boom at the Top or Bullwinkle Loses His Head (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 259; 1964)

Boris Talks to Himself or Mockingbird Heel (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 260; 1964)

Born to Peck (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1952)

The Bourne Ultimatum, by Robert Ludlum (Novel; 1990)

Broom-Stick Bunny (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)

Camelot (TV Series; 2011)

The Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns (Musical Suite; 1922)

The Cat Above and the Mouse Below (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1964)

Col. Heeza Liar, Detective (Paramount-Bray Pictograph Cartoon; 1917)

Count Screwloose and J.R. the Wonder Dog (MGM Cartoon; 1939)

DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger (WB MM Cartoon; 2020)

Dedicated to the One I Love, by the Mamas and the Papas (Song; 1967)

Drive Angry (Film; 2011)

The Emerald Isle (Famous/Fleischer Screen Song Cartoon; 1949)

Gold Rush Daze (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

Hall Pass (Film; 2011)

Henry IV, Part 1, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1598)

Hudson River Tunnel (Highway Tunnel; 1908)

Hullaba-Lulu (Little Lulu Cartoon; 1944)

A Hunger Strike (Krazy Kat Cartoon; 1928)

In the Name of the Father (Film; 1993)

I Taw a Putty Tat (Blue Ribbon Hit Parade; 1955)

Jitterbug Follies (MGM Cartoon; 1939)

Ko-Ko the Barber (Fleischer Out of the Inkwell Cartoon; 1925)

Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter G (Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial Cartoon; 1916)

The Lady Eve (Film; 1941)

Little Earthquakes, by Tori Amos (Album; 1992)

The Lumberjack (Oswald the lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

Modern Times (Film; 1936)

The Mouse on 57th Street (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)

On the Beach, by Nevil Shute (Novel; 1957)

Ooooooohhh… On the TLC Tip, by TLC (Album; 1992)

The Passion of the Christ (Film; 2004)

Penny Lane, by The Beatles (Song; 1967)

Phoney Booths, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S3, Eps. 37 & 38; 1967)

Physical Graffiti , by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1975)

Please Please Me, by The Beatles (US Song; 1963)

Point Rationing of Foods (War Office of Information Cartoon; 1943)

Reindeer Games (Film; 2000)

Robin Rodenthood (Herman & Katnip Cartoon; 1955)

Rubber Duckie, sung by Ernie (Song; 1970)

Slap Shot (Film; 1977)

Soldiers' Pay, by William Faulkner (Novel; 1926)

Songs from the Big Chair, by Tears for Fears (Album; 1985)

Strawberry Fields, by The Beatles (Song; 1967)

Superman: Red Son (WB Animated Film; 2020)

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, by Carl Jung (Science Book; 1952)

The Tears of an Onion (Fleischer Color Classic Cartoon; 1938)

Ten Summoner’s Tales, by Sting (Album; 1993)

Terror Island (Animated TV Show; Jonny Quest #24; 1965)

That’ll Be the Day, recorded by Buddy Holly (Song; 1957)

Toby the Milkman (Toby the Pup RKO Cartoon; 1931)

Toys in the Attic, by Lillian Hellman (Play; 1960)

The Treasure Runt (Scrappy Cartoon; 1932)

U.S. Steel (Company incorporated; 1901)

Vikings: Valhalla (TV Series; 2022)

Wonder Boys (Film; 2000)

Wonderful Town, by Betty Comden, Adolph Green & Leonard Bernstein (Musical Play; 1953)

Wooden Shoes (Krazy Kat Cartoon; 1933)

Yes Minister (UK TV Series; 1980)

Your Show of Shows (TV Series; 1950)

Today’s Name Days

Walburga (Austria)

Berislav, Hrvoje, Nestorije (Croatia)

Liliana (Czech Republic)

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Tormi, Tuule, Tuuli, Tuulike (Estonia)

Tuija, Tuire, Vanessa (Finland)

Roméo (France)

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Mátyás (Hungary)

Cesario, Costanza, Vittorino (Italy)

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Margiris, Rasa, Regimantas, Viktoras (Lithuania)

Viktor, Viktoria (Norway)

Bolebor, Cezary, Konstancjusz, Maciej, Małgorzata, Modest, Nicefor (Poland)

Tarasie (Romania)

Frederik (Slovakia)

Donato, Valerio (Spain)

Sigvard, Sivert (Sweden)

Artema, Artemis, Welden, Weldon (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

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National Kathy Day

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Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 56 of 2025; 309 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 2 of Week 9 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 28 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]

Coptic: 18 Amshir 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Pine (Feb 19-28) [Day 7 of 10]

Hebrew: 27 Shevat 5785

Islamic: 26 Sha’ban 1446

Julian: 12 February 2025

Moon: 7%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 28 Homer (2nd Month) [Virgil)

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 67 of 90)

SUn Calendar: 26 Gray; Foursday [26 of 30]

Week: 4th Week of February

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 7 of 30)

Sidereal Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 13 of 30)

Schmidt Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 4 of 27)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 9 of 23)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 10 of 24)

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UKI - Episode 366

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3. The Souls - Bangladesh

4. @loovex.1 - No Sin, No Doubt

5. @ellyottmusic - Vibing

6. Max Ceddo - Everyone Falls In Love

7. von Krogh - Costs

8. Gill Guillermo Music - Mary

9. @iwamusic13 - A Notre Tour

10. Aaron Koenig - Crazy & Wild

11. @we.are.ptrns - Magnolia

12. Lisa Brunet - Une Fille D'été

13. Casey Frazier - Cold Road

14. Veiled Skies - Eventide (WTNSTD)

15. @kadence.music.writes - Trio

16. Blend 11 - Tomorrows Yesterday

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Al-Fatiha Foundation

Al-fatiha foundation was an international queer muslim focused organization based in USA. Al-faitha advanced the civil,political & legal rights of LGBTQ+ Muslims.It was founded in 1997 by a Pakistani-American muslim gay man Faisal Alam .

Type : Non-Profit

Founder : Faisal Alam

Purpose : Raising awareness on LGBTQ+ muslims,combatting muslim homophobia

Headquarter : USA

Chapters : Al-Fatiha had 15 chapters in USA,UK,Canada,South Africa.Al-Fatiha also had offices in UK,South Africa,Spain,Turkey.

Website : www.al-fatiha.org/

History of Al-Fatiha

Al-fatiha foundation was founded in November of 1997.Initially it started as an internet listserve.The org. had members from 25 countries, & by October 1998 had developed numerous in-person chapters. Al-fatiha foundation first opened its office in New York.Al-fatiha helped to established a largest queer muslim network.Al-fatiha was a member of Global Queer Muslim Network.

Al-fatiha members hosted international retreats & conferences annually for LGBTQQIA+ Muslims.

Al-fatiha's first International Retreat for LGBTQ Muslims was held in October of 1998.

Al-fatiha convened the 1st American LGBTQ+ conference “Creating a Community,” for LGBTQ+ Muslims,LGBTQ+ people from muslim backgrounds.

Al-Fatiha organized conferences which took place in Boston, New York and London in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and focused on issues such as the reconciliation of religion and sexual orientation.

In 2003, Al-faitha & Salaam Canada co-hosted the ''Salaam/Al-Fatiha International LGBTTIQQ Muslim Conference'' in Toronto.

The last conference of Al-fatiha was held in 2005 in Atlanta,GE.

International Queer Activism:

Through the first International Retreat for LGBTQ Muslims of Al-fatiha,the participants officially decided that the muslim community needed an international org. to address their concerns.

Since 1998, the Al-fatiha foundation has expanded significantly, with 15 chapters located in the United States, United Kingdom,South Africa and Canada.Furthermore, Al-faitha foundation opened its offices in UK,Canada,Spain, Turkey,Jerusalem,South Africa.The Al-fatiha-UK chapter is currently known as Imaan. Al-fatiha South Africa chapter is currently known as The Inner Circle/Al-Fitrah Foundation.

The Al-Fatiha Foundation has received extensive media coverage in the United States and around the world. Many LGBT newspapers and publications have written about its activities, featuring the organization and its members in The New York Blade, Southern Voice, The Advocate, Out Magazine and Diva Magazine, among others. Mainstream publications such as The New York Times and The Washington Post also have covered Al-Fatiha’s activities. Featured abroad in Bangladesh,India,South Africa & the Far East, Al-Fatiha has been on radio programs such as BBC and National Public Radio.Al-fatiha's extensive media coverage brought visibility on Queer Muslims globally.

Closure of Al-fatiha:

Al-fatiha foundation was highly criticized by other islamic conservatives & radicalists.In 2001, Al-Muhajiroun, an international organization seeking the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate, issued a fatwa declaring that all members of Al-fatiha foundation were murtadd (apostate).The organization Al-Muhajiroun also demanded death of Al-fatiha's members.

Due to constant death threats and fear of getting shunned by their muslim communities, many members of the Al-fatiha still prefer to be anonymous so as to protect their identity.While Al-Fatiha worked to combat homophobia within Muslim communities, it also felt it faced the challenge of seeking to avoid provoking an Islamophobic reaction among non-Muslims.

After the organization's founder, Faisal Alam, stepped down, subsequent leaders failed to sustain the organization.It began a process of legal dissolution in 2011.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Ada Akpala

Published: Oct 15, 2022

The term “political blackness” gained notoriety in the 1970s and came to refer to anyone in the UK who was likely to face prejudice because of their skin tone—that is, anyone who was not “white.” This ideological framework gave black Britons increased political and cultural power, as well as a platform to voice the many inequalities they faced in society.

By the 1990s, the term had lost its lustre, not only among other minority groups who felt it erased their specific identities, but also among blacks who felt that their socioeconomic plight was being diluted at best and hijacked at worst by the uniquely different challenges that other groups faced. Nevertheless, vestiges of the ideology persisted and continue to play a central role in the way that many black people view both themselves and others.

It goes without saying that today’s society, particularly in the Western world, is obsessed with racial identity. Despite seemingly good motives to end racism and advance equality, the current fixation on racial differences is stymying those efforts. With calls for colour-consciousness to be a social norm, it is virtually taboo to be thought of as being “colour blind” in many anti-racist circles.

Persisting in these race-politics games, in which essentialist traits are assigned to individuals based on their group identity, or where skin colour is elevated above other characteristics, actually fosters a culture in which racial animosity, tribalism, and intergroup conflict will be difficult to overcome.

What is racial identity in the context of blackness? What does it mean exactly? Who has the authority to decide its meaning? These questions seem odd, and they certainly are, but they persist because so many people, regardless of ethnicity, feel compelled to make observations about the “blackness” of others. Recently, Rupa Huq, whose parents immigrated from Bangladesh to the United Kingdom in 1962, deemed it acceptable to assert that ex-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was “superficially black” due to the prestigious schools he attended and the fact that “if you heard him on the radio, you wouldn’t know he was black.”

Her suspension as a Labour Party representative was reasonable and expected, but it does not answer all the questions that arise following incidents like this. Where does this audacity to comment on a person’s heritage originate? What characteristics define a genuine black person? Is it phenotypic features? Is it based on a person’s geographical origin? Or does it simply depend on whether or not they “sound black?” Has Kwasi Kwarteng’s blackness been diminished as a result of his attendance at affluent schools and use of a refined dialect? Would his use of slang and broken English pass the test of genuine blackness?

This type of myopic thinking emerges time and again, exposing the true bigotries of these so-called liberals. They love to point the finger at “the system” whenever they are questioned about the factors that impede the social advancement of certain communities. Yet they fail to recognise that their own lowered standards and de haut en bas approach are the real enemies of black progress.

The Huq-Kwarteng case is a prime example of how being black is not about one’s ethnicity, background, heritage, or even skin colour; rather, it is one’s adherence to political ideology, resonating with the Political Blackness movement of the 1970s.

“We had political unity in cultural diversity. And Black was the colour of our politics, not the colour of our skins.“ – Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Attacking people’s ethnicity rather than challenging their ideas is a sign of intellectual immaturity. Whether it’s being dubbed “a black face” or having your entire cultural identity questioned for not voting a certain way, it appears that being black implies only one way of being and thinking. I, too, have been told I’m “not black” and “excluded” from the black community because I didn’t agree with the standard talking points about the “black experience.” 

Kwasi Kwarteng is visibly black, but that doesn’t mean much these days. A black person who had a good upbringing and came from privilege appears to be an oxymoron. True blackness must mean a challenging existence and the ceaseless enduring of hardship. We should especially be grateful to those who have assumed the role as “guardians of blackness,” admitting or expelling people based solely on their own perception of whether or not they represent authentic blackness.

Ironically, those who have traditionally been regarded as the most ardent supporters of black people are also those who believe they have the absolute authority to police a black person’s identity. They are convinced in their delusory minds that they are the only ones who can provide the best policies, ideologies, and platforms for black people.

Reality has repeatedly exposed them as fraudsters who profit from the black community’s deep wounds and sensitive issues. Yet, we enable and reward such people and the platforms they represent. We make excuses for them, elect and re-elect them, in spite of the scores of reasons not to. These self-appointed protectors and conferrers of blackness, use the concept of blackness itself as a tool to rein in defiant individuals.

It’s interesting to see which accomplished black people the allies choose to endorse and which ones they choose to denigrate. According to Rupa Huq’s logic, Barack Obama, who also attended elite academies and internationally renowned universities, should not be black enough either.

No one, however, views his blackness as superficial; they may disagree with his ideas and criticise some of his policies, but he is still typically held up as a symbol of black excellence, and rightly so, given that he made history as a black man. The point is that the rules must remain consistent; otherwise, it reinforces the notion that blackness has more to do with adhering to particular sociopolitical ideologies than anything else, and we should stop pretending that this is not the case.

Many of these advocates for social justice seem unwilling to acknowledge that black people can and do have a wide range of life experiences. Imagine being labelled “superficial” for having attended prestigious schools. Hundreds of thousands of black parents around the world invest their entire savings to send their children to the best schools in the world. According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency’s 2020/2021 statistics, there are currently 21,305 Nigerian students pursuing degrees in the UK. It’s unfortunate that those who have invested in themselves and strived to pursue a meaningful career and create a comfortable life for their families are told they aren’t black enough or that they act white. Why are we still having this conversation in 2022?

Having a better life is not a transition from one racial group to another. There is more to being black than just struggle and suffering. If anything, young black people, especially young black boys, need more role models like Kwasi Kwarteng.

It’s important to note that many black people are being socially programmed to downplay their accomplishments in favour of their struggles. Many black entertainers and public figures exaggerate their hardships or conceal their privileged upbringings out of fear of alienating or repelling fans. There seems to be a fetishization of struggle, and until this collective mindset changes, blackness will remain synonymous with oppression.

Observe that those whose blackness is most frequently questioned are those who dare to go against the grain of mainstream thought and who have unfettered themselves from being beholden to political parties and institutions that falsely portray themselves as the saviours of black people. The attacks on them are unending – and have become normalised. Why else would Biden have felt so at ease claiming that people considering voting for Trump in the 2020 elections were not black?

This overdependence on certain parties, who have repeatedly pretended to be allies in order to pass laws and enforce policies, has only pushed black people to the back of the line, while everyone else gets to skip ahead. Their entire structure is energised by the trauma of black people, to the point where black advancement and upward mobility appear to be an affront to their hegemony.

As a result, black people must speak and act the same, aim for the same heights and sink to the same depths. Personal ambition must be surrendered to groupthink, or else one runs the risk of losing their blackness. As though blackness is something that is given and taken by political parties as a reward for good or bad behaviour, as a parent does with a child.

That we still need to have this conversation today is just as sad as it is an indictment on our society as a place that grapples with the meaning of blackness and has political overlords and institutions bent on defining, policing, and boxing in the multiplicity of experiences of a “racial” group. As much as we want to fight against people like Huq and their low standards for black people, we can also be honest with ourselves and understand that a black person can be whoever they want to be, believe whatever they want to believe, and associate with whoever they want to associate with. The same rights as any other human being. While criticising, disagreeing with, or challenging our views is acceptable, doing so on the basis of our skin colour is not. It is time to put an end to practises such as identitarian gatekeeping, hive mentality, and the downplaying of our privileges in order to satisfy the conditions of a narrative or fit into a particular cultural mould. The time to end it is now. We are free.

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Compendium of Free Black Thought: "Authenticity"

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