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i cook, i write, i draw, i paint, i drink, and i do not know things

[amuse douche @AintanySpit]

#artjournal

I have officially fallen down the rabbit hole

[The Analyzer (News Updates🗞️) @Indian_Analyzer]

India’s Law Minister Shri M. Veerappa Moily:

🗣️ “As far as EVMs are concerned, this issue has been examined a number of times… [the committee] gave a finding that it is TAMPER-PROOF.”

Wait. 💀

This was a CONGRESS-era Law Minister in 2010😂

The same party Rahul Gandhi represents.

> In 2010, EVMs were fine. 2014 elections happened under their government.

Now they lose elections, and suddenly EVMs are the problem. 🤡

The country has seen what 12 years can do.

Rahul Gandhi wants a CLEAN PAST.

But India remembers. 🔥

[Zeba Zoariah @ZZoariah]

France took barely 10 days to show us how a youth movement can stop being about the issue that created it. India should look very carefully at CJP before romanticising the same political technology here.

The French protests began with an almost impossible to oppose proposition: students wanted more teachers, better buildings, smaller classes and a functioning education system. Then came the acceleration. Around 60 affected schools became 180; by October 1, more than 1,000 high schools,roughly one in four were involved. Nearly 2,000 people were arrested in a single day. Schools were burned, transport disrupted and people who did not even attend the schools began appearing at confrontations.

Then something politically more interesting happened.

France’s government said organised hard left networks were helping drive the agitation. LFI denies orchestrating the violence, and Le Monde’s reporting is important here: the intelligence evidence does not establish that one party manufactured the entire movement. What it does suggest is something subtler organised actors recognised an angry, fragmented movement and attempted to ride it, amplify it and give it a larger political direction.

That is the part India should study.

Now let’s rewind CJP.

Its easiest point of entry was also its strongest one of NEET, paper leaks, recruitment and students angry about examinations. Almost nobody will defend a leaking exam paper.

But watch how quickly the object of protest has expanded.

Examination administration became government accountability. Government accountability became the Election Commission. Now CJP is demanding the CEC’s resignation, campaigning around electoral roll revisions, talking about a 3 month agitation and announcing another Delhi mobilisation on October 10. Meanwhile the wider protests around the same issue already include AAP, Left student groups and established opposition politicians.

This is why I don’t buy the cute “Gen Z has finally entered politics” packaging.

The important political trick is not creating anger. The anger already exists.

It is taking one issue with very high public legitimacy, using it to assemble a politically heterogeneous audience, and then progressively enlarging what that audience is being asked to distrust.

First: this exam is compromised.

Then: this ministry cannot be trusted.

Later: this constitutional institution cannot be trusted.

Eventually the system itself has no legitimacy.

France is already discovering what happens when the original cause becomes almost incidental to the machinery built around it. Its own education minister now says the movement has “changed in nature”; even sympathetic teachers’ representatives have warned that parts of it have spiralled beyond the students’ original demands.

CJP supporters will say that “But questioning institutions is democracy.”

Of course it is.

Which is precisely why the distinction matters.

Democracy requires us to question specific institutional failures with evidence. Protest politics becomes something very different when every successive controversy is fitted into one pre existing conclusion, nothing works, nobody is legitimate, therefore permanent mobilisation is the answer.

And here is the uncomfortable lesson from France

A genuine issue and political exploitation of that issue can exist at the same time.

You do not need to invent young people’s anger in order to weaponise it.

Sometimes you only need to arrive before anyone else does, give it a vocabulary, give it an enemy and keep expanding the enemy.

That is why I am watching CJP. Not because the cockroach is revolutionary. Because the issue conversion machine behind modern protest politics is becoming remarkably familiar.

[himanshu. @hihehimanshu]

hyrox is just takeshi's castle for people going through midlife crisis

[metaphysical lamb @meta_lamb]

if “chances are slim” and “fat chance” both mean the odds are stacked against you, what is the ideal BMI of fate

[Rahul @indicrealist]

So, @IndianExpress / @DaminiNath / @RitikaChopra__ are backtracking after realising that they messed up with their hack job and essentially shot themselves in the foot.

Here's what they're not telling you :

~ On July 28, 2026, an order removed Deputy Election Commissioner Sanjay Kumar from supervising the Director General (IT) and the IT/Grievances (PGRS) division.

~ On July 29, 2026, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi each wrote separately to Cabinet Secretary, against the removal.

~ On July 30, 2026, Sandhu and Joshi jointly set aside July 28 order, stating it was made "without any reason and justification". They directed that the previous work allocation continue until the Commission reached consensus on any change.

~ So, the two Election Commissioners acted together to revoke an administrative order, using the majority provision 2-0.

~ This shows that the Election Commission of India remains a functional, independent body in which two Election Commissioners can override an administrative change.

~ The fact that the Cabinet Secretary neither intervened nor responded to the letters suggests that the government did not interfere in the ECI’s internal affairs.

~ It also shows that the two Election Commissioners had the means to act against any unilateral move by CEC Gyanesh Kumar all along, if any.

~ So, the fact is that the two Election Commissioners never tried to implement their opinions on any other matters, by acting together.

~ This suggests the reality that most of the decisions were taken with full cognizance and consensus, despite any difference of opinion before or after that.

~ Also, the changes in Form 6 actually helps the new voters for a hassle-free enumeration, and not impede it.

~ The Election Commissioners' dissent wasn't directed at the intention behind including additional questionnaire. Their objection was that the necessary legislative due diligence had not been followed while updating the questionnaire.

It is time for @IndianExpress to apologise for the hack job carried out under its brand and to counsel the journos involved to stop reliving the old Emergency-era glory days and chasing clout.

🤡

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

India already makes the phone.
Now, we’re going deeper - manufacturing what goes inside it📱
#12YearsOfMakeInIndia

Here’s what that means.🧵👇

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

🚨 BIG BREAKING: Drought Declared in 75% of Maharashtra. CM Devendra Fadnavis has officially declared drought across 265 out of 358 talukas in Maharashtra.

[Forum For IT Employees - FITE @FITEMaharashtra]

#Baner - #Balewadi IT park infra needs a big upgrade to reach a basic stage of infra .
Look at #KalamkarChauk surrounded by 10k IT employees but it has no signals , no footpaths , no pedestrian crossing , no road due to land acquisition issue .
@CMOMaharashtra like Hinjawadi we need #taskforce for Baner Balewadi lead by Hon @navalMH sir .

[Alpha Mike @ruskievityazi]

I reside merely 50m from this chowk, have seen first hand the crowds constantly increasing since last 2-3 years - thanks to Malpani building. during peak hours walking is impossible here - entire stretch of Pan Card Club Road has worsened gradually..

[PIB India @PIB_India]

🌀Scientists have stumbled upon a crystalline semiconductor that converts a temperature difference into an electrical voltage nearly a thousand times larger than textbook physics allows

🌀The thermoelectric voltage generated is so large that it rivals values normally seen only in liquid electrolytes and ionic gels, not in solid, particularly single-crystalline materials

🌀The discovery overturns a decades-old assumption about the ceiling on this effect in solids and opens a path to a new generation of ultrasensitive temperature sensors, heat detectors, and quantum sensing devices

Click here for detailed information: https://t.co/FcsQeai9nU

@IndiaDST

[Astropics @astro4pics]

These two points of light are not stars. They are Earth and the Moon, photographed from Saturn by the Cassini spacecraft on 19 July 2013. The brighter dot is our home planet and the fainter companion beside it is the Moon, seen from more than a billion kilometres away.

From that distance the entire world we know appears as little more than a pair of tiny specks against the blackness of space, a quiet reminder of how small our home looks from the outer solar system.

[McDonald's @McDonalds]

for anyone on their last straw

[signüll @signulll]

i never knew there was an actual term for this:

epistemic loneliness is a cognitive form of isolation that happens when you cannot share complex ideas, inner thoughts, or meaningful perspectives because you lack a willing, able, or understanding conversational partner.

[癒しの動物 @animalkyat]

蝶々の集会に遭遇した。楽しそうだった

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

We have been manufacturing in Bharat for 7 years. We are profitable and growing every year, yet almost every issue discussed here is something we have experienced firsthand.

Land and rent make expansion expensive.

Capital makes machines far more expensive than their sticker price.

Poor infrastructure can set a factory back overnight.

Critical machine parts still need to be imported.

And finding skilled talent remains a constant challenge.

I remain firmly bullish on manufacturing in Bharat.

But optimism should not mean ignoring structural problems.

Until issues around land, capital, infrastructure, deep-tier localisation and skills are fixed, Indian manufacturing will continue to grow slower than its actual potential.

Factory owners can only hold the fort up to a certain point.

Beyond that, it is the government's responsibility to create an environment where manufacturers can build, expand and compound.

This is one of the most accurate write-ups I have come across on the ground realities of Indian manufacturing.

A must-read for anyone serious about Bharat becoming a manufacturing powerhouse.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

I did not expect it to be THIS fun watching robot olympics 😂

[Anushka @Kulfei]

kasa tari hotey has no translations to any other language

[kiesha @kiesha9i]

My cats have this meow that means "please come with me to fix this" after which they'll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or 'empty') food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem', they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.' I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. "Please fix this" they say. "Please get rid of the wet"

"Silly kitty," I say, "I can't control the rain." I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.