Shubhankar

Engineering, Metalhead, Dreamer, Perpetual gum chewer, Chronic intel collector, HIGH on life, I bleed Caffeine. Also:

[Shubhankar @shubhankar]

a 2026 @ISRO-themed photo calendar
https://t.co/NaNfZyHNur

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

Jonny Kim departed NASA today, August 27, 2026. After nearly ten years with the agency, the astronaut, naval aviator, doctor, and former SEAL is heading back to active duty as a Lieutenant Commander.

This is the close of one chapter and the start of another, and his impressive record still does most of the talking. He enlisted out of high school in 2002, trained as a hospital corpsman, made it through BUD/S, and joined SEAL Team 3. Across more than 100 combat operations he worked as medic, sniper, navigator, and point man in some of the war’s hardest years, coming home with a Silver Star and a Bronze Star with Combat V.

Then he went to Harvard Medical School and practiced as an emergency physician. NASA selected him in 2017. In 2025 he launched on Soyuz MS-27 for a 245-day expedition on the International Space Station, circling Earth 3,920 times and covering nearly 104 million miles. He became the first Korean-American to serve aboard the station.

Agency leadership did not undersell the sendoff. Administrator Jared Isaacman called him someone who represents the very best of NASA, a person who kept stretching the edge of exploration while inspiring a great many others.

The chief of the Astronaut Office pointed to the humility, precision, and steady commitment he brought to every assignment. Officers detailed from the fleet to NASA and then sent back to their parent service is an established path. Kim is the latest to take it: from orbit back to Navy blue.

SEAL, doctor, astronaut, and now full time Navy again. Whatever follows is unlikely to be quiet.

Respect 🔱

[Shubhankar @shubhankar]

here, at Botswana, a newspaper costs BWP 15 = Rs. 105/-.

100 percent ad-free.

[Aaraynsh @aaraynsh]

Newspaper distribution economics in India surprise me.

₹5 newspaper is printed in one city and transported overnight to 20–30 districts, remote locations, small towns, and mountainous areas. It reaches the agency office late at night, where workers sort it by area and deliver it to homes early the next morning.

And all of this happens for ₹5 a day. Then the entire process repeats the next day.

For roughly the same distance, a quick commerce company charges ₹30–40 for a 2 km delivery.

[Rema Nagarajan @RemaNagarajan]

P H Kurian- the man who issued India's first compulsory licence in March 2012 to allow generic manufacture of a cancer drug
It brought down price from Rs 2.8 lakh to Rs 8,800 for a month’s treatment
A rare officer who put public interest before pharma profits and had a spine

[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

It’s not Kriti Sanon’s fault if your brother is pervert.

[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

Citizens want a complete ban on loud DJ music during festivals.
If you agree, be there at Good Luck Chowk at 11 am on Sunday, 30 August.
Let’s make our voices heard without deafening everyone else.

[Shubhankar @shubhankar]

actually, he does.
Assuming they need no introduction, good people often remain unintroduced.

[Mr BundelKhandi @BundelKhandee]

The TIGER of Bhaderwah.
Col Deep Singh Rathore - A name that needs no introduction. @NorthernComd_IA @Whiteknight_IA @ChinarcorpsIA @SongsOfChinar

[Shubhankar @shubhankar]

someone could misinterpret my unintended Tsundoku to be a result of lifetime of making poor choices.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[Trixi @TrixiHQ]

IIT Madras professor S. Lakshmi Bala walks a full quantum mechanics class through the two-level atom, and she does it for free.

Western physics departments charge over $2,000 per credit for a graduate course in quantum mechanics. This entire course has been free since the early 2000s, but someone is trying to hide it.

In this lecture she has already moved past abstract vector spaces into a real physical system, the same two-level atom model that shows up later in laser physics and quantum computing.

No login wall. No certificate fee to just watch. One professor, one blackboard, one camera that never stopped rolling for over 40 lectures.

Physics departments built million dollar tuition systems around gatekeeping exactly this material. IIT Madras just recorded it and gave it away through NPTEL, a program that now hosts over 3,200 free courses.

▪ $0 to watch, no account required
▪ Filmed lecture hall style since the early 2000s
▪ Same physics that underlies quantum computing today

🔖Just don't lose it and find a way to save the lecture, because other paid institutions don't want you to have access to it for free.

[Shubhankar @shubhankar]

found a word for the unintended result of my shelf

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

In Japanese, “tsundoku” means collecting books and letting them pile up - not for neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories.

📍Kinokuniya Book Store, Tokyo

[Shubhankar @shubhankar]

@wholetruthfood replied. Thanks.

[Shubhankar @shubhankar]

2 days elapsed since the DM. No response regarding the incorrect delivery. Shoddy @twitellectual .

[The Whole Truth Foods @wholetruthfood]

@shubhankar We're truly sorry for the experience you've had. Please reach us through DM so we can look into this on priority and assist further.

[Shubhankar @shubhankar]

1-upping the slide of the glass of drink from the head, will require some serious effort.

[Mr BundelKhandi @BundelKhandee]

This is what life in the Army is all about. I am impressed by the confidence of the officers from the Brig down to the Lieutenant - who are participating wholeheartedly without any hesitation alongside the soldiers.

It feels like a traditional “Bada Khana” of an Army unit - an occasion celebrated after a victory, whether in sports or professional achievements or on the unit’s Raising Day. Officers eat the same food and share the same camaraderie as the soldiers.

Hopefully, no one will label this as a “colonial tradition.”

[WinRAR @WinRAR_RARLAB]

Are you 40? If you are, it's time to finnally buy a WinRAR license! Thanks to @buraktuyan for creating this awesome video that no one asked for but that everyone needs! 🤣😎

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Two Thoughts from Viktor Frankl:

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4

[𝑺𝒉𝒖𝒃𝒉𝒂𝒎 𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒌 ࿗ @ShubhamPathakIN]

INS Teg firing a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. 🇮🇳

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

Many years ago, my grandmother (who taught me how to be curious about the world and how to tell stories) did a Skype call with my brother in the US and it blew her mind that this was happening in real time. She still thought it was some kind of “TV recording” that he sent by post.

Her sense of wonder at the incredible rate of technological progress with zero tendency to glorify the past (I mean, a woman forced out of school at 13 to marry is rarely going to look at the past with fond memories) instilled in me the optimism that the science, despite short term disappointments, corporate greed and corruption, will, on the long run, make our lives better.

A few weeks ago, this beautiful essay https://t.co/dTfncsp6sC and I wanted to make a video inspired by that and my grabdmkther. Your own recent ancestors will find your ordinary day to day life to be PURE MAGIC

[Dr. Syed Mohd Murtaza مرتضیٰ @syedmohdmurtaza]

This is the first WVR Chinese encounter of Rafale. They have experienced it at BVR along the LAC.

China's J-16 fighter jets & Egyptian Rafale jets took part in their first ever combat drill together. The Chinese military shared video showing Chinese pilots flying J-16s during practice fights with Rafale jets from Egypt's air force.

[AK @ashking009]

Wing Commander Abhinandan after returning home from enemy territory.

The MiG-21 Bison pilot credited by the IAF with shooting down a Pakistani F-16 during the 2019 aerial engagement.

The group named him F-16 Killer 🇮🇳🫡

🤟

[Shubhankar @shubhankar]

alcohol also common in professions where one works 100 hours week, where pizza travels 200 kms to reach you, where the visual out of your room's window is your workplace.

[Teressa @TeressaLyng]

@sushilskinner Why is alcohol so prevalent in army culture ? Why are they given discounted rations of alcohol in india?How & why is this important. Does this help them fight better? Won't they get addicted & physically become weak. Can anybody enlighten the source of this practise.