Pisha

english major, scuba diver, retired @RocketLeague player, socialist. lover of immersive narratives and em dashes. on Bluesky as actuallypisha. 🇵🇸

[Pisha @actuallypisha]

it's so disturbing how accustomed to this we've become in the last 12 years. imagine: a PM that refuses to talk to the press. would be a joke, just a few decades ago

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

Primeminister of India, Narendra Modi, would not take my question, I was not expecting him to.

Norway has the number one spot on the World Press Freedom Index, India is at 157th, competing with Palestine, Emirates & Cuba.

It is our job to question the powers we cooperate with.

[Pisha @actuallypisha]

this is so fascinating. 'fortress conservation' in India has almost certainly been weaponised against Adivasi populations, I'm sure. I grew up on Attenborough's documentaries, but it's true that they aren't politically truthful. not many images of human-animal symbiosis at all

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

In the Hindu, a critique of David Attenborough’s legacy: he "chose aesthetics over the politics of harm".

[Pisha @actuallypisha]

@ContraPoints "losing debates to bad faith people is an integral part of my artistic process" never change Natalie, never ever

[luis 🛸 @nauticalthemed]

new phoebe bridgers confirmed we’re so back

[Double_A_Neu @AA_Neu]

@RepMGP https://t.co/4wgV1qf2rL

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Wow. Everyone should read this 1983 article by Roald Dahl. Every word of it. It's literally the same fucking shit as now, with the same kind of impunity, only now it's even much worse. He called it. He fucking called it and they just ignored him and called him an antisemite.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

a nuclear scientist just got killed in an airstrike in Iran and honestly i need to talk about this because western media won't & i think most people don't understand what they're looking at

as i've been explaining for weeks now in multiple threads, Israel through Mossad has been assassinating Iranian scientists for over a decade and i genuinely think the Fakhrizadeh case is one of the most terrifying operations in modern intelligence history

this man was killed in 2020 by a remote controlled ai-powered machine gun smuggled into Iran in pieces over several months, the whole thing weighed a ton, it was mounted on a pickup truck on the side of the road and operated via satellite from a Mossad command center 1 600 km away, 15 bullets fired in under 60 seconds, the AI compensated for the satellite delay the recoil and the speed of the car in real time, that's how far they're willing to go to eliminate Iranian brainpower one by one

but here's what i find fascinating, the assassinations didn't break the ecosystem because it runs too deep, so they escalated, US just bombed Iran's university of science and technology, one of the oldest and most prestigious in the country and if you've been following me you already know why this matters

these are the same institutions that took Iran from 58th to 4th in the world in nanotechnology in 20y that produce the engineers who designed the Arvand rocket engine and the maneuverable reentry vehicles, that trained the physicists behind the MRBM to IRBM leap to 4 000 km on Diego Garcia, i've been writing about this scientific ecosystem for years and everything happening right now is the logical continuation of what i already laid out

and i think that's the part nobody wants to say out loud, this war was never about nukes or regime change, i believe it's about dismantling the only sovereign state in the Middle East and i mean the ONLY ONE

look at every other country in the region, Saudi Arabia outsources its entire defense to the Pentagon & couldn't fight a war in Yemen for 8y without American logistics and still lost, the UAE bought F-35s in exchange for normalizing with Israel, Qatar hosts the largest US air base in the region at Al Udeid, Bahrain hosts the US Fifth fleet, Kuwait, Iraq Jordan are military protectorates in everything but name none of these countries design manufacture or deploy their own weapons systems, none of them have an indigenous defense industry, their sovereignty ends where the next Lockheed Martin contract begins, if Washington calls tomorrow and says stop they stop because they literally cannot function without american hardware

Iran is the ONLY country in that entire region that built everything from scratch under 40y of total embargo because NOBODY would sell them anything and that's exactly why they're the target

they know the only way to stop this machine is to kill the people who build it…and when killing them one by one wasn't enough to crack an ecosystem too deep to break, they started bombing the universities directly and i'll say this as clearly as i can

you don't bomb a university when you're winning a war, you bomb a university when you've realized the real threat was never the arsenal it was the intelligence behind it and you have no idea how to stop it

[Pisha @actuallypisha]

@IvyyFPS just watched this, very well made! shame that ilya let every globule die, but oh well. I've subbed for more gekko one-trick content :p

PS: if you have decent ping to Mumbai/Singapore, we should totally play sometime! (if we can, that is. I'm Diamond 3.) trans rights 🪄

[Pisha @actuallypisha]

@meterw145 @AG_VALORANT they shone for sure man! they played insanely well, I've become an AG fan :)

[Pisha @actuallypisha]

@vct_emea diesalot
PRX
Jett!

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is one of the most extraordinary and illuminating passages in all journalism.

CNN frames Maduro as a paranoid liar for claiming the CIA is trying to overthrow him.

Yet in the very next sentence, it casually notes that the CIA did, in fact, overthrow him.

The level of cognitive dissonance and imperial brain rot you must have to write this, and then have it read by an editor and published, is truly breathtaking.

[Pisha @actuallypisha]

@invyzz it's crazy to read this now haha. foreshadowing?

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices.

[Nihal @nihilismpro]

2019 DJ Snake concert was a Cannon event for Bangaloreans.. i was so young and stupid then, thought I'd wear brand new white colour shoes for the concert but I didn't know I'd signed up for a marathon instead.. i
walked from 10pm to till around 1am.

The concert was supposed to end at 10:00pm, but DJ snake only started playing around 9:35pm. That was also interrupted bcs some idiot decided to climb the Speaker/sound system tower and cops had to bring him down. My friends and I hadn't booked a return cab back, and just thought we'll book one after the concert 🤣🤣 So Stupid! Bro there was no water at the concert, no signal, no light on the road. I heard dj snake cut on the back of one boy's ktm 😭 i think the main road was about 7 -13kms away if i remember correctly. So in a completely unlit forest-esq road at 10pm. Thousands and thousands of drunk people just walked aimlessly to find the main road/ signal on their phone to book smn. It was truly smn else. We finally got a cab around 1am paid 2k.

[emily @emashmorex]

Move over baby shoes never worn

[Mary @maryturfah]

Since the start of humanity’s first live-streamed genocide, I’ve heard people ask how the footage coming out of Gaza hasn’t yet stopped the world.

I wrote about western journalism’s self-regard and the limits of the war photograph, for @LAReviewofBooks

https://t.co/20oc6P1ibR

[Pisha @actuallypisha]

@toastoevsky agreed on all accounts. as a longtime chess fan, it's been quite sad to see who Vidit's become. he built his entire brand around being an extremely sweet guy with a gentle sense of humour. seeing him lamely tweet 'stay in your lane' is so off that I'd blame it on Twitter culture.

[Paper Rex @pprxteam]

CHOO FKING CHOO #VALORANTMasters

[Paper Rex @pprxteam]

its time

#VALORANTMasters