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Marketer in progress. Reader, I sometimes write too. Stoic. Amor Fati 🍃

[🏰₊˚⊹ ♀ @moidragonslayer]

every womans problem is my problem because the only diffrence between me and them is geographical location and happenstance

[tom 🎸 @uncreativetom]

I’ll do anything to see a canva free template poster again

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

You all are uploading your photos to ChatGPT for a silly trend? Are you all not aware how desperate these AI companies are for this data? Are you not aware that OpenAI and other such AI companies are selling their services to defence departments of countries who are waging wars? Are you not aware that your data will be used to train their models for facial recognition? Are you not aware that various governments, including the union and state governments in India, and its police departments are weaponising facial recognition to surveil citizens?

[amylon 🪿🌟🌷 @antimirrorball]

our ancestors would have brought out the guillotine by now and i don’t think that’s an over exaggeration. the people with enough money to rule the world do not care about us. we mustn’t care about them. revolutions have always started over the price of bread.

[Shakti Shetty @Shakti_Shetty]

As your parents grow older, one of the kindest things you can do is simply listen to them yap, without interrupting, correcting, or rushing them.

[Stan Willenbring @StanWillenbring]

As horrible as the Nepal disaster is, that's not the story.
The Himalayan glaciers, source of water for the Asian subcontinent, are collapsing.
Soon, some 2B people will be forced to migrate.
Wherever they show up, they'll be met with machine guns.
The coal mine canary is dead.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Stop saying stupid stuff like:

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

And start saying instead:

"A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."

You could be anything.

Quit being a simp for the surveillance state.

[✩ @wetfIowers]

the older i get the more i really dislike people who don’t stand for anything at all, like you don’t have to be an activist but like… nothing?? nothing gets you passionate or caring for others? 😭

[Maanvi @Maanvi2501]

The romanticisation of small towns, especially in the Hindi belt, by some journalists, actors, and podcasters, as a place of "sukoon" is amusing because it's an opinion almost exclusively held by men. Women didn't experience the slow life of chai ki tapri; just a lack of freedom.

[erin marie @erinsaysrelax]

I’m done trying to be polite or tiptoe around peoples feelings when it comes to generative AI. Your stuff looks like shit. Your logo looks like shit. Your flyer looks like shit. Your photo edits look like shit. It’s so obvious that it’s AI, and it all looks like garbage.

[Kaze @Evren_sszn]

“You’d block someone over politics?”

Sir, I’ll block someone for recommending a Colleen Hoover book to me.

[𝖓𝖆𝖟 ꒰ঌ ໒꒱ @nazzygirlxx]

what doesn’t kill you makes ur eyes well up on public transport

[Jitendra K Biswal @VoiceOfDisabled]

How effortlessly they've managed to provide a beautiful, well‑designed ramp for the President, though she could have easily managed without it.

But why the same Railways fail to provide even a basic ramp for wheelchair users like us, so we too can board and travel with dignity?

[Polling Plotting Shooting Poles @polplotting]

Kanwariyas are the best reminder that Hindus were never in danger, many Hindus just wanted a socially acceptable reason to be hooligans and the BJP provides them that through the culture they're building

[venus @caspiroletea]

amiga si usted quiere hacerle frente a los derechos de las mujeres TIENE QUE COMER. coma lo suficiente, haga ejercicio y mantenga el cuerpo fuerte, porque nos quieren débiles, pequeñitas, indefensas y diciendo que ser flaca es el outfit.
no copie de nada.

[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

95 years of hard-earned autonomy. Now under the scanner, this time the ISI

The Indian Statistical Institute (founded 1931 by P.C. Mahalanobis) is not just another campus. It is one of India’s rare institutions that was built on scientific independence, not bureaucratic control. The ISI Act of 1959 recognised it as an Institution of National Importance while preserving its society-based, faculty-driven character.

The new Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026 proposes to scrap that framework. It converts ISI into a statutory body corporate, replaces the representative Council with a government-appointed Board of Governors, and significantly curtails the role of the Academic Council. Faculty and the Institute’s own statutory bodies have publicly said this was done with zero meaningful consultation with them.

The government’s pitch is “modernisation” and alignment with IIT/IIM-style governance. Critics inside ISI argue the opposite: it concentrates power, reduces elected academic voice, and opens the door to external interference in academic decisions. They also note that the 4th Review Committee (Mashelkar) did not recommend repealing the 1959 Act or abolishing the Society structure.

This is not an abstract governance debate. Institutions that produce independent data, rigorous statistical research, and critical inquiry need structural insulation from short-term political or bureaucratic priorities. Once that insulation is thinned, it is hard to restore.
Academic freedom is not a slogan. It is the operating condition of any serious research institute. ISI faculty are right to raise the alarm.

Parliament should insist on genuine consultation with the Institute’s own bodies before rewriting a 95-year-old model that actually worked. Another Premier Institute being Saffronised and being brought under RSS Siege.

[Arpita Chatterjee @arpitachatter]

Sanskari uncles are the most dangerous people around

[b @bunmaskachaiii]

15 year olds are standing with folded hands in front of the camera while 60 year old rape convicts are running the parliament. waah re democracy 😍😍😍😍

[Punit Pania @Punit_Pania]

The collective hunting down of young women by so many goons from the ones on the street to the ones in news studios is so much more vulgar than anything that is considered abusive language.

[Polling Plotting Shooting Poles @polplotting]

There's people asking what this picture is! In any other country this would have been registered in the history books but the BJP's control over the average Indian brain is such that it didn't last in most people's memory for a single election cycle.