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here for the vaccination bot

[A🌼 @BhatNush]

Bangalore, the best concrete jungle: a thread

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

I’m incredibly intrigued by the rise of #CockroachJantaParty, which has already reached more than 15 million followers on @Instagram in just five days.

I understand the frustrations of the youth and see why they are resonating with it. This is precisely why the account being withheld on X is disastrous and deeply unwise - there should be an outlet for the youth to express their feelings and so, let CJP’s account function instead of shutting it down! Democracies need outlets for dissent, humour, satire and even frustration.

I am uncertain about the future of this movement but I hope the youngsters behind it find a way to bring this energy into mainstream politics or perhaps express it through their vote to be a voice of change and in doing so, become impossible to ignore. This is an opportunity that the Opposition must seize.
https://t.co/294SHkmpK2

[Nayini Anurag Reddy @NAR_Handle]

Finally. Someone said it. Kudos @KanimozhiDMK 👏

She stood up & asked the uncomfortable, necessary questions in Parliament:

• What PM/HM say ≠ what’s actually written in the Bill
• If you keep talking about 50%, why isn’t it in the law? Words mean nothing without backing
• Govt now gets to pick & choose the census, on what basis?
• The 2001 constitutional freeze is removed and replaced with nothing
• Who controls the Delimitation Commission? Who appoints them? Why is it beyond judicial review?
• Is this effectively punishing Southern states for controlling population?
• And what’s the point of debate after the Bill is already notified?

Super glad that someone finally represented the South with clarity & spine! 👏

[A🌼 @BhatNush]

@rajvishah30 But how good is it😭

[Haru ⁷🪭IS SEEING BTS⊙⊝⊜ᥫ᭡.ִֶָ𓂃 @flairymin]

I can’t believe this…why why would ppl just…

#Coldplayindia
#coldplayconcert

[Vishaal S @VishalSanjay8]

@ajay43 As someone who has seen Bangalore in the 90s, I can vouch for this. Bad roads aside, this city was amazing even before the IT revolution.

[Chetan Bhagat @chetan_bhagat]

You slave away to clear medical entrance exams, hope they aren’t leaked, beat 99% others, slave in medical college, become doctor, slave in hospital, get paid low wages, work 36 hour shifts, don’t get a place to sleep and worst case you get killed.

Beta doctor banoge?

[MrsG @Marvellous_MrsG]

The last line she said sums up the whole scenario of last ten years 🔥

[Anuj Gurwara @AnujGurwara]

RANT - after watching this distressing video and the ones of that illegal structure falling on people.

Read at your own risk.

India has - more than ever before - become a nation where only those with access to wealth and power are able to lead comfortable lives within the bubbles they construct for themselves.

Everyone else is a statistic and a temporary headline in the event of a tragedy.

Every common person is only racing from birth to death, navigating through one obstacle after another.

For most people, death can literally happen any time - bad roads, flooding, unsafe electrical poles, fights in the neighbourhood, road rage, animals loose in the streets, contaminated foods, botched medical practices, unauthorised structures falling on their heads, broken infrastructure crashing down during or after construction - or just mobs baying for your blood because you are different.

Regulations are a joke. There is no value for human life. The infrastructure and ecosystem is not designed for those without privilege.

Worse still, the overburdened justice system is not reliable.

The era of leaders is over. Politicians have taken over from the mafia. Most who get into politics don’t do so to serve the masses. They do so to get away from them and elevate themselves above the commoners.

Politics is the most profitable taxpayer funded, tax-free business there is.

Movie stars live in ivory towers right in the middle of a garbage dump. Some of them make more money than most Hollywood actors but live less than 1/10th of their lifestyles when in India.

Surrounded by security, assistants and servants - politicians, celebrities and the 1% secure their own bubbles by hook or crook, evade taxes, exploit every legal & financial loophole and avoid accountability.

Yet, we worship them and place them on a pedestal because we want access to the power they hold.

Because we want to be able to know someone when we are in a police station, a hospital or in court. We want to use a reference to get admission, get a job or just get pension.

The collective self esteem of a billion people is at an all time low and being lowered still to suit the political ambition of a few hundred people desperately holding on to power.

The rich won’t protest societal injustice because they can escape into their bubbles whenever needed and pay their way into convenience.

The middle class doesn’t have the time to protest because they’ve been pushed into being on survival mode all day every day. Time lost is money lost.

The poor can’t protest beyond a point because hunger is real and the above two classes won’t allow them to.

Our children are growing up in an environment of corrupted education and contaminated nutrition. Their physical and intellectual growth is stunted when compared to developed countries.

India’s children swing between malnourishment and obesity. An entire generation ahead will feel the effects of of this sheer neglect of childhood.

We don’t care about our young and our elderly. Women are not safe anywhere. Our teenagers are hooked up to dopamine all day - youth in cities, towns and villages are addicted to porn, violent games and on the hunt for get-rich-quick schemes. I blame the system that doesn’t empower them otherwise.

We are squeezed dry to pay direct and indirect taxes, endlessly waiting for our lives to upgrade a little bit.

Buying a vehicle or a home now is literally a process of extracting blood money. Most of India is one medical bill away from poverty.

We haven’t lost count of human tragedies and disasters. We will queue up in the thousands on bridges and hillsides to offer our prayers to the Gods who look on silently at the destruction our own fellow humans have caused in their name.

This post will be forgotten in a few hours too. You and I will both get busy because life goes on and we must move forward with it.

Let’s get back to election gossip, IPL and Orry. Let’s forget about all this. For just one more day.

End.

[UPSC PCS 360 @UPSCPCS360]

@IndianTechGuide Ministry of Education issues guidelines for coaching centres; prohibits intake of students below 16 years

[A🌼 @BhatNush]

@BlrCityPolice Sent, thankyou.

[A🌼 @BhatNush]

Hoping this helps in creating a safer world for us out there :)

It's crucial that such behavior is addressed promptly to ensure the safety and security of all community members. @BlrCityPolice

[A🌼 @BhatNush]

Can't believe this is the peak of my life in bangalore lol

Having experienced the queue to climb the skywalk to the bayapanahalli station, I think many people are feeling the same.

Big day!!

[Bangalore Metro Updates @WF_Watcher]

It’s just 4 minutes from #KRPura to #Baiyappanahalli

•Just 4 minutes Like breeze

•That pain of getting down at KJM,catching Feeder bus, FOB at BYP,long walk. All that is gone.

•You are going to save good 35-40 minutes here itself.

(These are old pics, please note)

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

Let's not inaugurate a single purple line multiple times.

#BMRCL Stop this nonsense and commence ops today!

#StartPurpleLineOperations
@WF_Watcher @DKShivakumar @siddaramaiah @CMofKarnataka @ChristinMP_

[Faye DSouza @fayedsouza]

This!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Consenting adults should do whatever makes them happy, provided it does not harm others, but a child is not capable of consent, which is why we have laws protecting minors.

[Sammy 🇮🇳 @SammyOffficer]

I will rephrase and say “the citizens of India deserve decent infrastructure.” After a downpour, I have seen the same problem of waterlogging in Kolkata, Mumbai, Gurgaon as well as in Bangalore. It is sad, really sad. We deserve better infrastructure. We pay our taxes but somehow our tax money goes for things that are of less priority for citizens or goes in the black hole of corruption.

[Faye DSouza @fayedsouza]

The citizens of Bengaluru deserve decent infrastructure, this photograph should break all our hearts. This young woman deserved better and we failed her

[Apurva Mirajkar @apurvasays]

#KarnatakaElection2023
This is from yesterday's road show of Modi...Ambulance was stopped. It took relative of the patient making noise to let the Ambulance go.
I can tell you, in Bangalore Ambulance does not get stopped, even if there is signal cops clear it to let Ambulance go

[जतिन (Jatin) @NijVaani2019]

It is simply disheartening to see fest, #Shruti at #IPCW being ruined by these perverts, raising nasty and obnoxious slogans. Students being harassed and stampede by crowd, reminds one of Taharrush in Arab world.
A safe space was violated again in DU. Shameful!

[A🌼 @BhatNush]

Sending someone who's been hacked through an endless loop of documentation is the only support they can provide? SERIOUSLY?
It's not even updated to the latest version. Being one of the biggest technology giants, AIM TO DO BETTER. Security is everything.

(3/3)

[A🌼 @BhatNush]

@instagram @facebook

The number of users being hacked on Instagram for cryptocurrency scams since 2021 is appalling. In 2022, the famous Bored Ape Yacht Club was hacked and lost around $3 million worth of NFTs.

Instagram still hasn't done anything to assure security.

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[A🌼 @BhatNush]

The least they can do to provide support and security to around 2 billion users is to put in email verification/ support request forms. What's the use of mailing a user saying 'A new device has been logged in' if the user can't log them out or deny the device?

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