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cool

[Bookd: The Letterboxd of Football @bookdfootball]

Everybody is seated for the L Clasico-

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words of wisdom!

[Satya Kumar Yadav @satyakumar_y]

"Whoever undertakes the longest hunger strike cannot dictate policy. That is not democracy"

Back in 2011, then Home Minister P. Chidambaram had invoked Jawaharlal Nehru to argue that hunger strikes cannot replace Parliament or democratic decision-making.

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https://t.co/KtFjfQvZle

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

At its peak, Sun Microsystems was valued at 205B (394B if inflation adjusted). Sold software in enterprise servers. Got disrupted by Linux, x86, and commodity hardware. Ended up selling to Oracle for 7.4B, losing 96% of its value.

Open source models running on local hardware can have a similar impact given what’s going on.

[Tamil Labs 2.0 @labstamil]

After observing the Tamil Desiyam crowd on X for past 10 days, a clear conclusion emerges: They reject Dravidianism but accept Aryan invasion theory. They too detest TamBrahms from the bottom of their being.

If EVR had been born into an ethnic Tamil community, they'd have had no qualms in celebrating his opinions. Just like Dstocks, they too would have found a way to intellectualize his Tamil hatred. You may think they celebrate Bharathi but wait until they find his high opinion of Sanskrit and his advocacy for it to be made India's unifying language.

2026 election appeal was merely a political compulsion to compensate for any VS lost to Vijay. Both Dstock-ism and TamilDesiyam are ideologies built on the foundations of hating the "other", their definitions of "other" varies that's it. Tamil patru is just the smoke and mirrors to hide the underlying emotion of hate, ego and jaadhiveri. No truly devout Shaivite would indulge in or encourage this sacrilege.

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england ooooo

[Chess.com @chesscom]

never playing the french defense again

[The Grade Cricketer @gradecricketer]

Forever in our memories

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history will be kinder to you.

[Chennai Super Kings @ChennaiIPL]

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The Super Kings and Head Coach Stephen Fleming have mutually decided to part ways.
Together, we shared one of the most successful and enduring partnerships in IPL history. The legacy you've built will continue to inspire us.

With immense respect and gratitude, Thank you, Stephen. 💛

More details: 🔗 https://t.co/o36a2ozbuy

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@ChennaiIPL thanks, flem!

[🧠 @BackupBrainy]

Hello @ssrajamouli Release #Vaaranasi before @beemji announces #ThamizhVaranasi showing how Budha , Jesus and Mohammed were real heroes of Ramayana

[royan sanju @royan_sanju]

Did some research on history, when the Prime Minister Modi’s government took charge, the signals comming out was damn clear.

Govt of India transformed so clean, from a dabba, corrupt, unorganised, multi stacks of bureaucracy to a clean corporate like structure. I was shocked that how @narendramodi old man was able to completely flip a entire nation’s administration to attract investments, pull people out of poverty and improve the quality of living. This literally is Narendra Modi’s New India.

Imma go watch all his old public speech videos.

[Rama Seshan Chandrasekaran @maa_bhaishiiH]

🚨 Murugan is back in the headlines : debates exploding over whether he’s a pan-Indian god, a Tamil ancestor, or something else entirely. Most people think this is some new Church “appropriation” tactic. It isn’t.

This is a time-tested ancient strategy that Christianity has used for nearly 2,000 years to dismantle pagan traditions by saying : “Your gods were once men.”

Around 300 BCE, the Greek pagan writer Euhemerus claimed the Olympian gods were not divine at all ; they were just deified kings and culture heroes whose exploits got exaggerated over time.

His doctrine is called Euhemerism now. Pagans of his own time largely rejected Euhemerism as impious. But early Christian writers loved the idea. They weaponised it. Church-fathers admiringly note that the mocking that Euhemerus received was undeserved, because Christians believed that pagans like Euhemerus had at least seen through popular error of the pagan religion (worshipping men as gods) even if they hadn’t reached the full truth of the Gospel of the one true God.

Church Fathers like Athenagoras (2nd century) and Clement of Alexandria openly argued that the Greek and Egyptian gods were simply historical kings who had been turned into deities by grateful (or fearful) subjects.

Their strategy was :
Concede they once existed as humans → deny their divinity → rewrite their myths as “history” instead of religion.

This “euhemerist” move gave Christians a powerful triple advantage:
1. It explained temples, statues, and festivals without admitting real gods.
2. It let them preserve and enjoy pagan myths and classics as mere literature.
3. It justified the destruction or conversion of sacred sites (any human however great does not deserve worship which belongs only to the one true God)

The same playbook later traveled to medieval Scandinavia, the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and now appears in modern India.

In my latest Substack article, I trace this exact Christian Euhemerist tactic from ancient Greece and Egypt, through the Patristic period, the Medieval period, and Colonial eras, right up to today’s debates around Murugan and other Hindu deities.

I quote the primary sources (including bolded key passages from the Church Fathers) so you can see the strategy in their own words.

If you want to understand why these “gods were once men/ancestors” arguments keep resurfacing — and why they feel so familiar in the Indian context — this piece connects the dots across two millennia.

Read it here :
https://t.co/UfbJKUDG2V

What do you think is this latest fad of Murugan being an ancestor after reading this article — novel historical revisionism? Nah, a recurring and time-tested pattern worth recognising, right?

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why he keeps winning pt. 370

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Matter of joy & pride that Japan has conferred Dr. Manmohan Singh with Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers. Congrats to him.

[Tamil Labs 2.0 @labstamil]

If you can understand this single, historically inaccurate painting being displayed at a prominent place of worship in TN, congratulations, you've understood a century of Tamilnadu politics.

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hahahaha

[ANI @ANI]

Rahul Gandhi: Their speeches are about roads, airports, railway lines. They never talk about poor, about people

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end of an era

[Ajay Srinivasan @Ajaychairman]

PVR Theyagaraja, Thiruvanmiyur (formerly S2 Theyagaraja & prior to that- Theyagaraja) has closed its operations permanently.

The two screen cinema complex was a prime theatre in the Adyar- Thiruvanmiyur area.

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hilarious

[Scion of Garuda @ScionofGaruda]

Incorrect. She has the same voting rights + laadli behn yojana monthly subscription.

[The Grade Cricketer @gradecricketer]

An understated send off for Stokesy

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

I am sure you have heard that India was fragmented at the time of independence.

But do you have any idea about how fragmented it was?

Well, here is your answer.

What you see in Orange was the India that got liberated on 15th Aug 1947.

All the gaps in the middle, were also, technically, independent countries.

Had someone not stepped up like Sardar Patel did, India could have become a vastly different, fragmented country. It was because of him that led to the India that we know in 1949.

You all know he is called the Iron Man of India. Now you know why.