Irshad Daftari

🇨🇦, and honestly nothing more interesting. Parent.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

We took the 6-yo to the optometrist with his monster mask ... and I think we finally have our own supervillain origin story.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@nowme_datta Ok so that’s how they look now. Oh well.

[Ozzy Osbourne @OzzyOsbourne]

One of the most emotional moments from Ozzy’s final performance comes to the big screen in Back To The Beginning.

The feature length concert film brings together performances from across the ten-hour Villa Park concert, personal reflections and scenes from backstage.

In cinemas from next Wednesday. Get tickets: https://t.co/h57Boz54oP

#BackToTheBeginning #OzzyOsbourne #Ozzy

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Sunday’s election will determine the fate of Brazilian democracy, the fate of Latin American sovereignty, and the survival of the Amazon rainforest — which is to say, that of all humanity.

In a sane world, Trump's (and Zuckerberg’s) escalating efforts to bring Bolsonaro back to power would be front-page news, but alas… we are not so lucky to live there.

Instead, we live in a world where Lula and Bolsonaro are neck-and-neck ahead of Sunday’s run-off. https://t.co/QFujD7qqib

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

El Sayed yesterday Ashok Kumar today. Masterclasses in dismantling any kind of bad faith and hostile questioning.

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Went on BBC Politics Live to discuss why Zionism is a racist ideology. The anchor and all three panelists looked like they were about to cry at the end. Very weird behaviour.

Join the Green Party.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@joogasama Same q. Techbros seem insistent on minimizing the use of the human brain.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@banglani That's all of them.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@gauravsabnis This may be showing how I was terminally online but I remember following a bunch of bloggers who were “Indian libertarians”. Vantage point?

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@Meetasengupta Sigh indeed. The internet needs a space where we could all be a community and celebrating our similarities rather than hating each other on our differences.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

Fuck it. Orkut was amazing. I've met some of the most amazing people I know on it, much like early Twitter. I'm signing up.

[Orkut Buyukkokten @orkut]

The internet should help us find our people. Friendship. Community. A place to belong.

Help me bring Orkut back in that spirit. Add your name at https://t.co/FO48fJMjEq and share your supporter card with someone you want to bring along.

Love,
Orkut

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@fussyphus I wore something similar last year during a school drop. The amount of fist bumps I got from school moms made up for the side-eyes.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@sunayanasuresh What a time it was … ❤️

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

Ok this dude has definitely not done psychedelics.

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Psychedelic use, for most users, is part of a cycle of persistent grief. The grandeur of the neon sea of fractals and the ability to self-smash the infinite wonder button in the brain is, in fact, a sad consolation prize for having lost the ability to make meaning of the small, mundane circumstances of life.

Wild weekend swings between the light fantastic and its faltering, depleted aftermath recapitulate the broader oscillation between narcissism and nihilsm that characterizes contemporary life. The psychedelic trip, like all psychoses, promises a revelation that never quite comes, or insinuates a transmission that is never quite remembered. You know it's special. You know it's meaningful. It's completely, 100% yours. This time you'll find it for real. This time you'll be able to bring it back.

"I have come to know the deepest secrets of the universe," he thinks, bleary eyed in bed at 12:30 pm on a Sunday afternoon. "I have glimpsed the mind of God" she thinks, scrolling her stories, avoiding the certain overwhelm of reading an e-mail from a once beloved college roommate.

In the meantime, dust accumulates, calls go unanswered, dinner invitations go unsent, loved ones slowly disappear from life, one mild disappointment at a time. The chores that maintain half-decency become too boring, too meaningless, too immediately unrewarding to be worth the effort. And in that thorough and terrible neglect, the desert of honesty and care at the center of postmodern subjectivity yawns. The blistering infinite sacred, on-demand, and all it costs you is your will to show up for your mundane world, to keep trying to love your frustrating family, to try something, anything to rise above the infinite guilt of your unlived life.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@b50 When i left India I began using Apple Pay and honestly wondered why it wasn’t adopted in India beforehand. For all its merits, UPI is still a two step process.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

Norman Finkelstein should be everyone's moral compass

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Norman Finkelstein is asked if he believes there is "very rampant anti-Semitism in the US" by an interviewer who claims he himself has experienced it. Here is his response:

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@RootKanal Always the Torygraph.

[Owen @Owennfa]

HOT TAKE: If corporations only pay taxes on what's left after expenses, I should only be taxed after paying rent, groceries, and bills.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@b50 Was that written from the India bureau?

Being middle-class (or in my case gareeb working class) in this geography hits different and suddenly you see how out of touch (don't want to say outright r-cist) these guys are.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@sidharthrath Hard not to think otherwise.. :)

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

Ok, I'm convinced that the big guy above may exist and has a really sardonic way of delivering justice.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Ed Sheeran’s upcoming shows at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium have been cancelled due to bad weather.

[Irshad Daftari @daftari]

@b50 Probably was always subtle, but I think with the way the US is right now, every one of these 'legacy media' is now mask-off and no longer subtle.