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Hulk Smash!

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Roger Federer was asked why the one-handed backhand is dissappearing from tennis.

Starts by saying “I don’t know” then gives an incredible four-part answer:

▫️Modern coaches grew up playing two-handed backhand and passed it down to students.

▫️One-handed backhands take a lot of time to perfect control and coaches/players don’t want to dedicate the time when they can make faster improvements elsewhere.

▫️Tennis went from 50/50 between baseline and net play to 90/10 baseline play (two-handed backhands much more useful for defensive and sliding baseline play).

▫️Equipment for tennis has changed (stiffer strings, modern rackets, heavier balls) and slower surfaces…more difficult to attack with only one hand.

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Tennis Channel link: https://t.co/Jy1zJZTL4X

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

@MirzaSob yeah man ...getting old :D

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

cc @Gunmaster_G9 did they ask you before they named this movie :D

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

The first look teaser of Emraan Hashmi’s upcoming romantic-actioner, Gunmaaster G9, was unveiled by the makers on Tuesday (August 25, 2026). Directed by Aditya Datt, the film also stars Genelia D’Souza, Aparshakti Khurana and Abhishek Singh in pivotal roles.

https://t.co/UVFdkd5Gv2

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

That little porcupine video made me smile

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

How can i not give 5 stars rating to this captain now 🥰🥰🥰

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Breaking news: A Ford dealership in Kansas can't release a sold F-250 because a robin moved in first.

An employee at the dealership located outside Kansas City noticed a robin building a nest on the tire of a brand new F-250 that was already sold. The robin laid four eggs and successfully hatched them.

The truck is now stuck on the lot until the chicks fledge, because the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 makes it illegal to disturb an active nest of any native bird in the United States.

The buyer has been a good sport. The dealership called it the only F-250 in America currently protected under federal law.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

A man dies in a flat in Amsterdam. No one has heard from him in some time. The neighbors knew his face but not his name. There is no family to call, no friends listed anywhere, no one to claim the body or arrange the burial. The city takes over, as cities do. And then, somewhere in the municipal building, a phone rings, and a poet is told that next week they have a funeral to write.

This is the work F. Starik began in Amsterdam in the early 2000s. He called it the Lonely Funeral. The idea was simple and very strange. When a person dies with no one to mourn them, the city sends a poet to the grave. Before the burial, the poet is given whatever has been recovered of the person's life. An address. A bank statement. A drawer of photographs. Sometimes a diary. Sometimes nothing at all. From these fragments, the poet writes a poem, and on the day of the funeral they stand at the graveside and read it aloud.

The attendance is small. A civil servant. The funeral director. Four pallbearers in dark coats. The poet. That is usually everyone.

Starik described the work as a form of attention. The poem is not a eulogy, exactly. The poet did not know the person, and to pretend otherwise would be a lie at a graveside, which is the wrong place to lie. Instead the poem holds what can be held. The shape of a room. The weight of a name spoken aloud, perhaps for the first time in years. The fact that someone, in the end, was paying attention.

The poets who took this on described it as some of the hardest writing of their lives. A week to research a stranger. A week to find the one true thing that could be said about them. They walked through the flats before they were cleared. They read the post on the mat. They sat with social workers and looked at photographs of children no one had been able to trace. They wrote in the evenings.

The project has spread. Groningen, Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague. Other cities in Belgium have begun similar programs. The premise has stayed the same. A poet, a coffin, a few people who did not know the deceased, and a poem read aloud into the air above a grave.

Starik died in 2018. His own funeral was crowded. He had spent fifteen years making sure that other people's were not empty.

What the project understood, and what it keeps insisting on, is that a life witnessed only at its end is still witnessed. The poem will not be remembered. The grave will be quiet again within the hour. But for the length of a few stanzas, in a small ceremony almost no one will ever hear about, a stranger stands over another stranger and says, in effect, you were here, and someone noticed.

It is not much. It is also, perhaps, the most that can be done.

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#drthehistories

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

In the good old twitter days there used to be an online puzzle / treasure hunt ...i can't seem to remember there name 😂
Does it still exist?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Umarell are men of retirement age in Italy who spend their time watching construction sites, stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

@ku1deep Not looking into any apps :D

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

@Rahul_J_Mathur 🎉 congratulation!

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

Happy new year 2026!

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@ajit_bhaskar Shyamsundar Misal - Satpur
Dairy Don - Softy
Nandan - rasgulla
Sayantara - sabudana vada

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

@Memeghnad Radical Candor

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologize for the impact that we caused.

Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack.

That issue, impact it caused, and time to resolution is unacceptable. Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back.

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

Happy Diwali yaal!

[desikhichdi @desikhichdi]

@Gunmaster_G9 @fauxfleur LOL I yam A okay just bored :D howdy yaal