Junaid

VFX Supervisor,
Co-Founder Haika Studios

[Kritika @kritikakodes]

The harsh truth

[Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin]

I remembered this shot of ⁦Urmila from KAUN after watching OBSESSION

[Praggnanandhaa @rpraggnachess]

Happy. Grateful. Thankful. CLUTCHED!

#NorwayChess

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

😲After 9 years… and 3 BILLION miles… this is what we found 😳

For decades, Pluto was just a blurry dot in the sky.
But everything changed when NASA’s spacecraft finally arrived…

🚀 After an incredible journey across the Solar System,
we got our first close-up look at Pluto’s frozen world ❄️

🏔️ Massive ice mountains
🌌 Vast frozen plains
🌫️ A thin, mysterious atmosphere

This isn’t just a rock…
it’s a complex, active world at the edge of our Solar System.

✨ And the craziest part?
This data was sent back from billions of miles away…
taking hours just to reach Earth.

From a tiny dot… to a breathtaking world.

That’s the power of space exploration 🚀
#Pluto #NASA #SpaceExploration #NewHorizons #SolarSystem #Astronomy #Universe #Science #SpaceFacts #DeepSpace

[Tim Soret @timsoret]

Careful with these cool physics simulations.
Miyazaki is going to tell you that "this feel this is an insult to life itself."
And millions of NPCs are going to agree with him.

[Revathi @revathitweets]

Vennala Gaddar Probably Doesn’t Know!

She didn’t see properly and must have spoken says Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan.

Vennala Gaddar, daughter of balladeer Gaddar responded strongly to Pawan Kalyan’s comments on Telangana.

“We fought for our state, we didn’t buy it. It is our state that is born out of our struggle”, Vennala Gaddar had said earlier.

Meanwhile, Pawan Kalyan took a sharp u-turn and agreed with BRS Working President KTR’s statement that Telangana belongs to the sons of this soil.

ముమ్మాటికీ తెలం��ాణ భూమిపుత్రుల జాగిరే!

If Pawan Kalyan thinks he knows more about Gaddar and Telangana movement more than his daughter Vennala Gaddar and those who fought for Telangana, he needs a reality check.

Am hoping the past few days of insinuations by Janasena & Pawan Kalyan and public reactions to the same should give him a sense of what Telangana public want.

May be it is time for Pawan Kalyan to listen to Gaddar’s songs once again!

మా భూములు మాకేనని మర్లబడ్డ గానమా..
తిరగబడ్డ రాగమా మరలబడ్డ గానమా తిరగబడ్డ రాగమా... పోరు తెలంగాణమా కోట్లాది ప్రాణమ!

అదిగో రాజులూ దొరలూ వలసదోరలు
భూమిని నీళ్ళని ప్రాణుల్ని సర్వస్వాన్ని చెరబట్టారు
రాజు�� ఖడ్గాలకింద తెగిపోయిన శిరస్సులు
రాజరికం కత్తిమీద నెత్తురుల గాయమా

ఆంధ్రవలస తూటాలకు ఆరిపోయిన దీపమా
హా మా పాలన బలే బలే బలే బలే బలే బలే హ హ హ
మా పాలన మాకేనని మండుతున్న గోళమా
అమరవీరుల స్వప్నమా మండుతున్న గోళమా అమరవీరుల స్వప్నమా

[Adivi Sesh @AdiviSesh]

Absolutely loved this sir. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 @RaviTeja_offl Magical it is.
@ShivaNirvana garu ❤️❤️ @MythriOfficial #Irumudi

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

In the Maximus vs. Tigris fight in GLADIATOR (2000), real tigers were used. Russell Crowe was separated from them by invisible barriers and just 15 feet.

[mohammed shoeb ali @shoebinvestment]

At Transition VC, we are committed to allocating substantial capital in Fund 2 to support entrepreneurs aiming to establish manufacturing businesses within the energy value chain. We seek those with a strong differentiation and the capability to scale successfully.

[desi mojito @desimojito]

Cracker 😂😂😂😂

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Perfection is insane. The entire tyranny of the perfect body, the perfect family, the perfect life is literally a commercial narrative. It has nothing to do with being human.”

— Guillermo del Toro

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Do not install VLC.

Once you install it, you can never go back.

You will never pay 99 cents for a codec again.
You will never buy QuickTime Pro again.
You will never renew RealPlayer Plus again.
You will never pay for Blu-ray decoder software again.
You will never see the words "this file format is not supported" again.

You will become the family tech support person. Forever. Your dad will call you at 11 PM because he downloaded a .mkv from somewhere and Windows refuses to open it.

Your answer will always be the same. "Install VLC."

And then the orange traffic cone will eat his problem in 4 seconds and he will call you a genius.

You did not do that. A French student named Jean-Baptiste Kempf did, in 1996, as a school project at École Centrale Paris. His roommate brought a traffic cone home from the street that year. They made it the logo. 6 billion downloads later, the cone is still undefeated.

Repo: https://t.co/0Tlbn7KNan. 18,463 stars. GPL-2.0. Pushed today.

Here is the wildest part:

The warning is real. Just not for you.

Apple sold QuickTime Pro for $29.99. VLC killed it. Apple shut it down in 2016.
Microsoft sold Windows Media Center for $9.99. VLC killed it. Microsoft shut it down with Windows 10.
RealNetworks charged $39.99 a year for RealPlayer Plus. VLC killed it.
Sony built Blu-ray to need a $79.99 licensed decoder. VLC ships with libdvdcss and a French court ruling that protects it.

The codec mafia spent 30 years building a tollbooth on every video file on Earth.

A guy whose GitHub location is literally "Coneland" walked through every tollbooth with a cone on his head and never paid a cent.

He was offered millions of dollars to sell it. He said no.

So yes. Do not install VLC. The codec industry has not recovered from the last 6 billion people who did.

100% Opensource.
100% Free.
100% Yours.

The biggest media companies on Earth spent three decades trying to charge you to play your own files.

One French student and a cone he found on the street made all of it pointless.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Martin Scorsese on how Satyajit Ray's films were an inspiration to him:

"Film is an art that can bring cultural awakenings and new waves of life to people who have never seen such cultures before, I remember going to see my first Ray film in New York at 15 and witnessing a whole new world presented visually before my eyes. Without a doubt in Ray's films the line between poetry and cinema, dissolved.

I could appreciate Ray's work within my own struggles to truly represent the Sicilian heritage which I grew up in. His characters were both distinct and tragic, portraying issues which were still unfolding historically around him. His work is something that I personally cannot wait to show my own daughter, once she is old enough to understand them. In the end I believe that such work must be preserved, so that the children of the future can see what Ray was visually able to represent."

("Martin Scorsese hits DC, hangs with the Hachet", Chris Ingui, The GW Hatchet, 2002)

P.S: Remembering the legendary Indian filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, on his 105th birthday!

Clip from:

Charulata (1964)
Director: Satyajit Ray

[Sudhir Mishra @IAmSudhirMishra]

Agar gaali khane se daroge toh tumhara kuchh nahi hoga , kuchh nahin banoge .

[Atul Khatri @one_by_two]

Hyderabad requires more branches of Cafe Niloufer

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Sir David Attenborough narrating over a tortoise trying to mate with a Croc is absolutely iconic

Today he is 100 years old

[Sandeep Mall @SandeepMall]

A wonderful line from The Kapil show - कुछ भी बोलके famous हो सकते हैं, famous हो के कुछ भी नहीं बोल सकते। Holds true for everything. At least in India.

[Revathi @revathitweets]

Absolute banger from a Hyderabad Cab Owner!

Almost typed “bhaiya” but held back as per instructions 😊

[FalconUpdatesHQ @FalconUpdatesHQ]

True bravery 🤯⚡️

A courageous man risked his own life to save an innocent child.

The moment the child was returned safely, the mother broke down in tears of joy and relief 🥺

[Revathi @revathitweets]

Have You Heard of Belli Lalitha?

Belli Lalitha was one of the seven siblings in her family, she had no formal education and in fact worked as a labourer in a spinning mill.

At the age of 25, she became so powerful that governments and people in power feared her.
So much so that she was chopped into 17 pieces and her body was strewn across in Bhongir, Telangana.

Belli Lalitha was a traditional Oggu Katha singer. She was fondly called “Telangana Gana Kokila”; Nightingale of Telangana. She founded the Telangana Kala Samithi.

Though not properly educated, she used her lived experiences of being a labourer in a spinning mill & wrote and sang songs that reverberated amongst Telangana public, especially women.

She became voice of the oppressed Telangana public and questioned the existing Andhra rule.

Demanding for a separate state, she sang with her heart in “Daga Padda Telangana” Sabha. She became an icon for separate Telangana movement in Bhongir, Warangal, Medak, Mahabubnagar.

She also rescued many women who have been pushed into prostitution in Hyderabad.

On 26th May 1999, Lalitha came back home from wok and stepped out for a meeting and never came back home. Police refused to acknowledge her missing case. When people started agitating a district level police officer went to the extent of saying they would have encountered have they caught her and wouldn’t simply arrest her.

A fake letter in her name was circulated. Her character was assassinated by a few media houses. Entire 10 districts of Telangana people started coming on to the streets and questioning the government.

After four days, a woman’s dismembered body parts were found in an agricultural well. Police denied they are Belli Lalitha’s. For 13 days police kept recovering a woman’s body parts across Bhongir.

Finally! On 10th June 1999 midnight, Lalitha’s head was found.

Thousands attended her funeral and people raised slogans against the then CM Chandrababu Naidu and Home Minister Alimineti Madhava Reddy. People till today believe that Madhava Reddy started getting jittery about Lalitha’s rising popularity in Bhongir, his constituency. She was to contest in the elections too.
And it is widely believed that they wanted to even silence the Telangana statehood voices.

Police and government tried to pass her murder as a murder of passion. They demeaned her character and spread vicious stories about her. But her brother Krishna fought and filed a case on gangster Nayeem who executed similar murders earlier.

Much later, police said gangster Nayeem’s brother Alimuddin and his associate was behind Lalitha’s murder. Her brutal murder angered and inspired many to join the separate Telangana movement.

She was as powerful as Gaddar but being a woman from golla-kuruma community, her story was largely remains untold.

Belli Lalitha was a voice of resistance, a voice that made powerful people uncomfortable.

Wanted to share Belli Lalitha’s song and story on her birth anniversary.