chatinya 🐊

He/him. Says hello to every cat I meet. Will walk everywhere if I can.
My name here keeps changing based on how my friends massacre it.

[chatinya 🐊 @muggercrocodile]

When will we understand that walkability is not the sanitisation of public spaces by removing streetside commerce, but actually reducing vehicular movement to prioritise pedestrians?

Stop making our streetscapes barren and aesthetic spaces only for rich people

[Richa Pinto @richapintoi]

Ahead of PM #NarendraModi’s visit to Mumbai, Colaba Causeway gets hawker free https://t.co/KjNjijeRCb

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

it's genuinely enjoyable to be annoying. not sure why this is

[hunter @3gpmh]

can i get a fucking ETA on “this too shall pass”

[h @harry_jrh]

i think there’s a correlation between being gay and liking public transport, urban planning and pokemon

[pey 🍉🌸 @pmackism]

pombon can't spell

[Del @TheCartelDel]

This take is unpopular because it’s real immature, btw.

I’ve literally watched white classmates develop real empathy for Black people because of To Kill a Mockingbird. Fiction can expand how folks understand motivation, fear, contradiction. The shit essays and self help books barely touch.
Autobiographies always have a spin but good Fiction often doesn't tell you what to think. It drops you into situations where every choice costs something, and you have to sit with ambiguity and imperfect decisions, which builds REASONING.

I've learned about West African traditions, Constantinople's politics, and political struggles of the Ottoman Empire from fiction. Malcolm Gladwell is cool, but he didn't improve my vocabulary like Ursula K. Le Guin.

Fiction isn’t just entertainment. It’s mental rehearsal for being human. Escaping into a book can be as good for your brain and self regulation as meditation.

And yeah, let me add one more chaotic perception I've had: Many “non-fiction only” men I've met are uncreative as hell and tend to treat women like achievements.

[Teddy Kim @Teddy__Kim]

“It’s just that all of these Caribbean resorts look exactly the same to me. It’s just a random beach.”

“Oh I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You sit at your laptop, and you select… I don’t know, that all-inclusive resort for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what cookie-cutter consumerist hotel your parents made you go to.

But what you don’t know is that hotel isn’t just all-inclusive, it’s not Ixtapa, it’s not Zihuatanejo. It’s actually Cancún. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in the late 60s, Mexico ran a huge trade deficit with the US. They were industrializing rapidly, importing machinery and materials that had to be paid for in dollars. Then I believe it was INFRATUR, wasn’t it, that actually spent months building a computer model, feeding data to an IBM 360 to analyze Mexico’s entire coastline, evaluating climate, beach quality, accessibility, and development costs.

Then they identified Cancún as a strategic tourism development zone, deliberately modeled on postwar Mediterranean resort economies. By the mid-1990s, major U.S. and European hotel chains standardized the all-inclusive resort model there. That model was then replicated, refined, and exported across the Caribbean.

Eventually, that choice filtered down through Expedia algorithms, airline bundle deals, and trickled on down into some TikTok’s influencer video which you no doubt watched in bed doom scrolling. However, Cancún represents billions of dollars in coordinated state planning, private capital, labor arbitrage, and tourism dependency. Tens of thousands of jobs. Entire regional supply chains.

And it’s sort of comical that you think you simply picked "a random beach" when in fact you’re sipping a piña colada at a resort selected for you by the Mexican federal government’s years-long optimization process… from a bunch of random beaches.”

[Non-anxiety Magnet (parody) @goesonrants]

People don't encroach the streets in India because they like impeding the public. They do it because they're poor and the street stalls are a livelihood that will get them an extra day of survival. Idc if it means the bourgeoisie majority lose the ever-appealing 'walkable city'

[Crazy_you @nomatter_you]

“I remember” is more romantic than “I love you”

[chatinya 🐊 @muggercrocodile]

@Shobhit3103 attended a marathi wedding? they're very famously spartan haha

[chatinya 🐊 @muggercrocodile]

love him, but enough please

[໊ @meishato]

“i asked chatgpt-” NEXT TIME DON’T. ask ME, choose ME, i can misinform you. i do it with love and affection

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

or cares

[chatinya 🐊 @muggercrocodile]

i blame the north indians and bollywood
always w the main character energy

[chatinya 🐊 @muggercrocodile]

i hate that every wedding now has a dance component ???
like broski i just want to attend the thing and have fun why are you giving me homework and rehearsal before the shaadi

[latke @latkedelrey]

cats clean themselves with their little fish breath mouths but somehow they always smell like laundry detergent and vanilla and happiness

[chatinya 🐊 @muggercrocodile]

is it just me or is gianmarco soresi getting hotter (and sluttier) by the day

[Shobhit Bakliwal @shobhitic]

People from Indiranagar when you ask them to hangout outside of Indiranagar

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

Oh dear, the trailer for the new Robin Hood is out, let's take a look, shall we?
Are we taking bets on how many times we get to shout Bingo if we got the medieval myths & tropes bingo card out?
https://t.co/Uah48wmAHP