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[Z @NoDakid_]

I've been a Playstation fan since the PS1. This is the first time I've ever felt like dropping them completely.

[son @resysttt]

@PlayStation One L after another lmao just sit in that cuck chair already. Playstation is cooked 😭

[Sober @Soberhere_]

Enough of Aaj Tak, gonna start watching Japanese news channel

[˚꩜｡ @yappingwmogu143]

Dating is hard cause u have to find someone fucked up enough to understand you, but not fucked up enough to ruin your life

[acervo the weeknd @acervowknd]

michael jackson dormiu por 2 minutos e deus deu essa música pro the weeknd

[Duck 🦆 @Duckyduck_7]

@rajasthanroyals Think about me I am a Dhoni and Messi fan💔💔

[𝑹𝟒 🇦🇱 @NotRaphinha11]

next up is retirement from the sport itself

[OGi 🐐 @BCNOgi]

Would like to dedicate this tweet to my 15 year old self, who stayed up until the wee hours of the summer morning, birds chirping and all, face planted in the pillow, on the verge of tears, having witnessed Messi sky his penalty vs. Chile.

We made it lil bro. It all worked out.

[48 Laws Of Power Bot @48_quotes]

Avoid the temptation of showing how clever you are — it is far more clever to conceal the mechanisms of your cleverness.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Indians in the US green card queue have been living inside a pause for years.

Now, the State Department has stopped taking visa appointments worldwide. The reason they've given is a global training programme launched this month at every US embassy and consulate, meant to teach consular officers to screen more thoroughly for applicants who might end up depending on public benefits, and to apply the rules more consistently across posts.

People who already had interview dates got emails saying their appointments are cancelled.

They will be told a new date later. No timeline has been given for when normal scheduling resumes.

This comes days after a US judge struck down a separate policy that had suspended immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries, ruling that it went beyond the Secretary of State's authority.

An immigration lawyer at Fragomen put the human side well and said, people spent thousands of dollars and rearranged their entire lives to make it to those interviews, and the appointments were cancelled at the last minute.

Now, what does it mean for us Indians. Honestly, the picture is worse than most headlines suggest and has been for a long time.

US law caps any single country at 7 percent of employment-based green cards issued in a year. That works out to roughly 9,800 per country. India, with 1.4 billion people, gets the same annual allocation as Liechtenstein, which has about 39,000 people in total.

The result is a queue of somewhere between 800,000 and a million pending Indian cases. Effective waits are around 12 years for EB-2 and about 13 for EB-3.

On 21 May this year, the State Department announced that India had already exhausted its EB-2 allocation for the year.

That category has been unavailable to Indians since, and stays that way until 30 September.

Even EB-1, the fastest route, runs three to five years for an Indian applicant.

So for a very large number of people reading this, today's news just changes the date on a wait that was already decades.

Which brings me to the part I actually want to say.

Come back.

As a career decision, it now makes arithmetic sense.

India had 2,117 global capability centres running across 3,728 units as of March, employing 2.36 million people and generating $98.4 billion in FY26.

That is 32 percent growth in five years. 506 companies from the Forbes Global 2000 now run one here.

More importantly, look at what those centres are hiring for. GCC hiring is projected at over 510,000 roles this year, 3.4 times what it was in 2021.

Sixty four percent of new roles need AI, data science or automation skills.

India is now the largest AI hiring market in the world among GCC destinations.

AI talent demand here is up over 300 percent compared to 2024, and India is running roughly a 53 percent skill deficit against it.

The gap is people who have shipped real systems at scale, run research teams, taped out chips, built platforms that carry millions of users.

That is a description of the Indian diaspora in Sunnyvale, Seattle and Austin.

A PwC and FICCI study this year found that 11 percent of GCC leaders said their global headquarters were considering moving work out of India because of talent constraints.

Yes, the one thing capping India's ceiling right now is senior people.

Look at who is setting up here. Renesas. Lattice Semiconductor. NETGEAR. State Street. Vanguard. MetLife. Anthropic.

Five years ago that list was IT support and payroll processing. Now it is chip design, AI research and product ownership.

LinkedIn data already shows around a 40 percent rise in tech professionals relocating to India.

Yes, senior compensation is still lower here than in the Valley, even after adjusting. Air quality in the big cities is a real problem. Schooling and healthcare take work to figure out.

The ecosystem is still thin at the very top, but the trade is different from what it was in 2015. Back then coming home meant taking a step down but now it means walking into an org that needs you badly enough to build the role around you.

India needs the people who learned how to build at scale. In fifteen years, when the ageing parents and the tired knees and the wish to be near family show up, those same people will need a country that is worth coming back to.

That country gets built now, by the people who are here and the people who come back now.

The queue in Washington is not going to move. This one is. :)

[The Hood Therapist @OhhMar24]

Islam Makhachev so generational that he got a arena full of Americans chanting “Islam”

[son @resysttt]

@kunalvats_ Rapido to Uber:

[Nkeki @28nkeki]

no contact is no contact fuck you and your birthday

[B𝐀𝐑𝐆CELONA @Bargcelona10]

- Papá, por que mi hermana se llama Rosa?
+ Porque a tu mamá le gustaban las rosas
+ Gracias, padre
- De nada, DecoDirectorDeportivo2026

[𝘼𝙙𝙖𝙢. @gxldeadam]

”¡Rodri para Pedri! ¡Pedri, Lamine! ¡Exterior de Lamine… JULIÁÁÁÁN!
¡¡¡GOOOOOOOOOOOL DEL BARÇA!!! ¡¡¡JULIÁN ÁLVAREZ!!! ¡¡¡EL BARCELONA ES CAMPEÓN DE EUROPA!!!”

[auggs. @auggsoriginal]

.@FerranTorres20

[Prem Soni @ValueWithPrem]

The biggest financial cope of the Indian upper middle class is pretending ₹40 LPA equals $190,000 in the US because of purchasing power parity.

PPP is a metric for groceries, not wealth.

Easiest way to understand this: Gold was about ₹28,623 per 10g in India in 2016. Today it is around ₹1.43 lakh means 400% return. Gold rose from about $1,250 to $4,100 means a roughly 228% return.

Did the Indian investor become a better gold investor? No. The rupee bled from around ₹66 to over ₹95 against the dollar. You celebrate currency depreciation as wealth creation.

If both save 20% of income:
• You save ₹8 lakhs.
• The US guy saves $38,000 (₹36 lakhs).

In a decade his globally portable asset base is 4.5x larger. Currency value is absolute, not relative. Markets ignore local PPP when you buy global assets, travel abroad or send a child to an international university.

Keep bragging about cheap full-time maids and drivers. That cheap domestic labor is just a comfortable distraction. It gives you a false sense of pride while your actual wealth gets locked into hyper inflated ₹3 Crore matchbox flats, endless 20 year EMIs and overpriced gated communities that trap you in speculative local bubbles.

This is not high quality of life. Keep enjoying cheap food delivery while your global net worth is left behind.

[Biff @biffredeemed]

The ROI on keeping your mouth shut is extremely high

[BarçaTimes @BarcaTimes]

“When Barcelona does well, Spain does well”

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭.