spripi \⁷

Anything to do with Taylor Swift just feels like coming home 🫶🏽 // btsvt what are you gonna do about it 💜💎🧚🏻‍♀️ // she/her

[spripi \⁷ @sim13forever]

seventeen as ‘the one that got away’ Taylor songs 💎🤍
~~~another meticulous thread~~~ 🧵🧵🧵

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”

Edward Abbey quote poster spotted in Carlton, Victoria

[ѵi૮ƭσ૨ @keoveey]

maybe the nicest thing about writing is that you get to meet your own thoughts later

[AISA @aisa_official_]

🚨SOS🚨

AISA President Neha Bora has been picked up by Delhi Police in an unauthorised vehicle, WITHOUT A SINGLE FEMALE CONSTABLE!

WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY ARE TAKING THEM! THEIR WHEREABOUTS ARE UNKNOWN!

@DelhiPolice has crossed EVERY LIMIT!

[GOŁƊ @vidxn_]

NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:

"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.

You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."

[shipra @shipranotes]

Leonardo da Vinci on why inaction is a sin against potential

[Xu (tayl0r kelce era) ❤️‍🔥 @_midnighthoax_]

THIS IS SOOOOO GOOD OMG

[Dr. Rajeshwari Iyer @RajeshwariRW]

Chinese professor Jiang Xueqin claims India is a corrupt country.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

“China moved young people from fields to factories. India cannot do the same because it is a corrupt and chaotic democracy. Most of the money would be stolen.”

~ “Prof Jiang” (Jiang Xueqin), educator and commentator

[Mao Keji | मुखर्जी @kejimao]

Many years ago, during my time studying South Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University in the US, my professor solved a long-standing mystery for me: Why do Indians constantly emphasize "purity," yet their public sanitation is so poor?

The answer lies in the fact that what many Indians mean by "purity" is actually ritual compliance, not physical cleanliness. Consequently, a cup of water that looks greasy and filthy can be considered supremely "pure" simply because it was drawn from a specific sacred site, by a specific holy person, at a specific auspicious hour.

Once you grasp this distinction between ritual purity and physical cleanliness, it becomes easy to understand the attitude of many Indian scholars toward democracy. Just as they are willing to ignore physical grime and actual hygiene for the sake of ritual purity, they are equally willing to disregard tangible governance performance for the sake of democratic formality.

This explains why, in the classic debate comparing China and India, whenever outsiders point out that "India lags behind China" based on sheer common sense, the most common and lazy copium is: "We are simply unwilling to compromise our principles."

This is clearly a highly satisfying answer for many, for it allows them to claim the moral high ground while dodging the objective gap in actual performance.

However, the harsh reality is that if a cup of water is contaminated, anyone who drinks it will get very sick, no matter how ritually pure it is deemed to be.

By the same token, no matter how self-gratifying the obsession with democracy is, if it fails to deliver tangible performance, it will be exposed as an illusion the moment it faces a true test of hard power.

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."

― George Orwell

[Abeeha Tariq ✨ @AbeehaTariqArt]

something a bit more different from me but I got a lot to say and I’m not comfortable in front of a camera so…

keep AI out of schools!!

[Agnis @lanxre]

Putting ketamine on your dick to rape someone for hours should be treated as first degree murder

[lou 🌸 @meantobepop]

The thing with taylor is that she IS corny, cheesy, cringey, campy, bubbly while being incredibly smart, educated and strategic; and instead of hiding those traits in order to look cool and sophisticated she is embracing them. And that's why this swiftie shit is for life

[iris @_8RUJA]

“you don’t have a career. you have a life.” changed my brain chemistry

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

We urgently need an option to remove AI creators and AI-generated content from our feeds.

[MANJUL @MANJULtoons]

Instagram has restricted this cartoon in India.

I am posting the cartoon again, along with the notice I received from Instagram.

According to the notice, access has been restricted in India “pursuant to a notice from the Government of India / Law Enforcement” and based on local laws.

The cartoon is still visible outside India.

A cartoon about the Election Commission has been stopped from being seen by Indians. When satire gets censored, perhaps the cartoon has made its point. 🇮🇳

#Censorship #FreeSpeech #Satire #PoliticalCartoon #FreedomOfExpression #ElectionCommission #MANJULtoons

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Marketing my cat like a new Apple product

[˚꩜｡ @yappingwmogu143]

Abusing PM is cultural shock.

Harassing women is cultural shauk.

[M-Jay🪅💜 @Jamesoflife]

Oh Uloma, you’ll forever be famous

[Raghu Ram @Raghu_Ram_on_X]

Having a chief minister (a female one at that) telling all women to stay indoors so they don't get raped is so dystopian, I can't believe these are the things we need to protest against now! But protest, we will. And bring the change that is needed.