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english grad student. reading and thinking about cities and food in nigerian lit. i write and think about cricket sometimes.

[Karthik Krishnaswamy @the_kk]

@mukulkesavan @atti_cus We've had this conversation before, but Jurel isn't just a random keeper-batter. He's easily one of India's best middle-order Test prospects, whether he's keeping or not. And I agree that Sarfaraz has been hard done by, but Jurel playing ahead of him isn't the issue.

[Karthik Krishnaswamy @the_kk]

KL Rahul caught in the covers right after getting to his hundred. One of Indian cricket's most cherished traditions.

[Montana Madison @montanabohemian]

one of my favourite roles anthony head ever played was in cabin pressure. absolute comedic genius. my god what a loss.

[Hania T. Mumtaz @haniainabox]

The Pope is a great example of the idea that cruelty is actually dumb and that kindness and openness come from intelligence. A great juxtaposition to the (techno)fascists of our time. It takes a mind to create a better world, it takes zero to destroy it.

[Lesbian Rod Serling 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇮🇷 @LRSerling]

It really feels like the entire world has turned into an inescapable panopticon. I look back on the pre-computer days and they almost seem like a time of ridiculous freedom, where you could just skip town and start a new life whenever you wanted

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

Where with one killer tweak I make the IPL (and T20 more generally) a proper contest:

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

“The responsibility of the living to the dead is not simple. It is we who let them go, for we do not accompany them. It is we who hold them here—deny them their nothingness—by naming their names. Out of these two wrongs comes the writing of epitaphs.”

—Anne Carson

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

can confirm

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

A major reason that it didn’t make sense to use AI to write an essay about a substantive topic is that until you write the essay you don’t actually know what you want to say or what you think. You think you do, but it is the writing itself that actually gets the thinking done.

[OA @OpeAdedeji_]

This is very inappropriate.

[bisexually bisexualizing bisexuality 💜 @Missy_dee811]

You could not waterboard this out of me 😭

So many PhDs telling us they don't know how to fucking do the thing they're being paid to do which is research

[Priyank Panchal @PKpanchal09]

60 wickets in a Ranji season should ensure you a Test call-up. At a time when the BCCI is trying to reinforce the importance of prioritising domestic cricket, this call could set a wrong precedent. #IPL2026 #AquibNabi

[Shashank Kishore @captainshanky]

If dismissing KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair and R Smaran in a final en route a 60-wicket season haul that wins your state their first-ever Ranji campaign, after having picked up 59 wickets the previous Ranji season, isn't enough to be convinced, don't know what else will convince them.

[shi @afterlauqhter]

re-reading sara bareilles’ autobiography and wow doesn’t that sound familiar

[sgb @sadgirlyboss]

“happy to hop on a call” i would actually rather join a 14th century monastery

[adam @resurrecti0ns]

look I'm just saying that for all the flak the humanities get, it's only the stem people outraged by the idea that they should be responsible for the contents of a paper with their name on it

[Hindol Hazra @hindolheroic]

once again, i must remember my most favourite brainrot film - dhoondte reh jaoge - where the technique to make hundreds of crores through a flop film was shown as a joke

it took many years but i finally learnt that this is as real as it gets in every film industry