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[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@linadreaamy 98?

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@AshaTweets1 Wtf

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@F00Dhealth5432 Lots of biased and wrong info. Blood protein and albumin has no correspondence to the total protein content of the body. Wrong metrics wrong actions.

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@Jitkant Androgen insensitivity syndrome

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@NewsAlgebraIND Post the blood results

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

The government of India is blocking my posts on Instagram that criticizes Homeopathy based on a directive from the Homeopathy Council. This is very shameful of the government...protecting pseudoscience and it's practitioners from scientific scrutiny.

This is the post: https://t.co/ZtIKlYF6sK

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Muslims giving a call against cow slaughter and Hindu traders clashing with the police to allow them cow slaughter. Eid is such a revelation in India

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@Chinmayi Before taking offence on his statement, why don’t we introspect do some fact check and critical analysis. Our religions and rulers have never bothered about the masses, we are still the only modern society which in principle derogates a fellow human and justifies it.

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@JAJafri There is a substantial population which are third cousin marriages which are in a way better because of the in built support system and other factors. Thats why this system has survived.

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@JAJafri There are four degrees of consanguinity, first is incest, second is maternal uncle marrying the niece. Third degree is the marriage between first cousins. Problems happen only upto the level of the third degree of consanguinity I.e. first cousins.

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@JAJafri So the data above should be dissected and separated to see how many are first cousin marriages and how many are second and more. Only then we can find out how much of an issue this is?

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@JAJafri Any degree of separation after that like second and third cousins the genetic issues are the same as the general population and in fact there are many population observational studies which show that number of surviving children is more in third and fourth cousin marriages.

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@zanknowsbetter Teen delinquency.

[Sumit Jha @sumitjha__]

Why does a caste census matter?

India last counted its castes in 1931. But Telangana decided to do it in 2024.

State surveyed 3.55 crore people across 242 caste groups, door to door.

I read every page. More I read, More convinced I got why it's needed.

Here is what I found

[Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) @ptrmadurai]

There was an India before this Bill. The India that comes after this Bill strikes at the very fabric of our Constitution and the intent of its makers.

Today, the government is asking us to hand over a blank cheque. This Bill contains no clear mention of limits such as a 50% increase, no clarity on the basis of delimitation, and no transparent safeguards to prevent arbitrary action. It leaves open the possibility of an unfair, unjust delimitation process and places enormous power in the hands of a committee that will be appointed by the executive itself. How can this be called fair in a functioning democracy?

How are we expected to trust a government that, over the past 12 years, has repeatedly pushed through draconian laws without meaningful consultation or consensus in Parliament? Laws that reshape institutions, alter balances of power, and weaken the spirit of federalism!

As Chief Minister Thiru @mkstalin has rightly said, this is a fight we are prepared to take to the streets and to the people of Tamil Nadu. Because when faith in the parliamentary process is eroded, the responsibility to defend constitutional values must return to the people themselves.

#Delimitation
#TNWillFightTNWillWin

[balasubramani @thananjayan]

@ptrmadurai Historians of the future will rightfully note that the seeds of the fragmentation of the Indian union were planted on the day of delimitation. What none of the separatist movements could do, the current central govt is intending to execute.

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years.

Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged.

A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

Trump thinks he can solve a clash of ancient civilisations that started more than 2500 years ago.

The Israelis are Mesopotamians, and the Iranians are Indo-Europeans.

Abraham is explicitly from Ur of the Chaldees, which is in southern Iraq, near modern Basra. There is no meaningful genetic discontinuity between the people of ancient Mesopotamia and the people who became Canaanites who became Israelites.

Hebrew is a Semitic language. The Semitic language family originated in Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula. Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Arabic, Babylonian — all branches of the same tree. Hebrew and Babylonian Akkadian are cousin languages the way Spanish and Italian are cousins. They share root words, grammatical structures, and conceptual vocabulary going back thousands of years before the Bible was written.

The foundational myths of Judaism — creation, the flood, paradise, the first man, the tower — all have direct Mesopotamian predecessors that are older. The ethical and legal framework — the covenant structure, the law codes — mirrors Mesopotamian forms. The calendar is Babylonian. The alphabet is Aramaic-Mesopotamian. The very concept of recording sacred history in written texts is a Mesopotamian invention.

El — the chief god of the early Israelites and the root of the word Elohim, one of the Hebrew names for God — was a Canaanite/Mesopotamian deity. The word Israel itself contains El. The angels, the cosmic hierarchy, the idea of a divine council — all have deep Mesopotamian roots. Early Israelite religion before the exile looks very much like a local variant of broader Mesopotamian religious culture, with Yahweh gradually absorbing the attributes of El, Baal and others into a single deity.

"Iran" comes directly from "Aryana" — land of the Aryans. The Iranians were Indo-European, not Semitic. This is the foundational distinction. Where the Semitic world — Sumerians absorbed by Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs — emerged from the Fertile Crescent and Arabian Peninsula, the Iranians came from somewhere completely different.

The Iranian peoples were part of the great Indo-European migration — a population that originated on the Pontic Steppe, the grasslands north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, in what is now Ukraine, southern Russia and Kazakhstan. Around 2000–1500 BC these steppe peoples began expanding in all directions on horseback, carrying their languages with them. One branch went west and became the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Germans, Slavs. Another branch went south and east and split into two streams — one into India becoming the Vedic civilization, one into Iran becoming the Persians and Medes.

Old Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and all their descendants are branches of the same tree. The word for father in Persian is "pedar," in Latin "pater," in Greek "patér," in Sanskrit "pitár," in English "father." The word for god in Persian is related to the Sanskrit "deva." The Iranian god Mithra appears in Roman religion as Mithras and possibly echoes in the Vedic Mitra. These are not coincidences — they reflect a common origin perhaps 5,000 years ago on the Eurasian steppe.

The two main Iranian tribes that entered history were the Medes in the northwest and the Persians in the south. The Medes formed the first Iranian empire around 700 BC, destroying the Assyrian Empire — the superpower of its day — in alliance with the Babylonians. Then the Persians under Cyrus the Great overthrew the Medes in 550 BC and built the Achaemenid Empire.

In 651 AD the Sassanid Persian Empire — the last great pre-Islamic Persian dynasty — was destroyed by the Arab Muslim armies in one of the fastest conquests in history. Iran was Islamicized. Arabic became the language of religion and high culture. Yet something remarkable happened — unlike Egypt, like North Africa, like the Levant, which gradually became Arabized in language and identity, Iran kept its language. Persian survived. Within two centuries Iranians were writing sophisticated poetry, philosophy and science in Persian — using the Arabic script but their own language. The Persian cultural identity proved resilient enough to absorb Islam without being dissolved by it.

The Persian literary renaissance of the 9th-10th centuries produced figures like Ferdowsi, whose Shahnameh — Book of Kings — deliberately reconstructed pre-Islamic Persian identity and mythology. It was a conscious act of cultural preservation remarkably similar to what the Jewish scribes did with the Torah in Babylon. A conquered people writing their way back into existence.

So you have two civilizational streams that met in the Middle East:

The Semitic stream — out of Arabia and the Fertile Crescent, producing Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs. Urban, agricultural, text-centered from very early, building civilization in river valleys.

The Indo-European Iranian stream — out of the Eurasian steppe, mounted, pastoral, bringing a completely different cosmology, a dualistic theology, a warrior aristocratic culture that then learned to govern sedentary civilizations from the Semitic world.

Modern Iranians are the descendants of that Indo-European Iranian stream, heavily mixed with the pre-existing Elamite and Semitic populations of the region, then further shaped by Arab Islamic conquest. Genetically they are distinct from Arabs — closer to South Asians and Europeans than to Semitic Arabs in certain markers, reflecting that ancient steppe origin. Linguistically Persian is closer to English than it is to Arabic — both are Indo-European, while Arabic is Semitic.

Which makes the current conflict between Iran and Israel — between the heirs of the Indo-European Iranian world and the heirs of the Semitic Mesopotamian-Canaanite world — in some sense a resumption of the oldest cultural fault line in the Middle East. The same two civilizational streams that first encountered each other when Cyrus walked into Babylon in 539 BC, when he freed the Jews and sent them home. Except then they were allies. And the Iranian was the liberator of the Semite.

History has a very dark sense of humor.

[Sahil @sahill_og]

Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or any other AI.

- He didn't have a co-founder.
- No VC funding. No office.
- No team.
- Just a personal project

he posted to a mailing list:

"I'm doing a free OS."

33 years later,

it runs 97% of the world's servers, all smartphones, and the International Space Station.

The most important software in history started as someone's side project.

Absolute legend.