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[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

Americans when they realise the shootout in World Cup games is about shooting penalties, not people…

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🫂 Leo Messi on the rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo: “What happened was a beautiful sporting rivalry”.

“It's something natural in the world of football. I was at Barcelona and he was at Real Madrid, and we were competing for everything both collectively and individually, so people were always comparing us.

"But our relationship was always good and respectful, and everything that happened was purely athletic. There was nothing personal.

"We didn't meet often except at matches or award ceremonies, and we were always on good terms.

"Now we're at different stages in our lives, but what happened was a beautiful sporting rivalry”, told @polloalvarezok.

[433 @433]

“𝑷𝑬𝑷, 𝒀𝑶𝑼’𝑽𝑬 𝑹𝑼𝑰𝑵𝑬𝑫 𝑴𝒀 𝑳𝑰𝑭𝑬!” 😤

Arsenal fans went over to Wembley to beg Pep Guardiola to let the Gunners win the league 😂

[Frank Khalid OBE @FrankKhalidUK]

Have to admit this made me laugh.

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

Comedian Kunal Kamra said that he could not tender an unconditional apology as it “would not be sincere” and would “set a terrible precedent” for other artists and their freedom of expression.

Read more: https://t.co/S4Vn4LJL6t

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Tragedies like this often occur due to a "window of vulnerability" or Cold Chain Failure. If the vaccine isn't stored at 2°C-8°C constantly, it loses potency.

​4 ways to prevent this from happening to you

1️⃣ The 15-Minute Flush: Immediately wash the wound with soap and RUNNING water for 15 mins. This is the single most effective way to kill the virus at the entry point.

2️⃣ Demand the RIG: For broken skin (Category III), you need RIG (Rabies Immunoglobulin) inside the wound, not just the vaccine in your arm. RIG provides instant antibodies while the vaccine takes 7-14 days to work.

3️⃣ Choose the Right Hospital: Avoid small, local clinics that might have frequent power cuts or poor refrigeration. Go to a major government hospital where cold chain protocols (backup generators/medical fridges) are strictly monitored.

4️⃣ Zero Delay: If the bite is near the face/neck, the virus reaches the brain faster. Start the treatment within hours, not days.

[woolf @thepsychwolf]

@GoibiboSupport @jagograhakjago Still no update ? Whats the point of replying to the tweet if you aren't going to respond to the query? @goibibo

[woolf @thepsychwolf]

@goibibo i made a hotel booking almost 20 days back but the hotel is denying any request received from their end. My checkin date is closing in and i am now clueless as whats happening. Unable to reach support.

[woolf @thepsychwolf]

@GoibiboSupport Still no response from your end, no way to reach customer support on call either.

I am stuck now on this and there isnt any way to connect, cancelling the booking would mean getting the "voucher" but whats the point of it if your booking itself never confirms

@jagograhakjago

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

My feed is filled with people vibe coding all sorts of financial tools using Kite APIs like portfolio dashboards, backtesting setups, market insight tools, and even automated trading setups. A lot of these things are useless but there are some genuinely well thought out tools, built to solve very specific problems that traders and investors have.

And most of these people have never written a line of code in their life. Just plain English and AI coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, etc.

If you have FOMO to try these tools but don't know where to start, try our MCP plugin first. Connect it to your Zerodha account and just start asking it things. You get a real sense of what's possible before you start using AI coding tools.

Link in the comments.

[Vincent The Therapist @mrhighfoster]

Let me explain what this means so that you understand better.

In a hospital in Vietnam, a 12 year old girl was very sick with blood cancer (that's leukemia)

The cancer kept coming back, even after strong medicine and a special gift of blood cells from her dad was given to her.

Then the doctors decided to try something new called CAR-T treatment.

They took some of the girl's own fighter cells ( that's the ones that help fight sickness) out of her blood. They sent those cells to medical scientists in Taiwan.

When the cells arrived, these scientist gave the fighter cells a special lock that could find and stick only to the bad cancer cells.They made millions of these fighter cells and put them back into the girl through a little tube in her arm.

The fighters then went looking for the cancer, found it, grabbed it, and destroyed it.
After some hard days with fever and doctors watching her closely, all the cancer disappeared.

She became the first kid in Vietnam to get better this way. When other treatments didn't work, her own body, with a little help, became the hero that saved her. Now other sick kids and even adults alike might have this same chance too.
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This is an huge breakthrough in the medical world. And I'm glad that many lives would be saved. This would give so much closure and hope to victims of cancer or loved ones affected one way or the other by cancer.

This year already looks very promising and there's renewed hope.

This time, the hope can be felt, touched, smelt and seen very visibly.

The light at the end of the tunnel, is now at the entrance. Staring at us right in the face. And yessss we loving it!
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✍️ Vincent the Therapist

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Drop everything you are doing and watch and share this "zabardast" original documentary on Ayush and Ayurveda in India.

https://t.co/CJW7ZItQyJ
Featuring the narration by Ravish Kumar
And on-ground report by Basant Kumar
#MustWatch

Basant met me at my workplace in Kochi and we had a very long talk and recording session (in Hindi!) on my experiences with treating and publishing on the largest numbers of cases of Ayush-liver injury in the country at our referral center. I wish I could have given him more time, but clinical work was damning at the time. But I am happy how this turned out.

He has also interviewed my patients (and many such patients across India), especially my young-girl patient who turned out to have severe alcohol-related liver injury and arsenic poisoning from Ayurvedic treatment for seizure disorder (that segment will make your feel really sad). #MustSee

It is the most important video you will watch this year and please share it maximum. This is a huge effort from Basant and the NL team, and I am proud to be part of this.

PS: Ayurveda practitioners feature time and again in the video. That's your loo break or comic relief - whichever way you want to see it. Listen to their incompetence and ignorance. And the Govt. is hell bent on creating more such incompetent fools.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Hello friends!

Citizens Generic Drugs vs Branded Drugs Quality Project:

Results of all 131 drugs analysed, and the complete, original, quality test reports of all drugs are now available for your review and reading here at:
https://t.co/J57flwNqfB

There are two links right at the bottom of the webpage where you can download the Excel sheet and full compiled PDF.

Also the full scientific paper of this study is now in peer review.

Thanks again to all who contributed🫂

[Tony Joseph @tjoseph0010]

A more precise statement: All modern humans have an unbroken lineage of about 300,000 years going back to Africa. All Indians carry a genetic lineage going back about 60,000 years to the arrival of the Out of Africa migrants. All Indians also carry the genetic lineage of the people who would go on to build the Harappan Civilization, a mix of the Out of Africa migrants and later migrants from ancient Iran, going back to perhaps 7,000 years ago. Most Indian population groups also carry the genetic lineage of the Steppe migrations from Central Asia between 2000-1500 BCE that brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent, as also the East Asian migrations that brought Austro-Asiatic languages after 2000 BCE. Yes, we do carry a long genetic lineage, one that goes far beyond 5000 years, as we are a mix of multiple migrations into India that happened in prehistory.

[Tackle From Behind @tacklefromb]

POV: Real Madrid finishing out of Top 8

[woolf @thepsychwolf]

@Engineer_Prady If i remember it right, he had made certain claims on other "popular" songs as well. Anyone who has listened to his credited composition vs the claimed ones would know what's what.

His compositions barring a few are below par, exceptional singer nonetheless.

[Pradeepch @Engineer_Prady]

#SukhwinderSingh as a composer:
Hindusthani Ki Kasam,
Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav,
Halla Bol,
Black & White,
Chintu,
Monopoly The Game of Money,
Zed Plus,
Holy Cow.

Now go listen to these albums and come back and tell me, can this guy compose an album like Taal or a song like Nahin Samne or Jai Ho?

Simple logic: if Sukhwinder could compose tunes on #ARRahman's level, what stopped him from becoming another ARR, Pritam, or Mithoon?

No rationality in decoding interview answers, No rationality in hate, No rationality in propaganda.
The brain is so rotted that it can’t even process simple logic anymore.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

If protobuf is already a compact binary format, should we even bother compressing it further with Snappy? Here's what Uber's M3 actually does...

Uber's M3 ingests over a billion datapoints per second (a pretty insane scale), and it actually ingests data over HTTP/1.1 as Snappy-compressed protobuf.

Protobuf is efficient, yes, but telemetry data has a unique characteristic: it's highly repetitive. You see the same metric names, similar tag sets, repeated hostnames, and consistent field structures across thousands of data points. Given how redundant it is, this data can be compressed extremely well, even with a fast algorithm like Snappy.

M3 uses Snappy-compressed protobuf over HTTP for its Prometheus remote write endpoint. The reason is simple - at a massive scale, you need compression that won't become your bottleneck.

- Snappy compresses and decompresses extremely fast
- it prioritizes speed over compression ratio
- the CPU overhead on both client and collector stays minimal
- telemetry clients shouldn't burn cycles on compression when they should be doing actual work

Fun fact: at scale, everything is a bottleneck. You try to save every bit and every CPU cycle. All you need to do is understand the use case really well, observe patterns, and pick what suits you best.

[TaxBuddy @TaxBuddy1]

🚨 A Singapore-based NRI earned ₹1.35 crore from Indian mutual funds and paid ₹0 tax.

She claimed India–Singapore DTAA benefits.

Tax dept rejected it but ITAT Mumbai overturned the decision.

And NO capital gains tax in Singapore = ₹0 tax paid.

Every NRI should read this 👇

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

STAY WITH ME.

A few years ago, a patient was referred to me because he was diagnosed with complicated cirrhosis. He had an infection which led to a condition called hepatic encephalopathy (brain failure due to high ammonia levels). The treatment largely involved ammonia reducing therapies. One drug was central to this - Rifaximin - a non-absorbable antibiotic that reduced ammonia in the body. I prescribed him Rifaximin for 6 weeks and advised him follow-up.

He came back to me, not after six weeks, but in 4 weeks, this time, in liver coma (worst stage of brain failure - due to very high ammonia). He spent two days in the ICU and six days in total in the hospital. His hospital bill was close to INR 80,000. He had no insurance and his wife borrowed the money from neighbors and friends to clear hospital dues.

Upon questioning, I found that he was not taking the Rifaximin drug I had prescribed. He was only on the other two drugs (one, a syrup called lactulose for improving ammonia clearance in gut). I was furious, because the patient spent a whole week unecessarily in the ICU and wasted so much money that he never had - just because he was "not compliant" to my orders. I decided it was time for me to school him a bit.

But I was wrong. He was compliant. He had purchased Rifaximin and was on it. For 15 days. Thereafter, he could not afford it. He was an autorickshaw driver who shuttled school children every morning and evening. He could hardly make ends meet. He had two children of his own. The Rifaximin brand I prescribed him was 42 rupees per tablet. He had to consume two a day - which would mean 2520 rupees a month. He just did not have that money - so he skipped it - to not compromise on other important matters - childrens education and food.

He was confused and scared about opting for a cheaper version of Rifaximin because one, he was unsure about the quality of Rifaximin that was not prescribed by me and two, he was "scared" that I would scold him for buying a cheaper Rifaximin and if that got him into trouble.

I was confused and scared about prescribing a cheaper version of Rifaximin because one, I was unsure about the quality of Rifaximin that was not "a good promoted brand" and two, I was "scared" that his family would scold me for prescribing a cheaper Rifaximin and if that got him into trouble.

It is heartbreaking that many doctors still simply don’t trust generic medicines. Too often, they worry that these cheaper options are lower quality or might cause more problems than the big, famous brands. This fear leads them to prescribe expensive drugs instead, and the real tragedy is that it pushes vital healthcare out of reach for the ordinary people who need it most - like my patient.

This narrative, that generic drugs 'are never good' and that only big pharmaceutical marketed drugs are what works has been deeply ingrained into doctors and patients alike - I do not know by whom and since when. Looking back, these strong emotions were based on either opinions, testimonials or second- and third-hand information. Not evidence.

Like I said. Stay with me. This is life changing and will disrupt the drug market in India. Here are the results of The Citizens Generic vs. Brand Drugs Quality Project.
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