Godzilla Plus One

Coffee my child, have you seen it? ☕

Civil Engineering Graduate |Curtin '22|

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

"Your attack on Iran is working. No one is talking about you raping children."

[Dinidu de Alwis @dinidu]

Please Stop: An open letter to Jamila Husain, Editor in Chief of the Daily Mirror

Dear Jamila,

It was somewhere late 2008 or early 2009 I crossed the corridor from Sunday Times and walked into the Daily Mirror newsroom. Then editor of the Daily Mirror Champ(ika) (Liyanarachchi) had wanted a full assurance from me that I'm coming with the approval and blessing of Anthony (David) and Sinha (Ratnatunge), because she didn't want to be told she's poaching - during my first sit down with Champika I explained how, as much as I venerate the Sunday Times, I wanted to get the daily-news experience. The Daily Mirror was the best English daily.

Three years prior, spending a large chunk of my measely Rs 6,000 salary from BCIS, I would still buy the DM because it was a good paper and I wanted to some day work there.

I can't remember if Champi introduced me to you and Easy (Easwaren Rutnam) or pointed you two out from inside her cubicle, but you and Easy were the ones I was told to get help, stories, contacts, pointers. I did, and you both helpfully obliged. I remember how you helped me turn a one-line story about an assault of an old woman into a two para bit.

I don't remember if you were there when I got my first lead of Pillayan's secretary shit dead, but vague recollection is that you were the one who sent me to that.

You left then I left and fast forward ten years, amidst rumours of a leadership change at the newspaper, you called and asked me if I'd be interested in coming back. You had found out I was thinking of leaving my job at the British High Commission, and you were keen to bring the paper back to how it was earlier. We kept talking over the weeks, but then between Covid cremations and elections I decided to stick around for a bit and not leave.

The point I'm trying to get to, is this: you were a mentor. I looked upto you. You helped, you taught. I learnt. You consoled me when I had to share bylines for big leads with the police reporter who had added two lines to my 1,000-word lead.

Ten years later, you made me want to actually leave the job I was doing and come to Daily Mirror with a significant pay cut, because you told me you wanted to make the paper like it was 'back in the day'.

Then when I tweeted at Namal about some airport thing you just snapped. Then you kept snapping until one day out of the blue you called hysterically in a fit of rage to ask if my 'downstairs' worked or my critique of the Daily Mirror and you is some complex due to an erectile dysfunction.

In a lot of people's eyes, you're just the person who dragged the Daily Mirror into the gutter. But for me it's different and far more painful. You're the person who showed me the where the metaphorical ropes, gave hope that good news reporting may be possible again, and then went on to not just drive the paper to the ground but then stamp on it on a daily basis.

I beg of you (and Sujan) - please stop.

Either the two of you don't care about the damage you're causing to the Sri Lankan civic space - in which case you're sociopaths; or you don't know about the damage you're causing to the Sri Lankan civic space - in which case you shouldn't be running a newspaper stand, let alone a newspaper.

It pains me to see that both Ranjit (Wijewardena) and Lalith (Allahkkoon) have to see what a trashy rag their one time pride and joy has become.

Stop. Give it to someone who can. Do that service to the country.

With love, Dinidu

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Good Morning.

I’ll just leave this right here.

[ARUNI @aruni_t]

When is this madness going to end? Clearly, the elephants are distressed after being brutally tortured and forced to perform.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

The horror of knowing what they likely did to this girl after this picture.

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Ragging: 4 University students arrested over student’s death https://t.co/AlqEp8Mxja

[Godzilla Plus One @thushan_silva]

The memes are flooding in

[Mr. Goji  @Mr_goji54]

Happy Wednesday kaiju lovers

[Mr. Goji  @Mr_goji54]

When worlds collide

[Kaiju No. 14 @14_kaiju]

New Godzilla video games are in the works at Toho.

(source: https://t.co/IDYBNRfnBy)

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Family

1.

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

"Americans buy a lot of clothes from Sri Lanka, but Sri Lanka doesn’t buy many gas turbines from America. That’s not a trade imbalance that needs to be corrected," CNN's Erin Burnett discusses Trump's tariff math with economics professor Brent Neiman

[Munza Mushtaq @munza14]

Sathsara Nimesh was just 21. Arrested on April 1st, tortured in police custody, and dead by April 2nd. His family found his discarded clothes outside the Welikada Police station, and were told it was suicide.
#JusticeForSathsara #PoliceBrutality #EndTorture #LKA #SRILANKA

[Godzilla Plus One @thushan_silva]

Wtf?

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Violence erupted at a music concert in Divulankadawala after two advertised singers failed to perform. Frustrated attendees vandalized the venue, damaging property and instruments.

[Arachchige Sehan @arachchigesehan]

මේ ඉන්නේ වයිරල් වෙන්නම ඕනේ කාන්තාවක් ! 🇱🇰❤

ආචාර්‍ය රෝෂිණී දිසානායක කොළඹ නගර සභාව ගැන තිබ්බ කෝපා (CoPA) කමිටුවේදී කියපු දේවල් සමහර පිරිමින්ටත් ආදර්ශයක්.

පසුගිය රජයන්වලින් කරපු හොරකම් එළිපිට කියන්න තරම් කොන්දක් මෙතුමියට තියෙන එක ගැන අපි ආඩම්බර වෙන්න ඕනේ.

- විකුම් හර්ෂණ -

[Kaiju No. 14 @14_kaiju]

Takashi Yamazaki says he hasn't decided on the title of his next Godzilla movie yet, despite having already begun scripting and storyboarding it.

(via @daichannoeiga)

[Sanjee #GoodGovernance🇱🇰🇪🇸🇧🇪🇪🇷🇿🇼🇳🇦🇫🇮 @nomadic_sanjee]

Sri Lanka if you really want to look into conspiracies have a look at this.

🎩Shanuka Elangasekera - chair person of Mothers Movement

🎩Shanuka Elangasekera - Israel Sri Lanka Solidarity Movement

#Trumpism
#SriLanka

[Godzilla Plus One @thushan_silva]

Watching #Monk again after 8 years and man Sharona and the Commissioner look way different from what I remember

[Godzilla Plus One @thushan_silva]

I have recently discovered that I am a sociopath (I use the trackpad to play #WorldofWarships)

[Godzilla Plus One @thushan_silva]

Well that was 2024 folks!