Why are the Wikipedia pages for Indian personalities like this 🥲

I met a man with horny knees, Said he to me "I kneel with these" Said I to him "please use this hassock" But he would not, the silly wazzock

Whereas we will be known by the type of posts we’ve made. The Shitposting culture of the first quarter of the third millennium AD.

I swear I don’t want to be facetious but the historical irony of Britain starting a Swadeshi movement is impossible to ignore en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh...

I can choose my bank, I can choose my online supermarket, I can pick where I buy books and clothes and watch TV. I cannot choose whether or not to interact with the state, it is not the same as going shopping.

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

THREAD. A collection of random dogs I have met on my adventures in the British countryside. You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

Going to use this to plug one of my favourite etymology facts: “garlic” comes from words meaning “spear-leek”

Tried some of those asparagus spears the other day. Honestly, would not recommend, they break on first contact, your shield wall is never going to hold off a Viking charge armed with those.

With apologies to non-Indian followers “MOTABHABHI!!!”

“It has been reported that a number of parents have lodged official complaints to the school's Board of Governors about the action taken against their children.” 👀

@aashiks.bsky.social requested that I don’t boast about cooking without evidence of performance as they say in audit-speak so here is fast, after-work paneer jalfrezi. Used the sad Sainsbury’s paneer :/ but the curry part is fine

I’m obviously biased as I built the digital Apprenticeship Service but these are corking opportunities in a growth area.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

This is actually funny.

I watched some of The Traitors just out of curiosity and was a bit disappointed. No “Pooja what is this behaviour”-type shenanigans

Penned by Vinayak Varma, “The Fairy Shop Op” is a subversive and witty conversation based in an industrialist dystopia that’s not too far off from our own. Link below: tasavvurnama.com/the-fairy-sh... 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

I present - ZEUS (Green cheeked conure)

“I wish my Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies felt more relevant.”

How the f was I perfectly fine last night and feel like the English sweating sickness rn :/

If the only thing Zohran Mamdani achieves is popularizing the bidet in America he will have left an important legacy

This sign was one of the highlights of my Oxford visit which should tell you how cultured and sophisticated I am 😭

I don’t understand this in the slightest.

indianexpress.com/article/long... On the reality of India’s convenience economy

Example www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

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Do not think too much of bodies They are plentiful and fleeting Do not think too much of the mind It is nebulous and soon lost Do not grow attached to feelings They are gossamer, they are chains Do not think at all It is a trap.

This is as it should be.

Same 😭

Indeed, if one lives to a reasonably long old age while maintaining the physical and mental ability to clean the kitchen that’s actually a good outcome

She attacc

I thought that Surbiton was made up for ages, as it was where the Good Life and Stella Street were set and it sounded so obviously a play on 'suburbia'. I was surprised to find it was real, although I don't know if it was just me who made that mistake

Oh my god she uploaded a slow motion video and it's amazing. He's just like me fr running as best he can and still going backwards over and over!

There is surely some kind of commentary on gender or society to be had here but I’m too busy crying with laughter to explore all that. Please

I wonder if other languages / countries have the equivalent of “Jhumri Telaiya” i.e. a random imaginary place of little consequence. Oddly Jhumri Telaiya actually exists and the story of why people started to doubt its existence is really interesting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhumri_...

Welp, I think someone I follow on here is in my ICC quiz tier 👀

“flerp”

This is so unlike me but I’m currently on an odd Sukhvinder Singh - Labh Janjua - Lehmbar Hussainpuri kick

Lots Of Time to Die, it’s still Q1 Haha

If I was a government, I would pick an adjective besides evil to be. Bucolic maybe. Or effervescent

It does give one a very eerie feeling 😭

Sigh. NHS advice on eating fish has nothing about river fish (e.g. rui, katla, magur) eaten mostly by Bengalis. Also I’m presumably screwed because as a girl I definitely ate more than 2 portions of mercury-laden fish lmao

Now you know why the name Tommy Robinson is slightly hilarious

Have a day

found a way to hide half the posts here that're just screenshots of a shitty tweet

Anyway to distract you from the latest round of horrors both acute and chronic, I offer this excellent video that can be enjoyed without any math knowledge: youtu.be/M64HUIJFTZM?...

A great mix of stories and many new authors to meet

Hi! It would probably be helpful to plan something offline today. It could be a walk outside, a museum, cooking a meal, a workout, or even a nap. Remember to breathe, eat food you enjoy, take your meds, and give yourself grace. Maybe lower your shoulders. And try not to doomscroll too much today.

This is particularly funny if you remember the history of cereal as a breakfast food