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🧵🪡 Threads of Threads of Nonsense:

@guyfromhills unreal. gosh, i miss the mountains

less noise and more flowers

@StephenGeoRae where can i get high def files?

Four unpublished illustrations by Peter Klúcik for J. R. R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit".

Hamnet (2025) dir. Chloe Zhao

@ku1deep @GurpriyaSidhu 😹😹😹 You forgot Monisha beta Fk offf

@_CynicalCyanide @GurpriyaSidhu My jokes don't land beause you have not seen Sarabhai vs Sarabhai!!!.... I will go continue my transition into a fossil now.

The essence of life is to love and let go again and again and again.

@realAtlasPress “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for”

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever." —Thomas Aquinas

@ku1deep @GurpriyaSidhu princess bride is not middle class 😤

@_CynicalCyanide @GurpriyaSidhu Don’t be middle class. Say Amor Fati.

@JeremyNoronha Good old days

In a new country today🇽🇰 No plan, no mobile data, no hotel bookings The best

@ku1deep @GurpriyaSidhu

@GurpriyaSidhu ....and refusing to accept this fact also.

@shanaka86 @ianmiles @grok 😭😭😭 howww do you verify information Twitter is demonic

@ianmiles The footage is from the March 11, 2026 attack on the Thai-flagged bulk carrier "Mayuree Naree" in the Strait of Hormuz, which caught fire after being hit by projectiles. No verified reports of a new container ship attack today. @grok ??

Iran just attacked a container ship trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most critical oil chokepoints where 20% of global petroleum passes daily. Earlier, the Islamic regime said the strait had been opened only to Russia, India, China, and Spain if it submits a request. This selective access list essentially creates a two-tier system for global shipping, with its Middle Eastern neighbors and all major Western economies notably absent from approved passage. Iran thinks it controls the entire Strait and it needs to be dismantled.

@sivers will you be in bombay? try and come hang out with some cool people in bombay :-)

People of India! My OCI + Airtel + HDFC has culminated in a massive achievement and rite of initiation. I have made my first UPI payment. I’m now unstoppable.

The world gets warmer and the days end pretty. A Spring that isn’t, fades away like a barely witnessed dream. The gentle winter is but a memory now. There’s long breath yet before the rains get here. Every Konkan summer is discontent. A wait to get to the other side. we still have these sunsets though. I take a deep breath and settle down to wait. Tomorrow will be different.

@kingofknowwhere @nishanth_who it’s a silly little ebook reader yaar

@_CynicalCyanide @nishanth_who Heh?

Time to be performative in ways not seen before.

@anushcache I’m in Bombay, I have a bunch of hmt janatas

anyone in BLR have a vintage HMT watch collection? 👀 working on a video and want to explore some personal collections RT for good karma ✨

@ku1deep @GurpriyaSidhu 😿 yeahhhh

@GurpriyaSidhu Both of those are central ADD traits.

Two signs of weak listening skills - 1. You auto-complete someone's thought in your head and disengage mid way, or start preparing your response. 2. You hear an interesting keyword and drift into your own related thoughts about it. I see this happen so often when I meet people now. Listening is an active, energy-consuming, difficult task. It is not the same as 'hearing'. Giving someone your entire attention is a form of care and respect and very few people now seem to understand how to do it.

Except this is not what studying looks like, and I am sick and tired of the internet pretending that it does. Let me tell y'all something. Studying is maddening, okay? It is a pursuit of fanatically trying to understand something that you, for some inexplicable reason cannot seem to move on from. It is the single most devastating as well as rewarding thing that you can take up, IF you are truly trying to get something done. Devastating since at the extreme, it is THE Most lonely undertaking a human can take up. You will drown yourself in texts that were authored far before your bloodline existed, in thoughts that make no damn sense to anyone but to you, and you cannot explain them to those few who are willing to listen because you are not sure about them yourself. Speaking of thoughts - the bastards that they are. I am convinced that they are the only entity in the world that moves faster than the speed of fucking light. And for a mind that's fanatic enough, it is a struggle to keep a hold of the freight-train that ravages through you every time you encounter something new. And the cruel part? The name of the game is to hold on to the single thought that you have as a thousand more flood in. To give it the time that it deserves, the patience that it needs, but oh well, there's a thousand more that are demanding the very same. You try and write it down, because it helps, but what happens when your hands cannot match your brain? You go insane. You try and distract yourself, "Maybe I am tripping, it's not that deep." NO IT IS THAT FUCKING DEEP. But when it all comes together, when those thousand thoughts do indeed get processed, when it all forms ONE beautiful symphony that we call a body of work, the brink of insanity suddenly seems worth reaching and staying at. So no. Studying is not all about having a Starbucks coffee with a MacBook that has cute PDFs open, or a stack of messy books, or neatly written notes that are Pinterest-worthy, or a dimly lit room with motherfuckers dressed in the most immaculate fashion that they can find trying to talk about their experiences. And I am so done with the internet trying to make it that fucking way. FIGHT ME.

wake up and weep on a sunday afternoon

I asked a dear friend what 23 was like, all those decades ago:

@sandeep_PT just going to leave this here and Homer Simpson style slowly retreat into a hedge.... youtu.be/-yrUFU5ZTZA?si…

What clarity of thought, What a determined man🙏

are there ways to get past substack paywalls? (asking for a friend) also, if anyone subscribes to Noah Smith, please share? (the same asking friend) this hypothetical friend greatly appreciates it