Akshay । అక్షయ్

I’m outta here folks. Did a trial run for a few days. Going to stretch this for longer. Find me on Mastodon, IG, FB, LinkedIn, Substack, Flickr, Metafilter… anywhere but here.

@elonmusk Here is the full quotation from Alcuin, with translation:

With the right filters etc, Twitter offers a certain unexpected serendipity, an ability to read about something you didn’t know before. A bit like Slashdot used to do or Metafilter does. FB simply doesn’t, Mastodon may but as yet doesn’t. Therein lies the rub.

Social networks come and go. I gave up Twitter for easily 4-5 years before restarting it again. There will be something else. And also, I’m not sure it’ll go down so quickly; Melon Husk somehow seems to be quite vested in the Twitter brand.

I don’t think Twitter is going to end tonight or whatever, but I’m glad I was able to download my Twitter archive and retrieve this.

@Aerohaveno Yeah, love them 19th century Romantic poets, so any spoof built on top of their work is a win for me. :D

@cydonian Percy Shelley did most of it, to be fair

I met a traveller at Mastodon, Who said “A cracked and lifeless bird of blue Lies in the desert... Near it, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, Blue check, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive…

@Aerohaveno The best so far. :D

The hand that mocked them, the heart that fed; 'Neath its handle, these words appear: I am Elon, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

@mkhanpasha Tabasharani? More like Rani of the fur Tamasha amirite. Seriously though, love this. Big Quebec history buff; would love to learn more!

I know my main man @aasif has done lots of interesting things in his life, but in this household, he'll always be the voice of Meera The Royal Detective's dad. #weareonthecase #weareonthecase

@PradyuPrasad My suggestion is this: when you have time and space, travel, live and learn outside. You can always return to Singapore if things don't pan out.

@PradyuPrasad Lived in London briefly; loved it to bits. Felt quite sad returning to Singapore. Singapore gives me what I call as fuck-off-ability: the ability to say "fuck off" to something if and when they go south. Felt it was a lot harder in UK.

@vieira_tiago_ @veenadubal Lived in Barcelona previously. Took Spanish lessons, but thanks to my neighbourhood, picked up more than a smattering of Catalan. 🙂

@cydonian @veenadubal Catalan indeed

What does this say?

Now that the Emperor is in charge of the Galactic Senate, we can move on from silly questions like, "Who ordered the murder of all of the Jedi?" and "Who blew up Alderaan?" to focus on the REAL issue - what was on Han Solo's laptop???

So. Another long story about our yesterday trip to #Mykolaiv and #Kherson. Danger: 🧵

Marriage is marriage. 👍🏽👏🏽 theguardian.com/us-news/2022/n…

"One of the claims went largely unnoticed in the United States but caught my eye: His lawyers argued that Twitter had engaged in “risky litigation against the Indian government,” and put one of the largest markets in jeopardy." nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opi…

#BREAKING Corrupt, autocratic, spiritual leader of US far-white Shite Christianist anti-math insurgents, Grand Covfefe Donald "Papa Don" Trump, launches fresh bid to retake country from unpopular Joe Biden regime, two years after he was defenestrated following blood-soaked reign.

@gautambhatia88 Not readable fiction, but I'm in a Cowboy Bebop phase and think it's epitome of good taste.

Recommendations for essential Japanese fiction to read? (not Murakami)