Gokul J

Personal fitness milestone! Broke my 100 kg deadlift barrier. At 104 kgs 5RM. Triple digits don't scare me anymore!!!

@lightroastguy no reason why they shouldn't. they've got a pretty good grip.

@lightroastguy If you are ok with flat shoes, have been using a pair of water shoes (Aquashoe) from Decathlon. They are flat and super lightweight. ~1000 INR.

Looking for gym shoes recommendations, currently wearing my running shoes for lifting weights. I should get anew pair.

There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in Vietnam. It goes like this: Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians. They came home broken and unappreciated. It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned. Notice what that story does. It centers Americans. Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings. In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop. A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction. Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery. They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam. The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill. Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll. They turned our genocide into their coming-of-age story. They lost the war and still managed to make themselves the main character. And then, with extraordinary arrogance, they put their soldiers' names on a wall in Washington and call it a memorial, as if the dead to be mourned were the people who flew 10,000 miles to do the killing. Where is the wall for our three million? There isn't one. Because in their telling, we were never quite real enough to mourn.

@drunkJournalist A quick nut check and back to rest! This man is a 'Strong Beer' legend!

Please wear a helmet as well as inner wear and drive safe.

@TheDeshBhakt @TheMattViera It isn't? that hurts! :)

Matt, by that logic, you’ll claim that being bald is also a life hack. No grooming - no visits to the barber! No worries about what style to choose & no fretting over hair-fall. Just get up and go! The time & money u saved - goes to investing, experiences and freedom. Different priorities. Different definition of stupidity

Not having kids is a life hack. I spend my summers in Europe, take cross-country road trips, and disappear off-grid on weekends. The money I’d spend on kids goes to investing, experiences, and freedom. Different priorities. Different definition of rich.

@theliverdoc Done. Thank you for doing this.

Generic drugs vs. Branded drugs project An update. Within 24 hours, we were able to raise ₹1200,000/- with you kind support. This is massive - a sign of great interest from the public. Help us keep it alive. The whole project cost is ₹2793000/- including detailed analysis work, purchase, transportation, logistics, future paper publication and open access fees. We do not have any sponsors other than you. Please help us reach the goal so that this project sees the light at the end of the tunnel. There is no other major public health project that is so important in India right now. And you can help us go the distance. To contribute, please go here: pages.razorpay.com/GenericvsBrand… - and share this with your family and friends. If you have entrepreneurs or business owners who are interested in not-for-profit healthcare projects like these and would like to contribute larger sums to this public health project, please get in touch with them too with the link and project details. We want to kick-off the analyses early next week.

@mynameswatik Spot on. Even regular squatters sweat the BSS!

If you are not doing Bulgarian Split Squats in gym, do you really work on your legs?

An Elixir lang job in Bangalore! No association with this company. Just happy to see Elixir thriving here in Blr. Someone with better reach, please repost. linkedin.com/jobs/view/4247…

@RadhikaBarman5 Atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief in the absence of evidence. Some truths do speak in the silence...of the gods.

Atheism is a belief, not a weapon to win debates over grief. Using someone’s tragedy to score a philosophical point isn’t intelligence; it’s cruelty dressed as logic. When Palestinian children beg for food, the right response isn’t a smug reminder that God didn’t save them. It’s compassion, not condescension, that defines humanity. You don’t need to declare you’re right when life itself is bleeding in front of you. Some truths speak loudest in silence, and empathy will always say more than victory in an argument ever could.

@NARAYANRAO12 @zoo_bear If he makes even the slightest 'legal' mistake, they will come down on him like a ton of bricks. Hopefully, that will never happen!

@zoo_bear Absolutely Seeing how Umar Khalid has now been in prison for 5+ years, it is a miracle that Zubair is still going strong with his fact checking of all the lies Modi himself, the government machinery, most Constitutional authorities and even the BJP's leaders put out every day.

Here, I discussed on how Govt, Ministers, people in power are paying third party companies to run their propaganda. Who inturn pay influencers to share the content. Do watch. The full video here youtu.be/56VXdUC7IOA?si…

@MANSAFAB Switching to Tofu is an even better choice. No cholesterol. More minerals - Iron, Magnesium.

Switching to low fat paneer is one of the best options.

You might be eating Paneer to complete your protein goal, but you might be missing something. Paneer is extremely rich in saturated fat. 100g paneer: -18 g protein -15 g fat. Out of which almost 9g is saturated fat. According to WHO, saturated fat should make up no more than 10% of your daily calories intake.

When keeping an eye on heart health, a High LDL has been the most popular marker for risk, but looks like hs-CRP which measures inflammation and is a fairly cheap test (< 1K INR ) might be a great addition to monitor heart-attack risks and overall cardiovascular health. empirical.health/blog/inflammat…

Hello friends, I am back on the job market and looking for Elixir opportunities..if your company is hiring or you come accross opportunities please DM me. Retweets appreciated 🙏 #elixirlang #elixir

@theliverdoc In solidarity. Keep going. May the force be with you!

Good morning. The weekend witnessed a massive hate campaign directed against me by the pseudoscientific Ayurveda community as well as large account Indian right-wing influencers including "fellow doctor colleagues." They doxed my work place, threw religious slurs at me, morphed my images, made vulgar racist comments, defamed my family, called us organ traffickers, and named my public health awareness efforts "rabid." By doing that, they have exposed themselves more. My work and it's importance have become even more valuable. I appreciate and thank my follower-friends (you know who you are🫶) and doctor colleagues (you know who you are 🫶) here on Twitter for supporting me and helping my voice echo longer and stronger. The public support against pseudoscientific alternative medicine was even stronger and it gladdened me. ONE event, and now everyone knows how dangerous alternative medicine such as Ayurveda and Homeopathy are. Everyone knows how the practitioners and their supporters are the real rabid cultists. Why do I strongly oppose Ayurveda and Homeopathy and such alternative medicine practices? Because it has real world outcomes. Shown in the image below are the various alternative medicines, herbal and dietary supplements that many people took because of advertisements, promotions on anecdotes and health misinformation on social media. They came to me with severe liver injury and some in liver failure for treatments. My team painstakingly retrieved these products from them. Sadly and to my terrible sorrow, most of these patients did not make it. They are survived by their young children or spouses, or aging parents only. You think your massive hate campaign will deter me? It only makes me stronger. Keep 'em coming. You have no idea of the gargantuan beast you have created with so much hate. I'll keep educating people and public as long as I can, as much as I can. Jai Hind.

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@ilaiyaraaja Poonkathave Thazhthiravaai ..from Nizhalgal.

If you want me to perform one song in my every concert live performance, what would you want it to be?

@readingkafka Is there a map of all these village libraries in Karnataka? Would love to visit some of them.

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” - Albert Einstein. In Bidar, 202 new village public libraries. Part of nearly 6600 new village public libraries across Karnataka. #publiclibrariesforall

These 2 pics are 11 years apart. In these 11 years, I have had a job which takes about 55-60 hours of work per week. There is also fair bit of travel involved and I have a young family at home. And I am a big time foodie and also have a sweet tooth Over the last few years, many working professionals with similar time constraints have approached me for help to begin/scale their fitness journey. Written this thread which I think will be beneficial- both educational as well as actionable- for all such folks Here you go👇

80s is the greatest music era!! Ilayaraja, RDB, Michael Jackson, Queen, Bon Jovi..

Beautiful stuff! Bought some recently as gifts and they were a hit! You can tell they were lovingly crafted. Tempted to wear them myself :)