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This American Life - Invention of Money episode is awesome. Yes, it is from 2011 but really relevant even today. thisamericanlife.org/423/the-invent…

@impuni @KommawarSwapnil It is. Both Good Friday and Easter Monday are holidays in the UK

@KommawarSwapnil And Good Friday is not a holiday even in Christian countries

Holiday structure in office: Ugadi → Optional Holiday Diwali → Optional Holiday Vinayaka Chaturthi → Optional Holiday But: Good Friday → Full Holiday Christmas → Full Holiday

@santhoo9 Link to the app?

Now, there is a website to translate from English to LinkedIn language. 😂🙊

@atulkasbekar @CSMIA_Official London Heathrow - you have to go to short stay car park and pick up the passenger from there. And yeah! Pay the parking fee as well. So it is not correct to say this practice is only in Mumbai/India

At any airport round the world, u can come out to the kerb at arrivals and can be picked up by your car It is of course a quick 5’, ‘load bags n jump in’ pit stop At @CSMIA_Official (Mumbai Airport) you have no such choice. You HAVE to go into the parking to collect the passengers. Then wait in line to exit and get slammed for some ₹300 (P6 rates). A 3-4’ pick up results in a 20-25’ headache This is such a waste of time and a rip off. The math of this extortion fleecing patrons runs into a massive number for the airport Should be illegal or poorly planned intentionally

@ujjwalscript 2 hour commute on 101? Seattle?

I left my job as a Developer at Microsoft in US, and moved to India for a remote job opportunity. It changed my life for better: 1. The "PPP" Superpower: In Seattle, $250k is "comfortable." In Delhi, it is "Dynasty Wealth" (Family House). My rent dropped 80%. My savings rate hit 90%. I stopped looking at menu prices. 2. The "Time" Dividend: No more lonely winters. No more frozen dinners. No more 2-hour commutes on the 101. Now, I have chai with my parents every evening. I have a cook. I have a driver. I have time (Yes I pay them well). 3. The Career Hack: I didn't "step down." I stepped up. Remote work strips away the "visa anxiety." I focus purely on the building good products. And on my own ideas. I didn't leave the US to retire. I left to actually live.

Travelled last month. Still the same issue. It is 2026. Find a way to do a visa check online!

Dear @britishairways and @HeathrowAirport, This summer, on our way to India, we were flying BA from LHR. We could do an online check-in before the flight but were not issued the boarding pass – as our visas to India had to be checked by BA at the airport. We reached the airport with plenty time to spare… or so we thought. There were exactly two counters to check visas. (We had already checked in our bags using Airportr service. So we were traveling only with cabin bags.) One was in the south wing of T5 and the other, the north wing. Both had a serpentine queue with people using the counter for all sorts of stuff – not just visa validation. By the time our turn came, it had been 90 minutes in the airport already and we were getting jittery about catching our flight. By then, the queue for security check had grown a lot. Thanks to an understanding BA ground staff member, we were given Fasttrack option and got to the gate just in time to catch the flight! This begs the question. In 2024, why are we still dependent on a human being checking our Visas in the airport? Why is there no option on British Airways website or mobile app to enter our visa details (in this case, the OCI details for India) in advance so that they could be verified by you before the check-in process? You have the option for us to upload our passport details. So why not the visas as well for other countries? If this is something that you cannot take care of because of some government regulations or rules, why not have more counters open in the airport to handle this? And they have to exclusive to visa check – so that we don’t have to wait behind people trying to check-in 25 pieces of baggage! Please fix this one way or another. This is a jarring experience for most of the travellers. #BritishAirways #HeathrowAirport

@icelandcricket @ICC If only you had posted this on Sunday, it would have been the best Sunday Roast - beating all the pubs in the UK :D

Dear @ICC, It is with a heavy heart that we now announce our unavailability to replace Pakistan in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Regardless of whether they now withdraw, the short timescales ensure it is impossible for our squad to prepare in the professional manner necessary to compete effectively in this global cricketing spectacle. We are not like Scotland and able to turn up on a whim, with no kit sponsor. Our players are from all walks of life and cannot simply drop their occupations to fly halfway around the world to experience temperatures only normally felt in Finnish saunas. Our captain, a professional baker, needs to attend to his oven, our ship captain needs to steer his vessel, and our bankers need to go bankrupt (again). This is the harsh reality of cricket at the amateur level of the game. This news will be extremely disappointing to our fans. Despite being the most peaceful nation on Earth, we maintain an army of online followers, and are the world's 14th most followed national board on X. We were ready to give the Dutch the biggest shock they have experienced since William of Orange lost the Battle of Landen in 1693. And the Americans were looking forward to taking on Greenland, or so their orange-dyed leader thought. Our loss is likely Uganda's gain. We wish them well. Their kits cannot be missed unless you have epilepsy, in which case they are probably best avoided. The future is always ice, until it isn't. Yours sincerely, Icelandic Cricket Association

@VijayGopal_ @CPHydCity @Comm_HYDRAA @TelanganaDGP @GHMCOnline @IPRTelangana @INCTelangana @DCPKZHyd @VRajeshekar @TelanganaCMO @NewsMeter_In Completely echo your view. This is the IMAX screen in London for comparison. (15/70 - Same screen size and dimensions as Prasads. But this one is still IMAX)

Hello @CPHydCity , this is a other disaster waiting to happen in Hyd. The law is clear abt passage n gangway in theatres, but Prasad large screen has none after 10th row or passage. Pls take action before someone dies again or a fire tragedy occurs. Been raising it for a decade

@FHF_Official Let me try this again. Any update on this @FHF_Official

Work on the Mani Ratnam 8K digitisation project is in full flow. Here are some scanned images from his acclaimed 1997 Tamil film “Iruvar”. #ManiRatnam

@M9USA_ @khajouriadeepak Please do your research properly. No ETA required for airside transit. Only if you cross border control that you need ETA.

@khajouriadeepak forbes.com/sites/emesemac…

New U.K. visa rule is live. 🇬🇧 If you are a U.S. passport holder, you now need an ETA (Electronic Travel Authorization) before traveling to the U.K., even if you are just transiting through a U.K. airport. #Visa

Hyd FRRO office. Lunch time till 2pm. It is 2:30pm now. Still no one at the counter. No one to answer. #FTITTP

Just realised that Amber Alert is not referring to a colour! but an actual person Amber Hagerman, 9 year old child who was abducted and murdered in 1996! On the other hand, amber warnings from weather agencies is a colour grading system - nothing to do with Amber Hagerman. Thank you. Happy Thursday

Whoever has come up with the idea of a paper straw for milkshakes deserves to rot in hell forever! #paperstraw

@ssrajamouli Dear @ssrajamouli sir, it’s been 14 years… 😁 Your directorial skills are good enough I guess 😁😁. Bring The Mahabharata to life please.

@vedam I should upgrade my directorial skills to handle Ramayana or Mahabharata. 8-10 years probably

I'm on the waitlist for @perplexity_ai's new agentic browser, Comet: perplexity.ai/comet

The Microsoft Build 2025 Book of News is here. AI copilots, GitHub Copilot extensions, and Azure-powered data magic are just the beginning. If you're building the future, this is your blueprint: news.microsoft.com/build-2025-boo… #MSFTAdvocate #MicrosoftBuild #AI #Copilot #DeveloperTools

Maybe it's too soon, but I tried to gather numerical data on various modes of transport and their fatality rates (people who died vs. people involved). Considering only fatal accidents (at least one death), air travel is still not too dangerous! (Thanks Grok) #AirAccidents #grok

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde is a darkly humorous short story about fate, duty, and moral dilemmas. At a high-society party, Lord Arthur has his palm read by Mr. Podgers, a cheiromantist (palm reader), who reveals that Arthur is destined to commit murder. Deeply troubled but determined to fulfill his fate before marrying Sybil Merton, Arthur devises multiple failed attempts to kill a suitable victim. His plans range from poison to explosives, but each effort is thwarted by chance. Eventually, circumstances take an unexpected turn, and Arthur finds himself free from the burden of murder—just not in the way he anticipated. Wilde explores themes of destiny, morality, and the absurdity of social conventions with his signature wit and irony. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Wikisource, the free online library

@kv @gssram Have you guys even seen Indian 2? 😁

@gssram @vedam I have the exact same question :)

Congrats Mani Ratnam. You have done it. I thought no one could surpass Indian 2. You have managed to get there almost. Hats off. #ThugLife

Great opportunity to learn about Github Copilot - your AI Pair Programmer that is available in all the leading IDEs. Best part? The training is free :) #GithubCopilot #MSFTAdvocate