Vivek Singh

Everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.

What if we misunderstood the expression? What if it’s not time that heals all wounds but thyme, the herb, that holds mystical healing powers? And all this time God has been shouting from heaven “You idiots! Just sprinkle thyme on it!!”

À 95 ans, le philosophe et professeur américain Noam Chomsky a perdu la capacité de parler et d’écrire, marquant la fin d’une époque durant laquelle il a dévoilé des vérités profondes sur les systèmes mondiaux. Parmi ses réflexions les plus mémorables, on retrouve : « Il n’existe pas de pays pauvres — seulement des systèmes ayant échoué dans la gestion des ressources. » « Personne n’insérera la vérité dans votre esprit ; c’est quelque chose que vous devez découvrir par vous-même. » « Pour dominer un peuple, créez une menace imaginaire plus grande que vous-même, puis proposez-vous comme son protecteur. » « L’une des leçons les plus claires de l’histoire : les droits ne sont pas simplement accordés — ils se gagnent par l’effort et la lutte. » « Dénaturer l’histoire pour glorifier de “grands hommes” enseigne aux gens qu’ils sont impuissants et doivent attendre un héros, au lieu d’agir eux-mêmes. » « Le monde est complexe et déroutant ; si vous refusez de faire face à cette confusion, vous risquez de devenir une copie de l’esprit de quelqu’un d’autre. » « Pour contrôler les gens, faites-leur croire qu’ils sont la cause de leurs propres échecs et que le salut viendra d’une force extérieure. » « Le monde finira par regretter les idées qui détournent l’humanité de sa véritable nature. Reconnaître les valeurs authentiques est essentiel. »

It hurts when someone you love says mean things to you….like, “It’s time to wake up.”

A username could one day suffice as your address economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/a-u…

@horizrontal Me, but I don’t have a stream near where I live.

Who needs this?

Looked at my investment portfolio and realised that the only beachfront property I'll ever be able to afford is a sandcastle.

@DailyNoud Honey I shrunk the deems

Scientists confirm that hantavirus can shrink your penis size by up to three inches.

That’s Maikalal Jaikisan

@MarioNawfal That’s Maikalaal Jaikisan

Forget the conspiracy theories about Epstein still being alive... The internet just found Michael Jackson 🤣

Worrying: a waste of imagination.

Vini, Vedi, Velcro... I came I saw I stuck around!

Never put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.

@CleavageCrumbs In your opinion what sort of mirrors will the space cars have?

I am certain that we will have space cars in the majority of households before we achieve mirrors capable of proper size and distance parity.

Me: Ever wondered, what makes us humans? Chat GPT: Yeah, selecting all images with traffic lights.

It's 2026 and somehow we still don't have a car mirrors that can make objects appear exactly as far away as they are.

@historywali Just this one tweet made me follow you. Nothing great or noteworthy in that but just humble appreciation.

So all the charcha around the Rashtrapati Bhavan banquet for President To Lam sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, to looking up the menu of the very first state banquet of the Republic of India! 

What did guests eat that evening of 24th January, 1950? Non-vegetarian menu: 
- Cream of spinach soup (must have been such a welcome start in the Dilli-ki-sardi of then.) 
- Fillet de pomfret frit (fried pomfret fillets) with sauce tartare. 
- Duck in mustard and cayenne - with peas, cauliflower and roast potatoes. 
- Pommes Chantilly - stewed apples + sweetened cream. 
 Vegetarian menu:
- Cream of spinach soup. 
- Aloo Dum, Cauliflower Curry, Raita, Papad, and Chutney (I’m guessing with rice / and Indian breads)
- and the same Pommes Chantilly (Aside: I feel like I really need to make this as soon as the apple season rolls in). So the menu was mainly European (or ‘Continental’), other than the Vegetarian main-course. But seasonal, for the most part. 
 But my favourite detail in Indrani Devi’s (wife of Jagjivan Ram) memoir which has an account of this meal, is that a single red rose was placed before the plate of every vegetarian guest so the butlers would know not to serve them meat. Such tender, old-world choreography. ♥️ One more detail - the Toasts were raised with sharbat. Alcohol (which offended the Mahatama) had been banished from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, except in a guest suite, write Salma Husain & Lizzie Collingham in their coffee-table book, Around India’s First Table. This banquet was held two days before our first Republic Day when the constitution of India came into effect and Shri Rajendra Prasad became our first president, so technically the Republic of India’s first banquet was hosted by a Governor General - Chakravarty Rajagopalachari, and it was for President Sukarno of the recently independent Indonesia. 

Two recently decolonised state, seated across a long table in the Delhi winter, imagining themselves into the future over Palak Soup and stewed Apples! The moon was a waxing crescent - I look up moon phases to imagine what the sky must’ve looked like that night. I’m certain we could see a lot more stars in the Delhi sky than we can, now.

Aliens are closing their windows shut while flying by our planet.

@MarinaPurkiss Deep

At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are… Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.

After listening to what some people have to say, I am rethinking the importance this whole freedom of speech thing.