Somehow it took me this long to walk into pickleball. It was a basketball size indoor court with several concurrent games and like 100 players playing or waiting turn. The range is crazy, from lapsed aerobics types to straight up lungi-wearing uncle
This is like a voting bloc
For Indians on social media showing off 50th birthday celebrations:
In the US, on your 50th birthday you get mail:
1. Invitation to join AARP (retiree timepass group)
2. Colonoscopy and prostate check referral from insurance
3. Anti-constipation bulk purchase discount coupons
Empathy is a weaker emotion than Schadenfreude.
Every morning I wake to the screams of terrified children, desperate crying, escape attempts, frazzled parents dragging them.
I live next to a pediatric dentist.
I grin into my coffee and tell the parents, "your turn"
The entire lap is great, but the last stretch - that is a serious athlete.
First she breaks PT Usha's record. Next day she comes back and propels India to gold . Vithya Ramraj is a rarest of rare gem . #TamilPride #IndiaPride
Congratulations Kiran pahal, M.R.Povamma,Prachi and Vidhya Ramaraj.
#nagoya #asiangames
joyojeet pal retweeted
For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
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Please share this story with as many people as you can.
Modi's candidacy for PM was timed before his 2013 birthday setting up a 9-day celebration, incl Twitter followbacks, giant cakes & Marilyn Monroe style song by Mallika Sherawat.
It's been on since his 2005 press-friendly Chennai birthday with Muslim leaders.
List since 2014...
This is getting forwarded online claiming those that go to Saudi come back radicalized or more conservative, but authors explicitly note selection bias.
To claim this, you'd need to ascertain first if more conservative ppl choose to go to Saudi over UAE etc as a baseline measure
This is some kind of Chinese information warfare against parents who are wondering if they would have to threaten their children with electric shocks to make them eat this much, this neatly, this quietly.
And when you send your kid to art classes they may think it is okay to carve their name with a stone on the side of your cao.
On the bright side you will stop worrying about scratches.
Pro tip.
Never send your kid to an art class because you just need to get them out of the house somehow. They will build something random and ten years later, you will have a room full of 'invaluable art'.
What connects TikTok, Romania and the downfall of the Samurai to Jantar Mantar - the role of shock events and boiling points in understanding how far strongmen are willing to go.
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There is something @rajinikanth knew that TV news anchors do not get. All his films are aimed at kids. Because if you want to last, you need to make kids follow your career. People follow anchors over years.
It doesn't work by becoming uncles.
Rajinikantz most famous punch dialogue is "Naan oru thadava sonna, nooru thadava sonna madhiri
It means if I say something once it's kike I said it 100 times.
I've tried using it on my kids. It's useless.
My children, who grew up without Bollywood, just saw Om Shanti Om and are blown away at the concept of re-incarnation.
By their age, I could name 10 movies past life romances.
How my parenting has failed.
Thing about the Indian education system, a teacher will throw a chalk at your head and say "If I wake you up in the middle of the night, you must give me correct defintion of external and internal validity!"
And somehow you expect that to be a moment of clarity. But it won't be.
joyojeet pal retweeted
The idea of US exceptionalism has fallen to the outside world. But within the US, a conflict is simmering as a mercurial leader tries to redefine it.
Enter ICE.
✍️ @joyopal
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