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Sep 30 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The suggestion of camera traps by @SubkrishnaRao is yielding literally hundreds of gorgeous pictures and videos of #OurWawar. I wish we could also implement @prempanicker's suggestion of drone shots. But it's too wooded with tall trees to maneuver drones here.
I was all set to order drones after @prempanicker until I realized that the entire 4 acres probably don't have a clear air space of even 30 feet at a stretch without one of our tall old trees to run into. The camera traps are working great though. Should make an animation.
Btw we have a new dedicated insta account to post all that content from #OurWawar.

Coming up Tomorrow, a closeup video of a Downey woodpecker busily pecking away at a huge fallen oak, right in front of the camera!

Also many cute deer pics & vids.

instagram.com/p/Ci5GZgWOwSm/
Here is the promised close-up video of a woodpecker pecking away at #OurWawar. Seems to really enjoy it!

I initially thought it was a Downey, but now I'm thinking Hairy. 🤔 @amabirdman @leafwarbler

instagram.com/p/CjJ9tC2uM6t/…

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Oct 2
#trivia quiz. Who wrote this -

"Well, you Hindus, you say all the present sufferers belong to the class of sinners of the previous births. Good. You say the present oppressors were saintly people in their previous births, hence they enjoy power. Let me admit that your ancestors'
' were very shrewd people, they tried to find out theories strong enough to hammer down all the efforts of reason and disbelief. But let us analyse how far this argument can really stand.

From the point of view of the most famous jurists punishment can be justified only from'
'three or four ends to meet which it is inflicted upon the wrongdoer. They are retributive, reformative and deterrent. The retributive theory is now being condemned by all the advanced thinkers.
Deterrent theory is also following the same fate. Reformative theory is the only one'
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Oct 1
A weekly ritual is going to my local @nypl branch (either Tompkins or Epiphany) and pick up a book from the NYC History aisles. Just based on the cover and the jacket.

I picked this cos it looked so much like where I live!

And whoa! Really WHOA!

A personal plus history 🧵 ImageImage
The reason the pic on the cover of Parkchester looks so much like my home #StuyTown is because Parkchester was the OG Stuy Town.

And not only is it a fascinating history tied into a lot of modern Americana, but also tied to the ongoing though fast deflating real estate bubble.
Take a trip with me to late 1930s USA.

MetLife as we know it now, or Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was the biggest financial institution in the country.

This was before social security or disability or unemployment insurance or any safety net.

MetLife filled the gap.
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Oct 1
Yet another thread of mine that sanghis are trying to "ratio" but failing spectacularly. 😂😂😂

The more they hate-QT it, the more likes and retweets it gets! 🤓
Heh, seems like sanghi cell has taken note of this thread. Already I have more impressions than followers.

Off to the woods for the day but leaving this here to compare numbers against throughout the day.

Another data point on diffusion efficiency of #QTbait. What Nupur did.🤷🏽‍♂️ Image
Damn, in less than an hour, impressions almost double!

Do you see what I mean about why these sanghi influencers intentionally make provocative #factcheckbait #QTbait? And how you help them by taking that bait?

And I'm a random dude who doesn't need followers to make a living. Image
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Oct 1
Gotten a lot of DMs & emails in the last couple of days from students since this story became a thing.

Of the very understandable "430 days is more than a year so should I even bother applying for 2023? 😳" nature.

This is a 🧵 to tell them, breathe! It'll be okay. Really! Image
That graphic up there is just the graphic of the estimated wait times taken on that day in late September.

September is when the school year starts in US. There really are no student visas being processed.

So that "430 days" is meaningless. At this point anyway.
Throughout the pandemic and after, through the Trump as well as Biden administrations, US consular staff in India has worked hard to prioritize student visas and work visas. For the very practical reason that US would shut down otherwise.
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Oct 1
"India is first and foremost a Hindu nation"

Incorrect!

India is first and foremost an Adivasi nation. I mean if you're interested in actual real history and anthropology and sociology and suchlike.

First and foremost Indians are the Adivasis. They settled here first.
So at least second and secondmost, it was a Hindu nation, right?

Incorrect!

Surely you've all seen the Harappan ruins. In India and Pakistan. Fascinating advanced civilization with drainage systems that worked even during the recent floods!

Nothing to do with "Hinduism".
There was a fairly advanced civilization Co-existing with the indigenous folks on the subcontinent in the Harappan period that has nothing in common with what we today think of as "Hinduism". And it was a fun loving civilization per evidence. Not drab sanskaris like sanghis.
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Oct 1
I'm sure it didn't help that Modi actively took sides against Biden in the election, but the full story here has little to do with India and more to do with Chuck Grassley, one of the foremost assholes in the Senate.

Eric Garcetti was nominated over a year ago. GOP blocking it.
You can Google the details yourself, but TLDR is Biden nominated L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti for the post last summer. Rising Dem star, next gen leader. GOP trying to end his national career early with a block ostensibly based on a second degree me too but not really a me too.
A Garcetti aid was accused of sexually harassing a police bodyguard for the mayor. Something that is connected to the LA Mayor vs LAPD fight, a whole other can of worms. Garcetti was not involved even remotely and was cleared of wrongdoing after an independent investigation.
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