it wouldn’t be arkanoid which was released in 1987; the copyright text in the cartoon says 1980.

one might say that this piece of news is the… canary… in the coal mine?

Tai-two.

she came into the manger, way overdue,

and plonked herself down next to the ewe.

then – leaning back on the cow –

did she, the great chairman mao,

immaculately embirth winnie the pooh.

scanning a random qr code has to be this generation’s plugging in an unknown usb drive.

but the joke is inaccurate. might as well make it say, “i am a chelsea fc midfield legend wearing an orange dunce cap because i kicked the shit out of that pre-teen ballboy once”.

heck, that’s more accurate than the sorting hat adopting hagrid’s tone.

i hate to bring this up, but it wasn’t the sorting hat that declared to harry that he was a wizard.

now if the caption had read, “yeh’d be great in slytherin, harry”, that would be accurate.

(aside: i would have personally liked the books better if harry was sorted into slytherin, hermione into ravenclaw, ron into hufflepuff and the three still went on to become fast friends. it reinforces the message that we don’t need to be alike to become pals.)

“judge a society by its prisons.” fyodor dostoyevsky.

the hindi film industry is itself littered with corpses of stolen ideas from other film industries across the world for decades now.

seems karma’s come home to roost if this story is true.

oneplus two was the last good phone from that company.

life is beautiful.

no, it’s not. it’s an ugly, parasitic process that accelerates resource consumption merely for its own pointless existence. the heat death of the universe will come all that faster only because of the presence of life.

and, for sure, humankind is the pinnacle of this selfish and greedy outcome of biological evolution.

is it better to try it right after install or should it be left to age a little, first?

sometimes, one thinks, any intelligence for government would be a good idea.

poor mo was always picked at the end.

each see each other as a threat. there’s disputes on various territories across the 4k km himalayan border for one. both countries fought a war in the 1970s around these disputes and, by all reliable accounts, it was india that ceded territory then.

separately, india has provided sanctuary to the current dalai lama for many, many years now and also is a refugee base for tibetans, which mr. xi and his folks don’t appreciate.

india has also banned tiktok since its inception as well as access to alibaba and other online chinese stores.

china’s relationship with indian neighbours is seen as a threat as well, be it of a strategic nature such as their belt and road initiative with pakistan, their predatory relationship over sri lanka after drowning them with easy loans, or their latest “coup” in the maldives where the long-standing india-friendly government lost out in the last elections to a party that campaigned on “india out” and who were very pally with winnie the pooh and gang.

the geopolitical relationship is stereotypical of two neighbours who hate each other so much that each would go out of their way to torment the other.

thanks to them for making my deredditification that much easier!

why is the thumbnail photo one of Dara O’Briain?

we haven’t even had 464 days since october 7th!

I’m a mirror. if you’re nice to me, I’m nice to you. if not, well…

and one prime example of those pieces of wickedness? putting in place an imaginary supernatural source of good.