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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a rickshaw driver in the lane beside the cab I am in, who is watching a video on his phone as he threads his rick through traffic on an extremely narrow road

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Star Wars Universe needs a Doctrine of Lapse. Where's my Space Dalhousie at?

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I live in a region of Maharashtra called "Desh". The cultural and economic heartland of the richest state in the nation and our name means The Country

A map of Maharashtra with Desh highlighted in blue. Ahmednagar is a lighter shade of blue because screw those guys and their precious Kala Masala

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me as I wrap up the contents of a burrito bowl made by a Marwari home chef in a chapati one September morning, "¡Vivan los heroes que nos dieron patria! ¡Viva Hidalgo! ¡Viva Morelos! ¡Viva Josefa Ortiz de..."

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And then DJT can come down to India so Modiji can take him to have a Bajri Paneer Pizza at Swati Snacks

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The neighborhood dhol-taasha pathak starts up at 5:30pm

Celine Dion is calling someone. She looks concerned.

The caption reads, "Je Telephone M. Vidyanand Bapat"

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I bet Ed wishes Abhishek were around right now

Abhishek Bacchan gestures angrily at the papparazi as he partially shields a visibly drunk Ed Sheeran from view

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 19/09/2026

Oh yeah, I forgot, also we killed Google Reader to fund the social button everywhere thing for Google Plus

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I feel like the state of Maharashtra should also declare the first Monday of September Labour Day - both so that we get a long weekend and to emphasize that 1 May is a holiday for Maharashtra Day

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm still traumatized by what the Malazan guys did to Hetan for no discernible plot reason (not that that would've made it better)

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lois McMaster Bujold's long-running science-fiction series: Dudes saying "Belike" Lois McMaster Bujold's long-running fantasy series: Dudes saying "Withal"

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

Photos of Govinda in various costumes (and appropriate expressions) from Raja Babu (1994)

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/08/2026

yeah, I knew a lot of vets who used that word. Hard men, veterans of the clone wars. Men who fought droids at Kadavo, Lola Sayu, clones who saw some serious shit. You know who never once said it, though? Plo Koon. The General was built different. Jar Jar used it but only when the cameras were off

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Herkimer Homolka, formerly of Romania. Now free from the shackles of Ceaucescu - travelling the world and doing good!" Takes a special actor to deliver a cheesy line like that in such an amazing way that I remember it verbatim, 20+ years later. RIP Tim Curry

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Tim Curry as Herkermer Holmolka with Congo Diamond

ALT: Tim Curry as Herkermer Holmolka with Congo Diamond

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Stop talking about clankers, start talking about clinker(-built ships)

A diagram of the construction of a rowboat with overlapping planks with the caption, "Clinker-built Boat"

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm a pretty huge procrastinator myself, but I'm really aghast at how late the state of Maharashtra and the Central Government have left this entirely predictable issue fester indianexpress.com/article/citi...

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MH-12 1A soon: Pune to get India’s first digit-letter vehicle series

The move to use the MH-61 code had earlier raised concerns among vehicle owners and others that Pune’s long-standing MH-12 identity could eventually be discontinued.

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Amateur LessWrong fans read HPMOR 1337 LessWrong fans read Three Worlds Collide, a first contact story about the ethics of *not* eating babies

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hear me out - Xiaolongbao / Paani Puri mash-up

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Does he know that if his radar vector is showing intermittent narrowband contacts during queit phase drift, you have to verify that your coolant reactor pump harmonics aren't bleeding into your hull before you classify?

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Riddler Paul Dano: Does He Know?

ALT: Riddler Paul Dano: Does He Know?

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Wordle's really scraping the bottom of the barrel, huh? ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The true protagonist of RSR is the MV Julius Fucik

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Those isles" "Which isles, specifically?" "You know the ones"

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

While The Odyssey (2026) is loosely based on Homer's epic, its spiritual predecessor is actually The Beast (1988)

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The way that everyone who sees stuff like this will smirk and say something like, "Haha, of course the rules are going to be relaxed for them", and then treat this as a immutable fact of life that no one can do anything about

A screenshot of an alert from Moneycontrol talking about the Adani Group asking the Airports Authority of India to relax entry rules (presumably so that they can start an airline despite currently not qualifying to do so)

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Reminds me of IAC's demand that the Lok Pal be appointed by a panel of Magsaysay Award awardees

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We need to get a rapid-response humanitarian team composed of PVR, INOX and CityPride employees to the US to instruct American theaters in cutting-edge "Interval" technology Also, while we're at it, assigned seating

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Rabbi Yirmeya, you would have loved Narasimha

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

General Anthony McAuliffe is lucky he only had to deal with the Wehrmacht at Bastogne and not this lot

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Colonel Q @lowqualityregen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Okay, so this is crazy. 🤯 In Event Horizon, a film from 1997, Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform be replaced with a photo of Lionel Messi bathing the baby Lamine Yamal, the way he thought it should look in 2047! 👏👏👏

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ron Perlman should have been there #iykyk

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In the 2018 World Cup, England played Belgium in the Group stage and the 3rd place match, losing both instances of the Saxe-Coburg Gotha Derby Tomorrow, they play Norway in the Oldenburg Derby

England and Belgium players shake hands after their Group stage match in the 2018 World Cup

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We've come such a long way from Antipope Michael I being elected by his parents and 3 neighbours in the back of his parents' thrift store

David Bawden, aka Pope Michael wearing a white cassock and skullcap being interviewed by a TV crew in what looks like the back porch of a family home

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Finding every skeet that refers to Sergej Barbarez as the "Bosnian Coach" and replying that actually he's a Herzegovinan Coach

Bosnia and Herzegovina Head Coach Sergej Barbarez

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What do you mean this has been the flag of Miami since 1933??

The flag of Miami. A horizontal triband with a 2:3 ratio, the top band is orange, the middle white and the bottom band green. A circular seal of the City of Miami is in the center of the white band

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you

Title card in Hindi for the TV serial "Kile ka Rahasya" (produced by SK Media Productions)

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My Mayor Hindu, My Bagels fake, Pune Airport's a fraud, And we got no IPL squad

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Does anyone have a cite for "in India, they're sometimes called 'Peru'"? Because all mentions I'm seeing just say this without specifying which Indian language this is talking about

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Star Wars fans, it turns out, are very good at articulating what they want but not good at wanting what they’ve articulated.

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Amruta Fadnavis was going to perform, but opted out after the PM's appeal to avoid foreign travel

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Naming your startup after an evil object / character from Lord of the Rings is so passe

A screenshot of a headline and subhed.

Headline: "Can space tech startup Bellatrix succeed in uncharted orbit?"

Subhed: "A new generation of Indian entrepreneurs are building ambitious companies in space tech. One of them, Bellatrix Aerospace, has now set its sights on the global race to build a satellite for an ultra-low orbit."

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The search vs. The first result result you brought to wanted you by the power of AI

An article about the play "I am not Bajirao" from Mumbai Theatre Guide

The first result for a search for "I am not Bajirao", which is an AI response claiming to understand the user's instruction that the user is not historical figure Peshwa Bajirao I (1700 - 1740)

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