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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NGL, I read this and thought there were two (or more) competing movies about CDG, like the rash of Bhagat Singh movies we had in the early 2000s It's actually one two-part production

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sure would have been nice if we had a functioning independent judiciary right now

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The UK could have stayed out of the European War in 1939 (or made peace in 1940) at tremendous reputational cost, which would have made the Italian invasion of Egypt and the Japanese invasion of Malaya & Singapore a certainty. The Empire was likely to shatter whatever happened

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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 · 28/09/2026

Wrong war and theater, but from what I understand it's like the Kaiserliche Marine sending SMS Goeben and Breslau to Constantinople in 1914 in exchange for the Ottoman Empire joining the Central Powers. The KM couldn't sustain a Med squadron anyway and the Turks desperately needed capital ships

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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 · 27/09/2026

The funny thing is, this actually happens to Harry Potter in the fanfiction Yud wrote. Guess Yud thought he's built different to the self-insert character he wrote

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Your second lady could be sharing pesaruttu recipes right now, but she's too busy voting to blow up the Kennedy Center

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

Pope John VIII knew what a woman was

Engraving of a woman in a papal tiara giving birth to a baby, surrounded by various cardinals and clergymen

Caption reads, "A Woman Pope (as History doth tell); In High Procession She in Labour fell; And was Deliver'd of a Bastard Son' Thence Rome some call The Whore of Babylon"

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

Ceterum censeo, Marcus Halperinsis est

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

JRR Tolkien never came to India but I'm going to just assume he named the Shire after this

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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 · 24/09/2026

This is Stoor erasure and I will not stand for it

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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 · 19/09/2026

One weird trick Hitler could have done to win the War: Atlantropa

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

In summation, Greenland is a land of contrasts

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Deeply concerning how none of the talk about the bad ratios here mentions the horrendous poops-to-days-in-the-year ratio

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Fiscal Year in the UK begins on 6 April and ends the 5 April of the next (calendar) year

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sheeran should have worn an "I am not Complicit" t-shirt instead of a statement

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The fact that she used the American spelling of "mould" makes it even funnier

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When you do a territorial aggrandisement so egregious that even Hitler and Stalin are like, nah man you gotta give it back

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Commanding submarines that physically can't exit the Adriatic tends to be somewhat easier than what all other navies had to do with their boats

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Are you saying Jerry was wrong here bsky.app/profile/jcsa...

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I also don't think that's what's happening in Indian politics. People switch parties very easily - so keeping on good terms personally with the people on the other side that you were just vehemently attacking just makes sense

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Kunal Sawardekar @smugdekar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yes, but the reason there were two Yemens is also a pretty popular reason globally for national partitions - the British Empire

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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 · 05/09/2026

The flower of Justice is a peaceful TL. The flower of Propriety is purity in mentions and quotes. The flower of Benefit is Bluesky whole and entire. I am the sword of Justice properly wielded, wet with the blood of the troll. My armor is the mute button and my weapon is the block button.

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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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