Potax
potax.bsky.social
Potax
@potax.bsky.social
Engineer with other interests.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Haven’t seen any of those things even once.
June 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Time to kick the pistachios out!
May 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Is there a category for inadvertent impressionist paintings?
May 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Made some bunny suit pics
May 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Beautiful shoutout to Barry Lyndon in this season of righteous gemstones.
May 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
So when is the ISI jerkwad who set this thing in motion becoming the next Pakistani coas?
May 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you’re going to burn money on a Mont Blanc at least get a fountain pen.
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May 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It’s highly interesting that the US media just doesn’t mention that the tourists were singled out by religion.
I was interviewed by Isaac Chotiner at the New Yorker about India, Pakistan and Kashmir.

"There would be no deterrence unless you target the Pakistani military. Deterrence cannot be established by targeting some seminaries."
The Dynamics Behind the India-Pakistan Clash
How internal politics in both countries could escalate the conflict in the wake of a tourist massacre in Kashmir.
www.newyorker.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Literally all WARS in the media age have been fought this way. The only difference this time is you can have a chat with your Pakistani friends on X while the bombing progress.
May 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
4yo loves puns, especially if they depend on phonetically reading out stupid English spellings, and she came up with flyjet for an airline name. The original shuttered in 2007, so all on her own.
May 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It started with going to chinmaya so that the kid gets galvanized with desi nonsense before videsi nonsense. And now I am making alu chaat for 200 people. 7kg of potatoes. 7kg of chholay!
May 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The world is so tiresome right now.
May 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Maybe your friends could stop sending murderers over the border?
An armed conflict between India and Pakistan would be catastrophic for the world and must be avoided at all costs. The United States and our allies should be doing everything we can to stop another escalation and pursue all possible diplomatic avenues to resolve this peacefully.
May 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Fun how the left has decided that Pakistan are uwu powerless cuties.
May 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Interesting media difference is that the British media is reporting the “Islamic” nature of Pahalgam, while calling the perpetrators “militants”, while the Americans use the terror word, but skip the “Islam”.
May 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
We’re getting a nitish Pahwa article now, and that could have been avoided. :(
I have no thoughts on the India-Pakistan other than:

1. War sucks and these two countries should absolutely not be in one. (Also, war solves nothing).

2. Everything we’re hearing from either side right now is probably a lie.
May 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
It just means devotion.
Hindu nationalism felt so strongly that it trickles down to her password slate.com/news-and-pol...
May 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
They keep doing this but it won’t work.
HUGE disability news: Georgia has become just the latest state to eliminate subminimum wage labor for people with disabilities. Governor Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed the bill sponsored by a bipartisan group of legislators. #GAPol
www.wjcl.com/article/geor...
Disabled Georgians must now be paid at least minimum wage
The bill was signed into law by Governor Brian Kemp in Savannah
www.wjcl.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
What is also needed is a complete ban on fanon and pontecorvo, both of whom lead people to believe absolute nonsense.
May 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Have you uhm, read any of the history of your adopted land?
When I became a 🇬🇧 citizen, I listened to the stories the room at the citizenship ceremony and thought “this country really is a beacon of hope for many people.”

How could Britain throw that away? It is infinitely precious and core to who I thought we were as a nation.
UK will discriminate against would-be students who are from persecuted groups.
Palestinian? No visa.
Christian from Pakistan or Iran? No visa.
Woman from Afghanistan? No visa.
Lesbian from Uganda? No visa.
May 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Retcon supreme.
Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.
I have two sons, and I don't think I've ever seen messaging going "Don't be a boy" or "YOU'RE BAD."

Sure looks like that's in "I heard someone say that they heard..." territory, rather than actual direct experience.

Also worth noting, the main message from manosphere influencers is "YOU'RE BAD."
May 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The way to do this is to give up and watch the bbc adaptation.
Finally reading Middlemarch, like I didn’t have midterms to grade. Feels like science fiction to me right now but it is fun.
May 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I hate neural networks.
May 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
@longformmath.bsky.social’s math history book is amazing!
May 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM